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Pretty much what the question ask. I'm curious. Also, looks like you guys got some ugly obese flys as some more chariots how are they?

Since it was released about an hour ago, I can honestly say I've not read it yet

Rofl good point. Well anyone who does want to comment with content or sadness, feel free to do so when they can

Wow, I didn't even know it was coming. Interested to see what it will contain. Have been thinking about adding daemons to my CSM "bad guy" army for some more varied target practice.

Wait, it was released? I missed that.

No one will have the codex until March 2nd or so. You can keep units reviews and thoughts on hold till then.

When I first saw the pre-orders for the "limited edition" ones that have cases with specific gods, I thought you had to buy a different codex for each Chaos god and I was pissed. Then I noticed it was just a fancy cover thing, and I was much less angry hahaha. The cover looks really nice however.

Anyone know who the author is?

 washout77 wrote:
When I first saw the pre-orders for the "limited edition" ones that have cases with specific gods, I thought you had to buy a different codex for each Chaos god and I was pissed. Then I noticed it was just a fancy cover thing, and I was much less angry hahaha. The cover looks really nice however.

Anyone know who the author is?

Phil Kelly = 40k Author

Matt Ward = Fantasy Author


I really like this release and I may actually start a Daemon army because of it.

Of course, I'll wait 2 weeks before deciding, as everything I'll want to know about the codex will be on the internet by the end of the second week.

 washout77 wrote:
When I first saw the pre-orders for the "limited edition" ones that have cases with specific gods, I thought you had to buy a different codex for each Chaos god and I was pissed. Then I noticed it was just a fancy cover thing, and I was much less angry hahaha. The cover looks really nice however.

Anyone know who the author is?

Oh that would have sucked lol

Now that you ask I am also curious who the author is. Edit: Oh, there we go then.

They took the prince out of the heavy slot, and into the hq slot on the website. I don't know if that is official.; but I don't think princes are going to be be heavy any more. On that note, the changeling is also in hq, and not in troops.


Also , they do have psychic power cards, so i think they might be psykers rather then just shooting attacks.

Matt Ward = Fantasy Author

sorry to ask a potentially dumb question, are you saying Ward wrote the new codex?

Ward wrote the Fantasy Army Book.

yea, was just about to edit my post, just now looked it up

While not a chaos player, I will say some of the new models look pretty damn good.

Well, a bit early to ask. Need reading and digestion first.
Is somebody out there making a review?

they told me tau where next QQ
im just sit in my corner and wait ......
along time ..... again...

sure my brothers happy tho what with him being a chaos nut

What do you want to bet Ward makes the Fantasy Daemons into the new Fantasy Daemons?

At least with Phil Kelly writing it, the codex should be good. Sure, the Space Wolves codex was awful, but that wasn't bad writing so much as ridiculously stupid source material.


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 kwah wrote:
they told me tau where next QQ
im just sit in my corner and wait ......
along time ..... again...

sure my brothers happy tho what with him being a chaos nut

Daemons were a fantasy release, so the codex tagged along with them, ignoring (and not effecting) the 40k release schedule. Either Tau or Eldar are next, sometime in the spring or summer.

Well, White Dwarf has spilled some beans;

40k now sees the return of Daemonic Instability.

Greater Daemon of Nurgle is T7.

Flamers can now be charged with impunity (Lysander assaulted a unit of 6 flamers and lived)

Screamers are now fodder before Tactical Terminators (four TT beat up 6 screamers in one turn of combat for no return casualties...)

At least with Phil Kelly writing it, the codex should be good. Sure, the Space Wolves codex was awful, but that wasn't bad writing so much as ridiculously stupid source material.

Don't forget the horrible underpriced units, the overpriced trash, the must takes..

As well as the White Dwarf Update to CSM... With the overpriced trash, the must take unit (Heldrake), kinda his style really. Some things will be priced down, some changes will occur, but then he'll overprice the warp out of some things, remove options, and pick one or two units to become the "Big thing to take"

 Furyou Miko wrote:
Well, White Dwarf has spilled some beans;

Flamers can now be charged with impunity (Lysander assaulted a unit of 6 flamers and lived)

Screamers are now fodder before Tactical Terminators (four TT beat up 6 screamers in one turn of combat for no return casualties...)

Flamers & Screamers like the rest of the army have almost certainly lost Eternal Warrior, thus making them sane again.

Flamers potentially losing out on Wall of Death makes me sad though...
I only ever used 9 of them in my Tzeentch lists unless I was playing over 2k, so I don't think I was ever being that huge a donkeycave. Hopefully their shooting attack is still just that - a shooting attack and not a psychic power.

The codex is available in iBooks... For pre-order. Lol
Odd to have a digital copy you must wait for. I'll end up getting it anyways...lol

So I'm curious, I am gonna start a Chaos Daemon army when the new codex comes out and I keep seeing that Daemonic Instability is back, could someone tell me what that is?

Daemonic Instability was a specific version of the old No Escape! rule from 5th edition - If you lose combat, instead of making a break test, you take a number of wounds equal to the amount you lost the combat by. Saves may be taken as normal.

It was in the first Codex: Daemons, was removed for the second Codex: Daemons, and appears to be back in the game for this, the third Codex: Daemons.

That sounds painful. Hopefully my new Tzeentch and Slaanesh army I'm gonna build wont loose too many models to that (I always have bad luck with the dice rolls.. XD)

The book isnt out yet, come back next week.