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My first Pyrovore I finally painted it. Yes, this one actually is a metal pyrovore.... big and very heavy and a pain to assemble.... yes leviathan splinter colour... yes snow. Snow effects were made using a mix of PVA glue, water, snow floc and babypowder.

In game pyrovores are possibly the worst unit in the entire game... YES THE ENTIRE 40k. They used to be expensive, fragile and short ranged.... armed only with a single heavy flamer and can explode and kill your own guys.

In this edition, pyrovores got even worse. Despite their apparent buff in that they got cheaper and gained an extra wound and attack, they got even worse than the previous codex specifically as they don't have access to the mycetic spore anymore. Formerlly that was the only viable way to ensure at least a single burny burny use of your pyrovores. deep strike n burn.... but now without deep strike as an option, all your pyrovores can do is waddle slowly towards the enemy and die halfway and explode and kill some of your own gaunts..... or you can try using trygon tunnels but most of the time your pyrovores will either arrive at the same time or before the said trygon and end up having to footslog slowly towards the enemy again.

So, if pyrovores are so horrible, why DO I have one? Well firstly pyrovores look cool. a kinda nasty tyranid ... and secondly there's another unit in the codex called a biovore that is effectively a living mortar. It looks like a more dopy version of the pyrovore, and has similar statlines.... hence my pyrovore lives it's days in my tyranid army as my army's biovore, annoying people at long range by spitting little irritating spore mines at them and occasionally winning a game for me by camping on objectives in my base in the 1/6 chance he happens to be a scoring unit. Hence I used the prettier and more menacing pyrovore model as a biovore instead and it looks a hell lot cooler.

So yes, this guy's a staple in my tyranid army.... though I use him as a different unit instead.

Description
My first Pyrovore I finally painted it. Yes, this one actually is a metal pyrovore.... big and very heavy and a pain to assemble.... yes leviathan splinter colour... yes snow. Snow effects were made using a mix of PVA glue, water, snow floc and babypowder.

In game pyrovores are possibly the worst unit in the entire game... YES THE ENTIRE 40k. They used to be expensive, fragile and short ranged.... armed only with a single heavy flamer and can explode and kill your own guys.

In this edition, pyrovores got even worse. Despite their apparent buff in that they got cheaper and gained an extra wound and attack, they got even worse than the previous codex specifically as they don't have access to the mycetic spore anymore. Formerlly that was the only viable way to ensure at least a single burny burny use of your pyrovores. deep strike n burn.... but now without deep strike as an option, all your pyrovores can do is waddle slowly towards the enemy and die halfway and explode and kill some of your own gaunts..... or you can try using trygon tunnels but most of the time your pyrovores will either arrive at the same time or before the said trygon and end up having to footslog slowly towards the enemy again.

So, if pyrovores are so horrible, why DO I have one? Well firstly pyrovores look cool. a kinda nasty tyranid ... and secondly there's another unit in the codex called a biovore that is effectively a living mortar. It looks like a more dopy version of the pyrovore, and has similar statlines.... hence my pyrovore lives it's days in my tyranid army as my army's biovore, annoying people at long range by spitting little irritating spore mines at them and occasionally winning a game for me by camping on objectives in my base in the 1/6 chance he happens to be a scoring unit. Hence I used the prettier and more menacing pyrovore model as a biovore instead and it looks a hell lot cooler.

So yes, this guy's a staple in my tyranid army.... though I use him as a different unit instead.