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 silverstu wrote:
If you think about what they added to the tyrant kit to turn him into a flyer- not just wings but a whole new lower torso and legs -to do the shrikes right you's have to add a lot to the kit- which would push the price through the roof. A separate kit allows them to differentiate shrikes from warriors even more- like the way gargoyles are different from gaunts. Putting the two together would compromise both options.

That's true, but they don't need to go that route since hive tyrants with wings are FMC and shrikes are just jump troops. But then FMC demons don't have such silly posses, just the wings they need to make them legitimate flyers.

Speaking of the hive tyrant, they badly screwed up that kit since the wings are not a possible replacement for a set of arms, but in addition to, the arms. Meaning almost any flyrant you see is either heavily converted to allow all 4 arms and wings, or not accurate rep. Nevermind that the primary weapon people field on a hive tyrant doesn't even exist.

The idea is that a Flyrant has the additional pair of arms in place of normal legs.

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 silverstu wrote:
If you think about what they added to the tyrant kit to turn him into a flyer- not just wings but a whole new lower torso and legs -to do the shrikes right you's have to add a lot to the kit- which would push the price through the roof. A separate kit allows them to differentiate shrikes from warriors even more- like the way gargoyles are different from gaunts. Putting the two together would compromise both options.

That's true, but they don't need to go that route since hive tyrants with wings are FMC and shrikes are just jump troops. But then FMC demons don't have such silly posses, just the wings they need to make them legitimate flyers.

Speaking of the hive tyrant, they badly screwed up that kit since the wings are not a possible replacement for a set of arms, but in addition to, the arms. Meaning almost any flyrant you see is either heavily converted to allow all 4 arms and wings, or not accurate rep. Nevermind that the primary weapon people field on a hive tyrant doesn't even exist.

No...it's 4 total arms on the Flyrant. GW made it so the feet could be scything talons. You are right about the twin-linked Brainleech Worms not even being in the kit. It's been a LOOONG time since a plastic kit hasn't included weapons options, so my suspicion was that this option of the Flyrant was no longer going to exist in the 6th edition codex.

Endobai just spoke of how the Warriors will have seven weapon options for each model, many of those for two arms plus biomorphs, and two heavy weapons one model can use.

Again, don't expect wings in the kit. If Shrikes will continue to exist, it will likely be in a separate kit that further differentiates them from standard Warriors. We really can't yell at GW for that. I mean, it's just not logistically possible to squeeze that into the sprue system with their standardized packaging.

With Tyranids getting a new release what models do you guys reckon will be good to get now? Only my local store has a sale so thinking of getting some units cheap

OveratedCan wrote:
With Tyranids getting a new release what models do you guys reckon will be good to get now? Only my local store has a sale so thinking of getting some units cheap

Considering that none of us have read the codex, there's not much anybody can do aside from speculate. If it's plastic, that's the safest bet. Warriors seem to be getting a new kit. That's all we really know.

Part of me wants to buy Pyrovores because they can't get any worse rules wise ... the other part of me says "LOL PYROVORES"

 Brother SRM wrote:

OveratedCan wrote:
With Tyranids getting a new release what models do you guys reckon will be good to get now? Only my local store has a sale so thinking of getting some units cheap

Considering that none of us have read the codex, there's not much anybody can do aside from speculate. If it's plastic, that's the safest bet. Warriors seem to be getting a new kit. That's all we really know.

Yeah thats true.

If your just starting and want to get ahead of the game there are certain units you can get to start. Gaunts are the obvious choice. gargoyles. Zoanthropes. Or you can always take the high road and go things like tervigons. Just magnatize everything if you can. These are units you are likely to use and don't have a great deal of swapable parts. So your fairly safe.

Backlash wrote:
If your just starting and want to get ahead of the game there are certain units you can get to start. Gaunts are the obvious choice. gargoyles. Zoanthropes. Or you can always take the high road and go things like tervigons. Just magnatize everything if you can. These are units you are likely to use and don't have a great deal of swapable parts. So your fairly safe.

Cheers,I really hope Hormagaunts are viable,easily my favourite unit in 40k.

Tervigons, Termagants/Hormagaunts, and Gargoyles are probably the safest bet.

(I still hate the name 'Gargoyles' for a Tyranid creature. I really wish they would have changed that at some point.)

Getting a Hive Tyrant kit and putting some magnets to work wouldn't be unreasonable.

 brassangel wrote:
Tervigons, Termagants/Hormagaunts, and Gargoyles are probably the safest bet.

(I still hate the name 'Gargoyles' for a Tyranid creature. I really wish they would have changed that at some point.)

Getting a Hive Tyrant kit and putting some magnets to work wouldn't be unreasonable.

Thanks man,yh agreed on Gargoyles,the name just doesnt fit at all. Too fantasy rather than 4ok Nid imo.

If there are no plastic clampack releases with this codex, does that imply anything about other releases? Does GW have a specific capacity to manufacture a certain amount of large sprues, medium sprues and small sprues, for example? If so, could a lack of clampack plastic characters in this release imply that there could be a lot of them in the next release (which would be IG, according to the grapevine)?

Vhalyar on Warseer posted the pic of the presumed Tyranid Prime, the big bug, as well as some weird tentacly bit.


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Personally am kind of disappointed with the big bug. Looking forward to seeing more pics of it. The Prime is looking pretty cool, though.

It's a damn exocrine. wtf is the tyrannofex for now?

 tetrisphreak wrote:
It's a damn exocrine. wtf is the tyrannofex for now?

The Tyrannofex is for attaching a birthing sac to it and using it as a Tervigon.


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Here are the new Warriors from Vhalyar.




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Vhalyar writes on Warseer:

"The Prime is part of the warrior box.
The little parasites are basically one-shot missiles. [the tentacly bit posted above]
And the Exocrine has two firing modes. [herp and derp mode ] "

The prime is alright, I've got 2 converted that look pretty close so I don't really care, but that exocrine is one ugly bastard.

Ahhhhhh yeah! About time we got some decent pictures. I presume the Tyrannofex with be a Tank, Exocrine will be Artillery. Pretty straight-forward.

rollawaythestone wrote:





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Personally am kind of disappointed with the big bug. Looking forward to seeing more pics of it. The Prime is looking pretty cool, though.

Oh my, seems like someone is compensating for something


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 Sinful Hero wrote:
Ahhhhhh yeah! About time we got some decent pictures. I presume the Tyrannofex with be a Tank, Exocrine will be Artillery. Pretty straight-forward.

If Tyrannofex is the tank, what would be carnifex be?

And... the Big Bug's dual kit. Which looks sweeeeet!!!

Again from Vhalyar on Warseer (much thanks!!):





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So excited for this guy! Totally awesome model!

rollawaythestone wrote:
And... the Big Bug's dual kit. Which looks sweeeeet!!!

Again from Vhalyar on Warseer (much thanks!!):





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So excited for this guy! Totally awesome model!

Oh my. That looks interesting...

Prime looks okay. I was for something bigger, like in between a warrior and a hive tyrant, not just a warrior with extra spikes.

New big bug looks kickass though.

Please let warriors come with wings PLEASE!

Very cool. I'm liking the haruspex quite a bit more than the other. Now I wonder the rules for them...

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

rollawaythestone wrote:





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Personally am kind of disappointed with the big bug. Looking forward to seeing more pics of it. The Prime is looking pretty cool, though.

Oh my, seems like someone is compensating for something


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 Sinful Hero wrote:
Ahhhhhh yeah! About time we got some decent pictures. I presume the Tyrannofex with be a Tank, Exocrine will be Artillery. Pretty straight-forward.

If Tyrannofex is the tank, what would be carnifex be?

Useless? Or a light-tank.

Losing my mind over these leaks. I love both kits. I am a huge fan of any kind of bug model and have thoroughly enjoyed every leaked image so far. I will spend all the money in January.

Admittedly, the alternate of the Exocrine (Malefactor?) is much more exciting.

If that tentacly one is the transport bug, I could see troops pouring out of its mouth-sac.


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Vhalyar writes:

"No mention in WD of wings for warriors, like Endobai said. "

"Beeellllccch!!! We're heeeeere!!!!"

rollawaythestone wrote:
If that tentacly one is the transport bug, I could see troops pouring out of its mouth-sac.

That'll be the Haruspex, look at the huge claws. It's gonna eat whole tanks, but I doubt it'll transport anything. That was the Malefactor.

Pretty cool pictures, especially the one with the tentacles coming out of its ..mouth?

Please, can a few more people quote other people who quoted the pictures? We really need the same picture 40 more times.

And.. the HARPY! (thanks Vhalyar!)



What a beautiful model! Impressed!

rollawaythestone wrote:
And.. the HARPY! (thanks Vhalyar!)



What a beautiful model! Impressed!

Ooooh spikey.