40k Battleforce Names for 2022 possibly leaked-FALSE RUMOR

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**bullyboy**

Admech
Marines - I’m leaning heavy gravis themed here
Chaos marines - lots of new kits to add in here
Guard
Eldar - would love this but fear I probably have all the aspects I need
Nids

**Kid_Kyoto**

Sterling191 wrote:
Kasrs are Cadian city forts (and the root for Karskrin), so gonna be betting on Guard for that one.

I thought it was from the Arabic Qasr (fort or castle) but it turns our Qasr is from Latin so that seems more likely.

Arabic قَصْر‎ (qaṣr), from Latin castrum; compare ksar. Doublet of castrum.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/qasr

Learn something every day.

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StraightSilver wrote:
I'm calling it now, the Kasr one will be 10 of the new Kasrkin, 1 of the new Sentinels and 20 of the most recent Cadian Shocktroops......

If so...

SOLD!

**Memnoch**

Interesting. If only because the Marine one might be a cheap way of bulking out my Crimson Fist army thats stalled since the early issues of Imperium. (Plus the later issues arent stuff Id normally pick myself).

**xttz**

https://www.reddit.com/r/Warhammer40k/comments/xl0o6k/this_years_battleforce_names_leaked/?sort=top

This post has now been edited to say that the OP made up the rumour:

"A lie can run around the world before the truth has got its boots on."This post is entirely fictional, the battleforces mentioned within are fake. The names were made up over the course of about twenty minutes, though I do appreciate all the comments talking about how close they are to the real names and therefore must be true.

This was done in order to show how silly the 40k community can be with leaks and how quickly everyone runs away with even the flimsiest of rumours. This post got 126k views in three days and was shared over 350 times. I've seen it everywhere in communities, posted as if it was fact. Special mention goes to the idiots at SpikeyBits (Looking at you Travis Pasch) who published an article without even attempting to verify the information. If you were one of the people posting these leaks and claiming your inside source has verified it (which was very common), please stop spreading misinformation in order to look cool.

To everyone that is disappointed, I am very sorry for getting your hopes up but hopefully this will teach you to temper your expectations in the future. You cannot trust leaks until they are verified by WarCom. Anyone can simply go on the internet and make up some names that sound right.

Websites like SpikeyBits and youtubers that capitalize on leaks like these have no interest in telling you the truth, they simply want your clicks and will happily lie to you to get them.

I've maintained the original leak in this edit so you can have context in the comments.

Remember

Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.

**lord_blackfang**

Well I still think he's right

**Nevelon**

Oh well. Rumors are just that.

Fun thought exercise and some education on trying to put factions on these names.

**Souleater**

Except..we do get leaks that turn out to be correct so I don’t really see what the point of this was? We (most of us) appreciate that rumours aren’t official statements already.

**Platuan4th**

Souleater wrote:
Except..we do get leaks that turn out to be correct so I don’t really see what the point of this was?

The point is that the guy gets to say "GOTCHA!" and feel superior because his made up rumor spread as fast as all the other rumors out there and apparently that's supposed to make us think.

**privateer4hire**

My names for the forces were more appropriate anyway.

**Rihgu**

Platuan4th wrote:
Souleater wrote:
Except..we do get leaks that turn out to be correct so I don’t really see what the point of this was?

The point is that the guy gets to say "GOTCHA!" and feel superior because his made up rumor spread as fast as all the other rumors out there and apparently that's supposed to make us think.

To some extent, they make a good point. Sites/content creators *should* have reached out to him and tried to get some verification that they weren't talking out their rear. That they just mindlessly regurgitated rumors without even contacting the originator is a shame on the content creators.

**JSG**

Platuan4th wrote:
Souleater wrote:
Except..we do get leaks that turn out to be correct so I don’t really see what the point of this was?

The point is that the guy gets to say "GOTCHA!" and feel superior because his made up rumor spread as fast as all the other rumors out there and apparently that's supposed to make us think.

Whilst telling others to "stop spreading misinfo to look cool".

**Overread**

The thing is sites/content creators don't have any official sources to really confirm or deny rumours. This isn't really a field where there's enough money for someone to be scouting the GW factory; interviewing staff; studying the waste disposal contents or such. So a rumour is a rumour and there's really no way to confirm it.

Plus the nature of what GW makes means that there's a certain level of predictability present and thus you can luck out and just predict something fairly easily.

**JSG**

Valrak seems to have a couple of solid sources. They even flagged the BT mini for Warhammerday.

**Platuan4th**

JSG wrote:
Platuan4th wrote:
Souleater wrote:
Except..we do get leaks that turn out to be correct so I don’t really see what the point of this was?

The point is that the guy gets to say "GOTCHA!" and feel superior because his made up rumor spread as fast as all the other rumors out there and apparently that's supposed to make us think.

Whilst telling others to "stop spreading misinfo to look cool".

They're rumor mongers, not the news. Potentially wrong info and caveat emptor are part and parcel of what they do.

Someone setting up a deliberate ruse so that they can go "CHECK YOUR FACTS AND SOURCES" doesn't get the moral high ground.

**JSG**

Platuan4th wrote:
JSG wrote:
Platuan4th wrote:
Souleater wrote:
Except..we do get leaks that turn out to be correct so I don’t really see what the point of this was?

The point is that the guy gets to say "GOTCHA!" and feel superior because his made up rumor spread as fast as all the other rumors out there and apparently that's supposed to make us think.

Whilst telling others to "stop spreading misinfo to look cool".

They're rumor mongers, not the news. Potentially wrong info and caveat emptor are part and parcel of what they do.

Someone setting up a deliberate ruse so that they can go "CHECK YOUR FACTS AND SOURCES" doesn't get the moral high ground.

We're agreeing, right?

**Platuan4th**

I think we are.

**Kid_Kyoto**

I for one am shocked that someone could make up false rumors just for giggles.

It makes me so made I could just smash my Space Wolf Thunder Mammoth Artillery box or kick my box of Skullcrushers Maximum Violence!

That being said, I think we can close this thread.