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Post by treadiculous on Nov 8, 2014 13:26:12 GMT -5
Hi,
as i started to plan a tyranid army a couple of weeks ago i was pleasantly suprised to discover the release of the toxicrene and the maleceptor would be released soon.
I heard the rules where in white dwarf though didn't rush to get these. (the internet was plentiful in providing photo's of the information).
What has usprised me is that GW have now released the models and alongside the unit listing on thier website is the rules whcih can be downloaded free.
not a dataslate.
free.
and.. it seems that there are more tyranid creatinons to come with the potential for even more free rules.
this seems to have cheered the tyranid players consdierably and also sends an interesting message.
it i sinteresting becuase it is not clear what it says..
is it that they recognise that some codex's weren't well done (so they have listened to the market?)
is it that they have moved away from dataslates (becuase they are easy to pirate?)
is it tha they want to be nice in november (so they don't get coal from father christmas?)
or something else?
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Post by RedsandRoyals on Nov 8, 2014 19:27:03 GMT -5
The cynic in me thinks it's just pragmatisim. They realized that nickle and diming (pound and pencing?) their customers to death doesn't work anymore, especially with the much more expensive codecies. Forgeworld occasionally did this with experimental rules for the Great Crusade stuff they churned out, too, so there's some precedent. Another possibility is that they're releasing these models (either to keep sales up between army releases, because they don't want to wait for the next codex release, or because they want to avoid another Chapterhouse boondoggle), and people won't buy models without rules. Assembling a dataslate would take more time, effort, and money than just sticking the rules up online, so it may have just been the easiest solution.
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Nov 8, 2014 20:10:40 GMT -5
If you like the Toxicrene, you are going to love the Tyrannocyte. Yes, 'nids finally have the Mycetic spore/drop pod, and there's an alternate version of it that is essentially a spore mine pooper-outer, and can produce a special spore mine once per game that is bigger than a Hive Tyrant. The models for it are brilliant!
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Post by treadiculous on Nov 9, 2014 4:20:27 GMT -5
The models are looking pretty cool in the kinda weird tyranid way - I like them.
The fact they are giving tyranids drop pods is going to make a lot of players happy as it resolves a large number of problems for the race.
I love spore mines so seeing the super-spore mine has made me very happy!
There still a good FAQ needed for the tyranids to bring other areas into line but I like tyranids for the looks and am happy with these new releases.
I am awaiting the neruothrope, venomthrope and zoanthrope...
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Nov 9, 2014 5:01:57 GMT -5
Yeah, I mean mycetic spores have been in the fluff for about two decades now, so it's about time that the 'nids got a drop pod mini. And the model itself is huge--you could actually stick a Trygon inside of one from what I can tell looking at the photos in this weekend's White Dwarf. And they can be kitted with Deathspitters, Barbed Stranglers, or Venom Cannons--5 guns each of which shoots at the nearest enemy model within its fire arc...  |
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Post by Julian Sharps on Nov 9, 2014 13:05:37 GMT -5
They realized that nickle and diming (bobbing and quidding) their customers to death doesn't work anymore, especially with the much more expensive codecies. Fixed. For the record, "quid" and "bob" are British colloquialisms for "pound" and "schilling," respectively (much like how here in the US we'll refer to a dollar as a "buck" or our ten-cent coin as a "dime"). A schilling is an obsolete coin used under the old British currency system (that was in use up until the better part of the 1960s) that traditionally represented a day's wages for common labor; there were 12 pence in a schilling, and there were 20 schillings to a pound, which at the time represented a pound of sterling silver. I, personally, wonder why the 5p coin isn't called a schilling colloquially. |
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Post by emptyhat on Nov 9, 2014 14:55:52 GMT -5
I think 'bob' might also mean pound. (edit: asked a couple of people. The older person said bob= shilling, the younger person said bob= pound)
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Post by ElegaicRequiem on Nov 9, 2014 19:11:25 GMT -5
GW is saying that you should preview these shiny new rules so that you'll be tempted to buy the minis. Much like how we used to actually wait until a codex came out, then look at the store copy to find a list idea (later, wait until BoLS devised some ultimate list of the month). They're cutting out the middle step to get your sweet wallet-meat faster.
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