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-Return of the Griffon mortar carrier and other “old units”
-New weapon options for Sentinels and a sprue recut with the new options added.
-Sentinels are said to be split into 2 diffent FOC options based on weapon loadouts (basically heavier armed ones won’t be able to scout)
-New Sanctioned Psykers
-New Ratling Snipers
-May 2nd release for the codex and other initial offering.


GENERAL RUMORS
-No more doctrines
-Tanks will be in squads
-Many special charaters that will provide army wide rules like those in new SM codex
-Chimera and Hellhound might come in one combo boxed set
-Troop squads may be in the pricerange of 200Pts for 45 Guardsmen
-Many new models

MODEL RUMORS (only a sampling)

-Plastic Valkyrie ( multiple Confirmations on this one! )

-Plastic StormTroopers (Also heavily confirmed)
-Leman Russ multi-variant all plastic kit
-Hellhound updated
-IG Command Squad plastic kit

There is a new HQ choice referred to as a “Fleet Officer”. This fine chap gives you access to different types of orbital bombardments every turn. There are other officer “types” to select from that give other abilites including a Commissar Lord.

Models
New Commissar Lord is available as a new HQ choice with dual models.

Plastic Command Squads; Cadians and Catachans are said to both be getting plastic command squads.

Infantry Squad Recuts; Infantry boxes are rumored to be repackaged as 2 sprues containing eight guardsmen and a single heavy weapon team in each box; similar to what was done to the Eldar Guardian kits.

Price for the Valkyrie is said to be £35/US$50, and the kit is fairly large (roughly Land Raider sized)

Army wide special rule 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Doctrines are for sure gone (I think we all knew this), but have been replaced by more mutable platoons.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.

Hope this helps.

Posting fail. We know all this.

^ thats nice of you to say, I'd have said epic fail

In the new IG Codex, will this mean that there is no more drop troop doctrine thing? IE, no more deep striking IG armies?

Dashofpepper wrote:In the new IG Codex, will this mean that there is no more drop troop doctrine thing? IE, no more deep striking IG armies?

This is starting to look like a definite possibility. I suspect GW wanted to force the list into a more conventional IG format, such as the ones portrayed in most background material (Elysians aside).

Yes we've seen this but it's nice to have in one place rather than across multiple 10+ page threads.

Thanks.

Welcome back to last May.

Well don't give the guy a hard on, I mean a hard time... I didn't know any of this.

Idiot that I am, I was chuffed to hear about the Fleet Officer and the Valkyrie has anyone heard anything about some rules or even miniatures for Naval Armsmen? I have heard things that lead me to assume that WD has mentioned something about it or publishe an article on a converted Landing Party

This is pretty old stuff and this very post has been posted before ages ago.

dont give the guy a what?? =0

Regarding squad recut with 1 hvy weapon sprue, does
it just come with 1 weapon, or mutiple?

LunaHound wrote:
Regarding squad recut with 1 hvy weapon sprue, does
it just come with 1 weapon, or mutiple?

All of course, I doubt GW would release a recut squad boxed set with all special weapons and say, the mortar.

Ya but, then who will buy the 3x Hvy weapon team box set when you get 5 weapons in the squad box.

It depends. If I want a quick lascannon squad I'll go with the heavy weapon squad boxed set, if I want an infantry squad with a single heavy I'd go for the recut boxed set. I doubt that the introduction of the new boxed set will end the lifespan of the heavy weapon squad and heavy weapon team boxed sets.

New is not always better by default.

These rumours sound a little sage

nice to feel ignored and told again that its old news lol. like i say, i hadn't heard it before.
i'll take it no one heard anything about naval armsmen then...

Check out the five other threads on the first page of the rumors forum for all information, conjecturing, and wishlisting you could possibly want.

But to answer your question there is rumor of a naval officer that attaches to your Command HQ that allows for an orbital bombardment attack.

If we're lucky, by this time tomorrow we'll know more, from anyone who attends the Design Studio's open day at Nottingham. Last year, IIRC, we got some 5E stuff, so it's likely we should, at the minimum, hear more about the spring releases.

Lets hear and see what we get sunday.


1 possible bit:

Weapon teams will be 1 model with 2 wounds.

Is this thread still open?

A recut aye?...Hmmm (v-_-)> This pleases kirby

tank squads hmmmm interesting

Are imperial guard getting a new codex?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9TSWkWqX2E

Sorry dude, old news!

The Young Ones FTW!

Link to the other thread about this:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/229828.page

There's a LOT of information in the thread above, as well as a lot of insightful commentary. Please take the discussion there.

Thank you.