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Cant say i liked the old screamer, second edition tyranids wherend my taste

 Nevelon wrote:
They have dome some real old lead before, so it’s not out of the realm of possibility.

If you do want to base one for modern use, might good to have him up on a destroyed rhino or something. I suspect he’s like half the hight of the new guy.

Oh I just want one to have one!

 Overread wrote:
Pyrovore (yeah I like it in metal but as its gone to finecast that's gone and not enough people bought them in metal to have a decent 2nd hand price)

Ugh, tell me about it. I have 2 and want a full 3. Kept putting off the one sitting in a FLGS for too long and it got bought and now I have to deal with sifting through listings hoping for a not-terribly priced metal.

It was a legit great sculpt that was oddly placed for its game stats (huge long range style weapon --- and its a close combat flamer); and then suffered just having poor stats for ages so no one wanted them.

That and I held off for so long because they went to finecast and then I kept thinking "Ok so this next time its a new codex GW are sure to replace one of our only 2 or 3 finecast mainline models with plastics....

Here I'm still rocking my 2nd and 3rd edition Carnifexes Can't wait to see how small they look compared to the new Screamer, I did some converting on some to make them taller, but they'll never reach the stature of the new one I'm afraid!

 Skywave wrote:
Here I'm still rocking my 2nd and 3rd edition Carnifexes Can't wait to see how small they look compared to the new Screamer, I did some converting on some to make them taller, but they'll never reach the stature of the new one I'm afraid!

I want to see a conversion of two old screamer killer models in a trenchcoat, one standing on the others back

 Platuan4th wrote:
Man, I kind of want to use the new SK for a Old One Eye conversion if they don't give us a proper kit for it.

I always imagined O1E as a dolorous beefcake, but the new SK is more of a scrawny methhead freak.

I did a Toxicrene/Trygon mashup for my O1E, absolutely had to have a chunky boi: https://i.imgur.com/lbf9fbu.jpg

Also find it funny that my ~2017 Maleceptor conversion is basically ready to go for Neurotyrant double duty: https://i.imgur.com/yzHRgbX.jpg

 Altruizine wrote:


Also find it funny that my ~2017 Maleceptor conversion is basically ready to go for Neurotyrant double duty: https://i.imgur.com/yzHRgbX.jpg

It looks more menacing than the official NT.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Avert your eyes children, Grinny McRhino-Horn has returned!

Ok, not really, but you have full warning that this article on the Screamer Killer includes a full, uncensored picture of the God-awful 3rd Ed attempt at a Carnifex.

I wouldn’t say no to a Made to Order for the old old Screamer Killer. But somehow, I doubt that’ll ever happen due to how old any existing mould would be.

Wouldn't they have to make new molds for made to order runs anyway? I can't imagine that even if for some reason they had rubber molds sitting around for twenty, twenty five years, that they wouldn't go brittle and become useless in that time.

 Geifer wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Avert your eyes children, Grinny McRhino-Horn has returned!

Ok, not really, but you have full warning that this article on the Screamer Killer includes a full, uncensored picture of the God-awful 3rd Ed attempt at a Carnifex.

I wouldn’t say no to a Made to Order for the old old Screamer Killer. But somehow, I doubt that’ll ever happen due to how old any existing mould would be.

Wouldn't they have to make new molds for made to order runs anyway? I can't imagine that even if for some reason they had rubber molds sitting around for twenty, twenty five years, that they wouldn't go brittle and become useless in that time.

IIRC their metal stuff is mostly old enough to be made in the master-mould process, where you have said master mould, from which you cast a master, which you use in turn to cast production molds that you use and eventually throw away. For archival purposes, you can either store just the master mould (if you want to be able to do practically unlimited amounts of something) or several masters if you don't expect to ever produce large numbers of that model again, as each master allows you to create several production moulds until it wears out.

Nids know how to party (its a GIF so you need to click it to see ) - taken from 4chan:

 Shadow Walker wrote:
Nids know how to party (its a GIF so you need to click it to see ) - taken from 4chan:

What has been seen cannot be unseen. ?

Pics from WHF.

This shot of the new screamer is way less predator and much more Kevin Malone from The Office (US version).

Daemons article up, mentions that Carnifexes will/could have extra attack weapons (as in, can fight with a primary weapon profile plus whatever profile(s) have extra attack attribute). Might make carnies reasonably dangerous in melee.

Strangely enough, despite Shadows in the Warp in lore being some sort of muffling in the warp and causing problems for psykers and warp entities, it could actually potentially work to empower Chaos Daemons through Daemonic Manifestation where if they pass (with a +1 bonus) a battleshock test from Shadows in the Warp, each unit will regain D3 wounds/models.

Will need to be careful when to use Shadows against Daemons. On the other hand synapse will mitigate their faction rule.

And lore wise Tyranids and Daemons are kinda annoyed when they have to deal with the other as it is such a weird match-up for both in the lore.

New Combat Patrol article talks a bit about our rules etc.
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/05/09/ways-to-play-warhammer-40000-combat-patrol-is-fast-and-fun/

Is it a new art or an old one? I do not remember seeing it but the HT looks like an old model.

 Shadow Walker wrote:
Is it a new art or an old one? I do not remember seeing it but the HT looks like an old model.

Pretty sure that was the cover for one of the Octarius books in early-mid 9th.

 xttz wrote:

 Shadow Walker wrote:
Is it a new art or an old one? I do not remember seeing it but the HT looks like an old model.

Pretty sure that was the cover for one of the Octarius books in early-mid 9th.

Yeah, you are correct. Google says it is a War Zone Octarius book 1: Rising Tide.

 Tyran wrote:
Will need to be careful when to use Shadows against Daemons. On the other hand synapse will mitigate their faction rule.

And lore wise Tyranids and Daemons are kinda annoyed when they have to deal with the other as it is such a weird match-up for both in the lore.

Be interesting to see how new style codices handle things like subfactions and hive fleets in particular; since there’s a Fleet dedicated to eating daemons, maybe they will have a rule that partially counters or subverts the shadow of chaos?

 Mr_Rose wrote:

 Tyran wrote:
Will need to be careful when to use Shadows against Daemons. On the other hand synapse will mitigate their faction rule.

And lore wise Tyranids and Daemons are kinda annoyed when they have to deal with the other as it is such a weird match-up for both in the lore.

Be interesting to see how new style codices handle things like subfactions and hive fleets in particular; since there’s a Fleet dedicated to eating daemons, maybe they will have a rule that partially counters or subverts the shadow of chaos?

I hope not. Anti-[FACTION] rules are a balance nightmare.

It'd be cool to include as a narrative element, but not as matched play.

I'd paint it's arm-scythes in a different way, but I do love the new Screamer Killer model.

A re-run of the classic model would also be amazing. For that opportunity, money is no object.

 JNAProductions wrote:

 Mr_Rose wrote:

 Tyran wrote:
Will need to be careful when to use Shadows against Daemons. On the other hand synapse will mitigate their faction rule.

And lore wise Tyranids and Daemons are kinda annoyed when they have to deal with the other as it is such a weird match-up for both in the lore.

Be interesting to see how new style codices handle things like subfactions and hive fleets in particular; since there’s a Fleet dedicated to eating daemons, maybe they will have a rule that partially counters or subverts the shadow of chaos?

I hope not. Anti-[FACTION] rules are a balance nightmare.

It'd be cool to include as a narrative element, but not as matched play.

I’m not saying a specific counter, just a general rule that might happen to be pretty good vs daemons, like penalties to enemy battle shock within X of synapse creatures or something.

 Mr_Rose wrote:

 JNAProductions wrote:

 Mr_Rose wrote:

 Tyran wrote:
Will need to be careful when to use Shadows against Daemons. On the other hand synapse will mitigate their faction rule.

And lore wise Tyranids and Daemons are kinda annoyed when they have to deal with the other as it is such a weird match-up for both in the lore.

Be interesting to see how new style codices handle things like subfactions and hive fleets in particular; since there’s a Fleet dedicated to eating daemons, maybe they will have a rule that partially counters or subverts the shadow of chaos?

I hope not. Anti-[FACTION] rules are a balance nightmare.

It'd be cool to include as a narrative element, but not as matched play.

I’m not saying a specific counter, just a general rule that might happen to be pretty good vs daemons, like penalties to enemy battle shock within X of synapse creatures or something.

That'd be chill, yeah.

More news about new units https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/05/12/these-new-tyranid-gaunts-will-make-ghosts-of-your-enemies/

I’m sure the idea of an explicit synapse extender isn’t new, this way is adorable.

I’m quite impressed with the Barbgaunts.

Unit of 5 looks to be able to do nasty things against bigger blobs of infantry.

Oh, ok. Neurogaunts make sense now.