Barbed Stranglers are a Tyranid Bio-Weapon. When Tyranids first did battle with the Imperium of Man, the Barbed Strangler was in fact the name of the projectile itself. This version held seeds that began within a seed pod the size of a man's fist, which was fired through a simple muscled tube. This pod was fired at such a powerful velocity that it could pierce armor, where it activated due to the warmth now surrounding the seed, indicating that the weapon itself was cooled on the inside. This seed grew at an exponential speed, and within seconds a number of tendrils would shoot through the body of the victim and tear it asunder. Upon full development the now-blood red tendrils began to lash out of the victim at nearby foes, at the same time spreading in all directions. This version of the