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Just a quick one...

If a Tyranid creature is listed as Fearless (i.e. Lictors and Carnifexes), I assume they don't revert to Instinctive Behaviour when outside synapse range, because they automatically pass leadership tests. Correct?


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Have just answered my own question by looking at the FAQ. I am correct... well done me.

Per the FAQ, Fearless Nids ignore IB.

Without the FAQ, they would (IMO) suffer from it just as any other Nid. Fearless allows you to automatically pass all Morale and Pinning tests, not all Leadership tests.

don_mondo wrote:Per the FAQ, Fearless Nids ignore IB.

Without the FAQ, they would (IMO) suffer from it just as any other Nid. Fearless allows you to automatically pass all Morale and Pinning tests, not all Leadership tests.

Fearless automatically passes Morale checks, not Leadership tests (which is part of why Synapse is so powerful, as it auto-passes ANY Leadership test that is not a Psychic test).

The FAQ rules that Fearless Nids don't roll for IB because Fearless units can't fall back, and failing your IB check would force you to fall back.

To respond to your thread title:
Yes. Fear is, in fact, an instinctive behavior, and anything without fear is either ignoring their instinctive behavior, or has none.

Course, interesting note, some of the GW studio originally said that Fearless Nids suffered from IB and fell back, because codex special rules trumped main rulebook core rules..............

Hmmmmm, codex trumps main rules, where have I heard that before? Yet another reason that an FAQ was needed so that Fearless Nids could ignore IB.

Almost all of the Nid players I know (including on Nid boards) played it that Fearless models suffered IB (back before the FAQ). Carnifexes didn't fall back, but they might not move forward...

Yep, but if by RAW codex overrules Main Rules, they would fall back since the codex special rule says to. And certain GW studio folks said that originally. (Remember the oooold GW forums?) After all, if part of a codex special rule applies, all of it should apply.

But all water under the bridge now, due to the (since Gwar's not here I'll say it....) unofficial FAQ.