Forge World Imperial Armor Aeronautica

[eeknight]

The new Imperial Armor Aeronautica book does mention either an anti-aircraft or flyer unit for Tyranids:

www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/IMPERIAL_ARMOUR_AERONAUTICA.html

A brand new Forge World supplement book for Warhammer 40,000, Imperial Armour Aeronautica, written by Neil Wylie, contains fully updated 6th Edition rules for 34 flyers and 13 anti-aircraft units fielded by the Imperial Navy, Space Marines, Orks, Eldar, Tyranids, Tau Empire, Necrons, Dark Eldar and Chaos.
These include complete rules for two brand new aircraft: the Space Marine Storm Eagle Assault Gunship and the Imperial Navy Avenger Strike Fighter.

Ummm, yay? My memory's not so hot, but didn't the Trygon appear in Forge World's Anaphelion book before the 2009 Codex? Eventually we'll get something that can Skyfire, it seems (I don't count fortifications because of the autofire rule, you're always going to be shooting at the closest unit rather than fliers).

[Talonis]

The Harridan is not a new flyer. Also Incan not see any new units for which we can use skyfire. They could have at least put in the mieotic spores, allowed them to drift around and only be snap fired at.

Compared to the amount of other flyers in that book, we could have at least had something else added in.

[scrotatohead]

No doubt. For an ancient intergalactic race that adapts itself readily amd aggressively to face each new food source, to conquer all manner of planetary environment, our 'Nids seem hell bent on ceding the skies to the biomass flying boxes instead of designing horrors that can fill and command the air. How hard is it to FAQ the biovore to give it skyfire? How hard is it to give a spore mine a flak profile? Or FAQ the rupture cannon?

Apparently too hard.

[eeknight]

Jul 6, 2012 20:33:21 GMT scrotatohead said:

No doubt. For an ancient intergalactic race that adapts itself readily amd aggressively to face each new food source, to conquer all manner of planetary environment, our 'Nids seem hell bent on ceding the skies to the biomass flying boxes instead of designing horrors that can fill and command the air. How hard is it to FAQ the biovore to give it skyfire? How hard is it to give a spore mine a flak profile? Or FAQ the rupture cannon?

Apparently too hard.

Or Hivguard. It's a guided missile, for all intents and purposes.

I'd settle for making Venom Cannons regular weapons instead of blast marker users. The Harpy might stand a fighting chance then.

I do like your idea of spore mines going aerial.

[Talonis]

On another side not, Forgeworld have provided updates for their vehicles and Apoc rules too.

Although the 2 units I wanted to know about are not there (Siege dreadnought and Hierophant rules update)

[Inquisitor Stingray]

Hive Guards and Biovores would be obvious choices for Skyfire units.

Chances are, it's the Harpy or Harridan.