New nid player

[huntsblade]

Hello new nid player here I’m looking to purchase enough nids for about 2500 points and looking for ideas TIA for the ideas

[hivefleetkerrigan]

Welcome to the hive!
Cost wise, I'd recommend picking up one or two of the tyranid halves of leviathan. This should get you a really good start getting to 2.5k points for relatively cheap.

I'd personally recommend picking up whatever models you think look cool. What model is good vs bad will change by the edition but rule of cool is eternal.

[Overread]

+1 to finding Leviathan sets. I'd head over to ebay and also facebook warhammer trading groups as you can still find people selling off whole halves of the set.

With the "rule of 3" that limits you to no more than 3 of any unit card (with the exception of battleline models); you can safely pick up 3 full halves of Leviathan and could, in theory, use all the contents if you wanted. It would certainly give you a great core of models to expand from. Although from a practical standpoint you might find it more entertaining to grab some different models after 2 sets just to give yourself some variety when working on them.


After that going for some "cool" models is honestly very sound advice. You'll spend hours building/painting outside of the tabletop time so having models you really like can be abig boon when starting and growing an army. After that you can start to drill down into tactical advice and what is the best choices and so forth. It helps to have played the game; experienced things and so forth when it then comes to sifting through advice on more tactical choices to take .

[mattblowers]

Who are you all kidding? "Just buy the starter set" they said. "The first bump is free." "I promise, I'll just put the tip in."

Next thing you know you have boxes of models coming out of your closets a painting queue you'll never finish in 3 lifetimes, and 4-5 armies that you bought into but never built out. This plastic crack will get you.

Pic of my collection from 5 years ago below for reference.

[Overread]

The worst part and best part is when a model gets updated. I've a whole bunch of gaunts in boxes unbuilt and yet I'm tempted to sell them simply because the new ones are so much better. They have much more dynamic poses and their heads are not split in half!

[killercroc]

Feb 28, 2024 13:28:50 GMT Overread said:

The worst part and best part is when a model gets updated. I've a whole bunch of gaunts in boxes unbuilt and yet I'm tempted to sell them simply because the new ones are so much better. They have much more dynamic poses and their heads are not split in half!

Same here, I probably have somewhere around 100 gaunts or so unbuilt (No I don't have a problem) but the new ones look so much nicer, oh and the Hormagaunts don't fall over constantly anymore too!

[trashcan01]

Well fellas, if you ever run out of space for the old models, please let me know. I'll be happy to have them.


Just to add - there was a time when I thought that Tyrant and Carnifex models were the big bugs. When I look at my Fex next to the Norn... like, what the hell?!

[Overread]

Yeah I was commenting on that at the game club the other day - Fex's and Tyrants were at one time huge models, esp in plastic where they really bulked out over their earlier versions in both cases.

But yeah today the Fex is really honestly in a strange position. It's not the big super powerful "does it all" model. Indeed all the roles it used to do have almost entirely been taken over by bigger more specialist models. It's left the fex in a strange position because its kind of stepped down to middleweight support unit. Only it lacks the generic support tools that a warrior typically has (eg synapse); and it lacks the specific stats that other middleweight units have (eg hive guard and so forth).

It makes me wonder if in the future GW will do what they've done with the Screamer Killer. Take named variations of the Carnifex, give them their own name, unique stats and their own model. Especially if they keep with the low upgrade options that 10th has introduced. I could see us getting Thornbacks, Old One Eye, Crushers and so forth as dedicated models and the old fex will quietly slip away.

[trashcan01]

Fexes will make their comeback eventually. Their synergy with OOE and the fact they were really good last edition (sold enough models I guess) is what's keeping them in the "meh" range.

Gonna try them in Stampede for the laughs.

[dkng]

Carnifexes with OOE in IF are not meh…

[trashcan01]

For their points cost of 515 (OOE + 3 Fexes), I expected more. I ran them in IF once or twice, and they werent able to pay their points. They went down pretty easy. Big unit, easy to spot by anti-tank.
Maybe I was just unlucky, but I don't see them in a lot of lists either. Hence the "meh" status.

[gigasnail]

mattblowers that's a gorgeous collection, man

Feb 28, 2024 12:53:05 GMT mattblowers said:

Who are you all kidding? "Just buy the starter set" they said. "The first bump is free." "I promise, I'll just put the tip in."

Next thing you know you have boxes of models coming out of your closets a painting queue you'll never finish in 3 lifetimes, and 4-5 armies that you bought into but never built out. This plastic crack will get you.

Pic of my collection from 5 years ago below for reference.

[mattblowers]

Mar 12, 2024 19:10:52 GMT gigasnail said:

mattblowers that's a gorgeous collection, man

Thanks. It's about 5,000 points bigger right now. I keep trying to get it painted but then I get distracted by new models including printing 2 Norns.