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2010/01/16 20:57:08
Subject: Tyranid creatures, I just can't call them that name...
Now that I have finally the codex, and am shocked to see that the Alpha Warrior is actually called the Tyraind Prime. EWWWWWWWWWW don't like the name, so for me at least, I will be calling it an Alpha Warrior. I think the only other thing that bothers me is 'gants. I guess I read it wrong from day one, (now I have to check RT to see how it was written there) but it will always be 'gaunts for me. It sounds nicer.
So what names in the Tyraind codex that you don't like? Explain why please.
Agies Grimm:The "Learn to play, bro" mentality is mostly just a way for someone to try to shame you by implying that their metaphorical nerd-wiener is bigger than yours. Which, ironically, I think nerds do even more vehemently than jocks.
Everything is made up and the points don't matter. 40K or Who's Line is it Anyway?
Auticus wrote: Or in summation: its ok to exploit shoddy points because those are rules and gamers exist to find rules loopholes (they are still "legal"), but if the same force can be composed without structure, it emotionally feels "wrong".
2010/01/16 21:16:14
Subject: Tyranid creatures, I just can't call them that name...
Cheese Elemental-Love does not bloom in 40k. Love burns. It gets turned inside out, set on fire, raped, shot with bolters, and beaten with a crowbar.
Fafnir wrote:You don't really tend to notice blanks. If you're in a crowded room with one, you'll never notice him.
People tend to notice Pariahs. If you're in a crowded room with one, everyone's killing themselves.
Norwulf wrote:I havent got to get my grubby mitts on the new codex yet but it sounds like somebody at GW was playing some gamecube.
I love that game...so much...
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George Orwell is my hero.
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2010/01/16 21:58:07
Subject: Tyranid creatures, I just can't call them that name...
I hate the names for Tyranid Prime, Tyranid Shrikes, Stranglethorn Cannon, Rupture Cannon, even Termagants. I'm going to keep calling them what we have, or what doesn't sound dumb to me, Alpha Warrior, Winged Warriors, Barbed Strangler, Bio Cannon, and Gaunts.
2010/01/16 23:33:25
Subject: Tyranid creatures, I just can't call them that name...
Aduro wrote:I hate the names for Tyranid Prime, Tyranid Shrikes, Stranglethorn Cannon, Rupture Cannon, even Termagants. I'm going to keep calling them what we have, or what doesn't sound dumb to me, Alpha Warrior, Winged Warriors, Barbed Strangler, Bio Cannon, and Gaunts.
Now that I have the codex and reading it, I am calling them all the names that you have mentioned as well.
Agies Grimm:The "Learn to play, bro" mentality is mostly just a way for someone to try to shame you by implying that their metaphorical nerd-wiener is bigger than yours. Which, ironically, I think nerds do even more vehemently than jocks.
Everything is made up and the points don't matter. 40K or Who's Line is it Anyway?
Auticus wrote: Or in summation: its ok to exploit shoddy points because those are rules and gamers exist to find rules loopholes (they are still "legal"), but if the same force can be composed without structure, it emotionally feels "wrong".
2010/01/16 23:48:33
Subject: Re:Tyranid creatures, I just can't call them that name...
Emperors Faithful wrote:The proper optimus... (watch the end )
i have no idea why you posted that but im glad you did !!!
Hmmm I found myself laughing when my friend told me some of the changes ...he wasn't too happy about it all...
- "Do not believe in me who believes in you, do not believe in you who believes in me, but believe in you who believes in yourself! DUMBASS!"
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~ SKAVEN - 1000 points and growing, just have assassinate a few warlords to get my way...need more cheese...
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2010/01/16 23:55:41
Subject: Tyranid creatures, I just can't call them that name...
Hold on, wait, Aduro - you have a problem with Termagants? That's what the non-Hormagaunt 'Gaunts are called. And have been for a long long time. And "Stranglethorn" sounds cool.
It's things like 'Tyrannofex' and 'Toxathrope' that are the thread problems.
Yeah, I know Termagants are their original name, but it's been so long since I've called em Gants that Gaunts is just more natural to me anymore. That one's not really a hate as a habit.
I like the T-Fex name, not so bad to me. Toxathrope was a bad translation and it's actually called a Venomthrope. I don't particularly care for that name either, but I've not given it a good nickname yet. I'm modeling mine to look a bit more like a Lictor off-shoot than Zoanthrope, so we'll see if anything come from that.
2010/01/17 05:47:17
Subject: Tyranid creatures, I just can't call them that name...
The original words kinda meant something, and were alien enough - Carnifex, Lictor, Biovore, Trygon. They weren't just two words mashed together - Tyranofex, Venomthrope, Pyrovore.
New tyranids are mad-libs. A lot of the names are really dopey. Having 4 names for all the gaunts was bad enough. Now we're splicing names AND being uncreative. Venomthrope... The gun names I can deal with, but Sky-Slashers and Tyranid Prime are as bad as the venomthrope. "Winged Warriors, Winged Rippers, Alpha Warriors, and Toxathrope" sound better. "Toxa" isn't much better than "Venom" but the "ks" sound is easier to enunciate than the other. I think the gun names being silly might just be us used to the old ones. Shrikes are ok to me because for some reason they remind me of like a super gargoyle. One that flies around screaming while shooting devourer shots then stabs some unlucky dude when they land, while continually screaming. Not sure why the screaming...
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2010/01/17 13:54:53
Subject: Re:Tyranid creatures, I just can't call them that name...
I'm really glad they finally went back to calling Termagants Termagants.
I get the sense though that the writer didn't understand that words like Carnifex and Lictor were latin and that there are books around called dictionaries that contain many latin words. These latin words could have been used to name new Tyranids.
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their burning of xeno's will be remembered! 
(Friend bought them back for me, making them work, statement so far half stands after a lesson learnt)
