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Apologies if this has been asked before.

Putting together my HT (it having sat the box for some years) and decided to go for the iconic lash whip and bone sword (since it only came with one bone sword). On reading through the rules LW/BS gives the added bonus ability of Death Throws....which a HT already has. Am I missing something obvious or is it a pointless/expensive weapon combo for the HT.

Thanks for any response.

Where are you reading that?

I can't see in the codex that the ability for lash whip and monstrous bonesword gives the Death Throes ability.

both the Lash whip/Bonesword and death throes work together.

If the hive tyrant is killed in CC, if he hasn't attacked yet, he can use his Lash whip/Bonesword. After he uses that he then rolls for his death throes, and activates that if he rolls a 6.

Both rules work on the same unit. If you add in the stratagem as well, a hive tyrant if they died in CC can do 3 potential (2 guaranteed) separate attacks to the target.

The very interesting RAW thing however, is the fact that if said tyrant had his guard there with a lash whip/Bonesword, and the model died in CC through either it's shieldwall ability or in normal CC, the tyrant guard model can take an infinite amount of wounds for the tyrant if you decided to leave the hive guard last in the fighting.

The question i have to ask is that can you paroxysm one of ur own units to capitalise on the "infinite wound sponge" of a tyrant guard

FistOFun wrote:
Apologies if this has been asked before.

Putting together my HT (it having sat the box for some years) and decided to go for the iconic lash whip and bone sword (since it only came with one bone sword). On reading through the rules LW/BS gives the added bonus ability of Death Throws....which a HT already has. Am I missing something obvious or is it a pointless/expensive weapon combo for the HT.

Thanks for any response.

You're either reading the wrong rules or have misread them.

The rules for Lash whip and monstrous bonesword can be found on page 111 of the Tyranid Codex.

You don’t get Death Throes, that’s a unit ability the HT already has.

LW/BS allows you to still get to fight in the Fight Phase even if they’re killed by enemy close combat attacks before being selected to fight. It’s useful at times but not a super competitive choice.

Thank you all.

Looking into it I misread it. Basically the two abilities appeared similar and I ended up confusing the two. Thankfully I don't play strict WYSIWYG, but glad that has been cleared up.

Have a great day.