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I Like Spore Mines...They Entertain Me

On that note...the spore upgrade for the (any word here)Fex is sadness.

I do not like having a "shoot the balloon, kill a 'fex" effect that they have now.

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Proposed change:

Instead of firing a weapon roll 1D6. {???can be used twice, if the Fex has two ranged weapons???}
1-5: place a spore mine up to 6" from the base of the Carnifex in the direction of your choosing. {???perhaps use the scatter die to determine direction???}
6: take a wound (no save).

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I understand that people will still have better things to
do with their cookie-cutter 'fexs...but, does this seem
like a viable/useful/balanced change for those of us that
want variety?

It'd be something to give a Carnifex a Biovore-style quad launcher: allow it to fire 1D3 of them as a bio-weapon.

I understand why you might want the Spore Mine out of blast range of its parent Carnifex, but you can do this by putting the Spore behind it.

I haven't encountered this type of spore mine yet. How do they currently work? I remember they have a launcher model and they had a decent range on them, but I don't remember a Carnifex being able to use them.

You probably aren't familiar with it because it really, really, really sucks and so no one uses it ever. It isn't actually a different type of spore mine, but a different (stupid) way of bringing them into play.

It's basically a Toxin Spore Mine that's laid by a Carnifex. Like a base of Necron Scarabs, but not done instead of shooting.