Editing Pyrovore (section)

==Why were they so bad?==
Alright, spleen's been vented enough, so let's get real for a moment.

The biggest problem comes down to the fact they're in the Elites slot, which is ''easily'' the most jam-packed slot in Tyranids. They're competing with: '''[[Hive Guard]]''' (who are good at taking down transports and one of the best shooting units in the 'Dex); '''[[Zoanthrope]]s''' and their '''[[Neurothrope]]''' brood leaders (incredibly powerful [[psyker]]s that can throw down an ABSURD amount of mental [[dakka]] each turn); '''[[Venomthrope]]s''' (an excellent support unit that provides mobile cover, defensive grenades, and hilarious 2+ Poisoned attacks); '''[[Malanthrope]]s''' (quite powerful in their own right but [[Forge World]] only); '''[[Lictor]]s''' (who, while not being particularly good, can at least claim their ability to not have Deep Strikers who land within 6" of them scatter); '''[[Haruspex]]es''' (while not particularly good, at least competent enough); and '''[[Maleceptor]]s''' (who... well alright, they're pretty shitty but not as bad as Pyrovores).

Additionally, they have one of the most schizophrenic loadouts in the game. It can ignore armor saves (and hit at S5) by dropping its attack stat to 1... but with only one attack per model, and the rest of their stats make them absolutely ''awful'' in close combat, including I2 and WS3. They're too slow to keep up with an assault-based army, and largely pointless there anyway since once the rest of your army gets in close, there's nothing left to flame; in a shooting army they compete with Hive Guard (which are basically the only way 'Nids can take down light vehicles efficiently). Their Flamespurt ability is AP 4, meaning you can't take out [[MEQ]] with it. They can explode, which could see them used as a suicide unit... except that affects ''your'' units as well. Your pitifully weak, vulnerable-to-AoE-explosions units, Plus it's only when Instant Death is inflicted, which means melta or krak missiles... but it dies much easier to massed bolter shots. On top of that, good luck just getting the damn thing in close enough to actually have it affected. Not to mention that wasting an extremely valuable Elite slot on a expensive-for-its-cost suicide unit is just stupid.

The wording of its exploding ability is so poorly written that when the rules are applied exactly as written, whenever one suffers Instant Death, ALL UNITS ON THE BOARD suffer a number of hits equal to all non-Pyrovores within D6" of it. This means that the Pyrovore is so bad its abject shittyness transcended its rules and altered the minds of its writers to make it even worse. Exact text:

"Volatile: If a Pyrovore is slain by a Wound that inflicted Instant Death, every unit suffers a Strength 3 AP- hit for each model (excluding Pyrovores) within D6" of the slain Pyrovore (resolve damage before removing the Pyrovore as a casualty)."

Presumably what they wanted to write was that each model within D6" suffers a S3 AP- hit. Meaning that for a squad of 10 Guardsmen next to the Pyrovore, they suffer 10 hits. What they instead wrote means that ''every unit on the board'' suffers 10 hits. Theoretically hilarious if you had a way to detonate it intentionally and brought nothing but T6 - but you don't.

So, all in all, the worst fucking unit in the game. Completely pointless, no idea where it wants to be, competes with '''good''' units (units that are basically compulsory if you want Tyranids to win). The other thing is that it had '''never''' been good: it was bad in the previous Codex (where it debuted) and it was bad in 6th, too. Countless ideas are thrown about to unfuck the unit, and you can almost see how it's suppose to work: Tyranids have trouble dealing with things in cover, and this thing is made to deal with things in cover -- so perhaps if they were beasts, had higher WS, BS, and Initiative and were allowed to fire the flamespurt in close combat like a [[lizardmen|stegadon?]] But the cocksucking piece of shit is fundamentally contrary to the basis of the entire army. To make it fit, [[homebrew]]ers have pretty much had to make the pile of fail unrecognizable from its origins. It is ''that'' bad.