Tyranids Descend & Dark Vengeance Expands For Warhammer 40k!
November 8, 2014 by brennon
Games Workshop have added to their collection of Tyranids monstrosities with the Tyrannocyte and Sporocyte/Mucolid kits hitting their webstore for you to absorb into your hive mind! See what you think of the two kits below...
The first kit is the Tyrannocyte and the second features the Sporocyte/Mucolid combination. It's weird that now I see them in this clearer presentation style I can't help but think of the Zerg from Starcraft and also more comically the Mars Attacks creatures for some reason! Either way I think maybe that's just my mind playing tricks on me as they appeared to be rather cool gribbly additions to the Tyranid arsenal when I saw them in the leaks.
If you're looking to add to the forces you accrued in Dark Vengeance then you'll also be interested in the two new add-on boxed sets that Games Workshop have put together for both the Chaos Space Marines and Dark Angels included in the box. When you look at the pricing, which we usually don't talk about, these might actually be worth the money although that's maybe saying something when we consider Games Workshop prices reasonable.
Will you be adding to either your Tyranid, Chaos Space Marine or Dark Angel forces?
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Not sure why but the new Nids just don’t appeal – may be it’s the paintjob /shrug
Looking closer I think it’s the way they’re modeled – for horribly be-tentacled gribbly floating monsters they’re too symmetrical – all the tentacles look to be in the same pose, all the guns are setup the same
Looking at the figures, I get the feeling that these are going to be made of multiples of the same sprue.
I agree there, even though I like symmetry, these do require more life like “movement” some flow to them
I’m not up on game mechanics anymore, but wouldn’t a squishy, giant floating brain be vulnerable to… say… anything? And the top photo, to me, just looks like a fat dancer. Funny stuff.
I like the flyer.
They are not fliers, they’re both basically Drop Pods. The red one I really think just has a dodgy paint scheme – the same with all models painted like that, the colours seem too flat. I like them but do *feel* like they’re too symmetrical … but then, why wouldn’t they ? They do seem TOO mechanical though. @cpauls1 the site says the Spore Pod spits open due to the impact, allowing the troops inside to “spill” out … so there you go ha ha! At £38 for ONE OR THE OTHER I really hope the rules and points value… Read more »
I was talking about the Angels flier. Has a cool Henschel/Henkel end-of-the-war look to it. The drop pods, on the other hand, don’t even look like all the pieces are from the same kit. The chitinous shielding, or whatever it is, just isn’t the right shape for the bilious innards. The remainder is uncreative at best, and as someone mentioned previously, it’s too symmetrical. It’s a lazy design to be sure, but it doesn’t matter, as people will buy it anyway. I hope they don’t discontinue all the little troop beasties, though. I’d still like to buy up a bunch… Read more »
As a ‘Nid player, It is great that the Tyrannocyte has brought the bio drop pod option back, and the Sporocyst and Mycolid Spore both offer all kinds of options on the tabletop. As for the models, I like them overall. I can see the argument about the Tyrannocyte and Sporocyst being a bit too symmetrical in appearance, but that is easy to fix with a little light conversion work – even heating and slightly repositioning some of the side tentacles would go a long way to breaking up the uniform outline, and if you have spare tentacles from a… Read more »
Breaking the symmetry should not even require any heating and bending of the tentacles. Simply adding all the tentacles and weapons with different angles instead of the same angle for all of them should have a great effect.
From some WD pictures I have seen, it is also possible to have the carapace sections of the Tyrannocyte opened or closed individually, which could actually look cool too.
Good points @chakax. Changing up the angles on the components would help a great deal, and couldn’t be much simpler to acheive. The carapace sections are also a good aspect to look at, and I rather like both the open and closed versions from the WD.
I looked on the sprue image on the GW website and the root of the tendrils look to be ball joints, so you can have them face any way you wish.
That would seem to address that issue then – the tentacles are only as symmetrical as you want them to be.
the Dark Angels set is pretty good value to be honest.