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I havent seen any leaks posted here or pics of the work in progress, so Im worried they are going to make some of the units into a Necron Lord retinue (wraiths, tomb spyders, flayed ones) which may suck or be really cool. Makes me balk everytime I want to buy 9 wraiths

Defeatmyarmy wrote: I havent seen any leaks posted here or pics of the work in progress, so Im worried they are going to make some of the units into a Necron Lord retinue (wraiths, tomb spyders, flayed ones) which may suck or be really cool. Makes me balk everytime I want to buy 9 wraiths

Yeah, considering there have been no leaks that makes COMPLETE sense. I sincerely don't see that happening.

Fellow Necron players, I may/may not have some disheartening news: I was playing a game with my friend on Saturday at a Games Workshop in Thousand Oaks, and I was asking the store manager what he thought of the Necron update. He said that with the Tomb Kings update, there couldn't be more than one codex update this year, and that Crons will be postponed until early next year. I don't know how reliable that might be, but I figured I should check with the rumors board to be sure.

Dr. Temujin wrote:Fellow Necron players, I may/may not have some disheartening news: I was playing a game with my friend on Saturday at a Games Workshop in Thousand Oaks, and I was asking the store manager what he thought of the Necron update. He said that with the Tomb Kings update, there couldn't be more than one codex update this year, and that Crons will be postponed until early next year.

You know that more than one codex was released this year already, right?

I don't know how reliable that might be, but I figured I should check with the rumors board to be sure.

Store employees are not in the know.

pretre wrote:

Dr. Temujin wrote:Fellow Necron players, I may/may not have some disheartening news: I was playing a game with my friend on Saturday at a Games Workshop in Thousand Oaks, and I was asking the store manager what he thought of the Necron update. He said that with the Tomb Kings update, there couldn't be more than one codex update this year, and that Crons will be postponed until early next year.

You know that more than one codex was released this year already, right?

I don't know how reliable that might be, but I figured I should check with the rumors board to be sure.

Store employees are not in the know.

I think the good doctor was implying that the manager meant that there would be one MORE codex update, and that it wouldn't be Necrons. I don't particularly believe this rumour, as I haven't lost ALL my faith in GW yet, but the idea of only one more codex isn't that hard to believe, considering Storm of Magic and (possibly) Wartorn Skies need to be done.

Ahh. Fair enough, that makes more sense.

That being said... Store employees still aren't told anything.

pretre wrote:Ahh. Fair enough, that makes more sense.

That being said... Store employees still aren't told anything.

Oh I agree, way back in the middle of last year a store employee told me that Necrons were DEFINITELY the next codex, then Dark Eldar would follow them. Needless to say I don't exactly trust him implicitly...

I know what you mean Scarey. I was told. For definate. Absolutely. Without a shadow of a doubt. That the next race was Necrons. He had seen them. He had seen the new models. He knew they would be Jan 11 for sure.

Yeah right!

I saw him last month and tackled him about it. He denied saying anything. I can't remember all of the words I used, I was really angry, but there was definately "moron" and "tosser" and "liar" in there. He was not happy. It made me smile.

He can directly influence sales, as he did with my intended army of Necrons which I gave up on, by making up crap and giving the wrong info just so that he could look as if he knew what he was talking about.

Elmodiddly wrote:He can directly influence sales, as he did with my intended army of Necrons which I gave up on, by making up crap and giving the wrong info just so that he could look as if he knew what he was talking about.

To be fair, he might not have been making it up.

One of the main reasons that GW claim to not give out too much advance notice of what they are working on is that release schedules change, and they don't want people getting all hyped up and then being disappointed when the schedule changes and a different army is bumped up the queue.

Whether or not you agree with that as a reason for keeping your customers almost completely in the dark about what you're doing, it's a valid point. The studio generally have a couple of armies on the boiler at a time, and the actual order of release can change due to last-minute re-writes, models not being ready, sales figures needing a massage, and no doubt any number of other factors.

So while it's certainly possible that he was making stuff up, it's also possible that he had seen the projected release schedule and that at that point in time Necrons were the next army due for a re-work.

pretre wrote:
Store employees are not in the know.

Untrue. With significantly fewer "traveling management" since Big Tom took over, they've switch to phone conferences that are dictated off of powerpoints that are emailed to the managers. Those occasionally have farther off plans. And yes, I've seen one such email.

But, since this is Dakka, you guys will dismiss this and continue flinging poo.

Carry on.

Worglock wrote:
But, since this is Dakka, you guys will dismiss this and continue flinging poo.

Carry on.

I think you have a little something on your shoulder. You might want to look into that.

whether or not the next codex is necrons or when its actually done I'm fairly sure the next 40k codex will be a xeno army (if there are any others left to update) as it seems to go, Imperiun > xeno > Imperium (the previous 3 new ones being, blood angels > dark eldar > grey knights) though this could just be coincidence.

Dannyrevv wrote:whether or not the next codex is necrons or when its actually done I'm fairly sure the next 40k codex will be a xeno army (if there are any others left to update) as it seems to go, Imperiun > xeno > Imperium (the previous 3 new ones being, blood angels > dark eldar > grey knights) though this could just be coincidence.

For the past seven codices, since the start of 5th edition, the codex releases have alternated between Loyalist Space Marines and not-MEq/not-SM/not-PA armies. Even if we knew the pattern was going to continue, the only thing this tells us is that it's not going to be another Space Marine codex.

The Necrons could be next, if it alternates PA/not-PA.
The Sisters could be next, if it alternates MEq/not-MEq.
The Tau could be next, if it alternates 3+ save/not-3+ save.

They don't always stick to this, but it does seem to be a general trend

Dannyrevv wrote:whether or not the next codex is necrons or when its actually done I'm fairly sure the next 40k codex will be a xeno army (if there are any others left to update) as it seems to go, Imperiun > xeno > Imperium (the previous 3 new ones being, blood angels > dark eldar > grey knights) though this could just be coincidence.

You mean other than Tau, Eldar, Chaos Daemons and Orks

Other codexes left are: Sisters, Black Templar, Dark Angels, Chaos Marines - so if you think 6th edition should be out in 2012 if they follow a 4 year cycle, that means we're going to get 9 codexes between now and next Christmas

Wow, an army of 3+/FNP and Rending? Sounds like a dakka version of Death Company.

Having Tomb Kings followed by Necrons makes sense. Both are undead skeleton armies with an ancient Egypt theme.

Wow, I wonder to what extent the range will be redone. Their current Necron Warriors and Monolith isn't too bad. I'm glad Wraith are being redone, but I was hoping plastic Destroyers and Heavy Destroyers would be in the works.

SabrX wrote:Wow, an army of 3+/FNP and Rending? Sounds like a dakka version of Death Company.

Having Tomb Kings followed by Necrons makes sense. Both are undead skeleton armies with an ancient Egypt theme.

Wow, I wonder to what extent the range will be redone. Their current Necron Warriors and Monolith isn't too bad. I'm glad Wraith are being redone, but I was hoping plastic Destroyers and Heavy Destroyers would be in the works.

If the current 5th edition codexes are anything to go by, we'll be getting 3 destroyers in a kit, 6-12 special characters, Fearless a-plenty, FNP, plastic flayed ones and far more variety.

And a Stormraven.

SabrX wrote:Wow, an army of 3+/FNP and Rending? Sounds like a dakka version of Death Company.

Having Tomb Kings followed by Necrons makes sense. Both are undead skeleton armies with an ancient Egypt theme.

Wow, I wonder to what extent the range will be redone. Their current Necron Warriors and Monolith isn't too bad. I'm glad Wraith are being redone, but I was hoping plastic Destroyers and Heavy Destroyers would be in the works.

Destroyers are plastic already. And heavy d's are a hybrid but the normal destroyer can easily proxy.

Grim.Badger wrote:
You mean other than Tau, Eldar, Chaos Daemons and Orks

Other codexes left are: Sisters, Black Templar, Dark Angels, Chaos Marines - so if you think 6th edition should be out in 2012 if they follow a 4 year cycle, that means we're going to get 9 codexes between now and next Christmas

I still contend that they should change to updating one codex a month until they are all done.

Separate model updates from codex releases and release models as they finish and feel like it.

That would give us plenty of time to finish every codex before 6th edition.

SabrX wrote:And a Stormraven.

Don't forget Necrohammers, Necroshields, Necrofists and Necronoughts.

TheDevo wrote:

SabrX wrote:And a Stormraven.

Don't forget Necrohammers, Necroshields, Necrofists and Necronoughts.

Oh, and Logic-powers that require a not-quite psychic test, Jaws of the Void Dragon, and mindless slaughter of space-nuns and slathering their blood on their metal because that will keep away the nasties.

Scarey Nerd wrote:

TheDevo wrote:

SabrX wrote:And a Stormraven.

Don't forget Necrohammers, Necroshields, Necrofists and Necronoughts.

Oh, and Logic-powers that require a not-quite psychic test, Jaws of the Void Dragon, and mindless slaughter of space-nuns and slathering their blood on their metal because that will keep away the nasties.

No no no, that doesn't make sense. They'll bathe in Plague Marine blood because it enhances their resilience. Obviously.

TheDevo wrote:

SabrX wrote:And a Stormraven.

Don't forget Necrohammers, Necroshields, Necrofists and Necronoughts.

Aaaah Ward-Hate - We should do a pools draw for how many unit and wargear names start with Necro-???? I bet 12!
Or maybe it'll be ???? of Death or something else just as cheesey

Flayers disease sounds like a Wardism, although I accept that it's from the BL - why can't they enjoy draping flayed corpses over themselves, why does it have to be so "tragic" and Emo?

Grim.Badger wrote:

TheDevo wrote:

SabrX wrote:And a Stormraven.

Don't forget Necrohammers, Necroshields, Necrofists and Necronoughts.

Aaaah Ward-Hate - We should do a pools draw for how many unit and wargear names start with Necro-???? I bet 12!
Or maybe it'll be ???? of Death or something else just as cheesey

Flayers disease sounds like a Wardism, although I accept that it's from the BL - why can't they enjoy draping flayed corpses over themselves, why does it have to be so "tragic" and Emo?

Simply stated, corpse wearing psychopaths are fun, and we couldn't have any "fun" in our codex

Grim.Badger wrote:

TheDevo wrote:

SabrX wrote:And a Stormraven.

Don't forget Necrohammers, Necroshields, Necrofists and Necronoughts.

Aaaah Ward-Hate - We should do a pools draw for how many unit and wargear names start with Necro-???? I bet 12!
Or maybe it'll be ???? of Death or something else just as cheesey

Flayers disease sounds like a Wardism, although I accept that it's from the BL - why can't they enjoy draping flayed corpses over themselves, why does it have to be so "tragic" and Emo?

How is this tragic and emo? People use the word emo so much (and usually incorrectly) it has lost all meaning.

asimo77 wrote:

Grim.Badger wrote:

TheDevo wrote:

SabrX wrote:And a Stormraven.

Don't forget Necrohammers, Necroshields, Necrofists and Necronoughts.

Aaaah Ward-Hate - We should do a pools draw for how many unit and wargear names start with Necro-???? I bet 12!
Or maybe it'll be ???? of Death or something else just as cheesey

Flayers disease sounds like a Wardism, although I accept that it's from the BL - why can't they enjoy draping flayed corpses over themselves, why does it have to be so "tragic" and Emo?

How is this tragic and emo? People use the word emo so much (and usually incorrectly) it has lost all meaning.

Personally I loved that little bit in the book. Would love to field an army with the background of they all butchered their perfect metal bodies to better embody their desire to destroy life in the fullest extent, I hope it's true.

Necronaught = Winning!

Uriels_Flame wrote:Necronaught = Winning!

OK, here's the plan: We let Matt Ward write the codex, we let him ruin it, we let his editing committee allow it through, but JUST before it gets onto the presses, we garnish it with the secret ingredient: Charlie Sheen.

Scarey Nerd wrote:

Uriels_Flame wrote:Necronaught = Winning!

OK, here's the plan: We let Matt Ward write the codex, we let him ruin it, we let his editing committee allow it through, but JUST before it gets onto the presses, we garnish it with the secret ingredient: Charlie Sheen.

If you're going that route, might as well just bring Thorpe back.

Ward writes good rules, which is what is important.

I personally think they just let the Black Library authors, write all the fluff anyway. They've got to have them on retainer, or something anyway.