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It seems to me like Paroxysm is the best psychic power to give the Hive Tyrant. Reduce the WS and BS of a whole unit within 12" to 1 until your next turn? Yes please!!! As someone who loves to get into close combat, this sounds like heaven to me, and it makes the next turn of shooting seem trivial. Do you agree, or am I completely missing the mark here?

That plus Life Leach I think will be the most common combo of powers for the Tyrant that you'll come across.

Yeah, I also like Life Leech. I picked those 2 for my army list... now I just have to get a Hive Tyrant...

Paroxysm is a good power for fighting enemy assault units, but otherwise it is not particularly great.

My combo will probably be the Scream and Paroxysm. Re-rolling 3's to hit with carnies is nice....

The Paroxysm/Life Leech combo will be the most popular. Paryoxism means that things your tyrant is going to assault will only hit him on 5's, while life leech is just bonus wound goodness. The Horror won't be used outside of some janky "broodlord psychic choir" list.

I find Psychic Scream interesting. Not because I think it's particularly effective, but because I could see a Flyrant with it. Think about it. If a Flyrant wants to assault a vehicle, none of his psychic powers are doing to do any good against it. However, he can't shoot/psychic something else if he still wants to assault the vehicle. Psychic Scream could provide the long-shot that still allows the Tyrant to do something in the shooting phase between tearing up things with an armor value.

Still, that's extremely situational, and I can't envision a walking tyrant without Pary/Life Leech in any case.

Fetterkey wrote:Paroxysm is a good power for fighting enemy assault units, but otherwise it is not particularly great.

I don't plan on having a Tyrant use it for it's own good - it's for the Guants and other troops and gives them a better chance of survival versus MEQs.

Going with Swarmlord + Lash-Whip armed Guards. All the powers, plus he can use two a turn and the lash whips will come in handy after Paroxysm.

Unless your fighting Terminators armed with a bunch of Fists and Hammers, I don't see the need to Paroxysm the Hive Tyrant's target. I don't care if they get to hit me on 4s instead of 5s, because they're only going to get to wound me on 6s. Use the power on the stuff your Gaunts and other little guys are assaulting, so they get to hit on 3s, or stuff that's going to be shooting you so they only hit on 6s.

Andilus Greatsword wrote:

Fetterkey wrote:Paroxysm is a good power for fighting enemy assault units, but otherwise it is not particularly great.

I don't plan on having a Tyrant use it for it's own good - it's for the Guants and other troops and gives them a better chance of survival versus MEQs.

I know, but it still doesn't seem all that great to me. I was prepared for it to affect every enemy unit within 12 inches after hearing some faulty rumors, so the actual version fails to impress.

I think it serves a better purpose making your opponents heavy weapons much less accurate. Blob infantry, devastator squad etc. Excellent way of preserving broods after they DS in.

Dev's, Broodlords and the Deathleaper > All can be used to improve this power.