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Okay, I don't understand. Why the feth did GW limit lictors to 1 from them being able to be fielded as 1-3? Is there some broken/powerful combo they can achieve if they can be fielded in more numbers than one? An opponent who isn't a fool is going to make sure that a single lictor never makes it to hand-to-hand combat to fight their character. And I find it doubtful that a 4-wound, toughness 4, 5+ save model is going to kill a enemy character of any significance. And this is the only assassin/sniper model available to Tyranids...

TBH they're not really assassins (save for Deathleaper, who is fairly capable against support characters) but more like commandos. Build a list with units that are happy to go second when setting up after the enemy army has committed to its deployment (T-fexes, Exocrines), take a bunch of Lictors, deploy them first in hiding, and your opponent has got to deploy very conservatively - and the minute a critical unit is exposed, you can throw a bunch of re-rolled charges at it to deny it shooting next turn.

Instead of taking up a single force org slot, a trio of Lictors enable a HQ choice to give you an extra CP. Being solitary types, that might be handy once the Codex drops - they could be taken with a Magus to counter Aggressors and the like, without compromising a detachment's <Hive Fleet> purity.

 Stormonu wrote:
Okay, I don't understand. Why the feth did GW limit lictors to 1 from them being able to be fielded as 1-3?

Because with detachments it doesn't really matter. Slots aren't as limited as they used to be.

Originally they had a 0-1 limit to the 1-3 thing, meaning you could only field 3 of them in total in your army.

I think GW is just going back to their roots.

 Arandmoor wrote:

 Stormonu wrote:
Okay, I don't understand. Why the feth did GW limit lictors to 1 from them being able to be fielded as 1-3?

Because with detachments it doesn't really matter. Slots aren't as limited as they used to be.

It very much does matter, there is a limit to the amount of detachments you can take in matched play.

I am going to suspect they will become 1-3 per FoC Slot again when the codex comes around.