Tyranid features of DoW2

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Tyranid features of DoW2 Aug 5, 2008 19:30:23 GMT

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Post by squidy on Aug 5, 2008 19:30:23 GMT

Anyone have any thoughts on how they should do tyranids in DoW2? I think genestealers with a broodlord leading would be awesome. Maybe a hive tyrant leading a horde of gaunts. A winged hive tyranids leading gargoyles! ;D Keep in mind that these thoughts I came up with are for squad based gameplay.

I'm not sure how the game mechanics are going to work though.

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Tyranid features of DoW2 Aug 13, 2008 23:27:43 GMT

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Post by Enigma on Aug 13, 2008 23:27:43 GMT

Hive tyrants will probably be seperate from winged ones, and the walkers can get a retinue like the imperial guard, of tyrant guards. Now, how to implement synapse would be interesting. Probably it would mean that gaunts would either have mutants like 3rd edition, or warrior leaders. Having them have to stay near warriors is unlikely, doing that much micromanagement is just too hard.

As for others, how about the trygon being able to join units of raveners?

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Tyranid features of DoW2 Aug 14, 2008 14:17:49 GMT

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Post by Haraio [MALAL] on Aug 14, 2008 14:17:49 GMT

I've been thinking about how they could use Warriors as sergeants, with shooty Warriors for gaunts, and close combat warriors for Hormagaunts. And then if the Warrior dies the gaunts would lose morale or something. Just a thought^^

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Tyranid features of DoW2 Aug 14, 2008 20:01:06 GMT

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Post by Enigma on Aug 14, 2008 20:01:06 GMT

The way the mod worked was interesting.

Whenever a unit of gaunts or something else was near certain tyranid buildings or synapse units, morale didn't apply. If they left, they didn't suffer a penalty, but they're morale is low to start with anyway.

But, I think mutants would work well.

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Tyranid features of DoW2 Aug 20, 2008 8:08:57 GMT

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Post by kejell on Aug 20, 2008 8:08:57 GMT

I agree the fex shot was a tiny bit dissappointing visually even though I had major pleasure spasms as it informed of the news. The fex just seems to skinny and upright for me, with inproportionally thick talons.

I think it will be pretty much the same as the TT. In other word, you get morale bonus that is either so massive you never really break or morale stops applying, probably the latter. Warriors should be in separate broods as per the TT, forcing you to mix your strike force. Gaunts should be dirt cheap for their power, but in turn pretty much have to be used with a synapse unit to stand a fight. This is good to prevent mass gaunt spam and the like.

Genestealers with deepstrike seems overpowered, but so does invisibility. Can't really see how they will apply the infiltrator trait or scuttlers. Maybe they can similarly to the Necros be able to teleport or even deep strike but only close to listening posts, or spore chimneys.

It's rumoured the game will include a retreat feature similar to Company of Heroes, Ie you just hit a button and then the unit automatically runs at double speed back to your HQ

Lictors are a given, they should naturally be both deepstriked and come into play invisible without upgrades. The downside being that they have to become visible to strike. As per the TT they should get major advantages when in cover VS fire.

I think they can leave out gargs for now, but would not object! Would be awesome to have them above your forces when assaulting, not occupying any precious CC space.

We have already seen raveners in the jungle screenshot so those are confirmed, suprisingly. More deepstrike?

I expect Biovores will be out, Dow2 will be a very zoomed in close proximity game so they might just leave out artillery all together, I certainly wouldn't mind though.

Per my predictions, these are the units we will see:
Hive Tyrant. The 4 different upgrade slots will be VC, BS, Dev, ST. And you can take any 2.
Carnifex. 4 slots will be VC, BS, ST, Crusher claws. Take any 2 except CC which can only be once.
Broodlord. Can be upgraded with stealers, possibly left out.
Stealers. Buy them and drop them at listening posts. Can have scythes.
Termagaunts. No need for more than one close range shoot gaunt
Hormagaunts. Confirmed.
Zoanthropes. No upgrades, gets warp blast and synapse
Lictors. Confirmed.
Raveners. Confirmed. Should have a fixed CC setup as per the screenshot
Uber-unit. Possibly Hierophant or maybe Special character nids

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squidy Hive Tyrant ~No Bones, No Fear~ Posts: 1,256	Tyranid features of DoW2 Sept 10, 2008 22:11:09 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by squidy on Sept 10, 2008 22:11:09 GMT Sept 9, 2008 23:20:52 GMT robomummy said: they should put in a hierophant Say what??? Too easy, unless everyone else get a titan and even then, it would be titan wars and I don't like the idea of that.