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@Gutsnagga

I can see the two month thing only on major releases. Things like the DE line getting a huge number of kits (because most of the line was metal/finecast) or Nids because of how many units need to be shifted. Or sisters of battle. Things like that. The other 6th edition releases will be similar to those already produced, 1 new flyer, 1 new large unit, 1-2 redone units and a codex.

2-month release windows for codices that need a huge update is feasible, and a good idea in my opinion. That also gives breathing room to players who use other systems, or other armies, in between all this rapid updating.

I could see nids getting a 2 month window release. Other armies that need this treatment (40k, because i have no idea about fantasy) are sisters of battle and possibly orks. Orks in particular don't really need a ton of new plastics added to the range but i could see them getting support as they are a very popular army and play well vs space marines.

Anyhow, this 3 month gap in release gives me a breather. Between Tau, Eldar, Apocalypse, and Space Marines i'm broke!

look what appeared on GW website in the last 24 hours!

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat1180006a&prodId=prod2260020a&_requestid=1041772


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I know every army got a collection, but interesting timing...

 bu11etmagn3tt wrote:
look what appeared on GW website in the last 24 hours!

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat1180006a&prodId=prod2260020a&_requestid=1041772


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I know every army got a collection, but interesting timing...

Coincidence or something more?

God help us all if the Nidvember rumors rear up again...and our wallets

At this point I sincerely hope we have to wait until January. ..I have been planning on buying other things this month now that the rumor is January. My budget can't handle this:(

I still want to know what this is? From page 216 of the big rule book. Could it be a cheeky teaser?
And seeing as I got it it in shot aswell what on earth will flesh hooks do in the next book? Teleport homers, missle launchers, grant psychic powers?
Your guess is as good as mine.

it's kind of odd, I was ready to move on to January but then i was placing an order for a friend of mine through a store that gives me a good deal and got on the topic of Tyranids and i mentioned January and he said he heard it was November, but that might just be rumors. then gave a wink.

I thought it was odd because everyone has just said that Jan was the month. He might have just been messing with me though!

At this point i really hope it is January, i want more time to stockpile a boatload of hobby $$ to be able to ink out a little more discount by placing a huge order.

It really looks like...every other gun in the Tyranids army, but I think it's "UNKNOWN" very much on purpose. In speaking with a few writers, a lot of the 6th edition codices were well underway long before 5th had run it's course.

Before the DE release I would've said these new rumors were BS. But seeing that the DE release doesn't have a single Finecast release, and even released a special character in plastic, they just may be true...

So they have pulled Old One Eye from the GW website, except in Britain where it is listed to be distributed in 4 weeks...

Rumor has it they did the exact same thing to the Havoc CSM, 4 weeks before the new CSM codex was out.

 Redemption wrote:
And BigRed from BolS added this:

Release will emphasize new plastic kits.
Every missing model will ship with the release.
Smaller amount of new unseen models, higher amount of reworked existing models.
All old metal models replaced with new plastic kits (aka NO finecast survives)
Roughly 10+ new models in the release (including replacement kits and combo-kit build options)
January 2014

Source

Sounds wish-listy, but if they follow the same two-month release pattern Dark Elves are supposed to have, who knows? The Tyranid range certainly could use a push from finecast to plastic.

Those are the most softball rumors I can imagine. It'll be basically impossible not to be wrong.

Ferrum_Sanguinis wrote:Before the DE release I would've said these new rumors were BS. But seeing that the DE release doesn't have a single Finecast release, and even released a special character in plastic, they just may be true...

Exactly. Doesn't mean it's a guarantee, but it seems to be the direction GW is headed.

Eisensapper wrote:So they have pulled Old One Eye from the GW website, except in Britain where it is listed to be distributed in 4 weeks...

Rumor has it they did the exact same thing to the Havoc CSM, 4 weeks before the new CSM codex was out.

Interesting find.

MasterSlowPoke wrote:

 Redemption wrote:
And BigRed from BolS added this:

Release will emphasize new plastic kits.
Every missing model will ship with the release.
Smaller amount of new unseen models, higher amount of reworked existing models.
All old metal models replaced with new plastic kits (aka NO finecast survives)
Roughly 10+ new models in the release (including replacement kits and combo-kit build options)
January 2014

Source

Sounds wish-listy, but if they follow the same two-month release pattern Dark Elves are supposed to have, who knows? The Tyranid range certainly could use a push from finecast to plastic.

Those are the most softball rumors I can imagine. It'll be basically impossible not to be wrong.

It's possible to be wrong about such a massive release. That gets a lot of buzz going that people will haphazardly place their hope in, only to inappropriately blame GW when the release is smaller, different, or spread out over two months.

 Alex Kolodotschko wrote:
I still want to know what this is? From page 216 of the big rule book. Could it be a cheeky teaser?
And seeing as I got it it in shot aswell what on earth will flesh hooks do in the next book? Teleport homers, missle launchers, grant psychic powers?
Your guess is as good as mine.

Looks like a rupture cannon.

 agonzoman00 wrote:

 Alex Kolodotschko wrote:
I still want to know what this is? From page 216 of the big rule book. Could it be a cheeky teaser?
And seeing as I got it it in shot aswell what on earth will flesh hooks do in the next book? Teleport homers, missle launchers, grant psychic powers?
Your guess is as good as mine.

Looks like a rupture cannon.

So why not listed as a Rupture Cannon (which was identified in the 5th edition codex) instead of an "Unknown Biomorph"?

The gun itself doesn't look like any I've ever seen before...

I'd imagine it is some new gun for the 6th codex. Sneak Peaked from the FUTURE!!!

 Bloodhorror wrote:
The gun itself doesn't look like any I've ever seen before...

I'd imagine it is some new gun for the 6th codex. Sneak Peaked from the FUTURE!!!

Maybe it will be Ward after all, he likes to give sneaks.

Perhaps this unknown gun is one than grants sky fire?

As for January/ November, doesn't matter when the new dex drops I'm excited to see what they've done with the Nids. They were one of my first loves in this game. I may have to go back to them if my girlfriend and wallet allow it lol.

Imo it looks like a Flame/acid/nasty smelling air throwing type weapon.


But I agree.

I'd love it to be November. Means I get to unleash my Filth Sooner !

But if its January... I can wait.... It will be a challenge... but my god will it be worth it for my 9 Monstrous creature list to rise again and smash face!

 Alex Kolodotschko wrote:
I still want to know what this is? From page 216 of the big rule book. Could it be a cheeky teaser?
And seeing as I got it it in shot aswell what on earth will flesh hooks do in the next book? Teleport homers, missle launchers, grant psychic powers?
Your guess is as good as mine.

Skyfire/Interceptor?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/271291262220

Could very well be a nasty anti-air gun. Whatever it is, it would be new, and therefore sexy.

Yeah, I had actually starting hoping for January because I was planning on a large FW order once Ferrus Manus was up for sale.

 brassangel wrote:
Could very well be a nasty anti-air gun. Whatever it is, it would be new, and therefore sexy.

Personally, I'm hoping that hive guard will get the skyfire rule. It fits pretty well with the weapon description, and it means they'll be able to excel against low armour flyers with their high strength, shoot-around-corners double-shot weapons. Who needs flying monstrous creatures?

 Eisensapper wrote:
So they have pulled Old One Eye from the GW website, except in Britain where it is listed to be distributed in 4 weeks...

Rumor has it they did the exact same thing to the Havoc CSM, 4 weeks before the new CSM codex was out.

They should have pulled OOE and TRT years ago. The models are horrible and only show that GW would rather try to force models that no one wants then to improve their products. Why would I pay $40+ for a blister model without any rules? TRT is the size of a raviner. And OOE can be made out of a 'Fex since all the parts are there and no conversion is required. GW just needs to make it the new 'official' model and jack the price up $5 for the kit. Like they did for the Sky Ray/Hammerhead.

 Kwosge wrote:

 Eisensapper wrote:
So they have pulled Old One Eye from the GW website, except in Britain where it is listed to be distributed in 4 weeks...

Rumor has it they did the exact same thing to the Havoc CSM, 4 weeks before the new CSM codex was out.

They should have pulled OOE and TRT years ago. The models are horrible and only show that GW would rather try to force models that no one wants then to improve their products. Why would I pay $40+ for a blister model without any rules? TRT is the size of a raviner. And OOE can be made out of a 'Fex since all the parts are there and no conversion is required. GW just needs to make it the new 'official' model and jack the price up $5 for the kit. Like they did for the Sky Ray/Hammerhead.

Yes, they tried to force a terrible model instead of improving their products. It's always about trying to screw people...

It had nothing to do with a much more limited release schedule/policy, or just not knowing how to approach awkward models and rules. It's just not possible that GW figured they'd continue to offer it to the nostalgic among us until they develop the next edition of Tyranids and take it a step farther.

No no...they are "forcing" us to buy it. lol. Wow. People only buy it if they want to; you know that, right? And like you said, people could just use the Carnifex kit if they wanted to. No one was forced into anything.

 Redemption wrote:
And BigRed from BolS added this:

Release will emphasize new plastic kits.
Every missing model will ship with the release.
Smaller amount of new unseen models, higher amount of reworked existing models.
All old metal models replaced with new plastic kits (aka NO finecast survives)
Roughly 10+ new models in the release (including replacement kits and combo-kit build options)
January 2014

Source

Sounds wish-listy, but if they follow the same two-month release pattern Dark Elves are supposed to have, who knows? The Tyranid range certainly could use a push from finecast to plastic.

That's BigRed quoting Stickmonkey, isn't it?

 Bloodhorror wrote:
The gun itself doesn't look like any I've ever seen before...

I'd imagine it is some new gun for the 6th codex. Sneak Peaked from the FUTURE!!!

I agree. They have did this before. The helbrute was in the 6th edition rulebook as a sneak peak as well. In addition, the Dark Eldar Raider was in the 5th Edition rulebook long before the new dark eldar codex as well.

 Gutsnagga wrote:

 brassangel wrote:
Could very well be a nasty anti-air gun. Whatever it is, it would be new, and therefore sexy.

Personally, I'm hoping that hive guard will get the skyfire rule. It fits pretty well with the weapon description, and it means they'll be able to excel against low armour flyers with their high strength, shoot-around-corners double-shot weapons. Who needs flying monstrous creatures?

I wonder if the Hive Guard just may have two fire modes, or there will be two variants of the Hive Guard.

My hunch is, if they do get a Skyfire mode, it will be S7, not S8. That just seems to be the sweet spot in the game right now.

 brassangel wrote:

 Gutsnagga wrote:

 brassangel wrote:
Could very well be a nasty anti-air gun. Whatever it is, it would be new, and therefore sexy.

Personally, I'm hoping that hive guard will get the skyfire rule. It fits pretty well with the weapon description, and it means they'll be able to excel against low armour flyers with their high strength, shoot-around-corners double-shot weapons. Who needs flying monstrous creatures?

I wonder if the Hive Guard just may have two fire modes, or there will be two variants of the Hive Guard.

My hunch is, if they do get a Skyfire mode, it will be S7, not S8. That just seems to be the sweet spot in the game right now.

Mmm, yes, two fire modes would be good. It improves their utility considerably.
Yeah S7 seems to be pretty popular amongst flakk at the moment, but who knows? Maybe GW will actually make a tyranid-bio-engineered-super-weapon actually better than its imperial equivalent for once?

 Kwosge wrote:

 Eisensapper wrote:
So they have pulled Old One Eye from the GW website, except in Britain where it is listed to be distributed in 4 weeks...

Rumor has it they did the exact same thing to the Havoc CSM, 4 weeks before the new CSM codex was out.

They should have pulled OOE and TRT years ago. The models are horrible and only show that GW would rather try to force models that no one wants then to improve their products. Why would I pay $40+ for a blister model without any rules? TRT is the size of a raviner. And OOE can be made out of a 'Fex since all the parts are there and no conversion is required. GW just needs to make it the new 'official' model and jack the price up $5 for the kit. Like they did for the Sky Ray/Hammerhead.

I like the red terror model, too expensive though, especially for not having any rules.

 Gutsnagga wrote:

 brassangel wrote:

 Gutsnagga wrote:

 brassangel wrote:
Could very well be a nasty anti-air gun. Whatever it is, it would be new, and therefore sexy.

Personally, I'm hoping that hive guard will get the skyfire rule. It fits pretty well with the weapon description, and it means they'll be able to excel against low armour flyers with their high strength, shoot-around-corners double-shot weapons. Who needs flying monstrous creatures?

I wonder if the Hive Guard just may have two fire modes, or there will be two variants of the Hive Guard.

My hunch is, if they do get a Skyfire mode, it will be S7, not S8. That just seems to be the sweet spot in the game right now.

Mmm, yes, two fire modes would be good. It improves their utility considerably.
Yeah S7 seems to be pretty popular amongst flakk at the moment, but who knows? Maybe GW will actually make a tyranid-bio-engineered-super-weapon actually better than its imperial equivalent for once?

I think being a multi-wound, T6 3+ save model that can hide indefinitely, move and fire without line of sight, all while ignoring cover already makes it better than any Imperial Equivalent. Most of theirs are just lightly armored things that can't move and fall apart like paper. We can cast Catalyst or Onslaught on ours as well (assuming that option remains). S7 multi-shot from a BS4 model with everything listed above, in a brood of up to 3? That's plenty.

Some people just want anti-flyer shooting that's unrealistic, and/or far too reliable. GW wants fliers to be good. Not just for model sales, but so people actually have a reason to take them. They aren't going to give anyone a gun with range 72" S8+ Assault 9, twin-linked, master-crafted, Skyfire, Interceptor, Destructor, ignore cover, armorbane, melta, lance, soulblaze. I'm ranting now, but on a lot of sites, that's basically what people want.