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Cant happen as it drops in thay get out straight away then rest of movement then interceptor shots so it cant die untill its done its primary job (barring ds mishap).

This been dropped in here yet?-

http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2014/11/40k-shield-of-baal-beans-spill.html

So what exactly is Shield of Baal?

2 volume hardcover narrative campaign set.

Covers the invasion of the Sheildworlds of Baal by Hivefleet Leviathan

The initial set is only the first volume detailing the invasion.

It involves Tyranids vs Astra Militarum, Tempestus Strikeforces, Adepta Sororitas.

Volume 1 is 152pp, narrative campaign book (no rules) detailing this phase of the invasion.

Volume 2 is 64pp of rules including:

- 6 narrative scenarios

- Cities of Death campaign expansion

- Fighter Aces rules for games of 40k ~OHH NEAT!

- New Tyranid detachments, units, formations, and more.

 manrogue wrote:
This been dropped in here yet?-

http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2014/11/40k-shield-of-baal-beans-spill.html

So what exactly is Shield of Baal?

2 volume hardcover narrative campaign set.

Covers the invasion of the Sheildworlds of Baal by Hivefleet Leviathan

The initial set is only the first volume detailing the invasion.

It involves Tyranids vs Astra Militarum, Tempestus Strikeforces, Adepta Sororitas.

Volume 1 is 152pp, narrative campaign book (no rules) detailing this phase of the invasion.

Volume 2 is 64pp of rules including:

- 6 narrative scenarios

- Cities of Death campaign expansion

- Fighter Aces rules for games of 40k ~OHH NEAT!

- New Tyranid detachments, units, formations, and more.

Detachments?

Yes, there is going to be a new Tyranid detachment for Hive Fleet Leviathan apparently, plus warlord traits and such. The book is like a campaign book and codex supplement rolled into one.

 Redemption wrote:
Yes, there is going to be a new Tyranid detachment for Hive Fleet Leviathan apparently, plus warlord traits and such. The book is like a campaign book and codex supplement rolled into one.

Aah but this says detachmentS. I. E more than one... I'll be sure to order my copy at 7pm Friday on the nose!

 Wilson wrote:

 Red Corsair wrote:

rollawaythestone wrote:

 Wilson wrote:
Yessss! Doom warlord! Aggressive Flyrants! Oh boy!!!


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DaddyWarcrimes wrote:
To be fair, any model can be your Warlord. The model just has to be a character to get a Warlord Trait.

No, it has to be a character full stop.

Your Warlord has to be a character, but if you have no characters, then it can be any model.

I think you guys have served Wilson a full 3 courses

He's probably full

Nope, still room for more if any one else wants to repeat the last few comments posted!

Side note; who even plays unbound?

I'm sure someone will bite...

Actually around here they have realized how stupid it is not to allow unbound when players just take things like 2 ripper bases to get around it. I tend to agree, if you want to run 4 flyrants just take them for gods sake and spare me the excuses.... it's a tax to basically play unbound


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rollawaythestone wrote:

 Wilson wrote:



Side note; who even plays unbound?

I'm sure someone will bite...

Side note; who even plays unbound?

The correct answer is no one.

Speak for yourself, the internet tends to be full of people talking crap about which way the game IS played and it tends to be...wait for it... just their opinion!

I sometimes play with my unbound army just for fun, and watching opponents faces.

I always liked the idea of all flying Nids, so field:

Skyblight formation;
Flyrant, 2x Harpies, Hive crone, 3x Gargoyle broods ( getting Objective Secured )

Harridan

It's fun watching people struggle with no skyfire.

So when it says, "new units" is it say to assume that if I like hardcopy rules for my units that this will be the place to find Tyrannocyst, Neurothropes, Toxicrene, etc?

That is most likely, yes.

Other than the White Dwarf.

Yeah, i'm all for having stuff spread across five .pdfs/etc... but in print, i'd like to keep it to a couple books, and not have to tote magazines with me to the FLGS as well. :-p

That said, I cannot imagine other units being in this book with full entries beyond the wealth of goodies we've just received. MAYBE, Ymgarls, what with Stealers on the book cover?

NewTruthNeomaxim wrote:
Yeah, i'm all for having stuff spread across five .pdfs/etc... but in print, i'd like to keep it to a couple books, and not have to tote magazines with me to the FLGS as well. :-p

That said, I cannot imagine other units being in this book with full entries beyond the wealth of goodies we've just received. MAYBE, Ymgarls, what with Stealers on the book cover?

Ymargls would be awesome. That and a GMC.

Perhaps the second campaign book...

God my fingers are crossed so hard.

After all they just released, the rumored Baneblade sized bug and the fact that nids are one of the few armies without a Knight Titan sized model in their range, I wouldn't be suprised if they dropped a big bug on us in White Dwarf 43 at this point.

I'd be surprised if they dropped a titan bug on us right now.

If only because its approaching market saturation points - sure its in time for Christmas, but they don't really need to drop anything more on Nids at this point in time. They've got several new high price models that will likely sell pretty darn well and plastic zoanthropes and venomthropes will still sell well to established players because no more wobbly metal/evil finecast to deal with.

I'm not saying we don't deserve a big monster or that one would be unwelcome just that it could be too much all at once - if I were GW I'd save a little time - release something big for Nids later once the wallets have recharged

 Overread wrote:
... but they don't really need to drop anything more on Nids at this point in time.

GW don't really need to do anything, but they choose to.

And I wanna big bug damn it!

It looks like an easy magneting job to be able to swap between sporocyst and tyrannocyte (one big magnet on the bottom), which is nice. Would make it slightly easier to transport as well.

The armour plates would need to be torqued out to the sporocyst angle of course, or you'd lose the LOS-blocking of the cyst (one of it's main benefits?).

Probably should magnet the guns too, so one big magnet and 5 little ones.

They have different tops as well, if I'm not mistaken. They showed the top of the Sporocyst in the latest White Dwarf Weekly.

That's either just another magnet, or use one or the other. I don't it's something that affects the game either way. Neither has any game use, and for the chimney you could just as easily say the spores come out of the maw.

Not to mention it's much more believable(I see the irony with that) to hav the Mucolid come out of the maw than squeeze out of the tiny spore chimney.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Overread wrote:
... but they don't really need to drop anything more on Nids at this point in time.

GW don't really need to do anything, but they choose to.

And I wanna big bug damn it!

It does seem really strange that the army with so many monstrous creatures actually lacks a non-FW Gargantuan equivalent.

Imperials get the Baneblade and variants as well as Knights.
Orks got Stompas.
Chaos got the Lord of Skulls.
Necrons got the Tesseract Vault/Obelisk.

Maybe an Apoc big bug would be something they sprung on us?

 DarkStarSabre wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Overread wrote:
... but they don't really need to drop anything more on Nids at this point in time.

GW don't really need to do anything, but they choose to.

And I wanna big bug damn it!

It does seem really strange that the army with so many monstrous creatures actually lacks a non-FW Gargantuan equivalent.

Imperials get the Baneblade and variants as well as Knights.
Orks got Stompas.
Chaos got the Lord of Skulls.
Necrons got the Tesseract Vault/Obelisk.

Maybe an Apoc big bug would be something they sprung on us?

Or they will wait so they have something to release with the next nid codex, also to distract from Swarmlord moving to Lord of War as well. LordofWarfex would be a nice selling point for a codex release, since there really is only Lictors/Deathleaper and Biovore/Pyrovores left to get new plastic kits.

I'm still holding out for a plastic Dactylis/Malefactor kit.

I'm not sure if it's been said yet, but the rules for the new toxicren and Maleceptor are available as a PDF from the GW website itself, on the product page. Yes, available for free.

I suppose they'll do the same for the Tyrannocyte once it's released ?

It's been mentioned.

They probably will. The. Nuerothrope too. No one knows if they'll stay up after the campaign is released.

 angelofvengeance wrote:
If a Tyrannocyte snuffs it before dropping the kids off, do the beasties inside die as well?

Good question. Hard to vision a tyrannocyte catching fire and then exploding. But my guess would be they suffer just the same as any space marine would in a stormraven.

 Quarterdime wrote:

 angelofvengeance wrote:
If a Tyrannocyte snuffs it before dropping the kids off, do the beasties inside die as well?

Good question. Hard to vision a tyrannocyte catching fire and then exploding. But my guess would be they suffer just the same as any space marine would in a stormraven.

Besides scattering off the table (which goes for both the transport and its contents), the Tyrannocyte can't be killed before it dropped off its passengers, so it's not going to be an issue.

 Redemption wrote:

 Quarterdime wrote:

 angelofvengeance wrote:
If a Tyrannocyte snuffs it before dropping the kids off, do the beasties inside die as well?

Good question. Hard to vision a tyrannocyte catching fire and then exploding. But my guess would be they suffer just the same as any space marine would in a stormraven.

Besides scattering off the table (which goes for both the transport and its contents), the Tyrannocyte can't be killed before it dropped off its passengers, so it's not going to be an issue.

Yep, same with Space Marine Drop pods.

Even interceptor shots can't target them until after the unit inside disembarks.

MajorWesJanson wrote:

 DarkStarSabre wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Overread wrote:
... but they don't really need to drop anything more on Nids at this point in time.

GW don't really need to do anything, but they choose to.

And I wanna big bug damn it!

It does seem really strange that the army with so many monstrous creatures actually lacks a non-FW Gargantuan equivalent.

Imperials get the Baneblade and variants as well as Knights.
Orks got Stompas.
Chaos got the Lord of Skulls.
Necrons got the Tesseract Vault/Obelisk.

Maybe an Apoc big bug would be something they sprung on us?

Or they will wait so they have something to release with the next nid codex, also to distract from Swarmlord moving to Lord of War as well. LordofWarfex would be a nice selling point for a codex release, since there really is only Lictors/Deathleaper and Biovore/Pyrovores left to get new plastic kits.

I wouldn't have problems with the Swarmlord moving to Lord of War as long as he gets some awesome rules to compensate and justify the Lord of War slot.

H.B.M.C. wrote:I'm still holding out for a plastic Dactylis/Malefactor kit.

Another transport is always welcome, and a Dactylis launching Mucolid spores would be awesome.

Are there any rumors as to what the new warlord traits will be or if there will be any new artifacts?

What is the source on this alleged rumored "baneblade sized bug"? Link plox!


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Just kidding I found it. MORE NIDS!

OTT to be honest, its fun to have lots of tiny critters and some big ones, but swarms of big ones? Yeah zilla was cool back in the day but all of these HUGE kits for the sake of Huge stuff creates a problem for me.
I mean just look at the volume space those tentacles take, ridiculous.

Dont have the space at home just dedicated for nids so they have to fight for a position in my collections... design wise all to samey too, just bigger... guess its not for me then.