Description

The Brood Mother or Matronite to give the creature its proper name is the largest and most extraordinary Lavan species of them all. Yet it begins life as a hatchling quite indistinguishable from its siblings, and it is only its extraordinary capacity for growth than comes to mark it out as a species of a vast and dierent kind.

These creatures are an extreme physical morph that evolved to live with in the Borom asteriod belt. With the ability to survive in harsher environments they make a perfect platform for heavy weapons, carving out ghting compartments within the beasts stony hide to carry men and weapons. Normally a placid and gentle creature, suitably powerful neural implants are used to goad the Brood Mother into a savage killer.

Awesome detail

When eggs hatch the small hatchlings gravitate towards a Brood Mother and feed upon the gritty akes of scale that she sheds for this purpose.

More Weaponry!

The Brood Mother is a Humongous Beast unit and the crews role is simply to operate any weapons and direct the creature by means of neural implants much as if it were a vehicle. The stats are a mix of its crews abilities (Acc, Init and Co) and those of the creature itself. Full details can be found in the Beyond the Gates of Antares rulebook on page 188.

MATRONITE BROOD MOTHER

Humongous Beast Unit

Points Value: 258

Special: A force can only include a single Brood Mother

Unit: Brood Mother	Ag	Acc	Str	Res	Init	Co
1 x Matronite Brood Mother with 4 mag light support	5	5	10	15	7	9
0 x Lavamite Hatchling Swarms	5	7	7	7	7	5

Special Rules

MOD2: The Brood Mother is a multiple order dice unit with 2 order dice.

1 Attack SV4: In hand-to-hand ghting a Brood Mother makes one attack with a strike value (SV) of 4.

Slow: The Brood Mother is slow with a M of 2.5.

Large: A Brood Mother is large. Yes, I know it is rather obvious, but it needs to be said none the less!

Models supplied unassembled and unpainted