Which is just crazy they put that in. Should hit your own units. Period.

@@jjkingish let the nids have there lime light for once.

@@Ghorda9 they have since their point costs were reduced and allowed them to infantry spam harder than IG

The question isn't how old the creature is - it's how long the hive mind has spent perfecting the organism whos only purpose is to channel psychic powers. It's not just about size, but have you thought about how many Eldar brains it would take to reach the same mass as a single Zoanthrope? Let alone a unit of 6. Also note that they lost the 24" smite range.

Yes and that's exactly why the tyranids have such good psykers. The zoanthropes did not exists prior to eldar encouters. Good genes, nothing else to say, good genes.

Yeah. It’s too much. They need to coat WAY more. They’ll be posting 75% win rates like harlequins.

More like hundreds of millions of years, the Aeldari were present for the war in heaven.

Sorry tau 😅

Tyranids: "Look at me. I am the shooting army now."

Totally agree. Nids having/being a BS3+ army is in insult to many units/factions in the game.

Nids being more potent psykers then Thousan Sons, Grey Knights, or Aeldari is an even bigger insult.

He may be the first human being to have ever seen a, "one".

As a tau player... there's so much... there's just so much...

He also seems to have missed his free +1 to hit for being within 12"

@@mikeg0007 got further in and oh my, this is painful I just can't anymore

:(

I mean that was one of a significant number of rules that were missed/forgotten/incorrect.

As a tsons player.... yes. Very much so

I think it's more, the amount of MW they can output... those Maleceptors and Zoanthropes....

Another win for Codex Creep. For real the fact thay you need Cabal Points to use your other psychers vision but the Tyrannids get it for free ia a joke.

@@malekiththeeternityking5433 nids is better. Psychic Vision for Tsons does not increase the range, you still measure from the original caster. Nids get extended range

@@grotwurksmekshop6607 I know, it's really dumb.

I think they’re just OP.

Nids are busted

I must consume! For the hive mind!

@@tt_jinx Brunch for the Brunch God! Snacks for the Snack Throne!

Somehow manages to be endearing and terrifying at the same time.

Happy hive mind is happy 🥰

OMNOMNOM!

It’s a wild one!

They shouldn’t get such huge buffs. It’s auto super smites. Should be counterable too. Not fun when it’s impossible to counter.

They could always join the hive mind :) as biomass :)

@@tt_jinx there isn't a lot of biomass to consume i'm afraid... we are quite dusty 😄

@@joshuagraham5422 :( dust is biomass right? Right? :(

@@tt_jinx imagining an excited Tyranid disappointingly sneezing and being sad after it tried to eat a dusty boi lmao

@@Jay-zt1pq They could play Thousand sons Russian roulette; Dust, dust, dust, Arghhhh we found a psycker - chomp, chomp, chomp tasty biomass.

Yay!!

Realised this after the game 😅

It's always hard to get all the new rules, so excited to get some more games in with the codex. Do you know if they are keeping the leviathan supplement and crusher stampede?

As a TSons fan boy, I agree its a joke how much codex creep makes lore feel irrelevant

And they are. They have all the Cabal shenanigans because of that. And they use their unparalleled psychic mastery to bend space and time, teleport things, undo events that already happened, deceive minds, and alter fate. What they are not, is the ones with the best psychic based artillery pieces. That has always been Zoanthropes in the lore. That's literally what Zoanthropes are.

@@gustavotriqui Look dude Psychic powers in 9th are different then say 3rd of 4th. It isn't just "Lmao they got good artillery." No they can literally destroy a Land Raider with Mortal Wound output thats ridiculous. Even Magnus can't do that

In lore Magnus killed an Eldar Titan with his psychic abilities should his smite do 75 damage?

Yes, James consistently forgot to use any of his Enclaves rules. Did not use his reroll a wound roll eveytime they attack or get a markerlights within 12”.

@@paintmesomeslack8402 I'm sorry James, but you forgot a LOT of things. Forgot both parts of the FSE ability at numerous times Forgot both parts of Mont'ka at different times Had the damage on the riptide wrong (Luckily katie also had the wounds stat wrong on the new bugs) Forgot your rerolls from your warlord trait Forgot the reroll 1s from the commander after using it on the previous weapons for the crisis And thats just what I caught

They fear da Waaagh

Lore wise that’s kind of accurate. Farsight Enclaves would takeout key HQ leaders to cause in-fighting and weaken the Orks

@@storminmormn6283 but gameplay?

@@storminmormn6283 But also in the lore... Boyz are super tough and don't care about morale until the boss is dead. You're picturing an ideal scenario - this battle is supposed to be taking place BEFORE the boss is dead presumably and the difference between what Orks have and what Tau has is just.... wtf.

Amen.

Literally Tuesday

Based, please bring every busted unit.

@@tabletoptactics Do I have to sign up for anything? to see the most obnoxious Codex Creeb I'd be willing to join

Hah , this is only following in the footsteps of Drukhari and admech at their launches , the creep must flow $$$ For the Swarm !

@@mariusevander2214 Nah I think it stops here. Cause Guard and CSM along with knights are all that's left and GW hates Guard and CSM the most.

After Tyranids it will be Knights, after Knights Chaos, after Chaos Votann and after Votann Guard. I wasnt 100% on the GW has abandoned ALL semblence of balance train but watching Nid BRs yeah GW has just said fuck it to playtesting and just prints whatever they fucking want. I mean one Hive Fleet that pretty much has Trans Human all the time AND can generate upwards of 20+ MW in the Psychic Phase, check out Tactical Turtouises video on the Neruo/Zoan/Malceptor MW bomb combo. And here I am with my Crons thinking "Oh this is balanced and fun this edition will be great" Yeah Either Crons get a 2.0 Dex to compete or they are binned until they get ANOTHER complete rework in like 14th edition. Edit: Before people say other armies can 20+ MW bomb, I mean Reliably. So people dont have to go to Tacts video with Nid Psychic Shenanigans them doing a 20+ MW turn can be as high as a I believe 92%, aka its all but guaranteed. That combined with the Thrope Invuln bubble means it will be practically impossible to Alpha Strike Nids outside of playing Tau Borkan for the Ignores Invuln strat/Weapon/and Hammerheads.

@@memnarch129 I sense your frustration and share it. GW has jumped the shark this edition. Its utter garbage.

It could also be that they decided to bring a bad Tau list to showcase the Tyranids.

I refuse to play my Custodes anymore cause of that. And as for my TSons they just never were better then mid tier. Hell this codex creep that makes every new release is coming to HH too which I hate

@@williamarcehernandez8005 Umm Ive seen videos of Marines having the same if not worse issues. It isnt the Enemy list its the Tyranid rules that are the problem. Trans Human for half the army, 4+/5+ Invuln bubble on turn 1, and here they didnt even run the Neuro/Zoan/Malceptor 90+% chance at a 20+ MW psychic phase trick. Again its NOT the Tau list. Its GW didnt test fuck ALL with the Tyranid codex and its another broken shitfest in their list of shitfests they have had with 9th.

😂

@@tt_jinx Jurassic Park is my favourite movie as well, I got to see at the cinema though 🤣

This made this report unwatchable for me, I know they are having fun but it drives me up the fucking wall when people make a battle report and forget all their sept rules.

Pretty much only played FSE for the two commanders. It probably could've very different

TS don't have it because of the multitude of things they get; The auto 3 wounds for 1 CP on a small, extra D3 for Cabal on ANY mortal wounds, Magnus's 3D3 Super smites (Which can be used in conjunction with the other prior mentions), double-cast doombolt, and the fact that every single squad in the army can technically throw a smite. 2k point games on an average list give you about 16-18 cabal points, which means that even when you start getting high up on those smite casts, you can auto pass. For nids, it's restricted to one unit for those casts. Yes, the 'transhuman; 4+ invuln on 4 wound T5 models' is already kinda redonkulous, but thankfully it's a reduced max squad size, and you're probably only ever gonna see 1. Their point cost spiked to also show this.

@@voxthesergal that's a lot of words for codex creep

@@balemoran3168 One unit getting a buffed version of what they had in 8th edition isn't creep.

It appears a rogue “action” was missed in the edit 😅

Sir down to have lunch that is

Correct, but also Jinx isn't using Crusher in this game

@@tabletoptactics Ohh i thought that in the intro she said that she IS using it, must have misheard ^^ Also do you know about the hyper adapation and Crusher Stampede ? In the rules there is a rather large line that devides hive adaptation from the part that gets switched out and we have people i our local circle that say that CS can use a hyper adaptation because its not part of the hive adapation (because of the indeed large divider line that was used) Feels a bit weird, but i can understand both sides but also i dont want to make crusher Stampede needlessly more effective than it should be

Crusher Stampede don't have anything tagged as a Hyper-Adaptation, so they can't swap anything out.

I wasnt on the GW just prints anything and doesnt playtest train. After just two Nid BRs, and just turn ONE of those videos, yeah GW doesnt playtest AT ALL and just prints the most powergamey things they can think of. Id bet Squats basic infantry gun being Str10 AP -6 D d6+6.

They've gone for Codex creep lore be damned

Just wait, at this rate, they’ll find a way to make Knights the strongest psychic faction

@@jwb590 Oh! so that's why the newest chaos knight is Psyker! (cries in grey knights)

Yes.

Exocrines are 6+D3, Jinx just mistake but did the maths right 😅

Unless this is in an FAQ, the rule say that vehicles and drones can move without the action failing. Pathfinders' rule allows them to start the action at the end of the movement phase, so after they moved. Every competitive list i've seen uses marketlight drones.

@@masakari3990 "One or more MARKERLIGHT units from your army can start to perform this action at the start of your Movement phase" - then how you can move and then fire a markerlight. It's clearly written that you have to do it at the start of your movement phase so first you fire markerlight then you move.

The rules for markerlights clearly state Drones can move and not fail the Markerlight Action

@@tabletoptactics @Tabletop Tactics I never denied that, but you can't move skyray and then fire markerlights. You need to start performing action before you move. 44:36 - you moved skyray first and then you have fired markerlights. Only pathfinders can do it.

As a general rule of thumb here, if it has Markerlights and can move, it will be done so. If its not mentioned on camera, assume we mention it off camera 🙂 Stating it everytime would get laborious

The original model

@@tabletoptactics That is... nuts.

@@David_analogue01 that is pretty stupid, I mean, how did boys and girls in GW write these rules, they had to be high af

@@martinkacerik4793 or fluffy asf

@@BalrogFin every book of 9th edition was fluffy, i just want more balance

To sell to the meta

@@wrestlingguy8722 that's the only conclusion I can believe.

There's only three possible explanations, all of which are massively disheartening: a) it helps them sell models b) their rules writers are hopelessly incompetent c) they actually do believe that a shift to far more insane gameplay is the correct choice, but they only came to this conclusion halfway through the release cycle of 9th and just don't have the resources to adjust the earlier releases accordingly (obv. this heavily ties in with b))

@@FzNd or there rules writers don't communicate with each other and don't develop the books at the same time.

Yep

Your overall observation is obviously carrect: power creep has gotten so far out of hand that 9th seems broken beyond repair. That being said: please stop getting all worked up over just one game. Just saw another batrep yesterday, where the Nids lost to Dark Angels. Yeah, they fielded a less potent list than this one, but that's the point - games can go many different ways, based on many different factors. Also, James forgot about half of his special rules :D I think Tyranids are brokenly strong, but no more so than T'au, Custodes or Eldar (we shall not speak of the Clowns! WE SHALL NOT!). Let's see how things look once the nerfhammer drops, but I do believe that 9th edition should die already. We need a hard reset with 10th. Unfortunately, the most likely outcome is that we will see such a hard reset, only to witness a new cycle of power creep starting shortly afterwards. That just seems to be the way GW are operating in that regard.

@@FzNd Just remember, the GW term for "codex creep" is "expanded future sales volume". Chasing the meta is great for their revenue, much more so than balanced rules. Like fashion though, it's cyclical - my Crisis suit heavy Tau army from 5th Ed is suddenly viable again :) But just imagine how bad Riptides will be in 10th Ed!