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INTERVIEW·WHITE DWARF 424

Adapt and Conquer

November 2017·pp. 96–99

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Jes Bickham explains how the new Tyranid codex connects its game changes to the opening of the Great Rift. Questions about inedible daemons and scattered hive fleets lead into new stories and more distinct adaptations, giving players reasons to choose a particular swarm beyond its colours while improving familiar organisms that had struggled in the Index rules.

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