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Carnifexs date back to 2nd edition and they deserve to be a cool useful unit. Here are some homebrewed rules to make Carnifexs a viable unit in 6th edition

Cost: No change

New Stat line

WS 3 BS 3 S 9 T 7 I 1 A 3 W 4 As 3+ Ld 7

Weapons: Two Sets of Scything claws

Rules:

Living Battering Ram (NEW RULE): A Carnifex receives 1d3 Hammer of
Wrath attacks.

Additional Weapons and biomorphs:

Toxin Sacs: No change to cost or rules

Adrenal Glands: No change to cost or rules

Frag Spine (NEW RULE): Frag spines are now a weapon, Range: Template S 3 AP 6 Twin Linked.

Bio-Plasma: (NEW COST) 10 points

Armored Shell: 60 points.

Brain leech devourer: No change to cost or rules

Twin linked Deathspitter: Same cost and stats except now has sky fire and interceptor rules.

T6 is necessary for fluff reasons; enough Lasguns bring them down.

Remove 1D3. Simply 3.

Frag Spines: Not even close - maybe large blast centered on carnifex at the start of the fight subphase.

Armored Shell: 20-30 Points tops

TLDS: Make a new weapon for this, Deathspitters don't fit.

I would do a weapon that pretty much covers the sky with spines, like a sort of metal storm, but organic.

Zookie wrote:Carnifexs date back to 2nd edition and they deserve to be a cool useful unit. Here are some homebrewed rules to make Carnifexs a viable unit in 6th edition

Cost: No change

New Stat line

WS 3 BS 3 S 9 T 7 I 1 A 3 W 4 As 3+ Ld 7

Weapons: Two Sets of Scything claws

Rules:

Living Battering Ram (NEW RULE): A Carnifex receives 1d3 Hammer of
Wrath attacks.

Additional Weapons and biomorphs:

Toxin Sacs: No change to cost or rules

Adrenal Glands: No change to cost or rules

Frag Spine (NEW RULE): Frag spines are now a weapon, Range: Template S 3 AP 6 Twin Linked.

Bio-Plasma: (NEW COST) 10 points

Armored Shell: 60 points.

Brain leech devourer: No change to cost or rules

Twin linked Deathspitter: Same cost and stats except now has sky fire and interceptor rules.

What about Crushing claws (or whatever the heck they were called again) or do you think that they do not need them?