A Tyranid invasion is an experience of true and unrelenting horror. The sky darkens as fleshy spore pods rain down from the heavens, expelling toxic clouds and ravenous beasts. On the ground, gigantic monsters lumber forth to crack open vital fortifications, allowing a flood of alien bioforms to devour those within.
All the while, the beleaguered defenders must contend with Tyranid ordnance – living munitions, delivered by living artillery. For this purpose, the Hive Mind spawns such creatures as Exocrines, Tyrannofexes, and now the newly-evolved Biovores and Pyrovores.
Biovores are essentially sentient mortar batteries, each carrying a symbiotic launcher-organ swollen with a clutch of Spore Mines. These volatile offspring are fired across the battlefield in violent muscle spasms – truly, the miracle of birth.
The Biovore’s new, wider form allows it to operate as an efficient firing platform, digging chitin-barbed legs deep into the ground to absorb the shuddering recoil of its weapon. These tentacled orbs instinctively float towards prey like malicious alien balloons, before bursting and showering their targets with bone shards, toxic gas, and corrosive fluids.
The Pyrovore, on the other hand, is a creature designed to help its hive fleet predigest the toughest minerals and biomass – like a mother bird chewing up worms for its chick, if the worms were ceramite-clad Space Marines.
The beast’s network of stomachs gurgles with bio-chemical nastiness, which drools from its acidic maw and erupts from its dorsal symbiote as caustic jets of flammable gas. A Pyrovore can engulf entire squads in chemical fire, melting armour and flesh ahead of consumption. Disgusting, but effective – the Hive Mind clearly hasn’t found time to evolve its table manners.
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