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Just wondering as they seem pretty cool imo.

Because nobody really has a clue what they are, other than a knock-off of a star wars monster.

I have no clue what the Rak'gol are.

As the others said, I have no idea what they are. And that's possibly why.

Yeah I've never heard of them either.

I also have no idea who they are, and quite frankly "they seem pretty cool imo" is not exactly a compelling argument.

They're from the RPGs by Fantasy Flight. I don't know the terms of the license, but I doubt GW has any ownership over the characters, locations and events created by FFG for their games.

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Rak'Gol#.Un__LnBShjU

Giant eight-legged space pirates. They are an incredibly minor faction compared to the others(not unlike Hrud or Tarellians) so I severely doubt they would ever receive their own book. I suppose they could appear as mercs or something along those lines sometime in the future...

Merc/ally book material, only that.

There cannot be a Rak Gol codex until after the Pan Fo have been reviled.

 Delboy wrote:
Giant eight-legged space pirates. They are an incredibly minor faction compared to the others(not unlike Hrud or Tarellians) so I severely doubt they would ever receive their own book. I suppose they could appear as mercs or something along those lines sometime in the future...

There are a lot of Minor Factions out there but I doubt the Hrud is one of them.

Quoting from Lexicanum which states its source from Xenology
From the interrogations of a Human slave that served the Hrud, it's known that they are a secretive race of subterranean scavengers who lived in tunnel-cities known as "juunlak"s. These typically are formed near the greatest centres of Human population.

Yeah, I know a lot of people do not like Lexicanum but the information definitely has to come from somewhere for it to be put up there.

I reckon the reason the Hrud are not a faction still is because they do not fill any unique gameplay style. A lot of players treat them as Count As IG.

Rak'Gol on the other hand have so little information that it would not be practical to make a Codex yet. The best I can imagine them with the current information is to use them as Count As Tyranids.


-Dert

 DerT84 wrote:

 Delboy wrote:
Giant eight-legged space pirates. They are an incredibly minor faction compared to the others(not unlike Hrud or Tarellians) so I severely doubt they would ever receive their own book. I suppose they could appear as mercs or something along those lines sometime in the future...

There are a lot of Minor Factions out there but I doubt the Hrud is one of them.

Quoting from Lexicanum which states its source from Xenology
From the interrogations of a Human slave that served the Hrud, it's known that they are a secretive race of subterranean scavengers who lived in tunnel-cities known as "juunlak"s. These typically are formed near the greatest centres of Human population.

Yeah, I know a lot of people do not like Lexicanum but the information definitely has to come from somewhere for it to be put up there.

I reckon the reason the Hrud are not a faction still is because they do not fill any unique gameplay style. A lot of players treat them as Count As IG.

Rak'Gol on the other hand have so little information that it would not be practical to make a Codex yet. The best I can imagine them with the current information is to use them as Count As Tyranids.


-Dert

They might be numerous, but that does not mean they have any large presence within the overall setting. While they are mentioned as causing some trouble for the Imperium a few times and taking over a sector, they are still considered little more than a pest compared to the likes of Chaos, Tyranids or Necrons. So they may have taken over a sector, compare that to the thousands of planets the Orks have conquered or the Tyranids have devoured. They may be a big threat on our scale but not on 40k's.

Because FFG sucks, that's why.

Because GW seems overburdened with the codices they have already.

(And frankly, Slaugth top my list of codices that should be but aren't)

They sound like the infected from Star Wars Knights of the old republic. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Rakghoul

 Kilkrazy wrote:
There cannot be a Rak Gol codex until after the Pan Fo have been reviled.

+1!

I am inflating my gas bladders in anticipation even as we speak.

Because most of these other races in the imperium are terribad. The most or best we could accept is a codex filled with mercenary units. But what's the point? The work required to flesh out the Marcs and conditions around who can play with whom..... Not happening. Make them yourself and we them as counts-as dark eldar.

Very few of the background Xenos species exist in numbers that could be called "an army" on the scale of wars that are normally fought in 40K. Some of these Xeno species have less members, in total, than the IG has left-handed cooks.

So they're not developed because it appeals to only a very-niche-market and would not, in a century, make back its cost of production in sales.

As others have said, convert your own models, use another Codex for rules, and simply apply your own names/titles to things.

I'd love to see an interex Codex. I guess IG and Tau allies will do, though.

GW can't give out everything in their arsenal at once right? They need to hold back ideas and come up with new ones to keep us latched so we anticipate what the next new thing is so we stay as customers.

They wouldn't have enough diversity to be anything other than an ally like the kroots.

lets not forget: the cost of developing the models, tooling the molds, etc..... we won't be seeing any new developments for a long time, just updates to the existing range.