ierodules are rare and colossal beasts, larger by far than even the fearsome Carnifex. Engineered as living siege breakers and bunker busters, each Hierodule's chitinous armour plates are thick enough to turn away all but the heaviest fire as they approach their entrenched prey. The Barbed Hierodule sub-species is named for its twinned bio-cannons, overgrown variants of the terrifying barbed strangler. These organic guns launch alien seed pods that hungrily grow through the flesh of the Hierodule's victims, even punching through the armour of a tank or bunker. The presence of a Hierodule