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I like the Assimilator more than Emissary.

Well, that’s that out the way.

Overall I’m stoked. If I’m not mistaken, that’s Tyranids now entirely free from Finecast. And we’ve got some much needed redos in.

But. I am slightly disappointed, and only slightly, we didn’t get another couple of entirely new units. Or indeed, Winged Warriors.

No Warriors though, that's weird.

It's been a long time since I Liked ALL of the new reveals. This was long due for decades and we got it!

 NAVARRO wrote:
It's been a long time since I Liked ALL of the new reveals. This was long due for decades and we got it!

I still can't really believe that after so many iterations, they finally managed to un-dumb the biovore

Ah... ok. The Norn Thingies are just "Bigger Batman", except replace Batman with "Tyrants".

I feel nothing for them. I'd've rather Shrikes and a proper Tyranid Prime kit.

Still, new Lictors are awesome and the arty bugs are great.

 Shadow Walker wrote:
Red Terror

Isn't in the Codex.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:


Overall I’m stoked. If I’m not mistaken, that’s Tyranids now entirely free from Finecast.

Red Terror is still there but since it is not in index it could be fluff only.

Is it just me, or does the Biovore look like it’s got the giggles?

Tsagualsa wrote:
No Warriors though, that's weird.

Indeed, esp considering they put wings on the warrior prime. That's possibly the only outlier in the release of things we expected to see. That is unless the new warrior kit is purely an addition to the kit not a full new kit and this release was "just totally new kits" so its something GW are keeping up their sleeve.



Overall I'm SUPER HAPPY. This is the Tyranid release I've been wanting for ages. Lictors have been fleshed out so much; bio and pyrovores are better than I could have hoped for and GW really went wild in redesigning them from the ground up. They also look like they will certainly be bigger than the old biovore, but close up photos can be deceptive.

But yeah there's a LOT of great stuff in there that's really exciting to see!

Tsagualsa wrote:

 NAVARRO wrote:
It's been a long time since I Liked ALL of the new reveals. This was long due for decades and we got it!

I still can't really believe that after so many iterations, they finally managed to un-dumb the biovore

Let's hope the rules are actually good otherwise they still won't get used.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Is it just me, or does the Biovore look like it’s got the giggles?

Happy gun-tick!

They smashed all those out of the park. There’s not one model there that I don’t want!

Particularly like the Norn Benjamin Sisko.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Shadow Walker wrote:
Red Terror

Isn't in the Codex.

? Did they say that?

These are all a 10/10 for me.

Really cool stuff here. Definitely think there’s enough of a range for me to collect without touching older stuff (I think the new models are a massive step up). I do wish there were new Warriors though, at least. And I kinda wish there was a bit more differentiating the two ‘Vores.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Is it just me, or does the Biovore look like it’s got the giggles?

He's just happy to have a good model for the first time in 28 years.

 Overread wrote:

Tsagualsa wrote:
No Warriors though, that's weird.

Indeed, esp considering they put wings on the warrior prime. That's possibly the only outlier in the release of things we expected to see. That is unless the new warrior kit is purely an addition to the kit not a full new kit and this release was "just totally new kits" so its something GW are keeping up their sleeve.



Overall I'm SUPER HAPPY. This is the Tyranid release I've been wanting for ages. Lictors have been fleshed out so much; bio and pyrovores are better than I could have hoped for and GW really went wild in redesigning them from the ground up. They also look like they will certainly be bigger than the old biovore, but close up photos can be deceptive.

But yeah there's a LOT of great stuff in there that's really exciting to see!

I didn't go in expecting a warrior kit at all but I did expect a shrike kit and them not to be dual-kit.

I agree these were all amazing, I think I've come away happy but slightly disappointed at a lack of new stuff. I know all those units needed a refresh, but I did expect a little more outside of those updates. Part of me wonders if the Emissary was intended to be an update of the tyrant kit at first, but then realised people loved the wings and it left the swarmlord out in the cold.

Will wait to see what the rules are for the Emissary. Back in 3rd edition, I built a Hive Tyrant with just melee weapons and psychic powers as part of a theme of "back to basics" and "no ranged weapons aside from psychic powers". But now it seems a Hive Tyrant cannot be customized like that.

 Shadow Walker wrote:
Did they say that?

It's not even in the Index.

 ImAGeek wrote:
Really cool stuff here. Definitely think there’s enough of a range for me to collect without touching older stuff (I think the new models are a massive step up). I do wish there were new Warriors though, at least. And I kinda wish there was a bit more differentiating the two ‘Vores.

Bio and Pyrovore should be easier to tell apart on the board, as the Pyrovore has its big old tail curling up to protect the rear of the flamer weapon. So seen from player height, it should be pretty prominent.

Some much needed model resets. I'm still hoping for new warriors (with wings options) and a new carnifex kit. We could see those when they start revealing the multipart kits for the Leviathan models.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:
Really cool stuff here. Definitely think there’s enough of a range for me to collect without touching older stuff (I think the new models are a massive step up). I do wish there were new Warriors though, at least. And I kinda wish there was a bit more differentiating the two ‘Vores.

Bio and Pyrovore should be easier to tell apart on the board, as the Pyrovore has its big old tail curling up to protect the rear of the flamer weapon. So seen from player height, it should be pretty prominent.

Ah I missed that that was a tail, I thought it was just a plate on the back of the gun. That actually does help a lot.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Shadow Walker wrote:
Did they say that?

It's not even in the Index.

Anyway it is the last resin there unless we count Spore Mines (BTW are they still sold?).

All the models they showed are amazing but is it strange that I expected more?

Not even counting the three units that came later via Kill Team, Necrons got 9 kits after the Launch set which where all unique and while Tyranids did get 10 units at least two maybe three with the Lictor/Neurolictor are dual kits and the Termagant are just the multipart version of the launch set ones. So only 6 new kits in the worst case.

Also Necrons got really big models with the Monolith, the Silent King and the Void Dragon.

While the Norn Emissary/Assimilator are great I would have wished for one more kit thats even bigger and then another elite units like Shrikes.

And since it is rumoured the Genestealer will be coming via Kill Team I wouldn't expect anymore kits from that direction.

Of course I'm still very happy about what we did get, I just wished for a little bit more

Some of the new weapons are genuinely gross looking. To clarify, this is a good thing.

Dudeface wrote:

 Overread wrote:

Tsagualsa wrote:
No Warriors though, that's weird.

Indeed, esp considering they put wings on the warrior prime. That's possibly the only outlier in the release of things we expected to see. That is unless the new warrior kit is purely an addition to the kit not a full new kit and this release was "just totally new kits" so its something GW are keeping up their sleeve.



Overall I'm SUPER HAPPY. This is the Tyranid release I've been wanting for ages. Lictors have been fleshed out so much; bio and pyrovores are better than I could have hoped for and GW really went wild in redesigning them from the ground up. They also look like they will certainly be bigger than the old biovore, but close up photos can be deceptive.

But yeah there's a LOT of great stuff in there that's really exciting to see!

I didn't go in expecting a warrior kit at all but I did expect a shrike kit and them not to be dual-kit.

I agree these were all amazing, I think I've come away happy but slightly disappointed at a lack of new stuff. I know all those units needed a refresh, but I did expect a little more outside of those updates. Part of me wonders if the Emissary was intended to be an update of the tyrant kit at first, but then realised people loved the wings and it left the swarmlord out in the cold.

I'm willing to bet the Emissary started out as new Hive Tyrant and at some point in its development/design they just wound up with something that was similar but so different that they just ran with it. I also like how its very clearly got a totally different weapon setup.

It's not just a larger or different model, its got its own looks, own place in the swarm and its also got its own weapon setup and such. I really like that as GW has sometimes done these "its that thing but a little different" and then just thrown the same weapons on the model (eg Orruks have regular and armoured with the same weapons; or Primaris versions of regular marines and such).

Hell that's some mighty fine Tyranids. I've got a couple of mates who are nid happy so they'll be chuffed with all this. Really like the new termagants and the Biovore is awesome.

 Overread wrote:
I'm willing to bet the Emissary started out as new Hive Tyrant and at some point in its development/design they just wound up with something that was similar but so different that they just ran with it. I also like how its very clearly got a totally different weapon setup.

That would explain why it's basically Tyrant+.

I think I’d have liked a third ‘vore variant. We’ve got super close support, and we’ve got artillery. Not entirely sure what I’d want it to do, just that I think I’d have liked a third in the mix.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
I think I’d have liked a third ‘vore variant. We’ve got super close support, and we’ve got artillery. Not entirely sure what I’d want it to do, just that I think I’d have liked a third in the mix.

Anti-air?