Editing DISTRACTION CARNIFEX (section)

===Is it really a DISTRACTION model?===
People often confuse DISTRACTION units with Death Star units. To alleviate these misconceptions, we'll give a brief run-down of each role:

*DISTRACTION - a DISTRACTION unit, is large, menacing, and most importantly ''expendable''. It needs to serve as its namesake suggests: as a DISTRACTION. It's not meant to be a line-breaker (although it can certainly act as one if given the chance), it's an assistant to your line-breakers, by re-directing damage from them that would otherwise gimp your front line. A DISTRACTION unit doesn't have to be heavily armed or be an avatar of destruction, it just has to be cost-effective enough that it seems menacing that your opponent can't leave it alone for too long (as it can still do a number to their units if it got close enough to be effective), but at the same time: cheap enough that losing it doesn't cripple your chances of victory.

*Death Star - like the Star Wars superweapon it's named after, Death Star unit(s) are typically large (in body or bodies), destructive and ''expensive''. They will typically (not necessarily always) encompass a significant portion of your army list, if your list wasn't already just tailor-made to support the Death Star unit(s) you're bringing. Where a DISTRACTION doing any real damage to your opponent's forces is simply taken as a bonus, a Death Star's entire purpose is to decimate your opponent's armies with impunity. Because of this, Death Stars ''aren't'' expendable and losing them early on can irrevocably cripple your army for the rest of the game (if you don't just lose shortly afterwards). As such, this is where your cost efficient DISTRACTION units come into play; DISTRACTIONS advance and tie up your opponent's army and attention while your Death Star gets into position and burns through their forces. 

It should be noted that there are cases where the line between a DS and a DISTRACTION starts to get blurry, either because the unit is far more powerful than its cost would suggest or because the rest of your units are almost as expensive as the unit in question. While very rare, such hybrids are by far the most effective DISTRACTIONS of all since if they're not killed immediately, they place an opponent in a no-win situation where ignoring the DISTRACTION is as likely to make them lose as falling for the DISTRACTION.  Primarchs stand out in particular, as they are always lethal and usually tanky enough to make their points back against anything other than another Primarch (if not table the opponent entirely given enough time and a particularly bad matchup).