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Pyrosphere wrote:

 Wulfmar wrote:
I wouldn't be surprised if any releases are underwhelming - The shoulderpads, guns and helmets already exist as a metal kit

That's the point! Metal models are old fashioned and gone. Finecast is gone, too. Every new release will be made entirely of plastic.

They could just release a single unit upgrade sprue like the recent chapter ones to cover everything you would need per unit.

Is there a new Tyranid codex coming soon?

Zwan1One wrote:

Pyrosphere wrote:

 Wulfmar wrote:
I wouldn't be surprised if any releases are underwhelming - The shoulderpads, guns and helmets already exist as a metal kit

That's the point! Metal models are old fashioned and gone. Finecast is gone, too. Every new release will be made entirely of plastic.

They could just release a single unit upgrade sprue like the recent chapter ones to cover everything you would need per unit.

That is what I am hoping for. I wish they would just discontinue the Finecast upgrade kits and make plastic ones in their place.

 casvalremdeikun wrote:

Zwan1One wrote:

Pyrosphere wrote:

 Wulfmar wrote:
I wouldn't be surprised if any releases are underwhelming - The shoulderpads, guns and helmets already exist as a metal kit

That's the point! Metal models are old fashioned and gone. Finecast is gone, too. Every new release will be made entirely of plastic.

They could just release a single unit upgrade sprue like the recent chapter ones to cover everything you would need per unit.

That is what I am hoping for. I wish they would just discontinue the Finecast upgrade kits and make plastic ones in their place.

Same here about the finecast thing.
But in all seriousness is there a new tyranid codex coming.

Zwan1One wrote:

Pyrosphere wrote:

 Wulfmar wrote:
I wouldn't be surprised if any releases are underwhelming - The shoulderpads, guns and helmets already exist as a metal kit

That's the point! Metal models are old fashioned and gone. Finecast is gone, too. Every new release will be made entirely of plastic.

They could just release a single unit upgrade sprue like the recent chapter ones to cover everything you would need per unit.

I agree. And if it's an upgrade for the Sternguards, they only need 5 shoulder pads, so they can add more heads, a few torsos and some Inquisition symbols. Bolters probably will come from the Sternguard kit.

Is there a new Tyranid Codex coming?!

GW giving the fans what they want?
Normally I would say bs, but they did do Admech...and proceeded to feth them by splitting the army across two books.

So if they do bring in genestealer cults, expect it to be an attempt at grabbing your money while offering little in return.

SERIOUSLY!! Is there a new Tyranid codex coming?!

No idea. Maybe. They seemed to have accelerated the releases.
Which is awesome.
Except these releases tend to be poorly written, rushed, and mostly consists of studio pictures, while still charging a high price.
Which is not awesome.

Pyrosphere wrote:

 Wulfmar wrote:
I wouldn't be surprised if any releases are underwhelming - The shoulderpads, guns and helmets already exist as a metal kit

That's the point! Metal models are old fashioned and gone. Finecast is gone, too. Every new release will be made entirely of plastic.

Metal models are not old fashioned for one multiple other companies use such a medium.

Dumping it has not only made GW more expensive and less a pocket money hobby and more I need to work 2days hobby just to afford a recent release.

They have lost who they are and that's a real shame.


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 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
No idea. Maybe. They seemed to have accelerated the releases.
Which is awesome.
Except these releases tend to be poorly written, rushed, and mostly consists of studio pictures, while still charging a high price.
Which is not awesome.

Actually they have ramped back there was supposed to be another boxed game after the HH one that's been put of to next year.

Eh, I never liked working with metal. I always found it hard to paint.
I do understand where you are coming from though.

Ah really? I did not notice that. Their release schedule is a bit weird now.
Before it was at a steady rate of 4 years between releases, but now everything is...different.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
No idea. Maybe. They seemed to have accelerated the releases.
Which is awesome.
Except these releases tend to be poorly written, rushed, and mostly consists of studio pictures, while still charging a high price.
Which is not awesome.

THANKS FOR TELLING ME!!!

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
GW giving the fans what they want?
Normally I would say bs, but they did do Admech...and proceeded to feth them by splitting the army across two books.

So if they do bring in genestealer cults, expect it to be an attempt at grabbing your money while offering little in return.

I can imagine it. We will get a Tyranid Codex with Genestealers (and Broodlords) removed, and then we will get the Genestealer Cult mini codex.

 Tyran wrote:


I can imagine it. We will get a Tyranid Codex with Genestealers (and Broodlords) removed, and then we will get the Genestealer Cult mini codex.

Ooh, I hope so! I could sell the rest of my nids and still play with my stealers!

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Eh, I never liked working with metal. I always found it hard to paint.
I do understand where you are coming from though.

Ah really? I did not notice that. Their release schedule is a bit weird now.
Before it was at a steady rate of 4 years between releases, but now everything is...different.

Metal is fine to paint. It's getting the paint to stay on when people WON'T FREAKING STOP TOUCHING YOUR MODELS BEFORE YOU GET A CHANCE TO VARNISH THEM!

Sorry, sorry. Used to work in a GW and it was a straight up nightmare for metal in there.

Mr.Church13 wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Eh, I never liked working with metal. I always found it hard to paint.
I do understand where you are coming from though.

Ah really? I did not notice that. Their release schedule is a bit weird now.
Before it was at a steady rate of 4 years between releases, but now everything is...different.

Metal is fine to paint. It's getting the paint to stay on when people WON'T FREAKING STOP TOUCHING YOUR MODELS BEFORE YOU GET A CHANCE TO VARNISH THEM!

Sorry, sorry. Used to work in a GW and it was a straight up nightmare for metal in there.

Painting metal isn't bad. Conversion work was a bloody pain though.

Mr.Church13 wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Eh, I never liked working with metal. I always found it hard to paint.
I do understand where you are coming from though.

Ah really? I did not notice that. Their release schedule is a bit weird now.
Before it was at a steady rate of 4 years between releases, but now everything is...different.

Metal is fine to paint. It's getting the paint to stay on when people WON'T FREAKING STOP TOUCHING YOUR MODELS BEFORE YOU GET A CHANCE TO VARNISH THEM!

Sorry, sorry. Used to work in a GW and it was a straight up nightmare for metal in there.

Depends on the paints but yeah I agree. Though I do see the benefits of both. I like metal simply for its durability. And cost.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
GW giving the fans what they want?
Normally I would say bs, but they did do Admech...and proceeded to feth them by splitting the army across two books.

So if they do bring in genestealer cults, expect it to be an attempt at grabbing your money while offering little in return.

In essence, they're already split. The purestrains will probably stay in the nid codex only whereas the mutts would go in the second book. In this case, though, it's just a matter of timing more than trying to purposely double dip the same customers with two half assed books they'll need. Also, if you include the knights, it's actually three books.

 Formosa wrote:
My buddy who works at gw HQ said the same, they expected it to do well, but ad mech sold much better than the estimations.

Well if they'd done any level of market research beforehand. Oh wait, market research is soooooooo otiose!

Market research is for those weird people who believe their business works... like a business. GW know better!

Slayer-Fan123 wrote:

Painting metal isn't bad. Conversion work was a bloody pain though.

Pinning metal is horrible. It's something I don't miss even a tiny bit Especially since even pinning and superglue isn't enough to hold some models together. Can you imagine gaming with a Wraithknight cast in metal?

 Talys wrote:

Slayer-Fan123 wrote:

Painting metal isn't bad. Conversion work was a bloody pain though.

Pinning metal is horrible. It's something I don't miss even a tiny bit Especially since even pinning and superglue isn't enough to hold some models together. Can you imagine gaming with a Wraithknight cast in metal?

Obviously I'm not advocating it for all figures. I have some large warmachine metal figures and I dunno I quite like them.

Again painting depends on the paint and cleaning the figures before starting... like resin basically.

 warboss wrote:
The entire look and superficial premise of the army is a combination of porn tropes. Super hot angry nuns who look like they're dressed in leather out to punish all the naughty boys? Oh , and they also like to cause pain to themselves too. They're scifi bdsm hot nun dominatrixes.

The look of the army is more “Super baroque nuns who bling the hell out of everything with tons of skulls because 40k”.
The only unit that fill your description is Repentia.
Seriously, there is NOTHING in those two models (the one that are going to catch the eye of people in a Sisters army) that say “bsdm dominatrix”. Nothing.

 warboss wrote:
With GW shying away from all things related to sex (like Slaneesh in AOS), I wouldn't be surprised about extending that to SOB...I don't agree but I'm not surprised.

What about the actual BDSM-theme army called Dark Eldars?

 warboss wrote:
GW have tonned it down admittedly a bit in the years since Blanche

Even in that codex you linked to, there is also this artwork:

Sure, she looks angrier, heavier, more armored and younger than your example. That kind of come with being a dedicated warrior/zealot. But she certainly does not look like a pin-up, do she?
The cover was an oddity, not representative of neither the models, not the other illustrations, nor the fluff, and it has never been reused afaik, so…

 Talys wrote:

Slayer-Fan123 wrote:

Painting metal isn't bad. Conversion work was a bloody pain though.

Pinning metal is horrible. It's something I don't miss even a tiny bit Especially since even pinning and superglue isn't enough to hold some models together. Can you imagine gaming with a Wraithknight cast in metal?

Hear, hear! My Pedro Kantor took FOREVER to get his banner pinned in place, and I still have to take extreme amounts of care not to dislodge it.

Another page of bumps for off-topic chatter. Why isn't this thread locked?

And the gunner for the ecstorsist is straight of the famous sculpture the ecstasy of ST Teresa by Bernini which is on a papal tomb... oh god i just got the link... wow... im really slow

OFF TOPIC POSTS WILL GET THE POSTER A WARNING - AND POSSIBLY A SUSPENSION.

I'd like to think there's a possibility of a GS Cult army. I think GW was short-sighted when they said Tyranids couldn't ally with Imperial Guard, which would have been an easy way to bring the cults back. They did get name dropped in Invasion Swarms for the first time since the second codex. Given that most of the other factions have gotten a supplemental release (Necrons excepted), the Tyranids should get one at some point, unless you count Shield of Baal as one. And what else are they going to make it about? I mean I suppose that could concentrate on Hive Fleet Leviathan or something like that, but that feels a bit weak. Unless the economics make the Nids a less-profitable than the other factions.

 Mordiggian wrote:
I'd like to think there's a possibility of a GS Cult army. I think GW was short-sighted when they said Tyranids couldn't ally with Imperial Guard, which would have been an easy way to bring the cults back.

Imperial Guard != Genestealer Cults. Genestealer Cults can include PDF, but you're not going to see Guardsmen in their ranks.

It's really better for them to either build a dedicated "Genestealer Cultist" unit or a Codex rather than just do the whole "Ally in X" thing.

Additionally? Nothing is stopping you from allying Guard and Tyranids. They're "Come the Apocalypse" allies, which means that the "One Eye Open" rule is in effect and they cannot deploy within 12" of each other when deploying for battle.

Sad Panda confirms, and before May!

Sad Panda wrote:

guru wrote:
Deathwach vs genestealer cult game

You don't have to wait till May for that one.