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75hastings69 wrote:

MajorWesJanson wrote:Tau are next, then Eldar. Sisters, Templars, Orks, and probably Nids need books before IG does. .......

Not quite, remove sisters & Templars...... replace with SM & IG....... Although the order of them might be mixed up a bit

Oops my mistake, I thought you were listing the order, then I realised you were listing codex that need updating before IG ....... still a little further look ahead in the future of 40k never did any harm did it?

MiyamatoMusashi wrote:I was under the impression it was Tau, Eldar, Orks, SM, Nids, then Guard?

Move the orks

75hastings69 on faeit212 wrote:I suppose I could tell you there are some new units....... but that would be a bit too vague. Hmmm, expect rhino variants, and also a new "suit" smaller than a dread but bigger than a termie. Will that do to start the rumours off?

Natfka wrote:I would imagine a new rhino variant could include a new combined box set of the rhino/razorback/variant or some combination of them?

Two new varients, afaik the current boxes remain unchanged.
SoB.... not on my radar. Templars could well be headed back to the big book.

Templars back in the SM book makes me a sad panda.

Could be, I'm not 100% on this.
(...)
Eldar, new flier, characters and a new uber wraith guard thingy.
(...)
LOADS of stuff for IG

So it's

Tau
Eldar
Space Marines
(Orks?)
Tyranids
(Orks?)
Guard
(Orks?)
(Question mark means, I don't know what Hastings means, not that Hastings doesn't know )

Edit:

Harry wrote:

Sami wrote:So: Tau (now), Eldar, SM or IG, SM or IG, Orks, Tyranids.

Thats seems to be about the size of it

I personally thought they were re-doing all of the current 4th edition codexes before moving onto the 5th ones

I keep on saying they are not doing that anymore.

Surprised the Ork book isn't going to get an update sooner

They got loads last time around and Seb is busy with other things.

(Sisters got a 5th WD update whether you liked it or not

NOT! I swear they started these right after Grey knights.

and god-knows what's going on with BT),

Hastings knows.

Harry wrote:I have never been in a position to "spot" any sculpts, or 'see anything being worked on'. (Ever)
I heard they had started work on a dex and models for Sisters right after I heard they had started work on Grey Knights ... consequently I assumed we would be seeing the results of this project pretty soon after Grey Knights were released ... It never happened. I guess the WD dex was the result of the work being done on the book ... I have no idea what happened to the minis. There were some rumours at the time that they were not happy with them .... but it was nothing I ever heard anything about one way or the other. As far as I am concerned ... it remains a mystery.

75hastings69 wrote:Not being into 40k I don't know what the "traits system" is, however here's what I've heard for the SM codex, you choose a chapter and that choice confers a bonus/bonuses to your army e.g. My imperial fists get tank hunter and bolter drill. Is that similar to what you mean?

I've always thought DA, BA, SW needed their own books, but if they made crusading chapter traits (something that expands beyond BT), then BT could be rolled into that.

AFAIK you are correct, DA, BA & SW remain independent codex armies, other SM chapters are dealt with in the SM codex.

75hastings69 wrote:

Hastings, thanks for your rumours, any chance we will see updated jetbikes for the Eldar release and/or plastic Wraithguard?

Yes.

So are Eldar Flyer, Jetbikes, Wraithguard and Uber Wraithguard Thingy? Or are the Wraithguard and the Uber Wraithguard Thingy the same thing?

Not the same thing, there's a huge wraith guard construct type thing (similar to tau) IIRC it has two builds (shooty & cc), also IIRC the actual wraith guard have some kind of CC build option.

75hastings69 wrote:Please keep in mind gents that my "rumours" are nearing end of their lifespan, this is all info I've had for several months already, as I no longer bother with GW there's a good possibility that there are additions to what I've put, I.e. anything that's been added in the last 7-8 months or so.

For those PMing me for SoB info, I have NONE, they aren't on my schedule and I only have heard the same info (from the same posters) as you lot..... allegedly plastics are done & awesome but there's some kind of problem with them (which personally I don't believe - but that's just me )

So we should see eldar in may then?

No, High Elves in May. Eldar in autumn.

I'd be really surprised. He's just saying Eldar are the next codex, for when the next codex comes out. I'm guessing August, for no real reason.

Hell, with some of the leaked kit names for SM that came out earlier. I may totally bypass Tau to save up for new SM crap I don't need. Or wait for coincidently very similar looking kits from Poland LOL.

Can't complain about Xenos getting updated, but no Sisters? Wow.

It seems odd that Guard are getting a lot of new stuff (they certainly have a couple of holes in their line, but not *that* many). THIS IS RAMPANT SPECULATION ON MY PART AND NOT A RUMOR, but I wonder if GW is going to retire the Catachan line and add plastic kit support for a different IG regiment?

The only gaps the IG codex really needs filled are
- Updated Rough Riders.
- Various Artillery (Medusa, Collosus, Griffon).
- Psyker Battle Squad

Kits that would be good but not essential.
- Hydra (this can be mitigated by slapping an ADL quadgun on a chimera)
- Veteran squad w/all the bells and whistles.


Also considering that the IG dex is still going strong there are plenty of other armies that could benefit from an update before we do.

 SkaerKrow wrote:
It seems odd that Guard are getting a lot of new stuff (they certainly have a couple of holes in their line, but not *that* many). THIS IS RAMPANT SPECULATION ON MY PART AND NOT A RUMOR, but I wonder if GW is going to retire the Catachan line and add plastic kit support for a different IG regiment?

Plastic great coat models would sell pretty well, wouldn't they?

 Snrub wrote:
The only gaps the IG codex really needs filled are
- Updated Rough Riders.
- Various Artillery (Medusa, Collosus, Griffon).
- Psyker Battle Squad

Kits that would be good but not essential.
- Hydra (this can be mitigated by slapping an ADL quadgun on a chimera)
- Veteran squad w/all the bells and whistles.


Also considering that the IG dex is still going strong there are plenty of other armies that could benefit from an update before we do.

Whats the problem with the sanctioned Psykers from the Inquisitorial retinue? You even get 3 of them just add a random guy with a pistol and a chainsword and you are fine.

Well with them putting the kabash into bitz sellers, it's going to be hard to field a bona fide Vendetta.

No sisters? Kiwi is a sad boy.

Last I heard, the whole Black Templar thing was pretty much a case of. "We haven't made up our minds yet." And different folk in the studio were in different camps over it.

Though, that could just be wild mass guessing from my part.

I know that we usually don't trust GW managers, but the manager at my local bunker stated that Templars were getting White Dwarfed. I questioned him further and he said that if they appear in an actual codex, it would be in Codex Space Marines, but the current plan is a WD codex for them.

Make of that what you will.

Wouldnt surprise me at this point, considering how poorly GW is handling their products lately. But hey, the company in charge of my hobby is embarrassingly gakky and my money would be better spent supporting a more competent business.

Here's hoping they pull their heads out of their asses and keep me (and a million other paying customers) in the game.

I see them so little, i forgot Black templars existed.

Huh, I was thinking that IG didn't really need an update, just more kits. Good to know that I should start saving now.

Why no sisters? It seems there is a big demand for them.

Maybe Sisters aren't getting updated just because GW couldn't think of any big monsters or flyers to give them that just wouldn't look silly? I mean too silly even for them.

I like Sisters, they're probably my favorite Imperial army and I'd love to see them get an update. I recall GW saying at one time they wouldn't be Squatting any more armies so I'd like to know what the feth they're doing with them exactly, because it's starting to look like they're going down that route.

 Shadox wrote:
Whats the problem with the sanctioned Psykers from the Inquisitorial retinue? You even get 3 of them just add a random guy with a pistol and a chainsword and you are fine.

Oh yeah. Forgot about those guys.

They were IG sanctioned psykers though... They have been taken out of the IG elite section and plonked in the GK elites. As an IG player i'm outraged.

SOBs should be scrapped and bring out an Ecclessiarchy army instead.
Then Sororitas, Fratis Militia etc can be units within that. A Lightning like in DOW would be a suitable flyer for such an army.

Sisters players are unbearable already when they have a Codex. Making Sisters part of another Codex (rather than a Codex unto themselves) will just make the already massive chip on their collective shoulders grow a secondary co-joined chip.

TL;DR the above.

By the end of 2014, GW will have update (in no order)

Eldar
Orks
Tyranids
Space Marines
Imperial Guard

There will also be a BRAND NEW army by the xmas 2014. More than likely a "mercenary/allies" army (I will put my house on it if Kroot aren't in the Tau codex, literally, not my house but at least a good seeing too).

Good business sense dictates the above, and if GW is anything, they're good "on the surface" business folk... If you think otherwise, you're a keyboard warrior.

Sisters and Black Templar MAY get updates, but we all know GW is a business, and a mass investment in 2 under performing lines that they can fold in to others? NO THANKYOU.

Learn business, move on. get over it, play 3rd party, whatever.

 Snrub wrote:

 Shadox wrote:
Whats the problem with the sanctioned Psykers from the Inquisitorial retinue? You even get 3 of them just add a random guy with a pistol and a chainsword and you are fine.

Oh yeah. Forgot about those guys.

They were IG sanctioned psykers though... They have been taken out of the IG elite section and plonked in the GK elites. As an IG player i'm outraged.

Actually I wasn't aware of that they are not in the IG section anymore just until I looked it up before writing the post, I did not even know what the problem there were with the sanctioned Psykers till then

Yeah i didn't know they had been removed either until i looked before. Odd as it is i doubt it means anything.

Unless....

I would be willing to bet eldar are going to be here by august.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
I would be willing to bet eldar are going to be here by august.

I hope not. I've not yet finished collecting my Tau or Nids, and my Eldar were on hold until the new dex. I actually can't decide what to make priority now.

So am I right in thinking this has neither news nor rumors in it?

 SoloFalcon1138 wrote:
So am I right in thinking this has neither news nor rumors in it?

So what do you call a quote from one of the most consistently reliable rumourmongers still posting anywhere?

A shopping list?

I know I'll not make any friends with this but I feel all marines (minus SW) could and should be in a single uber book of marine goodness and not so spread out.