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Ignoring armor-saves in current 40K is really quite common (Any power weapon, any monstrous creature and any weapon of AP 2 or 1 will do that, after all... Lascannons, demolisher cannons, power fists, power swords, axes of khorne, meltaguns, multimeltas, heck even Assault Cannons can do that if they roll 6s!). Most of the Macro-weapons, in my experience, are either melee weapons representing the 10-15 power-weapon attacks an entire squad will get (Marine Terminators on the charge, for instance, get 15 S8 WS 4 attacks which ignore armor), or represent overwhelmingly powerful shots (Multi-meltas which used to be 2" blast-template, S8, -6 Save Mod, 2d12 wounds per shot weapons). Or weapons which are so huge and powerful nothing survives being hit with them (Volcano cannons) unless they're equally huge and powerful. Battle Cannons, which are very potent in 40K, are only 4+/4+ in Epic. 3+/4+ seems perfectly appropriate for Bio-Cannons. The trouble is individual weapons are not that scary in Epic. It's massive multi-shot or multiple weapons per stand that do huge damage. Wraithguard get 2x MW 5+ because they have 5 guys who all wound on 4+ reguardless of enemy armor, have AP 1 weapons and instant-death their targets on rolls of 6s no matter how many wounds they have. a unit of 10 of them (2 stands) walks up to a Carnifex and will instantly kill it on average rolls. All the MW melee-units get at least 5-8 power-weapon attacks. Even the Carnifex can easily get 5 S10 melee attacks to account for it's MW attack, the same number and power of attacks that a Scythed Heirodule does... But the melee system in 40K breaks down at that level, so giving them TK probably isn't a bad idea. Over-all I like your stuff posted here. But I thought I'd express a bit of comparison when it comes to 'My big tyranid brood critter gets 8 S8 attacks, so it should get 3 MW attacks in melee!' feelings... None of those individual huge creatures get as many attacks in melee as Terminators do right now. Just someof them are even stronger then Terminators are, and are vastly more resilient over-all then even an entire squad of termies.
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these are just ideas and not official.