I think the person who would be attracted to playing Tyranids doesn't really want them to be "humanized" in having independent named characters and the like. They're a bit like choosing to play a dragon in a fantasy story, like a force of nature with a secretive grand intelligence behind it. Admittedly, this may be just from my perspective, but it's always felt lame to me when writers make weird alien things that are hard to relate to more human, because I feel like that's considering a unique flavor of a faction as a weakness
I really like your guys channel because you 2 have your finger on the pulse of each community and arent just like "faction needs this gun or better rules" its more of a hobbyist take on how to enjoy this game a little more.
Giving auxiliaries to the Tau would allow them to have some melee and the faction wouldn't have all their mechanical problems. It's kind of insane they haven't already done it.
If they ever refresh the kroot range I hope they include some tau shoulder pads and armor pieces in the kits to tie them to the tau auxillary theme a bit more. The current kroot range looks like its own faction entirely with no ties to tau whatsoever.
Auxiliaries not getting the army rule is what kills them for me. They also don't do damage of any kind. Not shooting or in combat. They only serve as screeners now.
Ikr theres literally a Titan size xeno that is part of the tau Empire, a centaur looking reptile creature that is LITERALLY bigger than the norn emissary, or the hipnotic snake worms, or even the xenos that are living light and work in guiding the ships, imagine a flying light that works like the "psycher" or it's attacks are just air support firing where it says, theres so much potential, not just humanoid aliens but anything, Even gundams piloted by other aliens could be great
For Imperial Knights, their whole thing is medieval knight, but in a big robot, right? So why not give them some "Household Troops" or something similar. You can get a few types as well. You can have medieval "Sergeant" equivalents, similar to the naval beachers or Kaserkins, the actual decentish infantry. You can have some regular guard or cultist equivalents to represent regular Household Troops, and you can also get some literal Agri World, Peasant Levies, for some actual trash to through on the board. Make it similar to Old World Bretonia, where the knights are your damage dealers and will win you the game, with the peasants or "Household Troops" to hold the line long enough for the knights to win. Plus, you can then play with some foot characters to act as "Retainers" or something like that. There is definitely something there. *Edited some spelling mistakes
That's what I was thinking, have some kind of light ground troops that could be crossbow or spear wielding men-at-arms to represent the more feudal side of the Imperium.
@Fuzmonster59 I do like the idea of crossbow and spear wielding peasants to back up imperial knights. Give them awful weapons, I'm thinking like range 18, BS 5+, A1, S2, Ap0, D1 for the crossbow but make them cheap to hold points. Perhaps also as a way to limit them, perhaps make it so you can only take so many peasants per knight, and change it so a small knight means you can take 10 peasants, a big one 20 etc. To represent them coming from that knights household, so only so many can come with each knight.
The thing I want for Sisters most is actually a Drop-Pod equivalent but it's a small cathedral. In lore they drop them from space onto the battlefield and I think it'd be a cool addition!
maybe to make it a little diffrent the drop pods are bigger and carry more models and maybe even have more weapons than a space marine drop pod. They would basically be a deployable bunker id say. Although i know fortifications aren't the best unit type in the current game.
@@lelandmartin3970 in the lore they are vary big and maybe that was what OP intended, and a very cool idea, the problem with fortifications this big will always be to find the space to actually deploy it, we put a lot of stuff on boards for cover. Maybe one that can carry 12 sisters or 3 warsuits (or both! I know that's cooler :D) and a lot of firepower and a 'sacred' AOE effect, that would be dope
50% bigger than a pod, square, shaped like a gothic castle, and the turrets have actual bolter/flamer/missile turrets on them, holds 20 sisters, or some penitent engines
I actually took my Soulgrinder last week in a game, with my Deathguard. I was not disappointed. Its main ranged attack is Phlegm Bombardment, which is hilarious. Also it swings at Str 16 in melee... Absolute Unit
The weird thing about guard is that they technically did an upgrade sprue…for cadians. It has a lot of bits that add a lot to the army if someone wants cadians but it’s weird that was released when the 9th codex came out and we haven’t heard anything new since.
That is one wish, another wish I have would be make the bigger knights more relevant again. Currently you just spam Wardogs and *maybe* take one big knight. I do like the idea they proposed though of adding smaller knights to the range. It would be sweet to have a unit of lets say 3 paragon suit sized knights. Make them super fast, good oomph but rather fragile. Call them Squires =)
1-3 model pre unit Whatever stat line Ability: if this model is in melee range of an enemy **vehicle** model, that model cannot move, cannot make melee attacks and attacks on it always hit.
As a sisters player I want them to fix half strength/below half strength so I can actually use my rules that I don’t care for anyway. There’s too many models and units that straight up don’t get to use my rules because they can’t hit that threshold or only get it when I got one wound/model left and die anyway.
Thats the realistic dream. What I REALY want is a tank. Size of a landraider, up to a Baneblade. Then add a bunch of church-like bits. The Castigator is... fine. But compared to the Exorcist or Immolator it lacks the coolness. So another tank. A BIG one
for tyranids, instead of that dreadful 'multiple hive minds' suggestion, I'd love to see an unit that buffs hormagaunts the same way that tervigon buffs termagans, hell that can be tervigon itself, just something that can make my idea of "2000pts of velociraptors" doable
It's incredibly funny that the "Bunch of different weirdos together" is supposed to be the Tau's whole thing, but that mechanics wise the current Drukhari with their 3 in 1 faction with the weirdos like Mandrakes and Scourges feels more akin to the covenant idea than the tau do.
I just want to say that I'm tired of hearing Brad say that feel no pain is not a defining feature of Death Guard. The mark of Nurgle since 5th and by extension Plague Marines have since 6th edition (the first time they became a unit) been +1 toughness and 5+ feel no pain. This is like saying that psychic and an invuln save isn't defining for Thousand Sons.
That's actually not true. They've had FNP since 4th edition when they first became a unit (3rd edition had plague marines as just chaos marines with the mark of nurgle).
@@Nick37577 Thank you I could only find evidence online as far back as 5th edition. I started with 40k at the start of 8th and it is nice to hear that it has even stronger rots than I could find.
@@Nick37577 Actually the CSM + Mark of Nurgle thing was a unique quirk of the 3.5 edition Chaos Codex. The first Codex in 3rd edition, and the 2nd edition book both had Plague Marines as a separate unit (they had higher toughness, but no Feel No Pain yet).
I hope when the CSM codex comes out this edition, they bring chaos dreads back with options for each god and say "these will have unique data sheets in the other chaos legions". Extra points if they just release those sheets early to sell more of the model.
Here's my wishlist item for ALL factions: bitz kitz, upgrade sprues. I know they'll never do it because it's too expensive but imagine if you could buy a kit with say 50 Daughters of Khaine heads or 30 Space Marine heavy weapons or "assorted church bits for Sororitas tanks". And yes, I know this is commonplace and dirtcheap if you have a 3D printer but it would be cool to have official plastic available.
Honestly, that sort of thing seems like it would be the perfect product for GW to start offering as 3d printable files. Give one guy a month to knock out a bunch of different shoulderpads, flags, and heads, and now they have upgrade kits for every obscure space marine subfaction you could ever want, all without paying for manufacturing or warehouse space.
With obvious exceptions, like WE still can't take psykers, Tsons can't take jump packs (lack of autonomous minds), etc... to balance out the divergent chapters a bit. Or at least add like 3-4 CSM units to WE and Tsons so we can pretend we have options.
@@SorcerySpeedConcedeI dearly want to bring a Venomcrawler with full Tsons rule support. And more variety in muties. Generic CSM has soooo much good plastic.
the obvious connecting aesthetic to make the conglomeration of a bunch of wildly distinct looking alien species together should be the existing Tau armor aesthetic. the layers of ceramic plates ala space alien samurai armor style should be present on all of the different races of the tau empire in the same way that the covenant all had a similar material design for all of the different species' armors in Halo. I want to see Kroot in fire warrior-like armor that's shaped to their different physiology. The Vespid sculpts already do this even if those models are so old and ugly it doesn't really mesh with the current line of Tau models.
Hard disagree on the "give Tyranid more personality". HARD DISAGREE. The reason they're unique is because they occupy that niche of an entity so alien, so vast and so predatory that none of the races can completely comprehend them, besides the hunger. Guy Haley touched gold when he wrote the Hive-Mind's "gaze" crushing Iyanna Arienal's soul in a short story, then immediately turned it to mud when he had the Nids "hate" the Blood Angels. The Tyranids are terrifying because they're not a faction, they're a natural disaster. I'd love more lore, like the Amphelion Project or the Valedor novel, that properly exploit how unnatural, cold and alien the Tyranids are, but to give them personnality would ruin their concept and why I fell in love with the faction. I literally play Tyranids and Aeldari to have "Unknowable horror fight falling civilisation". "Beyond the Milky Way, beyond the reach of human space travel and astro-telepathy, lies the unspeakable cold of the galactic void. Few have ventured into this realm and none have ever returned. It is the great barrier that separates galaxies from one another, a place where time and space conspire to keep galaxies separated by inconceivable distances." "Yet the Void is no longer vacant. An immeasurably ancient and implacable intelligence moves through the cold and darkness, its many eyes finally fixed on the distant twinkling lights of our galaxy. The Great Devourer moves between the stars and hungers for the flesh of all those before it. This great organism, this monstrous entity, is known to mankind only as the Tyranid race." "Even in naming the Great Devourer, men betray their ignorance. Every thought and action, every spark of light of the Tyranid race is linked and interconnected into a single mind, into a single great entity that spans light years of space and is controlled by an immortal hive mind. A billion times a billion Tyranids stand at the edge of the Galaxy, but each of them is a mere cell in the living body of the hive mind, the devourer of worlds." -2nd Edition Codex, although every codices later on has re-used the quote because it's badass.
Giving Tau the covenant vibes with other races could also give them some melee strength to really push the idea of these different races banding together to make up for their weaknesses. Doesn't even need to be good melee, just a token to represent the collective spirit.
For Custodes: a proper expansion to the Sisters to make the faction properly the Talons of the Emperor. We got a full (if dysfunctional) army list for the sisters in 30k more than a year ago but there are no models in sight ;~; For Chaos Marines: Mutilators, Bikers, Defiler, a proper damn army for World Eaters and psychic dreads and maybe an elite non-terminator unit for the TSons (think the Khenetai blade cabal from 30k) and named characters for every legion like the loyalists got
The fact that they put Haarken in 40k but made him BL hurts NL players.... like yes he is but he literally studied NL to use their tactics AND uses our jumppacks... Other cool characters for us would be Talos, Malcharion in Dreadnought, and Sevatar (haven't read about him but other NL players think he's hot stuff so I'm game).
For a new admech cult model idea: a procession of tech-priests, some doing repairs on the model, some doing incense, some shooting (all mostly visual), with them escorting a massive screw-you gun/tech piece. Heck, make that part of the war-gear, have 1 variant be a big gun, another being a targeting relay for da other big guns, another giving a defensive aura or enchanced protocols. The model would kinda look similar to triumph of saint Katherine, but bigger (obviously with all the tech priests) and probably very wacky-looking, because admech.
Regarding the addition of more unique auxiliaries to the Tau...they have psychic allies. There could be a way to add psykers into the Tau army if the auxiliaries were given more species. But as a friend of mine said, Warhammer is not a game where any faction can do everything, you always give up something. In the Tau's case, we give up psyker phases to be *really* good at long range.
"Just steal from Starcraft" wasn't Starcraft supposed to be a warhammer 40k game originally but they didn't get the liscence so they changed SM, Aeldari and Tyranids into Terrans, Protoss and Zerg? Edit: also, isn't there already some individualism in the Hive Mind considering each Hive Fleet uses a different strategy (behemoth charges head-on, kraken does ambushes, leviathan adapts, kronos goes after demons and gorgon uses acid/toxins) and I'm pretty sure there was a Hive Fleet that transformed smaller fleets into a part of itself, implying the Hive Fleets either have their own conflicting Hive Minds or that they are at least in conflict with themselves?
When you guys got to the World Eaters and talking Chaos Specific things.... I feel like that is a prime example on how they can pull from these cool new 30k Dreads; give them 40k specific upgrade frame.
He's said that he's not really a silver tide guy, so I'm guessing it didn't really affect him much. Canopteks and destroyers are really only affected by the Reanimator nerf (and the CCB res orb I guess), and they just got a bunch of buffs to compensate. I'd probably be more mad at how the destroyer detachment is garbage.
I think they could feasibly write a book from the perspective of Deathleaper and broodlord as the vanguard organisms arguing over the most efficient way to conquer a planet Deathleaper of course is a lone wolf who prefers to do things alone while the broodlord is a leader and commands genestealers into battle. Might be doable as a Tyranid novel And seeing as how they are one of the few organisms with a level of individuality apart from the hive mind it's possible it would actually happen
I think a series of compiled "short stories" could be interesting -- just like horror mode -- and alternates between a tyranid chapter -- then a horror chapter of someone fighting for their lives.
I'm kinda hoping the new Epic scale game goes well enough it expands back into 40k and thus we get new tiny Tyranids so I can go all in on the unending swarm aspect I find so cool to the Nids.
Bang on for most of this, but hard disagree for Nids. People argue that to give Necrons personality toned them down and made them less threatening. I'm not saying I necessarily agree with that, even though I liked the ominous, unknown aspect to them, but to do that to Nids would absolutely end the concept. They're a force of nature, unknowable and unending, with no other real goal than to consume and keep consuming until there is nothing left. It might not work for everyone, but that's where the horror is derived from : they can't be reasoned with, not even remotely. To give the hive mind a personality or personalities is like trying to humanise a wildfire or a hurricane.
8:00 so an updated capitol imperialis? I know that’s a astra mil vehicles (and it’s larger than titan sized but too big was never a criteria) but I’m pretty sure all imp forces technically have access to it,
@@kglguythey were 100% around during the heresy, 2 of the 3 named capitol imperialis belong to the Theron Cohort who were attached to the heresy era ravenguard
I really think Ad Mech should get more of the old robot models, from the rogue trader era, but updated to plastic kits. I thought those were delightfully strange and would add more variety. Each robot type could fill specific army style roles. Also, never heard the joke about "Every Necromunda model is a genestealer model." I have heard, "Every model is a Necromunda model."
Here's a novel concept: include the faction rules and datasheets for the Combat Patrol IN the combat patrol. Yes it's available for free online, but if I'm opening up a box on Christmas and slapping plastic together to play a game against my brother I want LESS in the way of that. Just put it in the manual or something just put it in the box Edit: unrelated but I can't wait to hear Brad's reaction that for December Rhinos really ARE free
T'au needs an very expensive Hrud or Sslyth unit that are costly and you only have a handful of them at most, but have very specialised but dangerous weapons.
1. Decent background stories like 'imperial armor 4: the amphelion project' and 'Xenology' 2. Dymacharon in plastic (edit: maleceptor too) 3. WINGED WARRIORS as a 3/6 model unit 4. Make winged Tyranids great rulewise My Tyranid wish list for this X-mas: in current models v 1. Leviathan box set v 2. Second Leviathan set (Tyranids part) v 3. Onslaught Swarm v/- 4. Assemble them critters (in progress) v/- 5. Paint them Nids (finaly started Jeey me) - 6. MORE NIDS... because ... more nids
I got Leviathan but sadly missed Onslaught, one I would recomend is the boarding patrol if you find it. Personally I dream a discount box with a Lictor and 2 pyro/biovores, and a full Termagants kit for spinefists! and put the extra specials on the monopose ones from Leviathan (to me also genestealers or hormagaunts since I still miss them ahahah)
@@elRandomTk Good for you on the Leviathan! Keep a strong hold on yer Screamer Killer, winged Tyranid Prime and the weardo Tyrent with 2 mini's... I doubt they will get a model after this box. And as you pointed out, the boarding patrol box is still on my 'to acquire' list. For me, it is getting back into the hobby, I got about 6k Nids since late 2nd edition, with a trio of both tin Carnifexes and Lictors. Back since my hyadus from late 7th...
@@elRandomTk About the boarding patrol: I think after checking what is in it, it ain't great. That is becuse every box that promotes 'understrength units' should be barred from sales. This box consists of 2x3 warriors 1x broodlord 8x genesteelers Genesteelers in 10th edition come in packs of 5/10. So you bought 3 ùodels to collect dust on your shelve. If you can get from somewhere else 2 more 'free/cheap' genesteelers, then ok, go for it.
@@hendrikmoons8218 I got it as my first Tyranids models, I knew they will have a refresh in 10th so I decided to assemble an army. The discount was very good (plus from a 3rd party ofc) I remember hoping they wouldn't immediately redesign the warriors lol Yes the genestealers are kinda of a bummer, I picked another old box which by now is quite cheap (so 10 + 5, and only 1 wasted) and I'm waiting to get one new box to kitbash and have a proper army for the Broodlord to lead. To me it was good value but I can understand different opinions, and they are all old minis
@@elRandomTk Ah in that case, you worked around the shortcommings of the box. Great, good job. GW does throw us a stinker every now and then. Maybe you can convert the remaining genesteeler into a broodlord?
As a Leagues of Votann player, I’d say something I want more than the other half of my range is more lore! The models will come eventually, but our identity needs to be cemented for 2 reasons: 1. The models that come out will be higher quality and fit the theme more. 2. We don’t want to repeat history and get stricken out of the lore or pushed to obscurity (harlequins, og squats) because of a lack of identity.
From someone who doesn't play the tabletop but at least knows SOME things [so take it with a grain of salt. Just make sure to grab the salt blindly.], without asking for the same thing. Space marines: More love to specific chapters? White scars for an example. Maybe rolled in with riders getting some love. Greyknights: I wasn't banned for wanting psykers back. Custodes: Sisters of Silence would be nice. Sisters of battle: Fraternis Militia ? Admech: They asked for what I want so- uhhh...More funny Cawl shenanigans that translate to the game, like neo-volkite. So when the schism happens there's more faction identity to split. Guard: Wow yeah uh...Hm. I guess, more vehicles? Sentinel variants? I guess Ol' one eye coming back and other characters coming in? Loyalist Knights: Some more characters I suppose, something to drag them into the lore? Chaos knights: MORE CHAOS MARKS, DAEMON ENGINES, CHAOS FORGES GO BRRR. Daemon possessed knights to produce a horrific new unit! Chaos daemons:Split into four factions. Khorne: Elite infantry. [So bloodletters?] Actual. Elite. Infantry. Something to fight custodes in 1 v 1 in glorious bloodshed. Maybe ranged khornate units to really dig into the fact that Khorne doesn't care where the blood flows, so have something that makes people explode into glorious fountains of blood. Slaanesh: Elite infantry, [So, daemonettes?] Akin to khorne, but probably more a tactical parrying squad that'll make non-elite melee units cry to fail to produce any hits. Then cry harder as the claw goes places it shouldn't. Tzeentch: Thousand sons dustie boys equivalent, which sounds soupy but, they already own two space marine legions. Or at least a space marine shaped entity. Nurgle: *wheeze* *cough* *gag* I vaguely recall the death guard getting a rule having the ability to shrug off wounds. And nurgle. Doesn't anymore? That back. Even if death guard doesn't have it anymore. But yeah more units if that's not the case. CSM: More chaos mark effects? Or in other words, POWER. GRANT US THE POWER OF THE DARK GODS. or something. Being able to 'invest' into a unit to make them even better kinda deal? World eaters: Chaos guardsmen :)...I guess more types of melee weapons? Votann: Plot relevance. Thousand sons: Spire guard? Deathguard: Directed Plague Application. Make units sick. Craftworlders: Moar Paths. Dark eldar: Have some of the dark eldar who were stuck in that other dimension and abandoned show back up, produce new units based off them. [Because again, can't ask for the SAME thing.] Harlequins: Speaking of which...This one's a hard one since existence is already stated. I guess some more units in general? Necron: Give warriors love. Basic troops love in general. Orks: Ramshackled but customizeable vehicles. To eleven. AND DEN'Z EVEN FURTHAH BEYONDZ! Tau: Coven- DAMN IT. uhhh...More firewarrior infantry? Nids: Characters [for the lore.] GSC: strapped weapons onto genestealers. Give grandpa a glock. Show up in darktide.
Guard player here! Speaking for myself I want more HQ options. I don't like to use named characters so my HQ options are: -Company Commander -Lord Commisar -Tank Commander Someone else suggested it would be cool to have a C.Commander in Sentinel. Just a few more options would be cozy.
Regarding the Tyranid lore aspect, I think a cool way to do it could be to either write a novel from the perspective of someone who is part of a gene stealer cult, or even just a psyker who is on a planet about to be invaded by the Tyanids. You could have this psyker form some sort of psychic link with the hivemind and the whole book could be this person getting a sneak peek into the hiveminds goals and plans, figuring out how they think. I'm not a writer, so idk how to make all of that work but I think the best stories in warhammer are those written from a normal human perspective, as they're the most relatable. Writing a book from the POV of the Tyranids would be fairly difficult to do convincingly, so don't do that.
Imagine if you will, a short story where someone, perhaps a psyker, perhaps just a PDF soldier, dies, and it is found that the deceased are reborn into the morphs of the hivemind. It would add to the horror of the tyranid's consumption; mind, body, and soul all getting dragged into the hive mind. Born and reborn, live and die again, a constant cycle. They cannot even want out of it anymore, it is all they'll know afterwards, they are the hivemind now.
As a white scars player, hover bikes would be incredible whether it be chapter specific or not. Trying to use the Stormlance Task Force detachment with 3 total "mounted" units isn't the best.
* mentions Votann in passing while talking about a different army * "there's not a secret army we're forgetting about, is there?" * refuses to elaborate
For genestealers, I honestly really like how they can take imperial guard, so it’d be really cool to me if there were some genestealer upgrade sprues for IG models
Love that my "friday" drives home from my graveyard shift corresponds to yall dropping new episodes. 🎉 As a sisters player I want the Ecclesiarchy train from the gaunts ghosts novel just as a fun big armored centerpiece.
As a guard player, I would love a relevant codex that lasts more then 3 months then not waiting 5 more years for another book that will last 3 to 5 months
I just remembered and want you guys to know - the free mini of the month from GW this month is a tiny Legiones Imperialis Rhino tank. So for Christmas this year Rhinos really are free. 😊
My wish as a T'au player is a Crisis-sized battlesuit that's mainly designed for melee combat. It would make it so we don't instantly crumble at the slightest bit of melee breeze, and it would look cool being led by Farsight.
I would love the Tau to finally get more allied races to play with so they can become more like the Covenant. Sadly, unless one of those allied races has a name that ends in "Space Marine", we're never going to see it.
My Christmas wish for Tyranids is a “Talking Tyranid” The Herald, some bio form with a bunch of tendrils that attaches itself for bodies of wounded left behind that physically moves the mouth, tongue, lungs to terrify enemies. “Help me..at meat, you me meat” like a biowarhorn
Just thinking out loud here, could the Grey Knight's lack of consistent anti-tank be somewhat mitigated by an allied knight? I don't know knights well, but I suspect an anti-armor knight plopped in the middle of the board just anchoring your position and zapping any armor it sees might help somewhat. Has anyone tried this at all? I'd expect you would still struggle when you play any knights list, but maybe as just a bit of a bandaid?
They release the episodes early on Apple Podcasts. So by the time it makes it to TH-cam I’ve already heard it. So I hit like to help the channel even if I haven’t watched the actual video yet.
My only thing with the Tyranids getting proper characters is that the problem with similar factions in other media that have had this have had it always go kind of poorly. Like the Borg queen in Star Trek was unpopular, and Kerrigan in Star Trek just kind of warp the factions around their wants and needs and move too far away from this animalistic alien hunger that just wants to spread and make itself grow and consume all. I think the Praetor idea would work best where it's just like an aspect that just wants to consume, an aspect that's more tactical, one that adapts and invents new monsters. Then we could have like the tactical wanting to make a strategic flank with some gaunts while the consuming one tries to hijack them and just charge straight in to feed. Almost like a lot of personalities of one being fighting for control but still maintaining a unified purpose.
This is definitely preferable; unnamed subminds that are more like the different cores of the process as a whole, instead of characters of their own right. It could be seen as an advantage within the hivemind that they all have these perspectives at all times, and the collective cherry picks what it needs or wants for a given tendril. TBH A tyranid book should read very strangely and confusingly, it should kaleidoscopic, like you're in a fever dream. But that isn't a simple thing to just write, those sorts of things usually come with inspiration.
Hear is an idea for a cheap knight unit. Give them medieval pesaenats that cost like 50 points for 10 of them but they literally have 1 toughness and strength.
Peasants would be a perfect fit for them. 10 for 100 points, they have TRASH offensive attacks, but they have big-'ole shields that make them tough. They have one job: Hold objectives. That means that an enemy army of all anti-tank still has to figure out how to kill the shield serfs too who are holding the mid board. Gives the Knights something really tricky, silly, and 100% lore accurate to play with.
I would share Brad's complaints about the Drukhari Friendship Boat if there was ever a reason for me to take any Wych Cults at all in 10th. That's my christmas wish, give me my wych cults back!
The Night Lords sprues actually give me hope for all the Space Marine legions and chapters. They could do that to every kit that has a "special vibe" to it that works for a Chapter's identity. Havocs? Iron Warriors! Possessed? Word Bearers! And so on. And likewise they could do it with Primaris Marines and the less popular big chapters. Outriders? White Scars! Infernus Marines? Salamanders! Infiltrators? Ravenguard! And so on. Make the upgrade kits a little more generous and universal so a single box of White Scars Outriders would also hold a decent amount of additional e.g. curved Chainswords so you could build some Assault Intercessors that way, or whatever, and it'd be a really good build-a-chapter system where you could have hobbyists who buy all kinds of these specialized upgrade kits and kitbash some truly unique homebrew stuff.
The detachment model would work so well for multi-species Tau. Get rid of the awful kauyon rules. Add a fire caste detachment that's for battlesuits since only Tau are legally allowed into battlesuits. Add some of the pysker tentacle monsters to get a buff-heavy detachment. Get a detachment for "Goddess Tau'va" which super buffs your shitty auxiliaries
I want nothing more then for the tyranids to NOT get a explanation. The unknown eldritch nature of them is one of my favorite parts. And splitering them and makeing them more individual would actually make me vomit. It could be done well, but it would be incredibly incredibly incredibly hard.
Chaos Daemons unit suggestions: Terminator-Profile Bloodletterdudes Tzeentch Buffpiece Nurgle 3 man ranged or Artillery Slaanesh Giant fatso that you set on an objective and it takes three turns to shoot it off.
about Tyranids, I totally can see something like the end of Ender's Game, or that hive mind episode in Love Death & Robots, or the whole Flood shebang possessing a ship in Halo 3
I really do hope GW goes with the Covenant style combined arms force with the Tau. I don't play Tau but it would just be so interesting to see on the table and allow for so much variety in army construction.
As a guard player my Christmas wish is that we get a codex before next Christmas 😭 some refreshed catachans in a jungle kill team box with some new jungle terrain wouldn’t hurt too
“Lance Fournies” were the military units that supported heavily armed knights in the middle ages. They included on foot combatants, light cavalry, and non combatant pages to aid their captains or knights. They could expand both knight ranges with these kind of units. They would have to be intentionally not amazing so that people wouldn’t just make armies of these auxiliary support units without using knights but knights would be cool with support units.
that 5 seconds of a spacemarine with a xmas tree makes me wonder why no ones done a bloodravens xmas special and at the end of the show the cmaera pulls back to show a genestealer cult family massacre
I think the person who would be attracted to playing Tyranids doesn't really want them to be "humanized" in having independent named characters and the like. They're a bit like choosing to play a dragon in a fantasy story, like a force of nature with a secretive grand intelligence behind it. Admittedly, this may be just from my perspective, but it's always felt lame to me when writers make weird alien things that are hard to relate to more human, because I feel like that's considering a unique flavor of a faction as a weakness
Yeah. My husband plays 'nids and doesn't want lore. He likes them as basically a cosmic-scale natural disaster.
Spot on. Brad and Eric really, really don't get the 'Nids.
but dragons are almost always named characters….
You don't need to humanise them to have interesting lore. Just look at the xenomorphs.
This. The exciting thing about 'nids lore for me is that it is always from the PoV of the victims.
I really like your guys channel because you 2 have your finger on the pulse of each community and arent just like "faction needs this gun or better rules" its more of a hobbyist take on how to enjoy this game a little more.
Thanks for the kind words, we try to think of all aspects of the game even if it's hard at times as more competitively minded players at our cores.
Giving auxiliaries to the Tau would allow them to have some melee and the faction wouldn't have all their mechanical problems. It's kind of insane they haven't already done it.
If they ever refresh the kroot range I hope they include some tau shoulder pads and armor pieces in the kits to tie them to the tau auxillary theme a bit more.
The current kroot range looks like its own faction entirely with no ties to tau whatsoever.
Auxiliaries not getting the army rule is what kills them for me. They also don't do damage of any kind. Not shooting or in combat. They only serve as screeners now.
They have an owlbear that fucked up death guard in melee and they r psychic. They r mentioned in the shadowsun book
Ikr theres literally a Titan size xeno that is part of the tau Empire, a centaur looking reptile creature that is LITERALLY bigger than the norn emissary, or the hipnotic snake worms, or even the xenos that are living light and work in guiding the ships, imagine a flying light that works like the "psycher" or it's attacks are just air support firing where it says, theres so much potential, not just humanoid aliens but anything, Even gundams piloted by other aliens could be great
Wish granted.
For Genestealers I would love to see a big centerpiece mining vehicle similar to something out of Lego Power Miners
ahahah I didn't know until now that I wanted it too
That would probably get me to play Genestealers
And you don't mean the giant piece of terrain that is their drill.
For Imperial Knights, their whole thing is medieval knight, but in a big robot, right? So why not give them some "Household Troops" or something similar. You can get a few types as well. You can have medieval "Sergeant" equivalents, similar to the naval beachers or Kaserkins, the actual decentish infantry. You can have some regular guard or cultist equivalents to represent regular Household Troops, and you can also get some literal Agri World, Peasant Levies, for some actual trash to through on the board. Make it similar to Old World Bretonia, where the knights are your damage dealers and will win you the game, with the peasants or "Household Troops" to hold the line long enough for the knights to win. Plus, you can then play with some foot characters to act as "Retainers" or something like that. There is definitely something there.
*Edited some spelling mistakes
That's what I was thinking, have some kind of light ground troops that could be crossbow or spear wielding men-at-arms to represent the more feudal side of the Imperium.
@Fuzmonster59 I do like the idea of crossbow and spear wielding peasants to back up imperial knights. Give them awful weapons, I'm thinking like range 18, BS 5+, A1, S2, Ap0, D1 for the crossbow but make them cheap to hold points. Perhaps also as a way to limit them, perhaps make it so you can only take so many peasants per knight, and change it so a small knight means you can take 10 peasants, a big one 20 etc. To represent them coming from that knights household, so only so many can come with each knight.
Horus Heresy has this for the Titan Legios with Secutarii Hoplites and Peltasts. I think it's a great idea and would love to see it come to 40k
I thought of having Pterrorshades for the Chaos Knights to have. Just a flock of angry flesh-eating vultures to fly around and harass stuff.
@@thebastard890Or just slap in a unit of Negavolt cultists per big knight.
The thing I want for Sisters most is actually a Drop-Pod equivalent but it's a small cathedral. In lore they drop them from space onto the battlefield and I think it'd be a cool addition!
Drop Church!
maybe to make it a little diffrent the drop pods are bigger and carry more models and maybe even have more weapons than a space marine drop pod. They would basically be a deployable bunker id say. Although i know fortifications aren't the best unit type in the current game.
@@lelandmartin3970 in the lore they are vary big and maybe that was what OP intended, and a very cool idea, the problem with fortifications this big will always be to find the space to actually deploy it, we put a lot of stuff on boards for cover. Maybe one that can carry 12 sisters or 3 warsuits (or both! I know that's cooler :D) and a lot of firepower and a 'sacred' AOE effect, that would be dope
50% bigger than a pod, square, shaped like a gothic castle, and the turrets have actual bolter/flamer/missile turrets on them, holds 20 sisters, or some penitent engines
Also long-range units!
Brad throwing soulgrinder shade had me laughing so hard omg
"No more cooking, you stay out of the fucking kitchen"
I actually took my Soulgrinder last week in a game, with my Deathguard. I was not disappointed. Its main ranged attack is Phlegm Bombardment, which is hilarious. Also it swings at Str 16 in melee... Absolute Unit
@@davidk4306stats are funny, model looks like I modeled it
17:10 found the quote for anyone lost
The weird thing about guard is that they technically did an upgrade sprue…for cadians. It has a lot of bits that add a lot to the army if someone wants cadians but it’s weird that was released when the 9th codex came out and we haven’t heard anything new since.
Chaos Knights really want Wardogs to stay in stock for longer than 15 seconds
That is one wish, another wish I have would be make the bigger knights more relevant again. Currently you just spam Wardogs and *maybe* take one big knight.
I do like the idea they proposed though of adding smaller knights to the range. It would be sweet to have a unit of lets say 3 paragon suit sized knights. Make them super fast, good oomph but rather fragile. Call them Squires =)
Here’s hoping the big knights are relevant again.
Forklift certified Genestealers!!!!! Yesss that would be great. Only if the forklift got 3 or 4 forks instead of 2 😊
1-3 model pre unit
Whatever stat line
Ability: if this model is in melee range of an enemy **vehicle** model, that model cannot move, cannot make melee attacks and attacks on it always hit.
@@comlitbeta7532 and the cannot move must be represented by leaning the vehicle on the side
Just bring back the forklift sentinels and we be back in business.
Every Forklift comes with a sheet of metal on the fork, giving them a single use ranged attack, but only if they moved this round xD
As a sisters player I want them to fix half strength/below half strength so I can actually use my rules that I don’t care for anyway. There’s too many models and units that straight up don’t get to use my rules because they can’t hit that threshold or only get it when I got one wound/model left and die anyway.
Can't wait for the other detachments to also have the 'get hurt:*Effect*'
1000% this. Change the rule to "equal to or less than half" for sisters, battleshock, and crusher stampede
I would also like more non-epic hero characters and more tanks. Can I have a cannoness ride in a war suit and a tank with more toughness.
@@Entity404Found tbh they should just do this everywhere this wording comes up. Heck would even make Battleshock a bit more impactful.
Thats the realistic dream.
What I REALY want is a tank. Size of a landraider, up to a Baneblade. Then add a bunch of church-like bits.
The Castigator is... fine. But compared to the Exorcist or Immolator it lacks the coolness. So another tank. A BIG one
for tyranids, instead of that dreadful 'multiple hive minds' suggestion, I'd love to see an unit that buffs hormagaunts the same way that tervigon buffs termagans, hell that can be tervigon itself, just something that can make my idea of "2000pts of velociraptors" doable
It's incredibly funny that the "Bunch of different weirdos together" is supposed to be the Tau's whole thing, but that mechanics wise the current Drukhari with their 3 in 1 faction with the weirdos like Mandrakes and Scourges feels more akin to the covenant idea than the tau do.
I just want to say that I'm tired of hearing Brad say that feel no pain is not a defining feature of Death Guard. The mark of Nurgle since 5th and by extension Plague Marines have since 6th edition (the first time they became a unit) been +1 toughness and 5+ feel no pain. This is like saying that psychic and an invuln save isn't defining for Thousand Sons.
I refuse to be gaslit that DG wasn't always about being Tanky lool
That's actually not true.
They've had FNP since 4th edition when they first became a unit (3rd edition had plague marines as just chaos marines with the mark of nurgle).
@@Nick37577 Thank you I could only find evidence online as far back as 5th edition. I started with 40k at the start of 8th and it is nice to hear that it has even stronger rots than I could find.
@@Nick37577 Actually the CSM + Mark of Nurgle thing was a unique quirk of the 3.5 edition Chaos Codex. The first Codex in 3rd edition, and the 2nd edition book both had Plague Marines as a separate unit (they had higher toughness, but no Feel No Pain yet).
The only Christmas Wish my faction has is to have finished painting my faction.
I hope when the CSM codex comes out this edition, they bring chaos dreads back with options for each god and say "these will have unique data sheets in the other chaos legions". Extra points if they just release those sheets early to sell more of the model.
Do I really be just an army of one loving the Adeptus Custodes tanks?
Two brother!
Nah, I'm with you. They are some of my favorite 40k models that exist
im with you, my love is even more bizarre with the custodian aircraft
Here's my wishlist item for ALL factions: bitz kitz, upgrade sprues. I know they'll never do it because it's too expensive but imagine if you could buy a kit with say 50 Daughters of Khaine heads or 30 Space Marine heavy weapons or "assorted church bits for Sororitas tanks".
And yes, I know this is commonplace and dirtcheap if you have a 3D printer but it would be cool to have official plastic available.
The heavy and special weapons bits boxes that heresy put out were godly
It's not that expensive. The problem is that GW doesn't have the infrastructure and refuses to expand its production end.
They used to do this with metal bits back in the day.
Honestly, that sort of thing seems like it would be the perfect product for GW to start offering as 3d printable files. Give one guy a month to knock out a bunch of different shoulderpads, flags, and heads, and now they have upgrade kits for every obscure space marine subfaction you could ever want, all without paying for manufacturing or warehouse space.
@@RekkinOnTheInternetuntil the STL gets stolen
What I want for Chaos? Treat them like Divergent chapters of the space marines. GIVE US ACCESS TO THE WHOLE LIST OF CSM!!
With obvious exceptions, like WE still can't take psykers, Tsons can't take jump packs (lack of autonomous minds), etc... to balance out the divergent chapters a bit. Or at least add like 3-4 CSM units to WE and Tsons so we can pretend we have options.
@@SorcerySpeedConcedeI dearly want to bring a Venomcrawler with full Tsons rule support. And more variety in muties. Generic CSM has soooo much good plastic.
@@nonamenoname1133 the accursed cultists are SOOOO good and soooo flavorful for Tsons but we just get told no...
the obvious connecting aesthetic to make the conglomeration of a bunch of wildly distinct looking alien species together should be the existing Tau armor aesthetic. the layers of ceramic plates ala space alien samurai armor style should be present on all of the different races of the tau empire in the same way that the covenant all had a similar material design for all of the different species' armors in Halo. I want to see Kroot in fire warrior-like armor that's shaped to their different physiology. The Vespid sculpts already do this even if those models are so old and ugly it doesn't really mesh with the current line of Tau models.
my wishlist as an admech player is a different codex that GW actually put effort into
Hard disagree on the "give Tyranid more personality". HARD DISAGREE. The reason they're unique is because they occupy that niche of an entity so alien, so vast and so predatory that none of the races can completely comprehend them, besides the hunger. Guy Haley touched gold when he wrote the Hive-Mind's "gaze" crushing Iyanna Arienal's soul in a short story, then immediately turned it to mud when he had the Nids "hate" the Blood Angels. The Tyranids are terrifying because they're not a faction, they're a natural disaster.
I'd love more lore, like the Amphelion Project or the Valedor novel, that properly exploit how unnatural, cold and alien the Tyranids are, but to give them personnality would ruin their concept and why I fell in love with the faction. I literally play Tyranids and Aeldari to have "Unknowable horror fight falling civilisation".
"Beyond the Milky Way, beyond the reach of human space travel and astro-telepathy, lies the unspeakable cold of the galactic void. Few have ventured into this realm and none have ever returned. It is the great barrier that separates galaxies from one another, a place where time and space conspire to keep galaxies separated by inconceivable distances."
"Yet the Void is no longer vacant. An immeasurably ancient and implacable intelligence moves through the cold and darkness, its many eyes finally fixed on the distant twinkling lights of our galaxy. The Great Devourer moves between the stars and hungers for the flesh of all those before it. This great organism, this monstrous entity, is known to mankind only as the Tyranid race."
"Even in naming the Great Devourer, men betray their ignorance. Every thought and action, every spark of light of the Tyranid race is linked and interconnected into a single mind, into a single great entity that spans light years of space and is controlled by an immortal hive mind. A billion times a billion Tyranids stand at the edge of the Galaxy, but each of them is a mere cell in the living body of the hive mind, the devourer of worlds."
-2nd Edition Codex, although every codices later on has re-used the quote because it's badass.
Giving Tau the covenant vibes with other races could also give them some melee strength to really push the idea of these different races banding together to make up for their weaknesses. Doesn't even need to be good melee, just a token to represent the collective spirit.
For Custodes: a proper expansion to the Sisters to make the faction properly the Talons of the Emperor. We got a full (if dysfunctional) army list for the sisters in 30k more than a year ago but there are no models in sight ;~;
For Chaos Marines: Mutilators, Bikers, Defiler, a proper damn army for World Eaters and psychic dreads and maybe an elite non-terminator unit for the TSons (think the Khenetai blade cabal from 30k) and named characters for every legion like the loyalists got
The fact that they put Haarken in 40k but made him BL hurts NL players.... like yes he is but he literally studied NL to use their tactics AND uses our jumppacks... Other cool characters for us would be Talos, Malcharion in Dreadnought, and Sevatar (haven't read about him but other NL players think he's hot stuff so I'm game).
@@SorcerySpeedConcedeI'm a night lords player. I love them
I do not want a bunch of long dead characters in the army
The nice thing about Tau auxillaries is that Votann units already exist and the Demiurge are a part of the squats that work with Tau sometimes
For a new admech cult model idea: a procession of tech-priests, some doing repairs on the model, some doing incense, some shooting (all mostly visual), with them escorting a massive screw-you gun/tech piece. Heck, make that part of the war-gear, have 1 variant be a big gun, another being a targeting relay for da other big guns, another giving a defensive aura or enchanced protocols. The model would kinda look similar to triumph of saint Katherine, but bigger (obviously with all the tech priests) and probably very wacky-looking, because admech.
Regarding the addition of more unique auxiliaries to the Tau...they have psychic allies. There could be a way to add psykers into the Tau army if the auxiliaries were given more species.
But as a friend of mine said, Warhammer is not a game where any faction can do everything, you always give up something. In the Tau's case, we give up psyker phases to be *really* good at long range.
"Just steal from Starcraft" wasn't Starcraft supposed to be a warhammer 40k game originally but they didn't get the liscence so they changed SM, Aeldari and Tyranids into Terrans, Protoss and Zerg?
Edit: also, isn't there already some individualism in the Hive Mind considering each Hive Fleet uses a different strategy (behemoth charges head-on, kraken does ambushes, leviathan adapts, kronos goes after demons and gorgon uses acid/toxins) and I'm pretty sure there was a Hive Fleet that transformed smaller fleets into a part of itself, implying the Hive Fleets either have their own conflicting Hive Minds or that they are at least in conflict with themselves?
41:53 Me, [watching with baited breath as the quantity keeps going up and up] “please do it. Please do it. Please d-nice.”
I feel like I bought some of those Phoenix Lords back when I was in middleschool and my highschool anniversary was 25 years ago.
When you guys got to the World Eaters and talking Chaos Specific things....
I feel like that is a prime example on how they can pull from these cool new 30k Dreads; give them 40k specific upgrade frame.
Word on the street is that Kroot will get a range refresh, notably the discontinued FW cavalry, as well as a Vespid Kill Team.
I wonder if brad's wish will be to have the old reanimation back.
He's said that he's not really a silver tide guy, so I'm guessing it didn't really affect him much. Canopteks and destroyers are really only affected by the Reanimator nerf (and the CCB res orb I guess), and they just got a bunch of buffs to compensate. I'd probably be more mad at how the destroyer detachment is garbage.
Please God no
I think they could feasibly write a book from the perspective of Deathleaper and broodlord as the vanguard organisms arguing over the most efficient way to conquer a planet Deathleaper of course is a lone wolf who prefers to do things alone while the broodlord is a leader and commands genestealers into battle. Might be doable as a Tyranid novel
And seeing as how they are one of the few organisms with a level of individuality apart from the hive mind it's possible it would actually happen
I think a series of compiled "short stories" could be interesting -- just like horror mode -- and alternates between a tyranid chapter -- then a horror chapter of someone fighting for their lives.
The knight issue is once you start introducing things other then knights you start to loose focus of the faction
41:05 having a genestealer kit that is the loader mech from Aliens would be cool as shit I would buy 3
The guy who made soulgrinder watching like 😢 “I did my best and I thought he was cool”
I'm kinda hoping the new Epic scale game goes well enough it expands back into 40k and thus we get new tiny Tyranids so I can go all in on the unending swarm aspect I find so cool to the Nids.
Bang on for most of this, but hard disagree for Nids. People argue that to give Necrons personality toned them down and made them less threatening. I'm not saying I necessarily agree with that, even though I liked the ominous, unknown aspect to them, but to do that to Nids would absolutely end the concept. They're a force of nature, unknowable and unending, with no other real goal than to consume and keep consuming until there is nothing left. It might not work for everyone, but that's where the horror is derived from : they can't be reasoned with, not even remotely. To give the hive mind a personality or personalities is like trying to humanise a wildfire or a hurricane.
8:00 so an updated capitol imperialis? I know that’s a astra mil vehicles (and it’s larger than titan sized but too big was never a criteria) but I’m pretty sure all imp forces technically have access to it,
It could be possible, if you din't mind Epic scale. I can't recall if the capital imperialis was around during the heresy or not.
@@kglguythey were 100% around during the heresy, 2 of the 3 named capitol imperialis belong to the Theron Cohort who were attached to the heresy era ravenguard
@@stevenroyer9380 Now I want one for Legions Imperialis.
I really think Ad Mech should get more of the old robot models, from the rogue trader era, but updated to plastic kits. I thought those were delightfully strange and would add more variety. Each robot type could fill specific army style roles. Also, never heard the joke about "Every Necromunda model is a genestealer model." I have heard, "Every model is a Necromunda model."
I think some human auxiliaries for tau would be pretty cool. Another thing CSM could use is more non-Black Legion named characters.
Sisters might appreciate non-monopose minis in their combat patrol.
I think something I want to see for guard is that they have four ways to ally up with chaos, Tau, genestealer/tyrannids and of course imperium
Here's a novel concept: include the faction rules and datasheets for the Combat Patrol IN the combat patrol.
Yes it's available for free online, but if I'm opening up a box on Christmas and slapping plastic together to play a game against my brother I want LESS in the way of that. Just put it in the manual or something just put it in the box
Edit: unrelated but I can't wait to hear Brad's reaction that for December Rhinos really ARE free
For tyranids they could do genstealer cult book with a patriach or big figure who reveals parts of the lore to the main character
T'au needs an very expensive Hrud or Sslyth unit that are costly and you only have a handful of them at most, but have very specialised but dangerous weapons.
Merry Chrysler :D
What Imperial Knights actually want is a version of the Chaos Knights brigands, huntsman, and karnivores
1. Decent background stories like 'imperial armor 4: the amphelion project' and 'Xenology'
2. Dymacharon in plastic (edit: maleceptor too)
3. WINGED WARRIORS as a 3/6 model unit
4. Make winged Tyranids great rulewise
My Tyranid wish list for this X-mas: in current models
v 1. Leviathan box set
v 2. Second Leviathan set (Tyranids part)
v 3. Onslaught Swarm
v/- 4. Assemble them critters (in progress)
v/- 5. Paint them Nids (finaly started Jeey me)
- 6. MORE NIDS... because ... more nids
I got Leviathan but sadly missed Onslaught, one I would recomend is the boarding patrol if you find it.
Personally I dream a discount box with a Lictor and 2 pyro/biovores, and a full Termagants kit for spinefists! and put the extra specials on the monopose ones from Leviathan (to me also genestealers or hormagaunts since I still miss them ahahah)
@@elRandomTk
Good for you on the Leviathan! Keep a strong hold on yer Screamer Killer, winged Tyranid Prime and the weardo Tyrent with 2 mini's...
I doubt they will get a model after this box.
And as you pointed out, the boarding patrol box is still on my 'to acquire' list.
For me, it is getting back into the hobby, I got about 6k Nids since late 2nd edition, with a trio of both tin Carnifexes and Lictors. Back since my hyadus from late 7th...
@@elRandomTk About the boarding patrol:
I think after checking what is in it, it ain't great. That is becuse every box that promotes 'understrength units' should be barred from sales.
This box consists of
2x3 warriors
1x broodlord
8x genesteelers
Genesteelers in 10th edition come in packs of 5/10. So you bought 3 ùodels to collect dust on your shelve.
If you can get from somewhere else 2 more 'free/cheap' genesteelers, then ok, go for it.
@@hendrikmoons8218 I got it as my first Tyranids models, I knew they will have a refresh in 10th so I decided to assemble an army. The discount was very good (plus from a 3rd party ofc) I remember hoping they wouldn't immediately redesign the warriors lol
Yes the genestealers are kinda of a bummer, I picked another old box which by now is quite cheap (so 10 + 5, and only 1 wasted) and I'm waiting to get one new box to kitbash and have a proper army for the Broodlord to lead. To me it was good value but I can understand different opinions, and they are all old minis
@@elRandomTk Ah in that case, you worked around the shortcommings of the box. Great, good job. GW does throw us a stinker every now and then.
Maybe you can convert the remaining genesteeler into a broodlord?
As a Leagues of Votann player, I’d say something I want more than the other half of my range is more lore! The models will come eventually, but our identity needs to be cemented for 2 reasons: 1. The models that come out will be higher quality and fit the theme more. 2. We don’t want to repeat history and get stricken out of the lore or pushed to obscurity (harlequins, og squats) because of a lack of identity.
like, how am i supposed to come up with backstory and a paint scheme for the models if i dont have any lore to go off of?
Sisters, for Christmas, want anti-tank, bikes (or horses, depends who you ask), better detachment rules.
Remember the free mini of December is a rhino
Giving the auxiliaries more t’au ish armor so they look more cohesive with the rest of t’au while still having unique biology, roles, and forms.
Beautiful necrons man, I was able to see them enough to know that.
From someone who doesn't play the tabletop but at least knows SOME things [so take it with a grain of salt. Just make sure to grab the salt blindly.], without asking for the same thing.
Space marines: More love to specific chapters? White scars for an example. Maybe rolled in with riders getting some love.
Greyknights: I wasn't banned for wanting psykers back.
Custodes: Sisters of Silence would be nice.
Sisters of battle: Fraternis Militia ?
Admech: They asked for what I want so- uhhh...More funny Cawl shenanigans that translate to the game, like neo-volkite. So when the schism happens there's more faction identity to split.
Guard: Wow yeah uh...Hm. I guess, more vehicles? Sentinel variants? I guess Ol' one eye coming back and other characters coming in?
Loyalist Knights: Some more characters I suppose, something to drag them into the lore?
Chaos knights: MORE CHAOS MARKS, DAEMON ENGINES, CHAOS FORGES GO BRRR. Daemon possessed knights to produce a horrific new unit!
Chaos daemons:Split into four factions.
Khorne: Elite infantry. [So bloodletters?] Actual. Elite. Infantry. Something to fight custodes in 1 v 1 in glorious bloodshed. Maybe ranged khornate units to really dig into the fact that Khorne doesn't care where the blood flows, so have something that makes people explode into glorious fountains of blood.
Slaanesh: Elite infantry, [So, daemonettes?] Akin to khorne, but probably more a tactical parrying squad that'll make non-elite melee units cry to fail to produce any hits. Then cry harder as the claw goes places it shouldn't.
Tzeentch: Thousand sons dustie boys equivalent, which sounds soupy but, they already own two space marine legions. Or at least a space marine shaped entity.
Nurgle: *wheeze* *cough* *gag* I vaguely recall the death guard getting a rule having the ability to shrug off wounds. And nurgle. Doesn't anymore? That back.
Even if death guard doesn't have it anymore. But yeah more units if that's not the case.
CSM: More chaos mark effects? Or in other words, POWER. GRANT US THE POWER OF THE DARK GODS. or something. Being able to 'invest' into a unit to make them even better kinda deal?
World eaters: Chaos guardsmen :)...I guess more types of melee weapons?
Votann: Plot relevance.
Thousand sons: Spire guard?
Deathguard: Directed Plague Application. Make units sick.
Craftworlders: Moar Paths.
Dark eldar: Have some of the dark eldar who were stuck in that other dimension and abandoned show back up, produce new units based off them. [Because again, can't ask for the SAME thing.]
Harlequins: Speaking of which...This one's a hard one since existence is already stated. I guess some more units in general?
Necron: Give warriors love. Basic troops love in general.
Orks: Ramshackled but customizeable vehicles. To eleven. AND DEN'Z EVEN FURTHAH BEYONDZ!
Tau: Coven- DAMN IT. uhhh...More firewarrior infantry?
Nids: Characters [for the lore.]
GSC: strapped weapons onto genestealers. Give grandpa a glock. Show up in darktide.
Guard player here! Speaking for myself I want more HQ options. I don't like to use named characters so my HQ options are:
-Company Commander
-Lord Commisar
-Tank Commander
Someone else suggested it would be cool to have a C.Commander in Sentinel. Just a few more options would be cozy.
Regarding the Tyranid lore aspect, I think a cool way to do it could be to either write a novel from the perspective of someone who is part of a gene stealer cult, or even just a psyker who is on a planet about to be invaded by the Tyanids. You could have this psyker form some sort of psychic link with the hivemind and the whole book could be this person getting a sneak peek into the hiveminds goals and plans, figuring out how they think.
I'm not a writer, so idk how to make all of that work but I think the best stories in warhammer are those written from a normal human perspective, as they're the most relatable. Writing a book from the POV of the Tyranids would be fairly difficult to do convincingly, so don't do that.
Imagine if you will, a short story where someone, perhaps a psyker, perhaps just a PDF soldier, dies, and it is found that the deceased are reborn into the morphs of the hivemind.
It would add to the horror of the tyranid's consumption; mind, body, and soul all getting dragged into the hive mind. Born and reborn, live and die again, a constant cycle. They cannot even want out of it anymore, it is all they'll know afterwards, they are the hivemind now.
As a white scars player, hover bikes would be incredible whether it be chapter specific or not. Trying to use the Stormlance Task Force detachment with 3 total "mounted" units isn't the best.
Sisters want a way to wound hard targets on better than 5+ that isn’t a single-shot HKM.
It’s adorable seeing these Necron takes before the codex preview but released after the reveal
* mentions Votann in passing while talking about a different army
* "there's not a secret army we're forgetting about, is there?"
* refuses to elaborate
Expanding the auxiliary units for the tau could literally fix the balance problems with the tau being a one phase army
I had a world eaters army once. Now I have a Word Bearers army as I could not be bothered to buy the new army and lose all my stuff. REEE
I love the every faction (ACTUALLY THOUSAND SONS) episodes!
Just jokes, great episode.
For genestealers, I honestly really like how they can take imperial guard, so it’d be really cool to me if there were some genestealer upgrade sprues for IG models
There are (were? Not sure if it got discontinued)
@@timunderbakke8756 there is. Brood Brothers kill team
I wish that Chaos marines could get some cool new deamon engines and maybe something like half-obliterator techmarine as a new character.
Love that my "friday" drives home from my graveyard shift corresponds to yall dropping new episodes. 🎉 As a sisters player I want the Ecclesiarchy train from the gaunts ghosts novel just as a fun big armored centerpiece.
12:00 incorrect, we want bigger knights RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
As a guard player, I would love a relevant codex that lasts more then 3 months then not waiting 5 more years for another book that will last 3 to 5 months
My Tyranid army is painted based on the New Phyrexians where different units are part of the different circles.
I just remembered and want you guys to know - the free mini of the month from GW this month is a tiny Legiones Imperialis Rhino tank. So for Christmas this year Rhinos really are free. 😊
My wish as a T'au player is a Crisis-sized battlesuit that's mainly designed for melee combat. It would make it so we don't instantly crumble at the slightest bit of melee breeze, and it would look cool being led by Farsight.
All I want for Christmas is
DROP CATHEDRALS
Drop Church!
WOOOOO perfect timing something to listen to while I clean!!!
I would love the Tau to finally get more allied races to play with so they can become more like the Covenant. Sadly, unless one of those allied races has a name that ends in "Space Marine", we're never going to see it.
My Christmas wish for Tyranids is a “Talking Tyranid” The Herald, some bio form with a bunch of tendrils that attaches itself for bodies of wounded left behind that physically moves the mouth, tongue, lungs to terrify enemies. “Help me..at meat, you me meat” like a biowarhorn
Just thinking out loud here, could the Grey Knight's lack of consistent anti-tank be somewhat mitigated by an allied knight? I don't know knights well, but I suspect an anti-armor knight plopped in the middle of the board just anchoring your position and zapping any armor it sees might help somewhat. Has anyone tried this at all? I'd expect you would still struggle when you play any knights list, but maybe as just a bit of a bandaid?
They want something in codex
No views, 7 likes? Wow TH-cam is just making stuff up now!
In fairness I immediately like Poorhammer videos before the first second of playing because I know I won’t be disappointed.
They release the episodes early on Apple Podcasts. So by the time it makes it to TH-cam I’ve already heard it. So I hit like to help the channel even if I haven’t watched the actual video yet.
On mine it has 3k views and 9k likes lmao
My only thing with the Tyranids getting proper characters is that the problem with similar factions in other media that have had this have had it always go kind of poorly. Like the Borg queen in Star Trek was unpopular, and Kerrigan in Star Trek just kind of warp the factions around their wants and needs and move too far away from this animalistic alien hunger that just wants to spread and make itself grow and consume all. I think the Praetor idea would work best where it's just like an aspect that just wants to consume, an aspect that's more tactical, one that adapts and invents new monsters. Then we could have like the tactical wanting to make a strategic flank with some gaunts while the consuming one tries to hijack them and just charge straight in to feed. Almost like a lot of personalities of one being fighting for control but still maintaining a unified purpose.
This is definitely preferable; unnamed subminds that are more like the different cores of the process as a whole, instead of characters of their own right.
It could be seen as an advantage within the hivemind that they all have these perspectives at all times, and the collective cherry picks what it needs or wants for a given tendril.
TBH
A tyranid book should read very strangely and confusingly, it should kaleidoscopic, like you're in a fever dream.
But that isn't a simple thing to just write, those sorts of things usually come with inspiration.
Hear is an idea for a cheap knight unit. Give them medieval pesaenats that cost like 50 points for 10 of them but they literally have 1 toughness and strength.
Literally they exist in lore. Might as well add them!
Peasants would be a perfect fit for them. 10 for 100 points, they have TRASH offensive attacks, but they have big-'ole shields that make them tough. They have one job: Hold objectives. That means that an enemy army of all anti-tank still has to figure out how to kill the shield serfs too who are holding the mid board. Gives the Knights something really tricky, silly, and 100% lore accurate to play with.
@@cyborgspaceman that is even better
@@cyborgspacemandid they have names? I'm just puzzling over potentially homebrewing a datasheet.
just give em laser crossbows and garbage energy swords,
I would share Brad's complaints about the Drukhari Friendship Boat if there was ever a reason for me to take any Wych Cults at all in 10th.
That's my christmas wish, give me my wych cults back!
"You have gundams or Kroot, choose one." Truly Eric is a soothsayer.
I want a flying Tyranid prime that's allowed to have a gun... And melee weapon options too. I love warriors with swords, please give them back to me!
The immediately going to the 5XL hoodie got me. lol
Please sir, may I have some more Harlequins?
I always appreciate that you include Harlequins in these. It’s nice to not be forgotten
The Night Lords sprues actually give me hope for all the Space Marine legions and chapters.
They could do that to every kit that has a "special vibe" to it that works for a Chapter's identity. Havocs? Iron Warriors! Possessed? Word Bearers! And so on.
And likewise they could do it with Primaris Marines and the less popular big chapters. Outriders? White Scars! Infernus Marines? Salamanders! Infiltrators? Ravenguard! And so on.
Make the upgrade kits a little more generous and universal so a single box of White Scars Outriders would also hold a decent amount of additional e.g. curved Chainswords so you could build some Assault Intercessors that way, or whatever, and it'd be a really good build-a-chapter system where you could have hobbyists who buy all kinds of these specialized upgrade kits and kitbash some truly unique homebrew stuff.
The detachment model would work so well for multi-species Tau. Get rid of the awful kauyon rules. Add a fire caste detachment that's for battlesuits since only Tau are legally allowed into battlesuits. Add some of the pysker tentacle monsters to get a buff-heavy detachment. Get a detachment for "Goddess Tau'va" which super buffs your shitty auxiliaries
For T Sons the easy answer is “anything not a character that’s also a psyker/generates cabal points”
I want nothing more then for the tyranids to NOT get a explanation. The unknown eldritch nature of them is one of my favorite parts. And splitering them and makeing them more individual would actually make me vomit.
It could be done well, but it would be incredibly incredibly incredibly hard.
Chaos Daemons unit suggestions:
Terminator-Profile Bloodletterdudes
Tzeentch Buffpiece
Nurgle 3 man ranged or Artillery
Slaanesh Giant fatso that you set on an objective and it takes three turns to shoot it off.
about Tyranids, I totally can see something like the end of Ender's Game, or that hive mind episode in Love Death & Robots, or the whole Flood shebang possessing a ship in Halo 3
Showing off collections? Finally we can see all your guys free rhinos
I really do hope GW goes with the Covenant style combined arms force with the Tau. I don't play Tau but it would just be so interesting to see on the table and allow for so much variety in army construction.
As a guard player my Christmas wish is that we get a codex before next Christmas 😭 some refreshed catachans in a jungle kill team box with some new jungle terrain wouldn’t hurt too
The onyx model idea made me wonder why the votan don’t have units with dig
Plz gib me my termite assault drill 2.0
“Lance Fournies” were the military units that supported heavily armed knights in the middle ages. They included on foot combatants, light cavalry, and non combatant pages to aid their captains or knights.
They could expand both knight ranges with these kind of units. They would have to be intentionally not amazing so that people wouldn’t just make armies of these auxiliary support units without using knights but knights would be cool with support units.
They're not knights tho
that 5 seconds of a spacemarine with a xmas tree makes me wonder why no ones done a bloodravens xmas special and at the end of the show the cmaera pulls back to show a genestealer cult family massacre