Games Workshop just showed off the result of the Battle for Ohgram and as the Tyranids seized the victory they got to see their new models revealed today!
So much cool stuff: new Genestealers, Lictors, Hormagaunts, Biovores, Pyrovores and last but certainly not least: two amazing new monsters in the form of the Norn Emissary and Norn Assimilator!
Link to the Warhammer Community article with all the reveals: https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/07/15/warhammer-preview-a-shadow-descends-on-oghram/
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they do look amazing
Those betentacled heads are pretty dope. I'm kind of meh on standard nids, but having a cthulhu option is really cool.
They look awesome! With Ork Boyz da jump or trucks are your friend with sorting out the speed
If you are showcasing something do not let your face cam cover the actual showcase.
Am likewise 100% here for anything betentacled, very happy GW included that option! Also, as downright cool as the Norn Emissary / Assimilator are, the new Bios and Pyros are easily my faves. Spider-crab alien tank with disgusting mounted flesh gun? Sign me up
The blue & purple colour scheme for Genestealers is how they first looked back in the '80's. I still prefer it over the pale Leviathan colours that GW have been using for the last few years. 😎
1. is the norn assimilator a black sheep? the norn assimilator didn't show up in its own trailer and final round-up trailer, its name is not on the trailer title. I think the norn emissary is awesome, I get Godzilla/Ultraman Kaiju vibes from the trailer, compared to the norn emissary the norn assimilator looks like the norn emissary at home, and even GW would acknowledge it. personally, the norn assimilator looks worse.
GW: introduces Norn emissary/assimilator
Dimecaron 1: am I a joke to you
Dimecaron 2: they took our jobs
Dimecaron 3: they took our jobs
2. as a long time all things bugs enthusiast, the bio-vore is a mah for me the pyrovore is a bit better with the back carapace, don't like their legs, IRL insects have different lengths for each set of legs I would make them longer and spindly or very short like a caterpillar, I want more detail on guns to break up the body of the gun so it not just a basic tube shape, this applies for all bug guns and not just the vores.
3. hormagaunt and genestealer, model refresh ok
4. lictors glow up is very good, neuro lictor ok. death leaper reminds me of illithid mind flayers from D&D because of its webbed skirt and feeder tentacles, on its own the model is epic but it takes me out of 40k because I don't play DnD.
finally, although the exposed brain design is visually appealing, practically why and makes no sense