Giving up on tyranids

[The DeathJester]

When I first saw them, I fell in love . . .
It was when I was just a 12 year old boy and the LOTR films gripped my imagination and GW was the fuel for it . .

I went to GW for the firs time, my nan took me bless her.

They had a space station interior and a genestealer was crawling out the wall, I knew then what army I wanted. The Aliens that pop out of walls army. . .

later as my love of LOTR left me, 40K gripped me and I brought the battle for Macragge set, It had the wall aliens inside!

I've collect tyranids for 6 years now and I'm losing interest. .

So I'm going into stasis, hide in the wall like that genestealer and pop back out when you least expect it, I shall explore the imperium abit more in my floating spacehulk.

I shall see in you agian in a couple of thousand years tyranid hive, farewell.

This post is number 666 for me, I guess the Greyknights are calling me.

[rcrih]

Post count 666 lol. Good luck to you. I took a hiatus for most of 5th. Sometimes you just need to step away to recharge the interest batteries. My interest was piqued again by a somewhat random event and had nothing much to do with 6th edition. I was surfing around netflix and ran across Starship Troopers which I had not seen in ages. I decided to watch it and the swarming bug battles around the outpost got me to unbox my nids from the basement and here we are.

[Davor]

You will be missed DeathJester. There is no shame in taking a break, I have done it many times.

What ever you do, DON'T SELL YOUR MINIS. Don't get rid of them. Hopefully we will see you back soon.

Take care my friend, and I hope all works out well for you what ever you choose to do.

[squash]

Ignore Davor, he's an idiot. Sell them to me dirt cheap.

[Xantige]

I clicked this expecting someone who was rage quitting because of all recent rules that exclude Tyranids from some of the 6th ed fun, or whining about how nids are too hard to play and GW is trying to nerf all xenos armies and make all Sm armies insta-wins.

So with that said, I'm glad that wasn't the case. Your post was incredibly fun to read and I wish the best to you, wherever your travels.

[Geneva]

Jul 19, 2012 2:48:39 GMT Xantige said:

I clicked this expecting someone who was rage quitting because of all recent rules that exclude Tyranids from some of the 6th ed fun, or whining about how nids are too hard to play and GW is trying to nerf all xenos armies and make all Sm armies insta-wins.

So with that said, I'm glad that wasn't the case. Your post was incredibly fun to read and I wish the best to you, wherever your travels.

^^^

Best of luck with whatever other army you take up. A break is nice one in a while. I never appreciated Nids more than after I stopped playing them for a couple years and took up IG instead.

[wisdomseyes1]

the honest reason I dont play marines and guard and CSM or really any army that I dont play, is beause the fluff bores me (with the exception of orks. I love orks fluff, I hate orks in play)

Honestly I cant see the interest in calling "for the emperor!!!" every time you kill something, fallowing the will of someone whose soul is in the warp. "honor and duty above all else" while defending mankind when the space marines care about no one but each other, and imperil guardsmen fall to the flaw that is self preservation.

The protagonists in 40k are the... i cant think of one race that is really the "good" guy. Tyranids have the purest intentions; they want to eat stuff (well, except for that fluff addition in 5th edition that suggests that the tyranids are here because of the emperor... check the space mp in the codex and red terra)

[warischoy]

Jul 19, 2012 4:53:23 GMT wisdomseyes1 said:

(well, except for that fluff addition in 5th edition that suggests that the tyranids are here because of the emperor... check the space mp in the codex and red terra)

Can you please expand on that? I am interested.

[maugrim]

There are comments in some of the fluff that the Tyranids are being attracted to the massive Psychic Beacon that is the Astronomicon. There are also possibilities (in the old Necron dex) that they're the results of an insane C'Tan (aren't they all?) and different ones in the new one (A C'Tan called the Devourer, the C'tan's appetite for biomass/souls, dislike for the Warp).

[Bot]

Jul 19, 2012 0:04:16 GMT The DeathJester said:

This post is number 666

That's pretty awesome...

Jul 19, 2012 0:04:16 GMT The DeathJester said:

I shall see in you agian in a couple of thousand years tyranid hive, farewell.

Please send me a mail if you find something that can keep you alive for so long. I'd love to be able to play tyranids for a couple of thousand years you see.

[Lanesend]

Hah, before you know it you'll be back here with a thread called "H:Grey Knights, W:More Nids"
But seriously. There's nothing wrong with playing other factions. It will probably broaden your view of general tactics, which is always good. (and after playing a few years of 'Nids, also very fun)

Say hi to the Genestealer in the walls for me.

[bayne]

I know what you mean.

All the servo skulls of the new edition book and the iminant release of Graham McNeils new tech priests book has me making an adeptus mechanicus explorator unit for kill team and necromunda expanding on the enginseer i painted up a few years ago, and i have a scattering of minis and small forces of other 40k armies and a fantasy vampire counts army and a host of other gw and non-gw games.

Still i'm digging my own Tyranids now too, but at times they have sat ignored while other things caught my interest.

Variety can be good. And our interests can wax and wane. So definately don't sell anything as you might well regret that later (many people i know have done this!).

Who knows, it may just be that you need a break, need some more variety, or that you'll be caught up in some other army for ages when a book or new model or the next Tyranid codex might suddenly relight those passions of old.

It may just be time for the Genestealer in the wall to lurk for a while, watching and waiting for a better time to strike...

[1b2a]

You're playing into GW's hands. They want the various nid players to quit and buy entirely new armies. Do you think it's a coincidence that they can't ally with anybody? It's all strategic so that they sell more models.

I say they can go (please do not swear) themselves. I find no allies a benefit. I don't have to go out and buy (lol) the other codices and learning so many (please do not swear) rules to figure out what is best to ally with.

[bayne]

Jul 19, 2012 16:34:06 GMT 1b2a said:

You're playing into GW's hands. They want the various nid players to quit and buy entirely new armies. Do you think it's a coincidence that they can't ally with anybody? It's all strategic so that they sell more models.

I say they can go (please do not swear) themselves. I find no allies a benefit. I don't have to go out and buy (lol) the other codices and learning so many (please do not swear) rules to figure out what is best to ally with.

I'm not buying into the conspiracy idea, otherwise why introduce allies at all? Seems to me just like they didn't want to bring back mindslaves and even if the do bring back stealercults (please please please with zoatibix on top) I'm sure it will be more restricted than an open ended ally system.

[cibissum]

I agree Bayne. If anything, I think the allies chart was added with the intention of allowing people who start to buy a new army to play games with them before having enough for a complete force on it's own. However, because of how silly that would be for non-apocolypse games they tempered it with fluff.

Is it silly that Tau can ally with Necrons, who harvested them? Yep. However if they didn't make any allowances at all then it'd only be marines and imperial guard working together, and only a few cases at that. It's a fine, delicate line between letting someone play with all their plastic army men and enacting the story of how a strike force of marines inflicted great losses upon the devourer of worlds but still failed to prevent the planet from being another meal.