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Brother SRM wrote:

Samus_aran115 wrote:Honestly, if I'm playing the non-anticipating card, I'd say a techmarine.

I think it's probably a DA or a BT though. Don't think it's chaos. Not enough gaudy skulls and junk, lol

It's a Dark Angel with a bunch of cables on his wrist. You can tell it's a Dark Angel because of the cream robe that's covering his shins. From my guess he has a plasma cannon or something. If it was a techmarine it would be red and the armor would be segmented like it is on most techmarine models.

Yeah, that's true. Artificier armor always looks a bit different.

Give it another month. I think the head and torso should show up by then, and we'll have a good idea.

Wow.... goooood find! Thanks!

I'd say it'd be Dark Angel as well, and it's actually a really effective way to promote WD again, I might actually get a monthly subscription to collect them if they improve the content and lower the price.

For easier reference here the DA cover, indeed featuring the spiked skull backpack. Shakes my believe that skull=good and spiked_skulls=evil though

The Spanish Edition January issue has a scaled up version of the side picture, so the issues don't fit.

Anyway, interesting. I bet on DA.

Im guessing it will be on all this years issues of WD as it is the 25th Anniversary for 40K

I have the biggest smile on my face right now.

Going to have to buy this years WDs just for this.

Well it could also be fabius bile (he has robe, cables and skulls) but it will propably be DA.

See also the BoK rumour that the DA Codex is next, then 6th edition, then Chaos SM:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/180/411404.page

I take it this is 2 issues in the pic? Would the pic on the left be the January edition and the one on the right be the February edition?

Also this is nothing new. When there was a White Dwarf Canada, all the cover combined made a pic as well. Can't remember what the pic was. Does anyone have a link to that?

Just saying this is not the first time GW did anything like this before.

Fallen DA maybe?

DarbNilbirts wrote:One thing I could see them doing for the long term, more or less as a permanent WD theme, would be one long picture with one suit from each of the original legions. DA is the 1st legion is it not?

DA is the first legion, yeah. I could see them doing just random iconic images rather than something orderly as legions. Nintendo Power used to (might still) do this sort of panoramic thing too.

White Ninja wrote:Fallen DA maybe?

Fallen turned to Chaos when the armour was black. Green came after the fall (not like GW remembered that with Cypher).

-John

One thing I don't understand is say DA are released in April/May. So that will be what, 1/2 to 1/3 of the DA pic? So what will the remaining 7 or so months mean then? We already have DA, so why continue with them then?

I don't think this will be a DA release but you never know.

I'd absolutely LOVE April/May to be DA but it seems a little weird to me that just a week or so ago, we had 6th ed and this forum was pretty certain that Chaos/BT/Tau were next up for an update.

Fast forward a week and the 6th ed leak has been disproven (to an extent) and suddenly there's talk of DA getting a new codex and even a whole new army of Fallen! I know these are all just rumours so we never really know but things have moved and changed so much I don't know what's coming.

The Fallen thing may be that they are going to add them into a new CSM codex?

Well, it is GW's 25th anniversary right? So I would assume January-December will probably be one big mural... Based on what we have so far that is.
...and I think someone already mentioned this...

Astelan wrote:

Going to have to buy this years WDs just for this.

"Mission accomplished!"

Davor wrote:One thing I don't understand is say DA are released in April/May. So that will be what, 1/2 to 1/3 of the DA pic? So what will the remaining 7 or so months mean then? We already have DA, so why continue with them then?

To show who the DA is fighting perhaps?

timd wrote:

Davor wrote:One thing I don't understand is say DA are released in April/May. So that will be what, 1/2 to 1/3 of the DA pic? So what will the remaining 7 or so months mean then? We already have DA, so why continue with them then?

To show who the DA is fighting perhaps?

Shhhh, that's too reasonable. Also, if it switched from BT to DA in the release schedule, I'm going to ragequit and beat up a schoolbus!! Just kidding...I'll just enjoy my two wound tech marines and army wide preferred enemy longer.

timd wrote:

Davor wrote:One thing I don't understand is say DA are released in April/May. So that will be what, 1/2 to 1/3 of the DA pic? So what will the remaining 7 or so months mean then? We already have DA, so why continue with them then?

To show who the DA is fighting perhaps?

Yep. Calling it now:

WD picture is a DA on the left vs a CSM on the right.

Release order is DA, 6e/starter box, CSM

When each is released, the latest portion of the WD picture will reflect the release.

First let me say there is no disputing the fact that it is a dark angel - no one else wears green armor and tan robes! All the old art for DA has them wearing skulls and spikes. This doesn't mean they are chaos, they are just 'dark and mysterious'. I bet the first 6 issues will have the right half of a dark angel marine, the last 6 issues will be the left half of a chaosy dark angel / 'fallen'.

And I bet it all coincides with the release schedule (remember last time we got screwed though when our codex came out just prior to 5th....) See I told everyone on several different forums that the DA were coming this year and everyone shot me down! They even shut down my threads due to "no proof", then again rumors are rumors and there was no proof for the BT either. Anything could happen yet, but my faith and hope has just grown a bit in the 40k universe for my first army.

I'm still having real problems believing that DA would leap-frog BT by two years. CSM over Tau, sure. While I'm a Tau fan I see that the "villian" in the box should appeal to a larger audience...and therefore have their codex updated next.

Bottom line, be it black marines or green marines or spikey marines...possibly no Tau for awhile. Guess I'll have plenty of time to paint what I have.

Cypher is back!

That (the full set) will look good in the bookshelf, but I'm more interested in does White Dwarf still have a preview of next month and if it does, what does it show?

Crazy Theory, dark Angels will be the new poster children heading up a new Codex Space Marines Codex.

Bold or Stupid wrote:Crazy Theory, dark Angels will be the new poster children heading up a new Codex Space Marines Codex.

Probably about the same chance as the Alpha Legion being the poster children of C:SM.

Sounds like a red herring to me. If we assume that it'll take all year to complete the picture, the Dark Angel release is next year, not this year. Besides, the book Ravenwing by Gav Thorpe comes out in Jan 2013, according to black library.

And the old codex is still for sale and they haven't pulled any of the old models.

Looks close to this, not sure what the cables are though.

Deathshead420 wrote:Looks close to this, not sure what the cables are though.

Looks about as close to that as it does to any picture of a Dark Angel ever.

Pictures was just added for effect. Geeze come on guys how about how huge Calgar looks in some of the drawings and when it translates to the mini he is about the same size as other minis.

These are pics that is suppose to look cool and awsome. Just because some extra stuff was added doesn't mean it will translate to minis.

Remember, The Look of Cool.