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I was under the impression Tyranids couldn't purchase fortifications or use them if they did; am I mistaken cause I would very much like to see how the bugs play with a skyshield

Brutal Viking wrote:
I was under the impression Tyranids couldn't purchase fortifications or use them if they did; am I mistaken cause I would very much like to see how the bugs play with a skyshield

You are indeed mistaken.

Tyranids have absolutely no fortification limits, and now may purchase them the same as any other army. Before, Nids could not fire the guns, but now that FAQ has been removed, and not replaced for the new book.

Nids could ALWAYS fire the guns, but ONLY on auto mode or what ever it's called at BS 2, so basically needing a 5+ to hit.

Now they don't need to auto fire and can use their BS until a new FAQ comes out and may nerf it.

They could never use Gun Emplacements (like on an Aegis line), nor could they manual fire Emplaced Weapons.

Emplaced Weapons could still Auto-Fire however. They never had a restriction on buying fortifications though.

Yeah this is one of those things that started out with a few people complaining about something and a lot of people taking the info the wrong way like a bad game of Chinese Whispers and we ended up with something like this:
Tyranids can't manually fire Fortification weapons -> Which turned into couldn't fire Fortification weapons at all -> Into they can't even purchase Fortifications.

I remember when the 6th Codex had just come out and people were rejoicing that the FAQ was now obsolete and they could take Fortifications with their Tyranids finally, something they had been able to do all along...