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I'm not sure if this is old news or not. I have just looked through the most recent posts & haven't seen anything about it.....

I have it on good authority that Dark Eldar are the next army to have a new Codex. This is apparently to be released in conjunction with some fantasy rules/models update.
This will be in a few months & apparently they are being 'test' played atm.

After that Black Templars are to be re-done. This will happen towards the end of 2010. (Another Marine Army! - I guess they need it though)

The next big thing is to be Necrons towards the start of next year.

I hope that this brings excitement to many & again, is not old news.

Awesome if true. Brace for calls of salt.

Yessssssssss Black Templar!!! I can pick my boys up and dust them off again!

Scottywan82 wrote:Awesome if true. Brace for calls of salt.

Should have just combined SW, BA and BT into one book.. "Codex: Assault Marines"

Or "Codex: You play vanilla? Sucks to be you".. Perhaps Codex BT can be "Codex: Black Templars - The First Codex to not get the same 5 DE players bitching about how long its been for them"

Ha...Grey Knights will get their codex before Templar for sure...nobody knows if it's before DE or not.

Necrons need it...but no one has good authority on that rumor yet.

Klueless wrote:I'm not sure if this is old news or not. I have just looked through the most recent posts & haven't seen anything about it.....

I have it on good authority that Dark Eldar are the next army to have a new Codex. This is apparently to be released in conjunction with some fantasy rules/models update.
This will be in a few months & apparently they are being 'test' played atm.

Nope.

Playtesting etc is well and truly finished.

Book is at the printers.

reds8n wrote:Nope.

Playtesting etc is well and truly finished.

Book is at the printers.

Before 10/10/10? I fear a small corner of the internet may explode.

Scottywan82 wrote:Awesome if true. Brace for calls of salt.

reds8n wrote:
Nope.

Playtesting etc is well and truly finished.

Book is at the printers.

Book by the guy who did the last Eldar codex, minis by Jes G himself. I am excited by this and I hated the original Dark Eldar. If they're all I hope they'll be, then it's going to be my second 40k army.

reds8n wrote:Book is at the printers.

Just as appropriate would be a pic of this same face but grabbing wallet.

Huzzah! I have no intention of collecting them, but I'm dying to see what 12 years of games development does to a splinter rifle.

Allow me to show you what I'm going to use to bury this thread:

The saltiness would have more traction if the report had not come from Red.

Ok BT codex after is sweet if true, but there are not that many SM codices left to update.

There are three things I am waiting for 1) Tau to be updated, 2) two non-marine codices to be come out in a row, and 3) There to be space Dwarfs to be released. The odds drop the more you go down the list.

back on topic: Congrats on your patience DE players if the is true.

Kirasu wrote:Perhaps Codex BT can be "Codex: Black Templars - The First Codex to not get the same 5 DE players bitching about how long its been for them"

That has a pleasing ring to it - not sure it will fit on the cover though.

fullheadofhair wrote:

Kirasu wrote:Perhaps Codex BT can be "Codex: Black Templars - The First Codex to not get the same 5 DE players bitching about how long its been for them"

That has a pleasing ring to it - not sure it will fit on the cover though.

It'll also be the "First Codex With No Cover Art, And Just A Lot of Words On The Front".

No, no. DE need three things badly. In order, they are:

(1) New Codex

(2) New Miniatures

(3) New Art

MeanGreenStompa wrote:
Book by the guy who did the last Eldar codex

Phil Kelly, right? That should turn out fairly well, then.

MeanGreenStompa wrote:

reds8n wrote:
Nope.

Playtesting etc is well and truly finished.

Book is at the printers.

Book by the guy who did the last Eldar codex, minis by Jes G himself. I am excited by this and I hated the original Dark Eldar. If they're all I hope they'll be, then it's going to be my second 40k army.

Same here. I've come perilously close to starting a Khorne Berzerker army on more than one occasion, but if the release is this close I might wait to see see how DE pan out. I just like the idea of them for some reason. I think it's partly down to how aggro they sound on Dawn Of War...

'The Banner! RAISE THE BANNER!!1!!'

Manchu wrote:No, no. DE need three things badly. In order, they are:

(1) New Codex

(2) New Miniatures

(3) New Art

Perhaps 1 and 2 should share the podium.

Albatross wrote:

MeanGreenStompa wrote:

reds8n wrote:
Nope.

Playtesting etc is well and truly finished.

Book is at the printers.

Book by the guy who did the last Eldar codex, minis by Jes G himself. I am excited by this and I hated the original Dark Eldar. If they're all I hope they'll be, then it's going to be my second 40k army.

Same here. I've come perilously close to starting a Khorne Berzerker army on more than one occasion, but if the release is this close I might wait to see see how DE pan out. I just like the idea of them for some reason. I think it's partly down to how aggro they sound on Dawn Of War...

'The Banner! RAISE THE BANNER!!1!!'

They also looked quite good in Dawn of War, didn't they? Barely any ridiculous hair in sight, and Wyches that are clearly female.

So the fact that I have just bought a Dark Eldar Army from a friend, is this a good or a bad thing?

fwiw just waiting to collect.

reds8n wrote:

Klueless wrote:I have it on good authority that Dark Eldar are the next army to have a new Codex.

This will be in a few months & apparently they are being 'test' played atm.

Nope.

Playtesting etc is well and truly finished.

Book is at the printers.

Interesting.

If it's actually coming out in the next few months, I'll be glad to meet Yakface at the Bunker for a picture of me paying up.


Tho if they could just wait almost exactly 6 more months, that'd be awesome for everybody!

If this is true can we then get back to whinning for a squat codex?

Cheese Elemental wrote:

Albatross wrote:

MeanGreenStompa wrote:

reds8n wrote:
Nope.

Playtesting etc is well and truly finished.

Book is at the printers.

Book by the guy who did the last Eldar codex, minis by Jes G himself. I am excited by this and I hated the original Dark Eldar. If they're all I hope they'll be, then it's going to be my second 40k army.

Same here. I've come perilously close to starting a Khorne Berzerker army on more than one occasion, but if the release is this close I might wait to see see how DE pan out. I just like the idea of them for some reason. I think it's partly down to how aggro they sound on Dawn Of War...

'The Banner! RAISE THE BANNER!!1!!'

They also looked quite good in Dawn of War, didn't they? Barely any ridiculous hair in sight, and Wyches that are clearly female.

Yeah, I thought so - they easily have the best voices out of any of the races (with the possible exception of Orks). 'SPEED, BRINGER OF DEATH!' and 'is it time to loot and kill?' It's like they're all on crack or something. Brilliant.

Drugged-up space perverts.

i would *THINK* that its dark eldar adn whfb 8th edition then inquisition

black Templars with a new codex? what a load of rubbish >.>

Oh joy, another new revision is in store for Space Marines! This is on the heels of Blood Angels, I think Space Wolves also got some new stuff, now we are reviseing Black Templars...Aren't the current Templar models still relevent?...Shouldn't we focus on updateing some of the armies that are still trailing from 3rd and 4th addition rulesets before doing more marine rules? I think Necrons could use a good reboot, could care less about Dark Eldar, I always thought the models were lousy, and the concept was somewhat silly as well. I wish they could focus on finishing some of the stuff that has been "in the works" for too long; like plastic stormtroopers and roughriders for IG, maybe some updated Tau models, or new Inquisition stuff. I would desperatly like to see some new armies for 40k, maybe AdMech? or renegade guardsmen (not the crazy expensive FW ones), maybe a new plastic guard army (instead of Catachan add on units, who plays Catachans?) But GW keeps rolling out some new re-vamp on Marines every 2 months, and I don't see where re-doing the Dark Eldar line is gonna be any big hit, either. The Necron revision will probably be somewhat successful, other two are a waste.

gil gerard wrote:maybe some updated Tau models

What needs updating besides Kroot Hounds?
If they come out with new rules, then new models apply, otherwise, Tau are doing pretty good models-wise. More plastic guard would be fun, but perhaps unnecessary.

Kinda annoyed by squishing BT between DE and 'crons, but if one more goddamned Marine codex is all we need to justify giving DE and 'cron players new codices, then I'm still incredibly happy.