RUMORS TIRANIDI!!!2/10 (talaban non li deve sapere XD)

RUMORS ROUNDUP
PLEASE NOTE that most of this stuff are rumors heard here and there
Any new stuff will be highlighted like this for couple of days to allow easier rumour search.

RELEASE TIME: 16TH JAN 2010 (GD UK)
CODEX COVER https://2img.net/h/i735.photobucket.com/albums/ww354/gajowy21/m500057a_Tyranid_CoverXL.jpg (from GW's site)
https://2img.net/h/i735.photobucket.com/albums/ww354/gajowy21/nid-codex-cover-bigshot.jpg (from Warseer, bigger shot)
cover art breakdown - page21 by Eidre

GENERAL INFO: 4 new species
Hiveguard/Swarm Guard (name based on German Translation of 'schwarmwache')
Venomthrope (Toxanthrope in German)
Pyrovore
Trygon (by Scryer in the Darkness, Warseer)

Codex will have 96 pages
Codex written by Robin Cruddace (author of Guard dex)
Return of special characters (but they're like not meant to be special - they're just survivors of a big war and then mutated) (Phill Kelly @GD Germ)
New Battleforce (like for every re-done army), possibly with new, higher price (£60)

Hive Fleets painting scheme got re-touch - all weapons got different colour
Leviathan - red weapons
Kraken - green weapons
Behemoth - black weapons


MODELS:
3 new plastic kits and 3 new metal kits (GW site)
No re-done plastic kits (Lotoc_Sabbath, WarSeer)

New background for Tyranid kits
https://2img.net/h/i735.photobucket.com/albums/ww354/gajowy21/TyranidTerrain.jpg
https://2img.net/h/i735.photobucket.com/albums/ww354/gajowy21/TyranidTerrain2-1.jpg


Tyranid future release prices found by Scryer in the Darkness (WarSeer) and updated with new rumours
Hiveguard £12.00 / US$20.00 / C$24.00 / 17,50€ / Oz$33.00
Venomthrope £12.00 / US$20.00 / C$24.00 / 17,50€ / Oz$33.00
Pyrovore £20.00 / US$33.00 / C$39.50 / 26,00€ / Oz$55.00
Spore mines (10 models) £10.00 / US$16.50 / C$19.75 / 13,00€ / Oz$28.00
Raveners (3 models) £27.00 / US$44.50 / C$53.50 / 35,00€ / Oz$74.00
Battleforce (46 plastic models) £60.00 / US$105.00 / C$130.00 / 85,00€ / Oz$165.00
Gargoyles £18.00 / US$29.00 / C$34.75 / 22,75€ / Oz$48.00
Trygon £30.00 / US$49.50 / C$59.50 / 39,00€ / Oz$83.00
Hormogaunts (12 plastic models) £15.00 / US$24.75 / C$29.75 / 19,50€ / Oz$41.00
Termagants (12 plastic models) £15.00 / US$24.75 / C$29.75 / 19,50€ / Oz$41.00


HQ
HIVE TYRANT
Hive Tyrant will not get a new model (Allesio at GD Italy)
Tyrants definitely have expanded psychic powers.
Increases to stat line on tyrant. +A +I, 5+ invul save default
Regen upgrade option as Fex (points expensive) (Stickmonkey, Warseer)

BROODLORD
Broodlord does more to stealers than just FOC change options (Stickmonkey, Warseer)

ELITES
WARRIORS
Warriors in every FOC slot - Tyrant shall make them Troops, Wings - Fast Attack, Heavy Support warriors will get +T, +Sv and each can get heavy weapon (The One, 40konline)

LICTORS
Fixing to their deployment rules (Alession at GD Italy)
Deployment like IG's Marbo but into area terrain only, no scatter, and may assault same turn w difficult terrain test (Stickmonkey, Warseer)


TROOPS
GAUNTS
Hormogaunt for 6pts, option of WoN for +3
Gaunts with no weapons but with WoN for 3pts (Xas, BOLS lounge)
Fleshborers at 1pt (King Elessar, BOLS lounge)
Gaunt boxes repacked into Termagants or Hormogaunts (King Elessar)

GENESTEALERS
Genestealers going to Elites, with Broodlord they can be taken as Troops (Xas, 40konline)

RIPPERS
No solid rumours yet

FAST ATTACK
RAVENERS
Raveners will be able to Deep Strike through the tunnels of Trygon, and I'm 95% they'll be able to Assault the same turn. Possibly not needing to roll for Reserves either (King Elessar)
Trygon/ravener "burrow" ability, go back underground, re-DS elsewhere on table (Stickmonkey, WarSeer)
3 Ravs on a sprue along with rending claws and at least one ripper and a scenic bit, 3 Ravs in a box.
They come with 3 back body parts and 9 front pieces (regular and 2 bioweapons for each) (Brimstone)

GARGOYLES
New models - separate head, Fleshborer arms(2 pieces), 2 wings, 2 body pieces, no additional bits (like Rippers, scenic bits etc)
10 Gargs on a sprue
Flying bases (rumours by Brimstone and Hatty, Warseer)

HEAVY SUPPORT
TRYGON
Plastic Trygon with wariable options (head, tail and jaw optionsat least), box rumored to have 3 sprues and looking really good
Raveners will be able to enter behind a Trygon and assault the same turn. Although the Trygon itself will not be able to assault, is subject to deepstrike-like scatter, and supposedly with a different mishap table. Or they may deepstrike on their own, like the Trygon...i.e. with modified mishap table. Supposedly off table scatter for either unit results in a return to reserves... (Stickmonkey, WarSeer)
Trygon/ravener "burrow" ability, go back underground, re-DS elsewhere on table (Stickmonkey, WarSeer)

one of the heads will include a 'swallowing' option - in which case Trygon will be called the "Mawloch"(Brimstone)
The "Mawloch head" is NOT among any seen yet (The Dude, WarSeer)

images:
https://2img.net/h/i735.photobucket.com/albums/ww354/gajowy21/PlaticTrygonmacetail.jpg Phill Kelly's Trygon, mace tail, regular head (my assumption)
https://2img.net/h/i735.photobucket.com/albums/ww354/gajowy21/PlasticTrygonscythetail.jpg Trygon from Apoc book, scythe tail, special head


CARNIFEX
"The new book will let players field even more Carnifexes than before" (Allessio at GD Italy)
Fex "nerf" will "make sense", is not related to Nid-zilla. players will still want to have many fexes (Stickmonkey, WarSeer)

BIOVORE
New Biovore model (Phill Kelly @GD Germ)


MISC
VENOMTHROPE
Model was shown in new WD, https://2img.net/h/i735.photobucket.com/albums/ww354/gajowy21/Newcreature.jpg
Cropped pic by Scryer, http://www.warseer.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=73305&d=1256105889
Tyranids have supposedly got ahold of an alpha+ level psyker and integrated his DNA into the swarm meaning they will have about as many psychic powers to choose from as space marines (and they are all assumed to "make world wolf look like a child's game"). (The One, 40konline)

HIVEGUARD
Good loking model, unfortunately it has the Zoanthrope "move-and-I'll-flip" syndrome (Stickmonkey, WarSeer)
(response) Quite front/top heavy(The Dude, WarSeer)

PYROVORE
"I would expect something similar to a Tyranid basilisk, a new species with a brand new metal model is likely" (Allessio at GD Italy)

GENERAL STUFF
Flesh hooks as standard (to be know on what sized models)
Template type weapon
Another rumor reinforcing a change to nids "rending" reverting rending back to 4ed for nids
Lash whip can "target" a model in unit in CC (must mean other changes to LW) )
Crushing Claws = dreadnaught CCW + new nid ability (Stickmonkey, WarSeer)
We'll get some sort of instant killing, no more news regardles (Stickmonkey, WarSeer)

ARMY BUILDS:

Quote:

The Tyranids, will be either a wannabe Hive fleet spearhead army, bringing enormous numbers, higher than IG, of weaker basic troops supported by some very specialised units - guess lictors and this kind of stuff or a full scale assault force, consisting of less, but more survivble units, he thinks Warriors as troops, bringing on heavier/more deadlier weapons...

(from Lord Hjamlar on Warseer)


* - take with a pinch of salt
Kudos to Terrorfex, King Elessar, Hive Node, Brimstone, Moloch for Trygon's jaw whisper, Void Lord for deep Trygon analysis, Lord Hjamlar, Dark Primus(WS), Hellbreaker, KrewL RaiN, the One(40konline), Xas (BOLS lounge), Eidre for coverbreakdown, Scryer in the Darkness (WarSeer), Lotoc_Sabbath (WarSeer), Lorizael (40k online), The Dude (WarSeer), Stickmonkey (WarSeer) and all who I forgot.