Tyranids Rumor Roundup

[kjolnir]

I just noticed a little tidbit on the Tyranid leak 4chan thread.
Apparently Tervigons can purchase two new unique upgrades.

1) The Tervigon rolls 4D6 for spawning - 20 points.
2) The Tervigon does not expend itself - 15 points.

That's insane! We'll see if it pans out. Frankly, I hope it doesn't just so the psychic powers rumor is more suspect.

[dmthomas7]

anyone care to speculate that the little critters attached to the Harpy alternate are some form of detachable bioform. Perhaps with an ability to detach any time the model passes over an enemy . Just my guess. It seems the long spiked hanging tails would be very good for that purpose plus the critters don't seem to be embedded like the toxin sac bio-morph is. I remember early rumors sugested it could make a special form of attack against enemy flyers when moving past them. Perhaps a Mind shackle scarrab-esk set-up, certain would be the new form of weaponry unlike anything tyranids currently have. Also unless something really hurts the tervigon significantly then it will definitely going to be an auto include for plus at least 15 pts. Remember just my speculations, I don't wanna start some giant rumor on mistake.

[DarkLink]

Well, with that many guaranteed gaunts, you don't need to spam Tervigons. Take two, and by turn 5 that's 140 gaunts on average.

[dmthomas7]

Fair enough especially on 4d6 that raises averages significantly. Hadn't really though about the actual math yet, 3 turns of perfect would probably already pay for the Tervigon itself. Though a small disadvantage in kill points but that only matters in 1 of 6 and first blood if tyranid shooting didn't get more long range. Hopefully the new bug has good range and doesn't need to be baby sat like the tyrannofex. Perhaps it will be synapse and be able to watch over the t-fex while laying down serious firepower

[Learn2Eel]

Well, with that many guaranteed gaunts, you don't need to spam Tervigons. Take two, and by turn 5 that's 140 gaunts on average.

Yep, exactly. 4 point Termagants are awesome if their rules stay the same. WS3, BS3, S3, T3, W1, I4, A1 bodies with 12" S4 AP5 guns and Move Through Cover that can get Poisoned attacks and easily accessed Fearless. They make Cultists, for example, look like complete trash. And even if taking Tervigons as Troops becomes more expensive, the Termagants themselves will be incredibly more numerous.

[Seerkarandras]

Ok so somebody may have mentioned this already, but I am not reading 60 pages of responses. Is it just me or does it look like the new Harpy might be getting some Heldrake like love in the form of a template weapon?

Me likey. ugh just when I swore off buying more armies. The small brood of nids I have are going to grow. My Eldar once again will be back burner for a bit.

[azatoth]

The wing symbiots could be the means to allow the fliers their flyover attack. Also the new gun bug is more along the description of the Tyrannofex, then the spiderlegged current version.

[Learn2Eel]

Ok so somebody may have mentioned this already, but I am not reading 60 pages of responses. Is it just me or does it look like the new Harpy might be getting some Heldrake like love in the form of a template weapon?

Me likey. ugh just when I swore off buying more armies. The small brood of nids I have are going to grow. My Eldar once again will be back burner for a bit.

I think you may be thinking of the Crone. The Crone has a weapon in its' mouth that looks very similar to the Baleflamer on the Heldrake. However, I expect if either flyer got such a weapon, it would of course be the Harpy. I mean, the Harpy is an anti-infantry specialist. It wouldn't make sense if the Crone did it as well while being a (presumably) anti-flyer monster. On that note, I'm incredibly curious to see how those 'missiles' work.

[dmthomas7]

A earlier rumor on the new Gaunt guns seems interesting. Possibly a new more usable template weapon and spinefists could become useful again. If they are only an extra point or two and generate 2 twinlinked S4 attacks, that would be beautiful. I'd have 3 levels of shooty gaunts, stock gaunts for the cheap parts, spinefists for close range destruction and the Devil gaunts for really spewing out the firepower (I already have these built and mostly painted and don't want to tear things apart.) Ah, Just saw the old spine fists were only S3 bleh hoping they jump up

[rpricew]

Somewhere on 4chan I saw that the little wing symbiotes were missile like appendages that could be launched.