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Hey guys, the Squats were killed off, and to my knowledge the only real army to be killed off. Do you think GW would consider to kill off any other races? Who would they be? The Sisters seem like that, even with their new codex update it seems like GW was just trying to appease peoole. Any other ideas?

Given the Gak-flurry they're STILL getting over the Squats i doubt that they'd do that again.


Their current procedure is to let the army rot without updates for a decade instead, so everyone ditches their dated looking, fugly army for one that can actually hold its own.

Then they rerelease the army with awesome new models

They will never do that again. And here is a post why:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/366486.page

See the really long one.

Don't think they ever will for a long time. I think a independent modelling company might do.(like avatars of war) x

SoB's aren't gonna get killed off, they just got a new codex and there's no logical way to.

Harriticus wrote:SoB's aren't gonna get killed off, they just got a new codex and there's no logical way to.

I presume the suggestion is that their paltry back-of-a-beermat Codex and the absence of new models represent the studio losing interest in the Sisters and letting them slide, like the Squats, into obscurity. Which is in fact quite plausible. The Sisters were for many years a footnote in Warhammer 40,000's backstory without models or an army list; if there's no creative or financial incentive to relaunch them, they'll be a footnote again someday.

English Assassin wrote:

Harriticus wrote:SoB's aren't gonna get killed off, they just got a new codex and there's no logical way to.

I presume the suggestion is that their paltry back-of-a-beermat Codex and the absence of new models represent the studio losing interest in the Sisters and letting them slide, like the Squats, into obscurity. Which is in fact quite plausible. The Sisters were for many years a footnote in Warhammer 40,000's backstory without models or an army list; if there's no creative or financial incentive to relaunch them, they'll be a footnote again someday.

Many, including this one, Blood Angels players thought the same thing when the WD codex came out. I think that if that particular example is applicable then your assertion that the studio is losing interest is incorrect. I see it as the studio not wanting them to fall further into obscurity but not having the resources to put towards a full release. Time will tell.

Oh, that's also possibly true - I don't want the Sisters to go away. I just wouldn't insist it was impossible they might. Time indeed will tell.

I seriously doubt they will ever kill another race off. It would just be too much of a flamestorm.


If ANY race was to get killed off, they could kill the Tau off pretty easily.

Hive Fleet Kraken and Hive Fleet Collossus are both in prime position to eat the Tau empire.

It would be simple enough to say X Hive Fleet attacked the Tau empire and ravaged the systems. The immenent Tyranid thread caused the Imperium to launch a Crusade to cleanse the Nid Fleet. The fleet, weakened from its fighting with the Tau empire, was completely destroyed.

The last remaining Tau worlds were conquered by the Crusade forces in the aftermath of the Crusade.



I could actually see this happening, but the Farsight Enclaves remain intact. Codex: Tau Empire now consists solely of Farsight's forces.