Hive Tyrant Contents box

[rick]

Hey you guys,

I'm in a bit of a pickle. Having bought the Hive Tyrant (with wings) box, I appear to be missing one or two pieces.

Could any of you lot, about to buy one of those boxes, send (pm) me some pictures of the sprues? That way I can see what I'm missing, and get me the right item.

Thanks a million guys!
+250 internets to whoever can help me out


Da Rick

[revx]

it should be three spures. if your missing a whole spure (as i was) it isnt hard to figure out which one. if you are just missing a few piece check the spure where they are missing; there should be a small number next to it. find that number in the build instructions and thats the piece your missing.

[arsonfire]

Take a look at the kit on GW's site.
www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?prodId=prod1460211a

In the gallery they have pictures of the sprues.

[biomassbob]

What exactly do you believe you are missing? If it is MC devourers - than no - GW didn't actually include any in the kit (yes they are jerks).

[infornography]

+1 on Arsonfire's suggestion.

Games Workshop does often include pictures of all the sprues for their newer plastic kits. Not always, but usually. In the case of the Hive Tyrant kit, they do.

[pikapp515]

I came here just to log my anger at finding out that GW:

1) Didn't create a separate location for the wings to slot in thereby making in impossible to WYSIWYG without conversion..
2) Didn't include Devourers..

are you kidding?! The devourers have been one of the most popular builds on the tyrant since the 5th ed codex came out. They had all sorts of time to know this and consider it too as the new model came out a couple years after that codex.
And don't make excuses for them on where the wings go. Forge World can get away with it as it's an extra special purchase meant for fans wanting a different style or option over and above the main game.

There's absolutely no good reason for the wings issue unless GW plans on coming out with a new codex or overhaul FAQ on the tyrant build.

I've really never complained and thought GW does a marvoulous job over all of trying to keep both balance and excitment in a rather complicated and stung out game system. But for some reason this just pushed my buttons. There's no da*n good excuse. It's just lazy and distanced from their players.

[infornography]

Pikapp, you won't get much disagreement around here. That was definitely a douchey or downright negligent move on GW's part.

[rick]

That didn't really do the trick, so I'm going to have to renew my call.

Anyone?

[arsonfire]

Here are the pictures from the site. They look clear enough to me. Can you elaborate a bit on what else you want?

[kippawah]

Just put together my first flyrant and I had noticed that there weren't any devourers in the sprue.

SO, I used the leftover Fleshborer Hive arms from one of my Tervigon kits to put in place to represent "dakka." It ended up fitting quite well and looks pretty nasty!

Of course, they end up using 2 out of the 3 slots we should have available for weapons with the useless legs and the wings. So, only ONE weapon slot?! UGH. It's up to you if you want to further convert it by trying to splice a LW/BS combo to either the wing arms or the other MC arms.

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