Acute Sense and Swarmlord

[sporesprayer]

So the swarmlord can give a unit w/in 18" of him acute sense (among other things) at the beginning of your shooting phase.


How do you use this? if something outflanks and comes in on a table edge, you generally want it on the opposite side of your enemy's line as your own things. That is almost guaranteed to be more than 18" away from the swarmlord. Also if the swarmlord manifests this ability @ the beginning of the shooting phase the target has already picked a board edge and deployed and moved from there.....

how does this ability work?

[WestRider]

It doesn't. It was removed in the Amendments section of the Tyranid FAQ.

[grarik]

Acute senses was different in 5th edition, allowing models to re-roll how far they could see in night fight conditions, if I remember correctly.

[sporesprayer]

thats what i thought it did and when i looked it up i was highly confused. So it is a defunct rule then? FAQ removed it.

[grarik]

Yup, just one of those odd relics that pop up when theres a change of editions. Another relic is that Raveners have acute senses, fluffy though only semi-useful in 5th, pointless in 6th

[chuckles]

In 5th Edition, Acute Senses and Night Vision were the same thing (for no reason). Now they aren't. As mentioned, it's been Errata'd that the Swarmlord no longer has the ability to confer Acute Senses (and even if he could it wouldn't work anyway)

[revx]

they should have replaced it with something like hatered or shred or something useful.