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Okay, here goes...
Firstly, it's a cool list, and very imaginative. The whole fluid spawning swarm is very well represented!
All of the following are concentrating on the units themselves (I'll go through the army rules later). These are intended as constructive criticism! Some are more splitting hairs than others. Apologies if any of the following has been brought up/dismissed before now.
General grammar point:
You have used ?its?? multiple times in most of the datasheets. You should remove the apostrophe (i.e. simply ?its?)
So ?It suffers an extra point of damage and loses one of its? gargantuan claw attacks? should be ?It suffers an extra point of damage and loses one of its gargantuan claw attacks.?
(Yes, I know I?m a nit-picking git? but you might as well set it right!)
General point:
What?s the difference between ?monstrous claws? and ?scything talons? for the smaller (40K sized) gribblies? For example, Lictors have scything talons in 40K. Why shouldn?t they have Scything Talons in Epic?
I can see that the list tries to be consistent with stats across the board, but I don?t think that there?s any harm in giving ?scything talons? different stats for different beasties. If that?s unacceptable, then give the larger ones Monstrous Claws and just remove Scything Talons from the datasheets - they don't add anything an clutter the place up.
Also, always be aware of exactly how many limbs these things have ? almost universally 6 but at least 2 are usually used for legs/wings. I assume that ?Scything Talons? means a pair, but you?ve got beasties in there that seem to have more weapons than limbs.
There are many datasheets that could just have Scything Talons and reserve the Monstrous Claws for the bio-titans. This would make the list as a whole neater.
General point:
The convention for Epic for multiple weapons is 2x bio-cannons rather than x2 bio cannons
Dominatrix Datasheet:
?1-5: The Hive Tyrant has taken...?
Presumably you mean Dominatrix here.
Hive Tyrant Datasheet:
Armour 4+? A Hive Tyrant is a viciously tough beastie on its own, but with Tyrant Guard are considerably harder ? at least in 40K ? to kill than mere Leman Russ. Yet a Russ is vastly, vastly tougher in Epic. That doesn?t make sense. I would suggest Reinforced Armour here. As well as the fact that there are fewer things in 40K harder to dispose of than a Tyrant, it seems that Tyrants are something of a vulnerable point.
Also, can the datasheet be simplified here? After all, Tyrant Guard and Monstrous Claws do the same thing, and it seems redundant to have monstrous claws and rending claws ? how many limbs do your hive tyrants have? I would say 3x rending claws (MW+1A) and tyrant guard (+1A) is fine (note this way the Guard don?t have MW attacks ? they aren?t that powerful after all)
Argh! Points values in the datasheet alert! Take the points option for wings out and put it in the army list. Or even better make the winged and non-winged biomorphs equal in points.
Wings are all well and good, but the Tyrant should lose the Tyrant Guard attacks and some degree of toughness from the Guard too (e.g. if you adopt my RA suggestion, the winged Tyrant might lose RA, but it could be a reduction in Armour Save). Ideally, you?d want winged Tyrants to be equal in points to ground Tyrants (solves the above point!).
Gargoyles
Should Bioplasma give First Strike?
Tyranid Warriors
Again, these Tyranids seem to have rather a lot of limbs. Scything Talons are redundant, and tyranid warriors can?t have rending claws, scything talons AND deathspitters. Plus it just clutters up the datasheet. Remove Scything Talons (or remove Rending Claws and give Scything Talons +1A).
Bio-titans:
Should these beasties be able to step over terrain features like Imperial titans? You?d think they?d be even better at it than the bipedal titans?
Raveners:
Armour save 4+? Really? That seems a bit good?
Carnefex
Which stats are for which isn?t made abundantly clear. Should put that in the notes ? exactly what the stats in parenthesis mean (I can guess, but it should be explicit nevertheless). E.g. you can?t pick which statline to use halfway through a game!
CFC
Firstly, the ?classic? option really should be called the ?Screamer Killer,? for those of us from way back. Cosmetic, but we?d like it!
Scything Talons or Monstrous Claws? Pick one, and get rid of the other. 2x Scything Talons (MW+1A) gets my vote. The more you can condense the statlines the better.
Should a CFC really have a firefight value at all?
Bioplasma could give First Strike to the basic attack. More interesting than just an Assault Weapon.
CFV
While this is OK, I?d suggest giving it a Barbed Strangler. I don?t think you?ve got one in the list otherwise, and it?d be more interesting, and more archetypal for the ranged carnefex.
Herodule
Again, Claws AND Scythes? As before I?d suggest lose the claws and make the 2x scything talons the +1MW attack.
The Herodule datasheet could be considerably simplified by
a) removing Monstrous Claws and
b) just putting
2x Scything Talons
Pyro-acidic spray
OR
2x Bio-cannons
as one datasheet.
Zoanthropes:
Invulnerable save surely?
That's all I can see for the moment,
Lord =I=
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Wrong word maybe) out of the sky maybe?
