Pyromaniacs UNITED!

[Overread]

It's about high time our dear, beloved and misunderstood pyrovore was given the proper attention, love and respect he deserves! A chance for the model to rise up beyond the sigma generated by those 'math-hammer' code monkeys and to shine upon the table and within our collections!


Yes indeed the time is nigh for the Pyromaniacs to unit and stand firm against the tides of insults and slurs that the pyrovore takes!


So I invite you, one and all, PYROMANIACS UNIT - come and share your joy, your pictures, your stories - share in the wonder that is the Pyrovore!

[robomummy]

YAY Finally someone who.... wait this is about the pyrovore? not people who love starting fires? awww im dissapointed now.

[andy089]

I am actually considering using a brood of 3 in a pod...

[Dro]

Instead of spending fifty bucks on a pyrovore, I lit the money on fire.

Most sound decision I ever made.

[ilnar]

If they were 25£ for three I'd throw them in a pod,
But T £25 each?
No

[Xantige]

(You've got a spelling in the title Overread, just thought I'd point it out )

I got my only Pyrovore as a Christmas gift from a friend who "claims" that his mother wasn't going to let him get a Carnifex for me as planned because I got his gift (which costs about as much or more than a fax) at about a 20% discount. Apparently his mom told him that he could only get me something equal to the money I spent on him, even though he would be getting a $70 gift and giving me a $50 or less gift. I've always been dubious about this story, because my friend rarely listens to his mother, and is rather removed from her... either way, he got me the Pyrovore, thinking that the base size would work for me to proxy it as a Tervigon (which was the original reason I wanted the fex).

My Pyro has only been in 1 or 2 battles, both with my friend. I honestly can't remember if she was proxying as a Tervigon or playing as a Pyrovore. I tend to think the latter because my friend hated small point range games, and for me to use a Tervigon and have gaunts to spawn the game would have had to have been 700 points or less.

I got A LOT of flack and semi-mocking (not sure if it was all meant in fun or not since this was all at my local GW, which was a nest of low lifes at the time), for owning a Pyrovore. Later on my same friend pushed me to make... THE GAUNTLING GUN. Which was to be a Pyrovore-Tervigon type model that spawned Termagants... by firing them at the enemy as a long range blast (or large blast) weapon. The gaunts that missed would either explode anyways, or survive. In later versions, he suggested that the termagants fire at the enemy with THEIR guns before they hit them and exploded. Sadly we never got to make that insane unit a reality before he moved away to BC.

I'd really like to field my Pyrovore more often, but I don't have any spore pods made. I'd gladly field her more if she could just.... DO something when I did. She usually runs up the field, and either dies or attempts to flame something, and either due to luck or great armor, the enemy usually only loses a model or two, and then the poor Pyro dies . Well, as I said, she's only seen two games.

[Overread]

*goes to check speeeellings*

Jul 7, 2012 12:10:46 GMT andy089 said:

I am actually considering using a brood of 3 in a pod...

You will go far, indeed you shall as you embrace the power of the Pyrovore!

Xan - Clearly you are a disciple, yet I sense a wavering in your commitment to the way of the Pyrovore - you must increase your brood, increase its strength and then unleash its waves of chemical destruction upon your foes. Melt the paint of their minis with its power and leave their armies trailing a river of bloody paint!
She shall be mighty the pyrovore will!!!!



*also in totally unrelated news got any ideas on how to paint white skinned monsters?*

[rippertotheface]

I think it would be cool to put a lighter inside the gun. I don't know how well it would work, put it would be awesome!

[Geneva]

I once fielded a unit of Pyrovores and my opponent's army spontaneously combusted and I won by default. Now I am a believer and I have never been happier. Truly they are the Elite choice of the gods!

[andy089]

Rage giving +1S, Acid Maw ignoring armor saves and D3 hits of the flamer when snap firing....
I don't think they are "bad". Perhaps not "good", but certainly not *BAD*...

[Overread]

Jul 8, 2012 0:49:47 GMT rippertotheface said:

I think it would be cool to put a lighter inside the gun. I don't know how well it would work, put it would be awesome!

I think you'd have a nightmare doing that But you could probably modify one to have an LED in the cannon mouth (just run the wires down the outside of the body, then paint over them as blood veins).

Jul 8, 2012 3:08:07 GMT Geneva said:

I once fielded a unit of Pyrovores and my opponent's army spontaneously combusted and I won by default. Now I am a believer and I have never been happier. Truly they are the Elite choice of the gods!

Truly you have blessed pyrovores indeed to inspire such fear within your opponents. Clearly your devotion is unquestioned! Look here all those who doubt and read the words of the true believer - hark his message well and follow in his way and you to shall burn your opponents with the fear of Pyrovores.

[WestRider]

Jul 8, 2012 7:23:35 GMT andy089 said:

Rage giving +1S, Acid Maw ignoring armor saves and D3 hits of the flamer when snap firing....
I don't think they are "bad". Perhaps not "good", but certainly not *BAD*...

Rage is an extra Attack on the Charge, not an extra point of Strength.

[Xantige]

Jul 7, 2012 21:25:01 GMT Overread said:

Xan - Clearly you are a disciple, yet I sense a wavering in your commitment to the way of the Pyrovore - you must increase your brood, increase its strength and then unleash its waves of chemical destruction upon your foes. Melt the paint of their minis with its power and leave their armies trailing a river of bloody paint!
She shall be mighty the pyrovore will!!!!

Likewise, my friend also said that I should buy 8 more... and honestly, if I had the money I would. I'd love to make an army with as many Pyrovores as possible, if only for fun. One person at the club today also pointed out that sometimes weird lists like that CAN win when your opponent is expecting a more conventional net list.

Also, after reading the Pyro fluff, the model really should be in my army in terms of fluff (Scarabus has metal carapacing, and Pyrovores melt down metals for hive fleets). It's just too bad it's so hard to make Pyrovores work! (and yes, I do think that with skill, they could work, maybe not as good as other units, but they could be workable).

Jul 7, 2012 21:25:01 GMT Overread said:

*also in totally unrelated news got any ideas on how to paint white skinned monsters?*

If you're asking me specifically, than yes, I do and don't. I in theory know how to do it, but I've never done it myself. It's just a matter of layering, or using a wash and a reapplication of white. You can even achieve different types of white skin depending on your underlayer(s), such as an icy white, an ivory white, or a pinky white (like Leviathan) or your weird grey-white that looks like it came from a black and white tv. If you want more details we could talk over PM... unless you weren't asking me. In which case, sorry for butting in.

[Overread]

I must admit I've wanted to do a "vore" theme army with pyrovores and biovores just for pure fun! Course with a "vore" title it wouldn't be right to field it without also having a Red Terror in there too



On the white paint thread it seems you found my other thread