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Anyone have an Idea what he means by "French Breakfast bread" in his post about the new Vehicle? I assume it is a hint toward the name, but I'm drawing a complete blank.

maybe the shape?

"Fear my fearsome Croissant!"

Look at the BFG ships.

Necron ships have a crescent (croissant = cresent) shape.

Oh ho ho, a croissant!

That makes more sense than the baguette I was imaging...



Obviously not the scale, but probably the shape.

Baguette would be the Lunch Bread superheavy

I think a Pain au Chocolat would be slightly more appropriate. Or a Profiterole Monolith perhaps...

Mmmmmm, brioche . . .

This thread is getting out of hand...
And the title is of course not valid anymore... Let's hope September will be the month for our quiet friends to rise again...

Nice break though, even though it's past breakfast time...

I'm thinking the same thing.

That this one should be closed just about now...

B-B-But it's gotten so delicious...

I don't think this thread was bread for this

October at the earliest, given that August and September WD are SOB

.. and then September could have a nice preview at GD UK perhaps ..?

You assume that GW would preview anything at GD? On recent performance...not a hope.

More likely they'll have 3ups of DE models we can already buy, the odd 3up of a nice looking firewarrior / other race not seen for a while, and "arent sisters of battle amazing!" posters.

Cynical, moi?

Still debating whether to go. Whn you're mainly going for the cool FW mini its an expensive day!

happygolucky wrote:This is awesome

seriously though i want robin to write the new dex and not mat ward (not a hater just dont want another overpowered codex with little fluff or blood angles team-up).

So you want a terrible army list with hardly any decent options, suffering from 'buy our shiny new plastic kit' syndrome and a lot of abysmal fluff?

-Loki- wrote:So you want a terrible army list with hardly any decent options, suffering from 'buy our shiny new plastic kit' syndrome and a lot of abysmal fluff?

Or he wants a top tier army with more options than you can shake a stick at, supported by some pretty decent flavor text (Crudance also wrote the IG 'Dex, IIRC ).

That would be because Cruddace plays what army...

Oh yeah, Guard!

I wondered how they got the uber treatment normally reserved for Marines....

Now take a look at Codex Tyranids, Armybook Tomb Kings, Armybook Beastmen (IIRC) ...

Crudance didn't write the Beastmen book (Phil Kelly and Andy Hoare did), and there's nothing wrong with the Tomb King book. Arguably there isn't as much wrong with the Tyranid book as the internet would have you believe.

SkaerKrow wrote: Arguably there isn't as much wrong with the Tyranid book as the internet would have you believe.

Except for the blatantly improved 'new' release units - Trygons and Hive Guard in particular. Gargoyles were significantly improved from their previous version as well. Venomthropes are rather tasty as well and heaven help us if they release a model for Mycetic Spores or Tervigons.

The only thing that didn't seem to fit this pattern is the Pyrovore which, to be frank is the most questionable option in the Elites section. Hive Guard? Amazing. Zoanthropes? Amazing. Doom of Malantai? Quite amazing. Lictors? Eh....at least they're not Pyrovores.

Carnifex x 3 cost, reduced stats, reduced options...

Can't join a Special character to pod riders..

The Doom is ok, not Amazing. He rarely lasts a single round after podding in.

Spore mines..

Broodlord becomes a sergeant (but at least now he can keep up with his unit ) instead of a badass..

Near total lack of decent ranged anti-tank in a Mech meta...

And then that feth-filled FAQ ...


Yeah, nothing wrong with the nid book at all..

Announcment to Games Workshop-
Give us info about the new necrons so that this thread can return to being about necrons, as opposed to what is good in the nid dex.
With that being said; nid warriors without EW; WTF?

SkaerKrow wrote:Crudance didn't write the Beastmen book (Phil Kelly and Andy Hoare did), and there's nothing wrong with the Tomb King book. Arguably there isn't as much wrong with the Tyranid book as the internet would have you believe.

Get serious. Nid book has serious internal balance issues and a lot of just plain "why even take these" units. You don't need a blog to see that. Nids had no reason to get such a bland book because Cruddace had a knee jerk reaction to his underpriced IG book.

Ascalam wrote:Broodlord becomes a sergeant (but at least now he can keep up with his unit ) instead of a badass.

How did becoming a sergeant somehow make the Broodlord not a badass? He makes most armies CC HQ's weep. Being a sergeant rather than an IC is pretty beneficial too. The Tyranid codex has problems, the Broodlord isn't one of them.

Theduke07 wrote:Get serious. Nid book has serious internal balance issues and a lot of just plain "why even take these" units. You don't need a blog to see that. Nids had no reason to get such a bland book because Cruddace had a knee jerk reaction to his underpriced IG book.

Name me a single book that doesn't have some internal balance issues, or "why even take these" units. Yeah, not holding my breath on that one. People are mad that the Nid book invalidated their Nidzilla armies. News flash, every non-Astartes codex does that, breaks down the dominant build so that established players have to buy new models. It's a GW thing, not a Crudance thing.

Also, this has nothing to do with Necrons.

SkaerKrow wrote:

Theduke07 wrote:Get serious. Nid book has serious internal balance issues and a lot of just plain "why even take these" units. You don't need a blog to see that. Nids had no reason to get such a bland book because Cruddace had a knee jerk reaction to his underpriced IG book.

Name me a single book that doesn't have some internal balance issues, or "why even take these" units. Yeah, not holding my breath on that one. People are mad that the Nid book invalidated their Nidzilla armies. News flash, every non-Astartes codex does that, breaks down the dominant build so that established players have to buy new models. It's a GW thing, not a Crudance thing.

Also, this has nothing to do with Necrons.

The new necron codex solves all those issues, and everything works well and is awesome. Whoops, that was the codex from a PERFECT WORLD. The codex we get in this world is like all the others...

Name me a single book that doesn't have some internal balance issues, or "why even take these" units.

+1

Still cant figure out why anyone would want to get psilencers...
Thats 33% of heavy/special weapon options in the codex being a total and pointless waste.

-Loki- wrote:

Ascalam wrote:Broodlord becomes a sergeant (but at least now he can keep up with his unit ) instead of a badass.

How did becoming a sergeant somehow make the Broodlord not a badass? He makes most armies CC HQ's weep. Being a sergeant rather than an IC is pretty beneficial too. The Tyranid codex has problems, the Broodlord isn't one of them.

Check his origiinal 4th ed stats and upgrades

He used to be practically a pint-sized demon prince with a powerweapon

SkaerKrow wrote:Name me a single book that doesn't have some internal balance issues, or "why even take these" units.

I've yet to see anything a blatantly useless as the Pyrovore. Really.

Whereas now he can make the opponents daemon prince not make any attacks. Golden. Also, not being able to be picked out of combat helps hugely - and he can at last keep up, and sneak in with his brood.