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v0iddrgn wrote:
The Toxicrene works the reverse way of Venomthropes. Instead of sitting back spreading a -1 hit bubble to buddies it rushes toward enemy shooty units to spread the love. Then it hugs you and won't let go. He cuddles.

I suddenly want to buy a Toxicrene.

I find it as a clever niche for the Toxicrene because with the way it works it doesn't invalid Venomthropes or vice versa. It also shows GW put some thought into that.

Also, I just recently got out of the hospital.

Did the Codex release yet?

 JNAProductions wrote:
Also, I just recently got out of the hospital.

Did the Codex release yet?

No, probably in a week from this Saturday.

 JNAProductions wrote:

v0iddrgn wrote:
The Toxicrene works the reverse way of Venomthropes. Instead of sitting back spreading a -1 hit bubble to buddies it rushes toward enemy shooty units to spread the love. Then it hugs you and won't let go. He cuddles.

I suddenly want to buy a Toxicrene.

IKR?

 JNAProductions wrote:
Did the Codex release yet?

Kinda. Yes. Most of it, anyway, in a nice big leaked document.

You can create your own living tide of Rippers when Codex: Tyranids and the Parasite of Mortrex arrive for pre-order in the very near future. Our xenologists are hard at work deciphering the hive mind’s inscrutable design, and there’ll be more previews in the coming weeks, so subscribe to the Warhammer Community newsletter if you don’t want to miss out.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/03/25/whats-the-deal-with-mortrex-and-how-did-it-get-such-a-vicious-tyranid-monster-named-after-it/

Sound like we are almost there!

 Nevelon wrote:

You can create your own living tide of Rippers when Codex: Tyranids and the Parasite of Mortrex arrive for pre-order in the very near future. Our xenologists are hard at work deciphering the hive mind’s inscrutable design, and there’ll be more previews in the coming weeks, so subscribe to the Warhammer Community newsletter if you don’t want to miss out.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/03/25/whats-the-deal-with-mortrex-and-how-did-it-get-such-a-vicious-tyranid-monster-named-after-it/

Sound like we are almost there!

Well... 'coming weeks' makes it sound further away to me. The rumor about the knight army set coming first, then nids and then knight books and then chaos marines might have some weight.
Maybe Thondia or the AoS versus box first? Underworlds dead boys or norse team?

Weeks is at least 2. So could be announced sunday, week of stuff. Preorders a week later, week more of articles, release.

Although they could bump it farther back, it doubt it would be more than a week or two.

Given we're getting Eldar Wave 2 going up for pre-order tomorrow, 'Nids being at least a fortnight away makes sense - can't see GW wanting to do back-to-back 40k weeks like that, especially if they could break things up with another release.

Might mean next week is the Girls & Ghosts AOS box, for example, or some SpecBrand stuff..

You guys are making to much logical sense. I just want them to release!

<skitters back to lurk in the shadows>

 Dysartes wrote:
Given we're getting Eldar Wave 2 going up for pre-order tomorrow, 'Nids being at least a fortnight away makes sense - can't see GW wanting to do back-to-back 40k weeks like that, especially if they could break things up with another release.

Might mean next week is the Girls & Ghosts AOS box, for example, or some SpecBrand stuff..

I think you're overestimating how much new stuff they actually have for AoS.

Adepticon's reveal was another model for Nighthaunt and a box of scenery. It ain't looking like they are chock full of AoS stuff right now.

Eh, it's a box we've known about for a week, and it would provide a bit of a break between 40k weeks - that's pretty much all my logic on it at the moment.

I wonder if they think it’s OK to do back-to-back xenos releases, figuring what sort of crazy person would be masochistic enough to collect two of them?

Besides me.

But an AoS spacer makes a lot of sense.

Edit, from after the Sunday teaser:

Curses, foiled again. Hope for next week.

Can we talk about some of the stuff in the leaked codex?

April coin of the month

And a free hormagaunt while supplies last!

Silly marketing tricks, but they work. I hate heading to the store just to poach the freebie, so think of what I could grab. Then think of if there is enough for the coin…

I think if you're tempted to go into a store to poach a free mini then you have deeper problems you need to work out. The minis they are offering are always basically a basic trooper model that most of us don't really have any need for. WTF are you going to do with an extra hormagaunt, really? They come in units of 10-30 and are sold in boxes of 12. Unless you're running weird squad sizes its probably not going to do anything for you. Its even worse when the free mini is for a unit that comes in squads of 5-10 minis but are sold in boxes of 10... its not like you can even really field the extra guy.

Hopefully this coin won't get stolen like that last one for Eldar

chaos0xomega wrote:
I think if you're tempted to go into a store to poach a free mini then you have deeper problems you need to work out. The minis they are offering are always basically a basic trooper model that most of us don't really have any need for. WTF are you going to do with an extra hormagaunt, really? They come in units of 10-30 and are sold in boxes of 12. Unless you're running weird squad sizes its probably not going to do anything for you. Its even worse when the free mini is for a unit that comes in squads of 5-10 minis but are sold in boxes of 10... its not like you can even really field the extra guy.

Base decoration for me- always handy to have an extra model kicking around and I have loads of hormagaunts .

How does one get the coin? Tempted for once.. need to get varnish spray and a few paints.

 Overread wrote:
Hopefully this coin won't get stolen like that last one for Eldar

Note that they never announced the Aeldari one.

If they're announcing the Tyranid one, it's not because they're lost in transit.

 silverstu wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:
I think if you're tempted to go into a store to poach a free mini then you have deeper problems you need to work out. The minis they are offering are always basically a basic trooper model that most of us don't really have any need for. WTF are you going to do with an extra hormagaunt, really? They come in units of 10-30 and are sold in boxes of 12. Unless you're running weird squad sizes its probably not going to do anything for you. Its even worse when the free mini is for a unit that comes in squads of 5-10 minis but are sold in boxes of 10... its not like you can even really field the extra guy.

Base decoration for me- always handy to have an extra model kicking around and I have loads of hormagaunts .

How does one get the coin? Tempted for once.. need to get varnish spray and a few paints.

I think they are supposed to be with $100 purchases, but I’ve gotten them with less before.

 silverstu wrote:
How does one get the coin? Tempted for once.. need to get varnish spray and a few paints.

You should get one for each £60 you spend in a GW store - but the manager might give you one for less.

chaos0xomega wrote:
WTF are you going to do with an extra hormagaunt, really?

Testing paint schemes?

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/03/30/codex-tyranids-evolves-the-hive-fleets-biggest-living-weapons-into-monstrous-vehicle-killers/

I'm surprised no one has posted this so far. TL;DR: Some minor stat changes, Tyranid guns get more killy, which is continuing the flow of power creep.

IMHO, I wouldn't be surprised if it again turns out that Tyranids are better at mid range firepower than CC.

Because the whole codex was leaked, so those changes are kinda old news to this thread (aside of giving even more legitimacy to the leak).

As for ranged vs CC nids, CC nids have way more damage potential, but getting into melee still requires building some delivery combos or walking across the board, so I'm unsure if one is better than the other.

Way better players than me will have to figure that out for tournament play.

So for those who have played some test games with the new book, are Tyranids the next space clowns where they start out with a 90%wr excluding mirror matches or are they the next Black Templars where they start at 55% and sink down to 30% as more books are released?

Honestly really depends on what happens with Crusher Stampede and Leviathan, which we are only going to know when they are FAQed with the release of the new codex.

Toofast wrote:
So for those who have played some test games with the new book, are Tyranids the next space clowns where they start out with a 90%wr excluding mirror matches or are they the next Black Templars where they start at 55% and sink down to 30% as more books are released?

The only report I've seen so far is Tyranids vs Tyranids, so technically they have a 100% win rate and a 100% lose rate.

So, a perfectly balanced Codex.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

Toofast wrote:
So for those who have played some test games with the new book, are Tyranids the next space clowns where they start out with a 90%wr excluding mirror matches or are they the next Black Templars where they start at 55% and sink down to 30% as more books are released?

The only report I've seen so far is Tyranids vs Tyranids, so technically they have a 100% win rate and a 100% lose rate.

So, a perfectly balanced Codex.

That's.... that's not how math works. ::winces in pain::

They definitely are not the next space clowns, but they are also not Black Templar.

It is a decently internally balanced codex with a ton of new rules. Keeping track of synaptic imperatives, psychic powers, specially hive fleet powers, synaptic link buffs, keeping synaptic link coherency and not forgetting about your biomorphology is definitely an exercise of memory.

I think we have a good shot at being the most complex army to play if nothing else, but that also means that truly determining the strength of the faction is kinda headache inducing.