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faultie — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:48:47 -0000

Dum-dum-duuuuuum!

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dietrich — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:06:29 -0000

For two years, the rumor has been, "Space Wolves by Xmas!" I'll believe it when I see it. I don't see GW adding a new army anytime soon. I could see Grey Knights and Sisters each getting their own codex and the Inquistion Codexes being eliminated though.

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Asymmetrical Xeno — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:56:34 -0000

I'd like to see Necron flyers, especially if they looked like the flyers from Stargate...or an H-K terminator type thing.

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thecoshman — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:06:35 -0000

My local manager very indirectly said that space hulk will be coming out for Christmas, god he loved being so fuzzy.

I wasn't able to work out any real details from him, other then its going to be a war of the rings summer campaign this year, but that's kind of obvious. Space hulk will probably be a stand alone game, so it will come in a set like black reach. I think that idea is that any one who has 40k stuff can start playing space hulk. Any one who gets into 40k through space hulk can get a few more men and start playing proper 40k.

The rules will probably be similar in structure to 40k to make it easier for players to pick up both. I believe it is going to be out later October early November, ready for the Christmas rush when it will be the most profitable for GW

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Asymmetrical Xeno — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 05:14:37 -0000

Yes, but you'll have trouble eating it because they keep putting off the release of the official Dark Eldar Spoon. Maybe in another ten years...

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hunter — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:54:35 -0000

after reading your collective rants and ading my own oppinion
here are my findings.
the codexes/armies in most despret need of renual in order of priorady are.

Dark Eldar, ther codex is extremely out of date and ther modle range needs an update as well.
Necrons , while ther codex is still competitive ther modles neen more variety , nuw units and armor.
Spacewolves , they need evrything , ther codex is way unbalanced compared to the curent SM codex and while ther plastic minies are ok , a better upgrade kits , new wolfguards and longfangs are needed.

nice to have but not yet critical
Chaos legions , chaos players realy want ther fluff back and i agree.
Deamonhunters , overprice gloryboys that are broken agance ther dedicated demonic adveseries.
Tau empier , while ther codex is reletively resent , the once supreem army is now bolter/shota fodder , they need a bit of rebalencing.

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Big J — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:44:08 -0000

I'm at the Chicago Battle Bunker all the time, and although I don't know how well it's selling I see people playing it all the time.

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obsequiousmelon — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:16:42 -0000

Codex inquisition i think for at least three reasons.
1. Why would they release 1 model for the SW if they were about to release the codex. it makes little to no sense and isn't typical GW practice.
2. JJ said that they wouldn't be making more armies because of time and money constraints, i.e. they have reached a critical mass of armies but they have just released demons seperatly, it would seem more logical to me to condense the different branches of the Inquisition into one codex, to see an example of what it would be like look at the new chaos codex.
3. Gw had a mental couple of years when they were a lot more open about their future releases but have now shut up shop. So we have all got used to having a fair idea of what is coming several months in advance but now we only have guess work. Dark Eldar and SW have been rumoured for so long now that I expect anything but them to come out.

On a personal note I want Necrons just because at the moment I have 13000pts worth of tin cans and a codex that compared to the others seems half finished, content and units wise. Oh and I find that they are still competitive but that doesn't appear to affect GW decision making.

Ahhhh thank you!

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Miami — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:59:41 -0000

I agree they're not very useful (bad weapon choices) but their aesthetic is one of the things that drew me to Tau in the first place! Piranhas and Fire Warriors. Sadly, the necessity of anime looking robot suits killed the fun for me.

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Anon — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:35:25 -0000

I'm not gonna lie piranhas are kinda lame as well. They are just boring looking and seem to be designed solely for the sake of introducing something new. Not to mention to make an effective squad is way too expensive.

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DuskRaider — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:17:36 -0000

Hey, maybe they'll release a decent Chaos Codex for those of us who play Legions and not some half assed slopfest of a book...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Yeah, right...

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Catzilla — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:48:53 -0000

I don't know about your place but here in the UK, a lot of people are playing LotR actually.
There is always a game going on when I enter th store and actually more people own a LotR army as a 2nd army besides 40k than they do WFB...*shrugs*

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SinSynn — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:17:39 -0000

Due to the new emphasis on close combat in 5th ed., the Tau need to be updated in some fashion, and given means to compete on some level. And DO NOT say 'Kroot' to me. Toughness 3, Leadership 7, and NO save? THAT'S our close combat unit? We're screwed. The '08 GT winners named Tau as the current 'pushover' army in interviews, posted on GW's website. We need help, dammit. I don't care what form it takes. A PDF codex (like Blood Angels) or White Dwarf supplement would be fine. As it stands, the assaulty nature of 5th Ed. has made the Tau pretty much uncompetetive.
DE have been neglected too long, so I wouldn't mind them getting love first. A single, blanket 'Forces of the Inquisition' book would be nice, too. Sell those Sisters and Grey Knights, eh?
My thought is that GW wants folks playing Orks or Marines. An Ork player has to purchas A LOT of boxes, and Space Marine players need 'one of everything', just to cover their bases. Hence the love from GW, IMO.

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Ej — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:08:19 -0000

Best thread in the whole article, right here.

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Ej — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:06:04 -0000

Hey, at least they're fast! 50% of the time.

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Ej — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:04:00 -0000

Hilariously, I remember reading something very similar along these lines about the Space Wolves last year. And we got a codex in December.

Oh. Oh wait. No we didn't. As you say "Learn2rumour," or rather, don't put stock in rumours until there's something concrete.

And no, a single goddamn collector model is not something concrete.

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SinSynn — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:01:35 -0000

Blood Angels still get Assault squads as troop choices and the Death Company(FNP, Furious Charge, Rending weapons)-one free with every squad!
They regularly treat my Tau like Ned Beatty in the movie 'Deliverence', almost as bad as Orks...or any army with any kind of assault capability, really. Yeah, a lot of 'piggy squealin' goin' on right now.
God, do all Tau players envy all the other guys and loathe their own armies like I do right now?

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Khanaris — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:51:16 -0000

The Thunderbolt isn't a Space Marine flyer, though. It is an Imperial Navy flyer, along with the Lightning and the Marauder. The Thunderhawk and its variants are the only flyers the Space Marines have, unless you count Land Speeders for some reason. I guess you could issue the Thunderbolt to give the marines something to play with, but no more so than the Baneblade.

I think at this point we can be fairly sure that the mystery release is NOT Tyranids or Tau, although heaven knows they could use it..

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W_E — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:36:43 -0000

We are in the same boat here, it would be a blast to play it, plus if they do release it with a diferent set of termies/stealers that would make it e more Awesome.

PS heard that the Sega Saturn version of the game was rather good, wish they re-released it too for the DS with internet multiplayer.

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Miami — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:30:48 -0000

That's actually a very good point. Think about this: Planetstrike supposedly deals with Flyers in a regular game of 40K, not an Apocalypse game. At that point, however, there will only be one plastic flyer produced by GW, the Valkyrie. Wouldn't it make sense for GW to make a couple more flyers in plastic? I would guess the Thunderbolt (you have to give the Space Marines something), a Fighta-Bomma (they seem to be very high on Orks right now), one or two more xenos flyers (Harridan? Doubtful. I would guess Eldar, Chaos, or Tau), and then possibly the Thunderhawk, if they have it fitting on sprues and whatnot.

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Miami — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:24:34 -0000

No kidding. 5 bucks on everything is 40 dollars, and I probably wouldn't put money on it being nothing, as you could argue even one model as "something." The lowest payout is 50 bucks for 'Nids.

Here's what little I know (or think I know):

It's not Nids, Necrons, or Dark Eldar, according to Harry, whom from my experience has never said something that wasn't true.

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Miami — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:18:57 -0000

One man's treasure is another man who is trash?

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Miami — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:15:29 -0000

Or to take away your uber-overpowered 3rd edition "codex." I'm not saying the White Dwarf codex was that great, but it looks all the worse since you went from being one of the most overpowered codexes to a bland, boring, but mostly balanced codex.

Rumors, however, are out there about Blood Angels getting a new codex sometime next year. Some people even speculate that they may be the "mystery release."

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Miami — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:11:25 -0000

It's possible that many armies will get a release or two around Planetstrike. There is the Ironclad and the Storm, as mentioned. The plastic Daemon Prince has been in picture form for quite some time, and Pathfinders, a Flash Git, and a Broodlord (or so I'm told, looks like a beefy Lictor to me) have been seen, and there are other (less reliable) possibilities as well.

Some of these could just be collector's range models like the Space Wolf recenltly released, but I'm all for hoping a big splash release is due with Planetstrike. Plus, there's always the Thunderhawk rumor!

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Miami — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:06:48 -0000

I wouldn't be so sure. There's a new rumor going around saying that the Space Wolves have been bumped back to December, which has people thinking that most likely means either November or January, as GW doesn't usually release a lot of things in December.

"All but confirmed" doesn't mean anything when it comes to GW rumor-mongering. Less than a year ago, Necrons were "all but confirmed" to be one of the next couple releases, and then everyone finds out that no one was even working on them. Dark Eldar have been one to two codexes away for about three years, and the stompa rumor that accompanied the Apocalypse release was set back quite a bit. I don't know where bigred gets his info from, but it very well could be that his source didn't want to say Space Puppies because there may be some uncertainty about their current release window, and if they are pushed back something may be pushed up. You should be nicer to people when you're talking about things you don't know for sure are happening.