Wishlist to GW

[wormlord666]

I would like GW to give GSC som named characters. For example a three-armed Broodbrother general. He should have both Broodbrother keyword and the cult creed and thus be the bridge between theese factions. He should have some orders for BB and he should make the fearless and re-roll ability for BB.

[purestrain]

Just fix the lictor gw... I hate you so much for saddlebagging one of my favorite models...

[swarm492]

^ This.

The Lictor is a super awesome idea that has been hamstrung due to poor mechanics and made cheaper and cheaper to try and entice people into using it.

Scrap the whole thing and reimagine it as the assassin it's ment to be. Ita just sad as is. 2nd edition lictors ftw.

[biomassbob]

^^ What Purestrain and swarm492 said. Lictors and Deathleaper are 2 of my favourite models and have rarely been good.

[N.I.B.]

Raveners are my favourite models. They haven't been good since I got into 40K, they were even nerfed when Cruddace changed how Tyranid cc weapons work - before if you have more than one kind of cc weapon, like ScyTals and Rending Claws, you would get both reroll 1's to hit and rend, but you wouldn't get a bonus attack for having two cc weapons.

Would it kill GW to at least give them options for adrenal glands?

Raveners still have some fluffy utility as a 3 model Jormungandr taxi for 20 Devilgants.

[Hive Bahamut]

I am under the belief that the Lictor "idea" is what became GSC. Able to pop up right beside the target and pull some schenaniganary and then RttS. Perfect Ambush Screams Lictors.

Now before this is shut down, there has been precedent set before with Pariahs disappearing and Admech becoming the Cyborg faction, and there are a few other examples that are out there, like Roughriders turned into Atalan Jackals etc.

Lictors won't be fixed until they need to dump the last stock to prepare for a dual kit as I stick to what they have done with Biovores and their 36 point clear stock raised to 50 to stop. (Dactylis and Vore kit for Tiamat still my guess.)

It IS a business after all and making legacy models fly off the shelves is asking to doom production lines (which are admittedly already a mess.) The Lictor was one of my first Tyranids, the look of those Talons is stuff of nightmares. Too bad.. They would be fun with 8th rules. Who do you Cthulu?!

Now to address the character issue.. This is something that should NEVER happen. Tyranids only have named characters because the Imperium gives them identity. This is one of the biggest reasons Tyranids are so alien. Ripley has a glorious quote that fits this about: "They don't know fear, or remorse.." That escapes me, but is an integral trait to the faceless horde. It is also why we got the consolation prize of being the only faction WITH named characters NOT tied to any subfaction. Swarmlord can be Kraken, or Leviathan, or Kronos if you want.. Tyranids don't care about honor or glory, and I doubt there is any hierarchy they are aware of. Cells operating as a body. Fingers are no more aware of feet, only the brain keeps it in check. They are only concerned about the most basic instinct. Feeding. They are an intergalactic goldfish that has been bit in half, never able to slate their insatiable hunger, before returning to the Biomass pools of recreation.

Genecult receiving characters would be even more silly, as they all jump into the pool (some willingly.) There are no rogues. Ymgarl MIGHT be but seem more like an old tie to chaos/feral/isolation.

If this sounds like negativity focus you are digging too deep. I am passionate about 40k (cough tattoo) but try to understand that even with my fluff hard on, I understand that certain things are unrealistic. There are a plethora of options for named characters. Something like 18 other factions to choose from.

My only wish is that Nids and associates are kept alien. We do not need to go back to everyone having lasguns and missles and Lascannons like pre 3rd. GSC proved that even with identical units there can be diversity. Why no melta or plasma or Baneblades? Too heavily watched, too hard to pilfer. A few grenades and flamers? No one cares.

Always open to new ideas, if there is something I missed I am all ears. I know nothing, but am hopeful with 8th and their progression. Primaris reboot SHOULD keep everyone on their toes though. If they revamped their lovechild, no one is safe.

[infornography]

I can see GSC getting named characters. There are some cults that span multiple worlds and survive invasions (the parts that are not on the world the nids arrived on). Why not have some well led long lived cults have a couple named characters.

That said, I would be fine without named characters. I would love to see the named character rules become wargear or options. You could have the swarmlord build of the hive tyrant which would just be a hive tyrant with 4 bone sabers and the advanced leadership package and no wings.

I would like to see similar for all factions though. You want to make your custom chapter master, here are rules you can pick from to build him. You want to have a special librarian, take one or two of these fancy extra rules you can give them. Unique Farseer? Pick out some rules. Charge a chunk of points for the options that make named characters special and flag those rules as one per army.

[garg]

Yea, i agree bahamut. It doesn't really make from a narrative perspective to me that Nids have special characters. Sure they might have some specimen that caused particular carnage like OOE but if it was a good configuration then it would be copied so there would be thousands or millions of OOEs.
I hope they don't corrupt the alienness of Tyranids because of the narrative power creep.

[purestrain]

Can I has beast of phodia please? A ninja carnifex with a cannon and a penchant for flying body parts made my adrenal glands giggle.