warhammer 40k 10th edition Tyranids Codex Preview

[TrawlingCleaner]

Article here

 

First up we have a good amount of info on the Detachments of the codex, mainly the Crusher Stampede:

 

 

And the Vanguard Onslaught:

 

And the names for the other 3 detachments:

 

As has been the case so far:

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Each Detachment offers your army unique benefits: a Detachment rule, four Enhancements, and six Stratagems. While some factions will find that the Detachment from their Index changes slightly when their Codex arrives, this is not the case for the Invasion Fleet, which functions exactly as it does now. 

 

It will be very interesting to see how things progress!

Edited August 28, 2023 by TrawlingCleaner

[Zoatibix]

Better ‘scale’ picture of the Norn Emissary from the article. 
Edit was trying to get the second Squat in shot. Didn’t work. D’oh.

 

Edited August 28, 2023 by Zoatibix

[Brother Nathan]

Whilst those two look cool and all... will the current detachment also be staying?

[Zoatibix]

@Brother nathan the article says the existing detachment remains unchanged.

[Legionary Pallas]

2 minutes ago, Brother nathan said:

Whilst those two look cool and all... will the current detachment also be staying?

"In addition to the familiar Invasion Fleet Detachment, there are five more to choose from"

[ThePenitentOne]

(Snip- my OP Sounded too hostile and confrontational. Fixing that.)

 

The Invasion Fleet detachment (ie. Index detachment) doesn't seem to be changing or going away according to the Warcom article.

 

Vanguard looks cool. I'm a big fan of Genestealer Purestrains, and giving them back Advance/ Charge is a big deal to me, so I look forward to that.

Edited August 28, 2023 by ThePenitentOne

[danodan123]

So pretty much a detachment for monster, vanguard, psyker, tentacle? Swarm and all rounder lists.

[jaxom]

2 minutes ago, danodan123 said:

So pretty much a detachment for monster, vanguard, psyker, tentacle? Swarm and all rounder lists.

Yep

 

Invasion Fleet - the all rounder.

 

Crusher Stampede - the monster mash with big gribblies.

 

Vanguard Onslaught - infiltrators and fast moving units ("units also include most flying creatures"), for those who want to get stuck in quick.

 

Unending Swarm - ALL the 'gaunts! Aims to really put the endless in the ENDLESS MULTITUDE keyword.

 

Assimilation Swarm - the article talks about the Haruspex, and I expect it involved the bio-organisms themed around getting new bio-mass for the Hive. So Haruspex, 

 

Synaptic Nexus - pskyer bio-organisms all the way.

[Mogger351]

Seen comments elsewhere of another:

 

Synaptic Nexus

At the start of each battle round, choose an imperative. All Tyranid units within synapse range benefit from this imperative. You cannot choose an imperative more than once per battle. The imperatives are:

+1 to hit in melee
+1 to advance and charge rolls
5++

[Zoatibix]

But what order to use them in…that’s the question…

[Focslain]

28 minutes ago, Mogger351 said:

Seen comments elsewhere of another:

 

Synaptic Nexus

At the start of each battle round, choose an imperative. All Tyranid units within synapse range benefit from this imperative. You cannot choose an imperative more than once per battle. The imperatives are:

+1 to hit in melee
+1 to advance and charge rolls
5++

So Nexus is basically Doctrines, seems easy enough.

[ZeroWolf]

Only 3 though?

[MegaVolt87]

I just wanted to say, good job GW on the collectors nid Dex with the alt art. I hope that's a continuous thing for every Dex. The collectors version is now worth buying finally. 

[MithrilForge]

Nids look good so far, I like how they have Different detachments, Fun Thematic lists can be made, or just lists with your Favourite models 

 

M. 

[Armchair Warlord]

Pardon me for digressing slightly away from the main focus here.... But does anyone recognise these bits of scenery? I don't recall them, and am just wondering if they're new???

Edited August 29, 2023 by Armchair Warlord
miss spelt a word

[gortonsfisherman]

1 hour ago, Armchair Warlord said:

Pardon me for digressing slightly away from the main focus here.... But does anyone recognise these bits of scenery? I don't recall them, and am just wondering if they're new???

Nice find. They might be leagues of votann tech.

[Urauloth]

15 hours ago, Zoatibix said:

Better ‘scale’ picture of the Norn Emissary from the article. 
Edit was trying to get the second Squat in shot. Didn’t work. D’oh.

 

Damn, this thing looks absolutely incredible.

[Xenith]

13 hours ago, Mogger351 said:

Seen comments elsewhere of another:

 

Synaptic Nexus

At the start of each battle round, choose an imperative. All Tyranid units within synapse range benefit from this imperative. You cannot choose an imperative more than once per battle. The imperatives are:

+1 to hit in melee
+1 to advance and charge rolls
5++

 

Awful if this is the Psychic nexus rules. I was excited for the potentual there, however nid psychic bugs want to be anywhere but melee. Even the Maleceptor cant even use it's psychic powers in melee (Blast). 

As it is, it seems a few zoans with loads of hormagaunts will benefit most from those rules. 

[irlLordy]

7 hours ago, Armchair Warlord said:

Pardon me for digressing slightly away from the main focus here.... But does anyone recognise these bits of scenery? I don't recall them, and am just wondering if they're new???

 

It kinda looks like some of the LI/AT terrain from the mechanicus set. Would be surprised to see them mixing and matching between systems like that though (unless the photographers just grabbed some cool looking scatter terrain).

[tzeentch9]

That crusher stampede looks good, looks like they managed to keep a reasonable power level among the different detachment rules. I presume that one of the strats for crusher stampede will be tank shock for monsters.

[Zoatibix]

I really hope it does give us back Tank shock. It’s very annoying that they took it away from us.

 

Regarding Synaptic Nexus, I can only hope that there’s a caveat stating that the chosen power continues into the next round of it isn’t changed.

 

Otherwise it seems like a poor version of Marine Doctrines.

[ZeroWolf]

2 minutes ago, Zoatibix said:

Regarding Synaptic Nexus, I can only hope that there’s a caveat stating that the chosen power continues into the next round of it isn’t changed.

 

Otherwise it seems like a poor version of Marine Doctorines.

Agreed, Marines get one for every different round essentially. Here, nids have to do potentially half the game without them.

[Mogger351]

1 hour ago, ZeroWolf said:

Agreed, Marines get one for every different round essentially. Here, nids have to do potentially half the game without them.

Marines have 3 with 1 per turn, the exact same?

[Zoatibix]

Marines can reuse a previously used doctrine, I believe? This Tyranid rule strictly forbids that.

Edited August 29, 2023 by Zoatibix

[Cryptshadow]

4 minutes ago, Zoatibix said:

Marines can reuse a previously used doctrine, I believe? This Tyranid rule strictly forbids that.

Once per battle sadly