The old screamer killer screams because it was an abomination against nature, the new screamer killer screams because of its early onset male pattern baldness.

Both tragic in their own ways

This is the official support thread for people affected by the Rules Gotchas theme. With each others help, we can get this song out of each others heads, in time.

I went to 2005 Chicago games day, and they had this giant multi table game going to decide the fate of the 40k universe. One of the kids next to me popped off several great shots with his imperial guard indirect and helped swing his table. They gave him a super cool painted vintage screamer killer. Mind you, there were a ton of other giveaways, so it wasn't like it was just him but this video shook up the synapses in my old ass brain and made me remember this.

We used to sing "old one eye is back" to the tune of Beautiful South "Ol Red Eyes is back"

no one going to mention the lore tidbit of squigs being FACEHUGGED ORKS GENETICALLY ALTERED then rescued by Ork compatriots who recognised their bros and kept their buddies as new pets?

2:14 the Chaos thrower has a XENOMORPH head!

A weird thing about the Screamer Killer in 1E is that there was the army list in White Dwarf 145 you showed which had Screamer Killer with stats like a big monster.

The very next White Dwarf (No. 146; Feb' 1992) had an article on Dreadnoughts which was a preview of the Vehicle Handbook. It also had an entry for the Screamer Killer different rules for it being treated like a dreadnought. With vehicle damage tables.  

White Dwarf 146 also had the Tyranid fleet rules for Space Fleet - the precursor of battlefleet gothic.

This has quickly become my favorite Warhammer channel, love the oldhammer history

Old model still holds up.

In my opinion, Voltage Field was a must for all Tyranids capable of getting biomorphs. They might as well have included it in their standard equipment. :D

I love the name Screamer-Killer so much, pure classic sci fi.

It's fascinating the things that age out of WH and the things that stay through the years.  Zoats are an obscure lore entry and an equally dated sculpt not present at all in the current canon and yet screamer killers and all the Genestealer cult models managed to make it back in after years if not decades out of production.  More impressive, the Blood Angels @7:36 are all painted in essentially modern heraldry, save a few details like yellow aquillae.

Strictly speaking, there was an in-between point between the end of the 2nd edition rules and the 3rd ed version you showed. As 3rd edition was a massive shake-up to the formula, it did what we now know as the Index thing where it tossed out all the old rules and added in some new ones. (This is about when I first started 40k.) The Carnifex back then had a mere T6, 4 wounds, and a 5+ invulnerable save. No armor save whatsoever, as that was the mold of how most "demons" worked. (See also The Avatar, who would later get the more traditional 3+/5++ save combo.) In fact, the accompanying White Dwarf to the 3rd edition Tyranid codex drew attention to this, saying both the Hive Tyrant and Carnifex went from 5++ to 3+ "to spare them the indignities of being gunned down by Bolter fire."

I lament what happened to the Carnifex. Someday, tell the story of the Great Carnifex Ebay Migration of 2010. Better known as when Phil Kelly kept crapping in Robin Cruddace's oatmeal (Cruddace was a really bad player, one of the worst on the entire design team; basically everyone had his number, and that very much included Phil), and so Cruddace took it out on one of Kelly's most well-known armies by doubling the points of the Carnifex.

2:04 those catachans models look better than the current catachan models

Ive been collecting since 3rd edition so it might interest you to know that I bought the laviathan box specifically for the Tyranid half as it's an army I don't get have.... So much plastic going for cheap on eBay right now. My cousin had a tonne of these 3rd edition metal models and that Carnifex did not want to stay together.

Fully supportive of more Zoat content

love all the classic Carnifex battle shots from the old days.

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I wasn't ready for the horrible truth about the hero of armageddon. Yes that's right folks Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka

I love your work, thanks for inspiring me to keep working.