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So I've been figuring out my Tyranid army and notice that venomthropes have a rule call shrouding spores that say: your opponent must subtract one from to hit rolls with ranged weaponry that target Tyranid infantry with 3 inches. the psychic power does the same thing against one unit. Now does this mean a weapon that rolls to hit cannot roll 6 therefore in overwatch can't hit? it will mean only flamers and similar which auto hit will threaten us with overwatch.

The rule for overwatch says that it's resolved at BS6+, ignoring any modifiers.
So your venomthropes can't prevent overwatch.


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Oh, and now you need to have range for overwatch, and all standard flamers seem to have a 8" range. And it's measured from the models, so if the flamer guy is not on the front, you could be just a few inches away from the unit and still enjoy a flamer-free overwatch.