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I dont know if anyone else brought this up so feel free to tell me I'm a big fat OCD idiot (no offense to those who have OCD, I dont but some people might say "why out of all the things to complain about GW, you complain about that?")

Anyways I'm mainly talking about the wargear profiles and how it seems each codex writer (Matt, Phil, etc) writes their own little thing and each one is slightly different. Anyways one know why? Basically its the weapons and armor that seem to keep changing


Examples
IG: Will state armor (flak, carapace, etc) and close combat weapon (even on models that it will grant no additional effects)
Tyranids: Will state armor (chitin, etc) and close combat weapon (even on models that it will grant no additional effects)
Dark Eldar: Will state armor (kabalite armor, etc) but will not state close combat weapon on models that it will not grant additional effects
Necrons: No armor stated unless it is an upgrade, no close combat weapon

I think the close combat weapons listed in every army is just some detail they can have in a rules profile that may or may not mean something in the future, like how vehicles used to say how many crew they had.

That's the only part of the Tyranid codex I like this edition. The fact that all of the armour and melee weapon types are spelled out in one part of the book, and the army list and unit descriptions both reference that. Even the basic 'teeth and claws' which are just a CCW.

I just wish he didn't do the nonsense with specialised ranged weapons having their effect listed in the unit description and common ranged weapons having thier effect listed in the biomorph secion. It's needlessly confusing.

Brother SRM wrote:like how vehicles used to say how many crew they had.

Ahh I remember that, they even said who was driving it.