Tyranid Hive Fleet Kraken at Warhammer World

Posted on February 22, 2014 by Ben Jackson

For my devoted reader’s who come to this site in their millions, err thousands, well hundreds, well tens yes tens of you every day. I promised I would get some better photos of the Tyraninds at Warhammer World. As they have just moved all the new models in to place, like the Harpy, Hive Crone, and others which I’m not going to attempt to spell. there seems no better time to have taken these photos. So with out and further waffling on and on about Tyranids this is just to keep the search bots happy. Well just one more Tyranids rock, well they eat them any way:)

First up my favourite (some days) Hive Fleet Kraken.

The Kraken

Tyrgon

The Master of the Swarm & exocrine

Tyranofex

Hive Guard

Warhammer World Random photos

Gallery | Posted on February 19, 2014 by Ben Jackson

Just a few pictures of the battles that were going on around at warhammer World last week end. Sorry the quality of some isn’t good.

A battle at Warhammer world

A large battle at Warhammer world

The scenic Bridge board at Warhammer World

A battle between Grey knights and Tyranids

Chaos Army from Armies on Parade

Tyranid vs Grey Knights Battle

Gallery | Posted on February 15, 2014 by Ben Jackson

I’m not sure I can call this a battle report. We are playing the relic mission and rolled a length ways deployment, which gave us a bit of extra exercise, as we were playing on the middle table in a row of 7.

Tyranid Deployement

Grey Knight Deployement

Grey Knight and Tyranid Deployement

Tyranid Deployement

Tyranids ready to advance

Grey Knights ready to purge the Tyranid forces

Grey Knight Terminators – Ready to count the Tyranid advance

Grey Knight Purifiers ready to retrieve the relic

The Tyranid hoard lead by a Swam Lord ready to overwhelm the Grey Knights

Purifiers jump on to the relic

Seven Termigaunts are slain by Grey Knight bolter fire

Grey Knights jump to relic back to the ruins

Zonethrops invoke warp blast

Zonthropes fire their warp blasts

Winged Hive Tyrant and Hormagaunts advance

Winged Hive Tyrant and Hormagaunts advance towards the relic

Grey Knights take a heavy toll on the Termaguants

Grey Knights bolters take a heavy toll on the Termaguants

Swarm Lord advances

Grey Knight Terminators and Grand Master move towards the Tyranids

Turn 1 The Grey Knights jumped onto the relic and shot 7 Termigunts. The Tyranids moved forward firing all they could. One Zonthrope managed to slay 2 interceptors with a warp blasts. Well the rest should be as clear as a warhammer visions battle report.

Titan Knights so what else?

Posted on February 10, 2014 by Ben Jackson

I hope you will forgive the title of this post (and the picture) Don’t get me wrong if there are Titan Knights coming in March 2014, it’s a big deal. Given “the rat” says they are on the way, I’m inclined to believe they are. I also think Games Workshop are mad not to have release these about 4 years ago. Given they can be used in Imperial and Chaos armies, and as allies and in Apocalypse. If they look as good as the Eldar Wraith Knight, they are going to sell like hot coffee. If they look anything like The Lord of Skulls they will sell like Dreadfleet.
But back to the title so what else is going to be released in March? Am I the only person who thinks one plastic Knight kit even if it is going to cost as much as the other super heavies is a bit thin for a release window? In the Apocalypse release window we had 2 super heavy kits, 4 Space Marine Captains and a table’s worth of fortifications. I can’t help but wonder what else they have in store for us this time. Could there be another uber hyper heavy on the way? If so what army is it for? The only armies that don’t have a really big plastic kit are, Space Marines (but they can use the Knight) Sisters of Battle or what ever their name is (ditto), Tau (rip tide is not far of this size), Tyranids (didn’t someone say a new big bug would be released?) and Dark Eldar (a Dark Knight could be cool). Of the above I would think the Tyranids stand the best chance, I’d love to see a small plastic Bio Titan or Norn Queen. However I think a separate Chaos knight kit which uses an alternative sprue to maximise for the Chaos components would maximise the return on GWs design investment and is therefore even more likely (darn it Chaos why do you sell so well).
If GW do put out some more terrain might we finally see battle fields not covered in Imperial eagles and skulls. I get a few visitors to Chaptermasters each month looking for Eldar terrain.

So is March the month of the Titan Knight or the month of Titan Knights? Given the tightening of GW leaks I guess it will be at least two more weeks before we find out.

Ben

Tyranids from Games day 2013 Armies on Parade

Posted on January 31, 2014 by Gareth Jones

Here is an Army entered into the Games days 2013 Armies on Parade.

The centre piece of this army is a rather large and intimidating Hierophant Bio-Titan. The army appears to be lead by a Swarm Lord and or a Tervigon pictured below