Devilgaunt

[goatripper]

Hi all im new to the tyranid world and is wandering what a devilgaunt is, my guess is a pyromaw.

Hope to get an answer fast.

[beefythepug]

Its a Termagant with the fleshborer gun upgraded to the devourer gun. Devourer + Termagant = Devilgant.

[ranmafan]

Also known as 'Devil' because when a Mycetic Spore full of these little buggers drops down behind the opponent's terminator squad or other vehicles, he knows it's gonna hurt.

[herecomestomorrow]

They were called Devilgaunts before mycetic spores though. How did they become Devilgaunts, wouldn't Devagaunts makes more sense?

[infornography]

Devil sounds more intimidating than Deva.

That probably is all there is to it.

[goatripper]

Thx for the replies

[Hive Carnithrope]

Just happened, I guess.

Like Screamer-Killer Fexes were in the early fluff. And 5th edition had loads of awesome names for Fexes with different biomorphs, like Bile-Factory and Shovel Tusker! Gah, I miss 5th.

Btw, what's a Pyromaw?!?

[goatripper]

haha mean pyrovore.

[Raven]

Jul 24, 2013 15:43:03 GMT Hive Carnithrope said:

Just happened, I guess.

Like Screamer-Killer Fexes were in the early fluff. And 5th edition had loads of awesome names for Fexes with different biomorphs, like Bile-Factory and Shovel Tusker! Gah, I miss 5th.

My guess is you mean 4th, I have yet to find a Tyranid player that played in 4th who preferred 5th edition Tyranids, and a let of those various fexes are now defunct in the 5th ed codex.

[Hive Carnithrope]

Jul 25, 2013 6:56:35 GMT Raven said:

Jul 24, 2013 15:43:03 GMT Hive Carnithrope said:

Just happened, I guess.

Like Screamer-Killer Fexes were in the early fluff. And 5th edition had loads of awesome names for Fexes with different biomorphs, like Bile-Factory and Shovel Tusker! Gah, I miss 5th.

My guess is you mean 4th, I have yet to find a Tyranid player that played in 4th who preferred 5th edition Tyranids, and a let of those various fexes are now defunct in the 5th ed codex.

That sounds right! The one before the current codex - so yeah, 4th. I get confused cause we have a 5th codex, but we're in 6th edition.

[Kwodd]

Jul 24, 2013 9:58:55 GMT infornography said:

Devil sounds more intimidating than Deva.

That probably is all there is to it.

Call em devogaunts because they whip it good.

[bronyzro]

... Honestly, now I want to call them all Divagaunts...

But yeah, 4th ed had a lot of awesome names for stuff. Spinegaunts were nasty cause of 'Without Number'.

[oranos325]

And 4th had 20 gazillion different names for canifexes and three different spore mines instead of just the frag ones we have now, and two different kinds of adrenaline glands...

Those were the days...

[gingerwerewolf]

Jul 27, 2013 6:54:26 GMT oranos325 said:

And 4th had 20 gazillion different names for canifexes and three different spore mines instead of just the frag ones we have now, and two different kinds of adrenaline glands...

Those were the days...

...Yep those were the days that we as the Hive Mind got confused about the stats of our units. Our Poor Opponents used to give up due to not being able to work out what our armies could do.


So those two critters are carrying the same named weapon right?
Yep
But they have completely different Stat lines
Yep
And that guy over there is carrying something completely different.
Yep
But his weapon has the same stats as the first blokes.
Yep You got it.

Most of the time Id forget that I had upgrades, let alone which ones!

The Nid Codex was ace then, and the way it worked was a stroke of genius, but sometimes you have to look back on it for what it was, not with rose tinted glasses!

[Silegy]

When I see these posts about old Fexes, it must have been fun. I know only NinjaFex, GodFex, DakkaFex and the Screamer Killer. Could you tell me some more of these old Fex names and their upgrades, please?