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I think you guys are assuming to much....

Maybe it just leaves the large blast as dangerous terrain test?

That template is gonna be awesome assuming it lands where you want it opens up even more possibilities if your units are immune to it


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Sorry didn't see your post on this page... I don't think it will... it just wouldn't make sense for it to be dangerous terrain after because It's not terrain its a cloud of spores

If those new rules are real its going to be interesting. Very curious about the wording on the "uber" synapse rule. Will the rule be measured from the model only? Or extended to the synapse creatures in any unit it joins? Would the decreased synapse range affect he entire unit? Or only the model? The effectiveness will depend heavily on the wording. If the ability is extended to the unit and the range measured as such, We could see whole swarms advancing centered around a linchpin band of warriors. Heres hoping.

My guess would be the uber-Synapse functions a lot like the Tervigon auras or the Venomthrope bubble where a unit just has to have a model within 6".

Thats probably the case, As most tyranid abilities tend to operate that way. Im more curious as the the footprint the ability will cover. If a prime can extend it to a unit of 9 warriors the footprint it can cover extends greatly and makes it much more effective,

Hopefully the fluff doesn't try humanize the Nids like they did with Newcrons

Backlash wrote:
Thats probably the case, As most tyranid abilities tend to operate that way. Im more curious as the the footprint the ability will cover. If a prime can extend it to a unit of 9 warriors the footprint it can cover extends greatly and makes it much more effective,

I seriously doubt it will work that way. Can we think of anything in the game that works like that?

99% confident that it will be measured from the model with the upgrade, and not any unit he joins.

Any Tyranid bubble ability works like that.

 Tyran wrote:
Any Tyranid bubble ability works like that.

Say when a Tyranid Prime joins a unit of Hormagaunts you measure synapse from the unit? Now that I think about it, I never really had that situation come up, but I guess it works that way. Would be kinda crazy with an Eternal Warrior aura like that.

Ah yes, Tyranids. The most adaptive species in the known universe. Given enough time Tyranids could conquer just about anything as the Hive Mind voraciously mutates and evolves its creatures to overcome any obstacle.

But only one of them per army can have a 2+ save because... uhh... well just because.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
But only one of them per army can have a 2+ save because... uhh... well just because.

Well that 2+ does give eternal warrior, and GW wouldn't leave a way for your whole arny to be EW now

But really there probably will still be the regular armored shell upgrade, have no fear.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Ah yes, Tyranids. The most adaptive species in the known universe. Given enough time Tyranids could conquer just about anything as the Hive Mind voraciously mutates and evolves its creatures to overcome any obstacle.

But only one of them per army can have a 2+ save because... uhh... well just because.

Because - SCIENCE!

The Auld Grump

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Ah yes, Tyranids. The most adaptive species in the known universe. Given enough time Tyranids could conquer just about anything as the Hive Mind voraciously mutates and evolves its creatures to overcome any obstacle.

But only one of them per army can have a 2+ save because... uhh... well just because.

And this is where finally the community made codices started.

EW aura sounds great to me as I run a 9 man rav and a 9 man shrike unit usually which would help me immensely assuming whatever has it can keep up!

Shingen wrote:
EW aura sounds great to me as I run a 9 man rav and a 9 man shrike unit usually which would help me immensely assuming whatever has it can keep up!

According to popular belief, Shrikes have been dropped from this version of the Codex. Are they in a FW book and therefore still available to use?

 Harriticus wrote:
Hopefully the fluff doesn't try humanize the Nids like they did with Newcrons

Agreed. But I feel they edged towards that with the Swarmlord. Previously Hive Tyrants were the embodiment of the Hivemind yadayada but for some reason we had to have one who embodied it even more and IMO came quite close to being the hero figure for the Nids.

 Souleater wrote:

 Harriticus wrote:
Hopefully the fluff doesn't try humanize the Nids like they did with Newcrons

Agreed. But I feel they edged towards that with the Swarmlord. Previously Hive Tyrants were the embodiment of the Hivemind yadayada but for some reason we had to have one who embodied it even more and IMO came quite close to being the hero figure for the Nids.

The Borg took Picard hostage because they wanted a human face to ease the assimilation process. It stands to reason the hive mind understands the necessary steps of creating super characters to challenge and break the will of an army.

 Sinful Hero wrote:

 Tyran wrote:
Any Tyranid bubble ability works like that.

Say when a Tyranid Prime joins a unit of Hormagaunts you measure synapse from the unit? Now that I think about it, I never really had that situation come up, but I guess it works that way. Would be kinda crazy with an Eternal Warrior aura like that.

No, I mean that you only need a model in range of synapse and the entire unit is in synapse, or only one model in range of a Tervigon and all the unit has the buffs, etc.

Yeah I misread the post above mine.

Enceladus wrote:

Shingen wrote:
EW aura sounds great to me as I run a 9 man rav and a 9 man shrike unit usually which would help me immensely assuming whatever has it can keep up!

According to popular belief, Shrikes have been dropped from this version of the Codex. Are they in a FW book and therefore still available to use?

Hope not, they are my favourite unit :(

I'd be fine with making devourer's ST3 AP3 Assault 4.

I'm very interested in the Swarmlord stat line.

Ap3? LOL

Ap3 assault 4, for around 10 points a go? Seriously? Why not make hormagaunts t5 with 5 attacks each and 3 wounds? Sorry that's a bit sarcastic of me but really?

Why not just give all Tyranid models a baleflamer for free each?

 Frozen Ocean wrote:
Why not just give all Tyranid models a baleflamer for free each?

Because it would offend the chaos players?

The irony of a Warrior with an exploding krak missile on its head on the cover. Yup, that should do it, back to the shelf.

 N.I.B. wrote:
The irony of a Warrior with an exploding krak missile on its head on the cover. Yup, that should do it, back to the shelf.

Maybe it's a Warrior with the EW upgrade taking a missile to the back of the head and just getting angry.

Stormbreed wrote:
I'd be fine with making devourer's ST3 AP3 Assault 4.

I'm very interested in the Swarmlord stat line.

I'd be fine with AP3 too!
I'm not very interested in the Swarmlord's statline(I imagine it will stay largely the same), but his special rules and which psychic powers he had access to.

I know what I want to see for warriors. 35 points for rending and devourers and same stats on everything except bs5. It would be a huge dakka improvement causing nid players heads to explode because warriors would be an odd but good hybrid unit that can still be id by s8. There would be massive strife as people couldn't agree if they were awesome or terrible. It wouldbe trolltastic.

I doubt we'll get BS4. GW has a bee in their bonnet in regards to Tyranids and shooting, the idea being that "Tyranids don't shoot", so even the ones that do shoot can't really shoot. The same mentality unfortunately applies to Orks.

I'm not asking for an army of lethal snipers, but I do wish that the Tyranid ranged units were as good at shooting as the HTH units are at tearing things to pieces.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I doubt we'll get BS4. GTW has a bee in their bonnet in regards to Tyranids and shooting, the idea being that "Tyranids don't shoot", so even the ones that do shoot can't really shoot. The same mentality unfortunately applies to Orks.

I'm not asking for an army of lethal snipers, but I do wish that the Tyranid ranges units were as good at shooting as the HTH units are at tearing things to pieces.

At the very least they could give us a biomorph that grants +1 BS like in the 4e dex...