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 Sinful Hero wrote:
It just seems like a really odd design choice imho.

A throwback to the old "Tyrant Guard have borrowed some of the more useful traits from Astartes genetics" line perhaps? Fused rib-cages, humanoid hands as a quirk?

Horrible looking lash whips. Fat, clumsy, amateurish. I guess it's a trade for sturdiness, the current good-looking whips break easily (perhaps because finecast).

The original source of the unit entries posted this on 4chan



It's the codex snippets printed in WD. No new information here, just a better indication of the source.

Oh and he posted this quote:

To all annoying people on Dakka.
"Boohoo, fake because stats are so blurry and gak".

feth you.

That is how full page with stats looks.
Good luck extracting something from small thumbnail like photos of codex pages.

This is not CSI. There is no magical "enhance" button, you morons.

The number 4 note is interesting 'The army list contains entries for all the Tyranid miniatures currently available'. So it's a possibility to expect new rules for the Red Terror?

Once again I'm amazed that people can still take such BAD pictures in the age of point and click high quality cellphones..

You need to try very hard to take pictures of such low quality imo

What are you talking about? That picture is fine, probably even done with a scanner, considering you can even see the ink blots on the enlarged versions.

Ah, I was meaning the crappy pictures from a few days ago which had people discussing if a number was a 3 or 5

New quotes:

<in response to someone asking about Apex Biomorphs>
I cannot, because there is no mention about such a thing in WD.

There is a bit about "unique bio-artefacts" (only this bit, no more), along with "new Instinctive Behaviour tables (Feed, Lurk, Hunt).
>>TABLES!

"The army list itself caters for all existing Tyranid models and includes profiles and rles for all the new kits released this mont, too (...)"


Also, another word for dakkites: technology for photographing/scanning may be great, but printing technology is as it is. You want maximum close up? You will get some paint dots. Whiners.

Kirasu gets a special shout-out!

That guy's crazy. Of course there's an 'enhance' feature. I see it on TV all the time.

 xttz wrote:
Kirasu gets a special shout-out!

Shots fired. It's a critical hit!

I look forward to the new 'dex and mini's, having a soft spot for the bugs for a long time now. They are not an army i play, but i get a big bug kit every now and again to paint up and display at home.

I don't understand printing quality.. Is he saying the printed text is PIXELATED? I had not realized we were living in a digital reality!@ the horror!

Since the photo is highly pixelated due to the low quality of the picture.. I don't see how printing quality makes a difference. It's not like this it the first time we've had abysmally bad pictures taken, I just still don't understand how such pictures occur given todays technology unless you're using a 2005 flip phone.

I think what he's saying is that the actual words on the printed page are too small to make out (being that the page contains a reproduction of the actual Codex page, only smaller). So in the end it wouldn't matter how good a picture or scan he took of the WD page if the picture in question wasn't of a good enough quality to read in the first place.

Or, to put it another way, if I print a page that has a low-res picture in the middle of it and take a picture of that page with a 10,000 giga-pixel super-camera, that picture in the middle of the page is still going to be low res.

 Kirasu wrote:
I don't understand printing quality.. Is he saying the printed text is PIXELATED? I had not realized we were living in a digital reality!@ the horror!

Magazines and such are printed in little dots (pixels). The codex previews in the WD are only about 2 CM wide, so no matter how much you zoom in on them, you can't get sharp text if a letter is like 4 dots big.

Well that's 1 mystery solved, anyway.

The bigger mystery is wtf do biomorphs do and why are the troops so many points?!?

So there's something about these pictures that I don't understand. Maybe someone could help me out.

Looking at that White Dwarf page, there are two entries. I can't make out the small print, obviously, but the large print I can read. One page is titled "Genestealers". On that page, there are two entries in the statbox. I think we can safely assume that one statline is for the genestealers and one is for the Broodlord. Makes sense.

Now, applying that same logic, look at the "Gants" page. Obviously, they combined the gants into one page, because in the previous edition codex, Termagants and Hormagaunts have a separate page for each (which, side note, why is it termaGANTS and hormaGAUNTS? shouldn't it be hormaGANTS?).

Anyway, on the Gants page, there are 3 statlines in the box. I'm sure one is for Termagants, and one is for Hormagaunts....

...what the hell is the third one?!

MadmanMSU wrote:
...what the hell is the third one?!

That's a really good question. My guess would be Gargoyles, as they're all related.

And it's always been TermaGANTS and HormaGAUNTS, AFAIK.

No, they should all be gaunts. TermaGANT should never have been.

Maybe the third line is Rippers? Maybe they're bringing back Hive Nodes?

Termagant is an actual word (like Harpy, Harridan, Crone - sensing a theme here yet?) which is why it is what it is.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Termagant is an actual word (like Harpy, Harridan, Crone - sensing a theme here yet?) which is why it is what it is.

Huh. Learn something new every day.

So, Termagant, Harpy, Crone, Harridan....all are names for violent/bossy women.

That does not rate well on the political correctness meter....

MadmanMSU wrote:
That does not rate well on the political correctness meter....

In the grim darkness of the far future, there are no social justice warriors.

The Tyranids ate them all.

"Gaunts" is a reference to the 3rd edition book, in which you could build your own.


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 N.I.B. wrote:
Horrible looking lash whips. Fat, clumsy, amateurish. I guess it's a trade for sturdiness, the current good-looking whips break easily (perhaps because finecast).

I think the perspective (the whip is coming toward the camera somewhat) is distorting it.

Well that page makes things a lot clearer now, and casts away some doubt. Will be happy once this codex comes in!

I've never looked forward to a codex more to be honest, really don't even care if they aren't playable, just want to know the basics to build an assault army

This is the first time I'm going to get a new codex for an army I am currently playing!

MadmanMSU wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Termagant is an actual word (like Harpy, Harridan, Crone - sensing a theme here yet?) which is why it is what it is.

Huh. Learn something new every day.

So, Termagant, Harpy, Crone, Harridan....all are names for violent/bossy women.

That does not rate well on the political correctness meter....

Perhaps the Nids are like worker bees and are all infertile females...

I like this guy, all these people doubt him and he just goes balls to he wall and crushes all the haters.....

Super excited as well!

Stormbreed wrote:
I like this guy, all these people doubt him and he just goes balls to he wall and crushes all the haters.....

Super excited as well!

"Haters"

*shudders*

CAUZ U KNOW THEY SEE HIM ROLLIN', AND THEY IZ LIKE TOTZ HATIN/

*shudders*

Sorry whenever someone uses that word I have this habit of dying inside.

Davor wrote:
What do people think of Rippers being T5, S5?

Pic is blurry, but looks more like a 5 than a 3.

http://oi41.tinypic.com/30lzb6w.jpg

*edit* took img tag out and put link in.

St may possibly be 5 but T is definitely 3

Hmmm, are those new styles of Tyranid space ships in the background illustration behind the "Second Tyrannic War" text box?

T