Scutarii wrote:
Could you share why?
Warrior upgrade - mostly overall army theme for this one we wanted a very light raider army feel. The problem we found with allowing the Warrior upgrade to the Syndicate formations was if the cost was kept too high it was effectively a pointless upgrade (something we try to avoid, even if it is not always possible) as activations are so important.
However once the points dropped to 50 for 2 Warriors and a free Raider effectively it became a no brainer upgrade and moved the whole list into more of a mobile horde feel. So we left it as a cheap upgrade to bulk out the Coterie BTS if you wanted and removed it otherwise.
Grotesques transport - To promote use of a Barge if you wanted to have these guys mobile on the ground. Also they are basically Ogryn big in the newer Dark Eldar fluff, but limiting them to a single unit per Raider which would make sense fluff wise interacted poorly with the free Raider transport rule.