Why do Hormagaunts have a BS score?

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**Chylok**

The stats on Hormagaunts give them a BS of 3, how do they get this? What are they shooting?

**Elessar**

Comparative purposes.

**Gwar!**

Errrm... Just because?

Also so that if something ever came out that said "This model has to make a BS Check" or something, they could do it. Essentially its future proofing.

**Elessar**

Ninja'd by 6 seconds there Gwar. You suck

**Gwar!**

Elessar wrote:Ninja'd by 6 seconds there Gwar. You suck

Yes, I do indeed.

**warboss**

obviously, they still have to roll to hit for giving another unit the stinkeye when they're around 1-2" outside of charge range. the stat, as stated above, is just there for completeness sake, kinda like close combat stats for tau.

**kirsanth**

It lets them fire guns in PS or scenarios that include such things. And better than orks, no less.

shrug

**Gwar!**

warboss wrote:obviously, they still have to roll to hit for giving another unit the stinkeye when they're around 1-2" outside of charge range. the stat, as stated above, is just there for completeness sake, kinda like close combat stats for tau.

**Cheese Elemental**

kirsanth wrote:It lets them fire guns in PS or scenarios that include such things. And better than orks, no less.

shrug

But they have no hands! They're - dare I say it - 'armless.

http://www.instantrimshot.com

**Chylok**

OK so Genestealers who have a BS of 0, can't give another unit the stinkeye when in 1-2" range? no fair!

Its the fact that Genestealers have a BS of 0, and the Hormagaunts have a BS of 3, and neither have ranged weapons options, that confused me.
So oh wise guys of DAKKADAKKA what's the reasoning behind that then?

**Gwar!**

Chylok wrote:OK so Genestealers who have a BS of 0, can't give another unit the stinkeye when in 1-2" range? no fair!

Its the fact that Genestealers have a BS of 0, and the Hormagaunts have a BS of 3, and neither have ranged weapons options, that confused me.
So oh wise guys of DAKKADAKKA what's the reasoning behind that then?

Because they said so. Also because Hormagaunts are a Type of Gaunt, so share the same statline. Genestealers are a totally different type.
Also to allow Hormagaunts to fire things in Planetstrike (hows that for Futureproofing

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**Chylok**

Gaunt Linage, that's a explanation I can live with. Nice one.

**Mannahnin**

It may also be a legacy rule. In earlier versions of the Tyranid codex, you could mutate individual gaunts in a brood to have different weapons, like a little venom cannon. It mattered then. Not so much now.