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The Emperor himself is released as a model and only the IG can take him! Starts the game in reserves and when he arrives...you win the game!

 Retrogamer0001 wrote:
The Emperor himself is released as a model and only the IG can take him! Starts the game in reserves and when he arrives...you win the game!

Can still be looted by orks though. In this case the golden throne recieves 3 twin-linked psychic cannons - heavy 5, S10 Large Blast - and the emperor is armed with a titan-sized chaisword.

 Kosake wrote:

 Retrogamer0001 wrote:
The Emperor himself is released as a model and only the IG can take him! Starts the game in reserves and when he arrives...you win the game!

Can still be looted by orks though. In this case the golden throne recieves 3 twin-linked psychic cannons - heavy 5, S10 Large Blast - and the emperor is armed with a titan-sized chaisword.

Oooh! Ofc! New unit: looters! They can be armed by any other army's basic weapon (boltgun, shoota, pulse rifle), because honestly, -any- weapon is better than flashlight. Ten man veteran squad, with lower cost and no special weapons. Whole unit must be armed with same weapon.

Theres a new tank which is taking the place of the Leman Russ since the Imperium is finally rising in technology levels again(according to new fluff in the codex). AV 14, 14, 12. Comes with a main cannon with two ammo types, high explosive which is equal in damage and values to the current battle cannon and a new armor piercing round which is Str 9, ordinance, no blast. Tank is a Fast vehicle. Not bad for 200 points. Also has the option of upgrading its turret heavy stubber to an autocannon with skyfire rules.

New official fluff, the IG won a battle against *random enemy* with less than 90% casualties!

New heavy support choice. The Guardian.
If anybody makes an attack at allied unit within 12'' with weapon not-needing LOS, Guardian engages it's repulsion force field, and on 3+ it repulses the shot back at the attacker, using scatter at BS1.

New upgrade for guardsmen.
Mirror shield. When fíghting against energy weapon with S4 and less, you get 4+ invuln safe and making BS1 attack at the attacker wth same weapon as he shot at you.

New super-heavy vehicle, the Chrono engine.
Chrono blaster uses Heavy 1, Large blast template against non-vehicle targets and Heavy 1 against vehicles.
Resolve at BS2, if unit is hit:
1: Nothing happens
2: Slowed timeflow - Unit uses 1d3 for movement to end of it's turn
3: Stopped timeflow - Unit can't perform any kind of action.
4: Reverse - If unit moved, place it at place whete it has been previous turn. If not moved, nothing happens.
5: Bending time-space - You can control movement of enemy's unit for one turn. You can't make any kind of attack.
6: Erased from timeflow - Unit removed as casualties. No saves.

A new rule will be added to Infantry Squads.

“No you go first.”

Anytime a unit is ordered to charge they must take a leadership test. If they fail the squad fights itself. After resolving conflict the Character with the highest leadership is pushed out front before overwatch commences. Thanks to the disorganized charge the charge distance is halved and they suffer a second round of overwatch fire.

Creed/Marbo/Yarrick/Stracken/Schaeffer/Solar Macharius/Nork Deddog/Mogul Kamir/Stumper Muckstart destroyed an Avatar of Khaine in single combat. Yes, all of them. Together with the Avatars killed by unnamed individuals in the Sentiknight, Leman Russ, and Conscript entries the IG should have a higher Avatar kill count than everyone else's fluff put together.

You know how vehicle kits come with pistol arms for the crewman? It's going to be a real upgrade. 5pts, lets you shoot a laspistol from the turret.

You can upgrade a single Leman Russ tank in your army with a new special character commissar who causes it to use the chariot rules.

There's going to be two new units that use the Artillery unit type, one Heavy Support and the other Elite.

Wow, they decided to hand out Skyfire like candy in this book.

The codex includes rules for some new IG-only fortifications, including one that can be moved during the battle.

New tank, the Leman Russ Decimator!

Each turn it kills one model in 10 from the targeted squad.

A couple of latin nerds love it, everyone else badmouths it on the internets.

If an IG unit gets into CC with anything more powerful than a Gretchin, they instantly lose.

 YFNPsycho wrote:
If an IG unit gets into CC with anything more powerful than a Gretchin, they instantly lose.

Is it bad that this would invalidate 80% of my IG's strategy?

LR tanks can now be taken as infantry. in squads of 10 and all are scoring.

LR tanks if they have an infantry model in the coupala they can engage in melee with 1 low ST attack and 1 St 10 attack (using the tank itself as a melee weapon).

Baneblades can be taken as heavy support in squadrons of 3.

If you take 3 baneblade squadrons you get the "I have bigger tanks then you, your army is invalid" rule where you auto win by having bigger tanks, therefore the enemies argument is invalid.

Stormtroopers now come in platoons with st 4 ap 3 24 inch range hotshot lasguns. with really low points value.

sentinels now can melee with a ST 10 kick. its a D st melee attack if it attacks the rear of any model (Kicking their Butt)

Vendettas can now transport light armor (sentinals, chimeras, hellhounds, medusas etc).

Marbo has a new ability. Norris Sneeze. Marbo uses a hellstorm template with ST D ap 1. You cannot save in any manner from the Norris Sneeze, and there is no "getting back up" rules either for those hit by the Norris Sneeze.

Every IG unit can once a game call "Spirit of Gaunt". In that case, enemy cant use any saves, wounded models are ID and vehicles lose all hull points and explode. At the end of turn, kill one character in unit that used Spirit of Gaunt or nearest character if not apllicable.

 Engine of War wrote:


Stormtroopers now come in platoons with st 4 ap 3 24 inch range hotshot lasguns. with really low points value.

Ah hell just one of those would be amazing to have :(

 Raxmei wrote:
The codex includes rules for some new IG-only fortifications, including one that can be moved during the battle.

What you're thinking of here is called 'conscripts'

the Order system will be restricted, you need to take certain "regiment tactics" That will determine the order you can give. This of course has no effect on Creed.

New Warlord Trait - "Why haven't we thought of this before?!"

The IG mobilize several miles away from the enemy position, and start bombarding them with mass artillery.

Do not deploy your army. This trait ignores the "must have an army on the field" rule.
When the game starts, center the large blast template over each enemy unit. This scatters 2D6 inches, and it resolved at S8AP3. This happens both in both player turns, in all game turns.

The codex contains just 1 basic unit: the guardsman; anything else is outsourced to supplements. We get a light tank supplement, medium tank supplement , heavy tank supplement, super heavy tank supplement, a ab-human supplement, a pretty uniforms in space supplement, a desert dwellers in space supplement, a john rambo supplement, a space russians in space supplement, a heavy weapon team supplement, a artillery supplement and a self-propelled artillery supplement, a ground attack craft supplement and a bomber supplement, a AA gun supplement and a missile tank supplement, a cavalry in space supplement and a penal units supplement, a commissariat supplement and a priest supplement, a sancioned psyker supplement and a stormtrooper supplement, a sentinel supplement and a chimerae supplement, a tank hunter supplement and a big fething rocket on tracks supplement, a sniper supplement and a special weapons supplement, a drop them off of skimmers supplement and a movie stars supplement, a medicae supplement and a resupply suppllement; And finally an officer korps supplement. Plus a Solar Macharius supplement. Did I miss any ?

Additionally there are one click bundles of :
- infantry regiment
- artillery regiment
- mobile infantry regiment
- armored regiment
- air cav regiment
- cavarly regiment
- abhuman regiment
- IN ground support squadron
- a famous officers of the Guard collection
- a mechanicum detachment ( new ARV kit, engineseers, servitors )
- a munitorum detachment ( new Imperial truck kit, lots of ammo crates, fuel drums, etc )
- a Imperial mega fortress
- a ' 1 km wall of martyrs'
- a whole sector of an imperial city

Haven't heard much about rules. One small bit a freind of a freind who has friends said was like: the space soldiers of the Emporer may dig in wherever they please, IG gets a citadel fine-entrenchment - tool so the IG player may create foxholes in gaming tables instantly.

The release of the IG Codex will feature a special ally arrangement with the Sisters of Battle, allowing the Guard allied units to share Sisters prayers as long as Preachers are scattered around the units. A Sister may be added to a company command squad in a manner similar to a Commisar.

These alterations will be accompanied by the release of plastic Sisters models, with a basic ten figure box costing $30 and having enough spare parts for a unit leader, several special and heavy weapon options, plus neat accessories like prayer seals, grails, and so on.

(This is the thread for IMPOSSIBLE rumors, right?)

Yep. You're in the right place.

Infantry Platoons are being replaced by Infantry Regiment.

This means you can field as many guardsmen as you want at a cost of 2pt per guardsmen. For every 5 guardsmen you have, you get a special weapon, and for every 100 guardsmen you have you can take a medic!

All this in just a single troop choice!

New Imperial Guard Super-Heavy Flyer: Dropship.

This exciting new 348 piece model kit makes one Imperial Dropship. The Imperial Dropship allows you to deploy your entire Imperial Guard army via Deep Strike, without any risk of scatter. The Dropship can deploy on any turn of the game, and is not restricted by any rules regarding minimum deployments. The Imperial Dropship comes with a new 4' round base, which will be an exciting opportunity for eager modelers. Any enemy models under the Dropship's base when it deep strikes are removed as casualties. The Imperial Dropship is armor 14/14/14, and has 43 hull points. The Imperial Dropship fills the fortifications slot for any Imperial Guard army.

In next week's White Dwarf, Mat Ward wins a nail-biter of a battle report vs. Adam Troke's Chaos Space Marines through the unexpected and canny tactic of deploying his Drop Ship on turn 6 of the game over the objectives.

Also available, the new 1 Liter size of Citadel Thin Plastic Cement, only $250 with free shipping! (excludes Canada), as well as the new 5 lb. bag of Citadel modeling sand (only $100 for a limited time!)

Da Butcha wrote:
New Imperial Guard Super-Heavy Flyer: Dropship.

This exciting new 348 piece model kit makes one Imperial Dropship. The Imperial Dropship allows you to deploy your entire Imperial Guard army via Deep Strike, without any risk of scatter. The Dropship can deploy on any turn of the game, and is not restricted by any rules regarding minimum deployments. The Imperial Dropship comes with a new 4' round base, which will be an exciting opportunity for eager modelers. Any enemy models under the Dropship's base when it deep strikes are removed as casualties. The Imperial Dropship is armor 14/14/14, and has 43 hull points. The Imperial Dropship fills the fortifications slot for any Imperial Guard army.

In next week's White Dwarf, Mat Ward wins a nail-biter of a battle report vs. Adam Troke's Chaos Space Marines through the unexpected and canny tactic of deploying his Drop Ship on turn 6 of the game over the objectives.

Also available, the new 1 Liter size of Citadel Thin Plastic Cement, only $250 with free shipping! (excludes Canada), as well as the new 5 lb. bag of Citadel modeling sand (only $100 for a limited time!)

The problem with this rumor is that I can see GW actually doing that.

This might actually be true, I heard that they are lowering points costs on the models. Therefore, you will need to buy MORE models to make an army... It is something like a 25% pt reduction on avg....

Also, in the same regards, a unit that was 1-3 is now 1-5, for example....

This happened several years back if you remember....

Da Butcha wrote:
New Imperial Guard Super-Heavy Flyer: Dropship.

This exciting new 348 piece model kit makes one Imperial Dropship. The Imperial Dropship allows you to deploy your entire Imperial Guard army via Deep Strike, without any risk of scatter. The Dropship can deploy on any turn of the game, and is not restricted by any rules regarding minimum deployments. The Imperial Dropship comes with a new 4' round base, which will be an exciting opportunity for eager modelers. Any enemy models under the Dropship's base when it deep strikes are removed as casualties. The Imperial Dropship is armor 14/14/14, and has 43 hull points. The Imperial Dropship fills the fortifications slot for any Imperial Guard army.

In next week's White Dwarf, Mat Ward wins a nail-biter of a battle report vs. Adam Troke's Chaos Space Marines through the unexpected and canny tactic of deploying his Drop Ship on turn 6 of the game over the objectives.

Also available, the new 1 Liter size of Citadel Thin Plastic Cement, only $250 with free shipping! (excludes Canada), as well as the new 5 lb. bag of Citadel modeling sand (only $100 for a limited time!)

I've heard they were going to introduce the new Imperial Navy units. Starting with the Dauntless light cruiser class super-super-super-super heavy flyer, a 40 meter long model supplied with 200 pounds of spikes and extra skulls in case you want to build the Chaos version, but this also sound plausible.

For every 10 Conscripts, now only D6+3 of them actually get issued Lasguns! The rest are unlucky saps given only a single Lasgun pack.

If an Imperial Guard Infantry Squad takes 25% casualties, the rest of the unit gains a 5+ cover save if they stay still in the following movement phase. They use the corpses of their fellow Guardsmen as cover.

Leman Russes may strike back in close combat, using the tank commander's sword

Thanks to many months of pleading, bribery, and blackmail the Imperial Guard is getting a new Elite unit: Guardsman Bob!

Also, I'm counted as a Monstrous Creature!

Two new exciting Forge-a-narritiveable tanks will be introduced! However, one tank will only be available for a limited time only so act quick! To simulate the uncertainties of war we will not tell you which of these are the ones that will run out so you better buy both!

The first is the Leman Russ Persecutor. The Leman Russ Persecutor is long lost variant of the standard Leman Russ chassis that is equipped with the impressive Persecutor gatling launcher. Each shell contains a rare explosive compound that burrows itself into the ground and explodes, turning the very earth into plasma in a brilliant display of Imperial technological might. In addition to the launcher the Persecutor features reinforced armor to protect such a rare weapon. The stats are as follows:

Leman Russ Persecutor

AV: 15/14/14

Wargear:

Persecutor Gatling Launcher
S: 10
AP: 2
Heavy 8, Small Blast, 72"
Instant Death, Ignores Cover

Heavy Bolter

The next tank is so exciting that we couldn't keep it all in one kit! However, for a limited time only, we are offering a 1-click bundle so that you can field your very own Siegebreaker Assault Tank. The Siegebreaker is a dedicated siege tank that can lay siege to besieged fortifications. With it's powerful main gun and heavily reinforced armor there is few buildings that can stop it's assault.

Siegebreaker Assault Tank
AV: 15/14/14

Wargear:
Siegebreaker siege gun
S: 10
AP: 1
Ordnance, Large Blast, 24"

Heavy Bolter

They will release a rule that means that for evey squad of guardsmen you take, the next unit will be 2pts cheaper per model

 Guardsmen Bob wrote:
Thanks to many months of pleading, bribery, and blackmail the Imperial Guard is getting a new Elite unit: Guardsman Bob!

Also, I'm counted as a Monstrous Creature!

But do you get all the travelling expenses required to turn up to all the games you will be taken in?

What happens when you get removed from the table?