{{TyranidsPortal}}[[ImageFile:War DronesEscort-Drone.jpg|right|thumb|Escort Drones]][[Image:Tyranid Drone.png|left|thumbright|110px300px|Escort Stalker Drone]]'''Tyranid Escort Drones''' are heavily armed (if albeit slow and ungainly) [[Destroyer]]-class{{Fn|3}} [[Escort]]s that serve as the last line of defense for a fleet's [[Hive Ship]]s. As such, they can usually be found clustering around the flanks of those massive [[Bio-ship]]s.^{{Fn|1}}

Types ==Type of Tyranid Escort Drones include larger =====Strangler Drone===[[Image:StranglerDrone.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Strangler Drone]]Equipped with [[Feeder Tentacle]]s.{{Fn|3}}{{Clear}}===Caustic Drone===[[Image:CausticDrone.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Caustic Drone]]Equipped with [[Pyro-Acid]] Batteries.{{Fn|3}}{{Clear}}===Bio-Plasma Drone===[[Image:BioPlasmaDrone.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Bio-Plasma Drone]]Equipped with [[Bio-Plasma]] batteries.{{Fn|3}}{{Clear}}===Wardrones===[[Image:War Drones.jpg|right|thumb|130px|War Drones{{Fn|1}}]]'''Wardrones''' are designed solely to fight and protect the [[Norn-Queen]] and the Hiveship. They are dependent entirely on the influence of the [[Hive Mind]] in order to operate. Wardrones vary heavily in size and shape, and smallerusually fight in swarms, faster using weight of numbers to perform their tasks.{{Fn|2}}{{Clear}}===Stalker Drones===[[Image:Tyranid Drone.png|thumb|right|100px|Stalker Drone]]'''Stalker Drones'''^{are smaller defence ships which dart around the Hiveship, reacting immediately and frenziedly to anything that threatens it.{{Fn|1}}}{{Clear}}

==See Alsoalso==*[[Bio-ships|Bio-ship]]

*^{{Endn|1}}:[http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?catId=cat1290319&categoryId=1100007&section=&aId=4300022 Battlefleet Gothic Resources: Necron and Tyranid Fleets] p90 (accessed 2010.11.23)*{{Endn|2}}: [[White Dwarf 146]] (January 1992), pg. 24*{{Endn|3}}: [[Battlefleet Gothic Armada 2]]

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