Editing Hive Guard (section)

===Seventh Edition===
Hive Guard in seventh edition are quite the useful creatures. While their BS was dropped to 3, the [[Impaler Cannon]] (which they start with) now ignores line of sight AND cover. This means that vehicles that rely on jinking need to be extra careful and the amount of dakka a brood of these suckers can put out from a completely safe location, such as behind a BLOS wall, creates a zone that your opponent's lighter vehicles need to be wary of. Another "advantage" they have is the overall nerfing of [[Zoanthrope|Zoanthropes]], making the brains much less of an auto-include and freeing up not only elites slots but requiring more reliable anti-tank. They do come with downsides, however. Their gun only shoots as far as a bolter, they have an average leadership, and their shock-cannon "upgrade" is complete trash. They are far more durable than they seem and can even win the odd assault if they aren't fighting dedicated assault units, but every turn they aren't glancing things is a turn they are being useless. If static defense is untenable for the mission, they need to keep advancing under the cover of a synapse creature. Luckily their complete lack of caring about LoS means that with creative movement your enemy should pretty much never be able to shoot them.