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Did you buy a load of Leviathan Termagants and are missing out on the strangleweb frame that came out later? Or are you unwilling to drop a load more cash to get some one per unit weapons? I have your solution (as long as you can scrounge a few spare devourers)! With a sharp knife, a bunch of plastic glue and a little dry fitting, you too can have a funnel-web shooter for your numberless hordes! STEP 1 Get yourself a termagant and make 2 cuts like this - one basically along the line of the bottom of the fist to chop off the ammo magazine, and the other in between the chitin muzzle protector and the ridge. STEP 2 Take a sacrificial devourer and make the following cuts. If you cut the 'heel' off the hand grip first, it makes other cuts easier. Use a sharp knife for this. They key bits you need to keep intact are the middle of the gun and the widest part of the barrel - the others can be scrapped to get these out intact. You're looking to cut the barrel in half at a point just wider than the mid-section of the gun as we'll be flipping this around. If in doubt, make the cut towards the narrower part and trim as necessary - you can always cut more off, but you can never cut more on! Step 3 Using a load of plastic cement to weld the parts together, attach the devourer mid-section to the fleshborer mid section as so, and weld the devourer tubes to the grip and magazine of the fleshborer to make it more gribbly. wait until this has set, then flip the barrel section around so it's wide part out, dry fit, shaving more off if required, then slam that glue on there and weld it to the devourer midsection. When you're done it should look like this, and hey presto, you have some wide flamer like stranglewebs that look more like imperial webbers that horse phalluses. STEP 4 (BONUS GRIBBLE) You can see my efforts below - I chose two gaunts that had fleshborers raised and seemed to be in more stable firing positions to it would be easy to pick them out in-game. If you look closely, I added a simple green stuff...barrel hole...to the conversion to reinforce the effect rather than a flat plate which can be painted on - I'll get some close up photos of this soon.

Thought I'd make a quick post to share my Call to Arms progress after 23 days. Everything but the webway gate is undercoated, and the current colours things are are in the list below: 1x Neurotyrant (5pts) 2x neurospore things (2pts) 11x Neurogaunts (11pts) 5x Barbgaunts (5pts) 3x VRL's (3pts) 1x Screamer Killer (5pts?) 1x Winged Tyranid Prime (5pts) 1x Psychophage (5pts) 5x Wraithguard (5pts) 1x Spiritseer (5pts) 1x Webway gate (6pts) Completion 15/59pts The Barbgaunts were conpleted on Friday, and the Wraithguard finished also. I quite enjoyed painting these, the wraithguard in particular went quickly with contrasts!

++ Neurogaunts and Nodebeasts++ We have a new unit of the week! the new little gaunts does they fill any gaps in your army? are they fodder or useful? let us know, To compliment a list, or to build a list around? Will the beta rules affect your list(s)? And at what points restrictions? What size unit? Will you be running multiple units? What Enhancements, Hyper Adaptations and Stratagems do you prefer and how much does it depend on the above choices? Are you buffing this unit? If so, how?

Yeah that's partly it too. On that note, is there any kind of Tyranid build emerging? Everyone was hyping them prior to release, but I haven't seen much impact since.

So from Valrak's thread in NRBA we have the rumoured new things for nids, coming with 10th edition: New Hormagaunts Vemon Crawler type Nid unit. New Screamer Killer Karnifex. New Lictors Winged Warrior. New Biovores Plastic Spore Mines and Chunky Norm Emissary (Beefed up Zoan Throat) Some of these are clearly in the pipeline, some are more dubious, but Valrak seems to have a decent accuracy for rumours over the last couple of years. No idea what the We also had the following suggestions for a 10th ed set last year: 10th Ed starters feature Blood Angels and Tyranids: jump death company; captain; sanguinary priest broodlord, zoanthrope macrofex, hypergants, 10th ed releases: Upgrade sprue Tyranids: -Macrofex Old Eye (macrofex size) Hypergant swarms (105mm base) -New genestealers -New hormaguants Existing resin/metal models that need replacing: Biovore pyrovore lictor Deathleaper Spore mines Red terror So the items that are common to both rumours, or are rumoured and have a finecast kit that needs replacing are (more likely) are: A larger carnifex, that might be old one eye, or a screamer killer, or make both. New hormagaunts Some new Zoanthrope thing - might be a character/base model like Doom of Malantai/Norn Emissary Biovore/Pyrovore kit Lictor/Deathleaper Sporemines Only featured in one set of rumours (less likely) are: Hypergants New Stealers Vemon Crawler type Nid unit. Winged Warrior. So the above rumour would corroborate the removal of the last finecast kits, if we got a biovore/pyrovore, then lictor deathleaper hybrid kits. These are all pretty exciting on their own, I might switch back to nids as my main for 10th!

A BUG'S LIFE 2022 A Monthly Tyranids Painting Challenge Hello and welcome to the second official moderately low-stakes painting event for the Tyranid forum! This is purely a fun event, with the end reward being more lovely painted models for you to enjoy on the table, with shout-outs to anyone performing spectacularly! FORMAT Anyone who has entered B&C painting events before will be familiar with the format: In this thread, make a vow in a post to commit to painting the models you wish to, and share a photo of the unpainted model(s) you wish to paint for the event, along with their name and power level. By the 22nd August, share a photo of your painted model, finished to Battle Ready Standard, as defined by GW on the previous link. Basically, that's all parts painted with: Base, shade paint, then technical on the base. *NEW RULE* Over the course of this time everyone involved will have 5 vows where they can pledge any amount of models at a time. A vow must be completely finished before a new one is made. Badges (and bragging rights) will be awarded for the following categories*: Ripper - the badge of shame, all vows broken Gaunt - participation and completion of any vow Stealer - completion of 25* or more Power Level Warrior - completion of 50* or more Power Level Broodlord - completion of 75* or more Power Level Tyrant - completion of 100* or more Power Level *TBC If you like, models can be cross-entered into other events like Grotsmasha's Monthly Painting Challenge, so you can get extra kudos and share your work with those outside the Tyranids Section. TIMING The event will run for three months from Monday 23rd May until Midnight GMT Monday 22nd August (3 calendar months), after which we'll have a showcase and a tot up of who's managed to paint the most in that time! The 'active' month will reset on the first Monday of each month. This topic will open on 23rd May, and will be used to record vows and progress over the event. PLEDGES Over the 3 months, we'll each pledge to paint at least one model with the TYRANIDS keyword [including all models from the Tyranids Codex, Genestealer Cults Codex, and Forge World Books], however a soft target should be 10 Power Level or roughly 200 points per month. If you can stick to this and achieve it, you'll have a 30 Power Level Tyranids force to play some games with or reinforce an existing army! Your pledge can be as simple or ornate as you like, e.g.: I, Xenith, Commander of the Hive, pledge to paint a unit of three Biovores to the value of 6PL or ~150 points in the month of June 2021 Accompany that text with a picture of the pledged models, and you're good to go! If you like, post WIP photos in this thread, or start your own WIP log in the Tyranids section. BADGE In honour of your taking part, there's a signature badge in progress which all entrants can proudly display (and to promote the competition). 2022 badge That's all really! Just like the Hive Fleets, this post will evolve as time goes on and new challenges arise, and this post will record the entries into the challenge, so check on your progress here. SUMMARY At the start of the event, make a pledge in this thread what you want to paint, with a photo and point values. Paint the models Before the end of the event, share photos of the painted models in this thread Repeat steps 1-3 up to 4 more times. ??? Profit Smite that grey pile!

++Tyrant Guard++ one kit 2 very different units. how do they fair? dakka and sheild. To compliment a list, or to build a list around? Will the beta rules affect your list(s)? And at what points restrictions? What size unit? Will you be running multiple units? What Enhancements, Hyper Adaptations and Stratagems do you prefer and how much does it depend on the above choices? Are you buffing this unit? If so, how

++Von Ryan's Leaper++ We have a new unit of the week! Another new unit, the leaper. will it be bounding across your battle lines into your foes? Share your bio information with the hive. To compliment a list, or to build a list around? Will the beta rules affect your list(s)? And at what points restrictions? What size unit? Will you be running multiple units? What Enhancements, Hyper Adaptations and Stratagems do you prefer and how much does it depend on the above choices? Are you buffing this unit? If so, how?

++ Barbgaunts++ We have a new unit of the week! Another new unit, the barbgaunts. love it hate it? does it fill any gaps in your army? let us know, To compliment a list, or to build a list around? Will the beta rules affect your list(s)? And at what points restrictions? What size unit? Will you be running multiple units? What Enhancements, Hyper Adaptations and Stratagems do you prefer and how much does it depend on the above choices? Are you buffing this unit? If so, how?

++Winged Warrior Prime++ We have a new unit of the week! the winged warrior prime. Have you found a use. Has it seen use outside of combat patrol... let us know, To compliment a list, or to build a list around? Will the beta rules affect your list(s)? And at what points restrictions? What size unit? Will you be running multiple units? What Enhancements, Hyper Adaptations and Stratagems do you prefer and how much does it depend on the above choices? Are you buffing this unit? If so, how? Edit. Apologies for formatting as only mobile access. Will correct when im back at work nextweek.

So looking to start a new army for my first attempt at tournament play, been playing 40k for over 10 years but want something with some 'teeth' Here's what I came up with: Battalion Detachment Warlord- Brood Lord: Monstrous rending claws: 162pts (Norn Crown) The Swarm Lord: 300pts Tyrannocyte: 5 deathspitters: 123pts Winged Hive Tyrant: two pairs of monstrous scything talons: 200pts 20 genestealers: rending claws and 5 acid maws: 240pts 20 genestealers: rending claws and 5 acid maws: 240pts 20 genestealers: rending claws and 5 acid maws: 240pts Patrol Detachment Old One Eye: 200pts 3 rippers: 33pts Screamer killer: spore cysts: 130pts Screamer killer: spore cysts: 130pts 1998pts total The cunning plan is that the swarmlord pods down, supported by a winged tyrant to ensure the most optimal turn one charges (whether it be winged tyrant into stormraven/other flier, or the swarmlord into pretty much anything else) after softening the target up with a few smites. Using the Kraken ability you should be joined by a swarm of stealers in their lines, and giving old one eye and his mates time to catch up if they can't make it to combat until turn two to mop up what's left (and if they can't at least they're at -1 to hit). As for the rippers? well they can hide off the board til turn three to camp an objective late game, or really whatever they want to do! (they're a bit of a tax to get my 4th Hq but I feel like they could clinch games occasionally, and if it's a killpoint game at least they're easily hidden!) I'm completely new to 'nids so any thoughts/tweaks greatfully received!

As much as it has consumed my reading for the past year and a half, I've still only scratched the surface of the Black Library's output. As my collection grows and shrinks, I've noticed my main focus is on Space Marines. I'd like to have at least 1 good book for each "faction" down the line, so I was wondering what people would recommend as reading for the main xenos races. That is, recommendations for Tau, Eldar, Tyranids, Necrons, and anything else you can think of. Working through Legends of the Dark Millenium: The Tau Empire at the moment, seems fine so far but nothing mind blowing. Anyone have an opinion on Fire Warrior?

++Termagants++ We have a new unit of the week! This week it's the massed hordes of the Termagants, a classic Tyranid unit, and basis for hordes everywhere. What are you thoughts here folks? How best would you use a unit of them? To compliment a list, or to build a list around? Will the beta rules affect your list(s)? And at what points restrictions? What size unit? Will you be running multiple units? What Enhancements, Hyper Adaptations and Stratagems do you prefer and how much does it depend on the above choices? Are you buffing this unit? If so, how?