Venomthrope
A Venomthrope is a species of Tyranid dripping with poisons that floats across the battlefield via gas-filled bladders while emitting a lethal gas that will ultimately kill a world's indigenous life and ruin its soil and atmosphere beyond habitable levels until the world is only fit for consumption by the Hive Fleet.1 The Hive Mind uses this aspect of the Venomthrope by gathering them together in large numbers and unleashing them on a region to gradually poison it, making it harder for non-Tyranid life forms to continue the fight.2
Venomthropes have scrawny bodies and many whip-like tentacles that are coated in poisons capable of causing death from a single touch. Its gas bladders are its primary form of attack, producing spore clouds of yellowish vapour containing phage organisms lethal to non-Tyranid life while providing cover to Tyranid creatures. Brief exposure causes nausea and spasms, while more than a minute results in infection that allows no escape for the victim from their organic tissue slowly breaking down.1
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Venomthrope (5th edition)
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Sources
- 1: Codex: Tyranids (5th Edition), pg 45
- 2: Deathwatch: Mark of the Xenos, pg 51
| HQ | Hive Tyrant • Tyrant Guard Brood • Tervigon • Tyranid Prime |
|---|---|
| Elites | Hive Guard Brood • Lictor Brood • Venomthrope Brood • Zoanthrope Brood • Pyrovore Brood • Ymgarl Genestealers |
| Troops | Tyranid Warrior Brood • Genestealer Brood • Termagant Brood • Hormagaunt Brood • Ripper Swarm Brood Transport: Mycetic Spore |
| Fast Attack | Tyranid Shrike Brood • Ravener Brood • Sky-slasher Swarm Brood • Gargoyle Brood • Harpy • Spore Mine Claster |
| Heavy Support | Carnifex Brood • Biovore Brood • Trygon • Trygon Prime • Mawloc • Tyrannofex |
| Unique Tyranids | The Swarmlord (HQ) • The Parasite of Mortrex (HQ) • Deathleaper (Elites) • The Doom of Malan'tai (Elites) • Old One Eye (Heavy Support) |
