Carnifex Brood Box

[Phelddagrif]

Well, that will be a short post - what are the contents of Carnifex brood box? I mean like how many of each weapon / other parts?

[Kitane]

- 2x HVC
- 2x STC
- 2x Pair of deathspitters
- 2x Pair of devourers
- 2x Pair of smaller scything talons
- 2x Pair of larger scything talons
- 2x Pair of crushing claws
- 2x Bone Mace/Scythe
- 2x 3 Carapace options (clean, spores, spikes)
- 2x all head options (senses, plasma, tusks, regular, OOE, maybe even more for flavour)
- 2x extra armor bits for the old enhanced armor biomorph

[yoritomo]

I believe it is two complete carnifex spurs.

You should have one of every weapon option and two sets of scything talons for each carnifex. In short you should be able to make any carnifex you want, but you’ll only have enough devourers to make one devilfex.

[niiai]

If you have some spare devourers (any warrior kit, or tarmagaunts) you can chop off deathspitters and make more devourers.

[hivefleetkerrigan]

Note: only tyranid players can really tell the different guns apart, so if you want 2x dakkafex, just build them with the devourers or the deathspitters, and call them as whatever you need in your list.

Most hive members would recommend magnetizing the arms, so you can swap over to dakkafex vs meleefex as needed. I know others have magnetized the heads and carapace as well.

[nidzy]

Jun 26, 2020 13:52:40 GMT hivefleetkerrigan said:

Note: only tyranid players can really tell the different guns apart, so if you want 2x dakkafex, just build them with the devourers or the deathspitters, and call them as whatever you need in your list.

Most hive members would recommend magnetizing the arms, so you can swap over to dakkafex vs meleefex as needed. I know others have magnetized the heads and carapace as well.

I agree with this first part BUT if you run into the one nid player who is a real (please do not swear) at something like the LVO they could call you out on it since the rules for events like that are going to clearly state that they will pull non WYSIWYG models. Also....please don’t be that person.

So I very strongly agree with this second part. The big bonus is the fex kit is extremely easy to magnetize. The head and carapace and arms all have good spots to stick a magnet. If you do one you can do the second even easier by using your already magnetized bits and fex to make sure the polarities all mirror how the other fex is. I have 7 fex and I can use the bits from one on any of the others and I did 4 or 5 of them in an afternoon.

[hivemind03]

Jun 26, 2020 13:52:40 GMT hivefleetkerrigan said:

Note: only tyranid players can really tell the different guns apart, so if you want 2x dakkafex, just build them with the devourers or the deathspitters, and call them as whatever you need in your list.

Most hive members would recommend magnetizing the arms, so you can swap over to dakkafex vs meleefex as needed. I know others have magnetized the heads and carapace as well.

Magnetize unless you are super dead set on always playing the same way regardless of how good it is edition to edition. One of the great joys of playing tyranids is that if a weapon or biomorph is good now there is a 90% chance it won't be good next edition.

[infornography]

Always magnetize monsters and vehicles. They are too monetarily expensive to be so easy to risk becoming obsolete after a new codex drops or even a really impactful FAQ.

Think about magnetizing expensive or valuable infantry like Warriors and Tyranid Prime. I have magnetized my Tyranid Prime, but not my warriors, but I did seriously consider it.

Don't bother magnetizing regular infantry. If you play long enough you will have plenty of basic troops and dedicating them to one build or another won't be a big issue. Also magnetizing regular infantry means painting that many more weapons and you do NOT want to make the job of painting your army THAT much harder for so little gain.