Warrior Bioform Onslaught: The New 1-DP Tyranids Warrior Detachment (11th Edition)

Two clauses, and the current pack keeps them tight.

First, your Tyranid Warriors with Ranged Bio-weapons and Tyranid Warriors with Melee Bio-weapons units gain two keywords: Tyranid Warriors and Battleline. That single Tyranid Warriors keyword is what lets all three of the detachment's stratagems target either build.

Second, Tyranid Warriors, Tyranid Prime with Lash Whip and Winged Tyranid Prime models from your army gain a 5+ invulnerable save. That is the durability fix: Warriors stop folding to high-AP fire, and your Primes stop being sniped out of the unit they are leading.

One thing to unlearn: the October 2025 printing also granted Objective Control 3 while not Battle-shocked. The current pack does not, so plan around Battleline and the invulnerable save, not around inflated OC.

Three, all 1CP, and all three target a Tyranid Warriors unit:

• Alien Physiology (your opponent's Shooting or the Fight phase, when an enemy targets your Warriors) — attacks against that unit with Strength greater than the unit's Toughness get -1 to Wound. This is the one that makes a Warrior brick genuinely annoying: stacked with the 5+ invulnerable, big guns stop paying off.
• Synaptic Micronodes (end of your Movement) — the unit secures one objective it is controlling, so you can walk away and keep the point.
• Parasitic Payload (your Shooting, when your Warriors are selected to shoot) — that unit's ranged attacks gain Ignores Cover, for prising infantry off a ruin.

That is the whole list. If a guide tells you about Spontaneous Hypercorrosion, Synaptic Amplification or Restorative Impulse, it is describing the superseded October 2025 version of this detachment.

Two, and both are locked to the same pair of models: Winged Tyranid Prime or Tyranid Prime with Lash Whip.

• Elevated Might — that model's melee attacks can re-roll Wound rolls and have +1 Armour Penetration. A Prime carrying this leads from the front.
• Ocular Adaptation — the bearer's unit's melee attacks get +1 to Hit rolls. Note the difference in scope: Elevated Might buffs the model, Ocular Adaptation buffs the whole brick, and only in melee.

The Synaptic Tyrant and Sensory Assimilation enhancements from the older printing are gone. (Points move with dataslates; confirm them in the app.)

• Tyranid Warriors with Melee Bio-weapons — a Battleline brick that, with the 5+ invulnerable and Alien Physiology, becomes a durable objective-holder and melee threat. The Faction Pack also rewrote its Adaptive Instincts ability so that once per turn the unit picks +1 Strength in melee or +1 Toughness.
• Tyranid Warriors with Ranged Bio-weapons — the Battleline ranged brick, and the natural home for Parasitic Payload's Ignores Cover.
• Tyranid Prime with Lash Whip — named in the rule for the 5+ invulnerable, and one of only two models that can carry either enhancement. The Faction Pack prints its datasheet in full.
• Tyranid Prime — the classic Warrior leader; the Winged build is the other enhancement carrier.
• Termagants — cheap bodies that stay steady behind a Warrior spine holding the synapse web together.

Take it as a cheap 1-DP framework when you want durable Tyranid Warrior bricks as Battleline objective-holders — either as the spine of a Warrior-centric army or as a resilient, synapse-carrying support bolted onto a 2-DP core. The single DP and the Battleline-enabling rule make it easy to slot, and because Warriors are Synapse creatures, they widen the bubble that Synaptic Nexus, Unending Swarm and Invasion Fleet all care about.

It is a support package, not an engine. It adds no offensive army rule, so pair it with a core that supplies the damage.

Sample gameplan: field two or three Warrior bricks, mixing melee and ranged, each led by a Prime. Walk them onto objectives, then hold the point with Synaptic Micronodes so you can move off it. When a big gun turns on a brick, spend Alien Physiology so those high-Strength attacks wound at -1 into a 5+ invulnerable. Put Ocular Adaptation on the Prime leading your melee brick and Elevated Might on the one you intend to fight with, and use Parasitic Payload on the ranged brick to strip cover from whatever is camping a ruin.