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 pretre wrote:
http://natfka.blogspot.com/2013/11/tyranids-moved-up-to-december.html
[quote= a very SALTY source on Faeit 212]
current GW managerial chart says that's Smaug wasn't good enough for the studio, so GW have had to go back to the drawing board, moving current releases forward so they don't miss the Christmas release window, Nids moving up to Dec, dwarfs in Jan 2014.

They'll still do the collectors releases for the hobbit, scenes from the film and such, just no new hobbit box.

Updated the first post with all the BOLS stuff and the latest natfka rumour.

There are a couple of really specific rumors this time around, which is quite interesting.

If going by the rumors, then we would get a:

Harpy/Other Flyer kit
Dominar/Kraraknos
Zoenthrope Kit
Perhaps, Hive Guard/Tyrant Guard?

Either way, the return of may Biomorphs would be welcome.

EDIT: I don't see Nids for Christmas either. I don't think there has been a major 40k/WHFB release in December, has there? Just the the bundles. January does seem about right.

 Sasori wrote:
There are a couple of really specific rumors this time around, which is quite interesting.

If going by the rumors, then we would get a:

Harpy/Other Flyer kit
Dominar/Kraraknos
Zoenthrope Kit
Perhaps, Hive Guard/Tyrant Guard?

Either way, the return of may Biomorphs would be welcome.

EDIT: I don't see Nids for Christmas either. I don't think there has been a major 40k/WHFB release in December, has there? Just the the bundles. January does seem about right.

Still leaves out the spore pod.

 Bloodhorror wrote:
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Nids for Christmas !

Not Nidvember or Niduary, but perhaps a Merry Nidmas!

GW (and other rumor mongers) sure have us jumping...

T

Can't wait to see what comes of all this - I've been thinking of collecting 'Nids for a few years now and this seems like a decent time to start.

I don't buy any Christmas rumors.
edit: Mostly because my wallet couldn't survive it.

^ I've got a few hundred set back for the release, but Ill never, ever understand GW logic of releasing things without advance official notice. I'm an adult with a family, I like to budget things. Even if its for little plastic Creepy Crawlers : /

Crab monster transport? That just sounds god awful from an aesthetic point of view. I'll reserve judgment, but, a crab? Really?

We already have crab like crushing claws. Maybe the crab-like part of it is a flattened carapace for all the other little ones to ride on or some crap.

 l0k1 wrote:
Crab monster transport? That just sounds god awful from an aesthetic point of view. I'll reserve judgment, but, a crab? Really?

Right?!

I kinda like the idea, actually. If nothing else, it'll allow me to attack the weak spot for massive damage.

Nah, in all seriousness, sounds kinda cool and it fits with the "give 'em something big and new" trend.

Found a leaked pic of the new Karkanos!

 l0k1 wrote:
Found a leaked pic of the new Karkanos!

If you really have found a leaked pic, please share!

If you're just pulling our legs, not cool!

Edit: And you edited in a Pokemon pic. Ugh...

l0k1 wrote:Crab monster transport? That just sounds god awful from an aesthetic point of view. I'll reserve judgment, but, a crab? Really?

I'll bet he's delicious though.

Are tyranids looking like another GT dominating army like eldar? Some of these rules like assault after run and masive psy defense (gooooobye daemons) seem pretty strong.

timd wrote:

 Bloodhorror wrote:
ooo

Nids for Christmas !

Not Nidvember or Niduary, but perhaps a Merry Nidmas!

GW (and other rumor mongers) sure have us jumping...

T

Santa Fex is coming to nomnom.

Hmm well the "switch to christmas" is probably pure bobbins- whatever GW is planning to release at christmas was probably design, approved and put into production months ago.

On the big critters rumour- sounds so off it might actually be true [bit like the highelf sky cutter- sounded bonkers, looks pretty cool]. But not sold on it just yet.. but they are getting closer..

 l0k1 wrote:
Crab monster transport? That just sounds god awful from an aesthetic point of view. I'll reserve judgment, but, a crab? Really?

Maybe a spelling error: "The Karkanos looks like crap."
A walking Skyshield landing platform including railing sounds like crap.

 Kroothawk wrote:

 l0k1 wrote:
Crab monster transport? That just sounds god awful from an aesthetic point of view. I'll reserve judgment, but, a crab? Really?

Maybe a spelling error: "The Karkanos looks like crap."
A walking Skyshield landing platform including railing sounds like crap.

Oh come on now, don't be so crabby.

Couldn't it be a re-imagining of the Malefactor?

If so why not just call it a Malefactor?

Giving dumb name to Tyranid creatures is what gave us the "Pyrovore", "Venomthrope" and "Tyrannofex". Give us less pulpy sci-fi names and more pesudo-Latin/Greek genus names.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Giving dumb name to Tyranid creatures is what gave us the "Pyrovore", "Venomthrope" and "Tyrannofex". Give us less pulpy sci-fi names and more pesudo-Latin/Greek genus names.

Tyrannosaurus Rex?

I never had a problem with the "Tyrannofex." Seems exactly like something a unimaginative Imperial bureaucrat would label it.

Karkanos appears to be the name of a boss from WoW.

Perhaps they meant Karkinos.

I agree with Janthkin and I personally like the Tyranid names. It's there Imperial identification. Didn't a previous codex list both their common Imperial names and the Magos Biologis identifier? So we can/could have both? You might find if the rumour of biomorphs being back in a big way means that different variations will get different names, "Screamer Killer" being re-used for bio-plasma carnifexes etc.

 Janthkin wrote:
Tyrannosaurus Rex?

I never had a problem with the "Tyrannofex." Seems exactly like something a unimaginative Imperial bureaucrat would label it.

I'll admit that out of that crop the Tyrannofex was the least offensive, but it was lazy.

And when you look at the crop of previous Tyranid creatures - Exocrine, Malefactor, Haruspex, Dactylis, even the Trygon - all sound like proper names rather than terrible pulpy names. Having colloquial names for things (Screamer Killer, Spook, etc.) is fine, but that can't be the name everyone calls them by. It's silly otherwise.

jakl277 wrote:Are tyranids looking like another GT dominating army like eldar? Some of these rules like assault after run and masive psy defense (gooooobye daemons) seem pretty strong.

H.B.M.C. wrote:If so why not just call it a Malefactor?

Giving dumb name to Tyranid creatures is what gave us the "Pyrovore", "Venomthrope" and "Tyrannofex". Give us less pulpy sci-fi names and more pesudo-Latin/Greek genus names.

H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Janthkin wrote:
Tyrannosaurus Rex?

I never had a problem with the "Tyrannofex." Seems exactly like something a unimaginative Imperial bureaucrat would label it.

I'll admit that out of that crop the Tyrannofex was the least offensive, but it was lazy.

And when you look at the crop of previous Tyranid creatures - Exocrine, Malefactor, Haruspex, Dactylis, even the Trygon - all sound like proper names rather than terrible pulpy names. Having colloquial names for things (Screamer Killer, Spook, etc.) is fine, but that can't be the name everyone calls them by. It's silly otherwise.

Karkinos is a word from Greek Mythology. It was a giant crab monster that aided the Hydra against Herakles.

I imagine some of the names in the Tyranid codex are just the first name applied by a random guardsmen or hive citizen who encountered it. Others have been well documented, studied, dissected, and given "proper" names.

Also, those guys in the UK come up with lots of stupid names and literature. Some of the Black Library novels are painful to read because of it.

The 4thEd Codex had a listing of the Tyranid by their 'official' Imperial name, their scientific name, and what the common guardsman called it. It worked rather well to keep the silly names from the more awesome-sounding names.

A common guardsman would call creatures Ankle-Biters instead of Rippers. They would call them Hellbats instead of Gargoyles. They would call them Screamer-Killers instead of Carnifexes. It was a cool listing and very flavorful.

Let's leave the silly/uninspired names to the common designations and keep the actual "Codex" names sounding nice. There are tons of Latin-based terms out there that designate royalty, power, destruction, biological processes, or unlikable women. GW doesn't have to butcher the fluff by combining existing Tyranid names with a different prefix to name new things. The names Tetrarch, Vicarius, Erinyes, Cardisoma, Myliobate, Dendrobate, or whatever is still not taken.

Or it might look like the giant crab kaiju on Pacific Rim.

I can't wait to fight giant enemy crabs.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
If so why not just call it a Malefactor?

Can't have people using Armorcast Malefactors now, can we?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

And when you look at the crop of previous Tyranid creatures - Exocrine, Malefactor, Haruspex, Dactylis, even the Trygon - all sound like proper names rather than terrible pulpy names.

But these names are in dictionaries and GW now needs trademarkable names for all of its products, as seen in the new paint names. And there is also the matter of the Chapterhouse suit and its trademark issues.

Tim