(this is all from warpshadow)
RUMORS ROUNDUP
RELEASE TIME: JAN 2010 (GD UK)
CODEX COVER
http://i735.photobucket....057a_Tyranid_CoverXL.jpg (from GW's site)
http://i735.photobucket....-codex-cover-bigshot.jpg (from Warseer, bigger shot)
cover breakdown - page21 by Eidre
General info: 4 new species (1 is almost definitely Trygon)
Codex will have 96 pages
Codex written by Robin Cruddace (author of Guard dex)
Return of special characters (but they're like not meant to be special - they're just survivors of a big war and then mutated) (Phill Kelly @GD Germ)
New special rule - consolidating into CC (Dark Primus, WarSeer; Hellbreaker)*
Lowering of wehicles AV in CC(KrewL RaiN)*
New Battleforce (like for every re-done army)
Codex v4.0, Gargoryles set1 and Battleforce are no longer avaible via GW's USA site
Models:
3 new plastic kits and 3 new metal kits (GW site)
(My speculations
Plastic kits: Trygon, Gargoryles, Raveners
Metal kits: Biovore, Broodlord (?), ? )
Plastic Trygon with wariable options (Zoanthrope head, jaw options, tail options), box rumored to have 3 sprues
http://i735.photobucket....PlaticTrygonmacetail.jpg Phill Kelly's Trygon, mace tail, regular head (my assumption)
http://i735.photobucket....sticTrygonscythetail.jpg Trygon from Apoc book, scythe tail, implant attack (again - my assumption about head)
(most likely) plastic Gargoryles
The Malanthrope will be in the codex. (Dark Primus, WarSeer)*
She'll make Rippers scoring. (The One, 40konline)
Plastic Tyrant box with variable options and wings (long rumored, possible wish-listing but time will tell)*
Gaunt boxes repacked into Termagants or Hormogaunts, boxes of 10 bugs(King Ellesar)
Hormogaunt for 6pts, option of WoN for +3
Gaunts with no weapons, WoN for 3pts (Xas, BOLS lounge)
Fleshborers at 1pt (King Elessar, BOLS lounge)
Genestealers going to Elites, with Broodlord they can be taken as Troops (Xas, 40konline)
Warriors in every FOC slot - Tyrant shall make them Troops, Wings - Fast Attack, Heavy Support warriors will get +T, +Sv and each can get heavy weapon (The One, 40konline)
New Biovore model (Phill Kelly @GD Germ)
New nid biovore is a lictor/zoanthrope mix, no name for it yet. (Dark Primus, WarSeer)*
Tyranids have supposedly got ahold of an alpha+ level psyker and integrated his DNA into the swarm meaning they will have about as many psychic powers to choose from as space marines (and they are all assumed to "make world wolf look like a child's game" ). (The One, 40konline)
Army builds:
Quote:
The Tyranids, will be either a wannabe Hive fleet spearhead army, bringing enormous numbers, higher than IG, of weaker basic troops supported by some very specialised units - guess lictors and this kind of stuff or a full scale assault force, consisting of less, but more survivble units, he thinks Warriors as troops, bringing on heavier/more deadlier weapons...
(from Lord Hjamlar on Warseer)
* - take with a pinch of salt
Kudos to Terrorfex, King Ellesar, Hive Node, Moloch for Trygon's jaw whisper, Void Lord for deep Trygon analysis, Lord Hjamlar, Dark Primus(WS), Hellbreaker, KrewL RaiN, the One(40konline), Xas (BOLS lounge), Eidre for coverbreakdown and all who I forgot.
