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Hi guys
just a quick question
can my hive tyrant both shoot his devourers and use his physic shooting attack in the same turn or is it just one or the other

thanks

using a psychic shooting attack counts as firing one weapon, so he could fire two devourers or one and a psychic shooting attack

A monsterous creature can fire two weapons in a turn, each devourer counts as shooting a weapon, as does casting a Psychic shooting attack. Also if you vector strike, you can as having shot a single weapon.

 liam10191 wrote:
Hi guys
just a quick question
can my hive tyrant both shoot his devourers and use his physic shooting attack in the same turn or is it just one or the other

Why would you assume that we either know what your Tyrant is armed with or that we can read your mind?

When you say; "Devourers", do you mean that your Tyrant has two twin-linked Devourers, or that he has one (and...say, a Bonesword) but you use "Devourers" in plural (because "there is...like... two of them when twin-linked")?

I don't know the nid codex but plurality seems to be implied with the "s" following the noun. That is, if you want to be a "nid-picker."

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thanks for the info itspug and eldarcaveman. i didnt realize that vector striking counted as a shooting attack as well

Vector Strike isn't a shooting attack, but it says in its rule that if you do it, that counts as you having fired a weapon for purposes of how many weapons you can shoot in the shooting phase.

 Mannahnin wrote:
Vector Strike isn't a shooting attack, but it says in its rule that if you do it, that counts as you having fired a weapon for purposes of how many weapons you can shoot in the shooting phase.

Yeah it's very important that you remember it's not a shooting attack and only counts as having fired a weapon, since it doesn't cause grounding tests to Swooping FMC's.

It also doesn't benefit from rules which benefit shooting, and saves or other defenses which only apply to shooting don't work against it. It also uses randomized wound allocation rather than closest model.