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I'm not holding my breath. Death Guard got a nice release, but thousand sons didn't really get a second big wave. Unless we count all the tzaangor flavors, which I can't remember if they released with 1k Sons or AOS Arcanites.

They got:
Magnus (Angron)
Rubrics (Beserkers)
Tzaangors (the human chaff)
Terminators (mutilators/daemon marine)
Exalted Sorcerers (Lord Invocatus/generic version)
Ahirman (Kharns already been updated)

(Also Mutilalith vortex beast so maybe we'll get the khorne version ported to 40k too)

After that, the only new model they got was an infernal master, since I'm pretty sure the enlightened tzaangors were originally for aos

Garrac wrote:
So, performing here a little act of necromancy while we waaaaait for previews (i don't expect them until 2023)

Isn't it kinda worrying that Astra Militarum, and more concretely, Cadia, gets more miniatures than World Eaters, an entire whole army? According to the leaks there's only two more WE kits left

No, especially since we don't know how many existing CSM units will be available to the World Eaters.

I'll be livid if the Slaughterbrute doesn't get an entry.

But then again, what is GW world class at if not missing opportunities?

 Ghaz wrote:
No. We have plenty of examples of new armies getting a codex and small model release, followed a year or so later with a new codex and another small model release and so on and so forth until they're comparable to some of the other armies in size.

That's not a good thing. And not much of a counter to what you quoted.

WE have been part of the game since the Rogue Trader days, and they can't even muster up a unique unit of Terminators for us after Thousand Sons got one and Deathguard got two.

It does rather sound like World Eaters are being half-assed, which doesn't even make sense since it's such an unforced error on GW's part - nobody's forcing them to add the faction so why are they doing it so poorly?

 Agamemnon2 wrote:
It does rather sound like World Eaters are being half-assed, which doesn't even make sense since it's such an unforced error on GW's part - nobody's forcing them to add the faction so why are they doing it so poorly?

I guess they were intended to come out as a splash force during the narrative campaign until they figured out people hate that release model.

Doesn't seem like there are going to be any terminators. In fact, I would be surprised if this week's Rumour Engine doesn't turn out to be one of the leaked Possesed arms

Please don't spam the forum.

Oh, the guy from dis that has been succesfully leaking WE stuff has posted a mysterious profile that he claims it's not from the berserkers (I think this is new reading the date?)

A m6" ws3+ bs3+ screenshot in orange which looks like kill team and could be literally any marine infantry?

I would guess the Mutilators then as I can't see chaff having BS/WS that good.

Dudeface wrote:
A m6" ws3+ bs3+ screenshot in orange which looks like kill team and could be literally any marine infantry?

The only marine infantery troops are the zerkers, and he has said it's not them. And it's not from KT either

Garrac wrote:

Dudeface wrote:
A m6" ws3+ bs3+ screenshot in orange which looks like kill team and could be literally any marine infantry?

The only marine infantery troops are the zerkers, and he has said it's not them. And it's not from KT either

Which means it's either one of multiple characters, or several other potential units.

One of the new possessed units, maybe released as a kill team.

This is now doing the rounds: apply salt as required

Angron looks cheap. Only 360?

Yikes. That's... a lot more losses than I even feared. World Eaters got the axe

No... WE lord on foot? wtf, GW? (yeah, I don't even expect jump infantry at this point, but cutting foot lords is just bizzaro land)

Jack holes are... hmm. 7 points makes me think beastmen rather than cultists. chainblade and skullsmashers suggests melee only to me. So competing with berzerkers at 1/3 the price.

'Exalted' Eightbound sound boring and reductive, and a whole 5 ppm each over 3 'normal' Eightbound. Thrilling.

Fire support reduced to Tanks, DE, Helbrutes and terminators.

Missed a big opportunity with just the standardized daemon engines.

Looks questionable, page number is 88.

Son of a Dark Star wrote:
Looks questionable, page number is 88.

Too many pages for what little is left of the army?

Voss wrote:

Son of a Dark Star wrote:
Looks questionable, page number is 88.

Too many pages for what little is left of the army?

It's more what is left between the last unit entry on page 66 and the points on 88. What is on 22 pages of "stuff"?

Only Spawn as Fast Attack makes me doubt it, even DG had more. Every new army got something in every slot, no? What about the Slaughterbrute or how it's called?

Khornate Eviscerator sounds too simple as well. Should be... Something something hate, wrath, blood, Slaughtermachine.

Master of Executions in HQ instead of Elites, no Cultists, salt required. Exalted Eightbound also give me pause after they just eliminated Exalted Possessed from the main book.

There are two things that make me think that this is legit:
1) It aligns almost exactly with what the (previously entirely reliable) reddit leaker had said.
1a) I say 'almost' exactly, because there is one addition here: the Heldrake. He never talked about it one way or the other, and he didn't list it in the shooty units WE had access too. However, I thought that it was odd that we'd get Mauler/Forgefiends without the Heldrake. I wondered if this was an oversight on his part; flyers being easily forgotten. Indeed, I think its inclusion here *confirms* the leaker, in that it doesn't just parrot him, but is in line with it in its one addition.

2) It doesn't at all strike me as a wish list, including everything someone wishes was in the codex. And nor is it a hate list, just saying 'hurr durr, it's just Angron + Zerkers, doesn't that suck'.

I'm voting for true!

Regarding the page gap, we have seen some re-formatting in later codexes as they (likely) start to take on more the form of 10th codices.

 Platuan4th wrote:
Master of Executions in HQ instead of Elites, no Cultists, salt required. Exalted Eightbound also give me pause after they just eliminated Exalted Possessed from the main book.

We know they have some big bulky infantry on the way, rumours say they replace possessed and "bigger possessed", we've also got a few content shots featuring some small humanoids who aren't cultists but no cultists in any of the shots. This tracks with the images so far but maybe too well.

Looks good for World Eaters

Eightbound
Unit size: 3-6

 Abadabadoobaddon wrote:
Eightbound
Unit size: 3-6

Eightbound are Possessed that are "eight bloodletters crammed into a space marine", according to OK_E earlier this year.

I'm guessing that the exalted version gets WARP LOCUS to help summon more daemons, as a codex this shallow is gonna need support. The fixed unit size is to limit that aura.

Angron will be just an Bloodthirster with some Primarch-Reroll Bubble at this point tag. You can basicall already derivate his profile. I am curious if he will pass the DPS check compared to Morty. If the WE Primarch fails to do more damage in Meele than his brother this is just a Meme.

I think Eightbound as Possesed and Exalted ones as rumoured Mutilator alternative makes sense.

Khorne Terminators instead of Red Butchers is just failing at the most obvious. I wonder if these will come in Wave 2 just to force people to upgrade for some new Weapon options?

Only Spawns in Fast Attack is so damn poor. Like, whatever, why should the Berserk Army have some aggressive fast units dedicated to this slot anyway, huh?

Khorne Lord on Juggernaut is feeling weird without a unit to run along.

I wonder why people say there will be no cultists? That is what Jackals seem to be with 10-20 models at 7 ppm

Edit: It feels like they just want to sell books with that release. ,Yeah, so, you play CSM so you have most units available anyway! Oh, the army sucks and you want to be competitive? So buy the Deamon Codex please‘.

Also, why the feth did Thousand Sons get the Mutalith Beast and Khorne didn’t get the damn Slaughterbrute as Counterpart?

 xttz wrote:

 Abadabadoobaddon wrote:
Eightbound
Unit size: 3-6

Eightbound are Possessed that are "eight bloodletters crammed into a space marine", according to OK_E earlier this year.

I'm guessing that the exalted version gets WARP LOCUS to help summon more daemons, as a codex this shallow is gonna need support. The fixed unit size is to limit that aura.

The fix to the unit size is likely because they're in boxes of 3 and consider 3 boxes for a max squad bad.

charles_the_dead_lizzard wrote:
I think Eightbound as Possesed and Exalted ones as rumoured Mutilator alternative makes sense.

Dudeface wrote:

The fix to the unit size is likely because they're in boxes of 3 and consider 3 boxes for a max squad bad.

How certain are we that there will be two Eightbound kits, rather than one kit with two build options? It's only a 5ppm difference, which could just cover a special rule / aura.

 xttz wrote:

charles_the_dead_lizzard wrote:
I think Eightbound as Possesed and Exalted ones as rumoured Mutilator alternative makes sense.

Dudeface wrote:

The fix to the unit size is likely because they're in boxes of 3 and consider 3 boxes for a max squad bad.

How certain are we that there will be two Eightbound kits, rather than one kit with two build options? It's only a 5ppm difference, which could just cover a special rule / aura.

Fair point, alternate build does seem likely in that case!