What about Biovores?

[Gallivantist]

How do you use them?

[roxor08]

For me, they often attract fire. My opponents don't like to take a continual bombardment of 3 pie plates a turn.

Therefore, when applicable, I try to place them out of LOS or in a ruin and blast away. I will however, also move them up with my force, trying to maintain cover. That way, if I need to make a beeline for a last minute contest I can....(although, I don't remember if they can or cannot contest anymore)

[glassiya]

How can they attarct fire, if they're standing deep in your deploy and shoot over obstacles for 48"?

The main problem I found with them, it's that you have to keep some synapce nearby, 'cause most of our units rush forward, and they hide in the farthest end of the table. A tervigon can do the trick, but I'm avoiding them. Also, my luck with scatter is the worst kind of bad, so I dropped them after a game or two. Still, I won't say they are bad - clearly there's a lot of pros in them.

[Bot]

Sept 26, 2012 21:46:52 GMT glassiya said:

How can they attarct fire, if they're standing deep in your deploy and shoot over obstacles for 48"?

The main problem I found with them, it's that you have to keep some synapce nearby, 'cause most of our units rush forward, and they hide in the farthest end of the table.

And that's why you don't keep them back in your deployment zone.

[wisdomseyes1]

Because you dont need LOS and they kill Tau/Necrons/Orks/IG/(dark)Eldar/nidz with ease, dont miss very well (since when they do they just put a model that explodes into play) and arent that bad against marine equivalents that get armor since they can get quite a few wounds in.

Because they dont need LoS, they can do as hive guard do and not get shot at altogether. They also, for the most part, dont attract as much attention but do quite a bit of damage.

pinning is worthless but it is there.

They are cheap

their only drawbacks are that they are anti infantry (which we have a lot of) and they are a heavy support slot.

[Psychichobo]

Yup. Biovores are easy to use and always kick ass. Just try to keep them away from any potential situation where they might be caught out alone or in the open.

[fragile]

Personally I am finding them to be amazing. Tonight I fought against IG and they did tremendous damage bombing their lines behind their ADL. I did make a mistake of leaving them in the open for an outflanking Vendetta to come in and snipe them, but they more than took out their point values in casualties.

[t⊗theark]

They're pretty great. I use them to back up termigant broods who are looking to be somewhere with an entrentched enemy.

[roxor08]

Sept 26, 2012 21:46:52 GMT glassiya said:

How can they attarct fire, if they're standing deep in your deploy and shoot over obstacles for 48"?

The main problem I found with them, it's that you have to keep some synapce nearby, 'cause most of our units rush forward, and they hide in the farthest end of the table. A tervigon can do the trick, but I'm avoiding them. Also, my luck with scatter is the worst kind of bad, so I dropped them after a game or two. Still, I won't say they are bad - clearly there's a lot of pros in them.

I think you missed the part about how I move them with my foot sloggers or put them in a ruin or some sort of cover up field.

I didn't do a good job separating my suggestions from what I actually do. Sorry.

Either way, think of how well they could do in the open with a venomthrope coversave moving up with your sloggers? Then you avoid those pesky outflanking vendettas coming in and sniping them because the rest of your army is near them.

Best part about the venomthropes is that your opponent needs to decide to shoot your biovores down, your venomthropes down, or try to take them both down. Now you've just protected your other targets against 2 units (or more) worth of shooting for the turn.

[PumpkinHead]

My biovores tend to walk behind my Tervigon as it advances across the field, to about the mid field mark if it is safe. Gives them a larger area of the board to shoot at.

[omnivore]

Didn't use to believe in them, seeing as how they are S4 AP4. On paper that is not very threatening to MEQs but in practice they are a real pain. They fill a huge gap in our codex; long range firepower.

[rpricew]

I try to take 2-3 in a brood, and hide them turns 1-2 and move them up turns 3-5 keeping them in Synapse. Unless it's kill points, then they stay hidden the whole game and I take my chances with Indirect Fire.

[jofan32]

I've not seen it in the codex but are biovores relentless?

[gloomfang]

Sept 27, 2012 17:42:12 GMT jofan32 said:

I've not seen it in the codex but are biovores relentless?

No but the cannon is Assault and not Heavy. So they can move and shoot.

I keep mine right behind my venomthropes. That way they get cover and I can get more accurate fire. Also (belive it or not) they are not horrible in CC. If my venoms go into CC the Biovore generally goes with them.

[milkybarnid]

Biovores are great i think, They can ruin an Orks/IG players day, i keep mine back field next to an objective, for synapse I have found a basic warrior unit is fine to babysit them, ok thats 90 points but it works for me as i find in my lists that i am out by 110 or so points, and ive used up most of models i own so warriors work for me.

I deploy mine in a ruin if possible, giving them a cover save, the enemy is not going to ignore 3 large blasts a turn so they need that and the warrior squad can delay an outflank unit for a turn