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So the rumor is the Horus Heresy is far from dead, but in fact about to come roaring back with a new plastic starter.

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/750/784280.page

Which means it's time for our completely false and made up rumors!

1. The new boxed set will be the most balanced and well thought out ruleset yet with every faction perfectly balanced, whether you're playing Black Space Marines, the Other Black Space Marines or the Other Other Black Space Marines.
2. This balance will be completely destroyed a month later when Space Wolf Sergeants are allowed to dual wield chainswords.
3. Supplements will, for the first time, bring Eldar and Orks to HH. They'll just be the existing 40k codexes with HH stickers slapped on the cover, but people will buy both anyway.
4. Forge World will commit to having no more than 60% of the HH product line out of stock at any one time.
5. They will fail.
6. No one will care, cause really all we want is plastic beakies.
7. The rules will be future proofed by using the 40k 12th edition rules set.
8. There will be a plastic build your own primarch kit, with choices of 3 different left shoulder pads and an option of an axe or a sword.
9. The box will sell out in 5 minutes, and come back in stock 6 months later.
10. Many 3d printers will go brrrr.

 
   
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The Spartan isn't fully plastic but actually half resin, half plastic seperate parts.

   
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11. Someone at GW has noticed that putting bolter Tacticals in all the plastic starter boxes makes it much easier to start some Legions than others, so they'll do chainsword/pistol as options on these ones and there'll be a Mk.IV or Mk.VI Assault box coming shortly thereafter.
12. GW's decided they can't both give people different marks of armour and make models for all the 30k Troops choices, so in the new Heresy rules the only Troops by default will be bolter Tacticals.
13. The box will come with a weird hybrid of 7e and 9e rules which will please nobody. GW will pre-emptively Legends all the FW SM units in 9th on the logic that they don't need to support them for two game systems, then decide that the bad reaction to the new rules means they should just stop making the FW units.
14. There will be Legion upgrade sprues as full-size boxes that contain the parts to upgrade ten Tacticals, five Terminators, one Dreadnaught, and make five models for one of your Legion's unique units assuming you've got the base models, which will push the price of doing 30k up even higher than buying FW units.
15. SM jetbikes will get plastic minis and come with rules for 40k, coming with loads of complaints about how they're stepping on the Eldar's toes. Six months later the Primaris Jetbikes will come out and be better and cheaper.
16. GW will decide that 18 Legions is far too many to make minis for, and there will be ten "lost Legions" in the new 30k/10e fluff. Chaos will get to keep the Sons of Horus and the four Cult Legions, and the loyalists will get to keep the Ultramarines, Space Wolves, BA, DA, and Iron Hands. Nobody will be able to explain why the Iron Hands made the cut.
17. Instead of doing distinct kits Assault and Breacher squads will be done with upgrade sprues. The chainswords will inexplicably be on the Breacher sprue, so you need to buy one of each to actually make an Assault squad. GW will justify this by pointing out that Assault squads are allowed combat shields, which won't have distinct models from the Breacher shields.
18. GW will add Legion rules to vehicles without doing any proofreading, causing many bugs. The first six months of 30k tournaments will be completely dominated by Armoured Spearhead lists. This will coincidentally clear GW's massive backlog of unsold Predators, right before the plastic Deimos kit comes out.
19. The first year of 30k releases after this box will be dominated by plastic Solar Auxilia and plastic Taghmata models, which will create the first-ever "where are all the Space Marine releases?" complaints from the community.
20. There will be new Cybernetica robots done in plastic. They'll inexplicably be Legion-only.
21. This is a sign that GW's long-standing policy of not resculpting FW kits in plastic is finally breaking down. The next year of plastic resculpts released will all be 40k Xenos models, baffling the 30k community.
22. The Rapier kits will continue the resin kits' practice of shipping specific patterns of crew armour with specific guns. The rules writers will copy-paste the quad-mortar's old rules, leading to tournament bans not because they're OP but because firing 36 phosphex templates a turn slows the game down so much.
23. GW will start selling Warmachine-style remains-in-play rings (for three times the price of the Warmachine ones, of course) for phosphex and grav weapons.
24. There will be one unified "all the 30k Troops" kit. It will build ten models as either Tacticals, Assaults, Breachers, Supports, or Recon troops, but it will have to have six sprues and MSRP will be $150.
25. The Cataphractii in the new box will finally have power weapon arms, not just power fists.
26. There will be 30k xenos, but they'll be un-proofread copy-pasted 7e Codexes. The Eldar will be pre-emptively banned from tournaments because of all the people with traumatic 7e flashbacks.
27. Continuing the inconsistency and vagueness of the timeline the Tau and Tyranids will come to 30k along with the rest of the xenos.
28. Someone on the writing team will be a massive fan of Blackshields or the Knights-Errant, and they'll get expanded rules that make them better than playing one of the Legions.
29. GW will forget that the Consul system is one of the better-organized things they've ever written and try to do 9e-style datasheets for the 30k characters. The HQ section of the Legions book will be fifty pages long.
30. Whoever they've got in charge of re-editing the 7e rules will inexplicably turn out to be a fan of 8e/9e's anti-aircraft flamers, and templates will be allowed to hit flying models.
31. GW will sell models for the Militia army list. They will look suspiciously like Cadians with "Militia Squad" written on the front, and Scions with "Militia Grenadiers" written on the front.
32. There will be no 30k Xenos, but the Militia list will gain Provenances called "Power From Pain", "Battle Focus", and "Waaagh!".
33. Someone will finally figure out how to make the Recon squad's shotgun option competitive with the boltgun, and people will start complaining that they can't have shotguns on other units.
34. GW will panic about whether morale tests are a good idea again and introduce ATSKNF to 30k.
35. The more tournament-minded segments of the 40k community will discover some kind of interaction with Look Out, Sir! that the current 30k community's never noticed, and break 7th even further retroactively.
36. There will be plastic Titans and a plastic Thunderhawk, but they'll be more expensive than the resin ones.

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27. The title of the box set will be "Return to Battle 01' so the initials make impossible for grognards to resist.
   
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28. You will only be able to run Rhinos if you have the appropriate set of doors.
29. Future FW production of other races grind to a halt as FW release the latest set of MKIV Rhino doors.
30. FW sales drop dramatically. The alarming news prompts GW to increase prices across the board to account for the loss of profits.
   
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31 GW decides that as 30K has done so well and that as Marines make up so much of the sales whilst Xenos players just grumble on the side; that GW decides to end 40K. They'll give it one more "End Times" which will mostly be a toss up on if Necrons destroy all life or Tyranids eat it all.

Then they roll back the clock to 30K. Only Marines, the odd Eldar, and a handful of orks.



32 GW starts introducing 30K versions of all Xenos. Eldar get some classic bonesung armour; orks are mostly the same as they are; Tyranids appear as Catachan Devils only; Tau have a few stone tipped spears.

33, GW introduces the "Xenos Allegiance" a last alliance of Xenos and Space Fantasy who will stand against the all consuming might of Saur...er... the emperor and his warring legions as Xenos take advantage of the Civil war and try to push back .

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34, cults and militia, solar auxilia, and mechanicum are judged to be too suspiciously close to xenos for games workshop, and those are going to be not updated to the 8th-9th framework along with the legions, and all their models will be squatted rather than brought to plastic.

Nobody wanted a plastic thanatar. Look at that thing. Disgusting. People dont play admech to have badass gigantic hulking inhuman looking robots, THE PEOPLE CRAVE GOOGLY EYES AND BIG HERO SIX PROPORTIONS.

"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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34. GW will redo the entire Eldar line in plastic, but it can only be used in 30K, with 7 1/2 ed. rules.

It never ends well 
   
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The new version will actually be 30k: Fall of the eldar edition.

It will be a massive revamp of heretofore unknown story, where the eldar empire fights massive internal wars as the pleasure cults cause the disintegration of the empire.

planet ending technologies are thrown around like candy, wielded by crazed infantry cloaking in layers of void shields as they go hammer and tongues at each other with reality bending weaponry.

It turns out that the emperor and his primarchs were themselves created by a secret eldar reality shaper called Belliphareal Coul. They carry special kill codes that the eldar will used to annihilate the entire imperium from within when they choose.

   
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Hah! totally changing 30k from Marine to eldar would be the biggest bait and switch ever

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35. 30k will prove so popular that regular marines outsell all of 40k, promoting GW to abandon primaris.
   
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So called primaris will be replaced with beakies ... Cawl will be sent back in time through the warp and restartes will be retconned out of the timeline completely. Marines snipers will again require los.

   
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People will actually play 30k rather than buying the box to either cannibalize for the parts that still work for 40k or leaving it as a shelf decoration until they ebay it 5-10 years from now.


 
   
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They are going to advance the timeline.

7 Ork facts people always get wrong:
Ragnar did not win against Thrakka, but suffered two crushing defeats within a few days of each other.
A lasgun is powerful enough to sever an ork's appendage or head in a single, well aimed shot.
Orks meks have a better understanding of electrics and mechanics than most Tech Priests.
Orks do not think that purple makes them harder to see. They do think that camouflage does however, without knowing why.
Gharkull Blackfang did not even come close to killing the emperor.
Orks can be corrupted by chaos, but few of them have any interest in what chaos offers.
Orks do not have the power of believe. 
   
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36. it is revealed in a fluff byline that the emperor is actually an ork who just think humies make cute pets.
37. another bti of fluff that the stolen power to make the primarchs was actually a gift freely given from gork and mork

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38. GW retire 40K and it is quickly replaced with HH or Warhammer 30K. Marines v Marines for the win!
39. Meanwhile Forge World start expanding the figure range by delving in the Dark Age of Technology and the revolt of the Iron Men. Warhammer 20k starts to gain in popularity....
   
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MarkNorfolk wrote:
...39. Meanwhile Forge World start expanding the figure range by delving in the Dark Age of Technology and the revolt of the Iron Men. Warhammer 20k starts to gain in popularity....


40. In ten years' time going back through the timeline will have landed on Warhammer 1.94k, but the scale creep will have continued unabated, so they'll be trying to sell us a 54mm WWII game where you're still expected to have a hundred-plus minis on the field.

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 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
So the rumor is the Horus Heresy is far from dead, but in fact about to come roaring back with a new plastic starter.

41. People will actually be 100% happy with the ruleset GW releases for it and won't act like it's the death of Horus Heresy.

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42. Pre-fall Eldar will have a miniatures range that would make hedonism bot blush.

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43 - SQUATS! Now that they can't hide behind the whole 'Tyranids ate them' excuse GW has to bring back the Squats for 30k!
44 - A dreadnought gets like a new shoulder pad or hat or whatever.
45 - Picture what you would consider an excessive number of squat kits. OK? Got it? Now double it. Now triple that number. That's how many squat kits we're getting.
46 - A new Rhino variant with some kind of made up pseudo Latin name.
47 - I'm talking like Guild Squats, Squat Air Pirates, Feral Squats, Chaos Squats you name it.
48 - 10% larger batwings for the Night Lords' hats.
49 - They almost cancel the Genesquater Cultists cause of the trouble that would cause with the timeline. But then someone is like, well what if Squat Gene Rune Artisans created the genestealers? So that happened.
50 - I dunno. More rhino doors?

 
   
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51. This will be the best edition EVAR!!!
   
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52-The box will not come with models or a rulebook. Instead GW will embrace the future by sending out boxes of 144 3 1/2 inch disks with PDF rules and STLs for the models. The choice of medium is explained by the fact that GW heard that CD-ROMs were out of style.

 
   
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53. GW has forgotten that they make multiple games, and everyone's complaints about 9th have somehow been going to the 30k complaints department. Accordingly they will have doubled the hull points on all vehicles, removed the Questoris list, removed all re-rolls from everything (twin-linked weapons will just fire the same number of shots as a non twin-linked weapon), removed Warlord Traits, and no characters will have a rule that affects their squads in any way to avoid buff-stacking.

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54 - HH Marines were made with cruder technology and, as such, as smaller than 40k Marines or 41k Primaris. As such 30k Marines will be 25mm scaled. Older models will no longer be valid.

55 - 10% more rivets on every model!

56 - The 2nd and 11th Legions will finally be named and their fates reviled!

57 - The 2nd Legion, the maritime Aquamarines, were disbanded after Terra's oceans were sold to passing Eldar traders.

58 - The 11th Legion, the World Bearers (or possibly the Word Eaters) were accidentally deleted when a scribe thought they were redundant records.

59 - Plastic Thunderhawk, because someday this rumor will be correct.

60 - The triumphant return of Field Police!

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Khorneflakes and fungus beer take a back seat as sponsoring foodstuffs with the arrival of Heretictacs.

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61). It turns out the entire Heresy was simply a bad bender of a dream for the Emperor after partaking in the drinking challenge with Russ - the entire model line is invalidated and Chaos is removed from the game!

It never ends well 
   
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62) GW will extend the historical in-joke that is the Rhino by making standalone plastic Rhino variants for every M113 variant that has ever existed. The artillery spotter variant is briefly the most OP thing in the game, as GW will give it the ability to call in an off-map barrage and forget to charge it any points for this ability.

63) The plastic Legion artillery vehicle will come with a bayonet sculpted onto the Earthshaker barrel and some kind of melee attack in an ill-considered effort to let it compete with the Medusa as an option. Nobody will notice.

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A similar concept to the WOT Rambo tank joke

DRIVE ME CLOSER!

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64) GW will reveal that to make 30k feel more like classic 40k and to avoid having to edit or test anything themselves they've decided to just contract the rulebook out to the dream-team of ex-GW designers, but they'll have put so many constraints on them that they effectively come back with 9e Codexes anyway. GW will avoid any of the blame for this decision by pointing the finger at the design team, who will have, as a condition of the deal, been locked in a bunker under Nottingham to prevent them from talking to anyone about any of it.


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65) The design team working on 30k will copy-paste over a bunch of 9e statlines without checking anything. In an effort to make sure they don't have to reprint anything GW will insist that 2W Marines, 3W Terminators, and 16HP Land Raiders were completely intentional. All the 2W Legion-specific Terminators will somehow remain 2W, baffling everyone; similarly while generic Praetors will go up to 5W all the unique ones will stay at 3 and the Primarchs will stay at 6, confusing everyone.


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66) The books will include a Move stat for everyone, but it'll be the exact same move they had when it was a function of their unit type, and everyone will question why they bothered.

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67) There will be a new book that only covers xenos armies including a time traveling Tau detachment!

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