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pro - my army is getting a codex (?)

con - 1000+ models down the drain?

???

WIN!

FACT - I am now seething in rage over lack of any Xenos Codex planned for the entire year.

And some of next year too.

Imperiumhammer 40k. Enjoy it. XD

WGXH wrote:Dang. I hope my 2,000 points of Blood Ravens would still be usable.

That would be ironic wouldn't it? They go and make a Blood Raven Codex and all the Blood Raven players (all eight of you) have your armies invalidated. LOL!

Worse things happen at sea.

LMAO at the nerd "Space Marine?!?" rage over this completely specious rumor.

You're right, why are we arguing about this?

Right, discussion postponed forever, let's all go meet these 'wo-men' I keep hearing about.

Or, we can stay here and argue some more.

With the amount of internal Imperial fighting you could think that the Imperium is in a civil war or something. Shoot the xenos already!

Greets
Schepp himself

I am a Blood Ravens player, and the last thing they and the game needs is a Blood Ravens codex.

At best, all they need are a few special characters.

I dunno. I'm not really buying this rumor.

That said, I would welcome a list that is more Librarian-focused, as my own DIY chapter had that fluff written before I even heard of this same element being what the Blood Ravens are about. I felt that the recent marine codex has some nice powers and abilities, but the wargear for the Librarians was limited to the point of being restricting. Should this pan out, I would have to consider running my own chapter using this (rumored) codex.

Cheese Elemental wrote:And throwing snickers at people out of a tank.

Best. Ad. Ever.

A guy i play rugby with works for Mars here in the uk. His facebook profile picture is of him being headlocked by Mr T. It's entirely genuine.

I'm absurdly jealous :(

Back on topic - No to Blood Ravens! They are completely unnessecary and bring nothing new to the game. I've no objection to them in the fluff, but they're Codex marines in DOW, so why can't they just be a paint scheme?

I wonder if they'll have rules for 'Multiple simultaneous devastating defensive deep strikes'. Perhaps have rules for the opponents getting bonuses against their 'Metal Bawkses'

That is cool I guess, not like there can be that many more marine players than there already are, just more variety in the marines that are out there.

Leggy wrote:
Back on topic - No to Blood Ravens! They are completely unnessecary and bring nothing new to the game. I've no objection to them in the fluff, but they're Codex marines in DOW, so why can't they just be a paint scheme?

You don't understand. Different colored marines are so different they need an entire codex to explain how different they are. Fighty black religious marines are *nothing* like fighty grey viking marines or fighty red marines (not to be confused with psyker red marines or red techmarines who work with every chapter). This is why we need so many different marine codexes. Because they can't just be reflected by paint schemes and unit selection.

See, jmurph gets it. Finally, a glimmer of hope in the grimdarkness of Dakka.

I believe this is all fun speculation and rumor that isn't going to happen.

Necrons, SW, DE, and mebbe some chaos are already candidates.

This is just wishful thinking from a, "Source that can't be identified".

In all myth lies a grain of truth. Even if the truth sucks.


I wouldn't put it past GW to make a Blood Ravens codex, even if it was only printed in White Dwarf. I feel it would be a redundant venture since Blood Ravens are simply codex marines with some special characters. No need for a whole codex, just give the Chapter Master or Captain an ability that allows for more librarians.

Of course, the folks at GW have missed out on a spectacular marketing opportunity by not making models of the DOW commanders or providing terrain/objectives based on the buildings in the game. I've seen some Necron buildings on ebay that someone's made to match the summoning core and power generators made from wood, painted and based - GW could have made them in plastic very easily, along with the other race's buildings as well.

@shumagorath: hey buddy, it's codex blue-grey marines, a way cooler color...

cheers
jah

So, let me get this straight.....

No Grey Marines?

No Other Red Marines? (BA)

No Pointy Space Elves?

No Big Hat Dwarfs?

Ahhh well. It was nice to know that the Blood Ravens broke the veteran's backs.

Still though, It would be cool to see a BR 'dex

No Grey Marines?

The grey marines are the next codex out. The veterans get their mary sue chapter of winmarines.

Still though, It would be cool to see a BR 'dex

I would have loved to see gabriel angelos get an entry in the marine book, maybe something that allowed librarians to be taken as elites or somesuch.

Hmm, if the main selling point is that the Blood Ravens have "alot" of psykers.....well, its not much of a selling point considering the Daemon Hunting Grey Knights do that already.....

I play Ultrasmurfs....and even I think GW need to focus more on the other races.....Marines have been done to death, what about the rest of the Whammy-verse.

This thread made me laugh.

Silverthorne wrote:
PS- I just noticed I have a button that allows me to ignore myself. Fascinating.

This quote made me respond.

Delephont wrote:I play Ultrasmurfs....and even I think GW need to focus more on the other races.....Marines have been done to death, what about the rest of the Whammy-verse.

I have Crimson Fists and I feel the same way for the most part. The other Factions and races need attention. They really should be doing the vanilla basic codi for the races before they touch upon the more specific armies. Give everyone rules to run with on a level playing field, then add the variety as time permits. Then once that is done add more variety, instead of toasting the edition and starting a new version just as you are almost done with the last set of rules...

The No more Marines! Rage that came attatched to the wolf rumors seems to have died down somewhat.

I do wonder whether a WD mini-dex might not be in the offing, rather than a full 'dex. Jervis said the days of core rules in WD were over, but there's the BA patch as an example.

It seems a decent idea, just not something worth taking focus off of other projects (like more xenos to actually fight).

Getting a whole new codex is somewhat of a double-edged sword for someone like me. I'm just coming back to the hobby myself and all the new codices kind of annoy me to a degree. I used to have two chaos armies from way back when, but now no codex to go along with it. I was somewhat happy to see that my old Necrons Codex was still in play. Made things easier for me. I went out and bought the codex updates for my two main armies, but for my old side armies, usually just for friends that would want to try it out, are no longer in any way valid.

I highly doubt this rumour.
However, the day that it is officialy confirmed, is the day before the headline 'University student goes on chainsaw massacre at GW HQ' hits the papers.

I'd play Codex: Drama Queens.

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Nah, it´s only a rumor. There can´t be a codex Red Marines because there is already a Red Marine chapter and having two would confuse the heck in GWHQ.

M.