tyranid lictors

I've been looking at the rules for lictors and I have 2 questions
if you deploy 3 they are 1 elites choice but they don't need to be deployed together. does this mean you need to roll reserves for each one you have?
can they deploy into cover that an enemy unit is in?

Im pretty sure they are rolled for together. would it not be like imperial guard platoons? they are one choice yet they roll collectively for reserves?

System Commander wrote:
Yup, you can put Lictors in any terrain piece. You have to write down which terrain piece they are going into during the infiltration stage right?

the codex doesn't say. it just says you have to deep strike them.

I believe that the lictors have to appear in a piece of terrain by deepstrike. In the last codex they had to specify before the game which piece, but under the new rules i dont think you have to pick before the battle.
So to sum it up, lictors deepstrike like any other deepstriking unit, except that they must be placed in a piece of terrain when they appear, and cannot scatter further than the edge of the chosen terrain piece.

They wouldn't have to make a dangerous terrain test would they? Seems dumb if they would considering they HAVE to DS into terrain...

Matthew G wrote:They wouldn't have to make a dangerous terrain test would they? Seems dumb if they would considering they HAVE to DS into terrain...

technically they start in the terrain and are simply jumping out or so the codex says

Well i guess it depends on the wording, which says, and i quote, "They must always deepstrike into a piece of terrain". Any practical person would say you absolutely do not have to make a dangerous terrain test, but this is where rules lawyering goes bad. The codex was written before the new rules which state that you take dangerous terrain tests for deepstriking into terrain. So under the old rules you would not take the test. Under the new rules however it is very clear that you have to take dangerous terrain tests when your models deepstrike into difficult terrain. So there is no argument here, if you use lictors your opponent can make you take dangerous terrain tests with them when they show up. This is where the whole cliche "spirit of the rules" argument comes in. Everyone knows what the rule should be, but the lawyer will win every time because you cant refute what is there in writing, regardless of the history of the game, or what people think should be right. So take lictors at your own peril. Im pretty sure that most of the people in our group would never make you take this test, but you never know, i dont know everyone.

I have been overruled by the system commander, who is of course right. If we let this one slide what is next.

Our god has spoken...

Avoid lictors as they need an FAQ now because they suck otherwise because of that