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2017/05/15 03:35:09
Subject: GW just said every faction will get a faction focus article.
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Some quick back of the napkin math, 26ish factions, 2 per 3 days release schedule, 3 faction focus already done, 23ish left, 30 ish days to finish them. We can safely assume faction focus will finish up right before launch, so looks like another hint for the 17th. If they keep dribbling us info this slowly my game ADD is going to kick in.
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Constantly being negative doesn't make you seem erudite, it just makes you look like a curmudgeon. |
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2017/05/15 03:42:03
Subject: GW just said every faction will get a faction focus article.
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Norn Queen
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I very much doubt things like khorne deamonkin are going to be their own faction anymore. That looked like an idea they started for each chaos god and then gave up on.
Likewise i would be pretty surprised if all space marines havn't just been merged at this point with certain characters and special units having keywords that make them only usable in a (space wolves) (dark angles) force.
26 factions is too many. This is a prime opportunith for them to trim and condence.
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These are my opinions. This is how I feel. Others may feel differently. This needs to be stated for some reason.
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2017/05/15 03:49:11
Subject: GW just said every faction will get a faction focus article.
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Ancient Chaos Terminator
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 Lance845 wrote:I very much doubt things like khorne deamonkin are going to be their own faction anymore. That looked like an idea they started for each chaos god and then gave up on. Likewise i would be pretty surprised if all space marines havn't just been merged at this point with certain characters and special units having keywords that make them only usable in a (space wolves) (dark angles) force. 26 factions is too many. This is a prime opportunith for them to trim and condence.
Here are your factions that will probably get articles: https://warhammer40000.com/setting/explore-the-factions/ Automatically Appended Next Post: Which is 24 self edit: this was wrong, it is 26
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2017/05/15 03:52:18
Subject: GW just said every faction will get a faction focus article.
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Grim Dark Angels Interrogator-Chaplain
Vigo. Spain.
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Yeah, I'll go with the factions in the new web, to calculate the articles they are gonna do.
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 Crimson Devil wrote:
Dakka does have White Knights and is also rather infamous for it's Black Knights. A new edition brings out the passionate and not all of them are good at expressing themselves in written form. There have been plenty of hysterical responses from both sides so far. So we descend into pointless bickering with neither side listening to each other. So posting here becomes more masturbation than conversation.
ERJAK wrote:Forcing a 40k player to keep playing 7th is basically a hate crime.
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2017/05/15 03:53:14
Subject: GW just said every faction will get a faction focus article.
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Ancient Chaos Terminator
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Recounted, it's 26
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2017/05/15 04:00:56
Subject: GW just said every faction will get a faction focus article.
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Longtime Dakkanaut
Ute nation
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I got 26 by counting the factions on the GW store site and skipping obvious doubles like Militarum tempestus (Part of the IG), skitarii (Part of Ad Mech), and sisters of silence (grouped with custodes, probably). I didn't even think about the explore the factions site, kind of a weird coincidence it also came up with 26, but a different 26.
There is also the possibility of new factions, and covering FW factions like the Eldar Corsairs.
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Constantly being negative doesn't make you seem erudite, it just makes you look like a curmudgeon. |
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2017/05/15 04:09:47
Subject: GW just said every faction will get a faction focus article.
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Grim Dark Angels Interrogator-Chaplain
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Lance845 wrote:I very much doubt things like khorne deamonkin are going to be their own faction anymore. That looked like an idea they started for each chaos god and then gave up on.
Likewise i would be pretty surprised if all space marines havn't just been merged at this point with certain characters and special units having keywords that make them only usable in a (space wolves) (dark angles) force.
26 factions is too many. This is a prime opportunith for them to trim and condence.
Kinda sucks if you're right about Daemonkin. I loved the Blood Tithe mechanic; it made the army more fun than just CSM allied with Khorne daemons. Maybe it'll be back in some fashion anyway.
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2017/05/15 04:14:14
Subject: GW just said every faction will get a faction focus article.
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Dakka Veteran
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Lmfao! They spelled eldar as Aeldari just so they can copyright the term.
They need to miszpell moar wurds so they can copyright it.
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In the Grimdark future of DerpHammer40k, there are only dank memes! |
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2017/05/15 04:16:24
Subject: GW just said every faction will get a faction focus article.
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Longtime Dakkanaut
Ute nation
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The best part about this thread is we are all 40k super nerds and we are not even sure how many factions there are.
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Constantly being negative doesn't make you seem erudite, it just makes you look like a curmudgeon. |
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2017/05/15 04:31:49
Subject: GW just said every faction will get a faction focus article.
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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They spell Tau like T'au now too lol. At least ours is the most minimally changed.
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2017/05/15 04:32:35
Subject: GW just said every faction will get a faction focus article.
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Furious Fire Dragon
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Im guessing they are going to condense. They just havent changed the website so to not tip people off
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2017/05/15 04:46:48
Subject: GW just said every faction will get a faction focus article.
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Battle-tested Knight Castellan Pilot
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 Rippy wrote: Lance845 wrote:I very much doubt things like khorne deamonkin are going to be their own faction anymore. That looked like an idea they started for each chaos god and then gave up on.
Likewise i would be pretty surprised if all space marines havn't just been merged at this point with certain characters and special units having keywords that make them only usable in a (space wolves) (dark angles) force.
26 factions is too many. This is a prime opportunith for them to trim and condence.
Here are your factions that will probably get articles:
https://warhammer40000.com/setting/explore-the-factions/
Automatically Appended Next Post:
Which is 24 edit:this was wrong, it is 26
Cant see alot of the imperium armies getting their own faction focus though tbh, custodes and SoS are dual unit factions, and stuff like deathwatch which has tiny amounts of units. Neither can I see all 3 eldar and then ynnari getting their own. Would be nice but I doubt it.
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2017/05/15 05:01:31
Subject: GW just said every faction will get a faction focus article.
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Ancient Chaos Terminator
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N'urgle Bae-mons, coming your way
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2017/05/15 06:11:24
Subject: GW just said every faction will get a faction focus article.
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!!Goffik Rocker!!
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Noone-s saying there will be all 26 left. You can easilly halve the number of factions just merging all mehreenz and elves. Remember, there are gona be hashtags. So you don't necesserily need another 40$ book to tell you that your speshul dude can get +1 str on the charge and is red instead of re-rolling ones and is blue.
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2017/05/15 11:14:11
Subject: GW just said every faction will get a faction focus article.
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Shadowy Grot Kommittee Memba
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inb4 faction focus: Sisters of Battle is just a page of awkward silence.
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"Got you, Yugi! Your Rubric Marines can't fall back because I have declared the tertiary kaptaris ka'tah stance two, after the secondary dacatarai ka'tah last turn!"
"So you think, Kaiba! I declared my Thousand Sons the cult of Duplicity, which means all my psykers have access to the Sorcerous Facade power! Furthermore I will spend 8 Cabal Points to invoke Cabbalistic Focus, causing the rubrics to appear behind your custodes! The Vengeance for the Wronged and Sorcerous Fullisade stratagems along with the Malefic Maelstrom infernal pact evoked earlier in the command phase allows me to double their firepower, letting me wound on 2s and 3s!"
"you think it is you who has gotten me, yugi, but it is I who have gotten you! I declare the ever-vigilant stratagem to attack your rubrics with my custodes' ranged weapons, which with the new codex are now DAMAGE 2!!"
"...which leads you straight into my trap, Kaiba, you see I now declare the stratagem Implacable Automata, reducing all damage from your attacks by 1 and triggering my All is Dust special rule!" |
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2017/05/15 11:18:56
Subject: GW just said every faction will get a faction focus article.
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Ladies Love the Vibro-Cannon Operator
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You mean those vague articles.
Its too much desinformation in those articles. Frankly, I'm not interested.
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2017/05/15 11:20:06
Subject: GW just said every faction will get a faction focus article.
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Beautiful and Deadly Keeper of Secrets
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 wuestenfux wrote:You mean those vague articles.
Its too much desinformation in those articles. Frankly, I'm not interested.
Aside from the first CSM article we've gleamed off several bits of actual information from within. Such as IG showing that Snipers will ignore the hidden character rule.
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2017/05/15 11:27:30
Subject: GW just said every faction will get a faction focus article.
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Regular Dakkanaut
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The articles are fun because we can make inferences and speculations based on the few meagre crumbs that have been offered. E.g. did the wailing doom profile reveal the new melta rule? It's fun to think that GW are intentionally making us work a little. Sometimes a tease is more intriguing than the full monty.
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2017/05/15 11:38:23
Subject: GW just said every faction will get a faction focus article.
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Locked in the Tower of Amareo
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Enigma of the Absolute wrote:The articles are fun because we can make inferences and speculations based on the few meagre crumbs that have been offered. E.g. did the wailing doom profile reveal the new melta rule? It's fun to think that GW are intentionally making us work a little. Sometimes a tease is more intriguing than the full monty.
Why worry about whether wailing doom revealed melta rule when the article that revealed combi weapons already did 
Though still you are right and all the tidbits have given enough info to try reasonably accurate small 8th ed game already
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2017/05/15 19:51:18
Subject: GW just said every faction will get a faction focus article.
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Bonkers Buggy Driver with Rockets
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Faction Focus: Adeptus Sororitas
So, uhm, Sisters of Battle! Yeah, they are, um...
... they are a thing that definitely exists! Yeah, and...
...they were in codex: Imperial Agents last edition? I dunno. For their wargear they have lots of bolters! And flamers! And melta! All of which we already spoiled. For their special rules they have a thing called, er, um, what was it...
...called Supporting Fire! Wait no, that was Tau, or was it T'au? Can't remember which one we're calling them.
Anyway, Sisters of Battle! Coming soon to stores with all-new... wait... say what? Really? We aren't? Then why do we even... nevermind. ...coming soon with a repacked range of models in all-new boxes!
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40k drinking game: take a shot everytime a book references Skitarii using transports.
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2017/05/15 20:05:59
Subject: GW just said every faction will get a faction focus article.
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Nah to 26
I would say keep it the core 10~12...
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6+ = 6/36 | Reroll 1s = 7/36 | Reroll Misses = 11/36 ||||||| 5+ = 12/36 | Reroll 1s 14/36 | Reroll Misses = 20/36 ||||||| 4+ = 18/36 | Reroll 1s 21/36 | Reroll Misses = 27/36
3+ = 24/36 | Reroll 1s 28/36 | Reroll Misses = 32/36 ||||||| 2+ = 30/36 | Reroll 1s 35/36 ||||||| Highest of 2d6 = 4.47 |
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2017/05/16 00:19:10
Subject: GW just said every faction will get a faction focus article.
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Trigger-Happy Baal Predator Pilot
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Thank god. I'm dying to know whats happening with the BA and Baal and the whole imperium nihilus thing if they go that far.
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2017/05/16 01:09:12
Subject: GW just said every faction will get a faction focus article.
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Rampaging Khorne Dreadnought
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 ZergSmasher wrote: Lance845 wrote:I very much doubt things like khorne deamonkin are going to be their own faction anymore. That looked like an idea they started for each chaos god and then gave up on.
Likewise i would be pretty surprised if all space marines havn't just been merged at this point with certain characters and special units having keywords that make them only usable in a (space wolves) (dark angles) force.
26 factions is too many. This is a prime opportunith for them to trim and condence.
Kinda sucks if you're right about Daemonkin. I loved the Blood Tithe mechanic; it made the army more fun than just CSM allied with Khorne daemons. Maybe it'll be back in some fashion anyway.
The blood tithe mechanic could just as easily have been a rule for all khorne units. There was no reason at all to make it dedicated faction other than for joining daemons which shouldn't have been a problem to begin with.
They could easily create a blood for the blood god rule and work a similar mechanic into 8th like that.
We know zerkers have a rule with that name and that there will be other units with that name.
Daemons and csm now share the same faction keywords presumably so you can still make daemonkin warbands by the looks.
Remains to be seen how much of the blood tithes they bring over into 8th, but I wouldn't be too worried as a daemonkin player.
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~16000 Astra Militarum: 
~1200 | Imperial Knights: 
~2300 | Leagues of Votann: 
~1300 | Tyranids: 
~3400 | Stormcast Eternals: 
~3500 | Lumineth Realm-Lords: 
~700
