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Since Tyranids have received a new model wave without a new codex, which army do you think DESERVES the next wave and why?

This is really hard to say. E.g. Orks got new models after their codex.

I'd opt for SoB or SW 13. Company.

More Tyranids

The fabled plastic battle sister range is looking overdue.

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IG. Give us back a handful of characters, our stolen artillery pieces and a new unit or two while you're at it!

CSM! Need updated Normal guys :p

I want my characters , my artilery and 130-150pts flyer.

Could be a little more specific?

I want more CSM. I always want more CSM!

New Tau Crisis suits, for love of the Greater Good.

 total0 wrote:
CSM! Need updated Normal guys :p

Actually, yeah, this! Although new CSM in a style like the new Raptors and DV and the quality/options of the new Tactical Squad kit would probably bankrupt me, it would be so very worth it!

Eldar! Let's bring stuff like Warp Spiders and jetbikes into this century

Well, SoB have certainly waited long enough. Failing that:

 Paradigm wrote:
IG. Give us back a handful of characters, our stolen artillery pieces and a new unit or two while you're at it!

This.

Also, could you maybe replace our infantry with sculpts that don't look like angry potatoes?

In no particular order...

Crisis Suits and Fire Warriors - Tau have great model generally, but some of them are just too much... Shapes. No grit, no edge. Maybe some combat blades and gear, alongside some cloth with symbols on the Warriors and just... Just redone Crisis Suits. More technology and sci-fi, less shapes and asian influence.

Chaos Space Marines - They don't fit the current lore and feel of the Traitors at all - More DV Chosen and less rejected Iron Maiden cover stand-ins.

Assassins - The models aren't bad, but they aren't fitting either. A few clampacks can't hurt... In fact, you could even make a single box with options for every assassin, making one assassin per box.

Adepta Sororitas - No explanation needed.

Squats. They've been neglected for decades.

Maybe the ork wartrakk? With the guys on top smaller then epic. The models from Gorka Morka! !:O

 Frazzled wrote:
Squats. They've been neglected for decades.

There's always one

 Paradigm wrote:
IG. Give us back a handful of characters, our stolen artillery pieces and a new unit or two while you're at it!

I spent a month converting a Basilisk into a Colossus.... and then a month later the IG 7th edition hit and it was removed.
Now I'm struggling to use him as a counts-as. I don't want a Wyvern or a Manticore and I have a Deathstrike already, so really I'm left with a Basilisk which is just another kick in the balls considering I converted him FROM a basilisk lol.

Also, before 7th I converted up Chenkov and Marbo.
I've re-purposed Chenkov into a Veteran Sergeant but Marbo is tougher. I'm thinking he's going to have to go into my pile of models that I plan to use for a future Diorama.

So therefore, I agree... I want our characters and arty back!

The one most in need of a new release is the one least likely to get it.
Sisters of Battle.

According to the Tyranid Rumours, the Shield of Baal Nid Book will be AM, SoB and Militarum Tempetus as well as the aforementioned Tyranids.

I guess that leaves CSM as the army that needs some new models for me

The only proper answer is sisters. They pay outrageous prices for a single squad, their models are all metal, monopose, ugly as sin and old. Lets at least see some finecast sister HQ models before we see more murderwolfs or santa-logans, or the fabled bloodcoffin pulled by bloodbats with bloodthirst and bloodrage.

There's 3 armies just crying for a bucketload of new models right now...

1. Eldar
ALL their Aspect Warriors bar the Avengers need shifting from Finecrap into proper plastic kits. New Jetbikes to replace the old & tired 90's ancients. A proper-sized Avatar of Khaine that doesn't involve buying the DE Cauldron of Blood!

2. Chaos Marines
3 of the 4 Cult Marine squads require updating into plastic. The basic Chaos Marines themselves & Khorne Berserkers could do with new kits as well as those models have aged horribly.
Havocs & Chosen require an actual kit!
Oblits + Mutilators are an easy candidate for dual kit treatment.

3. Daemons of Chaos
Fiend, Beasts, Flesh Hounds and Furies all need updating into proper plastic kits as they're still crappy Fineco$t models.
Where the gak are those plastic GREATER! Daemons GW/?!! seriously, the current ones are easily the worst looking models in the entire 40k range, and have serious Napolean complexes as they struggle to peer over a bloody Crisis suit, while being forced to hack at the kneecaps of other MC's who tower over them...



Note, I purposely left Sisters off the list as they really require a full-on 5th ed Dark Eldar style release encompassing a full-on 4-5 weeks, and not just a simple 2-3 week wave release ala Tyranids, which is what these 3 armies really require.

I think the only ones who can claim absolute and unquestioning support for new models are the Sisters of Negligence.

When they do Necrons in a couple of months or so there will be some new nec kits. BAs can allways kitbash something or other from the metric tons of SM parts and some red paint. All others got some toys in the last 1-2 years. While that doesn't mean that all needs are satisfied - Daemons and CSM look 3rd-4th edition, Ork buggies are older than the Emperor himself, not all guards players want Cadians, ... - the sisters haven't got anything for much longer than that.

 Kosake wrote:
I think the only ones who can claim absolute and unquestioning support for new models are the Sisters of Negligence.

When they do Necrons in a couple of months or so there will be some new nec kits. BAs can allways kitbash something or other from the metric tons of SM parts and some red paint. All others got some toys in the last 1-2 years. While that doesn't mean that all needs are satisfied - Daemons and CSM look 3rd-4th edition, Ork buggies are older than the Emperor himself, not all guards players want Cadians, ... - the sisters haven't got anything for much longer than that.

Except the thread is about which army deserves the next model wave, not which army needs a full-on "new army" styled release...
Sisters can't be done with a 2-3 week wave release. They really need a proper 4-5 week 'new army release'.

An Eldar wave would look like;
Week 1 = Fire Dragon/Dark Reaper dual kit
Week 2 = Jetbike/Shining Spears dual kit
Week 3 = Striking Scorpions + Autarch clamshell pack

A CSM wave could look like;
Week 1 = Havoc/Chosen dual kit
Week 2 = Thousand Sons kit
Week 3 = Noise Marines kit

A Daemons wave could look like;
Week 1 = Furies/new unit dual kit + Greater Daemon
Week 2 = Fiends + Greater Daemon
Week 3 = Last 2 of the Greaters

Sisters are in the most dire need, but GW has never been able to produce female features very well, so I think that will continue to stall their update for years to come.

Whichever army has gone the longest without new stuff.

Alternatively, all of them.

Eldar - Even though a few of their items were made to resin, they are still old sculpts in most cases. Not to mention the Jetbikes.

Although this is after Sisters, who deserve it far more...but evidently GW forgot they exist.

Experiment 626 wrote:

 Kosake wrote:
I think the only ones who can claim absolute and unquestioning support for new models are the Sisters of Negligence.

When they do Necrons in a couple of months or so there will be some new nec kits. BAs can allways kitbash something or other from the metric tons of SM parts and some red paint. All others got some toys in the last 1-2 years. While that doesn't mean that all needs are satisfied - Daemons and CSM look 3rd-4th edition, Ork buggies are older than the Emperor himself, not all guards players want Cadians, ... - the sisters haven't got anything for much longer than that.

Except the thread is about which army deserves the next model wave, not which army needs a full-on "new army" styled release...
Sisters can't be done with a 2-3 week wave release. They really need a proper 4-5 week 'new army release'.

An Eldar wave would look like;
Week 1 = Fire Dragon/Dark Reaper dual kit
Week 2 = Jetbike/Shining Spears dual kit
Week 3 = Striking Scorpions + Autarch clamshell pack

A CSM wave could look like;
Week 1 = Havoc/Chosen dual kit
Week 2 = Thousand Sons kit
Week 3 = Noise Marines kit

A Daemons wave could look like;
Week 1 = Furies/new unit dual kit + Greater Daemon
Week 2 = Fiends + Greater Daemon
Week 3 = Last 2 of the Greaters

Box 1. Sister squad with added heavy weapons to also make a ret squad. Also, bits to make one Sister into a HQ. (Or go full on Command Squad in separate box.)
Box 2. New living saint with options
Box 3. Plastic Repentia. (redesigned from ground up.)
Box 4. Plastic Penitent Engines.

Four boxes, at most 5 and that would go soooooooooooooooo far in making the SOB viable.
But GW won't because they can't be bothered.

This is kind of jumping to conclusions, really. Though I would like GW to do this sort of thing in the future, I reckon that this model wave could simply be to patch up the hole left by the chapterhouse malarkey and I'm not convinced that GW will do this again for any other armies.

Like I say though, I'd like to be proved wrong and, if I was, I'd like to be proved wrong by a new wave of DE, Eldar or CSM.

The former lost a lot of models in the transition to its 7th edition codex, something which could well be rectified by new units. Eldar simply need more plastic models, something which a few dual kits would set right, and CSM could really do with some more variety and strong units. They've fallen out of favour recently and I think sales would shoot up if GW were to release some good, strong units in WD.

Obvious choice...Space Marine assault squads.