Comments on: Dataslate: Tyrannic War Veterans Available for Pre-Order

By: Dataslate: Tyranid Vanguard - Rising Leviathan I

Dataslate: Tyranid Vanguard - Rising Leviathan I — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 18:16:16 +0000

[…] the Tyranid War Veterans, which give Space Marines going up against Tyranids new tricks, this one is very much digital […]

By: Yggdrasil

Yggdrasil — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 21:24:00 +0000

Oh great ! I love the grenade-hurling Marine ! I might REALLY get tempted after all

By: Zweischneid

Zweischneid — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 21:13:00 +0000

Yeah. They are still on the site: http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?prodId=prod1600054a

By: Yggdrasil

Yggdrasil — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 21:00:00 +0000

Well, I guess you’re right ! It’s just that I would have liked some of my Sternguards to have some extra fluffy rules (even if none of my friends play Nids) !

But hey, maybe it’ll coerce me into buying Cassius ?

(Side question : are the Tyrannic War Veterans models still available for sale ? Were they re-released in FC ?)

By: Zweischneid

Zweischneid — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 21:03:00 +0000

I don’t know, but I doubt it.

Cassius is the iconic face for Tyranid War Veterans. After all, the unit in the actually 4th Edition Space Marines Codex was called “Ultramarine Tyranid War Veterans”, before they were changed into more generic “Sternguard Veterans”. Things like “Kraken-rounds” still hint at their origins

It’s going a bit in circles. Tyranid War Veterans were one of the things that made Ultramarines unique, then they took it away to give everyone “Sternguard”, now they are back with a data-sheet.

I guess your generic Tyranid War Veterans would be Sternguard, more or less.

By: Yggdrasil

Yggdrasil — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 19:43:00 +0000

Do you know if there is only 1 Dataslate included, like for non-Ultramarines SM armies ? I mean, there MIGHT be other chapters with Tyrannic War Veterans, after all… So I would have liked a “generic” dataslate for them…

By: Guest

Guest — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 17:37:00 +0000

I WAS buying entire issues of White Dwarf, and quite faithfully for many years I might add, but that part of my life is over.

By: Zweischneid

Zweischneid — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 17:11:00 +0000

You’ve been laying out money for White Dwarf articles then?

I’ll have to advise against piracy, of course. If it’s free fluff you want, just read Lexicanum!!

By: Guest

Guest — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 16:59:00 +0000

I will happily pirate it if there is any fluff to be had, but I would never lay out money for something with no more content than a White Dwarf article.