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"1 Lords of War"? What Tyranid model is a Lord of War?

 xttz wrote:

Timd,

We have the Herophant, and the two Heriordules.

timd wrote:
"1 Lords of War"? What Tyranid model is a Lord of War?

 xttz wrote:

Heirodule, Harradin, Hierophant

 Sasori wrote:
Hypertoxic Node seems really great.

Allows you to take the venoms without wasting a slot, in addition it doesn't specify the HT has to be walking, so you now get your Tyrant with Instant death.

It even improves the Toxicrene... Seems pretty good to me!

That Hypertoxic rule not only applies to the Venomthropes and Tyrant Toxin Sac attacks, but to Toxic Miasma and ranged Miasma Cannon hits too. That's a lot of Instant Death.

 Hulksmash wrote:


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 Desubot wrote:
Well that be a nerf to skybright. but not surprising

I assume you mean skyblight and and I'm not sure I'm seeing a Nerf....Looks exactly the same.

Oh am i herping? i though they always come back no need for 4+

Then never mind (actually i thought there objsec was stronger before)

On reflection, Skytyrant could be awesome...

Conga-line the gargoyles back to a backfield malano/veno while the Flyrant moves up the board with a 2+ Jink and 2+LOS...

could work nicely!


that T3 is really bugging me though... Grrr.

 xttz wrote:

 Sasori wrote:
Hypertoxic Node seems really great.

Allows you to take the venoms without wasting a slot, in addition it doesn't specify the HT has to be walking, so you now get your Tyrant with Instant death.

It even improves the Toxicrene... Seems pretty good to me!

That Hypertoxic rule not only applies to the Venomthropes and Tyrant Toxin Sac attacks, but to Toxic Miasma and ranged Miasma Cannon hits too. That's a lot of Instant Death.

This is a very good point!

Makes it even more of a no brainier. The Toxicrene may also be worth it with a pod too.

The Neural node is way to expensive to be decent. Skytide is also incredibly expensive, so wont' be seen outside non apocalypse games.

Skyblght, for some reason I thought it was 2 crones and 1 harpy before.

The Spore one will be really good, if the Mucolid spores work out to being decent.

Skytyrant is.. interesting, but I think it's a pass.

Does anyone else find it funny that the picture of the Hive Tyrant in the toxic node has a Bonesword.

 Sasori wrote:
Timd,

We have the Herophant, and the two Heriordules.

DOH! And as Wilson said, the Harridan.

Was thinking about GW plastic kits, not FW kits...

Well that was very disappointting. Regreating that fact that I pre-odered that book. Waste of $66.

azazel70820 wrote:
Well that was very disappointting. Regreating that fact that I pre-odered that book. Waste of $66.

Kinda feel the same... :(

i think the skytyrant one will be alot of fun. Melee hive tyrant with 20+ LoS wounds that you can daisy chain back to a malanthrope/venomthrope.

If you want you can run the tyrant up front, jink with shrouded for a 2+ cover save to tank some of that.

Yes it is majority T3, but a melee tyrant is always fun to play.

I'm not regretting it. It's all the new units and upgraded units in print. It's new formations and a new detachment. And it's got a fluff book that I'm testing the waters on to see if getting them for 40k is worth it like it has been for Fantasy with the End Times series.

azazel70820 wrote:
Well that was very disappointting. Regreating that fact that I pre-odered that book. Waste of $66.

If I can't get a copy, I'll take it off your hands!

 Wilson wrote:

azazel70820 wrote:
Well that was very disappointting. Regreating that fact that I pre-odered that book. Waste of $66.

Kinda feel the same... :(

So....why?
New rules, new formations, city fight rules, campaign scenarios, background and what looks to be some nice art.
Which part of that is disappointing?

Kind of disappointing.

EDIT: In reference to the formations, not the book.

My only disapointment is the Skyblight reprint. If they'd swapped that for a drop pod formation it would be my favoritist of books

 Hulksmash wrote:
My only disapointment is the Skyblight reprint. If they'd swapped that for a drop pod formation it would be my favoritist of books

I think the key to my kinda ...."aww man" kinda vibe is the hope for a drop pod formation...

turn 1 pods would have been so exciting.

 Hulksmash wrote:
My only disapointment is the Skyblight reprint. If they'd swapped that for a drop pod formation it would be my favoritist of books

That would have honestly made this amazing to me, even if it was the only formation they put in.

 Hulksmash wrote:
My only disapointment is the Skyblight reprint. If they'd swapped that for a drop pod formation it would be my favoritist of books

Remember that this is supposed to be Book I; and what's more it isn't even really the "invasion" proper. It's the initial wave of gribbilies.

Oh I'm aware I just would have wanted it NOW!!!! It makes sense to let the initial excitement purchases of the pod happen and then give another reason to buy more later.

I really wonder if there is any weight to the "baneblade sized bug" talk on warpshadow that came after the toxicrene.

Either way, as a BA and Nid player, i'll be buying all this campaign stuff, loving it and enjoying it.

Now, to get painting gargoyles. AFTER Renegade Open this weekend!

See ya there BeeCee And I'm not looking forward to repainting my 60 gargoyles in the new army colors myself. But I do like the idea of a Gargoyle squad led by a Hive Tyrant

Hulk, looking forward to consuming beverages with you and the rest of the Frozen North/ Adeptus Brew City/ Insert random people who like to drink that will also be at Renegade!

Now we wait for book 2. Sanctus Reach was 2 books right? not that they have to follow the same formula or anything.

BeeCee wrote:
I really wonder if there is any weight to the "baneblade sized bug" talk on warpshadow that came after the toxicrene.

There is, the recent big bug with tentacles was described as being as wide as a baneblade (can't remember if it was in the white dwarf, or in white dwarf daily from the website) and sadly I think it was misinterpreted from there.

I really wish there was a big bug, and there will be, GW likes to make bigger and bigger kits.

 Hulksmash wrote:
Oh I'm aware I just would have wanted it NOW!!!! It makes sense to let the initial excitement purchases of the pod happen and then give another reason to buy more later.

Personally, I'm expecting book 2 to be BA-focused, but I guess you never know.

I'm thrilled with Tyrannocytes anyway -- turn 1 formation or no turn 1 formation.

Leviathan gives us an easy legal way to have 3 Tyrants without self allying.

SkyTyrant gives you a fourth Tyrant and the gargoyles you probably already want anyway.

So there is that.

 xttz wrote:

So, is there no Objective Secured on this detachment? I like the extra HQ but I have to question whether it's worth it to give up ObSec for an extra Flyrant...

 jifel wrote:

So, is there no Objective Secured on this detachment? I like the extra HQ but I have to question whether it's worth it to give up ObSec for an extra Flyrant...

Correct. Just like every other detachment that has been released.

I 'spose there could be new creatures in the next book, but I don't think we're getting any more new models outside of the Broodlord.