If your chosen hive fleet does not have an associated Hive Fleet Adaptation, you must instead create your own Hive Fleet Adaptation. You do this by either selecting the Splinter Fleet Hive Fleet Adaptation or by selecting two biomorphologies from the lists shown below. Due to the drive toward biodiversity within the hive fleets, when selecting these, the following rules apply:
• The two biomorphologies must be selected from separate lists.
• You must choose one of these biomorphologies to be the Adaptive element of your Hive Fleet's Adaptation. It is this which can be swapped out at the start of the battle using the Hyper-adaptations rule (pg 51).
• At the start of the battle, if you use the Hyper-adaptations rule to change the Adaptive element of your Hive Fleet's Adaptation, then you must select one of the biomorphologies from the third remaining list (that was not used when initially creating your Hive Fleet's Adaptation) to swap it for.
