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I am very excited by this news. If BA get a Wolfpack-esque kit that is in a similar vein to the BA termies from Space Hulk, this army will look gorgeous.

In regards to the new mounts - instead of bats, I would actually wager they ride giant chalices into battle. Every time you kill a model, it adds blood to your blood pool, and you get +1 attack and +1 strength. Also you can field squadrons of tea-cups as fast attack choices, and there will be a new special character who rides into battle on a REALLY big goblet who only speaks cup-talk, because he was raised by a set of chalices when he was a lad.

GRIM DARK SUCKAAAAAAAAS

Blood Angels need no exotic mounts,
they need open-topped overcharging transports.

wuestenfux wrote:Blood Angels need no exotic mounts,
they need open-topped overcharging transports.

Will they be shapped like chalices?

Or even better, the can get surf boards and surf into battle on waves of blood!

Kid_Kyoto wrote:

wuestenfux wrote:Blood Angels need no exotic mounts,
they need open-topped overcharging transports.

Will they be shapped like chalices?

Or even better, the can get surf boards and surf into battle on waves of blood!

Anyway, chalice-like transports could be open-topped.
Skyboards for the Death Company would be fine.

Will they be shapped like chalices?

Or even better, the can get surf boards and surf into battle on waves of blood!

Oh dear God-Emperor! That reminds me of a quote from the Old WOD Vampire! In he Gangrel Clanbook one of the example characters was a punk surfer embraced by a female Viking vampire. His signature quote was ( I am not making this up ) "Blood for the blood god, dude, blood for the god!" .

I like how GW is doing the Marines dexes. I hope they do the same for Chaos really. (After they get a re-worked main codex)

I would especially love for them to do the same to Eldar! (Iyanden, Altoic, Saim-Hann at least)

If this recent wave of codex releases truly is the sign of things to come, I am enthusiastically awaiting the Dark Eldar and Necrons when they come. Perhaps there is hope for 6th edition after all.

I think a Blood Angels/Dark Angels Angels of Death Codex is the way to go. Get both variants out of the way at once, update both the Jervis-hammered Marine dexes, move onto the poor Xenos at last.

First off, I am excited by this release. I want to play JP-based SM, so this is really good.
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BrookM wrote:Does make me wonder who the author for this one could be.

Jervis or Robin, most likely. How bad could it be?

JohnHwangDD wrote:



Jervis or Robin, most likely. How bad could it be?

Thougth cruddace did nids.....

So who's left except JJ?

And it could be a BA dex, that follows mr swallows BA fluff.....

wuestenfux wrote:My hope is that the new codex will not be jervisified.

Christ, I hope not; but you never can tell. I mean, who else is free to be able to write it right now?

1hadhq wrote:...
To know the author of this codex would give a hint on its quality, so again : who?

I would like to know this as well.

Mattlov wrote:...
No, they ride oddly sparkling vampires.

Kinda like that brunette chick from twilight?

Kid_Kyoto wrote:Disappointing, I could think of 10 armies that need a codex before the Blood Angels.

Unless of course the poster means GW will release Lord Acute and Chaplain Obtuse of the Blood Angles. In which case I'm there.

wuestenfux wrote:Well, BA deserve a new codex release.
BA was one of the most played SM armies in the 3rd ed.
The jervisified re-release in WD made them unplayable.

Well, it made them a sight less playable. A BA Rhino Rush can be quite interesting to face.

Samus666 wrote:I think a Blood Angels/Dark Angels Angels of Death Codex is the way to go. Get both variants out of the way at once, update both the Jervis-hammered Marine dexes, move onto the poor Xenos at last.

Christ I wish they would do more of this. Just to get the releases coming in a slightly faster fashion.

wuestenfux wrote:

Kid_Kyoto wrote:

wuestenfux wrote:Blood Angels need no exotic mounts,
they need open-topped overcharging transports.

Will they be shapped like chalices?

Or even better, the can get surf boards and surf into battle on waves of blood!

Anyway, chalice-like transports could be open-topped.
Skyboards for the Death Company would be fine.

They did have hover boards back in the early RT Era.

This is god news for my friend who plays BA. If it is true an dit probably is, then Games Workshop is really over hauling its models with great details and looks, and I like it. Like the new SW compared to the old ones, where the old ones looked like space marines that were given a different paint job, and then a little detail, where the new ones look like a breed apart from the regular space marine kits, and that is the way it should be.

Since Space Hulk is already sold out, GW might release the personalized BA Termies for the 40k table top.

So with Space Wolves, Blood Angels, and maybe a new DA book, is it safe to say that Templars cant be too far away?

extrenm(54) wrote:So with Space Wolves, Blood Angels, and maybe a new DA book, is it safe to say that Templars cant be too far away?

Not sure if a new DA book is on the way.
The jervisified DA 'dex is from Feb. 2007.

A prediction! BA and BT, followed by DA. Then it will be time for 6th and codex production will stop while it gets hammered out. For which SM will lead off again.

Because what's one more edition when you've been waiting for so long already?

The Grog wrote:A prediction! BA and BT, followed by DA. Then it will be time for 6th and codex production will stop while it gets hammered out. For which SM will lead off again.

Because what's one more edition when you've been waiting for so long already?

Sounds about right.

The Grog wrote:A prediction! BA and BT, followed by DA. Then it will be time for 6th and codex production will stop while it gets hammered out. For which SM will lead off again.

Because what's one more edition when you've been waiting for so long already?

lord_blackfang wrote:

The Grog wrote:A prediction! BA and BT, followed by DA. Then it will be time for 6th and codex production will stop while it gets hammered out. For which SM will lead off again.

Because what's one more edition when you've been waiting for so long already?

Sounds about right.

Goddamn you are all a bunch of whiny dudes.

Anyways, who else do we know has usually done a codex and isn't working on something else right now? Could Gav Thorpe be brought in?

The author for the new BA 'dex is Robin. You'll be able to take Baal Preds in squadrons. Corbulo has a new entry in his fluff, where he headbutts a Tyranid Warrior so hard it makes its whole squad run away.

More marines? Well lets just hope they get it over and done with and get on with releasing some more interesting stuff.
If they release new black templars before DE or Necrons...wow. Epic nerdrage.

GW treats Dark Eldar like little kids no one wanted.. Maybe if you ignore them long enough they'll go away

That's it. There's officially a clock that, if it reaches 0, GW will immediately release the new Dark Eldar codex and amazing new models and a battleforce that comes with a free cheesecake. However, the clock resets anyone complains about Dark Eldar being pushed aside for other army releases.

Get. Over. It.

bhsman wrote:Get. Over. It.

No.

Anyway, does anybody think that the new "reworked" mini's will be a set of the Space Hulk Termies when the codex comes out? How much do you think that will devalue a Space Hulk for all those resellers? :-)

I remember reading something about their CAD process allowing them to reuse sculpts and add them to new frames very easily. I can see them cutting some of the sculpts a little differently to make them more amenable to different poses, but keeping the iconography and detail intact.

whitedragon wrote:

bhsman wrote:Get. Over. It.

No.

No skin off my nose then, it's more of a "Stop stuffing rumor threads with useless replies and actually contribute you schmucks" thing than anything else.

whitedragon wrote:Anyway, does anybody think that the new "reworked" mini's will be a set of the Space Hulk Termies when the codex comes out? How much do you think that will devalue a Space Hulk for all those resellers? :-)

Well, they do have the ability to reproduce the sprues, so we'd have to see. On one hand, it would be 10 very well-sculpted Terminators, but with little or no customization. Would only work with a Blood Angels release.

If you don't like what someone has to say, you can easily skip over it. People complaining about people complaining...
Though now I'm part of the people complaining about people complaining about people complaining. Meta.

I hope this codex is as fun for Blood Angels players as the Space Wolves one looks to be for Space Wolves players.

Da Boss wrote:If you don't like what someone has to say, you can easily skip over it. People complaining about people complaining...
Though now I'm part of the people complaining about people complaining about people complaining. Meta.

I'm not complaining about the complaints, you can have a whole separate thread for that for you guys to hurf durf all day about un-updated armies. I'm complaining about seeing new posts in a rumor thread and expecting, well, rumors or speculation or perspectives about said army. Instead it's either Dark Eldar or Necrons or Daemonhunters.

Not saying that these guys don't need new rules (Necrons and Daemonhunters need it the most; Dark Eldar can be competitive but have terribly old models) but this isn't the place for it.

Da Boss wrote:I hope this codex is as fun for Blood Angels players as the Space Wolves one looks to be for Space Wolves players.

Agreed; I'm personally hoping for them to keep Assault Squads as troops and maybe access to Master-crafted weapons and Inferno Pistols for regular HQs.

Hmmm. Well, I'd see the comments you were complaing about as perfectly valid posts in a rumours thread- they are the reactions to the rumours.

I think I'd like the Blood Angels to have a nice "ornate, powerful wargear" feel too. It would help seperate them from the rest. Here's hoping for some cool fluff about Baal- always been intrigued by the idea of that planet since the short story in the old Wargear book in second edition. (I think it was wargear. The one with the blood angel marine comparing baal to armageddon.)

Also curious as to how the Death Company will be handled. I'd imagine they'll get fleet.

Maybe, but the reactions are tired and serve no purpose that other reactions would.

As for Death Company, I'm really hoping they make them an optional unit like they did in 2nd edition without forcing you to take them.