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 zedster40k wrote:
They will release a rule that means that for evey squad of guardsmen you take, the next unit will be 2pts cheaper per model

Wait, wouldn't taking a certain number of squads lead to guardsmen being free? at certain point levels you could field infinite guardsmen. That's so incredibly broken that I could actually imagine GW doing it...

 Squidmanlolz wrote:

 zedster40k wrote:
They will release a rule that means that for evey squad of guardsmen you take, the next unit will be 2pts cheaper per model

Wait, wouldn't taking a certain number of squads lead to guardsmen being free? at certain point levels you could field infinite guardsmen. That's so incredibly broken that I could actually imagine GW doing it...

At current guard point costs if you'd only need to take three infantry squads for them to start to become free. Though, I disagree that this would ever be put into a codex. They'd of course put it in a supplement and charge you what the codex costs for it.

 Flinty wrote:

 Guardsmen Bob wrote:
Thanks to many months of pleading, bribery, and blackmail the Imperial Guard is getting a new Elite unit: Guardsman Bob!

Also, I'm counted as a Monstrous Creature!

But do you get all the travelling expenses required to turn up to all the games you will be taken in?

What happens when you get removed from the table?

In fact, he just gets to stand on the table and kick enemy models off the table. Also, he also gets a special stomp attack, in which every model under his special shoe shaped template (now for onlt €240,-, limited edition) suffers a literal destroyer hit! Every model that breaks or falls apart is removed as a casualty

Brother Michael wrote:

 Flinty wrote:

 Guardsmen Bob wrote:
Thanks to many months of pleading, bribery, and blackmail the Imperial Guard is getting a new Elite unit: Guardsman Bob!

Also, I'm counted as a Monstrous Creature!

But do you get all the travelling expenses required to turn up to all the games you will be taken in?

What happens when you get removed from the table?

In fact, he just gets to stand on the table and kick enemy models off the table.

While shouting incoherently, don't forget that part

Also, he also gets a special stomp attack, in which every model under his special shoe shaped template (now for onlt €240,-, limited edition) suffers a literal destroyer hit! Every model that breaks or falls apart is removed as a casualty

Nice. Codex:Guardsmen Bob is born!

If your table crumbles under the weight of Guardsman Bob, it counts as Exterminatus: All models take one S10 AP1 hit, then continue the game on the ground.

New Types of terrain:
Remains of the gaming table provide 4+ cover and count as difficult terrain.

rowenstin wrote:

6- Wibble

If your warlord isn't modelled with his underpants on his head and two pencils stuck up his nose or is a comissar, reroll on this table. Your Warlord and his unit is automatically placed in Reserves and only comes into play on the roll of a 6 and doesn't enter the battle automatically in any turn, but can give orders to any unit in the table that has a Voxcaster while he's in Reserves and doesn't count as destroyed if he never enters the battle.

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Any lasgun modeled with either a laser sight or a flashlight automatically counts as twinlinked.

I want a T10 Guardsman!

All Guards except Cadians and Catachans will disappear or be turned in to "guards that come from X planet, but look exactly the same as catachans and Cadians). All remaining metal models will be melted down and sold for their metal value on the international white metal exchange.

Vendettas will be removed from the codex and replaced with the following entry;

Imperial Armour Volume 3 (second edition) pages 221-222.

The equivalent will be true of any other models only available from Forge World. They will remain usable, but an additional book will therefore be required to field them.

New Order: Danger Close

If passed, it allows the unit in question to be covered by a friendly blast, large blast, template (etc.) marker in the shooting phase. Normal leadership and morale tests apply.

Here's a rumor that I hope comes true:

They'll produce more female IG models for me to include in my army, even if it's just heads for cadians.

At this stage the biggest fake rumour is that there is a new Guard codex in the offing

Ouch, burn.

Does this Exalt button actually do anything?

You the IG codex comes out. You get one, seems nice, balanced, you read it and you figure out how the IG is going to play as you make up your own list for your non-IG army for your game against you friend's.

You get to the game and deploy your armies when suddenly you realize something's wrong- there's way too many models on your opponent's side of the board including 3 baneblades, and from the way the guy's been talking everything's way more powerful than it should be.

Feeling cheated you demand to see your friend's codex and he obliges. You read and slowly realize that he's right, this is nothing like the codex you read last night.

How could this be? What could've happened?

It must've taken a tactical genius to...

*looks closer at the IG command squad*



CREEEEEEEEEED!!!!

 Melissia wrote:
Here's a rumor that I hope comes true:

They'll produce more female IG models for me to include in my army, even if it's just heads for cadians.

That one's a heartbreaker. :(

(Do you have the old female Guardsmen from waayyyy back in the day? The LE Commisar's the newest, then Warrior Woman, then Vasquez and the grenade launcher, then two plain ol' Lasgunners from Rogue Trader days. I think those six are it.)


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Heck, time for a rumor. Huzzah!

Feeling that the existing Cadians were fine, save the new Veteran/Special Weapon plastics set, and that the Catachans still sold well enough, GW has decided to bring in one plastic alternate set. No, not the Iron Guard. No, not the Talaran. No, not the ... look, will you just let me finish already?

GW has decided to throw a bone to the gaming community that's over the age of "Girls have cooties" and introduce the new Sarmatia Oriopatans plastic sets. Consisting of a ten-woman guard sprue, a 10-woman heavy weapon sprue, and a five-woman command sprue, each is chock full of options that range from special weapons to medikits to voxcasters to command bits, with the command sprue even including a new Commisar option. Of particular note is that each sprue comes with a wide variety of heads, including twice as many as needed to allow for diverse customization. That one features a classic Sisters f Battle hairstyle could lead legitimacy to further rumors of a plastic Sisters set to follow later this year.

(heartbreaking)

IG are getting squatted. They're going to be written out in the 7th ed release. Go buy some space marines instead.

Due to complaints as to how easy guardmen die, GW will replace them with an elite fighting force consisting of individual models that can be armed with a unique assortment of weapons and special character rules.

Meet the team:



(And even these guys used lasguns!)

Guardsmen will get a power armor unit as a new elite unit. They'll be Adeptus Mechanicus so they won't be better than marines, incase you were worried.

Sentinels will be replaced with a slightly larger two seat version that looks even more like something from Starwars... It'll be new so it won't suck as much. That unfortunately won't matter since the close combat variant is a must take... Too bad it looks terrible.

Roughriders will get mechanical horses! But their rules are the same!-WTF?!!?

The doctrine system is back!

You buy generic IG but add customizable skills and wargear to them to better represent their unique backgrounds.

After testing the system in nearly 3 games GW has ironed out all the problems!

For example you can turn your IG into Deathworld Vets by buying Infiltrate (3 points/model), Knife Fighters/+1 WS (3pts) and stealth (3 points).

Anyone who points out that you're now paying more points for an IG than for a Marine is a WAAC player and will be ignored.

Thanks to this system Battle Sisters will be folded into the IG by taking the doctirines: Power Armor (5pts), Bolters (5pts), Steadfast Faith (5pts) and Veteran/+1 BS (5 pts). The fact they now cost more than terminators is fair and balanced since SoB are supposed to be rare in an IG army.