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I hope for Blood Angels players sake that they can get their book soon. My brother and I got back into 40k with 6th so he's only ever known his main army as an underpowered frustration.

This month of me getting new toys while he waits isn't helping.

So from what I've gathered this is how the rest of the month is rumored to play out?

Next week the Zoey/Venom kit and the campaign book go up for pre-order.

The week after that the Shield of Baal campaign set with Nids/Angels models.

Then the Blood Angels get their book?

I'm sure they'll save any Biovore/Pyrovore or Broodlord monopose kits for the main codex release whenever they update it. It would be interesting to see a Xenos army be all-plastic before a marine one.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
So...

Biovore, Pyrovore, Lictor, Death Leaper and Broodlord.

These are the only remaining non-plastic minis in the Tyranid range (I don't count the old 2nd Ed Rippers). Do we think they'll get around to replacing these, or will they simply remove certain things (like the Pyrovore) from the game?

On a side note though, the fact that most Tyranid things are plastic now is pretty damned impressive.

I bet $5 the next release for Nids (whenever that is) will be a dual Bio/Pyrovore kit and a Lictor kit, one of which can be made into the Deathleaper.

Now if only we could get shrikes outside of FW...

 Ferrum_Sanguinis wrote:
Now if only we could get shrikes outside of FW...

I'm surprised they didn't give us shrikes when they remoulded the Tyranid Warriors.

AllSeeingSkink wrote:

 Ferrum_Sanguinis wrote:
Now if only we could get shrikes outside of FW...

I'm surprised they didn't give us shrikes when they remoulded the Tyranid Warriors.

I've been thinking about that, and after the recent Hive Tyrant kit (where the winged version has a really long tail and Scything Talons in place of hind legs) my guess is that shrikes will be a dual kit with reveners in a future release...

 Ferrum_Sanguinis wrote:
Now if only we could get shrikes outside of FW...

Yeah, the re-cut Warrior kit was a serious waste of potential. Plastic wings and the parts needed to make one of them into a Lictor would've solved a lot of problems.

Pictures are from Visions. But they have been removed and I have been sent a C and D from the Geedubs.

Well considering the little post card you get with the Toxicrene/Malceptor White Dwarf has the 4 stages of the Tyranid Invasion on 1 side and then an enlarged picture of stage 1 (Invasion) on the other and we now have a web bundle called invasion, I'm starting to wonder how big this Tyranid release is going to be.

This is assuming that the stage 2 (predation) will be the Zope/Vope/Nope kit with mabye the Lictor/Deathleaper kit after and then stage 3 (Consumption) will be the Biovore/Pyrovore + mabye something new, finishing up with Assimilation which I'm not quite sure what they would release for considering it's the stage where nothing is left.

Sprue pics for you all







Pretty big kit..

A rather nice idea for one of the digestion organisms of the Hive Mind

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
So...

Biovore, Pyrovore, Lictor, Death Leaper and Broodlord.

These are the only remaining non-plastic minis in the Tyranid range (I don't count the old 2nd Ed Rippers). Do we think they'll get around to replacing these, or will they simply remove certain things (like the Pyrovore) from the game?

On a side note though, the fact that most Tyranid things are plastic now is pretty damned impressive.

Biovore/Pyrovore would work as a dual kit. Lictor/Deathleaper as well. Broodlord could be a clampack. Add a plastic lord of war, and that could cover the next codex release.

I'm surprised Shrikes have not been dropped from the codex for FW to cover. They never had GW models, and even the FW wings are getting old. They also don't seem to be a popular choice at all. With all the new units,l Shrikes seem like they ought to go away just to reduce clutter a tad.

 Sinful Hero wrote:
I'm sure they'll save any Biovore/Pyrovore or Broodlord monopose kits for the main codex release whenever they update it. It would be interesting to see a Xenos army be all-plastic before a marine one.

Marines are close to being full plastic. Not much is left for them, just a few character options and SCs, Thunderfire cannons/Techmarines of all flavors, and Legion of the Damned. Maybe Honor guard as well. Otherwise Marines are at the stage of getting new plastic kits with more options.
Dreadnought, Predator, Razorback, Assault Squad, maybe Terminators/Assault Terminators are all old Marine kits that could use a redo at some point.

But yes, Nids are probably the closest to being a complete plastic line, followed by probably Necrons (Flayed Ones, Lords/Crypteks, C'Tan, and SCs) or IG (ratlings, roughriders, regimental advisors and specialists, and SCs)

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Sprue pics for you all

Spoiler:

Pretty big kit..

Looks like the mucolid does have a seperate piece for the head to me(that the Tyrannocyte doesn't use). If you leave the tentacles off the sides of the Tyrannocyte you might can use them for the hanging ones on the Mucolid head.

Spore pod... Doom of Malan'tai... both removed from the codex to be re-entered under different names 10 months later. Never change, Games Workshop.

P.S. I have no intention of playing Tyranids, yet I too am giddy about this. The wait has been too long.

Something just occurred to me. Since these recent releases have all been to put back in the stuff they couldn't release because of chapter house etc. what if we get Ymgarl Genestealers back .....

Could be a perfect place to put a plastic BroodLord kit into as well.

Eldercaveman wrote:
Something just occurred to me. Since these recent releases have all been to put back in the stuff they couldn't release because of chapter house etc. what if we get Ymgarl Genestealers back .....

Could be a perfect place to put a plastic BroodLord kit into as well.

Be still, my beating heart...

If they do a Broodlord kit i hope that:

* it has some options
* there is some leeway for posing without resorting to conversion.

I'm so stoked for the Neurothrope so don't get me wrong but I really wish the Toxicrene/Maliceptor release was a lord of war GMC.
they both just feel so unnecessary...

http://www.blacklibrary.com/Home/free-to-download.html

free rules download.

Excellent!

I hope that GW have finally decided to move away from the 'once every four to twelve years' update cycle.

OP might want to change thread title since next weeks leaks are gone

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 Quarterdime wrote:
Spore pod... Doom of Malan'tai... both removed from the codex to be re-entered under different names 10 months later. Never change, Games Workshop.

But GW are changing, and I think it's great. Now instead of releasing a codex full of half-baked ideas like the 5E one then waiting unknown years for them to be fleshed out, we get a complete product with regular free updates. All these complaints about 'units being removed' really stem from the poor update and support system prior to 6E. I waited over a year for official Tervigon, Tyrannofex, Harpy and Doom models only to give up and make my own. Now some of these conversions I put a fair bit of effort into won't really be used again because there's now a proper version out.
Now we get a codex with a complete supporting model range on day 1, followed by new content without needing to wait 4-5 years for another codex. GW have also finally had the sense to put up new unit rules as free PDFs, which is a pretty incredible change considering it wasn't that long ago they were charging £5-10 for the same content as DLC.

Plus, with this system in place it's likely the last time we'll see a unit removed from a codex. From now on, any ideas they come up with during codex development that don't fit into the release window can be kept to one side and produced later on. A fresh new unit / formation every ~12 months is a fantastic way to keep an army fresh and help maintain interest in it.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Ferrum_Sanguinis wrote:
Now if only we could get shrikes outside of FW...

Yeah, the re-cut Warrior kit was a serious waste of potential. Plastic wings and the parts needed to make one of them into a Lictor would've solved a lot of problems.

The Shrike kit is still out of stock on FW, but hasn't been pulled. I can't remember how it went when the Trygon went from awesome resin to somewhat cool plastic lol. So maybe?

Shrikes are easy to make anyways. You could use Plague Drone wings for the insectile look. Or whatever bat type wings you liked.

 foto69man wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Ferrum_Sanguinis wrote:
Now if only we could get shrikes outside of FW...

Yeah, the re-cut Warrior kit was a serious waste of potential. Plastic wings and the parts needed to make one of them into a Lictor would've solved a lot of problems.

The Shrike kit is still out of stock on FW, but hasn't been pulled. I can't remember how it went when the Trygon went from awesome resin to somewhat cool plastic lol. So maybe?

Someone mentioned in the Tyranid tactics thread that they talked to a FW sculptor at the open day. He said the Shrike wings had been pulled in order to do an updated version that better fits the new Warrior kit. I wouldn't hold your breath for plastic Shrikes quite yet.

Anyone have any pics of the plastic Zoanthropes? Unless I've missed them here?

There aren't any yet, afaik. Just the Venoms and Neuro in the pics up the page.

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Anyone have any pics of the plastic Zoanthropes? Unless I've missed them here?

Be patient. We can only have so many out-of-focus-and-taken-during-an-earthquake photos at a time.

Never mind.

Just remembered that the photos were in "Visions", which likely means it referred to the things which just went up for preorder.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Never mind.

Just remembered that the photos were in "Visions", which likely means it referred to the things which just went up for preorder.

But the leaked pics had the pricing page - thats not in Visions, is it?

UltraPrime wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
Never mind.

Just remembered that the photos were in "Visions", which likely means it referred to the things which just went up for preorder.

But the leaked pics had the pricing page - thats not in Visions, is it?

I haven't bought Visions so I don't know.