http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/06/hybrid-animal-wish-list?pid=7052
The Taranturaptor is awesome.
Beautiful!
Personally, I tend to focus on cross-breeds that am relatively confident in my ability to control. Taranturaptor seems like it might be a bit more trouble than it’s worth (especially if they have huge egg-sacks producing large quantities of young). I found the piranaee quite fun, though.
Nonsense! Higher birthrate just means bigger hordes for your army. Besides, that thing must get at least 3 attacks (claw/claw/bite, possibly more claws), so between that and spider-climbing, it should serve as a pretty sick mount.
The ability to charge cavalry up walls would be invaluable in a siege, whether for attacker or defender. If it produces spider-silk, that could potentially be useful for protective garments, being both stronger and tougher than steel.
It all comes down to trainability…
I’d say claw/claw/bite normally, but with a leap attack that takes advantage of the large claws on its forelegs to replace the normal charge.
The cthulhuphant…I mean, cuttlephant…is rather frightening in appearance. I count 10 tentacles. Even if they were so weak they only did 1d2 damage, that’s a lot of attacks.
And as a Floridian, Piranhatees are horrifying.
That cuttlephant makes me want to cross an elephant with a carcass scavenger.