Wings Biomorph

[terrorfromthedeep]

Wings are by far the best biomorph available to nids, but alas only the hive tyrant can take it.

If all our MCs could take this at 35 points a model;

- which MC would you consider using that you don't at the moment?
- which ones would become competitive in a tournament setting?
-and which ones would become borderline broken ala Eldar?

Happy dreaming!

[TheHiveKing]

I would most likely put wings on a carnifex with crushing claws so it can get to CC quicker. 

[Jabberwocky]

Dakkafex would dominate the entire game, hands down.

S9 vector strikes and incredibly cheap dakka spam on a durable platform.

You could even go claws, plasma and frag spines as a flexible combat/vs+plasma platform. Bit pricey but fun.

[gigasnail]

Yeah, flying fex would be sick.

[Jabberwocky]

Flying Terv would actually be cool too. Dropping assaulting gants pretty much anywhere on the board turn 1.

[tarrasque]

Flying tyrannofex. T6, W6 2+ fmc? Count me in!
Flying tyrannocyte? I call it the sky scrotum!

Edit: oh and the Swarmlord! JUST for the modeling badassery.

[Kark]

Flying Tyrannofex also would have torrent

Exocrine and haruspex would also benefit greatly from extra move.

[krakentendrilswarm]

The problem is that as things stand at the moment, for 35pts Wings turns a middle-tier unit (Hive Tyrant) into a top-tier unit (top 5 units in the game?). The effect is so pronounced for so little cost that there is no reason at all not to take it.

Exactly the same would be applied to the other TMCs we have; in some cases even more so. Either the Wings biomorph would need to be significantly more expensive, or the ground-based variant significantly cheaper (or gain benefits in other ways; I like the suggestion that gets thrown around of flying TMCs retaining T6/3+, and ground-based ones gaining some combination of T7/+1W/2+ to represent a more sturdy creature on the ground).

[nurglitch]

Actually, it kind of suggests that wings are under-costed, rather than other Tyranids having access to them.

On the other hand, it would be nice to see stuff like Shrikes and Gargoyles swooping around the table.

[Deleted]

If they gave a fex wings, I'd only ever take one flyrant per game.

~40 less points than a flyrant for -1BS, but +3 str on vector strike would be completely brutal. I'd start maxing heavy support slots again.

Hell who knows, I might even have fun and do 3 flyer squadrons of 3 fex's for 1800 pts lawl. 

[nidzy]

A flying Exocrine would be a kind of rad anti flyer, and you could put his blast template anywhere you wanted do. Flying Trygon/Toxicrene anyone? The Toxicrene would be a BEAST if it moved 12". Haha, that was kind of a 40k pun.

Anyway, If I could pick any model in the codex to be able to add "wings" to though it would be the Tyranid Prime. I so badly want this guy to take the Maw Claws and lead my shrikes around the table. With shrouded from the malanthrope he soaks that missile launcher wound on a 3+ most of the time and is way better at tanking power fist wounds than my dainty shrikes.

[broyston]

For reasons I just can't figure out no one has suggested a flying maleceptor.....but in all seriousness flying cfex or tfex would be awesome. Would the harpy and crone be completely redundant if this came to pass?

[Hive Bahamut]

Well they exploded the heads of Valkyrie and Vendetta pilots in the leviathan campaign..

[malabui]

A Flying Pyrovore! Imagine all that random fire in the air and the extra speed as it runs and flaps its wings bouncing up and down chasing after the Space Marines.

(I know that its not monstrous, but still it would be cool...)

[Silegy]

May 23, 2015 20:35:57 GMT Hive Bahamut said:

Well they exploded the heads of Valkyrie and Vendetta pilots in the leviathan campaign..

My head almost exploded as well, after I read its rules.