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So ive played 40k for awhile (Necrons/Tau) and just recently was able to acquire maybe 8000-9000 point tyranid army, and as i know some of the models and can figure some of the weapons (maybe 1/5 of them all) i cant figure out what is what. Is there a chart or some way i can get an idea what is on what model without having to post a ton of pictures?

your best bet it's mostly codex and basic loadout with some comparison with games workshop models and built options.

the specific nature of nyds like Orks means they can pretty much use anything as an specific weapon due the way they *build* them.

Yeah, ive just been google searching a specific model and trying to find a pic and description of it. But its super slow going.

You could go look at Lexicanum or another wiki's pages on the Tyranid arsenal, you should be able to find what weapon looks like what pretty quickly that way.

Yeah i just found a weapons list on a wiki and typed in the weapon on a bits page. It worked, a little better, still took a few hours. But i think i got it all. hah

I firmly remember the epiphany I had when reading the first Tyranid Codex with biomorphs. I knew I would no longer be able to play my Tyranids. Sold them shortly thereafter.

Buy a codex?

See, they're not so much weapons, as they are natural parts of the Tyranids' bodies that are used to kill people. Like claws, or quills, or fangs.

stroller wrote:
Buy a codex?

That is what I would say. After all how can you play with them if you don't have a codex? Unless he has the codex and not being familiar with Nids it would be hard to understand what is what and where to look.

So if you don't have the codex, buy it or do what ever you do, and then post pics on what you need to know. Just curious do you plan to play this army and using WYSISYG so need to know what the weapons are, or just curious to know what they are and going to use "counts as" or just using it for a modelling project/collection?