Info up about the new Dataslate

[zookie]

www.blacklibrary.com/games-workshop-digital-editions/Tyranid-Vanguard.html

So far this is what the previews show. It seems to have some sort of story or campaign to it. Whether or not it has rules to be used outside the campaign is unclear. Something called "Broodlord Hunting Pack" No rules shown but implies that it makes Genestealers more effective when lead by a Broodlord. Another is the ability to take 5 lictor broods (why I have no idea) and the cover appears to have a Ymgarl on it so that could be a good sign. It is going for $14.99 USD so is probably has a lot of content.

[zookie]

Another thing it looks like all three of the dataslates to be released will follow a single story line with three different phases of consuming a planet.

[gigasnail]

i fear the suck.

[guns]

"Deathleaper's Assassin Squad" is a funny name to me.

I dunno, I can see some advantage to taking Deathleaper and five broods of 1x Lictor if the entire formation only takes up one FOC slot. That's basically akin to what we wanted for Lictors, right? ie. Being able to deploy and operate each Lictor separately. Although if the trade-off is not being able to take MCs, it won't matter.

Ymgarls could rock, but they probably won't. Prediction: they lose the immediate charge, and their mutation works like the bio-artefact (bonuses restricted to the assault phase). And they'll go up in points for no reason.

The Hunting Packs are a curiosity. Maybe they'll deploy like Lictors.

[Hive Bahamut]

Limited edition codex's 2x $60

Tyranid skeleton codex $60

Each dataslate $20

3 dataslates $60

3x codex price for proper consumer product: PROFIT

I really should get an intervention..

[revx]

91 pages it looks like

[zookie]

I was not sure if I was going to order it but then I got a message at work that I am on mandatory overtime for the next 6 months. So what the heck, why not. I can buy all the models I want now I will just never get the time to use them. At least I can read dataslate fluff on the commute.

[rtx]

www.games-workshop.com/gws/wnt/blog.jsp?pid=12800048

Even when announcing Tyranid dataslate, they still advertise SM in that info...

[lordacebuz]

Does this mean its only available on ebook readers and ipads? No physical copy at all?

[rtx]

It's really bad that iPad edition is avalible only on... Well... iPads. After all, iPhone & iPod touch are almost the same, but smaller [and less powerful, but it doesn't matter -optimization is what Apple does the best]. Ebooks from GW are retarded - images that aren't rectanguoar have white background when I'm viewing eBook with black background, but look perfectly fine with sepia background.

[bugsfromessex]

does anyone know if they are going to make a version for non ipad users?

[rtx]

Yes - simple eBook.

[bugsfromessex]

or any other tablet, could they put them in the new weekly white dwarf or even down load them on to a pc and print them off or it just sucks for people who dont have tablets

[wolfmanuk]

yes you can if you buy an ebook, part of the terms and conditions when you download it is that you are allowed to print out one copy for your own use (although of course they would never know how many copies you printed out but there we go). The ebooks can be used on smart phones, ereaders and android tablets...

[commandersasha]

In what world is this acceptable behaviour? A new £30 rulebook is released, and SEVEN DAYS LATER they are adding chapters, that you have to pay £9 for???
WHY was this not a sub=chapter in the main codex?
By all means release new rules when codecii are aging, as an interim measure, but these people are withholding rules in release days, just to extract more from you A WEEK LATER!

What UTTER contempt they clearly have for us. I got a pirate codex, and this makes me very glad I did. By the time this "Trilogy" is complete, you will have paid £57 for your rule set, and half of that will be home- printed pages falling out of your badly-bound hardbook, full of pictures of Nottingham's display models, some years old.

I'm sorry, but I have LOVED this game, for the 6-7 years I have been playing it, both supervising my young son and his friends, and then getting seriously into it myself.
I have spent thousands of pounds, and thousands of hours, reading, browsing, visiting, learning and developing; my long-suffering wife has had to come to terms with my "affair" with what she calls "Snorehammer", and I have developed some of my tightest friendships with gaming buddies I would never have met otherwise.

The past year's power creep, the past few months' mechanic abuses, and now this utter betrayal of a loyal fanbase, is more than a cynical bait-and-switch: this is a contemptible act of an immoral abusive partner.

We don't want to quit, because we have so much invested already, but this is just not fair.

At this point I really do hope that GW folds, the board of directors go bankrupt, and that the only thing that stops them losing their homes is that they sell off the IP to every open source Tom, Dick and Harry who turn it into a community-owned game, with fandexes, independent mini manufacturers, and the freedom for FLGS's to act as they wish.

I can't believe how few people seem to be passively accepting this particular release: guys, you spent £30 on the rules last week, and now your book is out of date with the current rule set! Get angry!