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I thought I would run out of money the next two month but not a single model intrigues me to buy it. Thumbs up for the plastics maybe I pick up some Gragoyls anyway. So all hopes for some awesomness pending on the Pyrovore.

Chapterhouse, any pics on those heads? Really need some of those...

reds8n wrote:Via Warseer from.. around....

Venomthrope, HIve Guard, Gargoyle and Ravener.

You're making my boycott stance awful hard to maintain, Red.

I like all the models. Here's hoping I like the rules.

I honestly don't like them enough to be excited. The Ravener looks like a simple switch from metal to plastic (and hopefully comes with the rending claws everyone wanted last time around). The Gargoyle has a neat style going on, but it uses the relatively bulky termagant arms for the fleshborer which is jarring. The zoat guard looks fairly 'tarded though.

I guess the blessing is that we have absolutely no idea how things will actually play out and all this is pure speculation.

I'm still not sold on the whippy-arm Lictoanthrope. If it had a tail section that looked like it could actually support the thing and move around at an alarming pace, it wouldn't be a bad model. As it is, it looks very silly. If it were plastic I'd simply cut it at the waist and use Ravener tails or something.

Did anyone else notice that the head crest on the Gargoyles went from a pterodactyl style to a horn growing from the middle of the head? Maybe it's just the picture, but it looks strange.

Railguns wrote:The zoat guard looks fairly 'tarded though.

So that's what that model reminded me of!

The gargoyles look like an improvement, the raveners slightly less so. Not really a big fan of the lash-guy. The model will probably be unbalanced, and the tail looks kind of pathetic, like it's balancing on it cobra-style as opposed to effortlessly gliding through the air like the malanthrope.

Try to remember everyone that these pics aren't the best quality...though I have to admit the "chimneys" on the venomthrope look hugely/grossly out of proportion.

I really like what I'm seeing here. While the Toxathrope looks like an absolute nightmare of balancing, I think the design is pretty cool. Raveners look a bit crisper than the metal ones, which is a plus. Gargoyles look a lot better to me - was never a fan of the pterodactyl crest on their heads. I will agree that the arms look a little tacked on though. The Zoat/Hive Guard looking guy needs a better picture to really tell what's going on. Here's hoping for a higher-res image in WD or something soon.

Brother SRM wrote:I really like what I'm seeing here. While the Toxathrope looks like an absolute nightmare of balancing, I think the design is pretty cool. Raveners look a bit crisper than the metal ones, which is a plus. Gargoyles look a lot better to me - was never a fan of the pterodactyl crest on their heads. I will agree that the arms look a little tacked on though. The Zoat/Hive Guard looking guy needs a better picture to really tell what's going on. Here's hoping for a higher-res image in WD or something soon.

What he said!
Seeing these new pics, I kinda like the look of the toxawhatever.

Symbio Joe wrote:I thought I would run out of money the next two month but not a single model intrigues me to buy it. Thumbs up for the plastics maybe I pick up some Gragoyls anyway. So all hopes for some awesomness pending on the Pyrovore.

Agreed, I find the garg wings the only "interesting" thing on these new releases even if to small for that creature.. no legs+ small wings=splat... I cannot justify getting the zoatguard just for the gun. And even then, the gargs needs to have heavy converting... vestigial legs are horrible and something more in the line of current bats would be much more apreciated... I think GW played "safe" on these new releases and even if they are acceptable now, lets not forget we will only get new bugs on next codex years from now...
Hope Trygon makes me less bored.

I'll just re-paint my Zoats for Hive guard. Sweet!

-K

I was hoping they would re-sculpt the Tyrant guard to be more upright with large, flat shield plates that he could raise to actually shield the Tyrant from damage and forearms that didn't look like greenstuff sausages with Tyranid details sculpted in. I am disappointed.

Railguns wrote:I was hoping they would re-sculpt the Tyrant guard to be more upright with large, flat shield plates that he could raise to actually shield the Tyrant from damage and forearms that didn't look like greenstuff sausages with Tyranid details sculpted in. I am disappointed.

So, basically, you want the horrendous 3rd edition versions back?

I like the current line backer looking ones.

No offence to the poster of the pictures on any level, but still having to put up with only having such crappy pictures so close to the release is a joke.

Included in this battleforce are:

-3 Warriors
-16 Termagaunts
-16 Hormagaunts
-8 Genestealers
-Ripper Swarms


hm.

No, the third edition guard were spindly messes on legs with random lumps and goofy grins. I don't like how the current ones look like curled up, short gorillas with middle arms that can't reach past their face. I was hoping that they would resemble the concept art more; in the art they "stood" upright on long forearms and extended back legs, and could fold their arms forward so that the long plates running back past their elbows on the forearms formed a wall of chitin.

PS. Thats not to say that the overall design is bad, per se, it's just that it wasn't executed well enough in model form.

RogueMarket wrote:Included in this battleforce are:

-3 Warriors
-16 Termagaunts
-16 Hormagaunts
-8 Genestealers
-Ripper Swarms


hm.

hm... its all troop choices... oh and the warriors... but can't they be troops now anyway? I think its decent for a starter box, just lacking gusto.

George Spiggott wrote:No offence to the poster of the pictures on any level, but still having to put up with only having such crappy pictures so close to the release is a joke.

I say blame GW. Its their fault. If they wanted us to look at good pictures they could give them to us.

The real question with the Venomthrope is how many people are going to convert it going all hentai on a Sister of Battle?

The pics were taken with a cell phone camera from an actual release pamphlet so there are clear pics out there, just not available to "everyone" yet.

Be thankful we even have seen this much this far out.

Sounds a pretty good battleforce to me. No big beasties perhaps, but a very solid Tyranid force for beginners.

Aduro wrote:The real question with the Venomthrope is how many people are going to convert it going all hentai on a Sister of Battle?

Would go good with my tophat-wearing cane-weilding bad-toothed "carnie"-fex methinks.

Need to see the codex to see what units are useless first though

Everything that is good now will be useless once the book comes out. Some of the bad things now will remain bad. Most of the new kits will have amazing rules, but there will be one or two stinkers to throw us off the trail.

Does the Hive Gaurds gun remind anyone else of Riffs vampire gun from Sluggy Freelance?

I'm likeing the plastic Raveners. No more anoying metal!

Reminds me more of a Zoat, and honestly I think that's kinda cool. I like it when long-abandoned concepts are revamped and made new again. Doesn't always work, but it's nice to see them trying.

Fateweaver wrote:Be thankful we even have seen this much this far out.

Why should we be 'thankful'?

They could have up until this point been claiming that the new codex is a mystery that noone saw coming.

"everything you know is a lie"
All that means is we can expect more baloney soon.

Any One got a pic of the Mawloc?