Carnifex Question

[hivedrone]

Bought my first Carnifex Brood(Am new to Nids/Warhammer in general). I’m really debating whether I should use one of them to make Old One Eye. Or if having two heavy support units is better for me right now. Honestly looking for advice/help with what will be good and how to play Nids.

Some background info: I have a Flying Hive Tyrant with Heavy Venom Cannon and the Start Collecting Box already put together.

[hivefleetkerrigan]

The common consensus is to magnetize your carnifex. They're pricy and have lots of equipment options so magnetization helps if you play WYSIWYG. If you do magnetize, you can swap heads and equipment and have either of your choosing.

[acehilator]

Carnifex is the perfect kit to learn magnetizing with... head and arms at least, can do the carapace too.

[purestrain]

Magnets are by far the best investment you can make for owning monsters with diverse options such as the carnifex or hive tyrant.

[yoritomo]

Magnetizing is the way to go if you can swing it. I’ve got five or six carnifex that I built before people started making magnets good enough for minis and some of them don’t see the light of day too often.

If magnets aren’t your thing than I’d make one of them a devilfex (sometimes called a dakkafex, but as I don’t play orks I’ll continue to call it a devilfex). That is a carnifex with two sets of twin linked devourers. The basic devilfex comes with just the guns, but if you want to deck it out with options like enhanced senses, a tail weapon, or other assorted goodies than go for it.

For the second fex, Old One Eye isn’t a bad choice. While OOE is good on his own, keep in mind that he is better with friends who have close combat weapons. Your future purchases should include carnifex with close combat weapons.

Another option is to just put a heavy venom cannon on the second one. The heavy venom cannon is a decent weapon and the carnifex is one of the few things that can take it. For the second weapon either devourers or deathspitters are good if you want him to focus on shooting. If you’re worried about him getting stuck in close combat than a pair of scything talons aren’t a bad option.


And I don’t magnetize the heads of my carnifex. I use different heads on them so it is easier to tell them apart.

[onewiththehive]

If you need some help magnetizing your fexes, there should be a lot of tutorials on youtube.like this one
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8Tkw7ttTIo&feature=youtu.be

I usually magnetize the arms and the heads. Tails is easy too, but i am using the tails/no tails and carapaces to tell them apart if i run too many of them. Also i didn't care about the low point costs in 8th for the tails... could be bad now in 9th with the higher costs for almost everything we have, but only time will tell, if this will limit me in any way.
If you magnetize them, just keep in mind to carefully check that the polarisations on all fexes(and tyrants) are the same, cause you can switch almost all weapons between fexes and tyrants, depending on what you are fielding and wanting them to do.