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I'm sure someone will link it as soon as it gets posted.

DO IT TO IT wrote:
I figure the teaser will be Mon, Tues, or Wed next week. Could be wrong, though.

Its usually the Saturday before release, but the holidays screws them up sometimes, so it might be next week. If nothing shows up tomorrow then that is most likely the case.

Brutal Viking wrote:
If there is a teaser would someone please link it?

I'm sure it'll be here ASAP.

Bear in mind that WD isn't out until the 4th of Jan due to the holidays.

 Hansisaf wrote:

 Frozen Ocean wrote:
[...]As for the stats, more salt than the Black Sea.[...]

Don't you mean the dead sea?

The Dead Sea is just very salty. The Black Sea has that cool salinity cycle thing going on. I was trying to imply a salt cycle of rumours because they vary in salinity. I think it was supposed to be a bad geography joke.

 Ravenous D wrote:

DO IT TO IT wrote:
I figure the teaser will be Mon, Tues, or Wed next week. Could be wrong, though.

Its usually the Saturday before release, but the holidays screws them up sometimes, so it might be next week. If nothing shows up tomorrow then that is most likely the case.

I don't recall a teaser ever being on a weekend. Always a Monday or Tuesday the latest.

Escalation teaser was on a Saturday. But, that's irrelevant as today's post was an ad for more holiday bundles.

So let's wait until Monday now....

 reds8n wrote:

Brutal Viking wrote:
If there is a teaser would someone please link it?

I'm sure it'll be here ASAP.

Bear in mind that WD isn't out until the 4th of Jan due to the holidays.

Which puts the nid dex a week behind as well more then likely.


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Davor wrote:

 Ravenous D wrote:

DO IT TO IT wrote:
I figure the teaser will be Mon, Tues, or Wed next week. Could be wrong, though.

Its usually the Saturday before release, but the holidays screws them up sometimes, so it might be next week. If nothing shows up tomorrow then that is most likely the case.

I don't recall a teaser ever being on a weekend. Always a Monday or Tuesday the latest.

I meant the pre orders, not the little video thingy that shouldn't exist and that time making it should be used on FAQs instead. Bitter, bitter, bitter.

 Frozen Ocean wrote:


The Dead Sea is just very salty. The Black Sea has that cool salinity cycle thing going on. I was trying to imply a salt cycle of rumours because they vary in salinity. I think it was supposed to be a bad geography joke.

You get an A for effort.

As Long as Swarmlord is still a BAMF I'm fine with whatever they do.

Stormbreed wrote:
As Long as Swarmlord is still a BAMF I'm fine with whatever they do.

He will still rock, but he's not going to make or break the codex. I want to see Tyranid players capable of relying on the codex and not the BRB psychic powers to play a competitive game.

What matters is that we have lots of viable options, not just 1 or 2. Tyranids have been mono-build for about 9 years running.

I want to see the end of Tervigon spam. It's the most boring tactic I can ever imagine.

My tervigon is now an acid spray tyrannofex. Hopefully the pts drop on the fex so it's more viable.

 tetrisphreak wrote:
Escalation teaser was on a Saturday. But, that's irrelevant as today's post was an ad for more holiday bundles.

So let's wait until Monday now....

Stand corrected. Thank you.

 brassangel wrote:

Stormbreed wrote:
As Long as Swarmlord is still a BAMF I'm fine with whatever they do.

He will still rock, but he's not going to make or break the codex. I want to see Tyranid players capable of relying on the codex and not the BRB psychic powers to play a competitive game.

What matters is that we have lots of viable options, not just 1 or 2. Tyranids have been mono-build for about 9 years running.

What do you mean? Since the 2010 5e codex, the only competitive build I have ever seen is two Tervigons, two flyrants, two units of termagaunts to make the Tervigons troops, and then as many Hive Guard and/or Zoantrhopes as you need to fill out the rest of the points.

What was the mono-build back in 4e?

 Ferrum_Sanguinis wrote:

 brassangel wrote:

Stormbreed wrote:
As Long as Swarmlord is still a BAMF I'm fine with whatever they do.

He will still rock, but he's not going to make or break the codex. I want to see Tyranid players capable of relying on the codex and not the BRB psychic powers to play a competitive game.

What matters is that we have lots of viable options, not just 1 or 2. Tyranids have been mono-build for about 9 years running.

What do you mean? Since the 2010 5e codex, the only competitive build I have ever seen is two Tervigons, two flyrants, two units of termagaunts to make the Tervigons troops, and then as many Hive Guard and/or Zoantrhopes as you need to fill out the rest of the points.

What was the mono-build back in 4e?

6 Carnifexes + toys basically.

 Ferrum_Sanguinis wrote:
What was the mono-build back in 4e?

1 Flyrant, 1 Hive Tyrant, 3x Dakkafexes. 3x Sniperfexes. Drop carnifexes to fit the points value. Add troops because you have to.

 Ferrum_Sanguinis wrote:


What was the mono-build back in 4e?

There were two builds in 4e/4e. Psychic Choir and Fex rush. Psychic Choir pretty much reduced enemy Ld by 5 so any moral or pinning check, and there were a lot, were failed. It wasn't quite as good as Fex Rush but it won me a lot of games.

4e/5e had one build, Fex Rush. The Choir was knocked out because of fearless. Nothing had any staying power in CC.

5e/5e had one build, Tervigons with or without Stealers. With Stealers was pretty vicious as long as you didn't have a bad CC round.

5e/6e has one build, Tervigons.


Future Codex:
6e/6e should have 2 builds for the codex and one build for each codex expansion. So 5 total.

In 4th/4th, Stealer Shock also worked well, and semi-Nidzilla (6ish MCs plus gribblies) were also solid.

Strange, my comp build has no tervigons. People rely on them far too much.

Shingen wrote:
comp build

We're talking about 40k here, right? As in Warhammer 40,000?

 Ferrum_Sanguinis wrote:

 brassangel wrote:

Stormbreed wrote:
As Long as Swarmlord is still a BAMF I'm fine with whatever they do.

He will still rock, but he's not going to make or break the codex. I want to see Tyranid players capable of relying on the codex and not the BRB psychic powers to play a competitive game.

What matters is that we have lots of viable options, not just 1 or 2. Tyranids have been mono-build for about 9 years running.

What do you mean? Since the 2010 5e codex, the only competitive build I have ever seen is two Tervigons, two flyrants, two units of termagaunts to make the Tervigons troops, and then as many Hive Guard and/or Zoantrhopes as you need to fill out the rest of the points.

What was the mono-build back in 4e?

You are right about the current build.

In 4th edition it was 5-6 Carnifex, 2 Hive Tyrants, and the rest literally didn't matter. Most were armed with 2x twin-linked Devourers, and the occasional Barbed Strangler. The only variance was when people tossed in Zoanthropes to do the Nuclear Choir. Even then, it was still a bunch of Carnifexes with Barbed Stranglers for pinning. Aux on The Tyranid Hive was one of the major players at the time and pushed the list hard. He all but abandoned Tyranids in 5th edition because they became virtually unplayable in the competitive scene.

People tried other things back then (like 'Stealer Shock), just as they try other things now. But the (few) lists finishing well in major tournaments were all the same when it came to Tyranids in 4th and 5th.

Looking forward to putting new nids to the test on my Christmas zone mortalis board.

I'm 35 and nids still scare the crap outta me, in a good way you understand!

Shingen wrote:Strange, my comp build has no tervigons. People rely on them far too much.

Absolutionis wrote:

Shingen wrote:
comp build

We're talking about 40k here, right? As in Warhammer 40,000?

I think he's talking about this Space Hulk armylist.

From the Tyranid Hive. http://thetyranidhive.proboards.com/thread/44428/tyranid-rumours-dec-29?page=107

Limited edition covers?



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Davor wrote:
From the Tyranid Hive. http://thetyranidhive.proboards.com/thread/44428/tyranid-rumours-dec-29?page=107

Limited edition covers?



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1. 6 edits?
2. Pics aren't working for me, so I'l have to use the links.

I tried editing, 3 or 4 times, I finally gave up and gave the link. Only 2 pics show up for me. Have no idea what went wrong.

They look cool but could just be photoshops of existing artwork.

Also if this character has a codex why hasn't he come out of the woodwork posting stats and rules? Doesn't he know the interwebz needs early data on every GW release???? sheesh...

Endobai over on Warseer has confirmed they are real.

Reused artwork sent through a color filter and sold as a $50 dust jacket? Sounds believable.

I first saw them up at 4chan-

No more info until the codex releases i guess? I'd love just a bit more to keep my hopes up before they come crashing down with the new release =P