Tyranid Tyrannofex Tactics

The Tyranid Tyrannofex is huge! And at 250 points, it costs nearly as much as a Land Raider!

Games Worksop have recently released the new Tyranid Tyrannofex model. The Tyranid Tyrannofex comes in a box that allows you to either build a Tyranid Tervigon or Tyranid Tyrannofex. As the creatures are so similar it is no surprise that the stats are similar to each other.

Tyranid Tyrannofex Strength and Weapons

The Tyranid Tyrannofex is a walking gun platform. This means that the Tyranid Tyrannofex has some big shooting weapons, however despite it's size the Tyranid Tyrannofex is not as strong as the Tyranid Carnifex.

Tyranid Tyrannofex Toughness and Biomorphs

The Tyranid Tyrannofex is T6, so like the other Tyranid monstrous S10 weapons will not instant kill the Tyranid Tyrannofex. You do have to be aware of other weapons that have the instant kill special rules, as these will slay your Tyranid Tyrannofex with one slice as these are often close combat weapons.

The Tyranid Tyrannofexs are not invulnerable though. Because they are creatures, they will be vulnerable to sniper fire, as Sniper wound on a 4+ regardless of toughness.

Tyranid Tyrannofex Main Weapon - Acid Spray

This is the weapon you want to choose if you are fighting in a built up area or dense jungle cover. It work much like the Imperial Guard Hellhound where you can shoot a flamer template a short distance forward, and then the template can point forward of that point. This means that the Tyranid Tyrannofex Acid Spray is a medium distance weapon that can cover a few models, and as it is a flamer template weapon, it can ignore cover too. This is why it is so good in games where there is a lot of cover.

Tyranid Tyrannofex Main Weapon - Rapture Cannon

This is the main weapon that you will see on the Tyranid Tyrannofex in most of the Warhammer 40k battles that a Tyranid Tyrannofex appears on. You do have to pay an extra 15 points to get this weapon, but is the biggest gun in the Tyranid Codex.

The Tyrannofex and the Hive Mind

For all it's size, the Tyranid Tyrannofex is not a Synapse creature! So you will need to keep it within hive mind range.

> Also See: Warhammer 40k Monstrous Creature Tactics

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