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Orks know not nerf
Eldars get all new models

Pariahs will return. However, due to the popularity of manga and anime, they will resemble Pillar Men and have Jojo poses.

Giving penalties to vehicles and monsters who are bracketed is 'feels bad' and outdated game design. In 11th edition all vehicles and monsters get a bonus to stats if their remaining wounds are above a certain value

The starter box will include Catachans vs Dark Eldar, with copious jungle scenery and a Predator vibe

217 The Tactical Dreadnaught Armor Exoskeleton will be upgraded with the Tactical Dreadnaught Armor Endoskeleton better known as Terminators.

218 Space Marine Predator tanks will get adaptive camouflage allowing them to creep up on foes

219 Sly Marbo will get a bow and dynamite arrows

All Detachments for the new Space Marine Codex have preset army lists.

No more needing to decide what to bring to a tournament, because GW has decided for you.

It's better for game balance this way.

 Lathe Biosas wrote:
All Detachments for the new Space Marine Codex have preset army lists.

No more needing to decide what to bring to a tournament, because GW has decided for you.

It's better for game balance this way.

So 2k combat patrols.

GW, always on top of technological developments, has trained an LLM on their previous work. 11th will be the LLM's debut as lead designer, rules writer, and community manager.

 waefre_1 wrote:
GW, always on top of technological developments, has trained an LLM on their previous work. 11th will be the LLM's debut as lead designer, rules writer, and community manager.

Further to this, there will be no release of the rules, they are instead only accessible via the new Warhammer app LLM subscription. Want to know how to do something during a game, such as what the rules are for shooting? Ask the app.

Each player requires their own subscription. In the case of the LLM providing different answers to the same query, players should roll off to see whose app takes priority.

GW releases its new price point system, where for every point the model costs in the game it now costs 1£ to purchase the model.

Fans are at first ecstatic about 4£ grots... but less so at 255£ Land Raiders.

Also announced on the same day, plastic Titans and Thunderhawks.

Since we have to get a game board into a box, how do you fit a 3,500 point army (the new size for tournament play, because that's the only real type of play.) into a 57x76cm board?

The answer: verticality.

Since there was that one reference to marines all having jump packs back in RT, turns out all you have to do is hit the little buttons on the sides, above the little vents, and you can fly! All models can move up or down one (1) vertical tier per move action, and you can only fight against models at your own height. Chaos marines have pre-heresy flight packs, so have to roll before they do anything and flying xenos/humans... they'll figure it out.

Did I mention that space marines, the non-evil kind, can ignore all the height restrictions on moving/fighting? Praise the codex astartes!.

In 11th edition they will move the fiction forward again. This time it's the Tau that get a refresh and redesign...

The Tau Empire is shattered.

A Chaos incursion consumes the core worlds, tearing through the home systems of the Ethereals. Hundreds of enclaves vanish into the warp, billions of Tau are devoured by daemons. What remains of the Empire realizes that its old doctrine... careful expansion, ranged superiority, and limited manpower is no longer viable.

The Ethereals, desperate and diminished, form the Tau’a Alliance, a new war machine born from fear and necessity. They recruit whatever alien remnants they can, Vespid mercenaries, Demiurg survivors, even outcast Gue’vesa... but it’s not enough. The Tau population is too low to wage a conventional war.

So they turn to their greatest strength: drones.

The Tau’a fight using swarms of combat drones dropped from orbit in massive pods. Each pod houses a single wired-in Fire Warrior “Controller,” a soldier permanently interfaced with the swarm’s command network. These Controllers act as tactical hubs within their control radius, the drones fight with terrifying precision. Outside of it, the swarm’s limited AI degrades into erratic violence and inefficiency.

When a world must be taken, Drone Battlesuits are unleashed. Larger, autonomous combat platforms that serve as the new face of Tau warfare. Emotionless, fearless, tireless, but suffer the same downsides as the swarms.

The Tau no longer seek the Greater Good.

They seek survival at any cost.

☆☆☆

But also they're mecha-tyranids! Brilliant!

SHIP IT!

Where I can vote for that plot?

It's actually how I'd always considered eldar should be fighting. For a dying race they sure do like to put themselves in a dying position a lot...

I was with you until you revealed that you want it out of spite.
Cool idea. Bad motive.

 JNAProductions wrote:
I was with you until you revealed that you want it out of spite.
Cool idea. Bad motive.

Oh, it's not spite. (I havent played Space Marines since 4th edition.)

But I could see how people could read that as spite. Deleted!

TSons will be a somewhat balanced faction due to 11th edition rule changes, and won't be nerfed at all, in index or Codex.

 Hellebore wrote:
It's actually how I'd always considered eldar should be fighting. For a dying race they sure do like to put themselves in a dying position a lot...

Yeah, that's always something that bothered me too.
You'd think a race nearing extinction wouldn't have an entire fighting force of expendable cannon fodder.
What is even the point of guardians, and why are they so squishy?

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

 Hellebore wrote:
It's actually how I'd always considered eldar should be fighting. For a dying race they sure do like to put themselves in a dying position a lot...

Yeah, that's always something that bothered me too.
You'd think a race nearing extinction wouldn't have an entire fighting force of expendable cannon fodder.
What is even the point of guardians, and why are they so squishy?

There's a few sides to this

1) The Eldar are like the Imperium in that they fear robots, but for different reasons. For the Imperials they fear Robots because the Men of Iron rose up against them and were corrupted by chaos very quickly and en-mass.
For the Eldar it was their use of robots to do everything they needed, which allowed them to live their hedonistic lifestyle which then led to the birth of Slaanesh. So they REALLY don't want to use robots at all anywhere in their society because as soon as they start there is the risk that they drift back to those old ways.
Build a robot for war - - why not have one also mow the lawn, and feed the cat, write that report etc...

2) The robots they do use are not empty AI shells; they use soul-stones from previously dead Eldar. Thus they are technically like using necromancy to bring old souls back into the war. So whilst they have bodies of machines, they have some memory of their past and they are technically Eldar. Their souls safe from Slaanesh within the soulstones - so long as they aren't broken or corrupted etc... So the Eldar try to use them in a limited fashion because they are basically the same as living flesh and blood.

3) Eldar are a Dying Race but they are still a major player on the Galactic scale. So whilst their numbers are not growing rapidly; whilst their Empire is crumbled and they hide on the fringers and in vast Craftworld Ships - they are still counted in vast numbers. Eldar, Tau and probably honestly the Votaan are not as populous as the Imperials; they don't repopulate as rapidly as the Orcs; they don't have the Warp to hide in nor breed like Tyranids nor have vast sleeping legions like the Necrons - but they still have sufficient numbers to project a power at the Galactic scale.

4) They don't repopulate naturally very quickly. They are very long lived, but they don't "breed like rabbits" which thus hinders their repopulation efforts. I believe there's also some elements of Slaanesh's corruption and perhaps the way that the Path and Dark Eldar survive also inhibits their natural ability to repopulate as well.

So Eldar are dying, they are defeated and part of it is a millennia of depression because of the events of the birth of Slaanesh and a massive fear of death. However they've still probably got tens of thousands of years before they lose the ability to project their power at the galactic level. So when we peek in the window at the 40K setting there's not enough time to see them fall to nothing; just to know that they they are predominantly on the down at large
This is basically where the new Yinnari comes in as its predominantly younger Eldar rising up and trying to shake off the shackles of this fear and depression and push their faction back into expanding once more.

I'd love an all-drone Tau force, it seems to be where real world warfare is headed.

Back on topic...

272-The big model this edition will be the long awaited Primarus Rhino. It will be true scale, include 10 seated Primarus Marines in the back, openable hatches, a driver and gunner compartment and 4 detailed engines. It will cost over 100GBP and be 12" long but really does that matter when you have a model this epic?
273-First Born Rhinos are banned.

274 - The Primarus Rhino will have a big hole in the bottom of the kit.

 A Town Called Malus wrote:
274 - The Primarus Rhino will have a big hole in the bottom of the kit.

You win the internet. Kudos.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

 A Town Called Malus wrote:
274 - The Primarus Rhino will have a big hole in the bottom of the kit.

You win the internet. Kudos.

Hey now, you get half for setting it up.

275 - The XIth edition of the game will be skipped entirely. Nothing will be said about what the edition would have contained save for vague mentions of its similarity to 2nd.

Oh boy, how did we miss it?! You win an exalt, A.T.

The new digital codecies are released called: "Chapter Approved: Digital Codex"

You are given the Battleline Unit entries for free but must purchase each additional unit you wish to use separately.*

You must show your opponent your verified Warhammer "Chapter Approved: Digital Codex" Army list before you begin play.

If, during your game, an update is released, your updated unit is flagged by the system and must he removed from the tabletop, until such time as you buy the appropriate upgraded unit* for your Digital Codex.

If you decide to buy the hardcover collector's edition of your army's codex, it will come with a free code for a Chapter Approved: Digital Codex: Ultramarines "Lieutenant Titus"*




*This does not include future updates... additional fees may apply.

 A Town Called Malus wrote:

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

 A Town Called Malus wrote:
274 - The Primarus Rhino will have a big hole in the bottom of the kit.

You win the internet. Kudos.

Hey now, you get half for setting it up.

279-The Primarus Rhino will be sold out for eight months due to, I dunno, Houthi missile attacks in the Red Sea or something.

Crispy78 wrote:
The starter box will include Catachans vs Dark Eldar, with copious jungle scenery and a Predator vibe

That might convince me to buy a starter box for the first time in many editions! I'm just not interested in a load of new Primaris models.

281-Codex Orks will be divided into Codex Morks, Codex Gorks, and Codex Torqs
282-Former Ork players will be divided as to which of the three codexes is the stompiest.
283-Looking at the three they seem identical except that in one Orks are called Morks, in another they're called Gorks and in the third they're called Torqs.
284-The Ork fanbase will tell them they are crazy and just don't get it.