psychic powers tyranid

[mrdade]

Hi all
just started playing 6th 40k.
How many powers do they get ? I want to make sure I am doing it right.
Hive tyrant - choses 2 from list in tyranid book so can she change them and roll for 2 new powers from the new set ?
I no she can only use 1 a turn. I got told at my club because my mastery level 1 I only roll for 1 power.
so my swarmlord traded her 4 power in for bio. Mastery 2 so I got 2 from the new list. Is that right ? Or should i have had 4 powers because she has 4 in book ? Same goes for the broodlord is it 2 or 1 powers ?

Thanks for all your help.
Regards MrDade.

[Jabberwocky]

You get as many rolls/powers as you had from the codex, so you were right, not the other guy.

[Lanesend]

Yeah. You were right. It is explained in the Tyranid FAQ.

As a rule of thumb. Tyranids have 2x the amount of powers of their mastery level.

Hive Tyrant, Zoanthropes, Broodlord have Mastery 1, but can choose 2 powers.
Swarmlord has Mastery 2, but can choose 4 powers
Tervigon has Mastery 1, but can choose between 1 and 3 powers (extra powers cost 15 points though)
DOoM has Mastery 1, can only choose 1 power (Note he can only change Cataclysm. He will always keep Spirit Leech)

Hope that helps

[mrdade]

Thanks

[omnivore]

Odd that a being that supposedly single handedly destroyed an Eldar craftworld should be our weakest psyker

[Jabberwocky]

Spirit leech is still free though <3

[Raven]

Whoever it is at the club has the right idea, wrong codex. Space Marines and the majority of the other armies out there only get their mastery level in codex powers, but it's the same thing as close combat weapons. People say "oh you have to choose between using your Bonesword or your Lash Whip or your Scything Talons" but we don't, because we don't have close combat weapons, we have biomorphs. Tyranids are quite unique compared to the other armies, so when in doubt, go by what the rulebook and the FAQ says (or ask on here) not what some guy who plays Marines says.

[Davor]

Spirit Leech is not a psychic power so there should be no question about it.