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So, yeah. Is there anything in particular you'd like to see happen with the next editions of Codexes/Army Books? Could be rules, units, or sets released alongside them. It doesn't have to be coming soon- just whatever you want to see.

Personally, I'd like a plastic multi-part Ork Warboss and some Flash Gitz for the next Ork Codex, and I'd have the Ratling Gun renamed the Rattling Gun for the Skaven (not quite so stupid).

Advertising! *kidding*

Reworked Flash gits would be nice.

New Buggies, Wartrakks and SKorchas,

Losing the 2+3++ insanity.

I would like a few small alterations to the Orks Codex.
Boyz having the option to forgo all shooting to wield huge choppas.
Nobs having the option of rokkit packs like stormboyz
Boyz units having the ability to purchase burnas as a 1 per 10 weapon option.
Sixth freaking edition already!

warpcrafter wrote: Nobs having the option of rokkit packs like stormboyz

...Wouldn't that essentially just be Stormboyz?

Also, plastic Meganobz and Deffkoptas.

Onto the Empire: New Karl Franz on foot & horse/ dragon(?); maybe a new Balthazar Gelt?

Tyranids could use some models for their special characters. Space Marines, on the other hand, I would like to see with less characters- Telion and Chronus cut out. (Nobody uses them anyway.)

Vampirate of Sartosa wrote:

warpcrafter wrote: Nobs having the option of rokkit packs like stormboyz

...Wouldn't that essentially just be Stormboyz?

Also, plastic Meganobz and Deffkoptas.

Onto the Empire: New Karl Franz on foot & horse/ dragon(?); maybe a new Balthazar Gelt?

Tyranids could use some models for their special characters. Space Marines, on the other hand, I would like to see with less characters- Telion and Chronus cut out. (Nobody uses them anyway.)

They would be stormboyz with 2 wounds, 'eavy armor, cybork bodies, combi-burnas and powerfists, not to mention a painboy giving them feel no pain. Tell me that wouldn't be a thousand kinds of awesome!

New Guard infantry Plastics, one of the cool things about the old Guard where the fact they had multiple regiments (okay they have multiple now, but metal/finecast is expensive) to pick from.

Considering the ammount of metals they released, its scary to think pretty much three boxes a time could open up two more regiments via a HQ, Heavy and Troop.

Obvious first choice for me is Mordian/Praetorian, followed by Tanith/Catachan (they need a redo) and Valhalla/Steel Legion.

Chaos Legions Codex to be true, and for a Chaos Plastic Dread to finally arrive.

6th edition box next year (although FW seemed to have accidently confirmed 6th is coming) hoping for Dark Angels and Chaos of some kind.

Eventual re-release of Necromunda with new multi plastic gangs, so I can put together the Necromundian 'Spiders' regiment.

Nothing else really comes to mind atm.

They would be stormboyz with 2 wounds, 'eavy armor, cybork bodies, combi-burnas and powerfists, not to mention a painboy giving them feel no pain. Tell me that wouldn't be a thousand kinds of awesome!

The points cost would need to be upped massively, though, for all that with the rockitt packs.

More plastic things. More plastic things everywhere.

More IG Regiments and bring back all of the old regiments.
All plastic.

Re-Release Necromunda and Battlefleet Gothic. Like, right now. Make it all plastic.

^ This

Oh and no more (or better) Finecast stuff

Arclite wrote:More plastic things. More plastic things everywhere.

More IG Regiments and bring back all of the old regiments.
All plastic.

Re-Release Necromunda and Battlefleet Gothic. Like, right now. Make it all plastic.

I approve of this.

Official rules for Cypher, either in the DA or CSM Codex

I know it won't happen, but maybe rules and fluff for non-chaos-tainted renegades.

Rules for DA to use Land Raider Redeemers and Legion of the Damned (again, not expecting it, but it would be nice)

Bretonnians

As far as models:

1. Plastic Mega Nobz kit

2. New plastic warbuggy/War trakk kit


As for Rules/codex changes:

1. Get rid of TLOS.

2. Kill points needs a total overhaul

3. I'd like to see something change so that ork boyz w/ slugga&choppa have some appeal. Currently shoota orks are almost always taken instead.

I would make all choppa weapons (Choppas and 'uge choppas) have once per game Rending during the turn the waaagh is called and a unit using them successfully assaults. This would fit the fluff of the waaagh/orks and the frenzied nature of the event, and give a limited perk to fielding them...

CT GAMER wrote:As far as models:

1. Plastic Mega Nobz kit

2. New plastic warbuggy/War trakk kit


As for Rules/codex changes:

1. Get rid of TLOS.

2. Kill points needs a total overhaul

3. I'd like to see something change so that ork boyz w/ slugga&choppa have some appeal. Currently shoota orks are almost always taken instead.

I would make all choppa weapons (Choppas and 'uge choppas) have once per game Rending during the turn the waaagh is called and a unit using them successfully assaults. This would fit the fluff of the waaagh/orks and the frenzied nature of the event, and give a limited perk to fielding them...

Upwards of 120 rending attacks, even once per game, is goddamn crazy. I don't see why people don't like TLOS, since the old system was so abstract and awkward. Kill points do need an overhaul though.

I would really like to see a plastic Chaos dreadnought, since there are no fewer than 5 loyalist plastic dreads if you include Black Reach. I've only ever seen one or two good conversions. Above all though, I'd like to see cultists return to the game. Hordes of slavering, screaming lunatics with handaxes, butter knives, and half-broken guns chanting the names of dark gods is the coolest damn thing.

Blacksails wrote:

Arclite wrote:More plastic things. More plastic things everywhere.

More IG Regiments and bring back all of the old regiments.
All plastic.

Re-Release Necromunda and Battlefleet Gothic. Like, right now. Make it all plastic.

I approve of this.

As do i,it would be very cool.

but its not marines so they won't bother

i would like to see 6th edition, with the following changes:
1. Get rid of TLOS. it hampers game play. there just arent that many terrain peices that completely block line of sight, making certain armies FAR better than they ever should be.
2. Reduce the points cost of devestators for vanila marine armies.
3. Increase the points cost and get rid of/re-work several space worlf units and psychic powers. they are OP'd beyond beleife, and SW units cost the same or less than a vanilla marine army but are clearly better than their counterparts.
4. re-work or tone down grey knights. they are just too over the top.
5. keep the orders system for the imperial guard, but make it cost something reasonable. the orders are frackin stupid good.
6. get rid of all of the stupid heroes in the game. Its almost not warhammer anymore, its more like herohammer.
7. give every army a way to field a reaively inexpensive HQ unit.
8. Make Space marine Mighty Hero charectors (like chaplains and company commanders) have three wounds. Make chaos charectors have 4 wounds. NO IG COMMANDER should EVER have more wounds than my chaplain or librarian does. thats just stupid.
9. Reduce the effectiveness of armor and transports. People should be abe to play the game without an utter reliance on armored transport to get us whee we are going.
10. make psychology important in the game. im not saying go back to secon edition where everything caused fear, terror, fear-teror, fear-terror-clown scares with special rules for everything, but some introduction of morale back into te game wouldnt be bad. We could also get a chane to use a models LD value for more than just passing psychcic tests.
11. keep cover saves, its a good system. get rid of how easy it is to get cover. this goes backto true LOS, and anoter great reason why it needs to get the axe.
12. get away from charectors giving force multiplier bonuses. Gaz is a great example of this, so is vulcan. no one charector should be that far reaching in their affect on the game.

wow, tht was oddly theraputic....

I want Tzeentch to auto pass pyschic tests like we used to.
I want my fething wargear section back in my codex-- I like building my own commander as opposed to just picking one of the ten awesome special characters they put in the book.
I want daemons back in my chaos codex-- not gakky little generic daemons--really real daemons.
I want obliterators to have true T5
I want my daemonic gifts and veteran skills back.
Actually, come to think of it, I just want the 3.5 Chaos Codex back.

I loved the old chaos codex...it was by far my favorite one

Lord Poison wrote:but its not marines so they won't bother

Oh quit your whining. You say that like Dark Eldar didn't get a goddamn fantastic model range, rulebook, and continuous support from GW. Marines generally get more attention. We get it. They aren't the only reason GW doesn't get around to more cool and esoteric things you know.

Asking for a reduction in the armount of armour used in games i pointless. They tried to get people for years to buy vehicles. They finally got people buying them with 5th. It's not going to change.

Some plastic Mad Boyz would be nice....infact some Mad Boyz rules would be good as well.
I like TLOS, it's a little bit of realism in a mad game setting. Maybe a Genestealer Cult list with Limo's for the Cult Leader...like in Rogue Trader. And bring back Beastmen in the Chaos Codex, 2nd Ed had them and they were awesome!
Also it would be nice to see a plastic chaos dreadnought and SQUATS!!

Brother SRM wrote:

Lord Poison wrote:but its not marines so they won't bother

Oh quit your whining. You say that like Dark Eldar didn't get a goddamn fantastic model range, rulebook, and continuous support from GW. Marines generally get more attention. We get it. They aren't the only reason GW doesn't get around to more cool and esoteric things you know.

yes but it took them, what 10 years to redo dark eldar once
I love the new dark eldar, but GW has, time and time again over the years I've been playing this, made me a jaded rather annoyed with their choices person.
all the armies I played were (and still are) heavily underpowered, in need of an update and probably won't get it because marines need it first
I don't want to play marines and yet they take up nearly half of the armies in the game (7/15 if you count chaos, though they got nerfed and a sub par model range, so who knows about them)

Let's have a price drop please.

But actual model wise? I'd like to see what a 5/6th Ed Tau or Necron. book would be like.

-Loki- wrote:Asking for a reduction in the armount of armour used in games i pointless. They tried to get people for years to buy vehicles. They finally got people buying them with 5th. It's not going to change.

I never cared for GW's tanks, well except the gorkamorka tanks
those are fantastic!
if I ever want to make a Mad Max theme I know where to go

- Amend time so that no-one remembers the over-powered ridiculousness that was the 3.5 Chaos Codex
- As mentioned previously, new IG plastic troops
- 8th/9th ed Dwarf book that doesn't lose the rune system. I'll choose to miss out on a big silly monster to keep it, thanks. Wouldn't object to a new infantry unit or two, though - possibly have Long Drong's Slayers and the Goblinhewer as special characters, as they were cool.
- Imperial Armour books to be confirmed as part of the core rules. If 6th edition includes Flyer rules in the main book (as has been rumoured), then IA Flyers to be legal in all games. Anything with structure/mass points to remain restricted to 2k+ games or Apocalypse.
- Dogs of War to come back to Fantasy in 9th...

LOWER PRICES!
Ok, now that we've established that...
Necrons. Please. And less boring. I mean, the background is cool, the models are cool, but there isn't much variety, especially painting wise. I've seen a few original and fantastic necron armies, but most of them look the same.
Genestealer Cult! 'Nuff said.

6th Edition 40k comes with a Scaling rule set.


You have you core rules for games ranging from 500-2500 pts. [basically the way it is now]
this would be in the Micro rule book that comes in the Starter set.


The Big Rule Book that you Buy separately would include 2 other sets of rules.

It would have a true "kill team" rule set for games of 500 pts or less.
You have more actions per model, more complicated rules.
Eventually release a book that has several "Micro-Codexes" for the Fringe factions that are not large enough to make entire armies.
[examples: Genestealer cults, Deathwatch, Adeptus Arbites, Mechanicus, Squats, ect.]
There would probably only be 3-4 units for each faction.
This gives the Studio an Easy way to placate Fans of these factions without delaying Major Releases or making a ton of new models.


Also included are an "apocalypse" rule set for games of 2500+ pts.
Rules for Superheavies, Gargantuan Creatures, Stratagems and Teams/Allies.
The rules for the Titans and such are already available, but some could be included here as well.

So, wait- why is TLOS so bad? Is there a better alternative? I can't think of one.

Also, Demiurg. And Forge World Kislev/Cathay/Dogs of War.

Rattling Gun sounds even more stupid because it's not a pun and the adjective 'rattling' just makes it read awkwardly. You can't take the humour out of WH any more than you can take the grim out of 40K.