Barbed Strangler blast effect on Tyranids

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**Chylok**

I hope this isn't a dumb question but given the nature of the large "blast" effect from a Barbed Strangler,
do the hooked tendrils it sends out attack fellow Tyranids?

**kirsanth**

Yes.

Edit to add:
But only on a scatter (unless Tyranids are opponents), as the blast cannot be placed over friendly models

**Gwar!**

Yes.

And is customary to ask:
Why do you think it wouldn't?

**ajfirecracker**

Probably fluff, Gwar. Nid weapons are supposed to be living stuff directed by the hive-mind. Yadda yadda. Not rules.

**Gwar!**

ajfirecracker wrote:Probably fluff, Gwar. Nid weapons are supposed to be living stuff directed by the hive-mind. Yadda yadda. Not rules.

Even in Fluff, they would attack nids. Nids sometimes fight each other to test out new biomorphs and assimilate the weaker for biomass. And their "ammo" are just mindless Grubs/Bits of Organs that kill whatever regardless.

**Bookwrack**

And the ammunition the barbed strangler fires is a vicious, fast-growing plant.

**Chylok**

Gwar! wrote:
And is customary to ask:
Why do you think it wouldn't?

I'd suspected it would to be honest, but as the blast is a living thing there may be a chance that it could distinguish friend from foe. I realise that it can only happen in a scatter situation and as it is a large blast coupled with my usual crappy rolling it's a distinct possibility of me nuking my own team.

Many thanks for the advice though.

**kirsanth**

The same logic could apply to all Tyranid weaponry (which includes the creatures). However, just because it is a Tyranid does not make it a friend.

Either way, both friend and foe are reduced to biomass eventually anyway. It is no real loss when 'Team Kills' happen, from the Hive Mind's PoV.

**Chylok**

kirsanth wrote:
both friend and foe are reduced to biomass eventually anyway. It is no real loss when 'Team Kills' happen, from the Hive Mind's PoV.

Phew that makes me feel much better!