

A CHARACTER model in that Detachment that is given a Warlord Trait can instead be given the One Step Ahead Warlord Trait.

HIVE TENDRIL PSYKER units in Hive Fleet Detachments (excluding Auxiliary Support, Super-heavy Auxiliary or Fortification Network Detachments) know the relevant Hive Fleet psychic power in addition to any other psychic powers they know.Įxample: A Battle-forged army includes a HIVE TENDRIL Detachment in which every unit has the KRAKEN keyword. If a HIVE TENDRIL CHARACTER model gains a Warlord Trait, they can have the relevant Hive Fleet Warlord Trait instead of a Tyranid Warlord Trait.Įach hive fleet has an associated Hive Fleet psychic power. The adaptation gained depends on which hive fleet they are from, as shown below.Įach hive fleet has an associated Hive Fleet Warlord Trait.

He selects Unfeeling Resilience from the Lurk Biomorphologies and so, for that battle, his BEHEMOTH units’ adaptation becomes: The Hyper-adaptations rule for HIVE FLEET BEHEMOTH states that he can select either a Hunt or Lurk Biomorphology to replace it with. At the start of the battle, he decides to use the Hyper-adaptations rule to change the Adaptive element of his models’ adaptation. There are multiple alternative rules that this Adaptive element can be swapped out for, and each hive fleet’s Hyper-adaptations rule will specify which ones are available to you.Įxample: John’s army contains only BEHEMOTH units, which have the Hyper-aggression adaptation. Hyper-adaptationsEach Hive Fleet Adaptation also has an Adaptive element to it, which can be swapped out for another rule at the start of the battle, after determining who has the first turn. Certain abilities that are common to many units are only referenced on the datasheets rather than described in full. If your army is Battle-forged, you cannot include units from two different hive fleets in the same Detachment.Ī unit’s datasheet will list all the abilities it has. Until the start of your next Command phase, each time a model in that unit makes an attack, re-roll a hit roll of 1.’

This could be one of the hive fleets detailed in a Warhammer 40,000 publication, or one of your own design.Įxample: If you include a Winged Hive Tyrant in your army, and you decide it is from Hive Fleet Kraken, its keyword becomes KRAKEN and its Will of the Hive Mind ability reads, ‘In your Command phase, select one friendly KRAKEN CORE unit within Synaptic Link range of this model. When you include such a unit in your army, you must nominate which hive fleet it is from and then replace the keyword in every instance on its datasheet with the name of your chosen hive fleet. TYRANIDS units are drawn from a hive fleet. This is a keyword that you can select for yourself, as described in the Warhammer 40,000 Core Book, with the guidance detailed below. Many datasheets in this section have the keyword.
