tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1896291552600377515.post5910632919199533674..comments2023-10-10T05:32:21.777-07:00Comments on Gaming All Areas: Operational Status: TyranidsTenzinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02163786341016488803noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1896291552600377515.post-69792373255663224072012-09-05T07:02:09.486-07:002012-09-05T07:02:09.486-07:00Good article, I might like to point out, only he S...Good article, I might like to point out, only he Swarmlord gets to pick from 4 psychic powers, HIve Tyrants get 2, other than that, yeah I agree, the Nids are a new beastie and that with the new powers and tar pitting abilities I have found them to be far more versatile and more competative. It's the Drop pod armies that still frighten me though, they are far too easy to make and extremely dangerous to the Tyrant and Lord as they tend to pod them all around that target and let rip with Hellfire rounds, utter nightmare and completely destroys your tactics as you lose a very important componenet very early on (ie. turn 1!). Do you have any tactics to thwart them?Aaron Emersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03701048207756142128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1896291552600377515.post-57786871998174561112012-07-13T16:48:11.861-07:002012-07-13T16:48:11.861-07:00Ah, good old Dwarves, one of the best Warhammer ar...Ah, good old Dwarves, one of the best Warhammer archetypal armies :)<br /><br />As far as Nids are concerned, the appeal for me is that they are a "theme" army. They feel like Alien swarms, that you just cannot identify with. That means that I can just play in a game- I'm not attached to troops in the same way I am in Historical games, or with more humanistic armies where you do have, as you said, conflicting personalities :) Tyranids just free you up to send wave after wave of little bugs in, then have the big bugs go up and break their faces. So for me it's less "personality" and more "do what you like"- there's a great freedom to playing the army, and I just find them tremendous fun :) Other armies, I must confess I tend to take a little more seriously (to a greater or lesser extent) so Tyranids are my pick-up game force of choice- I know I'm going to have a good game, whoever I come up against!Tenzinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02163786341016488803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1896291552600377515.post-75695678223815703222012-07-13T04:00:21.148-07:002012-07-13T04:00:21.148-07:00Nice post. I've never really been all that in ...Nice post. I've never really been all that in to Tyranids - I find their lack of any personal individualism quite dull. I'd rather have Chaos and all their dark ambition and conflicting personalities!<br /><br />That being said, I've begun to appreciate that there's a lot you can do for the personality of the army by composing an army list, and you seem to be favouring the swarm here so with a bit of imagination, and a lot of reading through the codex, personalised forces could actually be an option.<br /><br />Not going to happen yet though, painting Dwarves at the moment...matt486https://www.blogger.com/profile/14340297995706155680noreply@blogger.com