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Right a bit ago i read a rurmour on bols that a new race could make its way in to 40k and it got me thinking what i GW did something different like a entrie flying horde race or a race of tunneling worms or a fish like race and how would this be put in to back ground and rules it would be a site to see a borad with a 400 horde all on wings against an small worm army which combats its way to victory

so any ideas of race you would like to see or ideas on how to do them??

Squats that survived getting eaten by Nids.

traitor guard!

I wouldn't collect then but it might be interesting to see an army that revolves around just a few big units as oppose to the usual '2 or 3 squads a hq and a tank'. A bit like the ogre kingdom in fantasy. Not sure what they would look like though.

Or instead of introducing ridiculous concepts like worm-people, we can bring back the Lost and the Damned.

Cheese Elemental wrote:Or instead of introducing ridiculous concepts like worm-people, we can bring back the Lost and the Damned.

^ this. we need lost and the damned.

Pan Fo!

Actually, a well done LaTD list should allow folks to simulate Genestealer cults pretty easily as well.

I say give the mecanicus some rules

oldone wrote:Right a bit ago i read a rurmour on bols that a new race could make its way in to 40k and it got me thinking what i GW did something different like a entrie flying horde race or a race of tunneling worms or a fish like race and how would this be put in to back ground and rules it would be a site to see a borad with a 400 horde all on wings against an small worm army which combats its way to victory

so any ideas of race you would like to see or ideas on how to do them??

Fish Like Race=Tau.

Cheese Elemental wrote:Or instead of introducing ridiculous concepts like worm-people, we can bring back the Lost and the Damned.

Wait, you're saying you wouldn't collect Worm People?!

Also, Traitor Necrons, Traitor Tau, Traitor 'Nids, Traitor Traitors, Chaos Traitor Traitors, Traitor Chaos Marines...

Is it me, or does the word "traitor" sound really weird?

OR

Codex: Crimson Fists! Woo!

spamandchips wrote:I wouldn't collect then but it might be interesting to see an army that revolves around just a few big units as oppose to the usual '2 or 3 squads a hq and a tank'. A bit like the ogre kingdom in fantasy. Not sure what they would look like though.

Their HQ units will have King Tut chin beards, their infantry will have largish head crests as well as six limbs, their fast attack will be identical to the troops but with wings, and their heavy support will also be identical to the second...but with bigger guns. Oh, and one of the HQ's will have a name. Like "Hive Tut" or "King Tyrant".

Wow, GW hate DE so much that they would create an entire new army to avoid making them a new codex.

According to necron fluff, the Terminator-like Necrons are just a prelude to some kind of big come-back of an ancient race. That would completely revamp the Necron scene, or create a new army that, IMO, are kinda weak, have small number of units (aka. CSM) but pack the baddest green-glowing weaponry in the game. Wouldn`t that be cool?

I want to see an army that sacrifices its own men to become more powerful...

spacewolf009 wrote:I say give the mecanicus some rules

This, but every one of these topics I post in I say it anyway. Ad Mech should have their own codex
Space Marines should be put into the same book, but be able to still upgrade into other chapeters. Not by special characters though.
Also LaTD should come back. Squats should at least come back in the form of a abhuman choice for IG; I'm hoping for their own codex again, but that's unlikely.

Although, with the new IG codex you could probably play Squats just fine. For Ad Mech, I think IG with either WH or DH as allies.

A slightly different shade of Space Marine?

Fafnir wrote:I want to see an army that sacrifices its own men to become more powerful...

Cannibalism, love it

If GW were under my stewardship.....if, if, if....then I would consider a "Counter" Imperium.....some fluff about an off-shoot of Humanity that journyed way beyond the Galactic fringe and out into the void during Humanities forst expansion.

Unlike so many other WH40K "sob" stories, these guys actually prospered, and because they have avoided all the Ad-Mech crap, they have developed technologies that exceed even the Tau or Necrons in its sophistication and advancement.

Now, like the Imperium we all know and love, they are trying to re-unite with their roots, and are making in-roads into the "Imperial Space".....hence the war.

Imagine, new characters, new elite super soldiers, new armour types.....oh, it would be like a breath of fresh air....IMHO

Delephont wrote:Imagine, new characters, new elite super soldiers, new armour types.....oh, it would be like a breath of fresh air....IMHO

The only problem with that is that they would probably be horrifically over powered compared to everything else, as their tech would put them so far ahead.

The only way you could counter that is perhaps by saying they only sent a small fleet as they were not expecting so much of a cluster frag going on in their old galaxy (and possibly over confident in their tech, their population has stagnated, as increase in tech often leads to decrease in population after a certain tipping point). Thus even though one of their soldiers might be better than 20 IG, there are only going to be a handful of them for each battle, as they will have spread out so much?

Not sure if that might work?

Whatever they are, I hope the have pauldrons!

you guys would love the idea till the codex came out then the world would freak out because they're sooooo broken, sssoooooooo op, etc Followed closely by DE, Necron, etc players saying wtf? We got skipped again?!

And in another ten years we'd need someone even more advanced!111!!1!!!! I really think the Necrons and Tau have run the 'I'm more advanced than you' bit into the ground.

I'd like to see another junkyard style race like the Orks, if we were adding something new. Unreliable, outlandish inventions and a desire to avoid assaults to differentiate them from the greenskins. They could be a small race called Stauqs. We could even give them low mobility, and a propensity for mounted combat because of their short, broad and low physique. Marine style combat bikes would be common, but they would ride them while heavily armored, because they are almost one with their machines. An army wide +1 to cover saves for their short stature would be appropriate, as they are dwarfed by most of their opponents.

GOBLINS.

Not Grots. I think that the Goblins should be able to be just as badass as they are in fantasy >

Somewhere I remember reading the Deathwatch Kill-Teams might make a comeback (AKA the Ordo Xenos)

Loving some of the ideas i never got to play LaTD was it any fn to play with / against
next i like the idea of some race of humans that went away for a while and develop tons of great tec but while the void they had to result to cabislism to live thus elvoting them into natraul prediors of humans but have low numbers becasue they only have a few members of the race left
btw GW said that if a new race does come out they willl have done all the other codexs before so don't worry nercon players
DE players faace it you got squated

i think i have an idear.

either future skavens or ogres!

I was "saving" this concept for my own use, but screw it:

Elementals.

Basically, a new breed of psykers theorized to be the next evolutionary step for human psykers. Like their contemporary counter-parts, they draw their power from the Warp, but the similarity pretty much ends there.

Originally, before the rise of sentients in the galaxy, the Warp was a collectively "neutral" environment, neither good nor evil, but simply a natural pool of energy.

In the 41st millenium, however, this "elemental plane" has all but disappeared. What makes it different from the more "typically chaotic" part of the Warp is that these "Elementals" are in many ways a more refined variant of psykers, as drawing power from the neutral, elemental force of the Warp(rather than the Warp collectively, amidst Chaos) makes them theoretically invulnerable to Chaotic influence.

Moreover, unlike "regular" psykers, Elementals exhibit their psionic power in much more...physical manfiestations--their psionic self empowers their physical self, to such a degree that their physical attributes can be enhanced beyond normal human potential by "strengthening their souls" to a sufficient degree.

Four archetypes would exist: those of Air, Fire, Earth, and Water. Air elementals would have a natural affinity to kinetic electrical energy; earth elementals, masters of structure and gravity; water elementals, channelers and manipulators of emotion and divination, and fire elementals, with the ability to channel heat and light.

@ Ronin Sage

I like where you're coming from with your idea. However, these guys would never come from "within" the Imperium, as they have all things psy on lock down.

Thats why I always play with the "Lost Tribes of Man" idea, its the only way something "new" could come from Humanity in any meaningful way and not be down-trodden by the Imperial Forces.

I just want GW to revile the Pan-Fo already.

You think that the DE are ignored? My Pan-Fo army isn't even playable! So screw you guys.

I don't think they could actually make new a race without being ridiculous or making it completely overpowered, I'd rather see a new codex for a space marine chapter than anything to do with worms. One thing I do think GW could do is make make the kroot or vespids more independent, and get them new models.