Unusual Unbound

How exactly are we working out how many spores are placed a turn? I'm pretty sure that all 39 cluster-spores have to be in standard reserves, which means nothing until turn 2. Likewise with the bombing rules, no Harpies will be dropping mines until turn 2 unless extremely lucky.

That said, yes... it's a lot of spore mines.

Harpies can start on the board, but it's more the 24" max move that hinders the spore-dropping.

Can't remember if Biovores are hunters or lurkers, though... the Harpies don't care about synapse that much, but Biovores sure do...

It's funny, actually... I was just reading a post over on The Tyranid Hive (great 'nid forum, ps) about purposefully building a terrible bug list (read, without Synapse... and no, no Genestealers).

So basically everything is IB'ing every turn. And of course, it was against a Tau army. Granted, the Tau guy could only win if *he* killed more than the Nid army killed of itself.

They called it on turn two. Tau had lost a glorious 8 models. Nids had lost over 70. And if I remember correctly, the Tau had only killed 30 models or so, the rest was from IB/running off board.

Obviously you can build a bad army of any faction, and one that requires babysitting is easier to make look utterly terrible, but the point arose that becoming Fearless within Synapse is, in large part, balanced by being the army with the lowest Leadership in the game, otherwise.

Kind of like, you know, how Orks are only Ld7 base (but can take Nobs to help, and Boss Poles to help), but have the Mob Rule to make them Fearless. Or just higher Ld.

It works.

But then you throw in IB, and start killing yourself. It's a hugely massive downside to the army (akin to Undead Crumble in Fantasy), with little to no benefit (or further penalties to outweigh benefits).

Awesome.

Hey, at least Nids have all the ball sacks. Unlike Marines. Seriously, do those guys know what that many steroids do to a man???