love the vid guys.

the like to the FAQ comes up ‘page not found’.

Another good video guys. I have to agree it was a straight forward FAQ for once. And I’m glad to see the Doom can’t suck souls from transported troops. Time to buy more waveserpents I think 🙂

The issue with the DOM if you allowed spirit leech within vehicles it’s too powerful and I agree with BOW it would not be in the spirit of the game. With the release of the FAQ I think there is a certain resentment by Tyranid players that perhaps GW is sticking it too them because it’s to much competition on marines. Which I believe space marines/IG get way more attention then other races. However, I think this FAQ ruling doesn’t really have anything to do with a bias. It just throws out something that really shouldn’t be in the game.

You shouldn’t GET COVER from the parasite… D:

I agree with most of what you’re saying here fellas, almost everything was things the community was expecting anyways and the liberal interpretation of the DoM rules was crazy cheesy. I used it in only one game and felt really ashamed for doing so because it was a friendly game and it completly decimated my opponent. But there was one thing that was completly against the fluff, existing game mechanics and every sence of fairness, it was the fact that Shadow in the Warp doesn’t affect psykers inside vehicles. But psychic hood and the eldar Runes of Warding does. Now… Read more »

The rule for a mawloc does state a str 6 attack with AP2, and if the template is on a vehicle then its attack is done to the rear armour, so it does deam it as a shooting attack.

Agreed that the sting Nid players have with the FAQ is more the ruling to Shadow of the Warp. It makes no sense fluffwise and frankly is just an over-all nerf to the codex.

Personally, I think allowing cover saves from the Doom was a bit of a daft ruling, but the vehicle one was sensible. And of *course* the Mawloc ruling was supposed to be that way. The problem is, guys, that a lot of people will stubbornly argue for RaW, regardless of how obvious the intention of the rule is (another good example of that would be the Torment Blade argument in the Fantasy Daemon book). The saddest thing about the FAQ is that there was a (very whingy) group that tried to start a petition to get the answers changed, just… Read more »

Nothing to do with the vid.. well why all the gw stuff in the background? why not mantic? why not wargames factory? Avatars of war? something?

FAQ is okay. No prime in the spore dissapointing, however.

got2 say i think the nerfing of the frex may have been due to the fact tht people already have loads of them so they wouldnt sell many more and that they wanted to sell lots and lots of the new trygon boxed sets as they are more expensive.

Honestly, I must say I’m a bit disappointed in the FAQ. Really, they ruled ‘okay’ on some of the issues, but the questions where, if you look at imperium and other codices, are all ruled the same way, have been somehow inverted for Tyranids. All in a way that weakens the Tyranid codex. For example: Marine IC’s can join units in a drop pod, Tyranids cannot. Imperium Psykers can use abilities while inside of a vehicle, and Eldar can use theirs on embarked units. However, those same vehicles somehow provide psionic immunity to Tyranids? Sorry, I don’t see the balance.… Read more »

Who was it that said that the Tyranids had been nerfed by the new codex? Come on guys: a hive tyrant has gone up from WS5 to WS8! That is higher than an Eldar phoenix lord!!!

As a ‘Nid player I don’t care what they do to ‘Nid “characters” it’s a swarm army that swamps the enemy (or lunch as ‘Nids say) with hordes of fairly standard gribblys not heroic individuals, everyones destiny is the digestion pools BWAHAHAHAHAH

/ahem

Sorry, got carried away there …..

The FAQ proves how incredibly badly this codex was written. The fact that the rules for combining tyranid bioweapons was left out, as written the rules catagorically state you do not combine weapon effects (page 42 fighting with two close combat weapons), and that it was just supposed that tyranids were allowed this was very sloppy. Although they did put in lots of cool new creatures with intresting abilities, they utterly failed to explain them properly. A properly written codex shouldn’t have to have an FAQ just to correct all the glaring errors and basic fundamental army abilities in the… Read more »

@yanhunt: +1 That is my main concern. BoW say: “good, solid Dex” AND “best FAQ” This is a paradox. A solid Codex doesn’t need a best FAQ. Additionally i dislike this new tight-lipped yes/no answers. Warren calls this clear cut, to me this style deems un-explanatory and reproachful. They should have used the Doom-debate, to explain, how they envision vehicles und units inside to be played. 5th Ed has brought a change from previous editions, where units inside were NOT on the table at all. They could explain better how much they ARE on the table now. yes/no doesn’t clarify… Read more »

In the BoW Video “Nid Week – BOW Tips: The Bugs of War Army List ” at 8:40, BoW stated “you don’t have to start your game in a dedicated transport”, that they don’t have to put units in the spores and deploy them normaly and drop the spore empty, but the FAQ clearly said you can’t do that, and if the spore has been chosen for a unit, it has to come down in it. Should’ve been mentioned in the video.

Well after RAW you CAN`T deepstrike on enemy modells. Fact. sorry, but codex overwrites rulebook and I`m ok with that. I think the Mawloc is fair enough. I also allowed my opponents to deepstrike on me before, because about everyone wanted to play it that way (not only Nid player) so I said fine lets play it that way to make the game easier.
I think the FAQ Nerfs the doom of Malantai a bit, but bossted the rest of the codex.
IMO the book is good, not cheese but good and fluff.

do they say a mawloc costs 90 points? Its 170points but dont know if its just me that keep hearing it wrong. Space Wolves are cheesy? : Wolf Guard (18p) Termy Armor (15p), Storm Shield & Thunder Hammer (30p) do the math, NOT cheesy. : Blood Claws W/BS 3, 15p, Berserker Charge (+1 A) but orcs got standart 2 attacks so nvm and with w/bs 3 then its not worth the 15p. I am not trying to nail you guys down, its just…. BLOOD ANGELS are so cheesy they make the old chaos codex look like it was made to… Read more »

thanks guys for the rule spirit leech help my gamming club has been arguing about that for a while

Personally I like Carnifexs even if their not worth the points they are still fun to just watch them eat up the enemy Land Raider with ease if they make it there then my Mawloc Terror from the Deeps the disembarked Termies

if I dont use the Mawloc I rarly get in to any real close combat vs marines. I ussaly use 15 Geenestealers & mr. slashalot (broodlord) to pop out of the hole after/if my mawloc survives and digs down agen. When you dont have any troops that ar worth the points (exeption Geenestealers) then you have to use thise tricks to win 🙂