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Found this over at warpshadow didn't see it anywhere on dakka so figured I would share.

RELEASE TIME: 16TH JAN 2010
CODEX COVER [url]http://i735.photobucket.com/albums/ww354/gajowy21/m500057a_Tyranid_CoverXL.jpg (from GW's site)
http://i735.photobucket.com/albums/ww354/gajowy21/nid-codex-cover-bigshot.jpg[/url] (from Warseer, bigger shot)
cover art breakdown - page21 by Eidre

GENERAL INFO: 4 new species
Hive Guard
Venomthrope
Pyrovore
Trygon (by Scryer in the Darkness, Warseer)

Codex will have 96 pages
Codex written by Robin Cruddace (author of Guard dex)
Return of special characters (but they're like not meant to be special - they're just survivors of a big war and then mutated) (Phill Kelly @GD Germ)

New Battleforce, £60
Content:
3 Warriors
3 Ripper Swarms
8 Genestealers
16 Gaunts
16 Hormagaunts
Pic of box' back (DragonPup, WarSeer)
http://i735.photobucket.com/albums/ww354/gajowy21/NewBF.jpg

Hive Fleets painting scheme got re-touch - all weapons got different colour
Leviathan - red weapons
Kraken - green weapons
Behemoth - black weapons


MODELS:
New background for Tyranid kits
http://i735.photobucket.com/albums/ww354/gajowy21/TyranidTerrain.jpg
http://i735.photobucket.com/albums/ww354/gajowy21/TyranidTerrain2-1.jpg


Tyranid future releases (Scryer in the Darkness, WarSeer)
Hiveguard (1 model)<metal blister> £12.00 / US$20.00 / C$24.00 / 17,50€ / Oz$33.00
Venomthrope (1 model)<metal blister> £12.00 / US$20.00 / C$24.00 / 17,50€ / Oz$33.00
Pyrovore (1 model)<metal box> £20.00 / US$33.00 / C$39.50 / 26,00€ / Oz$55.00
Spore mines (10 models)<metal blister> £10.00 / US$16.50 / C$19.75 / 13,00€ / Oz$28.00
Raveners (3 models)<plastic box> £27.00 / US$44.50 / C$53.50 / 35,00€ / Oz$74.00
Battleforce (46 plastic models)<plastic box> £60.00 / US$105.00 / C$130.00 / 85,00€ / Oz$165.00
Gargoyles (10 plastic models)<plastic box> £18.00 / US$29.00 / C$34.75 / 22,75€ / Oz$48.00
Trygon (1 plastic model)<plastic box> £30.00 / US$49.50 / C$59.50 / 39,00€ / Oz$83.00
Hormogaunts (12 plastic models)<plastic box> £15.00 / US$24.75 / C$29.75 / 19,50€ / Oz$41.00
Termagants (12 plastic models)<plastic box> £15.00 / US$24.75 / C$29.75 / 19,50€ / Oz$41.00

ARMY WIDE SPECIAL RULES
SYNAPSE
- Mostly the same, removal of Eternal Warrior
- Instinctive behaviour:
Split into 2 classes:
Lurkers – move to cover and shoot nearest enemy
Hunters – get Rage USR
- Tyranids don’t get axtra attack for having two CCW


BIOMORPHS
- Adrenal glands – furious charge USR, ALL units may buy these
- Chittin – Armour saves raging from 6+ to 2+
- Flesh Hooks – Weapon, 6” S5 Ap- Assault 2
- Injector (new biomorph) – to wound roll of 6 causes loss of all Wounds
- Regeneration – At the start of each turn model recovers a wound on a roll of 6
- Spore launcher - Frag granades
- Toxic blood - When this model loses a wound in melee the model that caused the wound must stand an I check or lose a wound with no AS allowed, tanks are hit on 4+ with a glancing hit
- Toxic miasma - All enemy units in CC range with this model must take a T check or lose one wound with normal Save
- Toxin sacs – poison USR, ALL units may buy these
- Wings – Jump Packs


CCW WEAPONS
Bonesword – Instant Death on failed Ld test
Pair of Boneswords – test is made on 3d6
Crushing Claws - +D3 Attacks at I 1
Lash Whip - All enemy units in CC wit this model have I 1
Scything Talons – rerolls of 1s to Hit
Pair of Scything Talons – rerolls of all to Hit
Rending Claws – Rending USR


RANGED WEAPONS

Barbed Strangler:
24" S 4 AP 6 Assault 1 Large Blast

Stranglethorn Cannon:
36" S 6 AP 4 Assault 1 Large Blast

Venom Cannon:
36" S 6 AP 4 Assault 1 Blast
-1 on a tank damage table

Heavy Venom Cannon:
48" S 9 AP 4 Assault 1 Blast
-1 on a tank damage table

Fleshborers:
18" S 4 AP 5 Assault 1

Spinefists:
18" S 4 AP 5 Assault X, twin linked

Sting blaster:
12" S 5 AP - Assault 1

Spike blaster
18” S5 AP 5 Assault 4

Deathspitter
18" S5 Ap5 Assault 3

Some other weird sounding weapon(Devourers most likely)
18” S 3 AP 6 Assault 2


Texorin Bugs:
Ravener thorax weapons, choose fire mode at the start of the game
3 fire modes, may be fired additionally to all other weapons
Template S * AP - Assault 1, allways wounds on 2+ against non Tanks
Template S 5 AP 5 Assault 1
Template S 3 AP 6 Assault 1, rending

Death Blaster
18” S5 Ap5 Explosive


HQ
HIVE TYRANT, TYRANID WARRIORS and TRYGON PRIME have 'The Shadow in the Warp' for free.
The Shadow in the Warp - 12" range, Psychic tests are made on 3d6, Perils of the Warp on double 1 or 6

HIVE TYRANT
- WS8, rest the same, higher point cost
- Comes with Talons, Bonesword and Lash Whip
can be armed with almost every biomorph and weapon
- Comes with 2 psychic weapons for free:
Mental scream: all enemy units within 18" have to pass Ld check. If they fail, they suffer the difference between the roll and their Ld as casulties with no armour saves allowed.
Leech Essence: Range 18”, unit receives D3 S 3 hits no AS, Tyrant regains one wound for every lost wound caused this way
Warp Scream: Range 12” enemy units WS and BS is reduced to 1 for 1 round
Dominate: Hive tyrant's synapse range is 18” for one round
- May buy any number of these abilities for some points:
Unspeakable Horror: Units wishing to charge or shoot at the hive must pass an LD check or........ well not shoot/attack
Vicious mind: A single Troop unit may flank and you get +1 to all reserve rolls
Ancient enemy: All Tyranid units within 6 have Preferred Enemy USR
- wings costs same as vanila Predator

TYRANT GUARD
- same stats, costs around vanila Predator
- gain Furious Charge and Rage if the Hive Tyrant they are guarding is killed

ALPHA WARRIOR
- costs same as 4th bare Tyrant
- made using Warriors and Raveners kits
- Synapse creature and Shadow in the warp standard
- may buy almost everything except the REALY heavy stuff
- Alpha’s WS can be used by unit he joins


TERVIGON
WS3 BS3 S6 T6 W4 I1 A3 LD10 Sv2+ Type: MC, costs less than Venerable Dread
– made by combining the Carnifex and Trygon kits
- may spawn 3D6 termagants per movement phase which may be activated as normal, but on a double he can no longer spawn anything from now on
- Spike blaster 18" S5 Ap5 Assault 4
- Termagants within 6 may use his LD and gain Counter-Attack USR nad Poison (if Tervigon also have these)
- If he dies, Gaunts near him suffer heavy losses.
- Has Dominate psi power (18” Synapse) and may exchange it for:
The catalyst: a unit within 12 gains Feel No Pain USR
The force: unit within 12 may run/fleet AND shoot


ELITES
LICTORS
- 3 Wounds
- Comes in broods of 1-3
- No more 0-1 choice
- Lower point cost
- Fixing to their deployment rules
Deployment like IG's Marbo but into area terrain only, no scatter, may shoot after Deep Strike
- +1 to reserve rolls
- units Deep Striking in 6" within Lictor does not scatter


ZOANTHROPE
- 3 Wounds, Sv5+/3+
- No more 0-1 choice
- Shadow in the Warp standard
- 2 psychic power:
Warp Lightning 24" S6 AP3 Assault 1 blast
Warp Lance 18" S10 AP2 Assault 1, lance


VENOMTHROPE
http://i735.photobucket.com/albums/ww354/gajowy21/TyranidVenomthrope_873x627.jpg" border="0" />
- Zoanthrope profile, 3 Wounds, costs bit more than vanila Land Speeder
- Poisoned attack 2+
- Armed with Lash Whips and Toxic Miasma
- Grants 5+ cover save and defensive granades to any unit with model within 6"


HIVEGUARD
Pic: http://i735.photobucket.com/albums/ww354/gajowy21/TyranidHiveGuard2_445x319.jpg
http://i735.photobucket.com/albums/ww354/gajowy21/TyranidHiveGuard1_873x627.jpg
- WS4 BS4 S5 T6 W2 I2 A3 LD7 Sv3+ Type: Infantry, costs the same as a vanilla Land Speeder
- Broods of 1-3
- Impaler Cannon, does not require LOS 24” S8 Ap4 Assault 2
- Possible bio-weapons options


PYROVORE
Pic: http://i735.photobucket.com/albums/ww354/gajowy21/TyranidPyrovore1_873x627.jpg
- Biovore stats with 3 Wounds
- Pyro Acid Spray, template S6 Ap4
- 1 attack at I1 ignoring Armour Saves
- After loosing last Wound Pyrovore explodes on a roll of 4+ on a D6. Units within D6 inches suffer a hit S3 ap -


YMGARL STEALERS
- Broods of 5-10
- Genestealers which can Either morph up their S, T or A by one at the beginning of their turn
- "Hibernation": note one piece of terrain. When the Genestealers become available, they are placed in this piece of terrain. They may move, shoot and charge
- No option of Broodlord

TROOPS
HORMAGAUNTS
- WS3, S3, I5, 2 Attacks, Ld 6, Same cost as 4th ed Termagant
- Broods of 10-30
- +1 Initiative
- No longer Beasts
- May be given toxin sacs and adrenal glands
- Fleet on 3d6, picking highest

TERMAGANTS
- Same cost as 4th ed Spinegaunt
- have two individual weapons
Toxic stinger: 18" S 3 AP 6 Assault 1
Grappling choker: R Flaming S 2 AP - Assault 1, wounds against S not T
- every unit allows one Tervigon to be played as Troop
- Spinegaunts higher in costs than 4th ed
- Devourer for 4th Spinegaunt cost

GENESTEALERS
- Same profile, cheaper than Grey Hunters
- less biomorphs
- Broodlords as upgrade characters
- Infiltrators, Fleet

BROODLORD
- Same profile, cheaper
- Upgrade character for Genestealers broods
- No more 0-1 restriction
- 2 Psychic powers:
one that makes genestealers count as having frag granades
Hypnotise ,- both players roll D6 and add their LD. If your's higher, the enemy may not attack

WARRIORS
- WS5, 3 Wounds, 4+ Save, costs around 2 Grey Hunters
- Synapse
- Have access to ALL CCWs
- Can't take two Ranged weapons
- No more Leaping option
- Comes with Scything talons and Devourers

RIPPERS
- may deep strike
- when they fail instinctive behaviour they eat each other (one wound per point failed)
- not very expensive


FAST ATTACK
RAVENERS
pic: http://i735.photobucket.com/albums/ww354/gajowy21/TyranidRavenorBrood1_873x627.jpg
Sprues: http://i735.photobucket.com/albums/ww354/gajowy21/TyranidRavenorBrood6_873x627.jpg
http://i735.photobucket.com/albums/ww354/gajowy21/TyranidRavenorBrood5_873x627.jpg
- WS5, 3 Wounds, 4 Attacks Type: Beast
- Options for thorax weapons


GARGOYLES
Pic: http://i735.photobucket.com/albums/ww354/gajowy21/TyranidGargoyleBrood1_873x627.jpg
Sprues: http://i735.photobucket.com/albums/ww354/gajowy21/TyranidGargoyleBrood9_873x627.jpg
http://i735.photobucket.com/albums/ww354/gajowy21/TyranidGargoyleBrood8_873x627.jpg
http://i735.photobucket.com/albums/ww354/gajowy21/TyranidGargoyleBrood7_873x627.jpg
- Old profile, 1/2 current points cost
- Poisoned attack - each 6 To Hit causes wound (normal Save apply)
- Comes with Fleshborers


HARPY
WS3 BS4 S6 T5 W4 I5 A3 LD7 Sv4+ Type: MC
- Flying MC
- Twin-linked Stranglethorn Cannon:
36" S 6 AP 4 Assault 1 Large Blast
- every unit he charges gains -1 I
- may shoot 3 spore mine on a unit he flys over (with all Spore Mines rules)


SPORE MINES
- broods of 3-6
- see: Biovore

WINGED TYRANID WARRIORS
- Less than half the cost of wings for warriors in the 4th ed codex.
- No options for medium guns

WINGED RIPPER SWARMS


HEAVY SUPPORT
TRYGON/MAWLOC
PICS: http://i735.photobucket.com/albums/ww354/gajowy21/TyranidTrygonMawloc5_873x627.jpg
Trygon http://i735.photobucket.com/albums/ww354/gajowy21/TyranidTrygonMawloc1_873x627.jpg
Mawloc http://i735.photobucket.com/albums/ww354/gajowy21/TyranidTrygonMawloc2_873x627.jpg

SIZE COMP: http://i735.photobucket.com/albums/ww354/gajowy21/m730374a_99120106019_TyranidTrygonS.jpg
http://i735.photobucket.com/albums/ww354/gajowy21/m730366a_99120106019_TyranidMawlocS.jpg

SPRUE PICS: http://i735.photobucket.com/albums/ww354/gajowy21/TyranidTrygonMawloc4_873x627.jpg
http://i735.photobucket.com/albums/ww354/gajowy21/TyranidTrygonMawloc3_873x627.jpg

Trygon/Mawloc data sheets for Apocalypse in WD February

TRYGON
WS6 BS4 S6 T6 W6 I4 A6 LD8 Sv3+ Type: MC, costs around 4 Land Speeders
- Fleet ilke Hormagaunts(ie 3d6, pick highest)
- may deep strike and leaves behind a tunnel through which other units may deep strike in subsequent turns
- may NOT charge the turn he deep strikes
- Bio electric field 12" S 6 AP - Assault 6
- may be upgraded to Trygon Alpha

TRYGON ALPHA
- costs around 5 Land Speeders
- basicaly a Trygon with Synapse, Shadow in the Warp and Ld10
- Bio electric field 18" S6 Ap- Assault 12


MAWLOC
WS3 BS0 S6 T6 W6 I4 A3 LD9 Sv3+ Type: MC , costs around 5 Rhinos
- may deep strike, if he appears under a unit he places a large template there which has S 6 AP 2 , remaining models are moved aside and Mawloc is placed there (not in CC)
- Hit and Run and Fleet USR
- may dig himself in again if he is not in CC in your movement to automatically reappears in your next movement phase


TYRANOFEX
WS3 BS3 S6 T6 W6 I1 A3 LD10 Sv2+ Type: MC
- has Texorin Bugs and ONE of the 3 following weapons :
48" S10 AP4 Assault 2
36" S4 AP5 Assault 20
Template S5 AP4 Assault 1, is shot like the inferno cannon of the imperial hellhound

CARNIFEX
WS3 BS3 S9 T6 W4 I1 A4 LD6 Sv3+ Type: MC
- broods of 1-3
- comes with 2x Talons
- cannot boost Initiative, cannot go above 3+Sv
- Bulldozer: when charging increase Initiative by 2.
- If purchase adrenaline, grants I4 and S10
- pretty expensive
- may buy every Weapon
- comes with Bioplasma 12" S7 Ap2 Assault 1 blast

BIOVORE
Codex entry: http://i735.photobucket.com/albums/ww354/gajowy21/TYRcatalog_spread_zuber.jpg
WS3 BS3 S4 T4 W2
SPORE MINES
Pic: http://i735.photobucket.com/albums/ww354/gajowy21/TYRcatalog_sporeminesbitzpack.jpg

DEDICATED TRANSPORT
MYCETIC SPORE
WS2 BS2 S6 T4 W3 I1 A2 LD4 Sv5+ , costs same as Razorback
- can be taken by lots of units
- transports 1 MC or up to 20 Infantry
- Deep Strike. Transported unit disembarks immediately.
- Completely immobile. Can't move, run, assault, regroup or pursue.
- 6" S6 Ap - Assault 6 shooting attack
- Armed with Lash Whips


SPECIAL CHARACTERS

SWARMLORD
- HQ
- Hive Tyrant character
- WS9
- Armed with 2 Boneswords, costs more than a LR.
- Invulnerable saves passed against Wounds from him have to be rerolled
- Whirl of blades: has a 4+ Invulnerable save in CC
- He may buff one unit within 18 inches with Preferred Enemy, Furious Charge or two other special abilities.

THE TERROR OF MANTRAX
- HQ
- Gargoyle character
- A hit and run monster with wings.
- Each enemy unit outflanking may suffer casualties: your opponent names one model within the unit, it has to pass a Toughness test. If it fails it is killed and the Tyranid player gets D6 Ripper Swarms. He may do the same to victims he kills in close combat.
- Has The Shadow in the Warp standard

DEATH LEAPER
- Elite
- Lictor character
- WS9, I7, Rending on a 5+
- Has ability to disappear

OLD ONE EYE
- Heavy Support
- Carnifex character
- Regenerates on 5+
- has a small temper problem which lets him re-roll to hits and sometimes go berserk
- units within 12 may use his LD

THE DOOM OF MALANTAI
- Elite
- Zoanthrope character
- Psychic shooting attack with S=it's wounds, large blast, after shooting it suffers D3 wounds, no Saves allowed
- May leech up to 10 wounds, and the strength of its psychic attack increases to the number of wounds it has left
- Has The Shadow in the Warp standard

RED TERROR
NOT in the codex but mentioned in the fluff


Every codex entry will get a new artwork (Bregaland, WarSeer)
Army pic: http://i735.photobucket.com/albums/ww354/gajowy21/TYRcatalog_army.jpg
3 codex pages: http://i735.photobucket.com/albums/ww354/gajowy21/TYRcatalog_spread.jpg

Words cannot describe the awesome of these new units and dex, thank you for these, kinda makes me wanna get some just so I can put them together.

Good God!

yowzah...

A buddy of mine just passed along some gaunts and stealers from the macragge set, which I'm taking as a sign to start a nids army.

This bears signs of codex creep for sure though. Tervigon's allowing a Move+Shoot+Fleet is pretty sick. And I though eldar jetbikes were good at the JSJ thing...

Damn good find man! My 'Nid friend is already plotting my doom with this information. Man, January is going to be fun.

This all makes me that much more frustrated that I can't settle on a paint scheme. Perhaps I'll paint them blindfolded and just accept whatever happens. I see half of the Trygons that are sold being parted out, and lots of the plastic Balrog wings being sold. Thanks for transferring all that over, I really hate Warpshadow's color scheme.

Awesome write up! Thanks for taking the time to put this together! Nidz will definitely be my next army!!!

: )

G

I'm grateful for all those tyranids I picked up a few months back now!

This is going to be fun, mr Swarmlord's just what i've been looking for to deal with my mates stormshielded vanguard unit (hehehehe). Now all I need to do is remortgage my house

So barring the zoanthropes shooting attack which is short range and the Tyranofex cannon, how are nids supposed to take out tank heavy armies?
Wasnt this one of the main problems with them 4th ed?
Am I missing something?

Close combat is now more reliable since we can re-roll hits with scything talons.

I don't see why you people are so excited. My nid army I've been playing for years is now nerfed fairly hard. Point costs have been jacked up across the board, we still have no reliable ranged AT, just a bunch of shiny crap to appease the masses.

I mean come on... DOUBLE the price on carnis? A point cost increase is fine, but that's just stupid. Wings cost as much as a predator? In 5th edition mech is king, and we still can't kill tanks. Wow we can reroll misses with talons (maybe). What if they work like preffered enamy and you can't use them on vehicles? And even if they do, you still have to advance across the board with your WAY overpriced carni. Unless you pay even more points for a pod to eventually come in and then get blown away with your non-upgradeable 3+ sv.

So your trygon arrives, gets shot at, pops one or two tanks, then dies. So your hormaguants can take poison. How much does it cost? If the trend of this codex has anything to say on the matter, I bet its too much. Not to mention they're slower. And so are guants. Did I mention we no longer have move through cover? WTF?

*double post, sorry*

Budzerker I don't see why you are so upset. Have you not heard about hive guard.? And it looks like some pretty neat combos can be set up with trygons and mawlocs (DS with mawloc, get the hits and then DS your trygon onto said unit to tie them up in cc allowing the mawloc to do so again next turn).

Now that lictors are going to be viable it seems they would be a good choice for opening rhinos, s6 on rear armor isn't too shabby.

Not as good as the hive guard...though now they act like homing beacons I think we will be seeing a few used in mycetic pod heavy lists.

I like the idea of Tyranid 'Characters'. I'm assuming that they're either remnants of failed 'Nid attacks or a particular strain of creature that is unique to that particular ship or Hive Fleet.

Also, I always thought a 2+ save for a carnie was a bit OTT.

I've never really cared enough about tyranids to want to play them. A couple of my friends play them and I have had many good battles against them.

After reading the OP's post I must say I think this would be a fun army to play. There just seems to be so many nice little things this army can do. I haven't enough time or information to really know what this army can do but I'm really intrigued. I'm afraid my demons might end up getting shelved for awhile as I start going into full on "Aliens" mode.

Great post BTW!

All I have to say is thank god it sounds balanced. I think the nids will now have more builds, tactics, and modeling opportunities then ever before. That being said it sounds a lot like the IG dex with the fact that there are a bunch of new shiny toys and not enough points to use them all. It will be interesting to see how they fare in the tournament circuit.

Lamest thing is... now that we have all these carnifexes tehy make carnifexes expensive in point and less useful

What's fair and playable for one is broken for another.

I just think it's cool that they made models people like actually useful with this dex, I have heard so many people talking about how they love the biovore model but can't bring themselves to include such a useless unit in their armies. I have always loved lictors but before this dex why the hell would you even bother? So kudos to gw for actually doing a little listening for once