Hi all,

Quick question as i'm getting started... how do you all handle the large variety of upgrades (toxic sacs, adrenal glands) as well as the variation in weaponry provided with your armies? I don't fancy the idea of having enough 'gants to cover every possible combination!

I understand that for the bigger models we can use pins and magnets to allow swapping of weapons, but what about the upgrades?

How do you do it? Do you just outfit the model with how you intend to mostly play?

Lol excellent signature!

I was asking because I've been thinking of some potential strategies, like the usual small - medium - big wave formation for cover saves but also to have normal homogants at the start (as they WILL die) followed by more choppy ones with Toxic sacs for the permanent 4+ to wound and reroll T3 and below (75% chance of wound if T3 or below and 50% to wound anything else!). I'll have to cost/benefit adrenal glands if i'm against MEq but I may want some with this too to give the option.

I'll leave all of them vanilla for now, but save the bitz incase I want to jazz them up later after a few games.

I was planning on leaving the termagants with a borer - spinefists don't seem like they justify the effort and the devourer just costs too much for an "OMFG there's loads of them!" foot unit, but when I get a spore I may justify devourer gants.

Thanks for the response.

Cheers for all the advice guys 

I fall into the "don't bother putting TS/AG on anything because nobody would be able to recognize it" camp.

When it comes to the little bugs, as long as they have the right guns, they are just fine without anything modeled onto them, as long as you know who has what. Since all Gants look alike, I am a firm believer in the painted base edge technique. This does require you group together certain numbers of models, meaning you'll probably need more models, but it makes it extremely easy to tell which Gant is in which squad. That way, if you have upgrades on your Gants, you can mark it in your army list and say "blue squad has X".