sounds like a good line up of stuff. I'm really looking forward to the new Dark Eldar model line, the current one is not the greatest looking. Also, plastic stormboys and grotz! finally!
Bobx66
· 1 year ago
Imperial guard just in time for my birthday! Hope they put out more than just plastic storm troopers. Maybe some rough riders?
Havik110
· 1 year ago
Im tired of hearing that they are pushing Dark Eldar further back in the name of "doing them correctly" My second edition (which was the wych weapons and vehicle upgrades) book was published in 1998 and the reason they have done so poorly is because they have never received any support from GW. They have a method of play. They are fast (in 5th they need to be made faster to counteract the run rule.) They are fragile, So fragile so that they need to be able to consolidate into other groups or they will die as wyches have a 6 armor save and warriors have a 5. They need to be made less expensive (Vulcan is 190 points and celestine is 205 and guess which one is a lot better, that means that everything from here on out needs to be cheeper or we'll just assume jervise hates anything not in power armor) they need to kill hard and die just as hard. They need more troops and they need to fix the broken units (talos, scourges) and make other units more usefull (mandrakes, warp beasts) Most of all i want actual heros that mean something, Lilith was a step in the right direction and so wa the dias but kruelga?
Finally push that codex out and do a slow model release because we are DOA right now. Too expensive to do horde and we die without consolidate. stop pushing this army back. If its not out in 2009 there are serious issues with GW.
Brother_Marius
· 1 year ago
Seriously, you should be glad they didn't go the way of the Squats. I've got bunches of em sitting in a storage box. Be glad they're doing them at all. Better something, than ending up here: http://www.solegends.com/citcat911/c2059squatse...
Doug
· 1 year ago
Care to sell me any of those old squat minis?
baronvoncarson
· 1 year ago
I have to say the "doing them correctly" excuse is a bit thin now. They've had a long time to do them.
beakie
· 1 year ago
You'd think they could at least put out a test list with the point values and rules they are looking at. Just a short pdf, or 3 pages in WD could do it.
Anonymous
· 1 year ago
and I'd have to say I'm sick of the rumor-mongering. Looking at things so far out entices people away from living in the now. Why are we so interested in speculating when we could be enjoying cool toy soldiers now?
Also, we've got to remember, it is The Fly Lords who are throwing out these things as rumors, not GW giving us firm release dates and details.
John Doa
· 1 year ago
I'd rather wait a little longer knowing that the codex is going to be done right than them put it out when it wasn't ready. I mean, look at the Chaos codex, they could've done with abit more time spent on that... or just not give it to Gav Thorpe to write.
Havik110
· 1 year ago
I have the 2nd DE codex. The only thing changed from the 1st codex and 2nd was vehicle upgrades and heroes and wych weapons. It is from 1998. They have had enough time. We need it more than the necrons. Finish our codex do 1 or 2 models and release them slowly like every codex they are doing now. We need to be faster then every other army, hit harder and die faster then everyone else. the reason they have done so porly in sales is directly due to GW abandoning them for 20 years. We dont even get apocholips crap.
Sean
· 1 year ago
I feel your pain... but please stop making up numbers to prove a point. You are making DE players look bad. DE were introduces as an army with 3rd ed. 3rd ed came out, i believe, in 2000 or 2001. The 2nd edition of the DE codex was released in 2002. If I follow the math that you have used, I am lead to belive that 1998 to 2008 equals 20 years?
Havik110
· 1 year ago
Look at the codex and the copyright date on it. it will say 1998.
ANGRY MAN
· 1 year ago
Fuck the Dark Eldar. I am sick of hearing people whine about them! GW hasn't done ANYTHING with them in almost 10 years. You know what that means? It means stop being a cheap asshole and BUY ANOTHER ARMY if you want to play!
If not, jog on!!
Bruce the Shark
· 1 year ago
What an a-hole.
UltramarineFan
· 1 year ago
You really need to take your medication and leave immediatly, swearing and abusive behaviour are not going to help you.
sataniel
· 1 year ago
Are you a SMurf? You sound like one!
UltramarineFan
· 1 year ago
what's wrong with smurfs?
Kkaw
· 1 year ago
As happy as I am to see that IG are at least on the horizon, I really don't think that GW needs to wait 6 months after the Space Marine book to release them.
Also, I hope they actually get decent treatment last time. For some reason, after the black book list, GW (and FW) has had this insistence that anything Imperial Guard related be poor-mediocre in terms of table power and cost-efficiency, save for the Apocalypse-only Baneblade (which was actually rather terrible as well for its cost until GW put out a plastic kit of it and re-wrote its FW rules for Apoc)
In case you can't tell, I am looking forward to February... although, as is increasingly common for me, I'm looking forward to the Ork stuff, Guard releases... even the Necrons. The only things in there I don't really care about are the Daemons.
Crackweasel
· 1 year ago
Please! You tthink they can go 3 whole books without redoing a marine chapter!? I'm willing to bet that space wolves will be out before dark eldar.
faultie
· 1 year ago
I think Space Wolves are supposed to be this year maybe? Perhaps that's why they're not on here. This '09.
KaCee
· 1 year ago
Dont count on it. When asked a direct question about the Wolves at Games Day, Gav actually gave a direct answer (for once).
He said "12-18 months".
faultie
· 1 year ago
Thanks for ruining my hopes, KaCee. After you're done with your daily puppy-kicking, maybe you could go push my grandmother down a flight of stairs.
</sarcasm> :)
KaCee
· 1 year ago
It wasn't my intention. I play wolvesmyself. I own nearly 10,000 points of them, including the old Bjorn (when the box actually said Bjorn and wasnt a space wolve dreadnaught, and Njal Stormcaller, along with most of the other old codex names we have lost.
I want the new wolves, I just dont see them soon.
baronvoncarson
· 1 year ago
Albeit cynical of me, I am thinking the same thing too. But I'll go one further in cynicism and bet that we see Space Wolves after IG.
Duskrider
· 1 year ago
what the... when they gonna do space wolves? and what i have heard is that there before necrons and after IG
baronvoncarson
· 1 year ago
GW has wierd priorities. Especially concerning the 40k releases. I don't understand how fantasy has very consistant and very balanced releases, but 40k has really sporadic (and even excentric) releases. How is fantasy any different?
Daddy
· 1 year ago
except for the fact that the oldest fantasy army rulesbook left would be tomb kings and we sit and wait.
abhinavjain
· 1 year ago
- I want the Daemons Battleforce if it comes out... i'm building up a Khorne/Slaanesh mixed army :) yes i know they both dont like each other... but its the nature of chaos to be unpredictable...
- meh for the other stuff...
- Space Wolf codex I want that... have 11k pts of my own chapter, wanna branch out into another marine army...
Nicholas_S
· 1 year ago
You"re lucky that Khorne/Slaanesh Daemons no longer have the rule where they must pass a test or attack eachother.
But still, Khorne and Slannesh together should not be done without a strong undivided element (or at least an Undivided leader).
Lagduf
· 1 year ago
I wish Grots would come in boxes of 30.
Or at least boxes of 20 with 2 runtherds...at the very least.
They can only have one weapon option...so just make them single piece models with 5-10 different variations.
BATTLEWAGON, PLASTIC STORMBOYZ...WOOH!
Will Stormyboyz be a plastic upgrade kit, or actually plastic units with new sculpts?
strikerfox
· 1 year ago
agghh.. when are the SW;s gonna get a new dex... XD
cant wait for more orky stuffs and that deamon prince!
Slopike
· 1 year ago
Hear any rumors on when they are (if ever) going to update the other "non-codex" armies like ba, da, bt, or the mentioned sw?
Just curious about ba in particular as it is what I run:).
Steve
· 1 year ago
Puppies are silly for now... several things just don't make sense (half their armoury refers you to C:SM rules, half of which have been removed: bionics, wolf totems, wolf helm of russ etc)
Some things are just absurd... like getting a SM thunderfire for 100pts while an Iron Priest is 110 just with a servo harness (and can only take the useless thralls)
On the other side of the spectrum SW can have 3 HWS in a 5 term unit, can put storm shields and can create some unholy combos... eg a WG bodyguard with storm shield and combi-flamer (since true-grit) and runic charms (re-rolled armour save) at 40pts each... just imagine 9 of them jumping out of a drop pod
SSG_Snuffy
· 1 year ago
Since the Blood Angels got an 'official' update to their online codex, I'd bet that pushes them way down near the bottom of the priority list. You know, down there with the WH/DH/AH...
squighond
· 1 year ago
Woohooo!!!! plastic grots!
I love gretchin, but resent paying a lot of money, for something so low in point value. It's the same for me as with Ork Trukks - lovely models, but I can't justify spending 18 quid a trukk, when my old gorkamorka models still look kinda cool (with the OLD reinforced ram and wrecker ball upgrades in metal, ROCK!)
ShadRS
· 1 year ago
Is this time table from some semi-offical source? Or is it an amalgamation of the various internet rumors?
Bigred
· 1 year ago
yes :)
Sarpedon
· 1 year ago
PLASTIC STEGADON, I CHOOSE YOU! NINE OF YOU!
can I have some kroxigors on the side with that order?
Bruce
· 1 year ago
I'm gonna use mine as feral Ork trukks
dooderino
· 1 year ago
cool!
NeilBrimelow
· 1 year ago
My question is are they releasing a new IG codex in may, or is it just going to be the new plastic models?
Also, why the heck hasn't the Space Wolf codex been at least confirmed at this point. As a Dark Eldar player, I can emphasize with the Space Wolf player's pain, and can understand why GW would want to push DE to 2010, but the Space Wolves have always been one of the most popular (codex-variant) armies.
Necrons do need a new codex though, and they especially need someway to transport their troops, or teleport onto the battlefield, especially with the effectiveness of the SM drop pods.
Steve
· 1 year ago
Necrons need a new transport? have you not see a monolith or 3 in action..? - deep striking wherever they want; moves troops outta its way (like drop pods should), can hold entire armies, has more weaponry then a land raider crusader, always counts as not moving for disembarkation and can never be glanced to destruction... sounds like the best transport in the game to my ears
Give necrons a few shiny units to add some diversity and they would be immense, only problem they have atm is they are utterly boring
... if you don't believe me just imagine this: teleport a squad of flayed ones from 24" behind the monolith, they disembark 2" infront, move 6", assault 6" (add in the monoliths thickness and thats about a 44" charge!!)
NeilBrimelow
· 1 year ago
I am fully aware of the many ways to use the Necron's teleport abilities with the monoliths and other ways. However, I was referring to something along the lines of a teleport grid that could be used with or without a monolith.
I was thinking of a "drop pod" esque large crystal, that would serve as a method of local teleportation once deep striked in. I.E. the necron player would deep strike the drop pod sized crystal and then be able to teleport his necrons anywhere within 12 inches of that crystal, and/or be able to link those crystals together for local teleport.
Of course any such addition would go along with a total revamp of the necron codex.
Starion
· 1 year ago
Kinda like the Nec's DoW ability to teleport basic warriors (and Lord, iirc) from building to building? Nice idea, but that'd be a serious revamp of points cost. I already think they're too good for the points cost as is. Marine-like stats (apart from Initiative), 3+ save, followed by one or two 4+ WBB rolls, and a basic weapon that can glance any AV (granted, given enough shots - but 20 'cron squads help). Mebbe I'm jaded it's just been bad luck on my part, but I've never yet once won against Necs. Got to within 1 model of my opponents phase-out once.
NeilBrimelow
· 1 year ago
IMHO, Necrons are going to be the toughest army to beat in 40k. In an 1850 point game, you can run 80 warriors, a Lord with Res. orb and Destroyer body, and a monolith. Sure, it's possible to get the Necrons below the necessary minimum for phase out, but it's damn hard.
Steve
· 1 year ago
only lascannons and vindicators can kill monoliths (for marines- no end of glancing can ever weapon destroy it) and it should take an average of 27LC shots for every kill!! (27*2/3hit*1/6pen*1/3destroy=1) Take 3 monoliths and mebbe a c'tan in 1500pts and you'll beat marines evry single time as long as you can avoid a phase out
and yes I do suffer from 'cron jealousy
UltramarineFan
· 1 year ago
It's true, monoliths are so hard to destroy it's just not true. Though nest time I face them I' m going to use all the THs I have......2! oh well lets hope I get lucky with six S8 attacks. btw you don't need to penetrate getting enough immobilised and weapon destroyed results will do.
Steve
· 1 year ago
Not quite- a weapon destroyed just take 1 attack a turn off the gauss arc... so 6WD will stop it from firing but there's nothing that says its then destroyed and can't suffer a 7th weapon destroyed as normal.
But even assuming it can be weapon destroyed it'll still take 8 'damage' results to destroy the darn thing.. or about 36 turns with 2 TH :'(
xnickbaranx
· 1 year ago
I say just be excited for what's coming down the pipe. All of it is exciting stuff for someone. Everyone gets so worked up. My 1st string army is Dark Angels, 2nd string is Orks, and 3rd string is IG. So in the next 6 months or so there are more things being released than I can afford to purchase or have time to paint, and I'm pumped.
I don't play Lizardmen, but I'll be excited to see the plastic Steggadon. I don't play Daemons but my friend started work on Daemon 40K army that's still in its fledgling stages and it'll be fun to see him put together some new models, and I'll be really stoked to see what they do with the Necrons - just because they are a cool army that just need a little bit more personality and variety.
The future is bright. And as for Dark Eldar - I'm sure it will be worth the wait ala C:Orks. Simmer down and enjoy the ride.
TheInnerGeek
· 1 year ago
I hate new Ork releases. It always makes me wanna scream waagggghhhh and start an ork army. I've resisted this long, I just have to make it through another release early next year...
Epoksi
· 1 year ago
I want Space Wolves.... Anywhoo, I'll be busy with orks and IG for a while. Please oh please let there be a shadowsword variant :) Those should keep me busy if SW codex is in the far future..
Miggidy Mack
· 1 year ago
It sure feels like they aren't in any rush to get some of the armies that really need fixing fixed. Why aren't they updating codex's more aggressively in FAQs? That is almost free to produce, won't hurt new codex sales and at the end of the day only makes us buy more product. It makes no sense.
Daddy
· 1 year ago
so when is tomb kings supposed to get a new book? oldest army list left in fantasy, yup still waiting... you want to talk about bouncing around on rulesbooks! as for the rest i'm waiting for new IG plastics (valkyrie) and always good to see necrons getting a facelift. deamons? not my thing and i disliked that plastic DP you showed us earlier.
BrassScorpion
· 1 year ago
My shopping list based on these rumors:
- Valkyries for my IG Army. - Plastic Shadowsword to support my Chaos Marines and balance out the FW hybrid Shadowsword I have for my Imperials. - Plastic Stormlord for my Imperial forces (already scratch converted one for Chaos). - Plastic Stegadon to be used as a "counts as" Rhino for my Chaos Marines. I love dinosaurs and monsters and it would be too cool seeing Chaos Marines riding such a beast into battle. - Plastic Stormtroopers. I already have one unit of metal ones and I'd add at least one more if they were plastic. - Plastic Daemon Prince because I collect such monsters and a plastic one that is easy to convert too is a must. - At least one set of plastic daemons for any models that have only been done in metal up till now. - Necrons maybe if there are some cool new plastics. I already have an untouched secret stash of some of the current plastics thanks to bundle deals and I'd add to them if the price was right with more units moved to plastic and an exciting new Codex.
I hope I do well at the next Bizarre Bazaar because there's a lot of good new product coming in 2009.
Herald of Nurgle
· 1 year ago
Stegadon Slaughterfiends (Defiler things in Apoc) with Metal Conversions ^_^
Mark D
· 1 year ago
"- Plastic Stegadon to be used as a "counts as" Rhino for my Chaos Marines. I love dinosaurs and monsters and it would be too cool seeing Chaos Marines riding such a beast into battle."
I was planning on doing the same with an armoured closed in howdah as a Chimera for my side army death world IG force. At least I will when I finish painting the comtents of Black Reach to start a new Waggh with, ETC, January, just in time for the second wave of Orks...
Also want to do Cold one rough riders and Carnasaur 'tanks', eventually, lol.
Vindur
· 1 year ago
According to the manager in my local GW there are 9 armybooks/codii set for 2009 release
jonathan smith
· 1 year ago
i do hope there will be a new dark eldar codex coming out in 2009. although the new space marine codex didn't really thrill me with exictment. still the same as the old one i say. there will be a new space wolves codex coming out soon this year probably. as games workshop have told me that they been told to take it off there shelfs. and that can only mean one thing and that there will be a new space wolves codex.
Steve
· 1 year ago
C:SW isn't just off the shelves it's just totally gone... not been able to buy one off GW since May at the least I thought that meant the new one was coming soon but all I hear from the store staff is that its coming; first heard December 08 and now hear April 09 earliest :'(
UltramarineFan
· 1 year ago
BATTLEWAGON let's hope it will be good
smurfhater
· 1 year ago
finally it will be possible to do the grot swarm army without having to declare bankruptcy.
FORTH THE WALKING CARPET!!!!!!!
Phil73805
· 1 year ago
Any idea when the new SM Ironclad is going to make an appearance?
BrassScorpion
· 1 year ago
No date on that yet. Like the Land Speeder Storm, it will probably appear in a "2nd wave" of releases for Space Marines several months or more down the road.
Personally, with 5 AOBR Dreadnoughts available to me, I'm considering converting an Ironclad variant from one of those. Ironclads have a few different weapon options and some of them should be fairly easy to build using bits.
UltramarineFan
· 1 year ago
You should definetively do that! Ironclads are so cool, absolutely amazing! and when mounted in a drop pod MWHAHAHAHA!
Imperialsavant
· 1 year ago
well it will be great to have some more Plastic "Baneblade" varients as the FW ones are soooo expensive. Also upgrade on the IG will be something to look forward to. However Space Wolves & D Eldar are WAY overdue. I guess an update to BA, DA, BTs & DH could be done via WD entries like they did with BAs.
Savark
· 1 year ago
Shadow sword- YAY Anything orky- DROOL.... but stompa? i have said it before so i wont say it again. and may i just say somthing? i know they said no new armies but they promised a new inqusition army tha alien hunters, what happened???
TheMacDiesel
· 1 year ago
At Grand Tournament Chicago GW showed pictures of the second wave Orks... my cell phone camera didn't take any pics worth post, but they did show pics of three Ork special characters: Boss Zagstruck (in a post that is clearly inspired by the Codex art,) Boss Snikrot, and Kaptin Badrukk -- a nice update of the old 1st/2nd edition flash gitz nob model. Dave Taylor also mentioned that the Nobz sprues would have bitz to upgrade Nobz to Flash Gtiz (no pictures shown.)
12 year old lizard men fanatic
· 1 year ago
all hail lizardmen creators of all, the followers of the old ones and slann! yipee more dinoes to play with
the shiner
· 1 year ago
wtf does caveat or standard caveats or caveat emptor means????
John Lambshead
· 1 year ago
It s Latin for 'Let the buyer beware"'.
Used in English it means that a purchaser of goods should check them before parting with any money - alternative "sold as seen".
In this context, it means that this is only a rumour that may not be true, or entirely true so you should 'take it with a pinch of salt'.
Hope that helps, John
sun tzu
· 1 year ago
There is alot of talk about a "Codex chaos legion" to cover the origanal 9 legions that rebeled in the HH. GW have as good as confirmed they are working on it and have strongly hinted about a summer 09 release.
albertsevil
· 1 year ago
Really? That would be brilliant, but i can't see it myself. There seems to be a rather full schedule for 2009 already, plus it has been previously mentioned on BOLS that all other 40K codicies should be finished first. Don't know quite what to think at the moment, but after we had a new Chaos codex in late 2007, i doubt that they'd give us another so soon (even with the changes of 5th). It's a shame but i reckon 2010 will be more likely. Sorry if i seem to have shot you down but that's my opinion - if you do have evidence to support an 09 release than i apologise and will get rather excited.
Evan
· 1 year ago
Chaos Daemons did sneak in out of nowhere earlier this year... I don't think it's crazy to believe more Chaos is coming. Especially when the rumored "other" chaos books have been mentioned for a long time now.
I can see GW giving prioritized attention to Chaos, they are just a spin off of their flagship Marines anyways ... right?
Matt Wadey
· 1 year ago
cool any idea when the 2nd wave of Marines is released
mav
· 1 year ago
glad dark eldar being redone concentrate bumming eldar 2 much its not fare game
Dave the Second
· 1 year ago
I agree with Havik110. Take mandrakes as an example: The hidden deployment rule rocks and so does the cover-save bonus but when they get into assault... then what? They get torn apart by everything thats not a gretchin or a scarab swarm.
Ulrik
· 1 year ago
Me personally, I don't mind waiting for my new SW codex. Its not like I'm getting tired of my army getting crap from store managers and other gamers.......
GarethUK
· 1 year ago
incase you guys havent seen them, the new ork stuff for january is in the 2009 catalogue.
Also the UK Games Workshops have all recieved samples of battlewagons, stormboys, grots, nobz and Zagstrukk so ask you local guys and they will probably be able to show you whats there.
Ive just built the stormboys in the Staines store and we are gonna be building the battlewagonm this week.
All Comments
Most of all i want actual heros that mean something, Lilith was a step in the right direction and so wa the dias but kruelga?
Finally push that codex out and do a slow model release because we are DOA right now. Too expensive to do horde and we die without consolidate. stop pushing this army back. If its not out in 2009 there are serious issues with GW.
Better something, than ending up here:
http://www.solegends.com/citcat911/c2059squatse...
Also, we've got to remember, it is The Fly Lords who are throwing out these things as rumors, not GW giving us firm release dates and details.
was vehicle upgrades and heroes and wych weapons. It is from 1998. They
have had enough time. We need it more than the necrons. Finish our codex
do 1 or 2 models and release them slowly like every codex they are doing
now. We need to be faster then every other army, hit harder and die faster
then everyone else. the reason they have done so porly in sales is directly
due to GW abandoning them for 20 years. We dont even get apocholips crap.
DE were introduces as an army with 3rd ed. 3rd ed came out, i believe, in 2000 or 2001. The 2nd edition of the DE codex was released in 2002.
If I follow the math that you have used, I am lead to belive that 1998 to 2008 equals 20 years?
If not, jog on!!
Also, I hope they actually get decent treatment last time. For some reason, after the black book list, GW (and FW) has had this insistence that anything Imperial Guard related be poor-mediocre in terms of table power and cost-efficiency, save for the Apocalypse-only Baneblade (which was actually rather terrible as well for its cost until GW put out a plastic kit of it and re-wrote its FW rules for Apoc)
In case you can't tell, I am looking forward to February... although, as is increasingly common for me, I'm looking forward to the Ork stuff, Guard releases... even the Necrons. The only things in there I don't really care about are the Daemons.
He said "12-18 months".
</sarcasm>
:)
I want the new wolves, I just dont see them soon.
- meh for the other stuff...
- Space Wolf codex I want that... have 11k pts of my own chapter, wanna branch out into another marine army...
But still, Khorne and Slannesh together should not be done without a strong undivided element (or at least an Undivided leader).
Or at least boxes of 20 with 2 runtherds...at the very least.
They can only have one weapon option...so just make them single piece models with 5-10 different variations.
BATTLEWAGON, PLASTIC STORMBOYZ...WOOH!
Will Stormyboyz be a plastic upgrade kit, or actually plastic units with new sculpts?
cant wait for more orky stuffs and that deamon prince!
Just curious about ba in particular as it is what I run:).
several things just don't make sense (half their armoury refers you to C:SM rules, half of which have been removed: bionics, wolf totems, wolf helm of russ etc)
Some things are just absurd... like getting a SM thunderfire for 100pts while an Iron Priest is 110 just with a servo harness (and can only take the useless thralls)
On the other side of the spectrum SW can have 3 HWS in a 5 term unit, can put storm shields and can create some unholy combos... eg a WG bodyguard with storm shield and combi-flamer (since true-grit) and runic charms (re-rolled armour save) at 40pts each... just imagine 9 of them jumping out of a drop pod
I love gretchin, but resent paying a lot of money, for something so low in point value. It's the same for me as with Ork Trukks - lovely models, but I can't justify spending 18 quid a trukk, when my old gorkamorka models still look kinda cool (with the OLD reinforced ram and wrecker ball upgrades in metal, ROCK!)
can I have some kroxigors on the side with that order?
Also, why the heck hasn't the Space Wolf codex been at least confirmed at this point. As a Dark Eldar player, I can emphasize with the Space Wolf player's pain, and can understand why GW would want to push DE to 2010, but the Space Wolves have always been one of the most popular (codex-variant) armies.
Necrons do need a new codex though, and they especially need someway to transport their troops, or teleport onto the battlefield, especially with the effectiveness of the SM drop pods.
- deep striking wherever they want; moves troops outta its way (like drop pods should), can hold entire armies, has more weaponry then a land raider crusader, always counts as not moving for disembarkation and can never be glanced to destruction... sounds like the best transport in the game to my ears
Give necrons a few shiny units to add some diversity and they would be immense, only problem they have atm is they are utterly boring
... if you don't believe me just imagine this: teleport a squad of flayed ones from 24" behind the monolith, they disembark 2" infront, move 6", assault 6" (add in the monoliths thickness and thats about a 44" charge!!)
I was thinking of a "drop pod" esque large crystal, that would serve as a method of local teleportation once deep striked in. I.E. the necron player would deep strike the drop pod sized crystal and then be able to teleport his necrons anywhere within 12 inches of that crystal, and/or be able to link those crystals together for local teleport.
Of course any such addition would go along with a total revamp of the necron codex.
Take 3 monoliths and mebbe a c'tan in 1500pts and you'll beat marines evry single time as long as you can avoid a phase out
and yes I do suffer from 'cron jealousy
But even assuming it can be weapon destroyed it'll still take 8 'damage' results to destroy the darn thing.. or about 36 turns with 2 TH :'(
I don't play Lizardmen, but I'll be excited to see the plastic Steggadon. I don't play Daemons but my friend started work on Daemon 40K army that's still in its fledgling stages and it'll be fun to see him put together some new models, and I'll be really stoked to see what they do with the Necrons - just because they are a cool army that just need a little bit more personality and variety.
The future is bright. And as for Dark Eldar - I'm sure it will be worth the wait ala C:Orks. Simmer down and enjoy the ride.
Anywhoo, I'll be busy with orks and IG for a while. Please oh please let there be a shadowsword variant :)
Those should keep me busy if SW codex is in the far future..
- Valkyries for my IG Army.
- Plastic Shadowsword to support my Chaos Marines and balance out the FW hybrid Shadowsword I have for my Imperials.
- Plastic Stormlord for my Imperial forces (already scratch converted one for Chaos).
- Plastic Stegadon to be used as a "counts as" Rhino for my Chaos Marines. I love dinosaurs and monsters and it would be too cool seeing Chaos Marines riding such a beast into battle.
- Plastic Stormtroopers. I already have one unit of metal ones and I'd add at least one more if they were plastic.
- Plastic Daemon Prince because I collect such monsters and a plastic one that is easy to convert too is a must.
- At least one set of plastic daemons for any models that have only been done in metal up till now.
- Necrons maybe if there are some cool new plastics. I already have an untouched secret stash of some of the current plastics thanks to bundle deals and I'd add to them if the price was right with more units moved to plastic and an exciting new Codex.
I hope I do well at the next Bizarre Bazaar because there's a lot of good new product coming in 2009.
I was planning on doing the same with an armoured closed in howdah as a Chimera for my side army death world IG force. At least I will when I finish painting the comtents of Black Reach to start a new Waggh with, ETC, January, just in time for the second wave of Orks...
Also want to do Cold one rough riders and Carnasaur 'tanks', eventually, lol.
I thought that meant the new one was coming soon but all I hear from the store staff is that its coming; first heard December 08 and now hear April 09 earliest
:'(
let's hope it will be good
FORTH THE WALKING CARPET!!!!!!!
Personally, with 5 AOBR Dreadnoughts available to me, I'm considering converting an Ironclad variant from one of those. Ironclads have a few different weapon options and some of them should be fairly easy to build using bits.
Also upgrade on the IG will be something to look forward to.
However Space Wolves & D Eldar are WAY overdue.
I guess an update to BA, DA, BTs & DH could be done via WD entries like they did with BAs.
Used in English it means that a purchaser of goods should check them before parting with any money - alternative "sold as seen".
In this context, it means that this is only a rumour that may not be true, or entirely true so you should 'take it with a pinch of salt'.
Hope that helps,
John
Don't know quite what to think at the moment, but after we had a new Chaos codex in late 2007, i doubt that they'd give us another so soon (even with the changes of 5th). It's a shame but i reckon 2010 will be more likely.
Sorry if i seem to have shot you down but that's my opinion - if you do have evidence to support an 09 release than i apologise and will get rather excited.
I can see GW giving prioritized attention to Chaos, they are just a spin off of their flagship Marines anyways ... right?
Also the UK Games Workshops have all recieved samples of battlewagons, stormboys, grots, nobz and Zagstrukk so ask you local guys and they will probably be able to show you whats there.
Ive just built the stormboys in the Staines store and we are gonna be building the battlewagonm this week.
Aslo there is nothing for WFB or 40k in April.