Peanut wrote:Well...I may have actually found the rules online for free already...or at least enough of them to kind of know how Imperial Knights work. Anyway, if the 11th company guys actually go through with their plan to scratch build an Imperial Knight and post it on their blog, I may do that since its sort of neat. Though all of this may be pointless if the Forgeworld models end up changing the codex they just released...
Yeah, it is big enough to easily scratch build actually, and make look more appealing... A mini war hound would be cool, or starting with a decent gundam model and making a free blade that works for Tau and got upgrades from them could be pretty awesome. The book itself could become hilariously irrelevant if Forge World does what they usually do, and release the free 'experimental' PDF stat line, since one of the rumored knight builds is a dual gun, which everyone seems to want. You'd still need the super heavy walker rules though.
Peanut wrote:So now that Tyranid Onslaught has been announced I do have some thoughts on it. There hasn't been much which has come out about it yet in the rumor mill except (surprise) there is the whole Subterranean Swarm thing. I've also heard a rumor of some sort of formation with Warriors guiding a wall of moving flesh with bio-cannons (so 1 Warrior brood and probably 2-3 Tfexes). That could be pretty good since one of the lesser talked about stars in the last Dataslate was the Bio-Artillery formation and lists built around it that put out a ridiculous number of monstrous creatures. So as long as these dataslates give a way for Nid players to take like 7-8 Monstrous creatures in their lists, I will be pretty happy.
7-8 seems conservative, since the subterranean swarm has 3 in it, all trygon/mawloc, and you accessment of the bioblast makes sense. I see an MC HQ, haruspex elites, troop choice tervigon, FMC fast attack Harpy or crone, and heavy support being full of MCs. Points being the only limit, I could see people bringing heavy beasts using the normal FOC and the formation, and kitting out with the tervigon for a troops slot, carnifex HQ. No clue what the cost is on that but, there's 8 right there, and possibly points left over for more. Mmm nidzilla returns, time to build an all poison dEldar army.