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If an entire unit is initiative 1, due to whip coils, does this mean that on a sweep advance the opposing unit has initiative 1 on the sweeping advance?

no, its their base intiative

Wouldn't the base initiative now be 1. Whip coils count all models in BtB to be initiative 1 and this doesn't seem to be modifying the initiative but counting it to be 1. I could be wrong.

Counting it as 1 is a type of modifier. A set modifier to be precise.

 sounddemon wrote:
Wouldn't the base initiative now be 1. Whip coils count all models in BtB to be initiative 1 and this doesn't seem to be modifying the initiative but counting it to be 1. I could be wrong.

No that's their modified Init. Modifiers on pg 2 BGB explains further.

Thanks

Yep. SA requires unmodified initiative, and setting I to 1 is a modifier