Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

Our GW store manager leaked a few things about what is being planned. Not what there will be.

Firstly there are plans for it to be in White Dwarf and Downloadable like the old BA PDF.

It will be Sisters of Battle, The Church/Ecclsiarchy and a large amount of Inquisition.

As with all new codexes there will be lots of new special characters.

Finally it will be between now and spring 2013.

He said he knew of all the armies between now and then, Necrons being one and hinting on CSM.

Inb4 Store Managers don't know anything

I heard the only support sisters are getting from now on are as henchmen squads in the grey knights codex. Honest, my neighbor's brother's wife's store manager told me.

He was right about the GK codex as well as the Tyranids + DE, don't know about BA.

phantommaster wrote:Finally it will be between now and spring 2013.

How wonderfully... precise

This is like nostradamous.

"I'm sensing Witch Hunters will be out in the next two years, and they'll be lots of special characters!"

ZOMG CALL SOMEBODY. People need to know this!

Meh, take it for what it is guys. We already heard of some people that saw some possible plastic Sisters of Battle. It really isn't that far fetched for in the next couple years. SoB are one of those armies that don't do terrible in 5th edition. I would think however that they will be getting a similar treatment to the GK. As a previously all metal model range that has been unchanged since 2nd edition for the base troops, I would think they will be getting new plastic troops, new unit types and new plastic boxes that can be used multiple ways much like the GKs have now.

A bit too vague innit?

Also, I'm waiting for ze spelling nazi to barge in and demand that something be done about the title.

More characters, more units, ecclesiarchy AND inquisition... all on a 6 pages WD article???
I don't buy that!

Well if it falls with GW Codex formula. Being Imperial, non-Imperial, Imperial etc then looking at the current imperial codexes There is a chance the next one could be SoB, DA or BT (or another SM codex...) so I guess we wait.

Me I would love it to be the Nuns with Guns.
Much more fun than More Space Marines

Finally it will be between now and spring 2013.

Here are some others that fit that :
Necrons
Tau
Chaos Space Marines
Dark Angels
Black Templars
Eldar

I'm 100% sure we will see some of these within that timeframe. 6E should also be in that time frame so expect to see a new Space Marine codex in there as well...

I can't see GW going to the effort of creating a highly complicated and I assume detailed SoB plastic kit to just do a WD article?

I seem to remember some chat from Jes Goodwin recently describing the difficulties they have had in their attempts of making a workable SoB kit.

Nah sorry I'm not buying this one.

I'm excited about these With Chunters, are they a new race?

Lol @ above

The majority of the Inquisition is in the new GK codex, so unless they are planning brand new Inquisition I doubt this will be the case. However whilst I think it's pretty much certain SOB will be released in the next couple of years, a WD only release just makes no sense whatsoever.

I don't see any more news here. I work for GW, and believe me as much as some managers want you to believe they know what's coming, 9 times out of 10 they are full of crap. If they did know, they wouldn't tell you, they'd be out the door in no time. We find out what's coming about 2 weeks before it's announced, the only people who find out before this are guys who are working in very close proximity to the stuff being worked on, and those guys sign a disclaimer which threatens their job if they let anything out.

So could someone pass me the salt......

Here you go

I'm sensing that GW will release some miniatures and attempt to market them.

There may or may not be a codex involved.

GW is going to make a thing with Sisters of Battle in it.

It'll be released sometime in the future and will be talked about in White Dwarf, just like every previous release since 5th edition.

It may or may not having some special characters in it.




Automatically Appended Next Post:
Where's my A Thank You Note sticky thread?

Phototoxin wrote:I'm sensing that GW will release some miniatures and attempt to market them.

There may or may not be a codex involved.

This is in no way true. Everyone knows GW doesn't know how to market:p

They had options from all three Ordos in the Grey Knights codex, but thats because the book is called Grey Knights, not Demonhunters. Its not Ordo specific. I wouldnt expect a Sisters of Battle oriented codex to be restricted to a single Ordo either, given this. I've already heard some people sayong that Grey Knights doesnt replace Demon Hunters because of that, just like some folks still play the old Codex Assasins. I think its crap, but hey whatever.

Rumor has it GW said they will not get rid of anymore 40K or Fantasy armies.

Griever wrote:This is like nostradamous.

"I'm sensing Witch Hunters will be out in the next two years, and they'll be lots of special characters!"

ZOMG CALL SOMEBODY. People need to know this!

No Nostradamus always wrote in quatrains

The Witches from sand we seek
In two turns we may get a peek
Many Charactersare packed within
With rumors like this full of win




Automatically Appended Next Post:

Eisenhorn wrote:

Griever wrote:This is like nostradamous.

"I'm sensing Witch Hunters will be out in the next two years, and they'll be lots of special characters!"

ZOMG CALL SOMEBODY. People need to know this!

No Nostradamus always wrote in quatrains

The Witches from sand we seek
In two turns we may get a peek
Many Characters are packed within
With rumors like this full of win

alphaomega wrote:Well if it falls with GW Codex formula. Being Imperial, non-Imperial, Imperial etc then looking at the current imperial codexes

Why do I keep seeing this mentioned?
Since 5th's release we've had IN ORDER
Marines
Guard
Wolves
Tyranids
Blood Angels
Dark Eldar
Grey Knights


If anything they're going Power armor Non-Power Armor.

That works just as much.
Still would be very nice to at some point get plastic SoB. I am glad I got what I did before the massive price hike. Over £20 for 6 Sisters is terrible. :(

it will be between now and spring 2013.

As someone once said on Mystery Science Theater 3000, "Could you please be a little more vague?" LOL.

According to Darnok at Warseer:

Darnok wrote:There will be a Codex: Adeptus Sororitas by the end of this year.

And when asked about the name:

Darnok wrote:I trust my source, and it was named that way. But given the timeframe, things can change.

Foda_Bett wrote:

alphaomega wrote:Well if it falls with GW Codex formula. Being Imperial, non-Imperial, Imperial etc then looking at the current imperial codexes

Why do I keep seeing this mentioned?
Since 5th's release we've had IN ORDER
Marines
Guard
Wolves
Tyranids
Blood Angels
Dark Eldar
Grey Knights


If anything they're going Power armor Non-Power Armor.

So then rumours are true and Tau ARE before Necrons?

According to Darnok at Warseer:

Darnok wrote:There will be a Codex: Adeptus Sororitas by the end of this year.

And when asked about the name:

Darnok wrote:I trust my source, and it was named that way. But given the timeframe, things can change.

Years ago when I first tried non-GW forums after GW closed their own forums Warseer was the first one. I had no idea what I was in for as within days I was being "trolled" by someone extremely rude and despicably unpleasant. That person was the source of this rumor apparently and how he got to be a moderator or someone that would have "sources" I can't imagine. I quickly dropped out of the Warseer forum all those years ago.

Anyway, as soon as I see that name my interest goes to zero and I attach no credibility to it. Once I saw him berate another forum user for saying something was being released soon. He was rude to the person, belittling their rumor info and saying that GW doesn't plan their releases that far ahead of time so how could the other user know that far ahead of time. That was the same year the release list for an entire year had ALREADY been leaked out, proving him entirely wrong. In other words, he's not only rude, he's stupid as it was obvious for all to see that GW does plan their releases extremely far ahead of time. When I pointed out his rudeness and incorrectness he backed off for a while, but it didn't last and neither did my participation in Warseer. What a complete and total "smeghead".

notprop wrote:I can't see GW going to the effort of creating a highly complicated and I assume detailed SoB plastic kit to just do a WD article?

I seem to remember some chat from Jes Goodwin recently describing the difficulties they have had in their attempts of making a workable SoB kit.

Nah sorry I'm not buying this one.

I'd put money this one is in fact true, we'll get a PDF but no new models.

We all know that, for whatever reason, GW has problems doing a plastic SOB kit.

We also know that WH are the 2nd oldest codex around (after Necrons) but have never been great sellers so GW is in no hurry to put out a new book. It also had a ton of old mechanics GW would like to get rid of (allies).

So I would bet good money GW is going to do another temporary codex (like they did in 3rd edition) and buy themselves another 2 years or so to develop SoB plastics or drop the range.

Ah man,...couldn't they just put all those Inquisition crap in one dex and be over with?...

What was the need for all those GK's units anyway?,...more broken stuff...

Why din't they just put GK's,Sistas and Deatchwatch in the same dex, and go on with another Dex who wasn't Imperial involved?...

I allready said it,but i will say it again, GK's or Deamons shouldn't never had their own codex...

They where "mercenary" type units, to give a hand to their allies, a full army of those are plain stupid...

Gk's are broken and Deamons are bad Nids ripp off...

Kid_Kyoto wrote:

notprop wrote:I can't see GW going to the effort of creating a highly complicated and I assume detailed SoB plastic kit to just do a WD article?

I seem to remember some chat from Jes Goodwin recently describing the difficulties they have had in their attempts of making a workable SoB kit.

Nah sorry I'm not buying this one.

I'd put money this one is in fact true, we'll get a PDF but no new models.

We all know that, for whatever reason, GW has problems doing a plastic SOB kit.

I'm pretty sure that it's not "for whatever reason". There's a specific reason. The robed habits worn underneath the Power Armour is, according to some folks who've heard it from Goodwin, the issue. They can do them in two ways: either flowing in multiple different ways, which ups the complexity factor(and presents a mold/casting issue) or they end up like we saw with the Dark Eldar Warriors/Wyches. They're dynamic, but the bodies only fit together in certain ways--which while simplifying the casting/molds, also decreases the amounts of posing, etc that can be done.

We also know that WH are the 2nd oldest codex around (after Necrons) but have never been great sellers so GW is in no hurry to put out a new book. It also had a ton of old mechanics GW would like to get rid of (allies).

Wait, Sisters of Battle have "never been great sellers"? Since when has that been true?

As for "they're in no hurry to put out a new book"--I think Phil Kelly disagrees with you.
We've already seen a PDF for Witchhunters. That's removed the Allies rule, and (kind of/sort of) brought the army up to a somewhat more acceptable place.

So I would bet good money GW is going to do another temporary codex (like they did in 3rd edition) and buy themselves another 2 years or so to develop SoB plastics or drop the range.

Yes. Because oh so many ranges have been dropped lately.

Oh wait. They haven't!

Oh come on, you got me all excited. And it's just some rumors from a dinky store manager.