Editing Pyrovore (section)

==Or is it?!==

[[Image:Tyrannocyte.jpg|right|thumb|200px|YOU'RE NOTHING WITHOUT ME!]]
With the return of our beautiful Mycetic Spore (now called the Tyranocyte) in the Leviathan Supplement, Pyrovores now actually stand a chance in filling a niche in your army as an effective stealth and shrouded eradicator! A very specific niche, but a niche nonetheless!

"But wait, PyrovorefanXX1!" you ask. "Pyrovores could do this in the old codex but were still classified as 'cess, what's changed now"? Well firstly, Pyrovores did get buffed! They went down 5 points, gained an extra wound (acid blood, yay), initiative, attack and [[Tyranid_Bio-Weapons#Acid Maw|Acid Maw]] and Volatile did realistically get better if you do the math. However, their form of accurate deepstrike got lost, forcing them to trudge across the board and retain the reputation they had.

But now that they have that deep strike option back combined with their 6th ed improvements, paying 220 points isn't that bad for 9 wounds worth of reasonably durable heavy flamers (which people will hesitate to try and ID that close to their troops) backed up with an effective gun platform in the Tyranocyte. With the default pressure from very common standard stuff like flying Hive Tyrants, Mawlocs, more Tyranocytes filled with Devilgaunts or other Monstrous Creatures, they stand a very high chance of being left alone to wreak havoc multiple turns.

But in saying that, they really can't do much without the Tyranocyte, so those games you would rather have your Tervigon getting all intimate with some tanks because your opponent lacks infantry basically leaves your Pyrovores on fat, lazy, old guard dog duty for some objective in the middle of the board.

=== HOLD THE PRESS! ===

... cause 8th edition came out (for good or ill) and everything changed, including Pyrovores! That's right, proud winner of "41st millennium's worst unit" for years is now much more viable, with the stats of an heavy flamer mounted on a melee fighter that hurts ENEMY units when taking damage in close combat and packs rather nasty CC attacks as well, and has a range that's coincidentally just long enough for it to attack as soon as it gets out of a Tyrannocyte. Here is the statline from the book of Xenos 2 from 8th edition:
[[Image:Pyrovore 8th edition.PNG|center|thumb|500px|]]
As of Chapter Approved 2018, the cost has been reduced to ''less than 30 points per model''. Let's recap - heavy flamer on a mini-monster, a CC weapon with AP-3 that is quite effective against MEQs, LOTS of wounds, taking wounds causes its victim to get hit '''and''' can hit a squad with nastiness if it dies. It's over lads, [[JUST AS PLANNED|the meme is finally dead]]! Pyrovores aren't utter shit anymore.