9 biovores?

[saleen302]

Has anyone ever run a list with 9 biovores? I love biovores one of my favorite units and I wondering if anyone has ever run large numbers of them in a competitive game? I find they are hit and miss anything other than marines they are worth there weight in gold. I may proxy a few in some up coming games just to see how much damage 9 large blasts a turn could put out.

[Yautja]

Probably only seen in Apocalypse games I'd have thought. They are awesome but we need the other heavies in the codex!

[gigasnail]

i'm not giving up dakkafexes for 9 biovores.

[jaysic]

I'd say at least 2 biovores are almost auto-include in a TAC list, either in their own single broods or 1 brood of 2. 3 broods of 3? You're hamstringing your HS slot and not gaining much more than what 2 'Vores can do on their own.

[saleen302]

I have just always liked the idea of 9 large blasts raining down but I do agree if you 3x3 you limit your ability to take a Exocrine or dakkafexes.i just haven't been able to find a good tac list yet. I was building a skyblight list with 60 gargs ,3 flyrants,2harpy ,2 crones which is haven't had a chance to try out but I can already see a gaping hole in the list.

[saleen302]

That list also had a single biovore and single zoan at 1850.

[Squire]

Biovores are awesome but consider that some other units can do a similar job, like anything with a barbed strangler, or a harpy. Warriors bring synapse and OS and are troops, harpies don't need babysitting, are FA and some people take the venom cannon for utility. Biovores are great at what they do but a little one dimensional, so maybe less is more in this case

[coredump]

A friend of mine was considering the concept of dual CAD and running 12-18 of them. Figured enough would miss that it would also cause issues with movement etc.

I think running 9 will not work out well very often. (Sometimes, it will be way funny... hello Mr. dual Guard Blob...) Because you may not have that many decent targets for that many biovores. Especially late game once things get into assault some. I would first go with Living Artillery, which makes your first 3 biovores just much more effective. You can try using more (2x2 or 2x3, etc) but I think there will be plenty of games with no decent targets.

[saleen302]

I have been using living artillery a lot lately and that's what gave me the idea,I was planning try out a triple mawloc,9 shrike,50 garg 2 flyrant list at one point too.So many ideas for concept lists but never enough time to get regular games in

[Jabberwocky]

I think the saving grace of biovores is that even with no good targets (such as mech spam) you can almost deliberately saturate the board with spore mines and at least do something useful.

[N.I.B.]

I'll stick out my chin and say that Biovores are highly situational. Against power armour armies, I've rarely not wished I haven't had some other unit for the points. The only times they have been positive for me is against IG infantry spam and the odd xenos matchup. They are another random output unit in need of synapse babysitting, posing zero threat in close combat. I rather have more Dakkafex for the points.

[asmodas]

I had a game against Orks this weekend which I ultimately lost, but where Biovores were the undisputed MVPs. The last turn came down to whether 2 Biovores could punch out an Ork truck that was claiming Linebreaker. They couldn't get the job done, and I lost 7-6. Funny stuff, though! Never had a Biovore assault something before.

[brassangel]

Living Artillery is a pretty good formation for us, as it frees up HS slots while not having too much in the requirements-to-play department.

Multiple CAD allows us to have extra HS slots too, plus an additional Flyrant.

A single brood of 2-3 Biovores should be enough in most games. Against MEQ, or armies with lots of transports, they are bench warmers that need babysitting.

Exocrines and Dakkafex broods are just too effective, but if you have some spare points, it's not a total waste to spend the last HS slot (without going multiple CAD) on Biovores.

[Hive Bahamut]

If foot dark Eldar were ever a thing this would be chaos. Just vaporize everything. As it stands being a big dumb drooling idiot the Bio needs babysitters. Hopefully coming from Orks it doesn't get mob rule next codex

I constantly kick myself for only having 1 Biovore, but I don't know if I would go past 3. Seems like a lot of S4 that will usually not have much to do.

[beefythepug]

You guys pretty much covered it already. But yeah 9 would be overkill, they'll run out of targets, and then you'll wish you had 1 brood of 3 and a dakkafex running around. Spore mine saturation can be fun... but doesn't do much vs big AV.