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Sidstyler wrote:Exactly, your veterans can still get plenty of use, so it's not really the best example...though I wouldn't doubt that's the worst that a Space Marine player has ever had to endure. "OH NO! There aren't any specific rules for this specific type of veteran with Tyranid bits on him! What the hell do I doooo?!"

The Squat players weep for you.

Genestealer cults.
Weapon mutants.
Hive Node mutants.
Exceptional Size mutants.
Flying devilgaunts and hormagaunts.
Leaping warriors.
Implant Attack warriors.
Sniperfexes.
Sniper tyrants.
Twin-linked weapon warriors.
Rending claw fexes and tyrants.
Spinefist hive tyrants.
Flesh hooks on anything.
Thornback.
Symbiote rippers.
Spore cysts.
Acid maw fexes.
Tusked fexes.
Enhanced Senses fexes.
Carnifex tail weapons.
Bio-acid spore mines.
Toxin spore mines.
Extended Carapace on anything but tyrants.
Twin-linked venom cannons and barbed stranglers.

(I could probably keep going)


Every Tyranid codex has a habit of completely making illegal a good deal of models from the previous one. Some of them are salvageable by ignoring the upgrades, but others need to be torn apart (like CC gargoyles and gunfexes).

Every codex has had a habit of making completely illegal a good deal of models from previous ones. It's the way things go.

By the by: making something "less effective" does NOT mean that it has become illegal.

Broken Loose wrote:*snip*

...errm...that doesn't count!

I still stand by what I said though, a veteran is a veteran whether or not he goes off to battle with Tyranid bits all over.

Hive Node mutants.
Exceptional Size mutants.
Leaping warriors.
Thornback.
Symbiote rippers.
Spore cysts.
Acid maw fexes.
Tusked fexes.
Enhanced Senses fexes.
Carnifex tail weapons.
Bio-acid spore mines.
Toxin spore mines.
Extended Carapace on anything but tyrants.

All of these things you listed are still perfectly legal aesthetic changes to the figs. That's over half of your list. Do they have an effect on the rules? No. I gave my T-Fex Tusks and a Scythe Tail anyways, simply because it looks cool.

The weapon losses are a stinker, yes, but they're a minority.