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Um.. looked at a Vindicator lately, dude?

S 10, AP 2 with BS 4, and dirt cheap. BA ones are fast also.

Also take a gander at the IG codex (BS 3 i grant you) for templatey goodness. ANYTHING short of D strength pieplates from Necrons in regular play is going to be topped by the IG in either number or plates or power.

wyomingfox wrote:@ Kroot,
I got to ask: is Big Red a rumors compiler like yourself or is he a rumor mounger like Harry? I have never seen him list any sources on his BOLS posts, which would be what I would expect from a rumor compiler. Yet his introductory statements always seems like he his pointing to the internet as the source of his rumors rather than through personal undisclosed sources?

He is a rumour compiler not stating his sources and sometimes misquoting. BoLS is famous for reposting stuff, mostly from Warseer. Only a few times they have some original source. This here seems to have new bits though.

Think I'm gonna be proved right, Necrons in November after the silly naval game!

Reckon the little 'slip' today on the OS when the new painter says something isn't going to paint itself and they 'censor' it will be saying necrons.

Games Day reveal is the strong, strong rumour with the release in November.

The long wai for you necron guys is nearly at an end and I might escape the accusation of being a troll!


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I am getting a totally random and unsupported by anything other than my own gut feeling that 6th ed will be very soon, perhaps shockingly soon, a sudden appearance with no trailing. Eldar and Tau to be the first codices for the new ed? As I say just a hunch and not a rumour or anything like that I am not trying to troll anyone!

I agree that it "feels" like sixth is around the corner.... Don't be shocked if vehicles get hosed again and TLOS goes the way of the dodo....

Back on topic I am excited for the Necrons, if the trend continues (Tyranids<DE<GK....<Necrons???) Then they will be extremely strong and in demand, too bad they missed Ard boyz this year...

Red Corsair wrote:Don't be shocked if vehicles get hosed again

That would be shocking. If a "standard" army these days is including 6+ vehicles, that's 6+ vehicle kits sold. They are miniatures company way more than a game company.

Isengard wrote:Reckon the little 'slip' today on the OS when the new painter says something isn't going to paint itself and they 'censor' it will be saying necrons.

Games Day reveal is the strong, strong rumour with the release in November.

The long wai for you necron guys is nearly at an end and I might escape the accusation of being a troll!

Link me to this, I must know what you're talking about.

So we are possibly looking at a time table like this:

Sept. 25th Games Day UK
Oct. 8th Arrival of 'Black boxes'
Oct. 29th Preorder
Nov. 5th Release?

Anpu-adom wrote:So we are possibly looking at a time table like this:

Sept. 25th Games Day UK
Oct. 8th Arrival of 'Black boxes'
Oct. 29th Preorder
Nov. 5th Release?

I'd speed it up to a Oct. 22 release, possibly even earlier.

I think Nov. 5th would be a great day to bring out the Necrons. Remember, remember, the 5th of November.

I have some Necron models that I still need to paint, so this is great news for me.

I never liked the C'tan that much anyway. They're integral to the Necron's background pre-great sleep, but now they're very unwieldy for the fluff.

KilroyKiljoy wrote:

Anpu-adom wrote:So we are possibly looking at a time table like this:

Sept. 25th Games Day UK
Oct. 8th Arrival of 'Black boxes'
Oct. 29th Preorder
Nov. 5th Release?

I'd speed it up to a Oct. 22 release, possibly even earlier.

You really think that they'd push them out earlier? The first wave of plastics are likely in production and so are the finecast blisters. The book has quite probably been at the printers for weeks now, but you think that they would miss the chance to do pre-order two days before Halloween?

I hear that GW's current in-house newsletter is hinting at Necrons for Bonfire Night (5th November) and that is the gossip. It's symbolic, but it would be great to be out sooner. I won't be buying them but I will look forward to fighting them!

Isengard wrote:Think I'm gonna be proved right, Necrons in November after the silly naval game!

Reckon the little 'slip' today on the OS when the new painter says something isn't going to paint itself and they 'censor' it will be saying necrons.

Games Day reveal is the strong, strong rumour with the release in November.

The long wai for you necron guys is nearly at an end and I might escape the accusation of being a troll!


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I am getting a totally random and unsupported by anything other than my own gut feeling that 6th ed will be very soon, perhaps shockingly soon, a sudden appearance with no trailing. Eldar and Tau to be the first codices for the new ed? As I say just a hunch and not a rumour or anything like that I am not trying to troll anyone!

Indeed you were right so far, with the email just sent out by GW about their naval game last night.

Well, the guys at my flgs(gw) know NOTHING about it, yet

Matt.Kingsley wrote:Well, the guys at my flgs(gw) know NOTHING about it, yet

Of course they don't.

Protip = Either they don't get told anything or they just aren't going to tell you. Take your pick.

I didn't ask them, they were talking amongst themselves about when I walked by...

Anpu-adom wrote:

KilroyKiljoy wrote:

Anpu-adom wrote:So we are possibly looking at a time table like this:

Sept. 25th Games Day UK
Oct. 8th Arrival of 'Black boxes'
Oct. 29th Preorder
Nov. 5th Release?

I'd speed it up to a Oct. 22 release, possibly even earlier.

You really think that they'd push them out earlier? The first wave of plastics are likely in production and so are the finecast blisters. The book has quite probably been at the printers for weeks now, but you think that they would miss the chance to do pre-order two days before Halloween?

Absolutely. The way I understand it, once it is announced, the pre-orders will go up. In other words, pre-orders are starting right after they announce it at Games Day UK, on the 25th. And then having a full wait for a month of pre-orders would be kinda ridiculous, but GW-like, so at latest, it'd probably be the 22nd, possibly even earlier.

Matt.Kingsley wrote:I didn't ask them, they were talking amongst themselves about when I walked by...

I hear ya, which is I why I stated both possible situations. It's just amusing that this "denial of information" on GW's part is laughable and still full of holes because their own (corporate) employees disagree with corporate big-wigs and still get the info out to the players. The store employee's just don't hear about it because I doubt many of them actually search beyond their internal email/notification system.

More Necrons disappear from the GW online store. http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/listProducts.jsp?catId=cat440174a
Gone are:
The Lord with Orb
Immortals
Pariahs
WARRIORS ?!?!?!?!
Wraiths
Destroyers
Monoliths ????

Still available (for now):
Battleforce
Destroyer Lord
Lord with Warscythe
Flayed Ones
Scarabs Swarm
Tomb Spyder
Heavy Destroyer

Sounds normal to me. The usual repackaging that goes on before a new codex

Anpu-adom wrote:More Necrons disappear from the GW online store. http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/listProducts.jsp?catId=cat440174a
Gone are:
The Lord with Orb
Immortals
Pariahs
WARRIORS ?!?!?!?!
Wraiths
Destroyers
Monoliths ????

Still available (for now):
Battleforce
Destroyer Lord
Lord with Warscythe
Flayed Ones
Scarabs Swarm
Tomb Spyder
Heavy Destroyer

I can't even order flayed ones or tomb spyders on the site. honestly, should have taken down those two as well GW online store.

5 DAYS TIL THE UNVEIL. GET PUMPED.

Anpu-adom wrote:So we are possibly looking at a time table like this:

Sept. 25th Games Day UK
Oct. 8th Arrival of 'Black boxes'
Oct. 29th Preorder
Nov. 5th Release?

Black Boxes don't exist anymore, so that can be scrubbed from the timetable.

-Loki- wrote:

Anpu-adom wrote:So we are possibly looking at a time table like this:

Sept. 25th Games Day UK
Oct. 8th Arrival of 'Black boxes'
Oct. 29th Preorder
Nov. 5th Release?

Black Boxes don't exist anymore, so that can be scrubbed from the timetable.

So pretty much, at latest, we're looking at late October release?

Didn't someone say a while ago that there was some statement of "after the eve of the ghosts, the dead will rise." or something like that?

That could be the new naval game. The main antagonists are Undead.

redkeyboard wrote:Str 9 Ap1 large blast looks way to powerful insta kill all troops and most elites and hq's and can hit multiple targets and if it is a blast weapon how can it have a bs4 skill.

Ummmmm, but space marines have one better, a vindicator. Str 10 large blast ap 2, and dirt cheap, with BS4. I don't know what the complaint here is...

Mentioned that at the top of the page

He's probably complaining that xenos get somethuing like that, instead of it being humans-only..

No news of Necrons at GD:UK. Disappointing if you ask me, but we still have WD and GD:OZ, so who knows? literally, who knows if Necrons will be there....

No Necrons makes Ben a Saaaaaad panda.