Ultrajoe still owns no new Video games, and so a review of WH40K ensues.

[shatnershaman]

no biomass to consume, why try to eat a robot?

You freaks need to be purged.

 

[Ultrajoe]

no biomass to consume, why try to eat a robot?

You freaks need to be purged.

Bring it, and marvel at the horror at shooting down creatures that were made from your fellow guardsman!

The Hive is fear...

ALL SHALL BE CONSUMED

ALL SHALL SERVE

COME ONE, COME ALL TO THE END OF TIMES! NOT TO DIE FROM HATE, OR HONOR, OR A VICIOUS THIRSTING GOD!

BUT BY A HUNGER THAT CONSIDERS YOU NOTHING BUT A MORSEL, YOUR RESISTANCE NOTHING BUT A SLIGHT BUMP IN YOUR DIGESTION!

MWAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH

or did you mean the necrons? because they think you are the freak that needs to be purged... to me... its all a matter of flavor and texture.

 

[shatnershaman]

no biomass to consume, why try to eat a robot?

You freaks need to be purged.

Bring it, and marvel at the horror at shooting down creatures that were made from your fellow guardsman!

The Hive is fear...

ALL SHALL BE CONSUMED

ALL SHALL SERVE

COME ONE, COME ALL TO THE END OF TIMES! NOT TO DIE FROM HATE, OR HONOR, OR A VICIOUS THIRSTING GOD!

BUT BY A HUNGER THAT CONSIDERS YOU NOTHING BUT A MORSEL, YOUR RESISTANCE NOTHING BUT A SLIGHT BUMP IN YOUR DIGESTION!

MWAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH

or did you mean the necrons? because they think you are the freak that needs to be purged... to me... its all a matter of flavor and texture.

You do know more people like Space Marines and Imperial Guard because of those exact reasons.

Emperor FTW.

 

[Ultrajoe]

Ill admit, there is some attraction to a race who can have heroes and names

Tyranid novels tend to be short

"Was born"

"Was shot"

"Have no concept of 'Was' or 'have' or 'concept'."

Yeah, when it comes to fluff and epic tales, you just cant beat the big man in the chair.

 

[dekkarax]

On the note of 40k games: if they don't add nids and the imperial guard to Down of War 2 im gonna go and burn down THQ and Relic.

I seriously doubt that the nids will be in DOW2, marines, Orks, andldar are comfirmed allready, I don't think they'll have more than 5 races, and they most certainly wont replace Chaos with Nids. Nids dont seem to fit the direction relic is taking with the game anyway, DOW2 is centred around wargear, characters and small squad combat like CoH, and tyranids, do not have proper characters that fit the archetype, they have no wargear, and they rely on swarming.

Plus, Starcraft 2 is coming out, and we know how rabid some fans can get, they'll see it like this:
Space marines = Terran
Eldar = Protoss
Tyranids = Zerg
Result = OMG STARCRAFT RIPOFF I GO POST IN 60 FORUMS AND USE TOO MANY EXCLAIMATION MARKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!
If DOW2 has nids, this WILL happen, the only people who know that 40k is older than starcraft are 40k players, and aquaintances of 40k players. Relic should just do the smart thing and have Chaos instead of nids, they just fit more. Mabye nids'll work in an expansion, but Relic should wait till the starcraft mania dies down. Guard are almost certain for an expansion though.

Ive always thought the Tyranids were like the ultimate opposition to the Necrons (Last great Bio-Weapon of the old ones perhaps?), life itself taken to perfection, the true meaning of life itself, all consuming and utterly unstoppable.

Versus death legions of robots themselves unstoppable? a true battle of titans.

What I want to know about the nids is why they avoid Necron tomb worlds *raises eybrow*.

no biomass to consume, why try to eat a robot?

ahh but some of the avoided tomb worlds are populated with the living...

 

[Fire Daemon]

Yeah, when it comes to fluff and epic tales, you just cant beat the big man in the chair.

The God Emperor, because 400 trillion screaming fanatics can't be wrong.

I agree with dekkarax on this one. Tyranids don't work in any RTS that is not Starcraft.

 

[Ultrajoe]

NO

Biomorphs = Wargear
Genus = command ranks

We are not just a swarm! there is skill to charging madly, it cannot be done well by fools! there are genestealers, raveners and lictors, a host of non-horde options!

and surely having an army that is composed of swarms would be interesting in a game of squad command! your opponent needs to manage time and men, and you need to add some intelligence to the charge else you simply be shot down!

I will have them....

 

[Saskwach]

Tyranids have been semi-confirmed for DOW2 in fact. There's a trailer that shows us what most think is a Tyranid Hive fleet as the big reveal.
Trailer and associated ramblings at The Best Video Games Blog In The Universe. [http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/07/15/e3-the-trailers-dawn-of-war-ii-tyranids/]

 

[shatnershaman]

The Nids may be able to survive everything BUT this ball of cheese,blue screen and foam.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORB8Yc7GUJI

 

[Ultrajoe]

The Nids may be able to survive everything BUT this ball of cheese,blue screen and foam.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORB8Yc7GUJI

impressive.

 

[dekkarax]

NO

Biomorphs = Wargear
Genus = command ranks

We are not just a swarm! there is skill to charging madly, it cannot be done well by fools! there are genestealers, raveners and lictors, a host of non-horde options!

and surely having an army that is composed of swarms would be interesting in a game of squad command! your opponent needs to manage time and men, and you need to add some intelligence to the charge else you simply be shot down!

I will have them....

Biomorphs may be wargear, however, they cannot be equipped on living nids. They have to be born with them. And they do have a command structure, but the various genuses do not have personalities, they think as one. Like I said, nids would be good for an expansion, or mabye as a campaign boss like the 'crons in WA, but the absoloutly cannot be in the game instead of Chaos. Chaos is just more important to the 40k storyline. I'd LOVE to see nids, but I just don't think it's possible for the base game at least.

Tyranids have been semi-confirmed for DOW2 in fact. There's a trailer that shows us what most think is a Tyranid Hive fleet as the big reveal.
Trailer and associated ramblings at The Best Video Games Blog In The Universe. [http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/07/15/e3-the-trailers-dawn-of-war-ii-tyranids/]

Ah hah! this is where an Eldar player's knowledge is useful, I don't think it is the nids because:
-what do you think the seer is doing eh? Certainly not sending a distress call since the hive can null those signals. And a single farseer is not powerful enough to take on a hive fleet herself.

-look at the craftworld colours, surely if it were tyranids, the seer would be wearing Iyaden colours... but no, no yellow or blue to be seen, not even a single wraith construct. The colours are black, and that means ulthwe-whos arch nemesis is CHAOS, not nids.

-the cloud may be a warp storm, or a choas fleet, it is sorta shaped like a skull, but it is to vague to come to a conclusion.


On another note, I HATE ultramarines, they are just so smug, and GW uses them too much, so much that other founding chapters get neglected, like the salamanders, raven guard and iron hands.

 

[PurpleRain]

On another note, I HATE ultramarines, they are just so smug, and GW uses them too much, so much that other founding chapters get neglected, like the salamanders, raven guard and iron hands.

Eh hem. Space Wolves? They're like Vikings in space!

 

[shatnershaman]

On another note, I HATE ultramarines, they are just so smug, and GW uses them too much, so much that other founding chapters get neglected, like the salamanders, raven guard and iron hands.

Thats why I choose the main regiment (Cadian 8th).

 

[Ultrajoe]

Your points are valid, and i am forced to admit relic might rub its atrophied balls in my face yet again.

I weep, i weep eternally...

ONCE AGAIN THEY TORE THROUGH URL INTO REAL-SPACE With The Force Of A Dying Age.

Still Traveling So Fast They Past Universes In An Instant They Smashed Through Words And Advertisments, Blasting Through The Frost Wyrm In The Bottom Right Had Corner And The Knight Who Had Summoned It!

"Hey Arthas" Said The Joe

"Hey Joe" Said Arthas "Did You Need To Kill My Dragon?"

Rain, Blood Trailing In A Thick Stream From His Eyes, Ears, Nose And Mouth Now Had A Dragon Rib Through His Torso As Well.

"Please... let me go..." He Begged.

"No, This IS JUST THE BEGINNING!!!!!!

Seriously, This happened a few moths ago! And a few weeks before that!WTF IS HAPPENING?

Thats it, i vow to find out what is going on, even if i need to become the most powerful knight alive to do so!

 

[Anton P. Nym]

Just stumbled on this thread... I picked up the new rules on launch day and got my $5 discount for bringing in my copy of Rogue Trader. Woo.

Generally I'm happy with the revisions, though my Tau Hammerheads (note plural, moohoohaha) with Multitrackers are a lot less shooty now that their secondary weapons (at Strength 5) don't count as defensive weapons anymore. Oh well, I'll find a way to deal with it.

-- Steve

 

[PurpleRain]

Just stumbled on this thread... I picked up the new rules on launch day and got my $5 discount for bringing in my copy of Rogue Trader. Woo.

Generally I'm happy with the revisions, though my Tau Hammerheads (note plural, moohoohaha) with Multitrackers are a lot less shooty now that their secondary weapons (at Strength 5) don't count as defensive weapons anymore. Oh well, I'll find a way to deal with it.

-- Steve

Mind sharing around the 'Ramming' rules with us? I've been interested to hear as most of my army can now do that.

 

[DGenius]

Can you still taste?
Seeing as smell and taste are linked.
No, I'm not asking this to piss you off.

*sighs*

every damn time...

*ROLL TAPE*

If you are watching this you are an average son of a ***** who will ask the same question i answer each time someone finds out i cannot smell... here is a recording made to answer some basic FAQ's.

Can you taste properly?: Yes, to me anyway, i have never had a more acute sense of taste, and thusly, to me, everything tastes normal... to you, tasting like me would be weird and dulled, but to me all is well in taste-land.

If i had lost my sense of smell, perhaps things would taste less... but as i never had one, i taste just fine to me (aha)

Can you love? isn't smell a big part of love?: I would certainly hope so, or else my attraction to your sister is ll a big lie! Seriously, everything functions fine in that area, better even, whereas you must avoid the hotties who smell bad, i can have it all. (this crops up mre often that you would think... "Dude, why has noone asked out [name] in all this time, she's gorgeous!" i say... they say "She stinks man". Instant compatibility baby.)

Can you smell smoke: No, i cannot, i have burnt down a room.

So, can you tell if you stink?: peoples reactions to me help, but i have a healthy paranoia about it and an obsession with constantly applying deodorant.

Sniff this [insert something foul] for me, i don't believe you: The ultimate proof? when i was at school our chemistry teacher did not believe me once, and fetched some chemical that made everyone leave the building, not the room, the building.

I sat next to it and ate chips.

Proved.

*END TAPE*

i hope that cleared things up.

All I got to say is damn Ultrajoe you gangsta.

 

[irishdelinquent]

Ultrajoe, my fellow Hive Minder, I feel your pain. Buying enough 'nids to field a deadly army can really cut into the wallet. But lo, Irish is here to give all the servants of the Great Devourer some awesome news. Try talking to the guys at your local GW in August. Since a new starter set is coming out, all of their existing boxes of Battle for Macragge are probably going on sale for cheap. 6 stealers and 10 termagaunts can fill out the ranks easily after a while.

 

[Ultrajoe]

Ultrajoe, my fellow Hive Minder, I feel your pain. Buying enough 'nids to field a deadly army can really cut into the wallet. But lo, Irish is here to give all the servants of the Great Devourer some awesome news. Try talking to the guys at your local GW in August. Since a new starter set is coming out, all of their existing boxes of Battle for Macragge are probably going on sale for cheap. 6 stealers and 10 termagaunts can fill out the ranks easily after a while.

GRIN.

 

[rowan-thats-me]

I remember when i used to do WH40k, i done it for years, im 18 now and i finished when i was 16, but i started young, cant remember exact age, but when i bought my first hive tyrant it was the model with matal and plastic parts, and it had a big-ass grin!!! I also remember that genstealers were one of the only models made out of blue plastic, ultrajoe, you seem like a long term collector, you probably remember that too. and anyone whos wondering about starting up, defanitly do it it may cost alot of money, especially here in the UK, but it is the most rewarding hobby that i know of, and when you finally get good at painting and playing, nothing feels more rewarding.

best painting experience: firs time i got the eyes painted right on my gaunts without going outside the eye itself, dosent sound like much, but trust me that was a big hurdle for me.

best gaming moment: when the last termagaunt(the shooty type of gaunt, for the uninitianted) took the last wound off my smug freinds ultramarines commander.