Warhammer 40K: 10th Edition Tyranids Neurotyrant Rule Previews – Beware The Brain Bug

The Neurotyrant is brand new and just as creepy as you’d expect an eldritch horror to be. But what can it do on the tabletop?

Games Workshop has never shied away from the brain bugs of the Tyranids. In Leviathan, we’re getting a new batch of them with the Neurotyrant! This creature is a mass of chitin, tentacles, and exposed brain that brings the psychic screams from the Hive Mind. Acting as a Synapse node for the Tyranids it’s both main purpose to aid in the destruction and devouring of the enemy’s biomass!

via Warhammer Community

“Neurotyrants act as mobile command centres, bristling with senses that observe the ebb and flow of the horde, and commanding the battle with greater efficacy.”

Neurotyrant Rule Previews

The first rule we have is Psychic Terror. Just for having a Neurotyrant on the tabletop you make Battleshock checks that much more difficult when you unleash the Shadow in the Warp.

Considering how the Tyranid Player can choose to unleash that once per battle, it could be worth it just for extra boost to the difficulty of those forced checks.

Neurotyrants are also potent Synapse nodes and have a rule to showcases that, too.

“Each Neurotyrant acts as a potent Synaptic Relay, enabling two units within 12” to act as if they are within Synapse Range until the start of your next Command phase, no matter where they end up. Your deadliest melee units can stretch their legs and hunt down troublesome enemies.”

This is actually really important for the Tyranids! Slinging units into melee without Synapse could cause them to run or perform at less than peak battlefield readiness. It’s kind of nice to have an ability to keep them in Synapse — or at least count them as still in Synapse.

The Neurotyrant also comes with a pair of Neuroloids which work great as tokens for the Synaptic Relay ability. That’s according to GW, so I don’t know if the Neuroloids are going to be anything but “tokens” for the Neurotyrant.

Good thing there aren’t any space zombies or the Neurotyrant would be their prime target on account of the BRAINS…

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