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 Grimskul wrote:
Sucks that Grey Knights can't take either without allying them in. The Rhino Primaris certainly would help their reserve game and give them some native access to skyfire besides using a Storm Raven.

You mean take as the Ally HQ to go with your Snipers, Drop Pod Purifiers and Marine Stromraven?

 Anpu42 wrote:

 Grimskul wrote:
Sucks that Grey Knights can't take either without allying them in. The Rhino Primaris certainly would help their reserve game and give them some native access to skyfire besides using a Storm Raven.

You mean take as the Ally HQ to go with your Snipers, Drop Pod Purifiers and Marine Stromraven?

I meant more for GK players who like to keep a relatively "pure" GK force. Competitively this is a bonus for the majority of Imperial forces.

You know, I'm not sure if I noticed this before now or if it's just on these rules, but strictly RAW doesn't this mean my land raider excelsior can take, theoretically, any number of storm bolters for 5 points apiece?

Apologies if this has been posted already..



PLEASE IGNORE, THIS IS FROM THE OATH OF BLOOD CAMPAIGN BOOK, NOT A CODEX LEAK

So units get to shoot twice or assault after deep-striking, that's kinda cool. People are probably gonna call it trash because it makes you take 6 tactical squads, though.

Wait, what? Thats insane!

Apologies, I just found out that this is a formation from the Oath of Blood campaign book that a local gakker has been passing off as something from the upcoming codex.

Many apologies!

 Sidstyler wrote:
So units get to shoot twice or assault after deep-striking, that's kinda cool. People are probably gonna call it trash because it makes you take 6 tactical squads, though.

No. It's actually pretty piss-poor game design if you ask me. Games will be won or lost (even more than currently) on the roll-off on who goes first and whether or not you can side-step this alpha strike with null-deployment, intercept it away (if you're Tau), etc.. or have to take it in the face.

Playing beyond turn 1 becomes increasingly pointless.

Whatever happend to having suspense in a game slowly increase throughout with a neck-to-neck finish in .. say ... turn 6?

Interesting to note that they say that you have to select form the Ultramarines Chapter.

So are chapters gonna be introduced like the oldschool Guard Regiments?

Vintersorg wrote:
Interesting to note that they say that you have to select form the Ultramarines Chapter.

So are chapters gonna be introduced like the oldschool Guard Regiments?

It's not new per-se, the unique units and characters FW produced have long since included the proviso of "May be used in a force representing X chapter" It might represent a change in language for the next book to differentiate Crimson Fist and Imperial Fist characters. It could also, and this is more likely, be a thematic restriction for the campaign; they designed for Ultras so by the throne, you will play this with ultras or you won't play it at all.

Wonderwolf wrote:

 Sidstyler wrote:
So units get to shoot twice or assault after deep-striking, that's kinda cool. People are probably gonna call it trash because it makes you take 6 tactical squads, though.

No. It's actually pretty piss-poor game design if you ask me. Games will be won or lost (even more than currently) on the roll-off on who goes first and whether or not you can side-step this alpha strike with null-deployment, intercept it away (if you're Tau), etc.. or have to take it in the face.

Playing beyond turn 1 becomes increasingly pointless.

Whatever happend to having suspense in a game slowly increase throughout with a neck-to-neck finish in .. say ... turn 6?

Yeah, I'd agree with you, but you know it's painfully obvious at this point that 40k will never be like that again. The best we can hope for is everyone getting their own broken formations, detachments, etc. to bring them up to par.

Maybe it's only cool to me because I do play Tau, so I have cheap Interceptor out the ass and thus feel that dropping in like that has to have some kind of benefit (like extra shots or assaulting after) in order to make it worth deep-striking in the first place.

Anyway, even if it's from the upcoming campaign book, isn't that stuff still technically playable anyway? Like the Shield of Baal formations and stuff which seem to be generally accepted and playable alongside codex rules.

Blimey, that's a shiny formation! Drop Pods doing what they should, doubles doubles taps on the drop (with the UM Tactical Doctrine TL all the Gas! Who has low firepower now, huh?) and assault marines/Dreads charging straight in.

It's a good example of why I don't like the current 'free bonus' Formation style; that would be fine as a +100 point upgrade, but dishing it out for free is too much, even for the larger games it's meant for.

It's a 2500pt formation without any upgrades. I really don't think it's an issue as a formation anyway. It's a formation that seems mostly designed for Apoc sized gaming.

So bit of news for the Adeptus Astartes Codex. GW reps are recommending that the following kits not be re-ordered. Codex Space Marines. Assault Squads and Devastator Squads so it sounds like new kits and book are inbound very soon.
Apologies if this has already been reported.

GW reps are the last people to hear, so...

It's still another rumor/confirmation of existing ones that another group of players is about to have their codex replaced after just 1-2 years.

Would not surprise me if the Marines got Vortex Grenades in this codex.

 WrentheFaceless wrote:
Would not surprise me if the Marines got Vortex Grenades in this codex.

Finally! I bought a gross of these from a guy in an alley...

I was just thinking that it's weird that with all the rumors of a May-June release that nothing has been leaked yet. I remember last year (?) when the new IG books was due, there was at least a couple months of rumors preceded by a month of leaks.( and not just for new Marines.....the heresy era marines were also supposed to drop around now).

And guess who just bought assault marines and devs..........

So the Adeptus Astartes Strikeforce went No longer available sometime in the last 24h... (?)
I'm pretty sure that it was available yesterday.

Should we take this as a sign that something is coming?

WindsOfFury wrote:
So the Adeptus Astartes Strikeforce went No longer available sometime in the last 24h... (?)
I'm pretty sure that it was available yesterday.

Should we take this as a sign that something is coming?

Still on the US site.

WindsOfFury wrote:
So the Adeptus Astartes Strikeforce went No longer available sometime in the last 24h... (?)
I'm pretty sure that it was available yesterday.

Should we take this as a sign that something is coming?

Is it Out of Stock or No Longer Available?

And is it "Adeptus Astartes Strikeforce" or "Adeptus Astartes Strikeforce Ultra", because the latter has been gone for awhile.

 Kanluwen wrote:

WindsOfFury wrote:
So the Adeptus Astartes Strikeforce went No longer available sometime in the last 24h... (?)
I'm pretty sure that it was available yesterday.

Should we take this as a sign that something is coming?

Is it Out of Stock or No Longer Available?

And is it "Adeptus Astartes Strikeforce" or "Adeptus Astartes Strikeforce Ultra", because the latter has been gone for awhile.

It's this one I'm talking about.

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Adeptus-Astartes-Strikeforce

As i wrote, Adeptus Astartes Strikeforce, No longer available.

Just checkin'.

Interesting. It might be a sign of things to come or it might be nothing.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Just checkin'.

Interesting. It might be a sign of things to come or it might be nothing.

Just minutes after my post Faeit212 updated with this:

http://natfka.blogspot.se/2015/05/space-marines-are-next-with-3-week.html

As you say, it might be a sign of things to come or it might be nothing.

Pft, natfka/Faeit are basically trawling the Internet and reading the same rumors as you.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Pft, natfka/Faeit are basically trawling the Internet and reading the same rumors as you.

In fact, I think they read this post and then posted their rumor!

WindsOfFury wrote:
So the Adeptus Astartes Strikeforce went No longer available sometime in the last 24h... (?)
I'm pretty sure that it was available yesterday.

Should we take this as a sign that something is coming?

You should tell them to ask you first, next time!


On topic: I hope my Black Templars get their Holy Orbs of Antioch back!

So it's like a rumor inception?

Nevermind.

Anyways hoping for a new devestator box with asscan and heavy flamer!

Yay! Glad I held out on buying Assault Squads for my new Blood Angels army. Gonna have a whole army of all the freshest newest sculpts.