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If a Brood Lord takes the Feeder Tendrils biomorph, does it apply to the members of his brood?
It seems that is the consensus here on Dakka, given its use as such on many an army list. But what is the rule mechanic that allows this?

In a recent game this came up, the opposing opinion was that the GS with the brood lord are part of his retinue and for some reason doesn't count as a brood for purposes of this rule.
I can't really remember if there was any rules logic behind it, but in essence the sentiment was that buying FT for the BL only and not the GS also was an attempt to circumvent intent and exploit a loop hole (or "cheat" even).
Given that my opponent agreed that FT would give the effect to a unit of Hormagaunts 2" away from the BL, it seemed silly to me that it wouldn't apply to his own unit.

yes, it does. Feeder tendrils affects every unit with 3" of the model with feeder tendrils.

Yes It does. Every unit, including his own.

Is the Blord or the Retinue within 2" of the Blord? If so, the entire unit gets the benefit.

If an enemy model goes before the genestealers, which are retinue to the broodlord, kills the broodlord, would the genestealer attack still benefit from the effects of the, now dead, broodlord's feeder tendrils?

inquisitor_bob wrote:If a model goes before the genestealers, which are retinue to the broodlord, kills the broodlord, would the genestealer attack still benefit from the effects of the, now dead, broodlord's feeder tendrils?

No. If you are not within feeder tendrils range when you are about to attack you no longer have preferred enemy.

good luck finding much that kills the broodlord before they all attack though

Not to mention, being able to kill the Blord before all of the stealers are dead.

About the only thing going before a Broodlord would be a Phenix Lord in an Enhanced Unit id imagine.

Or does a Witch Elf Character from DE also have Int 8 base?

due to the retinue you would just place the wounds on the normal stealers first. Broodlord should nearly always live to strike back.

Marius Xerxes wrote:About the only thing going before a Broodlord would be a Phenix Lord in an Enhanced Unit id imagine.

Or does a Witch Elf Character from DE also have Int 8 base?

Yeah an archite is Initiative 8, but then dark eldar have other stuff to because any character could use "always strikes first" drugs and a wych unit (including bikes etc.) could roll it up

A unit of Howling Banshees could get lucky on the first turn, for roughly even points. Otherwise, you're looking at multiple Keepers of Secrets or heralds of Slaanesh at many more points than the brood cost, and a lot of luck.

But practically speaking, there are better odds of the broodlord being killed by shrapnel from an exploding vehicle during the assault phase.

Charging Harlequins have I 7 and enough attacks to pile up enough wounds so that it could happen. Add Guide, Doom and the fact that the Broodlord could have taken a wound from shooting (maybe the greedy Tyranid player didn't want to lose a stealer so took a wound on the lord instead) and it's not even that unlikely anymore.