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It can't shoot. Ever.

Am I missing something????

... I guess it could man *blanksname*.. err.... those guns you can get in Planetstrike ?

Does still make it one of the best marksman in the whole army.

Same question can go for gretchin.

Karon wrote:Same question can go for gretchin.

Well, at least grots carry pistols (albeit crappy ones, but they still have A GUN)

Venomthrope, afaik, has no gun.

Maybe in case it ever has to try and pass a BS skill check...cause you know all those abilities out there that can do that....

It wins a lot of prizes at the sideshows. It is also playing first division in the Hive Fleet basketball competition.

HBMC, GW knows about you. They've watched you grow in their hobby and they've studied how you react. They did that specifically to annoy you.

There was no other explanation I could think of.

For the same reason that experienced Tau characters have high WS.

Just to jack his point cost up

Because they copy-pasted the zoanthrope statline?

It represents superior tentacle eye coordination.

bravelybravesirrobin wrote:Because they copy-pasted the zoanthrope statline?

Double-check that. They are different in other areas.

Same reason Hormagaunts have a BS, to make the stat line look nice and neat!

Elric of Grans wrote:

bravelybravesirrobin wrote:Because they copy-pasted the zoanthrope statline?

Double-check that. They are different in other areas.

Don't have nid-dex, hence question mark.

In which case I'm voting for to annoy H.B.M.C. ( god its hard not to type the bank when I want to type your name)

It's because it's a cousin of the Zoanthrope.

Although they vary in some areas, it doesn't in others.

The main difference is Ld, due to the Zoan being synapse.

On the other hand, it has more attacks than a Zoanthrope, with poison on a 2+, yet it has a lower WS than the Zoey, and IB-Feed instead of Lurk. Go figure.

Elric of Grans wrote:It is also playing first division in the Hive Fleet basketball competition.

I donno about this one, it wouldn't be a very good point guard or forward, all those arms way out there, everyone would steal the ball from it.

realization: GW needs to make another specialist game, basketball in the 41st millenium!

You must mean Basketskull, the game where you dribble a skull across the court of skulls and throw it through a hoop attached to a backboard (of skulls). You score skulls instead of points, and end up with The coveted Grimdark trophy.

That is very weird indeed.

And don't forget the Golden Skull award, given to the Basketskull player with the most skulls skulled during any given Skullson!

any given Skullson, isnt that a movie about (american) football?

or was that any given Skullday?

Karon wrote:Same question can go for gretchin.

Never underestimate grot firepower. I've killed Terminator squads.


Squads.

sirisaacnuton wrote:On the other hand, it has more attacks than a Zoanthrope, with poison on a 2+, yet it has a lower WS than the Zoey, and IB-Feed instead of Lurk. Go figure.

What kind of zoanthropes are in your codex? Lurk?

It's hard to know if the stats were minutely tweaked following extensive play-testing to make a beautifully balanced set of units, or if GW just made up a bunch of unco-ordinated BS to fill up the codex.

Gitzbitah wrote:You must mean Basketskull, the game where you dribble a skull across the court of skulls and throw it through a hoop attached to a backboard (of skulls). You score skulls instead of points, and end up with The coveted Grimdark trophy.

That is very weird indeed.

Win.

"So I was playing Basketskull, dribbling the skull towards the enemy hoop (of intestines) when I thought it would be a lot easier to dribble if the Demolisher Cannons would stop hitting me in the stomach on the way up. All of a sudden I realize it's a squadron of Leman Russ tanks, which blow up the skull court and everyone on it! I only survived because the 1st explosion sent me to the sidelines!"
"But how did you fail to notice that you were dribbling a unit of tanks?!"
"I suppose it must've taken some kind of tactical geniu-"
"CREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"





(On-topic: They probably copypasted the Zoanthrope statline and then changed the relevant stats.)

Maybe Bs for tyranids stands for Bull poo poo, but I joke and kid.

Because when they next do the codex it will be troops, and have an assault 4, St 10, AP 1 weapon.

And BS 2 maybe.

I can tell why, if they had given it BS 3 everyone would say Meh no good.

Tyranid Horde wrote:I can tell why, if they had given it BS 3 everyone would say Meh no good.

It can't shoot. Why give it one of the highest BS's in the whole Codex?

Why not?