Hormagaunts

Hormagaunts
Type	Infantry
Faction	Tyranids
Produced by	Brood Nest
Research	Hormagaunts
Tier	1
Prod. time	2
Cost	12 10
Upkeep	1
Attributes
Group size	8
Armour	2
Hitpoints	16
Morale	4
Movement	3

Hormagaunts are a Tyranid basic close combat infantry unit.

Description

Hormagaunts are vicious and extraordinarily single-minded predators that will pursue their victims without pause or respite. With powerful hind legs, Hormagaunts dart across the battlefield in a series of bounding leaps, ignoring injury and tiredness until they have run down their exhausted quarry and torn it apart with frenzied strikes of their scythe-like claws.

Weapons

8x Scything Talons Melee: Cannot overwatch. Upgrade: Bioweapon Symbiosis Increases the armour penetration of melee weapons.

Actions

8x Override Instinctive Behaviour Focuses the Hive mind's attention to temporarily override instinctive behaviour. Free action Cooldown: 3 Cost: Scaling amount

8x Subterranean Assault Tunnels from a Trygon's Broodhive to another Broodhive. Consumes action points Consumes movement

Traits

Bounding Leap: Negates the movement penalty of rivers.

Fleet: Increases the movement.

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

Move Through Cover: Negates the movement penalty in forests and imperial ruins.

Researchable

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

Furious Charge: Increases the melee damage. Requires: Adrenal Glands

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

Toxin Sacs: Increases the damage of melee weapons against infantry units. Requires: Toxin Sacs

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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