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Hello,

I played a 1500 point game last night with my Tyranids against Blood Angels.

I infiltrated a Broodlord with a retinue of 6 Genestealers about 15 inches away (behind cover)from some Blood Angels.

I roll difficult terrain and move 6 inches through the cover and then go to roll my "fleet of claw" move during the shooting phase and my opponent tells me that I can't do this because the Broodlord doesn't get any of the benefits of his retinue and vice versa. I explain that I understand this and I'm only going to fleet the Genestealers but keep the unit in coherency. He let me do this, but then when I got into assault range off the 'fleet' roll he was very upset and wanted me to find out if the retinue Genestealers can Fleet of Claw at all.

Thanks,

Frog

Unfortunately, the universal special rule for Fleet (p. 74) has an asterisk next to it, denoting that a unit with this rule loses it if it is joined by an independent character who does not have it.

 

Yep Frogczar you done gone and cheated. As long as the broodlord lives, he and his retinue cannot fleet.

Well at least it was a mistake and not an intentional cheat.

This does seem to limit the usefulness of the broodlord and his infiltrating retinue somewhat.

 

Thanks for the replies!