An enterprising webcrawler over at warseer found a new IG painting that definitely has a cover "feel" to it on the UK GW website. Since the previous IG thread here was just locked and I didn't see it posted here on dakka, here ya go.

edit: i changed the subject as there are now two guard covers floating around, both from the same GW page linked on page 3. my guess is the latest one (which is identical to the first leaked pic) is the final one.

The last one was better.

There is a dispute about whether that is the cover. Its taken from a GW gaming poster. Agreed, if so its sucketitious due to its washed out nature.

*shrug* that's cool. I just wantt o see what's inside.

Frazzled wrote:There is a dispute about whether that is the cover. Its taken from a GW gaming poster. Agreed, if so its sucketitious due to its washed out nature.

Agreed, and why I called it "Probable". As for the washed out nature, it's more realistic for guardsmen. Other armies have fancy nightvision equipment and electronics. The guard can't afford sunglasses let alone nightvision according to the painting so of course they'll fight at 10am looking directly into the sun!

I don't really care about the cover, either. It has a lot of people standing on some sort of hill firing at some other people that you can't see. Business as usual I say.

Greets
Schepp himself

Pretty standard art material, from the looks of it....

But it's hard not to imagine one Fire Prism shot centered on the guy holding the flag....

Its fething ugly and the art is bad. Crudely drawn, it makes 2nd ed covers look like masterpieces.

I pity the IG player who would have to look at that every time he picks up his codex.

If I were them I would rip the cover off and wipe my ass with it to send back to GW slapped on top of Paul Sawyers fat bald greasy face after I signed the cover "To Jervis, with love!".

Seriously, that cant be the new cover. Its a horrendous monstrosity.

I wouldnt pay $30 for that. Its a joke.

They say not to judge a book by its cover... is this why?
...Thank the emperor its $25...

Interesting though, the Star Destroyer-like landing craft in the background (way in the back, from Ep II)

Who knows, it probably takes 10x longer to paint the art now than it does to design the models, what with CAD and all, maybe they are cutting corners in the art dept.

Could be worse, John B could have painted it!!!!

This looks like it's done by the same artist who did a lot of the art from the Chaos codex. GW get rid of him NOW!

The rules will more than make up for this anyway.

Oh yeah, that's the new cover, using pretty much the same style as the Empire army book.

warboss wrote:Probable New Guard Codex Cover

*cough* well its certainly possible, but I think it is really a stretch to call it probable.
I saw this in the warseer thread too, but I had no idea someone posting a scan of a poster would make its way to it becoming the IG cover all of the sudden.

I guess this really is a rumour in the truest sense. Someone says one thing, and the next thing you know its blown all out of proportion.

I think it needs more grim darkness. And tanks, because GW just seems to favour them.

Hellfury wrote:Its fething ugly and the art is bad. Crudely drawn, it makes 2nd ed covers look like masterpieces.

I pity the IG player who would have to look at that every time he picks up his codex.

If I were them I would rip the cover off and wipe my ass with it to send back to GW slapped on top of Paul Sawyers fat bald greasy face after I signed the cover "To Jervis, with love!".

Your hyperbole is odious.

Is that a Chaos renegade I see in the bottom right corner about to be stabbed?

Hellfury wrote:

warboss wrote:Probable New Guard Codex Cover

*cough* well its certainly possible, but I think it is really a stretch to call it probable.
I saw this in the warseer thread too, but I had no idea someone posting a scan of a poster would make its way to it becoming the IG cover all of the sudden.

I guess this really is a rumour in the truest sense. Someone says one thing, and the next thing you know its blown all out of proportion.

People who have supposedly seen the codex say its the artwork for the cover. A scan of the poster however was the only way to show what it looked like. In the past GW has used codex cover art to do publicity and promotional posters leading up to a codex's release. This is about when they'd start to distribute such posters. Other than it being new art, it helps that paintings done for the covers are usually done as large as a poster, so their is less issue with blowing it up to that size. I think it is the cover, much to my dismay.

Only thing missing on the cover is the Valkyrie

it looks good from a composition standpoint but I'd like to see the quality of the artwork a little better, especially for the fellas in the foreground

illlnjh It Looks like garbage old one was better

I like it. give the Guard a very overwhelmed by grimdark feel.

Agamemnon2 wrote:

Hellfury wrote:Its fething ugly and the art is bad. Crudely drawn, it makes 2nd ed covers look like masterpieces.

I pity the IG player who would have to look at that every time he picks up his codex.

If I were them I would rip the cover off and wipe my ass with it to send back to GW slapped on top of Paul Sawyers fat bald greasy face after I signed the cover "To Jervis, with love!".

Your hyperbole is odious.

Agreed. Almost as bad as your need to troll with flame bait.

Ah, these men must be Gaunt's Ghosts.

Reminds me of the WHFB Empire artwork.

It doesn't seem unlikely to me that this art could be the cover. Overall I have not been a fan of a lot of new codex art. The new SM and CSM have been fairly uninteresting to me, and this one is pretty boring too.

QFT. this does look kinda dull.

Well, not dull. Just kind of... generic IG art.

I'd much prefer to see a shot of some RR ploughing into some CSM termies or something.

That or a Commisar riding a giant robot dog and firing giant machine gun, which is also his face.

That would rule so hard.

On the bright side, at least no one is shooting at the ground while running...

That thing is hideous! I am a GW fanboy, but that just sucks.

That is *NOT* the new cover.

The new cover will have one Guardsman figure prominently, taking up ~40% of the total visible space on the front.

GW has figured out that the Codex should clearly show what the basic soldier looks like for the army in question, so the player can't forget which army it is - just look at CSM and SM.

Tek wrote:QFT. this does look kinda dull.

Well, not dull. Just kind of... generic IG art.

I'd much prefer to see a shot of some RR ploughing into some CSM termies or something.

That or a Commisar riding a giant robot dog and firing giant machine gun, which is also his face.

That would rule so hard.

How about a commissar shooting the retreating leader in the head while impaling an ork on his sword......but all while riding a giant robot dog, who is also a machine gun.

To be honest it doesn't look great, but I don't really care about the cover art.

It's whats inside that I'm interested in. mmmmm Tanks

To be honest, I actually like it, but I am a fan of sketchy artwork for 40k (Heresy: I also like John Blanche's work, a lot in fact).

Imperial Guard has always been the exception. While other covers featured heroic leaders doing boner inducing things, the Imperial Guard books always feature the basic dog-faced soldier, nothing fancy. Just look at the previous two codex books and the old Cityfight codex.

JohnHwangDD wrote:GW has figured out that the Codex should clearly show what the basic soldier looks like for the army in question, so the player can't forget which army it is - just look at CSM and SM.

Doesn't a mass of faceless grunts clearly establish what the basic Guard looks like better than any heroic individual possibly could?

Considering this picture is on the UK GW as part of the "In-store Activities this May" page, it might just be the cover. Besides, quite a few people that (supposedly) attended the GW Open Day claimed it is the same cover picture shown there.

If this is the cover it's about time they added a commissar haha i love those guys .

Its a cool image, but im not sure of it as a cover. Oh well not long to wait now till we find out

(im so excited)

Fetterkey wrote:Reminds me of the WHFB Empire artwork.

That's undoubtedly because it was painted by David Gallagher the same artist who did the cover art for The Empire Army book.

I like it. It has the usual battle scene in the front, but this time it has depth to it and gives you an actual feel of how big the IG is.

I mean look in the background, theres an open hatch/giant ramp with hundreds of thousands of troops on it, and even further in the background are even more ships with more guys and more tanks and holy crap theres alot of stuff.

Meh. I'm just interested on the inside. I don't take that tone with dating though, totally superficial.

Cover looks good, but I am hoping the content will be improved over the last version.

Meh. I'm just interested on the inside. I don't take that tone with dating though, totally superficial.

Hahaha, QFT!

chaplaingrabthar wrote:

JohnHwangDD wrote:GW has figured out that the Codex should clearly show what the basic soldier looks like for the army in question, so the player can't forget which army it is - just look at CSM and SM.

Doesn't a mass of faceless grunts clearly establish what the basic Guard looks like better than any heroic individual possibly could?

Dang skippy it does

BrookM wrote:While other covers featured heroic leaders doing boner inducing things,

Therefore, the new IG Codex will feature a female Commissar in S&M inspired uniform. Excellent.

lol at the comisar

I likes it. A massive sea of Guardsmen with untold reinforcements behind them, and commanders just struggling to be on top of the meat-hill so everyone can see how much bigger their hats are. Overkill to the tenth degree, mass exaggeration. If that's not the embodiement of the Guard, the hell is?!

Also, the Imperial Cruiser in the background gives me wood. I won't deny it.



For some reason this is the first thing that popped in my mind when I saw that. I chuckled:

"That's when things broke down and we just started HITTING them with our SWORDS".



On cursory inspection, the banners look very similar to the new Command Squad banners. Not that that would mean anything, it's just something I noticed. (But then again, how different are banners going to look, anyways?)

AlexCage wrote:I

"That's when things broke down and we just started HITTING them with our SWORDS".

Is that a quote from something? It should be.

Also, this should be:

"I developed the term "sawdomized" to describe the unique process by which I carve men. On the Bunting-Friedmann Threat Index, I clock in somewhere between Bruce Lee and Bahamut from Final Fantasy X. "

By which I mean the Bunting-Friedmann threat Index shuld mean something. but as far as I can tell, it does not.

Scottywan82 wrote:

AlexCage wrote:I

"That's when things broke down and we just started HITTING them with our SWORDS".

Is that a quote from something? It should be.

Just came to me. Though I'm sure I was drawing on the memory of this picture from somewhere in the back of my head:



Seems a natural progression, is all I'm sayin'.


Quick! Someone make a new motivational! "Imperial Guard: For when you want to kill a thousand of something".

I would but I'm... too drunk...

I just want to say that when I saw this picture, I cracked up laughing. What is that in internet speak? Ah, yes: "ROTFLMAO." That image made me "rot-ful-mao" real good.

It's really impossible to say whether this is a cover to the new Codex or just some box art for one of the new plastic sets. It's cropped all weird, so the composition is impossible to discern. If we could see the whole piece, it would be a lot easier to figure out what we're looking at.

Pariah Press wrote: It's really impossible to say whether this is a cover to the new Codex or just some box art for one of the new plastic sets. It's cropped all weird, so the composition is impossible to discern. If we could see the whole piece, it would be a lot easier to figure out what we're looking at.

That actually just made me think that it's not the cover art.
It might be like that massive two page spread of Creed and Kell leading the charge on Tyrok Fields in the current IG codex.

...which makes me want to see the full thing more

looks ok but i preffer the last one

That should not be the cover art. That is one campy throwback to pre-2nd edition... Neither attractive nor enticing.

Heck, I'd rather see the "Drive Me Closer" poster as the cover for the new Codex.

Oh man that cover is so overpowered! It better not be the real cover. If you ask me it looks like some fanboys wish list of the cover. If GW releases that cover, that's it I'm just going to up and sell all my models and drop 40k like an ex-wife!

Damn it, all because of a cover?

psst. I think he's being sarcastic.

Oh goody, let's hope so. I'd hate seeing people around here also succumb to the pre-release bitching. Funny at first but now a pain.

Nurglitch wrote:

BrookM wrote:While other covers featured heroic leaders doing boner inducing things,

Therefore, the new IG Codex will feature a female Commissar in S&M inspired uniform. Excellent.

Thus marks maybe the second time I have every agreed with Nurgy.

I would, of course, by two. And possibly steal a 6' promo-poster.

As is, blech, I am not feeling this current possibility of cover art.

Wehrkind wrote:

Nurglitch wrote:

BrookM wrote:While other covers featured heroic leaders doing boner inducing things,

Therefore, the new IG Codex will feature a female Commissar in S&M inspired uniform. Excellent.

Thus marks maybe the second time I have every agreed with Nurgy.

I would, of course, by two. And possibly steal a 6' PORNO-poster.

As is, blech, I am not feeling this current possibility of cover art.

fixed your typo

You know, that's what I initially read it as, even without fixing his typo...

As did I.

I feel that may be more of a picture in the codex. There is too much going on on the sides of that picture that would have to be cut off to make it rectangular enough for a codex cover.

PS I don't like it all that much. Old one was better IMHO.

needs more dead guardsmen!!!!!

Interior shot of the Valkyrie:

cool pic. any view from the front? i was planning on converting some cadian helmets with green stuff but my putty fu is weak; i'd prefer to use an existing model!

Hmmm.... Gunner's not as Generic as I was hoping. May have to get a few sets of the DKoK Trench End Gunners to go in my Valks, since only my Vets and STs are getting Valks and they use DKoK models to look fancy while still fitting in next to my Steel Legion Troops.

fullheadofhair wrote:

Wehrkind wrote:

Nurglitch wrote:

BrookM wrote:While other covers featured heroic leaders doing boner inducing things,

Therefore, the new IG Codex will feature a female Commissar in S&M inspired uniform. Excellent.

Thus marks maybe the second time I have every agreed with Nurgy.

I would, of course, by two. And possibly steal a 6' PORNO-poster.

As is, blech, I am not feeling this current possibility of cover art.

fixed your typo

I fail to see the distinction

Though generally porno requires insertion of objects other than a bayonette. *rimshot*

JohnHwangDD wrote:That is *NOT* the new cover.

The new cover will have one Guardsman figure prominently, taking up ~40% of the total visible space on the front.

GW has figured out that the Codex should clearly show what the basic soldier looks like for the army in question, so the player can't forget which army it is - just look at CSM and SM.

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?community=&catId=cat180002&categoryId=400032&aId=14500025

you might want to sit down before you click on the link...

Wow, extreme suckage.

I think I hear something deflate slowly..

BrookM wrote:Imperial Guard has always been the exception. While other covers featured heroic leaders doing boner inducing things, the Imperial Guard books always feature the basic dog-faced soldier, nothing fancy. Just look at the previous two codex books and the old Cityfight codex.

I agree an IG codex is supposed to convey numbers, grit, determination, and the enormous machinery of imperial war. I think this cover does so quite well.

i was on the fence with the previous version of the pic but i genuinely like it now. it's not the greatest thing since sliced bread but i'm firmly in the "pro" camp now that they turned down the contrast/lighting.

The thing that bugs me about it is that they are clearly cadian IG, but they lack the icons on the helmets and chest armor. And that just bugs the gak outta me.

*Lurk Mode - Off*

It's a cover. Who cares? It's not that bad anyway. Sheesh...

*Lurk Mode - On*

H.B.M.C. wrote:*Lurk Mode - Off*

It's a cover. Who cares? It's not that bad anyway. Sheesh...

*Lurk Mode - On*

...Lurk mode does not grant cover saves. (I think there is pun in there)

I think the cover could be better. Its not bad it just isn't that interesting. I think we've seen black and white pictures in the current codex that were more eye catching than this. This isn't a complaint just a critique.

schrag wrote:

Tek wrote:...
That or a Commisar riding a giant robot dog and firing giant machine gun, which is also his face.

That would rule so hard.

How about a commissar shooting the retreating leader in the head while impaling an ork on his sword......but all while riding a giant robot dog, who is also a machine gun.

That's a winner.

and yet the drama continues... the codex cover has changed from this weekend back to the original washed out pic. i'm not sure which i prefer: washed out colors but more detail (like faces and flags) or darker more realistic colors but less detail (blank flags and blurry background faces).

warboss wrote:and yet the drama continues... the codex cover has changed from this weekend back to the original washed out pic. i'm not sure which i prefer: washed out colors but more detail (like faces and flags) or darker more realistic colors but less detail (blank flags and blurry background faces).

They both suck huge donkey gonads.

Considering the one picture has lots of details missing, (helmet eagles, detail on the banner, etc), I'd say the brighter one is most likely the cover, and the one above it is a WIP.

I much prefer the second.

Horrible covers... I think they tried to maintain some kind of retro look to them but failed miserably at it.

Mmmmm.... Cadian Shock... drool </homer>

I actually found the official codex today, straight from GW!



It's all meatshields and flashlights baby

Way too much time on your hands?

sweet! i was wondering what the new conscripts would look like!

Rememder, GW believes in game balance. So GW thought is that if its a great Codex its gotta have a crappy cover.

By the looks of that cover the IG will be unbeatable.

Oh great, now the Ork players are going to whine that we've gotten their Grot tanks.

Alex Kolodotschko wrote:Way too much time on your hands?

ha, without a doubt, I have a nice day off right now and the girlfriend has work.

The one thing I like about the "cover" is the landing craft in the backround and just the waves of impG comming off of it. It truly give a feeling for how massive the impG armies have to be.

Rip off from the loading scene of Episode Two: Attack of the Clones for star Wars.

Also, why is HBMC lurking? (Though I did see a conspicous gone fishing sign.) And why doth he not haveth the BYE at the Terminationeth of his sentacneth.?

Ratbarf wrote:Rip off from the loading scene of Episode Two: Attack of the Clones for star Wars.

Also, why is HBMC lurking? (Though I did see a conspicous gone fishing sign.) And why doth he not haveth the BYE at the Terminationeth of his sentacneth.?

He stated a week or two ago that he's decided to cut back on his posting because almost invariably it becomes a H.B.M.C. vs ShumaGorath slugfest.

*Lurk Mode - Off*

Can't help it when the guy follows me into every fething thread for no other reason than to argue with me.

That's all I'll say on the matter.

*Lurk Mode - On*

You know, I thought the washed-out cover looked bad, but tolerable, until I saw it next to the one with fuller colors. The richer color version looks much better, and now the washed-out version will always be even more inferior in my mind knowing that a simple change could make it a far superior product.

The one thing I like about the "cover" is the landing craft in the backround and just the waves of impG comming off of it. It truly give a feeling for how massive the impG armies have to be.

Agreed.

Like most people I'm underwhelmed by this cover, but so excited by the new IG codex that it doesn't really matter anyways.

I like it myself, very much a Guard cover, plus it is finally nice to see some of these lander things as mentioned in at least one or two Guard novels.

Two months to go

Argh. I was really expecting to see something drastically different with the revised subject of "Duelling IG Covers"...man, news is really slow right now.