Post by telsiph on May 17, 2017 18:21:32 GMT
Afternoon,
With 8th edition fast approaching (and looking fantastic) I've decided to revisit the idea of a Tyranid army. I dabbled with a low model count/elite army in 7th and had some success, however it ended up not playing the way I was hoping and got bored quickly. I still intend to primarily focus around monstrous creatures, elite creatures, and less on an overwhelming swarm (Though I may add a Gant unit or 2 as a screen).
Regardless, I'm planning to tackle this as I tend to do with most armies, by making one large purchase of a whole bunch of models that I'm interested in (Tyrant, Mawloc, Lictor, Harpy, etc) and start building/prepping to have something to use once 8th comes out. To the point, I'd like to do something to make the army a little less vanilla, and as I'm not a pro converter/painter I'd need to avoid some of the more insanely beautiful designs I see here. I've had some ideas based around thoughts like purchasing large amounts of tentacle bits to make the models appear a bit more infested than they already are, possibly shaving down the heads and going for a Ridley Scott Alien look, etc. Basically something that I could apply across the board that isn't insanely difficult, but gives the army a distinct look from a generic GW force (not knocking that look).
So I'm curious if anyone has any additional ideas that they've done themselves or would like to see done. Would like something that is Easy to Intermediate in difficulty, can be done across the board on all medium to large units (and maybe small if possible)
With 8th edition fast approaching (and looking fantastic) I've decided to revisit the idea of a Tyranid army. I dabbled with a low model count/elite army in 7th and had some success, however it ended up not playing the way I was hoping and got bored quickly. I still intend to primarily focus around monstrous creatures, elite creatures, and less on an overwhelming swarm (Though I may add a Gant unit or 2 as a screen).
Regardless, I'm planning to tackle this as I tend to do with most armies, by making one large purchase of a whole bunch of models that I'm interested in (Tyrant, Mawloc, Lictor, Harpy, etc) and start building/prepping to have something to use once 8th comes out. To the point, I'd like to do something to make the army a little less vanilla, and as I'm not a pro converter/painter I'd need to avoid some of the more insanely beautiful designs I see here. I've had some ideas based around thoughts like purchasing large amounts of tentacle bits to make the models appear a bit more infested than they already are, possibly shaving down the heads and going for a Ridley Scott Alien look, etc. Basically something that I could apply across the board that isn't insanely difficult, but gives the army a distinct look from a generic GW force (not knocking that look).
So I'm curious if anyone has any additional ideas that they've done themselves or would like to see done. Would like something that is Easy to Intermediate in difficulty, can be done across the board on all medium to large units (and maybe small if possible)
