Hive Guards

Hive Guards
Type	Infantry
Faction	Tyranids
Produced by	Brood Nest
Research	Hive Guards
Tier	4
Prod. time	4
Cost	21 30
Upkeep	3
Attributes
Group size	2
Armour	6
Hitpoints	24
Morale	4
Movement	3

Hive Guards are a Tyranid tough ranged infantry unit. (Only with Escalation Pack DLC)

Description

Hive Guard are heavily armoured gun-beasts bound to extremely powerful symbiotic bio-weapons. Though they have no eyes, Hive Guard possess a weak telepathic ability that allows them to perceive through the senses of other Tyranids, giving them access to a wealth of targeting information that would overwhelm even the most sophisticated technological cogitator. The scant mental capacity apportioned to the Hive Guard means that, without the direction of the Hive Mind, they have been known to stand motionless, waiting for prey to come within range instead of moving forwards to engage.

Weapons

2x Impaler Cannon Assault: Classification. Homing: Does not require line of sight. Ignores Cover: Ignores the ranged damage reduction of the target unit. Upgrade: Ocular Proliferation Increases the armour penetration of long-ranged weapons.

Actions

2x Override Instinctive Behaviour Focuses the Hive mind's attention to temporarily override instinctive behaviour. Free action Cooldown: 3 Cost: Scaling amount

2x Subterranean Assault Tunnels from a Trygon's Broodhive to another Broodhive. Consumes action points Consumes movement

Traits

Instinctive Behaviour: The unit loses morale each turn while not in range of a synapse creature.

Very Bulky: Requires two additional cargo slots in a transport.

Researchable

Extra Infantry Armour: Increases the armour. Requires: Extra Infantry Armour

Fleet: Increases the movement. Requires: Adrenal Glands

Gaunt Instincts: Reduces the biomass upkeep. Requires: Gaunt Instincts

Strategy

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Tyranids

Units & Heroes Heroes Tyranid Prime • Tervigon • Hive Tyrant Infantry Termagants • Hormagaunts • Gargoyles • Tyranid Warriors • Malanthrope Venomthropes • Raveners • Biovores • Spore Mines • Zoanthropes • Lictors Monstrous Creatures Tyrannocyte • Carnifex • Haruspex • Exocrine • Trygon • Tyrannofex • Scythed Hierodule Flyers Hive Crone Stationary Norn Cyst • Broodhive
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