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Flakvore

First seen in the ranks of Hive Fleet kraken, the Flakvore is a derivative of the Biovore genus that is has been adjusted for the purpose of dealing with aircraft, firing specialized spore mines that possess hard chitin rather than fragile skin to allow for increased penetration, these organisms explode once they sense that they are near their target, spraying shrapnel to increase the chances of successfully hitting, or can be set by the will of the hive mind to only explode after penetrating a target to increase the likelihood of defeating heavy armour at the cost of accuracy. Notably, due to the extremely high velocities at which they launch their projectiles in order to reach and destroy high flying bombers, they are quite fearsome ground vehicle hunters, their mines being quite capable of piercing through a tank. They have come to be feared by Imperial pilots and drivers and targeted with extreme prejudice whenever possible. One flaw with their morphology is that they contain such a volume of explosive mines within their bodies that if they are penetrated violently enough, they will explode with devastating consequences. Often, entire Flakvore batteries were destroyed by a single lucky shot, such as during now widely spoken of incident in the Battle of Octarius where a stray shot from a tankbusta veered away from the Carnifex the greenskin was aiming at and slammed into a Flakvore, the resulting chain reaction caused by the simultaneous destruction of thousands of Flakvores placed closely together created a crater at least fifty meters deep and three quarters of a kilometers wide, as well as wiping out tens of millions of Tyranids in the cataclysmic explosion. Some Orks claimed that it rained bits and pieces of Tyranids for at least a day following the incident.

WS2 BS3 S4 T4 W2 I1 A2 Ld6 Sv4+

Cost: 95 pts (?)

Composition: 1-3 Flakvores

Weapons and Biomorphs:
Claws and Teeth
Flak spore launcher: Can be fired with either of the following profiles: Range: 30 ' (60' against fliers) S6 AP4 blast, Heavy 1, flak cloud (The blast may hit fliers, but the user must choose and declare whether the blast will only affect fliers or if it will only affect ground units), Rending, missile lock, Skyfire, Interceptor. Or Range 30 (60' against fliers), S7, AP2, Heavy 1, 5+ Rending, Skyfire, Interceptor
Armoured Carapace

Special rules:

Instinctive behavior: Lurk
Steady: If a flakvore foregoes moving for a turn, it may "Dig in" to grant itself the benefit of the twin-linked USR next turn, this benefit will remain as long as the Flakvore does not move, doing so also improves any cover save the Flakvore may have by one, if it does not already have a cover save, it gains a 6+ cover save.
Cook off: If a flakvore is killed with a weapon that would inflict instant death, place a large blast template over it with the following profile: S7 AP2, ignores cover,5+ Rending. Being killed by weapons with template, melta, and/or blast rules will also trigger this effect.

I'm tenatively placing these in the heavy support section. The addition of rending was made to better allow them to pierce vehicles (specifically heavily armoured aircraft) without giving them a high enough strength to overpower them against infantry. These were created more to evoke giant anti-aircraft guns like the famed 88mm or ww2 than the "more dakka" flak cannons put on half tracks that the Imperial Hydra and the Ork's flakkadakka gun are based off of.


What do you think?
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Basically you made a higher than average BS Tyranid, made it have a good strength against most flyers, but added armourbane and tankhunters, meaning you will penetrate any flyer in the game with over 90% chance.

Additionally you made it almost impossible to succesfully jink/cover save against it by forcing a reroll on succesfull rolls.

Then you gave it AP1 so you would also add +2 on the damage table.

It might be able to balance this against a high(er) point cost, but to be honest "I win button" units are rather dull to play with or against.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/477954/4797041.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/477954/4797041.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/477954/4797077.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/477954/4797077.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/477954/4797169.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/477954/4797169.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/477954/4797187.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/477954/4797187.page GMT
Note that I am trying to make these a tad more specialized than the fairly general purpose Harpy. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/477954/4797228.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/477954/4797228.page GMT 40k standards to say that any Tyranid on the ground, shooting at a flyer will be aiming for anything but cockpit or engines. Everyone else aims at these too, you don't see tank hunters from them.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/477954/4797328.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/477954/4797328.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/477954/4797343.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/477954/4797343.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/477954/4797382.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/477954/4797382.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/477954/4806324.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/477954/4806324.page GMT
Now I just want an Apocalypse-scale version that looks like the artillery bugs in the Starship Troopers movie.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/477954/4812468.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/477954/4812468.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/477954/4813504.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/477954/4813504.page GMT
I think that the Hive Guard with its guided projectiles should be able to hit flyers.

Also the thing I would most like to see is the ability for flying monstrous creatures to be able to assault flyers. This fits with my view of cinematic aerial battles with Nids.
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