Tyranids 2nd Wave Rumours (Actual Updates on Page 29, Pics on Page 31!)

Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you:

No adverts like this in the forums anymore.
Times and dates in your local timezone.
Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance.
Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely.
Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net.

If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

**rigeld2**

Maelstrom808 wrote:Yarp Not that most people used the Deathspitters, but still...I guess at the price point they are unwilling to pack another sprue.

Fine, no spitters... devourers? I guess we have to buy Carnifex bits to get em now.

He giveth with one hand, and with the other taketh away.

**H.B.M.C.**

Well he never really 'tooketh' away, because the HT didn't used to have Devourers/Death Spitters anyway. So really nothing's changed.

**rigeld2**

H.B.M.C. wrote:Well he never really 'tooketh' away, because the HT didn't used to have Devourers/Death Spitters anyway. So really nothing's changed.

Ah - I was wrong about which sprue they were on with the Carnifex. Nevermind.

**-Loki-**

Squidmanlolz wrote:Does anybody else wish they had made a modern version of Old One Eye rather than fine casting the old one?

Carnifex kit. Give it scything talons, crushing claws, regeneration head and a couple of those massive horns on the chitin plates on the head. Modern Old One Eye. The Old One Eye model was basically just a 3rd edition Carnifex with a burned off right side of the face, an extra horn on the forehead and a few barnacles on random spots anyway.

**Grey Templar**

Doomthumbs would be proud of that Tervigon

**Grimgob**

So the only option for the flyrant is Scything talons + other weapon option only?

**Absolutionis**

Grimgob wrote:So the only option for the flyrant is Scything talons + other weapon option only?

Flyrants can take any option normal Tyrants can. The only things not included in that kit are TL Devourers and TL Deathspitters.

The Barbed Strangler, Lash Whip, Bonesword, Venom Cannon, and Scything Talons are all there albeit not in multiples.
Feel free to take 2x Venom Cannons and Wings.

**Ventus**

I like the wings on the hive tyrant but I thought that GW would either do it like the gargoyle kit and/or make the wings in such a way that a second biomorph could be added perhaps to the wing arm. Maybe the picture is not showing it clearly because that would be unbelievable to wait so many years for tyrant wings to have this messed up.

There should not be any necessity to have to convert the model in order to make legally armed versions. And for the price that GW charges (along with the disgracefully long wait) there is no excuse for not adding a deathspitter and devourer into the box since it has been a legal build for a long time. Hopefully this is all a mistake and when the kit comes out we will find that everything is fine. [switches to dream mode]

**puma713**

Grimgob wrote:So the only option for the flyrant is Scything talons + other weapon option only?

If you didn't want scything talons, you'd replace the legs with whatever option you'd want.

If you wanted 2x twin linked Devourers, the top sockets should be the wings, and the bottom two sets should be your devourers. Unless you hate the way that looks and want to convert two sets of devourers into one limb each.

**DarthSpader**

has it already been mentioned that the new stuff is up in the GW blog? including 2 videos showing various 360 angles and multiple shots.

tyrant kit looks like 1 deal, and the tervi/tyrannofex is a dual kit. coolness.

**Sasori**

DarthSpader wrote:has it already been mentioned that the new stuff is up in the GW blog? including 2 videos showing various 360 angles and multiple shots.

tyrant kit looks like 1 deal, and the tervi/tyrannofex is a dual kit. coolness.

The Preorders are up as well.

**LunaHound**

I love Trygons, Carnifex, Tyranofex....

I dont have enough heavy support slot!!!!

**Grimgob**

puma713 wrote:
Grimgob wrote:So the only option for the flyrant is Scything talons + other weapon option only?

If you didn't want scything talons, you'd replace the legs with whatever option you'd want.

If you wanted 2x twin linked Devourers, the top sockets should be the wings, and the bottom two sets should be your devourers. Unless you hate the way that looks and want to convert two sets of devourers into one limb each.

It dosnt look like its modeled that way. It looks like the legs have scything talons and the wings take up one of the arm weapon slots. Sure you could convert it to use the place of the legs but thats kind of stupid. They could have at least put another socket for an arm at the base of the wing.

**lord_blackfang**

Wait... why is the UK price less than the Trygon bu the Euro price is more?

**kshaw2000**

new nids up on the GW website.
plastic tyrant kit, T-FEX and TERVIGON is all we are getting!
some update! we need a harpy, a shrike, SSS and the parasite still arent out yet!

RRRRRAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Automatically Appended Next Post:
when you think about it wings arent that great anyway.
no gaurd and little possible helpers!

**LunaHound**

So the Wolves and Nids does count as a full release right?
march till mid april.

mid april till end of may = fantasy

june = summer of DA

**kshaw2000**

hey I forgot LW/BS and 2 BS kits are availible now!

Automatically Appended Next Post:
hey I forgot LW/BS and 2 BS kits are availible now!

**sennacherib**

if they had these available two years ago, i might have kept my nids. As it is i will never have a need for these.
Sad face.
Gw. what were you thinking by releasing these at such a late date.

**Red Comet**

I wonder why the Flyrant has different feet. The feet look entirely different. Is it possible that maybe in the new kit the leg sockets can fit arms allowing for the normal 4 arms of the Hive Tyrant? It would make sense since all Tyranid flying creatures never have legs anyways.

**-Loki-**

Red Comet wrote:I wonder why the Flyrant has different feet. The feet look entirely different. Is it possible that maybe in the new kit the leg sockets can fit arms allowing for the normal 4 arms of the Hive Tyrant? It would make sense since all Tyranid flying creatures never have legs anyways.

They're 'scything feet', giving the Tyrant a set of scything talons as well as whatever you decide to put in its arm slots.

It's not a great solution, but it works. The wings pretty much need to take the top arm slot to stick to the basic design ideas behind Tyranids (the main one being they all have 6 limbs). Forgeworld had the same solution by making the Flyrant and Warrior wings 'scything wings', with the fingers along the membrane scything talons. GW opted for scything feet.

**LunaHound**

-Loki- wrote:
Red Comet wrote:I wonder why the Flyrant has different feet. The feet look entirely different. Is it possible that maybe in the new kit the leg sockets can fit arms allowing for the normal 4 arms of the Hive Tyrant? It would make sense since all Tyranid flying creatures never have legs anyways.

They're 'scything feet', giving the Tyrant a set of scything talons as well as whatever you decide to put in its arm slots.

It's not a great solution, but it works. The wings pretty much need to take the top arm slot to stick to the basic design ideas behind Tyranids (the main one being they all have 6 limbs). Forgeworld had the same solution by making the Flyrant and Warrior wings 'scything wings', with the fingers along the membrane scything talons. GW opted for scything feet.

its meant to look like

**ceorron**

Images from GWs facebook page

**Kroothawk**

Darnok wrote:Am I getting weird now, or do I see bluetac at the armsockets of both the Tyrant and the Swarmlord? Check the 360-pictures on both. First I thought it was painted, but it both looked silly and out of place - and was too irregular.

You can even see it here (under the upper left arm):

Are my eyes kidding me, or is GW not even willing to go premium with the pictures they use for selling their stuff? How hard would it have been to paint a second Tyrant?
(...)
Comparing the pictures side by side, I get the very strong impression that the Tyrant and Swarmlord share the same model, just with different arms and head bluetacked on.

Fail GW, sorry to say it. I think a special character deserves more attention than this, as do the showcase pictures. It's just lazy and unexcusable.

**Swordwind**

I find the blu-tac hilarious myself.

**Vitruvian XVII**

clap clap GW, seriously though i dont mind the swarmlord at all.

**xttz**

Kroothawk wrote:Am I getting weird now, or do I see bluetac at the armsockets of both the Tyrant and the Swarmlord? Check the 360-pictures on both. First I thought it was painted, but it both looked silly and out of place - and was too irregular.

You can even see it here (under the upper left arm):

Are my eyes kidding me, or is GW not even willing to go premium with the pictures they use for selling their stuff? How hard would it have been to paint a second Tyrant?
(...)
Comparing the pictures side by side, I get the very strong impression that the Tyrant and Swarmlord share the same model, just with different arms and head bluetacked on.

Fail GW, sorry to say it. I think a special character deserves more attention than this, as do the showcase pictures. It's just lazy and unexcusable.

I think someone's sense of right and wrong is a little contorted. 'Inexcusable' would be selling toxic materials to kids in their modelling products to make a profit. The word doesn't really cover using a little blu-tac in promotional photos.
Being caught swapping out the arms on an expensive model is at worst comedic (as it's what most customers would do, even if GW would want them to buy 2 kits), and at best shows good organisation of their painting staff. Do you really want future releases held up because they're needing to paint double what is actually necessary for a few stock photos?

**NAVARRO**

Sprues look nice and I think if you pick up both new kits then a carni and a try you have lots of cool new possibilities to create new bugs... and a gobbo spider... I dont want to even see how much it would all cost in the end... oh and start thinking on investing in a airbrush beause painting big critters with just a brush is a waste of time... In short if your not carefull GW will make you broke

**Vitruvian XVII**

You'd think they'd at least be able to use magnets

**Swordwind**

Vitruvian XVII wrote:You'd think they'd at least be able to use magnets

Can't. There's no Games Workshop Hobby magnets, and if they're not Games Workshop Hobby they don't exist.

**Vitruvian XVII**

Haha valid point, i shudder to think what the cost of GW magnets would be