15 or 20 cm movement depends on the synapse rules. I believe the 20 cm move is to be able to initiate engagements without transport options. This is not a major issue, since most Tyranid formations can march instead of double without loosing too much shooting anyway. However, if there is a synapse range involved, the 20 cms are needed to be able to launch engagements. 20 cms could easily be justified with Fleet or last edition's Leap ability.

I would like to echo Neal's sentiments. Restricting them to 15 cm opens up the possibility for winged warriors with worse save and Jump pack move.

/Fredmans

I'm obviously biased towards 15cm Inf.
The rest of the stats are ok. Keep the deathspitter as small arms and the save at 4+, as synapse the extra resilience helps. There really haven't been many changes or issues with them for quite a while (Apart from the LV issue). Shrikes will need to be forked to another unit so the winged option can be removed.

Agree. It also offers 'options' which is what an assault force really needs.

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I thought there had been a long debate over LV / Infantry, that went something along the lines that if 'INF', it made the swarm very hard to destroy (similar debate to Chaos Obliterators ), but if LV, it made them too easy to target. Does anyone remember the outcome of this??

I would tend to favour 20cm move, to allow the other brood creatures to move as intended but am not passionately attached to it.

I think moving them to LV was to compensate for the difficulty of getting BTS when it was tied to synapse creatures. If we're moving away from that then the need/want for the them to be LVs would go with it.

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