Editing Warhammer 40,000/8th Edition Tactics/Tyranids (section)

====Special Characters====

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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Deathleaper</div>

[[Image:Deathleaper.jpeg|thumb|left|A boi that will kill the guy you spent 6 months painting]]










Deathleaper remains a character killer, even more so in an edition where characters can no longer hide inside large units to avoid him.














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*His '''superior chameleonic skin''' forces enemies to subtract 2 from their hit rolls. That includes ranged AND melee. That is quite a debuff, especially for characters that normally hit on 3+. In addition, he adds 2 instead of 1 while in cover, giving him a cool 3+ anytime he's hiding.
*'''It's after me!''' is now a re-roll to hit and to wound in the fight phase on a character chosen at the start of the game. He no longer has his amazing deployment rules and is now forced to deploy like a Lictor, that is, 9" away from all enemies. This severely neuters what was a pretty good harassing unit or character killer. He got two wounds to compensate so... yay? Still, his -2 to hit, re-roll charge on the turn he pops up, and 6 wounds mean he's well suited to tying up irritating heavy weapons squads or big angry tanks; denying them a round or two of shooting can pay for him straight up regardless of whether he actually kills anything.
**Do watch out for "Heroic Intervention" and similar abilities when doing this. Deathleaper won't be tying up much of anything apart from his own innards if a CC monster like Abaddon is within 3" of whatever you want not to shoot.
*(Note: This unit had its points changed in Chapter Approved 2018)


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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">The Red Terror</div>

[[Image:The Red Terror.jpeg|thumb|left|]]










A super Ravener to make your other Raveners hit better. If you want to take him, make sure he has some of his buddies with him. Ideally, you want an Trygon Prime to spread Synapse around, the Red Terror, at least 6 Raveners and something to come out of the Trygon's tunnel to pull this off. If you have all these pieces together, you can do some [[/d/|unspeakable things]] to your opponent's army with extremely accurate Raveners that don't run ever.
**He is also the 2nd cheapest elite slot unit (lictors are cheapest), and his '''Swallow Whole''' ability allows him to devour any model, so long as you can roll equal to or greater than that model's maximum wound characteristic with a d6. Since he is so cheap, and a very fast character with deep-strike, you can use him as an assassin to instakill a character or elite infantry model, ignoring any saves or feel-no-pains! Though you want to have 1 CP at hand in case you need to reroll the Swallow. With some luck, he can even swallow an Ad-Mech [[Ironstrider Ballistarius|chicken walker]]! [[Anal Circumference|(Best not to dwell on the logistics of that one...)]]











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*It is easy to overlook The Red Terror's '''swallow whole''' rule, as it needs all 4 of its attacks to hit before even rolling to see if it goes through. Made worse considering it only has 4 attacks and the tail slap doesn't count. However, then you realise it hits on 2+ and has 2 pairs of scything talons, giving it 1 more attack and allows it to re-roll 1s to hit. Hitting 4 out of 5 attacks on 2+ re-rolling 1s looks very possible, then roll 2+ to instantly take out a pesky Terminator or roll a 6 and swallow a whole Broadside. '''Bon appetit!'''
**An additional note on this rule: it specifies rolling above the target's wound characteristic i.e. their maximum number of wounds, not current number of wounds, so the dreams of The Red Terror scoffing down a wounded Chimera will sadly never be realized. It may be a Tyranid, but it has the decency to at least open its lunch box. With an exception for Ork Warbuggies (and Eldar Vyper/Venoms), those are slim enough to fit into The Red Terror's diet.
***An additional additional note: swallow whole specifies the attacks must come from his scything talons. This means that if he somehow gets in a position where he can't use his talons due to a specific rule or some-such (i.e. against Jain Zar), [[fail|'''he cannot swallow''']].
*(Note: This unit had its points changed in Chapter Approved 2018)


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