Tyranids [Rumour] The upcoming Tyranids release will be massive

[Xenith]

Shared by @Jscarlos18 in the Tyranids Rumour thread. We might be getting a lot more, and bigger bugs that we first thought.

 

 

 

This ties in with the rumours of a Norn Thingummy, and fills the slot for a centrepiece-sized (Silent king, monolith, gorkanaught, knight) model for the Tyranids. 

 

 

 

[CL_Mission]

A really big release for nids would be great to see but I'm going to take it with a good helping of salt given the source. I'm expecting a decent number of kits to come with the codex like the Necron release and it makes sense to see a big bug amongst that. 

[Marshal Mittens]

I think its fake. Would be more believable if info came out before Deathleaper was shown off. That said it makes several reasonable guesses. 

[Lord Marshal]

I honestly don't remember the last time a /tg/ """leak""" turned out to be true.

[Xenith]

Yea, big heaps of salt to be taken there, but I live in hope! 

[de Selby]

I will settle for one plastic biotitan. I've been waiting since the first edition of Apocalypse.

[ThePenitentOne]

It's hard to rely on a source that uses tiny-font lime green text on a pink background. I think I broke my eyes trying to read that.

 

But Nid-Knights would be kinda cool. 

 

Edit: As for biotitans- I know I've said this before: I HATE the FW Hierophant. The Epic original was such a better looking model. That weird wavy-leaf body design of the FW thing just depresses me every time I see it. The original was way beefier and intimidating. Of course it would also require twice as much resin to make it, which is probably why they changed the shape.

 

The FW Hierodule, on the other hand, is pretty cool.

Edited June 13, 2023 by ThePenitentOne

[ZeroWolf]

I'd like this to be true (my wallet hopes it's false).

[Tyriks]

Codex: Bio Titans is hard to swallow. For Knights it made sense (even when there were only a few variants) since there are so many factions that can take them. But IG don't have Codex: Baneblade or whatever. And colossal monsters seem contrary to the GSC modus operandi.

 

That said, I do expect a huge release for Tyranids.

[Chapter Master Valrak]

I'm not falling for this one again 

[Xenith]

30 minutes ago, Tyriks said:

Codex: Bio Titans is hard to swallow. For Knights it made sense (even when there were only a few variants) since there are so many factions that can take them. But IG don't have Codex: Baneblade or whatever.

 

It says "you can think of...as Codex: Biotitans on top, it was never meant to be a separate codex".

 

So just the addition of superheavy units to the normal nid codex. 

[Tyriks]

1 hour ago, Xenith said:

 

It says "you can think of...as Codex: Biotitans on top, it was never meant to be a separate codex".

 

So just the addition of superheavy units to the normal nid codex. 

I must have misread, thanks. I'll just blame the terrible color combination.

[SalamandersBro]

I'm down for a Nid tutan codex type thing. Why not? 10th m8ght get my money....

[Jscarlos18]

The biggest/tallest model from the range are Tyrannofex/Tervigon and Trygon/Mawloc. Would love for us to get mini-biotitans in the tabletop the size of Knights to finally have the daikaiju theme in the faction.

[Marshal Reinhard]

2 minutes ago, Jscarlos18 said:

The biggest/tallest model from the range are Tyrannofex/Tervigon and Trygon/Mawloc. Would love for us to get mini-biotitans in the tabletop the size of Knights to finally have the daikaiju theme in the faction.

 

Hierophant: Am I a joke to you? 

 

Apologies for the meme-iness of the reply.

[Jscarlos18]

3 minutes ago, Marshal Reinhard said:

 

Hierophant: Am I a joke to you? 

 

Apologies for the meme-iness of the reply.

I meant in codex/GW range... But yeah, hierophant is currently the biggest in the range.

[Marshal Reinhard]

Hey, we saw his card in the Titan faction focus article just the other day 

[Jscarlos18]

If it wasn't because Forge World costs a fortune per model and don't like finecast, I would love to add one to my Hive Fleet.

[Xirix]

Forgeworld resin isn't finecast, but yeah, I can't even imagine paying for, or trying to assemble something that big in resin, hopefully we get some plastic love for superheavies.

[tangoalphatwo]

5 hours ago, ZeroWolf said:

I'd like this to be true (my wallet hopes it's false).

I felt that in my soul

[Arkangilos]

32 minutes ago, Marshal Reinhard said:

 

Hierophant: Am I a joke to you? 

 

Apologies for the meme-iness of the reply.

It looks like they are in the middle of a lovers squabble. Arguing and whatnot.

[Lord Nord in Gravis Armour]

5 hours ago, Chapter Master Valrak said:

I'm not falling for this one again 

 

They should have disguised it as a roof.

[DemonGSides]

1 hour ago, Arkangilos said:

It looks like they are in the middle of a lovers squabble. Arguing and whatnot.

POV: Our child watches as my wife and I argue over who's turn it is to do the dishes.

[Guest Triszin]

There's always a vague model $ limit per wave.

 

If the emissary is real it'll be a 85-130$ kit.

We ain't see another kit at that price for 1.5-2 years if there are multiple kits.

 

[DemonGSides]

In the past the cost of things have been based around squad size, and where they fit in the force org chart; super heavies and heavy support tended to run more expensive compared to something in the Fast Attack or Troop slot.  Elites tended to be a mixed bag, more based on model size than anything.

If they're offering larger than Carnifex's, they may each cost some, but maybe it'll be something that's closer to AoS's Giant kit, where the same kit can be made into a couple of different configurations that are all technically different.

My dream is a build your own bio-titan situation, but that's probably too hard to make a kit out of.