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Did anyone hear sometingh about IG codex? Any rumors what will be changed? Maybe possible date of release?
Hope somebody help me :]
Regards.

Edited for spelling/clairity.

Your internet shorthand has left my head hurting

Lormax wrote:Your internet shorthand has left my head hurting

I concur. At first I thought maybe "sth" was a typo but it's also in the thread so i am not sure what is being asked specifically.

I have to agree.

Please no more shorthand.

SuCHaR wrote:Did anyone hear sth about IG codex? Any rumors what will be changed? Maybe possible date of release?
Hope smb help me :]
Regards.

For those who don't speak internet I'm assuming he means...

Did anyone hear SOMTHING about IG codex? Any rumors what will be changed? Maybe a possible date of release? Hope SOMEBODY will help me :]

But yeah shorthand is annoying and an interesting sidenote the correct shorthand translation of SMB is "suck my balls" which i really hope he didn't mean

Nah, my ForumSpeak3000 translated it as:

'Hello, I don't understand the purpose of the News & Rumours forum. Please make sarcastic replies and then lock my thread'

Well, now that the OT has been translated. Anyone got any data on it?

Awww, and i thought this was rumours about sith in the IG codex :( After yoda and Vader in Soul Calibour 4, its even vaguely possible. Lucas will pimp his I.P. out for hugs and biscuits.

Really?

I give GREAT hugs... and my wife could make some biscuits...

Hmm.... Ideas churning already...


Eric

Stupid thread not going anywhere. Some IG info would be nice.

There's nothing solid from GW yet. Rumors are floating around that there will be plastic greatcoat guardsmen, with which you can make Valhallans and Deathguard with a simple headswap. New unified Russ kits are also rumored (LRBT, Demolisher, and any other variants in one box).

I don't know anything about the timetable.

This was from Dosadi on Seer (Who is pretty damn reliable):




Army wide special rule: I think it’s called Platoon Drill or something like that. Basically, units from the same platoon may ignore intervening squads when shooting. So enemy units targeted in this way do not receive the 4+ save. Apparently this only works if the Platoon command squad is alive and within 12” of the rest of the platoon. I’ve been told that this is just one of the abilities guard Platoons may get, but only as long as the chain of command is intact (whatever that means). So loosing your HQ Command Squad may be a really bad thing.

Doctrines are for sure gone (I think we all knew this), but have been replaced by more mutable platoons. Instead of Armoured fist squads you can buy Chimeras for a whole platoon. Or buy the whole platoon grav-chutes to give them deep strike, or drop the heavy weapons from squads and give the platoon Scout. Veteran squads become upgrades to platoons (i.e. they are not elites anymore).

Apparently infantry platoons let you attach certain types of support vehicles to them(kinda like back in second edition). Things like sentinels, hellhounds and demolishers can be attached to platoons. They still take up a FOC spot, but become part of the platoon and so will benefit from the Platoon Drill rule.

The Leman Russ can be bought as a squadron so you can get 3 for a single FOC. They can not be attached to platoons however.

Sniper Squads can now infiltrate, get stealth, range finders and all models in the squad have sniper rifles (and BS 4!).

Like the Land Raider, a new plastic sprue for the Leman Russ has been made that will allow plastic demolishers and a 3rd variant (my money is on the Exterminator).

The Baneblade in NOT in the new codex. It just doesn’t work (i.e. overpowered)in games that are not Apocalypse in size.

However Stormtrooper squads can now take Valkyries as transports. Both will be getting a plastic kit. Valkyries follow the rules for skimmers I’ve been told. Again, they want to keep flyers and super heavies out of “normal games” but give people the ability to use them with all the special rules in Apocalypse and Planet-strike (if the ever get around to that.)

This last one makes me wonder what’s they are doing, but apparently there is a new HQ in the book; Inquisitor and Retinue much like the elites from the current Daemon Hunters/Witch Hunters books.

Ok guys- I edited the chatspeak out...

As far as this thread goes- Age of Egos' summary is an A+.

Wow. Think they want to offload some Leman Russ kits? THat sounds like an opportunity for a lot of vehicles running about. Platoon Drill sounds nice too. Too bad IG are going ot actually start having to pay points for some of the things they currently get for free (drop troops). Now, how best to hide that command structure.

Who is writing codex IG? I wonder how much influence Alessio will have here, and how much he will choose ot exert.

You want a sarcastic reply to netspeak? That's like asking a Human to deliver witty retorts to a barking dog.

Won't Russ Squadrons suffer from the same problems as current vehicle squadrons ie. immobilised = death?

That seems like a bad trade to me.

Anyway, I look forward to lots of pendulum swinging in the next Guard Codex. 25 point powre fists, 15 point Plasma Guns - maybe even 30 point Lascannons. 7 point Guardsmen (as they'll give them Frag Grenades as standard).

On the bright side, some things will better. If there's a new Chimera kit, Chimeras will get better. If there's a new Hellhound kit, Hellhounds will get better. The mutable platoon rules sound great (and are the correct way to do Doctrines). Storm Troopers might become useful, especially if there's a plastic kit. New Commissar models (which is always good - I love Commissars even if their rules are sh!t).

If there isn't a new Hellhound kit through, woe betide the Inferno Cannon - back to standard flamer rules for you!!!

BYE

I am afraid that the Hellhound will get nerfed. Again, I've not heard anything that suggests it might be nerfed, but it's so good now... And GW does have a habit of what goes up in utility must come back down again.

Who knows though? They might make it auto-break troops again...

I'm betting Jervis simply cannot wait to put the 'glancing = penetrating' rule back in for Hellhounds.

I think he just salivates in general about all the Codices he can make revert back to their original 3rd Ed versions.

BYE

Have you heard anythink that Armoured Company will be banned ?? Someboyd told me that is going to be forbiddnen and I do not know is it true.
Regards.

The Guard Codex is being written by a new guy named Robin Cruddace. He promises lots more tanks.

Storm troopers will finally be able to use shotguns and best of all, there will be models of Kasrkin with beefy M32 shotguns. Greens of a Kasrkin with said weapon float around on these series of tubes.

Buzz off, shotguns might not be powerful but they are fragging awesome.

according to the staff at my local store, there will be 'over 15' tanks. We managed to get that out of him after much probing. But there are already about 12 tanks already if you don't count a lot of the forge world stuff. Nothing else though.
Everyone goes on about guard getting a buggy, but they've already got the salamander. Which can easily be represented by a buggy model such as the converted land speeder that seemed to pop up everywhere when someone set up the thread IG humvee?

Any chances to see the codex this year? Maybe for Christmas?

Oh my god.

My heart just skipped like... 2 beats thinking of an army all trooped out in Valkyries.

Plastic Stormtroopers = Godsend.

(Does somebody at GW finally care about normal humans?)

~sA

Plastic Stormtroopers would be very nice, as I will be able to somehow mix them with the Cadian heavy weapon crews and the new Land Speeder Storm to create Speeder-borne Storm Troopers.

It'll be awesome.

BYE

SuCHaR wrote:Any chances to see the codex this year? Maybe for Christmas?

Not a chance. As Space Marines are coming out in October, and the next WHFB release will be after that (should be Warriors of Chaos).

So spring is the likely time for IG as they do seem to be next in line what with being mentioned in White Dwarf an all.

Apone wrote:

SuCHaR wrote:Any chances to see the codex this year? Maybe for Christmas?

Not a chance. As Space Marines are coming out in October, and the next WHFB release will be after that (should be Warriors of Chaos).

So spring is the likely time for IG as they do seem to be next in line what with being mentioned in White Dwarf an all.

Not good, not good

I repeat my question: does anyone heard any rumors about banned AC? Hope they'll not...
And 2nd thinks have you got more pictures of new Ig meybe like posted above?

Not so much banned as forgotten, like Lost & the Damned and Kroot Mercs before them.

But unless there's an HQ choice that's a tank, or a mutable platoon selection for a squadron of Leman Russes, you can forget Armoured Company.

It's ok though. They can't actually win a game with 5th's new victory conditions, so it's no big loss. I say this as a man who owns 3 10-tank Leman Russ Squadrons...

BYE

H.B.M.C. wrote: I say this as a man who owns 3 10-tank Leman Russ Squadrons...

H.B.M.C., in the sA Book of Awesome, you have just moved up by a factor of 65. 30+ Russes = Ultimate Epic Automatic Awesome.

Keep on trackin',

~sA

We really need to get HBMC to post his army one of these days.

As for the IG codex news, yeah, sounds good.