Editing Codex - Tyranids: Hungry Swarmhost Edition (section)

====Dactylis Brood====
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Fluff:
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">Hivemind's standard approach towards siege operations usually include subterranean or aerial distraction strike, followed by the massed frontal assault, lead by heavily armored Carnifexes, meant to soak enemy firepower and ram through the gates or even walls. Though against the most havilyy fortified points of the Imperium and Orks these attacks have proven to be too costly, mainly due to the absurd amount of heavy ordnance they deploy. To counter this, hive mind breed it's own heavy ordnance, in a form of Dactylis.<br>
Based on the simple and easy to to produce Carnifex genus, Dactylis is nothing like its progenitor. Slow and sluggish, it prefers to keep as long distance from its foes as possible, and usually tries to hide and flee if left on its own. Its weapon limbs get transformed into massive plates of ablative armour, almost useless in close combat, but invaluable at protecting it from enemy firepower. Armed with a massive spore launcher biomorph on it's back, Dactyis uses its oversized chem glands to fill both the spores and the weapon's barrel with compressed bio-plasma, and then detonate it to launch the spore with a force, rivaled only by the heavy artillery of humans. Though neither the launching process, nor the chem glands of the Dactylis proven to be stable, the usefulness of this siege beast and the ease with producing it totally compensate these weaknesses.</div>
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Modeling notes
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">A Dactylis should be represented with a Carnifex base body with massive bio-cannon on its back, skin sacs, meant to represent bio-plasmic chem glands, sticking off it's sides or back, and its weapon limbs replaced by the armour plates, covering the front of the model. Final result should look like [http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk260/jct5/Dactylis__1.jpg this]</div>
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170 pts.
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! WS
! BS
! S
! T
! W
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! Sv
! Unit Type
! Composition
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| Dactylis
| 2
| 3
| 6
| 6
| 4
| 1
| 1
| 7
| 3+
| Monstrous Creature
| 1 Dactylis
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'''Biomorphs:'''
*Bio-plasmic spore launcer
*Stinger salvo

'''Special Rules:'''
*'''Fearless'''
*'''Instinctive Behaviour (Lurk)'''
*'''Slow and Purposeful'''
*'''Heavy Launcher:''' Dactylis can only fire its bio-plasmic spore launcher if it does not move in its Movement phase. It cannot declare a charge during the same turn that it fires its bio-plasmic spore launcher.
*'''Siege Plating:''' Dactylis base should have a clear marker, representing the creature's front facing - all ranged attack, comming at the Dactylis Brood from the front 180° ark of the majority of the models in the Brood lose one point of Strengths and AP (for example, S9 AP2 Lascannon hit as S8 AP3). 
*'''Bio-Plasmic Leak:''' When Dactylis loses a wound from the hit, not affected by the Siege Plating rule, roll D6 - on the result of 1 or 2 Dactylis deal Strength 3 AP 2 automatic hit to each model in base contact with it (friend or foe), and loses one extra Wound with no saves of any kind allowed. This extra wounds lost do not trigger this rule.
*'''Synaptic Spotters:''' If the Dactylis Brood is within Synapse range, and any other friendly Codex: Tyranids model that is within Synapse range can draw a line of sight to their target, Dactylis Brood bio-plasmic spore launcher blast template scatters only D6" rather than 2D6, and count target as being within Dactylis line of sight, even if it's not.

'''Options:'''
*Mutations: (WS:10/BS:20/S:10/T:20/W:20/I:10/A:10/Ld:20/Sv:30/Psy:-/Syn:-)
*May include up to 2 additional Dactylis - 170 pts./model
*Any model may take items from the '''Biomorphs''' list.