Editing Tyranid (section)

===3rd Edition===
6 years after the 2nd edition codex came out, a new one burst onto the scene in 2001. Again, not much is remembered from this time, aside from the fact the strong and fast Tyranids from the 2nd edition were turned into slow, clumsy beasts, a move that nerfed them into oblivion. It was also notable for introducing silly looking metal miniatures that vanished soon afterwards (like the ever popular grinfex) and cool new plastic ones that are still used to this day. This codex was extremely limited, but did feature some...interesting rules for customizing your models. The mutable genus rules allowed customized nids like 5pt spinegaunts (i.e. termagant with spinefists, at a time when classic fleshborer-armed ones cost 7pts), something which lead to a whole generation of nid players having mass spinegaunts and no classic termagants. Many of the mutable genus rules (such as changes to specific stats) would be added to the core codex in 4th edition with some of the more esoteric rules removed (barbed stranglers on termagants anyone?), but the nostalgia would linger for a long time after.