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I'd find it interesting if they Dual purposed the Raptor box so that you could make Legion specific squads. Khorne Berzerkers with Jump packs anybody?

d-usa wrote:I really want to start a cultist/traitor guard army.

While I love the fluff/concept I already got burned on the LATD "bait and forget" fiasco back in the day and will not be making that mistake again..

If we really do get a Chaos Legion codex this year, it may drag me away from my Tyranids to do a World Eaters army. Love me some World Eaters.

Meh, I hope that they come out with the codex after they come out with 6th edition so that we don't get burned with crappy units that were good in 5th but suck after

Stormrider wrote:

MightyGodzilla wrote:Are the 6th ed codices going to be in hardback?

I hope not, then I would be really pissed when they get invariably beat up. Especially if they're the same price as the Fantasy books.

I'd rather they stay soft cover, so I can have them ring bound at staples. Makes them easy to transport and fairly rugged.

Hope this is true,it will be sweeeeeet!

Chaos in may would be in time for my Birthday :-) Time to do a last army before we haz babies.

After my Necrons get up to about 2500 points, I plan on making an Alpha Legion army. Of course, they would be in disguise. ;-)

I dont care what codex comes out... the fact there is a new one coming is reason to celebrate enough... 1 more outdated codex down.... tons more to go!

CT GAMER wrote:

d-usa wrote:I really want to start a cultist/traitor guard army.

While I love the fluff/concept I already got burned on the LATD "bait and forget" fiasco back in the day and will not be making that mistake again..

I like the fluff and the modeling opportunities, and if the cultist aspect looks crappy I will just go ahead and use the IG Codex. I like the IG so it wouldn't break my heard to make a count-as army.

timetowaste85 wrote:Most likely only 1, MAYBE 2 40k codexes this year, 2 fantasy books definite, then a bunch of waves for other codexes. Blah. Year of 40k and 25th anniversary my . This past year was 3 fantasy books-why not 3 40k books, plus occasional releases like we're getting now.

2010 was touted as the "year of Fantasy" and they only got one army book (and a new edition).

lord_blackfang wrote:

timetowaste85 wrote:Most likely only 1, MAYBE 2 40k codexes this year, 2 fantasy books definite, then a bunch of waves for other codexes. Blah. Year of 40k and 25th anniversary my . This past year was 3 fantasy books-why not 3 40k books, plus occasional releases like we're getting now.

2010 was touted as the "year of Fantasy" and they only got one army book (and a new edition).

Well it was a 40k year, in that 40k got 3 dexes. This year is serposed to be a 40k year too in that we get 3 dexes. I'm not liking the timetable so far. I'm to impatient for this.

I would like it if they made 5 chaos codexes,
A book for each god and one for undivided.
I.e book of Nurgle for example will include Nurgle daemons,
Nurgle cultists, Nurgle renegade guard and Nurgle marines.

Same for Khorne,Slaanesh,Tzeentch. But undivided will be alitle of each or maybe exclude some of the things like the
Iron warriors exclude daemons.

JJ reiterated in this months WD that they are committed to supporting every current army. No squatting allowed anymore, apparently.

Hardback - would love, the new fantasy hardbacks are excellent. Unlikely to happen if its before 6th ed though, from the scuttlebutt at UK GD.

Anyone pondering the implications behind the Thousand Sons head/torso on the Wold Lord on Thunderwolf base? After taking quite a long look at it and comparing it to other models in the range I'm almost certain it's an entirely new piece, or a slightly changed one.

So, new Thousand Sons models or maybe alternate helmets in the near future?

iproxtaco wrote:Anyone pondering the implications behind the Thousand Sons head/torso on the Wold Lord on Thunderwolf base? After taking quite a long look at it and comparing it to other models in the range I'm almost certain it's an entirely new piece, or a slightly changed one.

So, new Thousand Sons models or maybe alternate helmets in the near future?

you could have saved yourself the effort and just read the descriptions on the GW site which clearly states that they are included on the sprues in plastic and resin respectively .

swordwind99 wrote:

iproxtaco wrote:Anyone pondering the implications behind the Thousand Sons head/torso on the Wold Lord on Thunderwolf base? After taking quite a long look at it and comparing it to other models in the range I'm almost certain it's an entirely new piece, or a slightly changed one.

So, new Thousand Sons models or maybe alternate helmets in the near future?

you could have saved yourself the effort and just read the descriptions on the GW site which clearly states that they are included on the sprues in plastic and resin respectively .

Eh? I think he meant that it was a different look for the TS, and wondered if it heralded an upcoming release of TS using this new style...

Wrong end of stick grabbed, you then jumped in with a snarky insulting post.

Exactly. Why bother resculpitng TS just for the sake of base decoration? It could be a precursor a new range of models...

iproxtaco wrote:Anyone pondering the implications behind the Thousand Sons head/torso on the Wold Lord on Thunderwolf base? After taking quite a long look at it and comparing it to other models in the range I'm almost certain it's an entirely new piece, or a slightly changed one.

So, new Thousand Sons models or maybe alternate helmets in the near future?

brought this up in the tyranids thread for some reason. They do look a little different, though it could just be their paint jobs.

Is it the old helmet from the guy originally produced in 2nd Ed?

It does seem to look like that.

Maybe?



One more picture for reference. Sorry for the big pictures.



IMO, it looks more like the RT era one, but at the same time, there are noticeable differences.

I like the way how that "new" torso has a bit of little throw back to some of the misc. artificer armor models GW had in the RT era days... with the hose going up into the helmet.

swordwind99 wrote:

you could have saved yourself the effort and just read the descriptions on the GW site which clearly states that they are included on the sprues in plastic and resin respectively .

And you could have saved yourself the effort by reading my post a bit more thoroughly before racing to put in a clever comment about something you clearly didn't understand.

Aside, I thought about the retro model too, but there seems to be a few pretty noticeable differences from what I can see. The 2nd ed sculpt has its head kind of buried in the chest, whereas the new one seems to be a separate component. There were also spikes on the top of the crest that have disappeared, and the raised bit down the middle of it seems a lot smoother. There's also a kind od extra spike coming up from the edging round the top of the visor that isn't in the old one, and the two bottom most corners of the crest aren't pointed, but flat. The eye-slits are a lot more open too.

Maybe I'm putting too much stock into things which could well be down to the new paint-job, but it just seems....... New, a lot sharper and well made. Perhaps it's not a completely new sculpt, just a slight re-sculpt of the retro model.

Personaly I'm hopeing this is a sign of things to come. The details on that severed torso looks alot better IMHO then the current metal/plastic hybrids. It's a look that would be awesome to see carry over to the rubric models.

Please god, plastic Thousand Sons... I beg you...

Plastic Plague Marines, Thousand Sons, and Word Bearers kits, please and thank you.

I can't wait to see how this shakes out.

Aye, I'd be stunned if GW misses the boat again with the plastics for Slaanesh and Tzeentch armies.


Hmm, so May being a guess from Stickmonkey means this could appear anytime between April and December. Think I shall refocus my energies on potential 6th release being June or July.

Although I really hope we see this sooner, than later, being potentially disapointed in April, May and June, might do bad things for my blood pressure.

Problem is though, Plagues, Rubricae and Noise Marines all need plastic kits, and the Bezerker's kit is pretty weak (I know my brother's constantly complaining about it). Then there's plastic Havocs, Raptors and Dreadnought too.
That's at-least 6-7 Plastic Box-sets, which is a lot...

Current trends suggest they won't bother updating the beserker kit or standard chaos marine kit, but focus on release new kits for stuff that is currently in metal.