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Which one would you suggest? It can be a completely new race, a fluff one not published, or anything like that(but no completely new SM chapters).

feel free to be as crazy and ridiculous as you want.

I would love to see a Codex: Adeptus Mechanicus.

Ordos Xeno/ Mechanicus.... AHHHH I CAN'T DECIDE! Both are too awesome...

Adeptus Trafficus, a crack legion of Imperial Meter-Maids tasked with keeping Imperial Parking Worlds free of Heretical Parking!

orcs --->orks
elves--->eldar
skaven--->SPACE RATS

cheap fodder rats, rats in warp-powered armor suits, lots of things shooting lightning and warpfire. Every weapon has the gets hot rule...

Well there really isnt anything that is lacking. Really every possible play style as coved as is and a few that over lap a little.

Adeptus Mechanicus or a Lost and the Damned rerelease would slot neatly into the existing background.

I vote Mechanicus as well. Pure and simple. Although the idea of an entire Imperial world dedicated to parking vehicles is very enticing.

That being said, a new alien race would be cool. Something more organic, and living. As of right now only tyranids are all organic, but something like that but less mindless would be interesting. To me anyways.

I do like the Ordo Xenos idea, but it shouldn't be a new book. It should be in the ONE book for the Inquisition.

Ooh. Ordos Xenos meets the Alien.

some sort of imperial guardish people who were unaligned ( neither emperor lovers or chaos) who were an underground miltia started because of attacks on their planet which gets destroyed. And aren't blessed by having tons of wargear and resources so they go around the galaxy from planet to planet trying to scrap old warmachines and weapons in order to try and build up a larger more respectable fighting force. and avenge their planet. that would be pretty awesome.

Slann, or maybe Squats. I am sure everyone is tired of hearing me go on about it. I know they have been retconned out lol! I even sold all my Squats. But the Slann still hold a place in my heart, go Space Frogs!

Codex: Space Marines, as in ALL space marines. (I've said many a time if all the chaos legions can have one book so can all the loyalist chapters)

I know they won't and it would be bad for business in the short term, at least until GW updates the xenos a bit more often and they get some love.

codex zoats!
The run away slaes of the nids! I have even conerted 5 of them already but that was very pricey.

Id like to see some codex consolidation before any more expansion.

Chaos Marines and Chaos Demons now 1 book.
Demon Hunters and Witch Hunters now 1 book.
All Marines and their variants 1 book.

That would give them the room to do alot of new projects. Space Skaven would be pretty cool, Space Slaan, Lost and the Damned would be super sick. Adeptus Mechanicus. Space Vampires.... ?
AF

It wouldn't give them "the room to do alot of new projects" at all. Really, it wouldn't. With that out of the way...

Space Skaven would be ridiculously stupid, considering the Hrud are existing(omg! space skaven!)--and they're basically wiped out barring a few large 'Migrations'.

Space Slaan exist, but were...again, basically wiped out.

Lost and the Damned? Really? What happened to "codex consolation"? They're Spiky Imperial Guard Lite for the most part, barring some eclectic options that you can do with 'Counts As'.

Space Vampires? No. Just no.
Adeptus Mechanicus? No, again.

consolidation. not consolation.
you have to have a codex before you can consolidate it.
GW fluff gets rewritten all the time. Why are space elves ok but space vampires are out?
anyway if you dont like my ideas what ones do you want to see?

Because "Space Elves" have evolved from that concept.

There's nothing you can do for "Space Vampires" to make them anything more than that or make them different from Blood Angels or Necrons.

I would love an Adeptus Mechanicus codex.

I agree with Kanluwen.

Also GW, a long time ago, decided 40k would not become "Fantasy in space"

well however much they may try they can never get away from their basically silly, basically fantasy origins.

I dont even know what that means: "because space elves evolved from that concept." What kind of answer is that? What concept? If you can have space knights space elves space orks space ogres and space hobbits surely you can have any other fantasy race.... space vampires for instance. Of course it would be silly. 40k is silly. That's what makes it so awesome - its so silly and so over the top and crazy its great.
AF

I don't know about some of the negativity, b ut I wouldn't mind seeing a couple of former armies come back. The Lost And the Damned was a cool army, because it was a surprise. Your opponent could face several pie plate tanks, a bunch of guardsmen, chaos marines, the old 'good' demons, even some elite chaos units. Just when he thought your whole army was on the table, out would pop some chaos termies or demons.

The other army I really miss is the Genestealer Cult. It was such an audacious, ridiculous army, but it looked so damn cool. Genestealers riding in rhinos! IG gun teams all over the place. Hybrids playing several roles. Their psychic abilities were also pretty viscious as well. Sending genestealers through an 18" gate...

yes that would be cool....
I'd like to see a whole horus heresy expansion. BOLS did it and it looked pretty cool. It would just require a minor rules rewrite for the chaos and imperial armies and some scenarios or campaign rules. Who wouldnt want to play that? Hell they could see me a whole new army that way...... which is frightening, really.

Space Skaven
Bring Bestmen back to the Guard
All Cavalry Guard
Raven Guard Codex
Squats
Lost and the Damed
Space Wolf 13th Company
Genestaler Cults

Codex: =I=, combines all 3 Ordos and keeps Deathwatch

Codex: Marines, combine all marines into one book but with lots of specific rules and characters for different chapters

Codex: Ad-Mech, would just be awesome

Codex: Chaos, should be CSM, daemons, and LatD all in one

Codex: GK, separate them from DH

Codex: SOB separate them from WH

Codex: Rogue Trader/Mercenaries, would have kroot, rogue traders, maybe Inquisitors, ork mercs, non IoM humans (maybe aligned with tau), and a whole host of other alien races

Those all cover in universe races but if I were to add something new I'd say as far as sci-fi archetypes go 40k is missing some sort of alien confederacy, but Tau can be expanded to include this. And some sort of super space corporation, think Weland-Yutani from Alien or the Guild from Dune. They would use all automated drones and robitz and only care about the "credits". Then again I could see Ad-Mech covering this role to an extent.

of course it would be nice if they updated some books first...

Grey Knights are the militant arm of the Ordos Malleus, the Daemonhunters. It would make no sense to separate them.

And for WH, just call them SOB...

Brettila wrote:I don't know about some of the negativity, but I wouldn't mind seeing a couple of former armies come back. The Lost And the Damned was a cool army, because it was a surprise. Your opponent could face several pie plate tanks, a bunch of guardsmen, chaos marines, the old 'good' demons, even some elite chaos units. Just when he thought your whole army was on the table, out would pop some chaos termies or demons.

And therein lies the problem. Lost and the Damned had a little too much going for it. They had the cheap troops of the Guard, the cheap armored vehicles...but they could boost their close combat to compensate with Chaos Marines. Worried about units potentially showing up all over, or your opponent just popped up with a Deathwing Terminator Assault?

Fwabam, in come your Daemons and Terminators to shore up that problem. Or they can start going character hunting for fun!

The other army I really miss is the Genestealer Cult. It was such an audacious, ridiculous army, but it looked so damn cool. Genestealers riding in rhinos! IG gun teams all over the place. Hybrids playing several roles. Their psychic abilities were also pretty vicious as well. Sending genestealers through an 18" gate...

Ugh. Another case of the Inquisition.

They have no place on the battlefield, as it stands now. They're something that I can understand cropping up as part of a Tyranid army in the form of a 0-1 unit or in Apocalypse/Kill-Team...but they're not really "battlefield" material.

AbaddonFidelis wrote:well however much they may try they can never get away from their basically silly, basically fantasy origins.

Sure they can. The Eldar are no longer "Space Elves", but a highly evolved race of psykers and citizen-warriors who were created to counter a threat in the form of soulless death machines that are the harbingers of spiteful godlike-entities that devour stars and destroy civilizations to sate their hunger. That's called "evolution of a concept".

I don't even know what that means: "because space elves evolved from that concept." What kind of answer is that? What concept? If you can have space knights space elves space orks space ogres and space hobbits surely you can have any other fantasy race.... space vampires for instance. Of course it would be silly. 40k is silly. That's what makes it so awesome - its so silly and so over the top and crazy its great.
AF

Except 40k has gone, for the most part, away from "silly" to "grimdark".
Space Orks?
They're a fungoid lifeform created by, again, the same entities that created the Eldar--but were to act as the brute force troops and shock force to break a stalemate, until something went wrong and it spiraled out of control. That's not what "orcs" are, so there's that pesky evolution of a concept in action again.
Space Ogres and Space Hobbits?
They've never really been those two particular things, but okay. Both Ogryn and Ratlings are genetic abnormalities of human kind. Putting it simply:
They're people, like you or me, who've adapted to a world with adverse conditions that required them to adapt to their environment.
Marines...ehhhh, "space knights" is pushing it a bit too far. They're Warrior-Monks who venerate a Corpse-God out of traditions.
Are some of the Marine Chapters taking the "space knight" archetype? Sure. But that's an oversimplification, and you know it.

@Blazing Ghost

They could always retcon that Also hasn't it been confirmed that GK are getting a dex? Either way I think it gives GK are more coherent theme

I guess I just want the spotlight on the Inq themselves for once.

I always thought SOB should be more attached to the ecclesiarchy in general. In fact don't the Inq police the ecclesiarchy? Having the DH with GK and WH with SOB/ecclesiarchy dilutes the uniqueness of what I consider to be 3 separate factions (the Inq should be mixed) that each have a strong enough theme to create their own book.

Plus all 3 Ordos in one book could be cool, they could have tons of wargear options for inquisitors, no two should be alike. For the ordos throw in something like Chaos' marks but expanded. If deathwatch are in the dex then they have a neat army that can field GEQ's, MEQ's, interesting and flavorful characters with retinues and wargear out the ass. In other words small unique groups of units that have different tasks and abilities all with one purpose:HUNTING!!

Of course this is just my opinion feel free to disagree......IF YOU DARE

I just want Ordos Xenos. Kill the alien!

xxBlazinGhostxx wrote:Grey Knights are the militant arm of the Ordos Malleus, the Daemonhunters. It would make no sense to separate them.

And for WH, just call them SOB...

the GKs operate alongside the Ordo Malleus. they do not answer to them. they are still Space Marines and highly independent at that.

the Gks used to have their own codex before the inquisition came along and fuddled it up.

besides, as it is now the GKs can stand alone. the Inquisition can't really without being overpriced Guard.



+9000 to mechanicus codex. would be different and wouldn't require much fluff writing.

xxBlazinGhostxx wrote:I just want Ordos Xenos. Kill the alien!

I lurve me some Deathwatch

I also forgot to add one very important reason as to why =I= is awesome: assassins specifically the Eversor, he may be my favorite unit in the game. I once killed a whole ten-man DA squad of my brothers. The next turn he attacks another 10 man squad, gets 9 hits, 0 wounds, dies, explodes dealing no damage.

Needless to say it was the best performance of any unit ever.