No, the Norn Emissary and Norn Assimilator will not take on the bunker. They will just TAKE the bunker like a lunchbox with the enemy commander inside

Love the new biovore model, the spider crab shape is dope.

I'm so glad that the tyranids have some good redesigns, way better than the old ones.

I love the new hormagaunts, you can tell the GW sculptors heavily referenced from Paleo-art of Rators/dromaeosaurids and it's so good

I don't play Tyranids, however, I do play Tau and the temptation to get a Norn Emissary to display next to my converted Riptide like the 40k version of a Japanese Mecha vs Kaiju fight is *so* real right now

The new pyrovore is wonderful it’s like a lil beetle I love him.

I saw through the old biovor model also. I love the gorilla design, someone said the new design reminds them of a starship trooper bug design and I totally see that too. I like the new one a lot also. I just with it had more of an homage to the gorilla one like. I do like the new one! Also you’re not gonna comment on the horse c-&k gun of the little dudes! Go back and look, you can’t unsee it now. Thanks gents!! Fantastic as always!!!

Been collecting Nids since Third Ed. Looking forward to more to add to my collection.

I really liked the first 3rd edition Biovore with its middle arms supporting the weight of the cannon. The 4th edition "Gorilla" look is from the generations design plan. 4th edition introduced the idea that the Tyranids were taking on the traits of the 40k races. The Biovore is Ork DNA based so it has a larger bottom jaw and gorilla arms. The Zoanthrope became a Eldar wraith construct. The Tyrant Guard went from "bulldog/Terminators" (the best version ever) to "Space Marine black carapace". I liked the Hive Tyrant of that era too. The Xenomorph queen head was cool because it harkened back to 2nd edition Zoanthropes. Sure it took 2+ hours to glue the head on without pinning... Metal models required more dedication lol.

I preferred the more gorilla design of the bio/pyrovores since they’d be more coherent with other tyranid land designs. The new bio/pyrovores would fit more as turret mites on a bio ship.

I feel like it would make a cool list to just run a ton of lichters and von ryan's leapers + barb gaunts and biovores to make the ultimate scoring army with movement debuffs for maximum freedom of movement across the board

Agree we, need a new winged warrior kit for our leviathan primes 😁

Started 40k this edition with the bugs. Can't wait to get my mits on these kits

I love the new Biovore/Pyrovore designs. I don't even have a Tyranid Army, but I really want to get some just to paint them up. The old design of the Biovore was adorable though; just a happy, smiley, spore-launching boy without a worry in the world.

I've just got back in 40k after 20 years away and before jumping in fully i dipped my toes in with the old genestealers (set i had 20 years ago!) and cleaning the mould lines off was almost put me off so I'm glad you mentioned it!

My son is a Nids player and I am excited for him to get new units.

I had doubts about doing a tyranid armt with the tyranid half of leviathan but these new models have convinced me. Mainly the pyrovore. Hes so round. And fiery. I love him

Glad to see the spike rifle and strangle webs make a comeback

7:00 The hack I've seen is to put one ripper on each base so you stretch it out to a full unit from one kit.

Bugs are a kind of animal, like how fish, birds, mammals and reptiles are all a kind of animal.

Something I noticed, although could be wrong, the Lictor standing tall and the Deathleaper seems to share the same mantis claws. So it _could_ be a kit that can make any of 4 build of Lictors.

I like the new Pyrovore/ Biovore…. They reminds me of the Zerg Swarm Hosts from StarCraft…. … which I like !

Oooh boy. Now I want some pyrovores. I think they'll compliment the psychophages arachnid-like aesthetic.

The Lictor variante look to me like the same body, arms and legs at least. How it's attached to the base (the red one is leaning forward a lot because of how it connects to the tactical rock) The claws and maybe the head are different. I suspect it'll still be one per box.

I like the pyrovore because it's clearly a bombadier beetle, aka that one bug that sprays burning acid out it's butt.

I think they should hold off on the warriors refresh unless they plan on bringing back shrikes. They could pack them in with the warriors box and have wings/accessories as a potential build option. I mean, c'mon... they just made a winged prime model. It would be too good to pass up imo. I hope it will be in the works at some point moving forward.

I love the new pyro/biovore, but I would really have loved them to make a modern day version of the old ones. The thick trunk legs for recoil absorption, maybe some armoured front-arms to protect from oncoming fire as they are pretty stationary.

I like the old genestealers. Termagants look good with new weapons. Lots of the hormagaunts look like they will tip over without being weighted still. The lictors look awesome and cool options. Biovore/pyrovore looks fantastic.

love the vids, love the nids, keep up the good work!

yes ripper swarms have a lot of wounds for their cost but those wounds disappear really quickly. 35 points for 12 wounds but T2 so even bolt pistols wound on a 2 and any AP will get your wounds straight through due to the 6+ save. having a shooting attack and removing OC on whatever they're in melee with though is kinda cool so I still think rippers are a good supporting unit

They implied during the livestream that the Neurolictor would have the ability to mind control enemy units if they failed a battle shock test. My assumption is that they hit with their psychic ranger attack & then, if that battle shock test is failed, the Tyranid player can make that unit shoot another unit out of sequence. Could be really devastating if your heavy ordinance battery turns its guns on your commander. I hope the Norn Assimilator is effectively a Tyranid Knight equivalent & priced accordingly in the points cost. We need some Pacific Rim action!

I have most of these but there are some that I need to get.

I'd rather see the pyrovor/biovor's gun buns around as a thorax rather than a gun attached to the top. But a mixture of the gorilla and bug would have been great

How many other people here don't play wargames but are just here for Jays infectious enthusiasm?

me: pov if the tyranids had knights. gamesworkshop: that's called a norn emissary

I hope that you can add those new lictors to the von ryans leapers to make them even better

The termigaunts look like they can hold the guns without toppling over which is a good thing

Tips for cleaning mould lines please. Also bumps after we've clipped off sprue. I know you have answers for all this.

The Norn Emmissary looks amazing but I'm with Jay, the way it was described in the excerpts/books describe it more as a slimy, maybe snake like Tyranid (more Trygon than Hive Tyrant). From one of the descriptions; "One of them struck on the eighth day of the siege, having compressed its mass into the seemingly impossible confines of a decommissioned turbolift shaft then crawled steadily upwards for untold hours". I don't see this thing removing its carapace armor or snaking through small spaces.

Loved every model from the new range. I agree that the Warriors are the last key thing. I'm hoping for perhaps a Kill Team box that has a squad of 3 (or 2 sets of 3) Warriors with melee, ranged, and wing options for all. The Tyrant could have used an update as well but it is what it is.

I like the spider/crab/scorpion look for the Biovore, but I do think the guns themselves look a bit strange. The Pyrovore I think looks a bit better in the picture because it looks like the gun is connected to some kind of tail like a scorpion, so maybe it's just a bad angle. I agree that Warriors are missing from this refresh, Gargoyles as well. The Winged Prime, a flying melee unit, is in a very awkward position right now where it can be attached to a flying shooting unit, a non-flying melee unit, or a non-flying shooting unit. A new warrior kit with shrike options and maybe even a new gargoyle kit with scything talons options would fix that problem. Also, I keep hearing people argue that Warriors look fine. They don't. They are just as old as all the other refreshed models. And Gargoyles are now in a weird place if they're left behind with all the gaunt refreshes. The last two Tyranid models I think need a refresh are Raveners and the Carnifex, but both can wait as I can see each being released alongside new character models some time in the future (The Red Terror and Old One Eye respectively).

While I'm still waiting for Shrikes, I sadly don't see Warriors getting an update. They already did get one a few years back, when they added a lot of the melee options and the introduced Tyranid Primes as an option in that kit. I feel Gargoyles deserve access to some more weapon options like Spinefists and Scything Talons, so we can have a bit more variety in our flying troops, even if they are mainly the screen to soak up damage for the Shrikes behind them. I'm also still hoping we'll maybe, one day, see the Nautiloid as a massive model that just soaks up damage and provides cover for everything behind it.

the spore mines look like a mix between floating master cheif helmets and the little flood guys

absolutely love the Emissary and Assimilator. 100% Dimacharon replacements. main GW made them as replacements for that creature. same kinda background to, giant tyrannies that their purpose is to hunt and take out enemy leaders and generals. Gw really knocked it out of of the part with all these bugs. excellent work. very excited to add these to my giant Tyranid collection.

Love all the new sculpts but also a bit disappointed about the lack of shrikes.

I hope there will be a tyranid battleforce this year that can hopefully include most of these new models, I’d love to pick them up but outside of discount boxes it’s just too much money

yeah once my forces are up to scratch i will be painting a parasite and a new lictor just for fun.

Oh at last with the new Genestealer box... and wouldn't cha know? I just started a GsC army :D

The new spike rifles is going to be amazing for tau kitbashing

I love the hormagaunts there designs are lovely but my only worry is that they look a little top heavy like there old designs that used to fall over all the time which worries me

So I love the idea of like a The Thing Tyranid... but from a modelling standpoint, it could be very tough to distinguish it from Chaos Spawn or something Chaos might generate. Also, how do you make just a formless mass of flesh and claws and mouths and eyes both A) look like a Tyranid, and B) make it an interesting model.

What size base are the new genestealers on? No issue still playing with the old models?

Love the new bug design, the norns seem great

hope the new (old) weapon option for Termagants is so that we can kit out the whole squad. :) if it is i will get so that i have a 20 squad of each, other wise i might kitbash them as i have 110 Termagants already. think i will skip the Genestealers as i got 30 of them that is max, and the Hormagaunts as i got 80 of them :D BUT the rest i will get a unit of each also one of each Norn :D

Love the bug aesthetic they are doing now.

I feel like if they do something with the warriors, they don’t need to do much more than increase detail, add wings to the sprue, and maybe give them more shoulder armor

Not big into the Norns or the Deathleaper, but I absolutely adore the new hormagaunts, genestealers, and lictor

If my wife told me “it’s me or the Norn-Emissary” it would be the norn emissary.

TLDR: I love the new Biovore/Pyrovore personally, their more bug-like qualities make them the kind of models I wish the *entire* Tyranid range looked like imo. I am *ALL IN* on the new Biovore/Pyrovore! I don't play Tyranids, but if more of their range looked like these models, I absolutely would. This is for entirely subjective and personal reasons, but Tyranids were pitched to me as the "Space Bug" army, but only a small handful actully look like bugs. I get that the lore says they're an amalgum of different animals and creatures; and I've also learned that their design sources have some *deep* roots from earlier editions that made them look *alot* more like Dinosaurs. So the idea of them being pitched as "Space Bugs" I've learned more of a generalization than accurate descriptor. One that's influenced by other sources of media like the Zerg of Starcraft and the bugs of Starship Troopers. So like the Tyranids themselves, their perception and design inspirations have adapted and changed over the years in fair number of ways.(after all, look at old Tyranid Warriors compared to the current ones) However, as someone who likes Bug asthetics and has learned a bit about just how *crazy* some reals life bugs can be, there will always be a part of me that wants their range to look more bug-like. And the new Biovore/Pyrovore capture what I *personally* want Tyranids to look like *perfectly*. 10/10 models!

Ripper swarms are part of the gaunt squad now.

Has any announcement to the release date to the models come out? I have seen people talk about the models but I haven't heard of a release date.

New Pyrovore/Biovore sculpt is great, want to kitbash it into some kind of cavalery 🤔

I'm starting a new army for the spider and all the new modes

The norn emissary looks like it needs little flaps that it can flop down to protect its brain bits. For something so tough it seems easy to just shoot at the juicy brain bits

That Norm Emissary just gives me hard Pacific Rim Kaiju vibes 😮

Maybe you can play a large sneaky Nid army. That would be cool. Plus what kind of specialty kill team will they come out with????

Ravenors and new carnifexes would be great too

Norm emissary gives me huge monster X (Form godzilla final wars) vibes

the spore mines, look like prestige 10 helmet from halo reach

i would love to see some even bigger tyrranids that are truly knight size. still that norn assimilator is epic

The Neurolictor is like very scary and Will have abilities to inflict battleshook stuff. Didn’t any of you watch the stream?

Christ bless you, Tyranids are eating good this edition jeez!

Having received my Leviathan box a couple of days ago, I'm more than a bit pissed that it doesn't have these updates.

Grey Knights still waiting for the Grey Knight Knights to Grey Knight

i’m a huge fan of bugnids, i want some more big creepy bugs, also i can’t believe im gonna have to buy two Norn emissaries

Spore mines look like they are wearing Master Chief helmet. Can't be unseen.

Mold lines keeps everyone at EOB at night 😂

I think it would be neat if you left the 1lb kill team as leviathan, then some time in the future you could do a "Can these be fixed?" video about them. Also, do you wanna paint that Trygon during a stream?

I just want to know how these new Nid models will fit into Kill Team.

What are your thoughts on siegestudios

i think the gargoyles are missing aswell :D some new sculpts would really help them

i like the spider look ..the guns are a tad big but i like the look

When are they to be released?

Jays wish will get monkey pawed into melee gargoyles as the only new flyer option. Which I do think they want as an option. Blotting out the sky with many majestic melee flap flaps is a mood. But give shrikes / winged warriors.

Love the new spider design and im not even a Tyranid player.

Boutta start tyranid army probd

Biovore? Gun looks like some growth at the end of Akira

I mean Godzilla goes into the ocean and hides at the end of every movie, they might be pretty stealthy despite their size

I feel like we might get new Warriors in a Kill team

Some of these new Tyranid models remind me of kraken from evolve- anyone remember that game?

I really love most of the models, especially godzilla and the lictor! The norn emissary may be my favorite model now! (except the Juan Diaz daemon prince, no one can compete with that). And I don't want to sound negative but I don't really love the biovore/pyrovore it looks just like a armored spider with a weird gun on it. I would've liked it more if they did the older designs but then less derpy. Also I don't really like the pose of the neurolictor, it looks like it's showing it's butt😅

Gotta hand it to games workshop, the NewGenes song is a banger

Biovore Spider design for the win!

the warriors arn't that old though so i can't see them replacing them. they had a refresh about 7 years ago, I believe when they did the Haruspex, Zoanthropes/ Venomthropes and Toxicrene along with a few others

Biovore's new design is perfection! I wish the entire Tyranid range would go buggy like this guy! 🤓

Nothing will ever beat the old ork-y biovore

Gorilla all the way, but then I have fond memories from 4th of Spore Mine shenanigans..

16:20 "the Dimacheron, a surprising fan favorite and then it kind of just went away" yeah Jay because it was absolutely overpowered for a bit then got nerfed into oblivion LOL

GOD I JUST BOUGHT THE OLD HORMAGAUNTS

That’s an acid maw on the genestealers not a toxin sac