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When you get right down to it all the Bio-Titans should be 'Fearless, Inspiring, Infiltrate, Has Lash Whips' units from their 40K stats. But then... WHY are we using 40K stats for them? Why don't we go look at their stats under SM2 or E:40K as a basis for the kind of power they have relative to other titans. Not by necessity relative to our setting, but it's a place to start. The trouble is, in 40K, the primary objective of the game is to do damage much like SM2. You get VP for killing your enemies plus VP for mission objectives, but the majority of VP is from wiping out enemy units. Naturally, as a result, the items in that game are built for the purpose of doing maximum damage. The ability to move and take ground, hold down large areas and be mobile are much less of a concern as a result. Witness the Imperial Guard who, despite having Chimeras, will regularly not move at all all game because they can't use their heavy weapons if they do! In that setting Fearless makes perfect sense on many things. I'll also point out that EVERY VEHICLE in 40K is fearless. EVERY vehicle. Even sentinels. Naturally we're not going to make every vehicle in Epic fearless, that would be silly. Because Fearlessness represents different things in the two systems. A fearless unit in Epic is one who's sufficiently bloodthirsty/crazed/disciplined/controlled to make a fighting withdraw rather then a rout. When forced back they harry the enemy's front-ranks, fire weaposn back into them and disrupt the enemy's attempts at chasing them down. Or they're simply so large and durable they don't care about the enemy's fire. Titans, for instance, may retreat when the conditions become untennable, but certainly aren't going to suffer much from the incoming fire of the enemy when they do.
I would say that the Heirophant deserves Fearless but that the others do not. Why do I believe this? Because the Heirophant is a Titan-equiv, it's huge and insanely durable, and isn't likely to be afraid or go to ground when facing a dozen or even a hundred IG bases. The Trygon, Hierodules and other Bio-SuperHeavies are small enough they can be driven to ground and destroyed by sheer weight of numbers. The Carnifex itself is a huge, fearless creature with armor plating to rival titans and is completely unconcerned with it's own safety. Not nearly large enough to get the 40-50 soldiers ontop of you'd need to take one down easily they'll simply retreat when ordered to, with enemy weapons bouncing off their hides. The other thing to remember is, that as multiple DC units, Hierodules and Heirophants only lose 1 DC per point they lose an assault by. Which is reasonable to me. I think there's justification for a Heirophant to be Fearless, but I'd rather avoid the other Bio-WEs becoming Fearless. In keeping with the idea that only the biggest, baddest, toughest and most disciplined troops are fearless. After all, if a Trygon deserves to be Fearless surely a Baneblade or Shadowsword does. And do you really want to set that kind of backwards-prescident?
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