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Contents 1 The General Structure 2 Contents 2.1 Army List 2.2 Background 2.3 Special Character Models 2.4 Hobby Section 3 Authors, Artists and Coworkers 4 Additional information 4.1 Other Publications 4.2 Other

The General Structure

The Codex: Tyranids is an expansion book for the Games Workshop Table Top game Warhammer 40,000. This edition of the book was published for the first time in 2005, and is for the 4th edition of Warhammer 40,000. It was the second Codex released for that edition of the game.

The book has 64 pages and the cover is printed in color while the majority of the book remains in black and white, although there are usually several pages of colour images of miniatures.

Contents

Army List

This book contains a complete army list for using a Tyranid army. Further special rules, equipment as well as biomorphs are included.

Background

This book contains background infromation and fiction on:

• 'The Great Devourer'
• Hive Fleet Behemoth
• Hive Fleet Kraken
• 'Structure and Analysis'
• Hive Fleet Leviathan
• Lieutenant Coyle's Last Stand
• 'Forgotten Fleets'
• Inquistorial Report on Hive Fleet's effectiveness

Special Character Models

No Special Characters were included in this book, so as to make the army appear more animalistic and less anthropomorphic.

Hobby Section

This book contains hobby information on:

• Collecting a Tyranid Swarm
• Descriptions of Tyranid units
• Painting tips on Tyranid Warriors, Hormagaunts and Hive Tyrants
• Colour Schemes
• Miniatures Showcase

Authors, Artists and Coworkers

During the production of this book, the following persons were involved considerably.

• Authors
  

Phil Kelly and Andy Chambers

• Additional Materials
  

Andy Hoare and Graham McNeill

• Cover Art
  

Alex Boyd

• Illustrations
  

Paul Daiton, Dave Gallagher, Mark Gibbons, Karl Kopinski and Adrian Smith

• Concept Design
  

Dave Andrews, John Blanche, Alessio Cavatore, Roberto Cirillo, Jes Goodwin and Gav Thorpe

• Hobby Materials
  

Mark Jones and Adrian Wood

Additional information

Other Publications

• Codex, an general overview of all Codex publications.

Other

• ISBN: 1-84154-650-X