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Anpu-adom wrote:Some codices will come with huge releases of models and others just 'new' stuff.
Something else to ponder...

What is there to ponder, really? Some new releases warrant a bigger overhaul of the miniatures line than others.

Necrons and Dark Eldar, both Xenos I might add, got just what they needed: a buttload of new stuff (and yet there still is the whining about Marines getting more love than Xenos). Recent Marine-ish releases simply needed less, as they use codex options already available, so they got a little less new stuff.

GW has been doing a very fine job lately providing us with quality new plastic kits. They can't make everybody happy at once though. That is just the way it is. If they release Dark Angels then Eldar players complain. If they release Eldar then Tau players complain. The Sisters of Battle players complain no matter what. Etc etc.

Once a new Dark Angels codex is released they will probably get the same number of new kits the Space Wolves & Grey Knights got. I expect Chaos to be a larger release if they go with all the god specific options + traitor guard/cult troops.

Brother SRM wrote:

TBD wrote:Why don't you wait and see what actually does get released this year instead of the premature complaining

This is apparently a novel concept to many posters in this thread, unfortunately.

"We polish one another, and rub off our Corners and rough Sides by a sort of amicable Collision"

from Characteristics by the Third Earl of Shaftesbury (1711)



In fact, I'am putting that on my profile.



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TBD wrote:

Anpu-adom wrote:Some codices will come with huge releases of models and others just 'new' stuff.
Something else to ponder...

The Sisters of Battle players complain no matter what.

I expect Chaos to be a larger release if they go with all the god specific options + traitor guard/cult troops.

That position is certainly reasonable given they don't have an army or a codex.

Chaos, on second thoughts, could make a big release with new mark units especially and a lot of their stuff is really old from their big push during 3rd. However, it is Codex Chaos Space Marines so the odds of traitors, cultists or Dark mechanicum units being included is unlikely. The seperation of Daemons suggested GW wanted to focus on the big guys.


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TBD wrote:

Anpu-adom wrote:Some codices will come with huge releases of models and others just 'new' stuff.
Something else to ponder...

The Sisters of Battle players complain no matter what.

I expect Chaos to be a larger release if they go with all the god specific options + traitor guard/cult troops.

That position is certainly reasonable given they don't have an army or a codex.

Chaos, on second thoughts, could make a big release with new mark units especially and a lot of their stuff is really old from their big push during 3rd. However, it is Codex Chaos Space Marines so the odds of traitors, cultists or Dark mechanicum units being included is unlikely. The seperation of Daemons suggested GW wanted to focus on the big guys.

Totalwar1402 wrote:

TBD wrote:The Sisters of Battle players complain no matter what.

That position is certainly reasonable given they don't have an army or a codex.

We have an army and a codex. It is just that our army and codex are old and only in a WD respectively.

And not all of us complain no matter what. After all, I have been told that I am an Apologist by many members of the board.

cant wait for CSM

Huh ... http://bloodofkittens.com/ is down?

EDIT: Nevermind, they are back up ... DNS hiccup.

Wait, someone getting a codex in the new edition before Space Marines?

I call shenanigans

pretre wrote:[
We have an army and a codex. It is just that our army and codex are old and only in a WD respectively.

And not all of us complain no matter what. After all, I have been told that I am an Apologist by many members of the board.

Yeah, but that old army ain't even sold anymore in stores and is direct only; for prices that blind most people. I only got mine as a gift from a friend and he found them in his loft!

Don't be picky. Back in my day, we had to cast our own Sisters of Battle from melted down spoons! Be lucky that you can even buy them, direct or not.

Alpharius wrote:...because there was no more 'news' or even 'rumors' to discuss, and what was being discussed could have been done in 40K General.

From the looks of it, there's not much new here either, so this thread's already on the clock.

Maybe?

Looking to me like 3 pages may have just about done it...

If this were a political blog, the BoK site would get something akin to a 'clickbait for ad revenue' tag.

He expects people to just believe him and post up? It works the other way around, one person gets pushed off the iceberg first and if the sharks in Nottingham don't get worked up into a froth, the rest follow shark-bait after a day or two.

Remember when GW said Lord of the Rings (the hobbit now too) wouldn't impact the releases for their other games? heh.......

So three pages of posts, no actual rumor... more a rumor of a rumor. Why isn't this thread closed?

Lord Shag wrote:So three pages of posts, no actual rumor... more a rumor of a rumor. Why isn't this thread closed?

So...ummm...I guess...IBTL.

Tasty has been kinda accurate about things in the past. I dont want to believe this is all thats being released but I cant say I'd be surprised. It seems GW releases on average an army update per year, we were lucky to see GK and Necrons this year. If 6th and chaos really are all that comes out, maybe they will actually have everything ready for the chaos codex....but that has not happened with any release I can remmeber.

Lord Shag wrote:So three pages of posts, no actual rumor... more a rumor of a rumor. Why isn't this thread closed?

Wouldn't it make more sense if all rumours were on page one in the first post? Then people would post afterwards with their comments. I believe thats how the necron model rumours are running at the minute, you've got pictures of the second wave ontop of pictures of the origional rumour release rather than putting it on page seventeen of the comments. Much more sense. Posts like this simply keep real rumours from falling down the topic page.


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Defeatmyarmy wrote:Tasty has been kinda accurate about things in the past. I dont want to believe this is all thats being released but I cant say I'd be surprised. It seems GW releases on average an army update per year, we were lucky to see GK and Necrons this year. If 6th and chaos really are all that comes out, maybe they will actually have everything ready for the chaos codex....but that has not happened with any release I can remmeber.

Two 40k books a year has been the average for a long while so far as I'am aware. Which other years have only had a single book come out? Basically the rule book takes up a slot, so technically we are getting to 40k things if the rumour pans out.

It would if there were actual rumors in the post.....

Been a year since I got interested to w40k, wanting to jump in chaos but people sayng they are under powered. Been a year keeping hearing rumours about 6th ed and a supposed new CSM codex. Kinda boring after a while. If no one has any real rumours, why make a thread ? Just bloc these kind of thread.

So, not sure if this is true for anyone else, but BoK is still down for me. Which sucks, because in the GW media black hole, any rumors are good rumors.

Is there some GW tomfoolery afoot?

pretre wrote:Don't be picky. Back in my day, we had to cast our own Sisters of Battle from melted down spoons! Be lucky that you can even buy them, direct or not.

This needs to be sigged. Those poor spoons...

Oh, I have some rumors to add to this thread! I hope to become a renowned rumor starter like Ghost21!

-The starter box is gonna be Zoats vs. Squats vs Normjidjidjadkjafords!
-There will two codexs for Tau, one for the Empire and the other for the Farsight Enclave!
-Harlequins are getting their own Codex back!
-Grey Knights, Space Wolves, the Legion of the Damned, Sisters of Battle, Death Watch, Blood Angels and Chaos Space Marines will all be incorporated in the new Codex Weird Marines.
-A new race based off a suggestion I sent to Games Workshop in a letter filled with explicit threats is getting a codex called Codex Normjidjidjadkjafords.
-Ultramarines are going to back down in favor of the Red Corsairs, who are the new Space Marine poster boys.
-Dark Eldar and Craftworld Eldar are merging into one Codex called Codex Non Harlequin Eldar.
-The Imperial Guard are getting a new Codex and a second wave of models before the release of sixth, which will be tomorrow!

1 codex for an entire year is shameful. Especially when one considers the last year has seen 4-5 Fantasy Codex's.

LoneLictor wrote:Oh, I have some rumors to add to this thread! I hope to become a renowned rumor starter like Ghost21!

-The starter box is gonna be Zoats vs. Squats vs Normjidjidjadkjafords!
-There will two codexs for Tau, one for the Empire and the other for the Farsight Enclave!
-Harlequins are getting their own Codex back!
-Grey Knights, Space Wolves, the Legion of the Damned, Sisters of Battle, Death Watch, Blood Angels and Chaos Space Marines will all be incorporated in the new Codex Weird Marines.
-A new race based off a suggestion I sent to Games Workshop in a letter filled with explicit threats is getting a codex called Codex Normjidjidjadkjafords.
-Ultramarines are going to back down in favor of the Red Corsairs, who are the new Space Marine poster boys.
-Dark Eldar and Craftworld Eldar are merging into one Codex called Codex Non Harlequin Eldar.
-The Imperial Guard are getting a new Codex and a second wave of models before the release of sixth, which will be tomorrow!

Shenanigans. The Minotaurs are the new SM poster boys.

oni wrote:

So with the “gauntlet” thrown, I won’t be posting anything about 6th and the CSM codex today.

Instead I am going to wait one day to see if we can get others to shake that rumor tree first.

Seriously?

Well, I'm not going to show you mine until you show me yours... How 'bout dem apples?

So how about we post some rumours to help shake the tree? I will pretend like I know some rumours and like ten of you can act like you think I am legit. The Mods can delete the posts of those who do not want in on the game.

So this is what I heard...

40K is getting major releases in 2012. To help bring about the Apocalypse, they are releasing Chaos Space Marines a few months before the Mayan Calendar runs out.

2012 is the catch up year. After several lawsuits and IP lawyer changes, GW is now calling 2012 the catch up year. Models that should have came out a few years ago are going to be released sort of like what was going on with the recent Space Wolves and Tyranid releases. So basically the Summer of Flyers releases from awhile back will come out this year. It is not going to be a full on release like Cities of Death, but more or less new models to help the 6th Edition rules release be even more successful.

Since the success of of the Dark Eldar release, GW has pushed to start releasing two 40K codexes a year with each having a 1.5 release (as the community calls it) and a full wave 2 release along with several other mini releases with other armies. The problem is, there are several armies that did not get incorporated into this new time table, such as Tyranids who being the most unpopular army at the moment, will only get waves of models trickled out a few at a time to get those weird 40K players buying stuff.

Now the only exception to the 2 codexes a year rule will be when a new edition comes out. Because a new edition is such a massive undertaking, game developers will put other wish list armies on the back burner until the next year.

This fall there will be new plastic kits for Plague Marines and Chaos Space Marines to go along with the codex release. Thousand Sons will be released in January in finecast and their will be multi-part plastic boxed set contains 111 components with which to build ten Noise Marines or Ten Khorne Berserkers. Wave 2 will also include a new Plastic Defiler and Dred Claw drop pod.

Also Eldar or Tau will be released in February 2013 followed by a Dark Angels release in June 2012 followed by either Tau or Eldar that fall. Squats will make a return but will be nothing like you remember them. Think dreadnought type vehicles with cyborg pilots hardwired into the systems. They will function a lot like the Ogre Kingdoms in fantasy. Troops will consist of groups of 4 Dreadnought sized vehicles and HQs will all be Dreadknight sized.


There rumour tree shaken.

It is now th 27th, his post was on the 25th. He posted nothing new on anything about new rumors. Looks like he just trolled the community for web hits. Must be a revenue thing.

Well he posted. http://bloodofkittens.com/blog/2012/04/26/network-news-new-csm-codex-rumors

With that said let us get started.

Troops choices will be Chaos Space Marines and Cultists
All Cult Marines are Elites
No new Special Characters
Special Characters will unlock Cult Marines as troops (Kharn for Berserkers and so on)
Typhus makes Cultists into Zombies
Chaos Dreadnaught is removed and replaced with a new unit (like how pariahs were replaced with Lychguard)
CSM now get a Flyer a Mechanical Chaos Dragon (model is done will be part of initial release)
Lesser and Greater Demons are gone
Spawn replaced by “Fell Beast”

I feel like I am missing something…

Oh yeah…
Almost Forgot...
Rules for Traitor Guard are in!

His website loads awfully slow. Wonder if he's just getting slammed with traffic. Thanks for posting these tidbits. I don't like that they are losing the dread and gaining a dragon? What?

They can't be dropping dreads, come the hell on GW I just spent 2 months of dedicated time making 3 from all the loyalist kits!

Friggin' forgeworld BREATHES dreadnought variants!

I need to see this unfold, it's probably Cruddace or Ward's doing.

See I could half believe the Dragon just because of the recent style of army releases by GW, although most of this seems odd, if not actually daft.

Think BoK has got a troll feeding him info.

An ex-manager friend of mine has essentially hinted at similar things - 2 major 40k releases but then its quiet. Also possibly 2 'surprise' releases

I hope this doesn't happen like this...I'm eagerly anticipating the Chaos 'dex and can't wait for October...