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I like the head tail. I’m envisioning this being a proper whirl of carnage, using its cloak and head tail thing to fend off anyone trying to mob it whilst it focuses on More Urgent Prey.

Definitely gonna be Marmite, but I for one am a fan.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
I like the head tail. I’m envisioning this being a proper whirl of carnage, using its cloak and head tail thing to fend off anyone trying to mob it whilst it focuses on More Urgent Prey.

Definitely gonna be Marmite, but I for one am a fan.

It certainly looks more 'Unknowable space mutant abomination' than older editions ''Bug-Lizard' approach to Tyranids, and i quite like it. It steps close to overdoing it, but stays on the right side of the line, for me. Also, i want somebody to do a conversion of it with top hat, three monocles and a walking cane.

I did once advocate for more alien looking Nids, and I’ve certainly got what I wanted with this Gribbly Lovely.

Granted one can imagine the Hive Mind going a bit Beavis when developing it, but that only adds to the appeal for me.

"The value of the prize is GBP £37.50"

Recent named characters have been £27.50, while 'elite' infantry like Eightbound were released at £37.50

Bets on this being a box with 2-3 lictors, and one of them can be built as Deathleaper?

 Shadow Walker wrote:
Time to make a little conversion work on Tervigons

Ha I was thinking that too. The original will live on


Awesome looking deathleaper. I can’t believe they gave him a cloak of biomass

 xttz wrote:
"The value of the prize is GBP £37.50"

Recent named characters have been £27.50, while 'elite' infantry like Eightbound were released at £37.50

Bets on this being a box with 2-3 lictors, and one of them can be built as Deathleaper?

Who knows. I mean, Lictors are now solo units. So a multi-box seems kind of unlikely?

By the way, priced at £37.50

Edit: Curse you, xttz, and your tendency to look up things slightly faster than I

 xttz wrote:
"The value of the prize is GBP £37.50"

Recent named characters have been £27.50, while 'elite' infantry like Eightbound were released at £37.50

Bets on this being a box with 2-3 lictors, and one of them can be built as Deathleaper?

Would bet more on it just being a single model dual kit with a Lictor

Also this:

And who knows, we might have something even cooler to reveal at the next milestone…

doesn't sound as if they meant the next Instagram milestone as that would take quite a while and why tease it now? So it's probably for another website, Twitch is pretty close to 200k with 194K followers or maybe Twitter for 125k with 122k?

That is one amazing lictor.

 Matrindur wrote:

 xttz wrote:
"The value of the prize is GBP £37.50"

Recent named characters have been £27.50, while 'elite' infantry like Eightbound were released at £37.50

Bets on this being a box with 2-3 lictors, and one of them can be built as Deathleaper?

Would bet more on it just being a single model dual kit with a Lictor

Also this:

And who knows, we might have something even cooler to reveal at the next milestone…

doesn't sound as if they meant the next Instagram milestone as that would take quite a while and why tease it now? So it's probably for another website, Twitch is pretty close to 200k with 194K followers or maybe Twitter for 125k with 122k?

Single kit with alternate builds sounds logical, that tactical rock base is probably expensive in sprue space

Twitch and twitter both sound like good guesses, they don't have much beyond that and Facebook, right? Do they have an official reddit?

I feel that this will be a just a single build character model, like the Parasite of Mortex. Doesn't look like a dual-build Lictor model to me.

I guess Lictors will get a single model kit as well, or they'll be forever stuck in Finecast limbo with the Deathleaper and Van Ryan's Leapers taking the spotlight.

Tsagualsa wrote:


Single kit with alternate builds sounds logical, that tactical rock base is probably expensive in sprue space

Twitch and twitter both sound like good guesses, they don't have much beyond that and Facebook, right? Do they have an official reddit?

include a different head with different tentacles, replace the stinger with a flat carapace plate, leave off the the cloak with the carapace plate it is connected too and maybe a different pair of legs so it can stand without the tactical pipes and you would have a fine Lictor. Also wouldn't need that many additional parts on the sprue.

Facebook and Youtube are the only other official channels and both aren't really close to any milestone so its probably either twitter or twitch

 stahly wrote:
I feel that this will be a just a single build character model, like the Parasite of Mortex. Doesn't look like a dual-build Lictor model to me.

I guess Lictors will get a single model kit as well, or they'll be forever stuck in Finecast limbo with the Deathleaper and Van Ryan's Leapers taking the spotlight.

I can see this being a Lictor/Deathleaper dual kit myself, building one or the other.

 stahly wrote:
I feel that this will be a just a single build character model, like the Parasite of Mortex. Doesn't look like a dual-build Lictor model to me.

I guess Lictors will get a single model kit as well, or they'll be forever stuck in Finecast limbo with the Deathleaper and Van Ryan's Leapers taking the spotlight.

Counterpoint:

This majestic specimen is the advanced Lictor bioform you know and love, upgraded for a new edition. As an EPIC HERO* dedicated to the art of stabbing anything wandering into the shadows, Deathleaper is the Hive Fleet’s paramount terror weapon and a legend of lurking, inescapable dread the galaxy over.

* Which means you can only take one – albeit with plenty of Lictor back-up.

From the article/footnote. I don't think they'd mentioned Lictors specifically if they'd be relegated to be backbenchers.

Tsagualsa wrote:

 stahly wrote:
I feel that this will be a just a single build character model, like the Parasite of Mortex. Doesn't look like a dual-build Lictor model to me.

I guess Lictors will get a single model kit as well, or they'll be forever stuck in Finecast limbo with the Deathleaper and Van Ryan's Leapers taking the spotlight.

Counterpoint:

This majestic specimen is the advanced Lictor bioform you know and love, upgraded for a new edition. As an EPIC HERO* dedicated to the art of stabbing anything wandering into the shadows, Deathleaper is the Hive Fleet’s paramount terror weapon and a legend of lurking, inescapable dread the galaxy over.

* Which means you can only take one – albeit with plenty of Lictor back-up.

From the article/footnote. I don't think they'd mentioned Lictors specifically if they'd be relegated to be backbenchers.

Not sure I agree, they've got a lictor they can sell, no reason not to put it forwards.

Edit: I do think new lictor(s) are coming, but I don't think it stops them trying to peddle the finecrap ones*

I am so, so tempted to do a Noodly Appendage list.

Anything with Death Noodles is in. Lash Whips count (because it’s my rules so Nyeah), and of course Toxicrenes.

Gonna pizzen the whole galaxy but good, paw!

 xttz wrote:
Bets on this being a box with 2-3 lictors, and one of them can be built as Deathleaper?

Next to zero. This will be an AUD$105 single character.

Wooo!

Finally a Tyranid with a cape, so we know at first glance he's a Character.

Interesting model. It looked very overdone at first, but it's got something about it that makes me think I'll come around after letting the new look settle for a while.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 xttz wrote:
Bets on this being a box with 2-3 lictors, and one of them can be built as Deathleaper?

Next to zero. This will be an AUD$105 single character.

Wooo!

Yeah, new, improved and embiggened special character needs new, improved and embiggened price.

Really like that new model.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Finally a Tyranid with a cape, so we know at first glance he's a Character.

The lack of a helmet didn’t give it away?

 xttz wrote:
"The value of the prize is GBP £37.50"

Recent named characters have been £27.50, while 'elite' infantry like Eightbound were released at £37.50

Bets on this being a box with 2-3 lictors, and one of them can be built as Deathleaper?

Illuminor Szeras is £35, and a similar size. So no, I think "monstrous special characters" are just £35-ish, and GW are price bumping new ones up to £37.50 as they oft do.

That is a freaking sweet model! I utterly love the new Deathleaper!!!


Not going to lie, it looks more like it should be in Genestealer Cults and I wonder if it might port over - the head design with the shoulder ruff and the cloak like flesh all screams "cult" model over core Tyranid.

But that's a nit pick on theming styles and honestly its freaking awesome!!

Complete drek. It suffers from the usual GW model design sins, being so utterly festooned with guff that it all blends together into a visually confusing mess, and the flesh-cloak might well be one of the *stupidest* ideas I've ever seen on a miniature.
Maybe there's something halfway decent hiding under all of that excess, but no one should be paying the exorbitant price only to have to spend a long time fixing it in order to find out.
Straight to the bin.

I bet you the flesh cloak comes from monster ideas like mothman and antmen films. Where those insects hiding in open corn fields or dark underground rail networks both had kind of cloaks of flesh as part of how they tried to help blend into their surroundings and look almost human enough in the dark.

Also its riddled with tentacles if you look at the back of it so its got fleshy ability to move around; its not just a flap of hanging flapping skin

I don’t think this will be a dual kit but plastic lictors are definitely coming. That exclusive catachan model had a lictor head on the base so GW would never miss the chance to recycle a model

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Finally a Tyranid with a cape, so we know at first glance he's a Character.

If they munch any more Astartes they'll grow purity seals and laurel wreaths next

Leapers are essentially upgraded lictors in design, so i really wonder what they have in store between them and Deathleaper in term of design.

Siegfriedfr wrote:
Leapers are essentially upgraded lictors in design, so i really wonder what they have in store between them and Deathleaper in term of design.

I'd assume the same base kit without fewer noodly appendages, a different head and without the skirt.

I think seeing the Deathleaper as-is I think that we've a few options

1) The Deathleaper kit builds a regular Lictor variation as well. Perhaps a different shoulder/head assembly and no flesh cape and such.

2) The Lictor is a second separate character style model, not as flamboyant as the Deathleaper, but the same general idea of a single hunter.

3) The Von Ryan's have replaced the base Lictor gene and we will simply have Deathleapers and Von Ryans. That the article mentions the Deathleaper leading the Von Ryans supports this theory.

4) The Von Ryan non-pushfit version of the models has the option to build a Lictor version as a Sergeant.