Editing Spores of Madness (section)

== A note on Drop pods ==
Aside from the ship to ship boarding actions the Spores Have become acustomed to, they have another style of war when dealing with worlds, space stations, or particularly large ships like Craftworlds and space hulks. It involves [[Drop Pod]]s, which in and of itself seems like pretty standard Space Marine procedure aye? WELL, the Spores aren't all for them regular or 'sane' tactics, so they decided to... ''improve'' on their drop pods design.

How you ask? Well that's simple really, what would any intelligent, sane and rational person do? No I'm seriously asking because whatever the answer to that question is, the Spores did the EXACT opposite. They decided to do something no-one else had tried yet, and rounded up some [[Daemons]] and shoved them into their drop pods. No, not they drop Daemons in drop pods the Daemons ARE the drop pods. The warpsmiths and Hereteks of the warband turned their many drop pods into Daemon engines, how does this improve them you may ask? Well, for one, they can move after landing now, as part of the process of shoving Nurgle Daemons into drop pods seemed to the big metal pods grow some big, plauge ridden, thick spidery legs for locomotion. It also gave them an appetite... they eat people. The Daemons LITERALLY pick up Guardsmen, cultists, marines who aren't Spores and generally anything they feel hungry for at the time. They absorb these poor bastards mind, body and soul. 

This also means that Marines who drop in them don't hang out there too long, and those that have are still sitting in there. More than a few fanatical marines upon learning anyone who remained in the pods too long would forever become a part of them, basically sat in there until they were absorbed. Now, their rotting, petrified, still smiling and armored corpses are permanently enthroned in whatever seat they took, and serve a similar purpose to the pilot crew of a Helldrake, assisting with firing the Drop pods few weapons, keeping the Daemon on task and most importantly making sure they don't eat any of the Spores who don't stay in them too long.

Being filled with Nurgle Daemons, these pods are also basically hotboxes for whatever awful diseases Grand Papa [[Nurgle]] can cook up. Sometimes the Spores don't even deploy in them, just firing the pods at a planet or ship and letting the diseases and walking murder machines do their jobs for them, often with a rather scary amount of effeciency. It is these unique engines of death and destruction(along with the Spores intense hatred of the Inquisiton and surviving a purge) that put them in the good graces of [[Failbaddon]] the Harmless. Well that, and the fact Captain Boil Beard thinks Abby is one of the best Nurgle worshippers around as he has done NOTHING in 10,000 years but maintain the staus quo.