Ever since BFG came out people have been asking questions along the lines of 'When the hell are you guys going to get your fingers out and make a Tyranid fleet?!?!?!!!'. Well fret no longer oh purple tentacled members of the Hive Mind, for that jolly nice fellow Andy Chambers has been burning the midnight oil in order to bring you this, the one and only official Battlefleet Gothic Tyranid rules and fleet list!

Seriously, though, for some time now Andy has been tinkering away with a set of rules to allow players to use Tyranid ships in BFG, and even managed to arrange for a small selection of Tyranid ship models to be made to go long with the rules (although the rules are designed to work just as well with scratch-built models - see elsewhere in this issue for details). Unfortunately, pressure of work on 40K has stopped Andy from really getting the time to finish the project off, so although the rules are written and the models made, they have not yet been fully tested.

I knew that Andy had been working on the rules, so when I joined the Fanatic crew I volunteered to help finish the project off. Initially my plan was to take Andy's rules, play-test them, sort out any problems, and then publish them as a supplement for the main BFG game. However, Andy was confident that the rules and list where in a playable state, so rather than make you guys (and gals!) wait for six months while we got them ready, I thought I'd let you join in with the fun by unleashing the current version of the rules to a wider audience in Battlefleet magazine.

You'll find Andy's Tyranid rules are on the following pages. Unlike the 'experimental rules' you'll find elsewhere in this magazine, these Tyranid rules are definitely going to be published as an addition to the BFG rules system in pretty much exactly the form you will find them here. However, we still need you to help us iron out any wrinkles or loopholes there may still be hiding in the rules, so that they work smoothly and fairly. So, please use these rules and the fleet list, and then write to us telling us if you ran into any problems. We'll be playtesting them also, and with your feedback we'll come up with the final version of the rules to be published as a stand alone BFG supplement some time next year. Until then feel free to use the rules in any games of BFG that you play - though if you're playing in a tournament you should make sure that the tournament organisers are cool with you using them first! We'd also like to know what you think of the Tyranids in general, what new miniatures you'd like to see, what new background - in short if you've anything to say that that relates to Tyranids in BFG we want to hear about it! Sadly we won't be able to reply to the mail we receive, but all the letters will be read and the ideas in them 'added to the melting pot'.

Have fun, and remember to write us with your comments.