The new Space Marines aren’t even here yet, but 4Chan is abuzz with rumours about the (allegedly upcoming Tyranids). As pretty much everyone can post anything anonymously on 4Chan, it is both a good place for people to dump information and a cesspool of trolls and jokers.
What’s more, there is a tiny pic over on Warseer of what may be the German Tyranid Codex cover.
Far more likely it is not.
#1 – Tyranid Character Rumours via 4Chan
Crawling Plague (named Venomthrope), Finecast
- Like the other named tyranids is taken as a brood upgrade.
- Three rows of vents on its back, tail is much longer and coils itself around a piece of scenery. Mouth tendrils are shorter and spread open around its mouth like it’s trying to spit out something, with liquid dripping out of it.
- Torrent weapon, AP- Poison 4+. Gimmick is on a 3+ place a marker anywhere on where you placed the template. Following turn place the small end of the flamer template on the marker and aim it in any direction, roll again on 4+ every subsequent turn to see if it stays on the field.
- Grants stealth to all models within 6″ and shrouding to itself. Venomthropes create 5+ cover, so they synergize.
- It Lurks in the Mists: Special deployment gimmick instead of deploying on the board, at the start of any movement phase except the first you can deploy the Crawling Plague within 6″ of any venomthrope.
- Mutation from the new Hive Fleet Karkinos, which is specialized in toxic weaponry and the usage of venomthropes.
Tyranid Prime, plastic clamshell
- Larger Warrior, head crest has four prongs, additional shoulder plates that interlock down over part of the chest, armor in general is sharper and extends farther out with a slight upward curve. Looks like you could impale a guardsman on its back.
- On foot, devourer and scything talons, dead easy to switch out components with Warriors and Raveners.
- Details of the fluff are quite a bit different. The Prime is designed as a perfect hunter, created to fit any battlefield and seek out and eliminate enemy commanders while supported by evolved broods in this regard.
- Apex Brood: The Prime can take a single retinue of “Apex” Warriors, Raveners or Shrikes. They receive T/WS/BS +1 and the Prime auto passes LOS! rolls while attached to the Apex Brood. Somewhat more expensive than their normal counterparts (+5 to +10 pt each depending on the creature)
- No more +1WS/BS when attached to regular warriors, that’s replaced by the retinue.
- Hunter-Killer: Enemy characters cannot refuse challenges from the Prime.
#2 – The Tiniest Tyranid Cover via Warseer
Now, to me personally, it looks very much like a photoshop-job (the cover text uses the German translation of Tyranids – “Tyraniden”), fake-shadow and all.
It also doesn’t help as it appears to be digital art recycled from the cover of the Black Library novel Catechism of Hate from early 2012.
Weird, what goes on in this hobby at times!
Z.
Update:
Not just the cover for the Codex, but the entire rumour has been proven false (via Dakka)
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