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 Nevelon wrote:

Necronmaniac05 wrote:
I broadly agree but the lack of a plastic Tyranid LOW still is a little frustrating.

We have plenty of big bugs, I’d just like them to have rules to back up the models.

We do not have a proper LOW unless they go back to old fluff where a Trygon was a one.

ib4 Boy style Gaunt update.

4 Hormagaunts, 3 Termagants, 3 Spinegants

 Shadow Walker wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:

Necronmaniac05 wrote:
I broadly agree but the lack of a plastic Tyranid LOW still is a little frustrating.

We have plenty of big bugs, I’d just like them to have rules to back up the models.

We do not have a proper LOW unless they go back to old fluff where a Trygon was a one.

What is a lord of war to you? The trygon and tyrannofex are both big enough to get a look in at this, but having a "lord of war" forces the use of a SHA detachment, costing cp and loses the hive fleet trait on the model.

So if you're asking for a "big centrepiece gribbly" such as a plastic hierophant, cool, but it's a be careful what you wish for moment.

Evidence: monolith and gork/morkanaught

Dudeface wrote:

 Shadow Walker wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:

Necronmaniac05 wrote:
I broadly agree but the lack of a plastic Tyranid LOW still is a little frustrating.

We have plenty of big bugs, I’d just like them to have rules to back up the models.

We do not have a proper LOW unless they go back to old fluff where a Trygon was a one.

What is a lord of war to you? The trygon and tyrannofex are both big enough to get a look in at this, but having a "lord of war" forces the use of a SHA detachment, costing cp and loses the hive fleet trait on the model.

So if you're asking for a "big centrepiece gribbly" such as a plastic hierophant, cool, but it's a be careful what you wish for moment.

Evidence: monolith and gork/morkanaught

Yeah, plastic Hierophant/Hierodules/Dominatrix/Hydraphant etc. is what I want. I agree that Tyrannofex/Trygon are big enough to count as one though. Still why not have the best of both worlds? Anyway I doubt that GW will pass for a chance to give us LOW without introducing a new model, and how many fans of nids would not like a one mentioned in plastic instead FW resin crap?

Oh lol. Good luck getting tyranid equilavent of reaver/warlord battle titan before imperium gets those.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
ib4 Boy style Gaunt update.

4 Hormagaunts, 3 Termagants, 3 Spinegants

, 2 Rippers, and 1 Spore

I'd love a big plastic Dactylis!

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I'd love a big plastic Dactylis!

It and a Malefactor would be sweet to have.

New Genestealers.

Or at the very least, for the love of god, put em on 32mm bases.

Do we not have a Malefactor already?

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Do we not have a Malefactor already?

Maleceptor

Sunny Side Up wrote:
New Genestealers.

Or at the very least, for the love of god, put em on 32mm bases.

It would be nice to have Genestealers where you could switch the back between Hive Fleet ones and Genestealer Cult ones.

 xttz wrote:

 Dysartes wrote:
Question for those with a 'Nid 'dex of an appropriate vintage - what type of 'Nid was the Parasite a SC version of?

It was described as a "bat winged creature the size of a Tyranid Warrior" and had a similar profile ruleswise.

The concept artwork looks much like our teaser model too!

Spoiler:

...A new plastic Shrike kit that can alternatively build the Parasite, in the vein of the Carnifex kit and Old One Eye?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I'd love a big plastic Dactylis!

Only thing is that they’d probably feel obliged to change the old Epic design, which would suck.
Even worse is it would be because someone just “couldn’t believe” a lever arm mechanism like that could throw things hard enough. To which I say mantis shrimp!

Sunny Side Up wrote:
New Genestealers.

Or at the very least, for the love of god, put em on 32mm bases.

^ This please, thnx GW.

 Tiberius501 wrote:

Sunny Side Up wrote:
New Genestealers.

Or at the very least, for the love of god, put em on 32mm bases.

^ This please, thnx GW.

Officialness be damned, I’ve been using base extenders on mine to bring them up to 32s. With their arms everywhere they were never getting into actual BTB contact anyway. And now they look better and are more stable.

Lictors, Deathleaper and The Red Terror would be awesome. I've been after an all-Lictor Kill Team for a while now but only had a spare metal kit lying around...

Hah, a KT21 triple lictor box would be amazing. Maybe have a team list that includes ’stealers and spores too.
Maybe a Ravener as a specialist.

With regards to the weird sudden announcement of this codex between Eldar and Chaos, anyone else think that maybe this was due to release alongside the Octarius book originally but delayed for some reason?

Also, put me down for "really want to see the crusade rules".

princeyg wrote:
With regards to the weird sudden announcement of this codex between Eldar and Chaos, anyone else think that maybe this was due to release alongside the Octarius book originally but delayed for some reason?

Perhaps!

 xttz wrote:


Speculation; if this Tyranid release consists of multiple kits as rumoured I'm wondering if it was originally pencilled in to be out with the Octarius books last year but ended up being pushed back due to production / logistics issues. That would explain why it seems to be strangely wedged in the middle of a Chaos-themed season. That's why I didn't believe the Valrak rumour when I first saw it.

I think Tyranids may have been originally set to be after Orks or BT, but early last year GW were plagued with supply delays for various releases and had a new AOS edition firmly scheduled for the summer. If they were unsure that everything could be produced / delivered time it made sense to delay the faction able to have interim rules, so they copy pasted Synaptic Links from the new codex into Rising Tide before it went it print.

This theory is more likely to be true if it turns out we're getting multiple new kits as rumoured.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
ib4 Boy style Gaunt update.

4 Hormagaunts, 3 Termagants, 3 Spinegants

For sale: Gaunt box, mixed unit.

 Tim the Biovore wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
ib4 Boy style Gaunt update.

4 Hormagaunts, 3 Termagants, 3 Spinegants

For sale: Gaunt box, mixed unit.

"You can run them as a mixed, versatile unit, or buy more boxes to create a more specialized unit!"

For me, a reimagined dominatrix as supreme commander lord of war makes the most sense. Much like Szarekh for necrons you get a big centre piece that can use the supreme command detachment so is more useable. It fits the fluff given the dominatrixes role in the hive mind pecking order too.

Dunno how good 5000+ monster is to have...haven't seen many warlords out there either

Necronmaniac05 wrote:
For me, a reimagined dominatrix as supreme commander lord of war makes the most sense. Much like Szarekh for necrons you get a big centre piece that can use the supreme command detachment so is more useable. It fits the fluff given the dominatrixes role in the hive mind pecking order too.

Doesn't quite fit 5th+ lore in which the Swarmlord is the supreme commander of the Tyranid swarm. (BTW, the Swarmlord definitely is getting the Supreme Commander keyword which should make including it into lists easier).

Still I would love a Dominatrix LoW, but it will need some lore rewriting to fit with modern Tyranids.

 Tyran wrote:

Necronmaniac05 wrote:
For me, a reimagined dominatrix as supreme commander lord of war makes the most sense. Much like Szarekh for necrons you get a big centre piece that can use the supreme command detachment so is more useable. It fits the fluff given the dominatrixes role in the hive mind pecking order too.

Doesn't quite fit 5th+ lore in which the Swarmlord is the supreme commander of the Tyranid swarm. (BTW, the Swarmlord definitely is getting the Supreme Commander keyword which should make including it into lists easier).

Still I would love a Dominatrix LoW, but it will need some lore rewriting to fit with modern Tyranids.

Would be interesting in seeing the Swarmlord with a knight sized kit and stats to back that up. He can just have a helping of whatever the Avatar of Khain has been eating.

I would prefer the Swarmlord to have support abilities rather than size and stats.

We have plenty of monsters to be melee beatsticks, meanwhile the Swarmlord whole thing is to be the smartest nid.

 xttz wrote:

Spoletta wrote:

The rumors also say that they are losing the no-LoS shooting.

Which rumours?

I don't believe this. That's been Hive Guards Schtick since they were released. They'll surely lose the double-shoot stratagem though.

 Tyran wrote:
I would prefer the Swarmlord to have support abilities rather than size and stats.

We have plenty of monsters to be melee beatsticks, meanwhile the Swarmlord whole thing is to be the smartest nid.

Yeah, he is supposed to be created to outsmart the enemy no to outfight him in cc (although he is also capable of it when needed).

 Sasori wrote:

 xttz wrote:

Spoletta wrote:

The rumors also say that they are losing the no-LoS shooting.

Which rumours?

I don't believe this. That's been Hive Guards Schtick since they were released. They'll surely lose the double-shoot stratagem though.

I could see Hive Guard losing NLOS shooting for improving hit chances like ignoring BS/Hit modifiers or re-rolling hits.

More importantly, I would like to see both the Impalers and specially Shockcannons getting a stats buff that they will need once they lose SMA.