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With the IG apparently slated for next month NOW is the time to post your completely made up and fictional Imperial Guard rumors!

1. Despite over 25 years of branding and countless products called 'Imperial Guard', the name Imperial Guard will be changed to something more trademarkable, possibly a made up pseudo latin name like Astres Mili... hey wait a second!

2. We'll finally see plastic storm troopers and vet with all their weapon options, the only problem is they'll be 5 models for $50... hey wait a second!

3. The IG will get a new superheavy walker, basically a mini titan with a Strength D weapon and... HOLD IT! These are supposed to be made up rumors!

4. The Gawd-awful Catachans and dull Cadian plastics will finally be replaced by greatcoat guardsmen with a properly grimdark and gothic look. There! That's what you call a made up rumor!

5. The age of the Vendetta will finally come to an end with the introduction of a new Valkyrie variant, the Victoria. Sporting a TL Earthshaker in the nose and Deathstrike missles under each wing the Victoria will become the new flier of choice. This will be balanced by the fact that the Victoria is 5 points more than the stock Valkyrie.

GW will produce many new resin (not finecast) kits that rival all the 3rd party models, inspiring flavour, variation, player creation and new chapter like rules rto go with them, they will be in boxes of 10 for the current price.

All tanks will remain but there will be a custom kit which you can buy for some regiments to make the tank more fitting with the regiment.

There will be a 6 man box option for each regiment that will make you a command squad and one advisor or a special weapon squad.

Variaty and options will be the new big theme with the release and I will be happier and may buy something from them.

Penal legion squads are getting a buff, tanks are getting new sculpts and will no longer be ridiculously shaped.

There exists an army list that allows you to only take marbo.

CRASSUS ARMORED ASSAULT TRANSPORTS can be taken as dedicated transports for 10 points more than a chimera, that way, the massive points cost will deter people spamming the CRASSUS ARMORED ASSAULT TRANSPORT.

Elysians are getting a plastic kit.

Imperial guard are officially more effective than SOB in fluff, thanks to a wonderful bit of background by Matt Ward.

Valkyrie is going to be repackaged with a miniature mp3 player containing "Fortunate Son", "Ride of the valkyries " and "long tall sally"

The mistake of giving the Vendetta the same transport capacity as the Valkyrie is fixed.... by making it 50 instead.

New "giant walker" kit that consists of a pile of guardsmen on a MC base.

The FW debate is settled by putting a "you can use the FW variant lists" statement on the first page.... and then removing all of the other rules content from the codex.

A new flyer is added to compete with the Vendetta for the "ultimate dogfighter" role. It costs 250 points, is AV 10/10/10 with 2 HP, and has two lasguns as its weapons. It is still somehow way better than the DA flyers.

To properly represent the endless hordes of guardsmen basic infantry platoons have a point cost of "free", and at any time during the game you may buy and assemble a new box of guardsmen and add it to your army.

There is an awesome new Baneblade-size superheavy tank kit with powerful rules.... and it's finecast.

In order to save time you may represent guardsmen with these new models.

Just got this from an inside source, I don't have any specific stats yet but apparently, if you have Colonel Straken and Gunnery sergeant "Stonetooth" Harker In the same force, they may perform a "Fastball special"

The codex will have a miss print in it. All lasguns will become lascannons.

Plastic Steel Legion infantry models.
Plastic Rough Riders with cowboy hats.
Plastic kits for the remaining Russ variants.

Feric Jurgen will be in the codex. Whenever the opponent tries to cast a psychic power, they lose the game.

There will be regimental tactics. Tallarns will get to Blind opponents in close combat by throwing sand in their eyes. You may reroll all failed To Wound attempts with Catachans once per game as long as you properly mimic and quote Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwartzenegger, or any of their peers. Valhallans are considered to have an additional close combat weapon in the form of an icicle.

Deathstrike missiles will become Destroyer weapons. Their points cost will be reduced. At tournaments, you may fire them at any table you wish, including Fantasy tables.

To properly reflect the crushing might of Imperial armour, Lords of War will be a 1+ choice at a 25% points discount.

"Superior Cowardice: IG units that have Gone to Ground gain +3 to their Cover Save and can re-roll failed Cover Saves. In addition, such is their ability to hide behind the tiniest objects, 'ignores cover' has no effect on units from Codex: IG"

When fighting Tyranids, Sentinel Powerlifters now have the "Get away from her you *****!" Special rule which gives them preferred enemy(Tyranids) and complete immunity to the vacuum of space.

Commissars are getting a buff where, if the enemy passes a moral check in melee combat against your unit, he gets to shoot the enemy model with the highest Leadership. Then they must reroll.

Ogryn will be rebuilt into a powerhouse unit. At only 15 points a model, Ogryn Swarm suddenly becomes the Next Big Thing, pounding Tau into goo with their bare hands and ripper guns. New Ogryn models will be finecast and sold for $34.975 each.

Bad Axe Orks will not only be available as allies, but a new line of plastics will be released for these 'umanized fellas, complete with Komissar Nobs.These Orks will be armed with Imperial weapons instead of Orky ones.

A new special character is introduced in the form of a Ratling artilleryman-turned-CO. Cap O. Leon will have a tactical mastery of supporting fire like few others, despite his height.

A new Leman Russ variant, the Creed, will be introduced. It's much like the normal Leman Russ, only with Stealth and Infiltrate.

Bowing to extrenal pressure, Lasguns, aka Flashlights, will now have Markerlight rules.

New Female Commisar character: The Baroness.

Anti tank lazgunz (rifle) that can be used by a special weapon



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All stubers and heavy stubers will get the knew ricochet rule. On the roll of a 6 to wound it can generate another hit.

Also tyranids can be taken as allies.

plastic vostroyans as well as all wel known regiments in plastic kits

Orders are now rolled for at the start of the game a la psychic powers.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
With the IG apparently slated for next month NOW is the time to post your completely made up and fictional Imperial Guard rumors!

1. Despite over 25 years of branding and countless products called 'Imperial Guard', the name Imperial Guard will be changed to something more trademarkable, possibly a made up pseudo latin name like Astres Mili... hey wait a second!

2. We'll finally see plastic storm troopers and vet with all their weapon options, the only problem is they'll be 5 models for $50... hey wait a second!

3. The IG will get a new superheavy walker, basically a mini titan with a Strength D weapon and... HOLD IT! These are supposed to be made up rumors!

4. The Gawd-awful Catachans and dull Cadian plastics will finally be replaced by greatcoat guardsmen with a properly grimdark and gothic look. There! That's what you call a made up rumor!

5. The age of the Vendetta will finally come to an end with the introduction of a new Valkyrie variant, the Victoria. Sporting a TL Earthshaker in the nose and Deathstrike missles under each wing the Victoria will become the new flier of choice. This will be balanced by the fact that the Victoria is 5 points more than the stock Valkyrie.

I thought these were supposed to be made up rumors, not the truth

Ollanius Perrson added as an HQ choice. Armed with a metalgun, his rules are mediocre for save his leadership save (10+), and his special new rule, Perpetual, which grants immunity to instant kill and grants a save of 1+.

 Peregrine wrote:

New "giant walker" kit that consists of a pile of guardsmen on a MC base.

This.

This is the first time you've actually made me laugh, Peregrine.

 Wyzilla wrote:
Ollanius Perrson added as an HQ choice. Armed with a metalgun, his rules are mediocre for save his leadership save (10+), and his special new rule, Perpetual, which grants immunity to instant kill and grants a save of 1+.

But an armor save, so AP1 things can still kill him, right?

- New IG warlord table:

1- What wave was it? I lost count

The whole battlefield is covered in corpses. All terrain is Difficult for Infantry, and IG models increase their cover save by an additional point when they Go to Ground as they pretend to be one of the casualties.

2- Clerical error

The Administratum is working as usual. You have an extra infantry platoon composed of platton command squad, 2 infantry squads and a heavy weapons squad, but they have no wargear. Not even knives.

3- Commisars? Ha!

When one of your squads fails a morale check, as long as your Warlord is alive you can order an artillery strike against them. Resolve a Str 9 AP 3 indirect fire artillery barrage against the unit, placing initially the template so it covers the maximum amount of models from the unit that failed the test. Once the attack is resolved, the affected unit can reroll the Morale check.

4- They are traitors. And heretics. Really

You can shoot into units locked in melee. For each hit roll 1d6, on a 4+ it hits one model from the enemy, otherwise it hits one model from the Imperial Guard unit. Barrage weapons work normally.

5- I finally found a use for the conscripts!

Your vehicles with the Tank rule have 1 extra Hull point and have a 4+ save against grenades and Melta bombs in close combat, since their magnetic clamps don't work on flesh.

6- Wibble

If your warlord isn't modelled with his underpants on his head and two pencils stuck up his nose or is a comissar, reroll on this table. Your Warlord and his unit is automatically placed in Reserves and only comes into play on the roll of a 6 and doesn't enter the battle automatically in any turn, but can give orders to any unit in the table that has a Voxcaster while he's in Reserves and doesn't count as destroyed if he never enters the battle.

In the background section, the Elysians win a fight.

To properly represent the IG dominance in tank hordes a new unit will be added:

Leman Russ platoon: 1 command squad, 2-5 battle tank squads, 0-3 heavy tank squads.

Command squad (30 points): 4x LRBT, 1x LRBT with BS 4. May upgrade any LRBT to an exterminator (free), vanquisher (+5), demolisher (+10) or executioner (+15).

Infantry squad (50 points): 9x LRBT, 1x LRBT with a pistol and CCW. May upgrade one LRBT to an eradicator (+5), demolisher (+10) or executioner (+15). May replace two LRBTs with a Baneblade (+5) or Shadowsword (+10).

Heavy weapon squad (50 points): 3x Baneblade. May upgrade any Baneblade to a Shadowsword (+10).


Coincidentally the price of the LRBT kit will be increased to $100 each. This has nothing to do with the new IG codex.

Special Character Thunderbolt Ace in HQ. His special rules include Saturation Bombing: All Thunderbolts come with bombs for free and may be taken in Elites, all Infantry units may use Valkyries as Dedicated Transports, and you may take a Marauder as a Lords of War detachment. Bombs and Multiple Rocket Pods gain Ignores Cover. Any unit hit by multiple templates from Multiple Rocket Pods or any weapon with the Bomb rule resolves all hits from those weapons at +1S and -1 AP for each template past the first. Place d3 additional bomb templates at the beginning of each Shooting phase to represent high-level bombers. You do not lose the game for having no models on the table so long as you have some Flyers in Reserve. Flyers gain the Outflank rule, and you start rolling for Reserves on turn one instead of turn two. A Saturation Bombing detachment may not take any units with the Tank type.

GW will make a new Tanith First plastic box set, with customisable accessories.

I wish

-Conscript squads can now equip jump packs at 3 pts a model. They also have the Decent of Angels special rule.

-Commissar Knights are a thing. Really. They can ever execute a friendly Knight once per shooting phase for "moral upliftment".

-Voxcasters can be reamped to output really, REALLY loud sounds. They count as sonic weapons and ignore cover and invulnerable saves.

-Valkyries and Vendettas are now troops choices and can be taken in 1-5 model squads.

-Ogryns can now be upgraded with Pulse Carbines at 85 pts a model.

-Conscripts now have rending on all attacks when Chenkov is taken an an HQ choice and is still alive.

 Bobthehero wrote:

 Wyzilla wrote:
Ollanius Perrson added as an HQ choice. Armed with a metalgun, his rules are mediocre for save his leadership save (10+), and his special new rule, Perpetual, which grants immunity to instant kill and grants a save of 1+.

But an armor save, so AP1 things can still kill him, right?

No. He has no armor. He just has a save of 1+, E.G. invincible. Oh, and he's scoring.

New unit: Marauder Annihilator. It will be a finecast upgrade to the Marauder bomber that replaces its regular bombs with a single nuke. When the nuke is dropped all other units on the table are removed as casualties (and don't even think about trying to use any special rules to prevent this, they don't work).

Ciaphas Cain and Gunner Jurgern will be added to the codex, along with models.

Cain will have a 2++ save from a special rule called "Some Guys Have All The Luck" and Jurgen will provide a 6" bubble in which psychic powers are completely nullified, including blessings on enemy models.