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 pretre wrote:
Bogus because it is soft cover.

Ahhh...they got me .

 wyomingfox wrote:

 pretre wrote:
Bogus because it is soft cover.

Ahhh...they got me .

are the supplements softcover? It could be the Tyranid supplement for C:SM.

Nope, they're hardcover as well iirc.

Might just be a Beta book *shrug* looks pretty legit.. and with all the rules for nids that's out... compared to everything else on rumours.. nids seems to be the most solid next release for 40k... so far.

Looks fake to me:
- The 'Tyraniden' font is not aligned properly and doesn't have the light grey coloured marble texture all the current 6th edition codexes have
- There's no glossy shine anywhere
- No indentation of the binding on the left side
- Art doesn't follow the style of all the other 6th edition codexes

 pretre wrote:
To be fair, they have reused artwork before though.

Yeah, the cover to the Chaos Space Marines codex is from Blood Gorgon. But yeah, as has been stated by now, the format is wrong so it's pretty obviously a fake.

 pretre wrote:

Bloodhorror wrote:
I don't know... It looks pretty hard cover to me.

See how the cover page is even with the rest of the pages and the bottom right corner curves up like it is slightly bent?
Hardcovers don't do that.

Oh Yeah...

Gak...

Also, haven't most of the covers been a central character looking out towards the audience? I highly doubt this is real either, but it could be a test cover of some kind. It COULD, but it probably isn't.

It could be a test cover; it could also have been something they were working on during 5th to test the new covers. Tyranids went under the knife before even Dark Eldar came out, as far as I had heard; and GW deliberated keeping softbound codices for 40k.

That, or it's a fake.

I tend to think the latter.

Real, or not.... Could just be the softcover prototype....

Oh, and BTW, November White Dwarf showcases the Tyranid Army used in a recent battle report....

translation from Italian site -

The images I've posted a few hours ago in the previous article showed possible new Tyranid models and the image was taken from a WD that would seem to be the one of November. Now, however, there are some questions because I show you this picture.
is taken from a previous WD showing how the Tyranid Army of the Month by Jes Bickham. See how the color scheme of this army is the same as the blurry photo you propose again here for convenience.




I suspected as new models are nothing more than changes of Jes, for example, one of them is in fact his Ierodulo amended visible in the upper right. Do you recognize it perfectly from the queue.
The fact remains that the blurry picture has never appeared on a WD already gone, so is definitely part of the future and a WD 's "Halloween Mass" gives us confirmation for advance orders on October 26 and the outlet stores on November 2.

That basically confirms that there was no new Nid model in the picture, just Old One Eye.

ooopss...

But krazynadechukr's point about the date of said White Dwarf is relevant. This is likely the White Dwarf which appears at the end of October (i.e. the November issue).

That said, it could just mean there's an important Tyranid battle featured, and someone who may have caught a glimpse of this issue well before it's completion may have mistook it for an impending Tyranid release.

I don't buy for one second that GW is going to slow down their 40k releases, because they just haven't yet. Some want to think they're going to wait until January for the next 40k release, but I don't buy that they will let their prize game go almost 4 months without; we also know for a FACT that Supplements don't "count" towards/against their normal release schedule.

It is interesting that we are getting more and more speculation, no matter what it consists of.

 krazynadechukr wrote:
Real, or not.... Could just be the softcover prototype....

Or GWs going back to soft covers and keeping the $60 price tag, which is completely their style.

Ye Gods! I can't wait for pics of these things to appear.

I really hope that Tyranid anti-flyer is very potent. Flyers deserve to be taught a hard lesson!

 Leech wrote:
Ye Gods! I can't wait for pics of these things to appear.

I really hope that Tyranid anti-flyer is very potent. Flyers deserve to be taught a hard lesson!

Considering our access to flying monstrous creatures already, I wouldn't exactly hold your breath for top notch anti-aircraft on other sources. Then again, the soul grinder is fairly solid in a book with access to heaps of FMC.

 krazynadechukr wrote:
Real, or not.... Could just be the softcover prototype....

There's no reason for a prototype to have a full color cover, or even be bound with a cover at all.

It's bogus.

 Brother SRM wrote:

 krazynadechukr wrote:
Real, or not.... Could just be the softcover prototype....

There's no reason for a prototype to have a full color cover, or even be bound with a cover at all.

It's bogus.

You know car companies make fully functional one of a kind prototype cars that cost tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars, right?

I think GW can shell out a few hundred for an example cover or to compare several different rulebook cover designs. I mean, we are talking about a multi-million dollar company that is looking to revive a product line that has been stale and has done nothing but wither since the last time they touched it. They should be doing everything they can to make it a success.

Also, you know nothing about marketing or product development so don't act like you do.

Amen!

 Kwosge wrote:
Also, you know nothing about marketing or product development so don't act like you do.

And you... do?

 Kwosge wrote:

 Brother SRM wrote:

 krazynadechukr wrote:
Real, or not.... Could just be the softcover prototype....

There's no reason for a prototype to have a full color cover, or even be bound with a cover at all.

It's bogus.

You know car companies make fully functional one of a kind prototype cars that cost tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars, right?

I think GW can shell out a few hundred for an example cover or to compare several different rulebook cover designs. I mean, we are talking about a multi-million dollar company that is looking to revive a product line that has been stale and has done nothing but wither since the last time they touched it. They should be doing everything they can to make it a success.

Also, you know nothing about marketing or product development so don't act like you do.

This. HOLY COW this.

 Kwosge wrote:
Also, you know nothing about marketing or product development so don't act like you do.

But i do work in the printing industry, and i know for a fact prototype books and prototype covers don't meet until the final product is being manufactured.
The reason for this is because prototype covers don't get printed out in physical format as they're developed entirely on PC/MAC (depends on what the company springs for), but books do get printed out (by most companies) so the editors can proofread (not sure GW actually does that) them on paper which just plain makes it easier for them to do their job.

 Kwosge wrote:

I think GW can shell out a few hundred for an example cover or to compare several different rulebook cover designs.

Yeah, in German

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 Kwosge wrote:

I think GW can shell out a few hundred for an example cover or to compare several different rulebook cover designs.

Yeah, in German

This is a fair point. While they probably do run a few designs as a full book they'd be doing it, as a British company, in English, since only the studio members would be looking at the test books.

 HoverBoy wrote:

 Kwosge wrote:
Also, you know nothing about marketing or product development so don't act like you do.

But i do work in the printing industry, and i know for a fact prototype books and prototype covers don't meet until the final product is being manufactured.
The reason for this is because prototype covers don't get printed out in physical format as they're developed entirely on PC/MAC (depends on what the company springs for), but books do get printed out (by most companies) so the editors can proofread (not sure GW actually does that) them on paper which just plain makes it easier for them to do their job.

You have more direct professional experience than I do (I've seen many a printer proof, but not of books), but what you said makes sense to me and is my general understanding too.

Besides, the art doesn't even match the style of the other codicies. I'm really not sure why people are giving this any consideration.

Edit: Specifically, we should expect the real cover to feature a single Tyranid turned toward us, with a darker background showing the "glow" of battle with plenty of ammo flying through the air.

Whatever the cover will be, it can't be worse than the current dex...

 gorgon wrote:

 HoverBoy wrote:

 Kwosge wrote:
Also, you know nothing about marketing or product development so don't act like you do.

But i do work in the printing industry, and i know for a fact prototype books and prototype covers don't meet until the final product is being manufactured.
The reason for this is because prototype covers don't get printed out in physical format as they're developed entirely on PC/MAC (depends on what the company springs for), but books do get printed out (by most companies) so the editors can proofread (not sure GW actually does that) them on paper which just plain makes it easier for them to do their job.

You have more direct professional experience than I do (I've seen many a printer proof, but not of books), but what you said makes sense to me and is my general understanding too.

Besides, the art doesn't even match the style of the other codicies. I'm really not sure why people are giving this any consideration.

Edit: Specifically, we should expect the real cover to feature a single Tyranid turned toward us, with a darker background showing the "glow" of battle with plenty of ammo flying through the air.

I hope it's a prime based on the awesome new clampack we're supposed to get.

Speaking of fakes:
http://www.talkwargaming.com/2013/09/editorial-correction-fake-tyranid-rumors.html

Sorry folks! Two slipped in there!

I must say that having seen the new marines codex today, I give up all hopes of GW starting to proofread things seriously.
The new translations are a mess too, a shame!