To carnifex or not?

[kiirnevae]

In my crusade roster I'm debating switching 3 raveners and a biovore for a carnifex. Thoughts?

[N.I.B.]

Isn't Crusade just for fun, and not optimized? Then it shouldn't matter.

[infornography]

I know I would find a Carnifex more fun than 3 raveners and a biovore. :-)

[PumpkinHead]

Raveners play much different then Fexs. You have to decide what plays better in your list.

[countkrojaer]

Hey guys, hope you're all well and enjoying new codex. This is my first post on this board. I have read the monstrous Brood feed and I am still a bit confused.

I'm running Jormungandr

What I would like advice on please is:

A) I want to use the Jorg strat "buried in wait". Can I put more than one carnifex buried for only 1 cp if they count as one unit during deployment?

B) I am using a battalion detachment, you are allowed 3 heavy unit slots. Am I allowed to have and exocrene and 3 carnifexes on there which looks like 4 slots on roster but is actually one unit for deployment? So would that take up 2x heavy unit slots instead of 4?

C) if I wanted to, could I have 2 units of one carnifex each I.e. "Buried in wait" a screamer killer and deploy as normal a ranged dakkafex? Or do you HAVE to put any carnifexes you have in your list down in the same place on the battlefield or reserves to start with? 

Many thanks in advance!!!!!

[dkng]

Hi

Units of Carnifexes are a bit special. 1-3 models count as a single unit until you deploy them. Afterwards each model counts as a separate unit.
So:
A) Yes you can bury one unit (1-3 models) for 1 CP, not 1 CP per model.
B) Yes, you can have an Exo and 2 units of Carnifexes (so up to 6 models)
C) Im not sure if I understand the question. But basically - you have to write down and declare reserves before the battle. You can't mix different strains of Fexes in the same unit. So… lets say you declared you have 2 units of 3 Fexes in reserves - one unit of Dakka and one of Screamers. If you want to unbury them during your turn, you have to declare which one you want to pop up and deploy whole unit (all 3 models in our example) within 6” of each other. You cant pop up 2 Screamers and one Dakka as they belong to different units.

[countkrojaer]

Thank you DKNG!!

That's all amazing help.