Lictor broods - still able to place solo, or must be grouped together?

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**Imaginos**

Quick question about Lictors in the Tyranid army. If I remember, I think in 5th edition, you could buy a brood of Lictors and place them separately. But as I'm reading through my 6th edition codex, I don't see that stated anywhere. Am I just blind, or does a brood of 3 Lictors have to maintain squad coherency now?

**streamdragon**

They must maintain squad coherency when purchased in your normal FOC elite slots.

Someone will be in shortly to link the dataslate that lets you get 5 individual lictors + Deathleaper, outside the FOC. (It's on GW's digital editions page somewhere, but I am lazy.)

**PrinceRaven**

Lictor Broods haven't been able to deploy separately since 2010. In 5th and 6th they operate as one unit.

**Imaginos**

Thanks folks. I've got the dataslate, so I'm familiar with that. I guess I must have been looking at an even older codex in regard to the separate deployment.