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That's a great idea. You just have a box full of 'South' magnets attached to various limbs, heads and biomorphs. Then, you have your 'north' magnet as the torso, and just roll it around in the box. Whatever comes out is your new Tyranid Monstrosity.

Just stick every extra Tyranid bit you have into a pile of green stuff and call it the "Junkdrawerovore" or the "Potpourriofex" or maybe even the "Scrapheapodon" or "Bitzboxofex".

I wonder what happened to deathspitters that made them good enough to put on a Hive Tyrant.

Railguns wrote:I wonder what happened to deathspitters that made them good enough to put on a Hive Tyrant.

Every 10 generations the Norn Queens push this HUGE bio-pendulum that exists in the bellies of each Hive Ship, making all the good stuff bad and all the bad stuff good.

Deathspitters are now S+2, Ap3 Assault 2x blast. This is fair and balanced. Now tear off all those devourers and get with the program!

Railguns wrote:Deathspitters are now S+2, Ap3 Assault 2x blast. This is fair and balanced. Now tear off all those devourers and get with the program!

Finally they live up to their name. Never liked devourers anyway, they just looked like some sort of horribly diseased phallus. Not something that a bunch of sexually frustrated geeks need to be looking at. Now, bring on the big guns!!!

Railguns was being facetious.

H.B.M.C. wrote:Railguns was being facetious.

#*^(&***%$(+}$%^#@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is it okay if I wish I wasn't? 6 S7 or 8 ap3 blasts at 24" a turn from one set of guns on a Tyrant would be hilariously destructive.

I really hope his isn't the case since I have glued ALL arms in place. Thats 1 dakkafex, 3 sniperfexes, 1 winged tyrant, 2x scything talon tyrant and fex, 1 boomfex...along with all my warriors.

Please keep them all equally viable.

H.B.M.C. wrote:

Codex: Tyranids contains a whole new set of creatures that are not yet covered by Citadel Miniatures.

Hooray for release waves!

That's right kids, soon* you'll be able to own your very own Tyrannovore, or Pyrofex, or Biotyrantfexovoretor! It'll be great.

*soon may not mean soon. Release date sometime between Q4 2010 and Q4 2110.

Enthusiastic players will want to create their own Tyrannofex or Tervigon with the help of the descriptions and images from the bestiary. (The product brief advises that) these can be assembled from a combination of parts of the Carnifex, Trygon and Tyranid Monstrous Arms Bitz Pack.

Aside from the ludicrously stupid names, I really do hope that all these non-mini Tyranids are buildable by kitbashes, and aren't going to remain perpetual 'Counts As' models until GW could be arsed making them.

I will try to be fair on this, Its not like bug fans didnt have lots new models in this Codex, by the contrary, so many kits I feel spoiled
Tyranid fans are most of the time heavy converters, so I think leaving some critters to our imagination is more than acceptable and extremelly fun.
Im fiddling with a kraken just for the kicks and will in due time handle one catachan devil and for sure the new incoming non produced buggers.

Saw the Trygon and Raveners in my local GW this evening.

Raveners - Meh. They're Raveners. We know what they look like and they're just slightly different versions of the old ones, but in plastic. I don't need any given I have 12 metal ones, but for someone who is bereft of Raveners, a plastic box is a good start (just don't be stupid and buy them directly from GW - save whatever money you can).

Trygon - Shorter that I first thought, but other than that totally totally awesome. Be careful of the little gribbly bits that go all over it, as they could break off if you mistreat the model. Otherwise, really cool. Took a look through the instructions and the Trygon Alpha has its own head - like a big scary angry normal Trygon head. Very cool.

Damn you H.B.M.C....I just spoke to my store manager and he has no idea when his boxes are coming in.

Lukus83 wrote:3 large blst templates from a fully sized brood is just sick!

Come on guys, you forget Codex: Tyranid 3.0 already...you know, when Biovores had 3 large blast templates that always wounded on a 4+ and insta glanced open top vehicles. Oh, and they were NOT barrage and Biovores were independant, so Biovores could slam 3 different units. I am glad that Biovores suddenly got usefull again .

And am I reading the part about spore mines not counting towards any mission objectives as also being indicative of not giving up kill points!

I think so...so no KPs, can't contest, etc.

Happy Dance Time!

if I advance order the stuff when can I get it by? does anybody know if you could share this bit of knowledge with me I would appreciate it.

If you pre-order from GW you'll get it a week in advance in most cases. Pre-order elsewhere and it can take up to a week after the official release date to arrive.

H.B.M.C. wrote:Trygon - Shorter that I first thought, but other than that totally totally awesome.

This is the exact impression I had after receiving my FW version, tbh. The pictures of them all seem to make them into enormous models, but they're only maybe twice the height of a Fex and slightly more half again as thick in the torso.

If you pre-order from GW you'll get it a week in advance in most cases. Pre-order elsewhere and it can take up to a week after the official release date to arrive.

If you're in the US, there are a few warnings with that to avoid disappointment:

- Orders are shipped out of Memphis. Usually they try hard to get your product to you before the release date, but not too far. This means that occasionally they miss. For example, I had my Fortress of Redemption on the Friday that was the day before official release while a friend of mine didn't have his show up till the following Tuesday, three days after the release day of that Saturday.

- If you have it shipped to your house you may get it a few days early. If you have it shipped to your local GW Store, they may insist on holding it until the release date even if they get it early. Some stores enforce this more than others. On certain products they all enforce it. I've experienced this annoying policy several times, especially on what GW considers big releases.

- Rarely, a huge mess-up will cause a product to have a long delay. Admittedly this is rare, but I once and only once had a pre-ordered product take 6 months to show up (no, I'm not exaggerating) and in other rare cases have had products take a week or more past their release date to arrive.

Platuan4th wrote:

H.B.M.C. wrote:Trygon - Shorter that I first thought, but other than that totally totally awesome.

This is the exact impression I had after receiving my FW version, tbh. The pictures of them all seem to make them into enormous models, but they're only maybe twice the height of a Fex and slightly more half again as thick in the torso.

I got this impression from the squiggoths FW sells, too - not the gargantuan ones, but the "Big" ones. Forgeworld takes such nice pictures that I was a bit surprised to find it's barely bigger than a trukk.

I saw the new Terma... and Horma... boxes in a GW store the other day. Of course, they're not for sale yet, not till the release date. And there are already some on eBay.

If you pre-order from GW you'll get it a week in advance in most cases.

I've never once received anything early that I pre-ordered from GW. In one case, I got my shipment two weeks after street date.

Boycot

Those of you boycotting can easily wait for February to get this stuff.

Breotan wrote:

Boycot

Those of you boycotting can easily wait for February to get this stuff.

Of course, that completely defeats the whole point. But did anyone really belive that they were going to follow through?

UltraPrime wrote:

Breotan wrote:

Boycot

Those of you boycotting can easily wait for February to get this stuff.

Of course, that completely defeats the whole point. But did anyone really belive that they were going to follow through?

I wanted to believe. Because I wanted to believe that thread and those post meant something.

LunaHound wrote:

UltraPrime wrote:

Breotan wrote:

Boycot

Those of you boycotting can easily wait for February to get this stuff.

Of course, that completely defeats the whole point. But did anyone really belive that they were going to follow through?

I wanted to believe. Because I wanted to believe that thread and those post meant something.

You are talking about a whole lot of collectors, most of whom who have spent excessive amounts of time and money buying small, plastic playthings, and believing them when they promise they'll stop buying more stuff, especially when GW seems to have hit a green patch as far as sculpts and kits are concerned? Honestly, for most people, the conversation in their head goes like this.....

Day or Week 1 - "Man, I'm so sick of GW cause of (insert random grievance here)!!!!!"

Day or Week 2 - "I'm so not going to buy anything so they really hear all of our community, and start fixing (insert petty grievance here)."

Day or Week 3 - ""I'm going so strong in not buying anything, anyway, it will give me time to build and paint all the stuff I already have sitting in shrink wrap and on sprues around here"

Day or Week 4 - "Man, the rumors surrounding (insert upcoming codex/sculpts/release) here are fantastic! When will they come out??? Oh, right in the middle of the boycott..... but I'll stay strong!!! I can wait the 10 weeks until afterwards and then buy it"

Day or Week 6 - "Man, should I pay for these latest models with cash or credit?"

Honestly, boycott? People will collect what they will collect. Putting off a purchasing decisions simply pushes profit from 1 quarter to the next. So those who are doing that? Makes no sense. Those who quit? More power to you, will bid on your stuff on ebay. Those who refuse to buy more stuff in the future, but keep on hobbying? Well, I'll see you in GW or at the online store next week, eh?

lords2001 wrote:Day or Week 6 - "Man, should I pay for these latest models with cash or credit?"

Cynicism is my job Stu.

And you're not looking at the whole cause/effect of this so-called boycott. But that's a topic for many different (mostly locked) threads, so let's not ruin this thread hey?

Some photos that I found on Warseer, some from White Dwarf, some from somebody who got an advance Trygon. I guess you can tell the Trygon Alpha because it's the one with the mandibles that look like parts of a big electrical transformer like you'd see at a power plant or substation.

Wow...

Now that would be an epic fight to behold.

You know, throw Eldrad or someone in there, and it would make a cool "Seven Samurai" scenario.