A more detailed look. Very late, but more detailed look at the codex.
Part 1: Hive Fleet Adaptations.
Behemoth: re-roll failed charges
Kraken: 3D6 and choose highest to advance and fall back and charge
Leviathan: 6 to ignore wounds when within 6 of a Synapse.
Gorgon: re-roll To Wound of 1 in Fight phase.
Jormungandr: none FLY unit always count as cover until they advance or charge.
Hydra: re-roll To Hit in Fight phase against a unit that you outnumber.
Kronos: re-roll to hit of 1 if they did not move in the shooting phase.
All have their uses. So far in my practise I have used Behemoth and Gorgon, as I run a more combat heavy Tyranid. What I really like is that Kronos and Jormungandr focus on a ranged list, Behemoth and Gorgon are for a combat list and Leviathan and Kraken are for the mixed list.
There are a lot of fun ones here, but here are my favourites:
Death Frenzy allows a character to fight when it dies in combat. Swarmlord suicidal running has been a real highlight for this one.
Pathogenic Slime allows a Monster to increase the damage of its shooting attack by 1. Exocrine is damage 3, Tyrannofex has several options or those new Deathspitter with slimmer maggots become 2 damage. So many possibilities.
3CP Adrenaline Surge gives any Tyranid unit the ability to fight twice. This is amazing on any unit, although it costs 3 points, it can be worth it when you have a large blob of genestealers or any monster that is built for combat.
The three new powers are:
Dominion, choose a unit within 36 inches with instinctive behaviour and auto pass morale for that unit.
Paroxysm, choose an enemy unit within 18 and they must fight last.
Psychic Scream, Smite, which also deletes a psychic power from an enemy psyker.
Psychic spam is not as powerful for the Tyranids as it once was, but there is defiantly no harm in having a fair few Zoanthropes and a Neourthrope around to provide that support.
Some are better than others, but I dont think the relics are as good as some of the other codexes. These are definitely my top 2.
Reaper of Obliterax: Double damage Bonesword/lashwhip on a 6 To Wound.
Hyper-Adaptive Biology: GORGON only, but when it suffers a wound for the first time, it adds 1 to its Toughness.
I really think they are all very good, each giving the warlord something special to grow stronger, or assassinate the enemy warlord.
Synaptic Lynchpin, classic adds 6 to the Synapse Range
Perfectly Adapted, LEVIATHAN, once per battle round the warlord can re-roll a hit, wound, advance, charge or save.
Monstrous Hunger, BEHEMOTH, To Wound roll of a 6 inflicts 1 more damage in the fight phase.
Heightened Senses, Never suffer penalties To Hit when shooting.
Part 6: Overall feeling of the Tyranids.
Well, I used to think that Hive Tyrants could only take wings, Carnifexes were useless and would never even consider Hormagaunts over Termagaunts.
Now that 8th edition has shown itself to allow players to choose any models they want, I find that the Tyranids have become this new organism.
I want to experiment more with large swarms, a monster list and maybe add more genestealers.
I find that Tyranid have grown faster, hit harder and have a lot simpler rules to follow, such as Synapse and Instinctive Behaviour
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