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This year was 3x 40k army books. I could care less about fantasy. It is still way too unbalanced to be enjoyed by all armies; yes they need new army books bad. I wouldn't expect more than three 40K books this year as well. The two first up are Grey Knights and Necrons. The third is still up in the air and could be anybody's guess. GW works on several armies at a time and are at various stages of development, so we will see who pulls ahead on the third release by late summer.

Perhaps another SM codex ? Theres always that chance that GW doesnt have faith in GK...( )

I could care less about fantasy.

You mean you couldn't care less, right? If you could care less it means that you do care about fantasy. Although it escapes me why anyone would be interested in whether you care about GW's slower and slower release schedule or not.

Therion wrote: Although it escapes me why anyone would be interested in whether you care about GW's slower and slower release schedule or not.

Well as he said we had 3 40k codexes this year and 2 expansions (battle missions came out this year right? then theres spearhead but that sorta doesnt count I suppose). Multiple models, some of which are quite large like trygons. Thats not too slow

Maybe next year will be the year for fantasy

Am quite looking forward to this next wave. If it is the furioso and chibi-hawk I'll be getting both and converting them for my Templars

I think this boosts the odds of a GK book on its why in. Storm Ravens are a greyknight vehicle, much more then the Blood Angles. And, if there wasn't some other army that could use coming soon down the pipe, WHY would they tell use this is a Blood Angels Storm Raven?

I always love more BA stuff!

jspyd3rx wrote:I believe GK is going to be a March release.

Would be great if they did the termies in plastic.

Mad4Minis wrote:

jspyd3rx wrote:I believe GK is going to be a March release.

Would be great if they did the termies in plastic.

i'd be absolutely shocked if basic GK and GKT's didn't go plastic.

I thought it was already said that basic GK and GKT's were plastic. Isn't that practically confirmed already?

I'm willing to bet the battleforce will be pretty good. I'm guessing something like:

Baal Predator/ dreadnought
Tactical Squad
Death company
Death company
Sanguinary guard

Or something like that. I'm assumining it will follow the vanilla battleforce recipe:

Tactical
A five man unit
A five man unit
A five man unit
A transport

I'm just hoping that the worst case scenario doesn't happen - that the rumoured new GK codex around Feb/Mar is just that, a rumour and that the Blood Angels get this instead meaning no new GK codex 1st quarter.

When have they ever released a book without model releases?

Read this, and read it very well.
Blood Angels getting a release does not mean Grey Knights are getting no models, nor that Dark Eldar are done getting releases or any other rubbish. Blood Angels getting a release simply means they are getting a release. That is all it means.

I would love a BA battleforce!!

Therion:

You do recall that Fantasy had a pretty big release a few months back - 8th Ed. No sense in releasing a few army books in the months leading up to a new edition. Their next big release was Island of Blood.

Kanluwen wrote:Blood Angels getting a release does not mean Grey Knights are getting no models, nor that Dark Eldar are done getting releases or any other rubbish. Blood Angels getting a release simply means they are getting a release. That is all it means.

Where did anyone say that?

Right above my post, and a thread that was locked in 40k General.

Really? And that required a big red text warning from you?

Man... imagine if more than one person had made an off-hand comment. We'd be looking at giant red bold text!

I'd write in big red text too if I had such a reputation.

johnstewartjohn wrote:

munkeey wrote:YAWN bloodangles dont need anything new give the rest of 40k something new!

What like dark eldar?

Or GK

I'm glad that GW is going in and filling in the blanks for some of the codex entries, I just wish it was for codexes that had been out longer or were in more need of it.

God damn that Storm Raven is a Blight on humanity.

By yeah I hope they redid it.

H.B.M.C. wrote:Really? And that required a big red text warning from you?

Man... imagine if more than one person had made an off-hand comment. We'd be looking at giant red bold text!

Considering there's already another "WTF GW!" thread in 40k General about this topic...

I'd say it's appropriate to put that warning up.

P.S., that was the "giant" text font.


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Oh, and red draws attention to the text, while still making it able to be read without straining your eyes.

It's a simple usage of colors.

Happygrunt wrote:Storm Ravens are a greyknight vehicle, much more then the Blood Angles.

Can someone explain to me why this is? I've seen it mentioned quite a bit that GKs will probably get the Storm Raven, but (aside from basic GW strategy) is there any fluff reason for this? Is it in the BA codex that the GKs use it?

Sarrazon wrote:

Happygrunt wrote:Storm Ravens are a greyknight vehicle, much more then the Blood Angles.

Can someone explain to me why this is? I've seen it mentioned quite a bit that GKs will probably get the Storm Raven, but (aside from basic GW strategy) is there any fluff reason for this? Is it in the BA codex that the GKs use it?

BA codex, page 38 Stormraven.
Said to be a less known, maybe nearly forgotten STC, used by GK. So its basically inserted into the tech history of the IoM by M.W.

Repeat after me: retcon, solves all your problems.

BrookM wrote:Repeat after me: retcon, solves all your problems.

I dont think you retcon things that were released only months before. You do it to old things that nobody cared about anyway. Like Squats!

And every Marine Codex from now on will get it too...

H.B.M.C. wrote:And every Marine Codex from now on will get it too...

I dont think they will. It would seem silly. But, then again, ALL the last codex releases from Guard on had some sort of Airborne unit, like a bomber, fighter, gunship or harpy.

Happygrunt wrote:

H.B.M.C. wrote:And every Marine Codex from now on will get it too...

I dont think they will. It would seem silly. But, then again, ALL the last codex releases from Guard on had some sort of Airborne unit, like a bomber, fighter, gunship or harpy.

Oh ho ho, just you wait and see.

Hello guys... Just little cents on some topics raized here:

Space wolves dont need much more... Well, they need a oficial thunderwolf cavalry unit, as everything more is just convertable. I mean, you can bring very nice Rune Priests, Wolf Priests and Wolf Lords with only the Space Wolf pack, and everything more can be mixed with other boxes to do nice things. Hey, but a lot of small other industries are making nice conversion kits for thunder wolfs, and that means more people are buying Space Wolves packs for conversions... They are not worryed about it.

Blood Angels are space marines, and space marines sell a lot. Dreadnoughts sell a lot more. If they have more Dread Kits, they will just sell more, no worryes about that.

If stormraven will come for GK, i hope they come with extra bits for adornation. That plain flying box dont look "Inquisitive"

The codex after Necrons will be Black Templars, at least that is my bet, but hell, i wish it was some xeno scum...