The Powers of the C'tan wording is subtly different to the Combat Drugs wording, which does allow you to pick and choose. I would like to ask your opinion on the matter of whether I can mix and match whether I pick or roll for different units or not.
For example, if I have a Tesseract Vault and C'tan Shard of the Deceiver, and I give powers 1-4 to the Tesseract Vault, am I forced to give powers 5 and 6 to the Deceiver or can I roll for their powers instead?
My opinion is that, no, I cannot. Whereas the Combat Drug rule uses "Alternatively", the C'tan rule uses "Instead". Furthermore I think the instruction in the C'tan Powers rule is a single instruction affecting all models, whereas the Combat Drug rule is individual to each unit.
I am not 100% on this so any and all arguments are appreciated.
(Also for today's tongue-in-cheek rules shenanigans, the rule says "Roll a
D6 to generate their powers randomly (re-rolling any duplicate results).", but you can't re-roll a re-roll so what happens if you roll a duplicate, then re-roll a duplicate??!???!?!?
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