Got the new codex ......

[undead]

I bought my new codex today and had a quick read through . And I must say I am kinda underwhelmed by how much has changed . I know that pretty much 100% of rumours are unreliable but with the kind of change I heard circling about from multiple sources I really thought that we were in for a major reboot , a remodeling of sorts . But reading through my new hardcover codex and seeing the pages I see that what we got was no more than a few new units and a rewrite of the same rules but to fit the sixth edition template . I mean really in some areas there was even backtracking they've gone and removed some uniques like the parasite of mortrex and the doom of malantai and the ymgarl genestealers have been converted into a bio artifact that gives stat bonuses. Even a large portion of the art is the same art as that used by the previous codex . There were some nice improvements here and there and overall I do like the new codex I just feel like more could have changed . I feel like the effort that went into this change could have been done and play tested for balance over a long weekend .

[lacman95]

i got codex only today as well.

I do like the new codex in some aspects mainly the harpy ands its counter part, and the tyrannofex being cheaper

but basically they have broken down most of the nid lists we had.

And said we will nerf everything you liked about the old codex and get you to go for the classic nids, like the red terror, old one eye and the long forgotten carnifex and many other forgot things.

Also we have been hearing a lot of complaints about the tervigon and doom of manatia lets get rid of you favorite bug and give u slow frog instead, satisfied. Oh no it gets better, lets make it you have to take 30 gants(hehe more money for us)to have a troop tervigon and lets make the tervigon 195p without any psychic attacks that will be reliable or useful (best ones are 1,6 on the table)and give u scythin talons for free and those crushing claws, we will make only useful to the carnifexs, which adrenal glands cost the same amount of point and do less.

[ZergLord]

To me the codex screams "4th Edition!".

-Once again Tyranids have the weakest psychic powers.
-Once again spamming MCs is easy.
-old iconic Tyranid special characters are all back.

Luckily this codex isn't totally 4th Ed because there won't be a 1 MC unit spam, coughcough4thedfexescough the way I see it most if not all MCs are viable. Which is excellent considering that Tyranids have more MCs than any other army - 12 of them.

Even a large portion of the art is the same art as that used by the previous codex .

This is actually good considering that most of the new artwork is horrible. Not the worst things that I've ever seen but still it's very, very bad by GW standards.

[iyama]

Again I bought the new codex today and opened its pages with excitement and pride running through me in the shop and the quick flick through made me very happy, but once I arrived at my friends house and we delved deeper into its pages we both began to realise that the new codex wasn't the shinning beacon of hope that was needed.
Removing the re-rolls from scything talons, dropped many creatures (doom was sadly expected) no longer able to spawn gaunts from the tervigon and the move and shoot. Haruspex not as useful as hopped, many units dropping WS and or BS with little to no gains.

In conclusion the gains we have be given are a sadly dim light compared to the losses we have suffered, however I will not totally write of this codex until I can actually play some units but on the whole I am sad to say I feel like the codex could be worse on the whole to how it used to be when we still suffered compared to many other armies

PS friend asks where are our wraith knight and riptide equivalents?

[Raven]

Trygons, Mawlocs, Tervigons, Tyrannofexes, we had big MCs before they were cool/mechas.

[lacman95]

The equivalents of which u speak we have none atm, we did have doom in pod, but sadly not any more, u shall be missed doom and pod.

the closet we ever got was the Trygon prime NERFED!or the Tryannofex but that was over priced, but we fixed that now, no u didnt, u just replaced it with the exocine which is cheaper and has the better weapon and bs skill (sp rule takin into account).