Editing Tyranid Warrior (section)

==Shrikes==
[[File:TyranidPrimewings2023.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Shrikes, the harbingers of brown pants.]]
'''Shrikes''' (''Tyranicus gladius avius'') are a winged adaptation of the Warrior bioform. Just when you thought regular Warriors were bad enough, well <b>they can fly now</b>.

Fulfilling similar battlefield roles and allowing Synaptic coverage to extend to the fast-moving elements of the swarm, such as [[Gargoyle]]s and [[Tyranid_Harpy|Harpies]] which might otherwise outrun those Synapse Creatures incapable of flight and be separated from the Hive Mind.

While sacrificing some of the protection of their [[Carapace|chitin carapace]] for the ability of flight, few enemies expect an assault of creatures as large as Tyranid Warriors from the skies which begs the question on what counts as "too large"? Anyways, this allows Shrikes to perform surprise attacks with great speed and efficiency, the element of surprise making up for their relative lack of protection.

Their speed and mobility as well as their large selection of biomorphs make them exceptionally flexible, allowing them to fulfill many battlefield roles from surprise assaults directed at the weakest elements of the enemy force, to filling gaps in the synaptic web at a moment's notice.

These flappy meat grinders have the same statline (right down to their 4+ save, something they missed out on in previous editions) and options of their terrestrial cousins, but with more mobility and the keyword FLY that allows them to fall back and still shoot, giving them more mileage out of their guns and solid mobility. They still have no official [[GW]] conversion kit so you’d best get to chopping those Gargoyle’s wings off...

Please note that as of pre-Codex 9th Edition, Shrikes are not currently available in the Tyranid Army list because GW can't be bothered to make a sprue for them.

While 10th Edition gave a bit of hope by including a Tyranid Prime with wings, the released datacards for the Prime didn't make any reference to the Shrikes, instead letting the Prime join a flock of [[Gargoyle (Tyranids)|Gargoyles]] so the wings don't feel so superfluous.

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