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Maybe it is your mastery of the Eldar that is the reason.

Now back on-topic: Please remember that GW has been rewiting the fluff so if you think something would be good if combined into a larger book. What would it be?

I was toying with the idea of mortal enemies releases. Something like:

Eldar-Necrons

Orks -IG

Chaos-SM

Traitor Gaurd -Inquisition

Deamons-Grey Knights

Tau vs Ad-Mech

BA-Tyranids

BT-Xenos

Just leaves SW & DA ans enough room for their mortal enemies

What do ya think?

What do ya think. Might improve sales

Nah, more like I took a lot of anti-MEQ, non-MEQ armies in a default MEQ-heavy metagame.

The fact that GW hasn't revisited Angels of Death-style combi-Codices since Armageddon / EoT, pretty much gives you the answer where GW has their heads.

Personally, I like it better if GW does themed release years, like next year being Space Hulk / Nids / BA. That's a good year for 3 releases. Same with 2011 being Eldar / Necrons.

Thing is, I'd rather have more Eldar fluff than less Eldar fluff that trades to add for Necron rules & fluff that I'm not so much interested in.

WWHHEEERRREEEE DOES GW HAVE THEIR HEADS?

Sorry, couldn't resist.


But to reply, They are still doing combined battleforce releases. Not to hard to go back and release the Codices at the same time.

We will just have to see if this economy will make GW hungry enough to work or if they will sell out.

focusedfire wrote:This supports my point. Inquisitors by their art work do not run around in Nazi trench coats. By their Artwork they are supposed to be in a Curiass with a colonial Buff coat with all sorts of Baroque bionic equipment. If GW is promoting them as generic looking mooks in psuedo-Nazi-inspired logcoats then GW is putting absolutely no effort into promoting the army.
Seriously, power armor isn't as interesting as some of the new motocross protective gear.

To be picky, I don't think Inquisitors have a dress code, at least when they're in the field. Are you going to get on the case of a guy who can order Exterminatus because his shirt isn't tucked in?

Was merely positing that GW over emphasis on the SMs could be a business strategy that is going to hurt the company over time.

That instead of making excuses for the company maybe we should call shennanigans when it their favoritism towards one army is so apparent. If such goes unchecked it could destabilize their customer base to the point of business failure.

This has to do with How the Inq and Commisar were represeted in as if the SM and SoB had appeared but GW had Half-A**ed their costumes you would have heard no end of griping. Yet when someone starts to point that they did so for the Commisar and the Iquisitor, people are resistant to say anything.

I don't like double-standards

focusedfire wrote:That instead of making excuses for the company maybe we should call shennanigans when it their favoritism towards one army is so apparent. If such goes unchecked it could destabilize their customer base to the point of business failure.

I hardly see impending disaster because GW has more than one Marine Codex. At least half of all Codex releases are non-MEQ. After all, aren't Orks doing well right now? Aren't they the opposite of Marines?

me and my friend have started a eldar/ dark eldar/ space marie codex

JohnHwangDD wrote:I hardly see impending disaster because GW has more than one Marine Codex. At least half of all Codex releases are non-MEQ. After all, aren't Orks doing well right now? Aren't they the opposite of Marines?

Including Tau and Necrons over half of the codices are MEQ. The success of the Orks goes toward my point of support something else and it will thrive argument from before.


Back to what I was saying earlier, I'm really jazzed on the concept of each year having a mortal enemies battleforce release. Just stop and examine the possible benefits for a bit. GW would be encouraging rivalries and then become the arms supplier to both sides to cash in. They would be the U.S.

BTW, Curse you for showing me that Moto-cross armor. Gotta save money and lose wieght now. ThanX.

I don't like combined codices because GW's history of such is pretty bad. I'm largely basing this opinion off of the Armageddon Codex which included several army lists; one of which were the Steel Legion who literally only had about a page or half a page of rules content.

That combined codex had a huge disparity of time and rules invested in the various armies and its something I hope GW does not repeat.

It'll be interesting to see how the upcoming Space Wolves codex pans out; will it be as thick and have as much content as its Space Marine, Orks, and IG codex counterparts? Or will it resemble more like a minidex from third edition? I've got money on the former but time will tell.

Um, Tau aren't MEQ in any way. They're T3 Sv4+.

Necrons are superficially MEQ, having T4 Sv3+ on the statline, but their lack of Transports and other wonky rules makes a proper MEQ claim a bit of a stretch.

Orks & Guard got redone recently, and seem to be doing fine. Nids are up next year, and will probably do quite well, also. Now if these 3 Codices were all fail, I could give your hypothesis of impending collapse more weight, but the resources that GW threw at Orks & Guard seem to be paying off, and one imagines similar effort and results for Nids.

So why GW needs to change anything is beyond me - it seems to be doing OK in a tough market.

So T4 W2 Sv 3+ isn't MEQ?

If Tau could field Suits as Troops, I'd reconsider.

focusedfire wrote:Maybe it is your mastery of the Eldar that is the reason.

Now back on-topic: Please remember that GW has been rewiting the fluff so if you think something would be good if combined into a larger book. What would it be?

I was toying with the idea of mortal enemies releases. Something like:

Eldar-Necrons

Orks -IG

Chaos-SM

Traitor Gaurd -Inquisition

Deamons-Grey Knights

Tau vs Ad-Mech

BA-Tyranids

BT-Xenos

Just leaves SW & DA ans enough room for their mortal enemies

What do ya think?

What do ya think. Might improve sales

Could be fun, although for the Tyranids there are so many fun options... Iyanden Eldar/Tyranids or the Ork/Tyranid wars would work as well

@number9dream-This could give them the ability to mix it up a bit.

Well, Eldar and Harlequins should be in a combined codex so that one can play vanilla Eldar, Craftworld Eldar, and Harlequins.
This would require to recover Craftworlds and to consider the old Harlequin codex from Gav Thorpe.


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Exodites should be added to the codex, too.
The sticky threads in the forum
http://www.40konline.com/community/index.php?board=44.0
contain both playtested Harlequin and Exodites codices.