Hive Tyrant

The Master of the battle-swarm, the Hive Tyrant is a massively built and powerful creature which serves in some part as a 'leader' of the Tyranid attack on the ground. Akin in power to a living tank, able to rip through armour plate like wet paper and wreak indiscriminate slaughter, they are also incredibly fast and lithe. Some may even possess wings and extreme biomorphic mutations, often taking the place of unwholesome weapons which may burn or strangle their vicitims at range. Each is also a powerful psychic node for the greater Tyranid Hive Mind, not merely provinding the swarm with a strategic focus and overriding purpose, but also harnessing the Hive Mind's raw power offensively to drive fraile human mids insane with fear and burn out the brains of enemy psykers who would match their paltry powers against it.