Healing herbs certainly include antidote herbs.
A machine that converts Ultramarines gene-seed/regular ultramarines blood into Ultramarines Primarch blood, and is attached in such a way so as to suck out the poisoned blood without allowing significant amounts of the stuff into the unpoisoned blood.
He can get a Leaning Paragon though, and depending on the potential bonus diving into the Sea may be a viable option...
Frankly what they need is the genius of a Primarch to direct the war and Guiliman specifically to organise two massive stellar empires to direct their resources to beating the destroyer.
Well, are they using grav-chutes or parachutes?
Grav-chutes or dropships.(most of the time)
Those are two very different methods of getting to a fight. I'd assume elites would be trained on one or the other. I mean, just simply drop-troops would work for say the Heltrooper component, assuming it was a thing. Meteors of Avernus for the grav-chute helgaurd types?
The thing is that the way tactics work Grav chutes/parachutes are supposed to be for stealth insertions or landing troops to take out anti-air and clear a landing zone for following dropships.
That seems a bit odd to me. Like, the U.S. military has airborne, and air assault units. Air assault units go in via helicopter and either just run out of the thing if there is a good landing zone, or else jump out of it and slide down ropes. Airborne though are specifically dedicated towards going out and dropping using parachutes. Just, seems to me that the two things would be separate, but I'm not exactly an expert on the military so maybe my understanding is wrong?
Of the three ways to combat these Tyranids (massed fire, lots of artillery+friendly fire, units capable of keeping up) Codiac fits none.
You may have a point, so if the point of this idea is to have elites that outmatch Tyranid mobility, we could probably skip the air assault portion? But would that be enough to bother making them Specialist grendiers?
Well, I don't think airborne troops would work well against tyranids, they have fliers and other such things. It seems like they'd be too easy for them to spot. Plus they are less a mobility unit than a deep-strike unit. Air assets in general seem like they'd be swarmed, because they have to stop in order to offload troops. I think we'd be much better off with some of that tau hover-tech. Get a unit that can fire as it moves effectively, and moves faster than the tyranids, and suddenly they are boned. I think we've actually got something like that already designed don't we? More of them would likely be quite effective. Though... I will say, I'm interested in what a large unit of Advanced Power Armor equipped troops with an improved Grav-Chute could do. We know we can create man-portable anti-grav. If we could turn that to side-ways acceleration, which I think is a thing that better grav-chutes could do... well, I could easily see that becoming quite effective, even against tyranids, or really anyone else. 3D mobility is hard to beat, especially on an infantry scale.
