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Let's hope for a Coprofex

decoy101 wrote:nids are quite good as they are I've never thought of using the units that havent been made

Don't ever say that to a Tyranid player. You basically agreed to the three things Tyranid players would eat you for:
1. You said that Tyranids are comparable to Blood Angels, Space Wolves, and Grey Knights in terms of codex-creep-power.
2. You indirectly said Pyrovores are decent.
3. You said that it's okay if Tyranids go yet longer without a model for the Tervigon, the Tyrannofex, and the Mycetic Spore.

Harry confirmed that we will see Tyranid and Necon second waves in February (but not IG second wave).

Praise be!

Oh, that is comforting indeed. This whole week has been full of good news for Tyranid players.

Kroothawk wrote:Harry confirmed that we will see Tyranid and Necon second waves in February (but not IG second wave).

Do we have a link to this? Can you copy and paste his quote please.

Hidden in General Discussion: http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=329306

Harry wrote:

Can't remember the thread but Feb is hinted as a 2nd wave for nids.

... and Necrons

I believe that Harry has hinted in one of the other 40k rumour threads that it will be a small IG wave.

Yes ... not so much. (OK not even a little bit)

-Loki- wrote:The thing that makes me giddy about the Cerebore is it means GW might be re-acknowledging the old Epic bio-tanks.

The Cerebore card illustration even has the odd little tower thingy that the Malefactor has.

Andilus Greatsword wrote:

Kroothawk wrote:

My god. This "Cerebore" could be the rumored tyranid transport thingy, promised rules in the WD release...

Please, let it be so...

Pics found by kenshin620:

By the way, the Cerebore looks awesome - kinda like a giant Ripper haha.

Hey you mean I might actually get to use that monstrosity that I made?! Awesome!

How about a Shameless Plug?

My gallery for the beastie:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-14732-12058_Tyranid%20Cerebore.html

Funny thing. I saw that on the Dakka front page as a featured plog minutes before it was posted here.

Kroothawk wrote:Harry confirmed that we will see Tyranid and Necon second waves in February (but not IG second wave).

Hmm well if they're putting out a Tyrannofex kit then I'll buy that instead of converting one of my Fexes. This was pretty timely if I do say so myself.

I'm interested in seeing the size/price of the Cerebore/tervigon (rumored) kit. I'm anticipating something in the realm of the arachnarok spider from fantasy, if it's true.


The way things look in the leaked 6th ed playtest book, bigger vehicles & MC's won't be at as much as a disadvantage compared to rhinos since most cover saves are going to 5+ now (which is the same benefit that a venomthrope can give).

My guess, it'll be the same price band as the Trygon. I'd be impressed if they priced it as low as the Ghost Ark, and I might even buy two if they do that, but it'll likely be Trygon price range - it's going on that base, and it's very likely going to fill it and be very bulky.

I want to see the price range for the Hive Tyrant and Harpy. The Harpy I can see being at most Ghost Ark price range, but I can almost guarantee GW will use the Finecast Tyrant price to justify putting the plastic Tyrant that high.

I would like the Hive Tyrand Kit to come with atleast 1 pair of bone swords.

Kroothawk wrote:Harry confirmed that we will see Tyranid and Necon second waves in February (but not IG second wave).

Can they confirm that it is a 'Nid 2nd Wave and not a 'new creatures with WD rules' wave?

Well, they can only split those up if they sell the Tervigon with the new ceatures stuff clipped off the sprue for a while.

From Warseer just now:

Stickmonkey wrote:Fwiw.

I have the following rumors to add.

Nids to get valentine love, crons to get leap year love.

Nids:

There are many more nid kits that are done, some no one would expect. However, not all will be released. Others may be single releases later.

4 plastic kits
4 finecast

After the wave there will still be some model(s) not represented from the codex.

Old models getting finecast makeovers.


Necrons:
If you don't know, you haven't been paying attention.

cheers.

Very eager to see these come to fruition! Been too long for the Nids.

@HBMC: if you believe stickmonkey id say that counts as a wave!

Now the question remains whether or not the 4 plastic kits are separate kits altogether, or if they're separate kits in the way that the Hammerhead and Sky Ray are separate kits or the Razorback and Rhino are separate kits.

Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy plastic Tyrant!!!!!!

Absolutionis wrote:Now the question remains whether or not the 4 plastic kits are separate kits altogether, or if they're separate kits in the way that the Hammerhead and Sky Ray are separate kits or the Razorback and Rhino are separate kits.

like plastic Swarmlord / Tyrant

plastic Tervigon / ( forgot the name)?

@Absolutionis: Indeed, given recent trends id say there would be a multi kit there somewhere, not that that has anything to do with what you were talking about though!

"However, not all will be released."

Why even do that? What's the point?

H.B.M.C. wrote:"However, not all will be released."

Why even do that? What's the point?

Perhaps the same way Eldar players have been drooling over that awesome Jetbike model for the past 5 years.

Released will be new finecast kits of Old One Eye, The Red Terror, and ripper swarms. They'll also be releasing plastic kits with spore mines and sky-slasher swarms. They'll have Swarmlord, tervigon, and Doom of Malan'tai kits, but be holding onto them for later, so as not to draw attention away from the coming Necron releases. In their release announcement, they'll include use phrase "so tyranid players will have no doubts about how we really feel about them."

Watch and see.

Do note that Warhammer Fantasy has had the interesting trend of one-model small plastic kits. It wouldn't be too surprising to see a Tyranid oddity in plastic.

I'm hoping that trend migrates into 40K ASAP. Single frame plastic characters are the most revolutionary thing GW has done in a while, and they're certainly a bigger step forward than 'better than oxygen' Finecost.

I am betting/hoping that they will bring that out as a new big thing for 6e this summer. Bam, release 1-2 new plastic characters for each faction. Maybe the inquisition will get some lovin for their acolytes.

If there's some combination of Tyrant, Harpy and Tervigon in February, I'll be happy.


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ph34r wrote:I am betting/hoping that they will bring that out as a new big thing for 6e this summer. Bam, release 1-2 new plastic characters for each faction. Maybe the inquisition will get some lovin for their acolytes.

If they do that, I'd guess they'd hold back the Harpy. It's kind of terrible right now. I mean, I want one, but I'm under no illusions that its terrible.

But those flier rules make it pretty rad, and Tyranid players would be trying to grab one then.

New tyrant kit seems extremely likely, given the disappearing stock, and that tyranids won't be sellable to new players without one.

I'm hoping to see at least one new unit that needs WD rules. Comeon, horvigon! I guess a Cerebore might be alright too.

Harpy might be nice. Tyrannofex would be better. I'm hoping there *isn't* a mycetic spore, but that's just a selfish wish because I use the ones from wargamma and it looks really awesome painted up, and I don't want to deal with any complaints because it's not the 'official' model.

im just hoping for a plastic tyrant kit with options for wings etc, and maybe a tervigon kit. harpy is a nice wishlist, but i dont think itll show up before 6th.

unrelated i would love to see a model for vect and his dias, or some of the other DE special characters

Tyrant with wings is still not guaranteed even if it seems likely.

When the Imperial Guard codex came out with the Manticore, Hydra, Medusa, etc, people wanted models for those variants of the Chimera Artillery Chassis.
Then, GW took the Basilisk box out of production... only to re-release it as another Basilisk-only plastic kit. This was so inexplicable that even non-IG players and their pets facepalmed.

Games Workshop works in very mysterious ways. For all we know, this new finecost Hive Tyrant will just be a reboxing with the addition of a single extra left-handed bonesword.