
At the start of the battle, he decides to use the Hyper-adaptations rule to change the Adaptive element of his models’ adaptation. Example: John’s army contains only BEHEMOTH units, which have the Hyper-aggression adaptation. There are multiple alternative rules that this Adaptive element can be swapped out for, and each hive fleet’s Hyper-adaptations rule will specify which ones are available to you. Hyper-adaptationsEach Hive Fleet Adaptation also has an Adaptive element to it, which can be swapped out for another rule at the start of the battle, after determining who has the first turn. Until the start of your next Command phase, each time a model in that unit makes an attack, re-roll a hit roll of 1.’ If your army is Battle-forged, you cannot include units from two different hive fleets in the same Detachment. Example: If you include a Winged Hive Tyrant in your army, and you decide it is from Hive Fleet Kraken, its keyword becomes KRAKEN and its Will of the Hive Mind ability reads, ‘In your Command phase, select one friendly KRAKEN CORE unit within Synaptic Link range of this model. This could be one of the hive fleets detailed in a Warhammer 40,000 publication, or one of your own design. When you include such a unit in your army, you must nominate which hive fleet it is from and then replace the keyword in every instance on its datasheet with the name of your chosen hive fleet.

TYRANIDS units are drawn from a hive fleet. This is a keyword that you can select for yourself, as described in the Warhammer 40,000 Core Book, with the guidance detailed below.

Many datasheets in this section have the keyword.
