The perspective you could take is that that refers to strats being enabled by having a Cult detachment. Oh yeah, sorry, didn't explicitly quote this and what I said still stands. Nothing with the GSC keyword can utilise any Codex:Tyranids stuff :( There's certainly precedent from last edition for Cult being able to use Catalyst (I think?) - but I am personally inclined to think they wanted to dissassociate the two entirely and just got lazy with the wording.Ĭ4790M wrote: “ Genestealer Cults units therefore cannot make use of any of the rules listed in this section” It's ambiguous, as they're lumped into a lot of things like relics, WL traits, etc, that you definitely can't get, so who knows what the intent was really. So verbatim, they can still be used on them (though admittedly this contradicts the 'make use of' part of the text in the FaQ. But all the stratagems, powers, and such refer to TYRANIDS units. In this section), and instead have their own rules.’Įssentially, a 'Tyranids unit' is a Tyranids unit. Powers, Warlord Traits and Tactical Objectives described Genestealer Cults units therefore cannot make use ofĪny of the rules listed in this section (this includes theĭetachment abilities, Stratagems, bio-artefacts, psychic Organisation and tactics, not to mention physiology! Xenos masters, they deviate significantly in terms of The Hive Mind and will willingly fight alongside their Note that although Genestealer Cults are devoted to A Tyranidsĭetachment is therefore one which only includes units In the rules described in this section we often refer to ‘In this section you’ll find rules for Battle-forged armiesĪdd the following section before ‘Abilities’: Also might have some interesting use in mitigating first turn charges since per the rules units that charge can only attack units they declared as targets during the charge sub-phase, so any GSC infantry that intervene can't be chosen as targets unless they too where targeted. At first glance it looks perfect for someone guarding the artillery against getting tied up in combat but the only character that is content to operate in the backfield is the Iconward since his abilities are mainly defensive in nature while the others need to get closer to make the most of theirs. That said, with Return to Shadows and Meticulous Uprising added to our arsenal we probably will be running shy of command points anyway, as both are very useful and probably will see heavy use.Īnyway, what do people think of our new warlord trait? I think it has a lot of potential but am not sure how to best use it.

Still, they were nice enough to wait until Chapter Approved dropped before removing the interactions, so we where able to enjoy some stratagems before getting our own.

Tyranids 8th edition tactics