Cruddace confirmed as author.

[herecomestomorrow]

Cruddace wrote the new nid codex, confirmed in WD Weekly.
" Robin Cruddace has now worked on two tyranid codexes, establishing himself as a bona fide expert"

At least we know, if it wasn't already obvious from the (please do not swear) internal balance and lack of passion in the book.

[fleetofclaw]

That quote is hilarious.

[leeroy1986]

That doesnt mean he wrote it just that he worked on it.

[eeknight]

Considering how little changed between the versions, you'll get no argument from me.

[Hive Bahamut]

The funny thing is he's probably on his high horse now about how he "fixed" the mess he made the first time... I could get a drunk capuchin monkey to come up with better synergy. Nid players whine too much. Yes because we are dealt handfuls of excrement and told to play with it, and that it is fluffy and cinematic.

Anyone got a Warhammer 40k help line? I think this is an addiction.. Just bought an exogrin after telling myself no more.. haha.

[biomassbob]

Well at least he's consistent. He botched the 5th ed dex and now the 6th ed dex. This isn't a cinematic narrative. It's a [bleeping] nightmare!

So I have to wait 4 more years to see if GW will go for the hatrick? Maybe it's time to dump this game.

[Inquisitor Stingray]

One does not write the rules for the Haruspex, Pyrovore and Old One Eye in 'good faith'.

But yeah, something about stupidity, not malice.

[Geneva]

Hey, how ya doin'?

Cruddace does seem to have a serious issue with internal balancing. Even in his best codex (Imperial Guard) there's a huge disparity between good units and bad ones. I was kind of hoping that Nids and Sisters were a stumble on his part as IG was so solid by comparison but he's actually falling behind Matt Ward at this point in regards to authors I don't like to see on codex covers. At least Ward's crunch got better over time (Grey Knights not withstanding).

[biomassbob]

Cruddace did the space marine book, and while not perfect it is a pretty good job with lots of viable builds, options and flavour. He just doesn't seem to get tyranids or know what to do with them. Maybe SM is just harder to botch.

[guns]

Feb 1, 2014 20:30:44 GMT Hive Bahamut said:

The funny thing is he's probably on his high horse now about how he "fixed" the mess he made the first time... I could get a drunk capuchin monkey to come up with better synergy. Nid players whine too much. Yes because we are dealt handfuls of excrement and told to play with it, and that it is fluffy and cinematic.

Anyone got a Warhammer 40k help line? I think this is an addiction.. Just bought an exogrin after telling myself no more.. haha.

I dunno, I doubt he even acknowledges (internally or externally) that there were critical problems with the 5th edition book.

Backed up by the evidence that he did next to nothing for the most complained about units (Warriors, Pyrovores, Lictors, Raveners, Genestealers).

Only somebody locked up in an impenetrable ivory tower could redo this book without hardly touching those armylist selections.

[Geneva]

Hey, how ya doin'?

Feb 1, 2014 21:33:53 GMT biomassbob said:

Cruddace did the space marine book, and while not perfect it is a pretty good job with lots of viable builds, options and flavour. He just doesn't seem to get tyranids or know what to do with them. Maybe SM is just harder to botch.

Did he? My bad then. For some reason I had it in my head that Kelly did Space Marines. I guess Cruddace really does just keep bouncing between great and terrible books.

[Hive Bahamut]

You see what they did there though right? Why fix it when you can just slap it in a formation and call it done, by giving it some stupid rule that should have been there in the first place. Seriously? Infiltrating within 6" was so OP they had to give it to our Lictors, because clearly they don't do anything else, and with 'Thrope class units ruling elites. I can't wait to see the fixes the rest of our garbage units get by being awkwardly slapped into a formation which really doesn't help many of us as they are generally banned in tournaments etc, giving us ANOTHER hit instead of a filler for allies, like a regular supplement would have done.

They just keep beating the dead horse. It really is frustrating to witness.

Edit added: Also, Cruddace does Imperial books just fine, only because it is impossible to screw up 3+, and Guard already had so much properly laid out. He should never be allowed to touch xenos..

[romali]

1d4chan.org/wiki/Robin_Cruddace

Interesting read...

[commandersasha]

I think it's a conceptual issue: IG fight like normal, contemporary regular armies. SM are like comtemporary elite armies. In both cases, you think about the person when designing the troops, and about the engineering when you design the tanks.
All of the special rules, traits, and even psychic powers are what you and I would want if we went to war.

I don't think Cruddace "gets" Tyranids. He created named characters: bees don't have them. He allowed challenges: ants don't do that. He allowed cannibalism: a galactic super-locust-swarm would never allow that. He allowed us to suffer Perils Of The Warp, even though our powers are not warp-drawn.

I think the Space Marine codex was excellent, many fluffy builds that are viable; the problems it has are more due to the problems affecting 6th in general.

It's just a shame that they let him do it again.

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Feb 1, 2014 22:15:39 GMT romali said:

1d4chan.org/wiki/Robin_Cruddace

Interesting read...

Read the whole thing. Still struggling to type through the laughter. Almost as amusing as reading amazon product reviews for hot dog slicers.