RUMORS: More Tyranids NERFS & Point Increases

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With the army performing quite well, there have been tons of rumors of Tyranids NERFs and point increases on the way.

We’ve actually seen the Nids doing way better at tournaments lately, and GW already hit them with a quick NERF, however, it doesn’t seem like that will be it. As with any rumors, take these with as much salt as you need, but there have been a ton of sources confirming these. Plus, we actually have two sources of rumors, so, we’ll show you both to compare.

The point increases (to a certain unit) themselves might be a little different, but it basically is guaranteed at this point for further increases. Let’s check out the most recent FAQ that hit them, then get into the new rumored changes.

Warhammer 40k Tyranids FAQ

One of the biggest NERFs is changing Encircle the Prey to be in the movement phase now. A bit of a strange move but we guess they thought it was performing too well? Next, they changed it so Hive Tyrants can no longer take two Venom Cannons or Stranglethorn Cannons. This was somewhat expected.

Then, there are some keyword changes that were pretty much just wrong and lastly, they actually gave Zoanthropes Synapse, which obviously they were supposed to have the whole time.

Now it looks like their spore pods can come onto the battlefield in turn one. This one is a little strange, but it looks pretty intentional.

Then, two more NERFS; the first is Maleceptors getting hit with Enraged Reserves. After that, performing an action is counted against how many powers you can manifest, meaning it cuts down on the powers you can cast while performing the action.

RUMORS: Tyranids NERFs & 40k Point Increases Incoming

We had seen some previous points increase rumors for Tyranids, but so far nothing has panned out for those.

As you can see, The points are similar, but there are actually more increases in this list. So Carnifexes (and Old One Eye) get an increase, Screamer Killers, and the Thornback all get increases. However, if these are right, the Broodlord is getting a slight decrease in points.

So pretty nice. Still, a lot going up in points, and now that more people have confirmed it, we expect them to go a bit further than the last batch of rumors…

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