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For the Tyranid Venomthrope, there exists a rule called Spore Cloud in which any "model" from friendly codex Tyranids receives the shrouded special rule when within 6 inches of a Venomthrope.. Some people look up the shrouded special rule and insist that any unit within 6 inches gets the special rule because only one model needs it. However, I was always under the belief that codex rules are completely separate from the rule book, and they do not relate in any way and it clearly states that only models in range receive the rule. I'm pretty sure if the writers meant the entire unit then they would have just said unit, not model. But I digress, what do you guys take of it?

Each unit within 6" gets the rule due to the way the rule itself is written in the rulebook. As long as one model has it they all do.

The codex trumps the rulebook though. It specifically says any model, not any unit. Why bother stating it the way they did? Why not just say any unit? It just makes zero sense to me.

 Lord Tarkin wrote:
The codex trumps the rulebook though. It specifically says any model, not any unit. Why bother stating it the way they did? Why not just say any unit? It just makes zero sense to me.

"Codex trumps Rulebook" only matters if their is a direct conflict (like one rule hitting on a 2+ and another hitting on 6+, you can't do both so there is a conflict).

The rules interaction is clear. Shrouded affects the entire unit regardless of how many models have in in the unit.

Spore Cloud is a way to grant the USR Shrouded, there is nothing in the Spore Cloud special rule that prevents Shrouded from working the way it always does, so no conflict here at all.

A lot of rules state models, which is why a lot of the special rules then go on to state that "Any unit with at least one model with this rule". As for why, this is because of independent characters; they often have rules different from normal models so when they join up they need some way of allowing his rules to be conferred to the unit when they want to and when they don't want to.

The Venomthrope is simply a byproduct of this; they already had shrouded go "any unit with a model" so might as well just go with "model".