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Does the Brood Telepathy ability of the Broodlord (+1 to hit for all <HIveFleet> Genestealers in the fight phase) also apply to the Broodlord himself? He has the keyword Genestealer (and is obviously from the same Hivefleet as himself). If it does, it obviously only helps him if he has a -1 to hit from some source as well, as he normally hits on a 2+ already. But it would allow him to ignore the first -1 penalty to hit.

Malachon wrote:
Does the Brood Telepathy ability of the Broodlord (+1 to hit for all <HIveFleet> Genestealers in the fight phase) also apply to the Broodlord himself? He has the keyword Genestealer (and is obviously from the same Hivefleet as himself). If it does, it obviously only helps him if he has a -1 to hit from some source as well, as he normally hits on a 2+ already. But it would allow him to ignore the first -1 penalty to hit.

The only thing I will say about this is that we had both this question AND a very similar question for Old One Eye's Alpha Leader ability, and GW went ahead and did an Errata for the Alpha Leader ability (to change 'Carnifex' to 'CARNIFEX', making sure Old One Eye benefited from his own ability).

They did not make a similar change for Brood Telepathy, so it seems fairly likely that they don't want it to affect the Broodlord (or they think its not worth putting in the errata since it doesn't really benefit I'm all that often). Regardless, RAW the Broodlord shouldn't benefit from the ability.

For consistency, since GW has keywords now, I really think they should always be using them in ability rules like this one, so I personally don't like them not changing it like they did for Alpha Leader.

Yeah if they named a Genestealer unit rather then using a GENESTEALER Keyword he can't buff himself. That's how we've been playing it.

yes, he can autobuff


AURA ABILITIES Some units – usually CHARACTERS – have abilities that affect certain models within a given range. Unless the ability in question says otherwise, a model with a rule like this is always within range of the effect. For example, a Lord of Contagion has the Nurgle’s Gift ability, which affects all DEATH GUARD models within 7" of him. As the Lord of Contagion is also a DEATH GUARD model, he benefits from this ability as well.

 jolyas wrote:
yes, he can autobuff


AURA ABILITIES Some units – usually CHARACTERS – have abilities that affect certain models within a given range. Unless the ability in question says otherwise, a model with a rule like this is always within range of the effect. For example, a Lord of Contagion has the Nurgle’s Gift ability, which affects all DEATH GUARD models within 7" of him. As the Lord of Contagion is also a DEATH GUARD model, he benefits from this ability as well.

You seem to be missing the fact that his ability doesn't have a bolded keyword that affects him. It says 'Genestealer units' and the word Genestealer is not a bolded keyword. If it were, there would be no question that it affects him (because of the rule you mentioned above).

However, since 'Genestealer units' does not contain a bolded keyword, it only applies to actual 'Genestealer' units, not the Broodlord.

Yakface is right here. It needs to be errata'd to GEANSTEALER for it to affect the Broodlord, but be prepared to be called TFG and have gibberish about "intent" shouted at you for following the rules.

 BaconCatBug wrote:
Yakface is right here. It needs to be errata'd to GEANSTEALER for it to affect the Broodlord, but be prepared to be called TFG and have gibberish about "intent" shouted at you for following the rules.

Why? Noone would shout 'intent' when GW's writers chose the phrase 'Genestealer unit' not the GENESTEALER keyword. This isn't an unclear intent case, it's one that is clear. They chose to affect Genestealer units, not anyone with the Keyword. If they errata it later they change the intent. But there's no confusion right now.

Again, please stop deriding anyone who disagrees with you as idiots, or spouting "gibberish", T20 Conscripts, kill a puppy etc. Just argue your case. In this case everyone agrees with you! ;-)