Lictors should have Sniper on their CC attacks.

Units:
I think the ranged Carnifex should be available. Since most Tyranid players have to deal with conversions anyhow, I do not think models from a shelved range should be a limit.

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Well...fluff wise the Trygon ISN'T a transport. It burrows a hole where smaller brood creatures can follow it through.

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Hena also spake the truth.

As long as the main set of special rules can be hacked down.

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And oh yeah, as far as I'm concerned the main task this month is to reduce the number of special rules.

It's about Jervis' only guidance on the 'nid list in the last two years.

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Well, if the Tyrgon *was* given "infiltrator", it's base move would be reduced.

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OK, I had my game on Saturday. It was a 4k game but I faced off against two armies (2k of guard and marine). It was close to your Crusade army list Chroma but not quite there (we had to use a Steel Legion HQ company due to models available). We also had a table that was only 3.5' so the board was somewhat narrow, to make up for the fact though we went corner to corner. Given all that I'm not sure how valuable a batrep would be, let me know. The game went to four turns and the Tyranids ended up winning by about 400 points, so it was a very close game.

Here are the thoughts I've collected since 9.1 came out, ranked by how important I feel they are.

1)
Under this iteration, what happens when a Synapse Swarm has no synapse creatures after it looses an assault? Or essentially, what happens when a synapse swarm becomes broken and has no synapse creatures?

The way it reads currently, they break, suffer hack downs if in an assault, withdraw, and must try to rally in the end phase.

If they do rally they stay way they are and if they are within 15cm of synapse creatures they join that swarm, bringing their blast markers with them. If they don't rally, they get a further withdraw move and then the same as above (bringing a number of blast markers with them equal to the number of units).

When these brood units join a new synapse swarm, there's also a chance that it can break with all the BMs they bring with them.

I have no problem with all that, we will need a note saying that a synapse swarm that becomes broken in the end phase cannot attempt to rally in that end phase. That will prevent the Tyranid player from rallying in an order that suits them best.

2)
I would like to see the Tie Breaker costs gone over and really see what people think of them. I think some additional text in that section to further explain how to calculate the total would be helpful.

3)
I think we need a note or a FAQ on how to handle expendable and non-expendable units caught under a Disrupt barrage. Brood creatures wouldn't yield a BM if hit but synapse creatures would.

4)
The last two sentences of the last paragraph under the Spawning special rule have a typo:

The Tyranid Player must finish spawning for each swarm
before moving on to the next,  until all swarms have made a
spawning attempt, choosing them  in any order. A swarm is not
required to spawn and may pass, not returning any units this
turn.

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If that's what we're going with them it should be explicit.

... though once the assault is over both normal coherency and control range must be maintained. If a synapse group is destroyed in the assault then all brood creatures are removed.

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If a swarm finds itself "out of formation" (either normal coherency, see EA1.7.4, or control range), the portion with the least Synapse creatures is removed. The only exception to staying in control range is during assaults: only normal coherency must be adhered to, though once the assault is over both normal coherency and control range must be maintained.

I thought that was pretty clear... a Synapse-less swarm has *nothing* in control range, so they must be removed... it can certainly be made explicit though.

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I think the synapse rules need a rethink. They're clunky at the moment, and take up an awful lot of words.

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The same debate occurred earlier in the year. Here is Neal Hunt's summary in the Tyranids v9.0 thread. Read Hena and Dave's replies below as well.

It seems that the intention is to remove the swarm which has no synapse creatures to control it. As worded there are essentially three points where the swarm is removed for being out of control (as opposed to out of formation):-
1) At the end of a move
2) At the end of an assault
3) In the end phase

So, if the swarm has not activated and is not broken, it is still allowed an activation even if all its Synapse creatures have died to enemy shooting, and thus the swarm may attempt one last assault, but automatically dies once the assault is completed.

That said, I agree that the wording need reviewing - if only to prevent people like me trying to preserve leaderless swarms by getting other Synapses into range.

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