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I have a feeling we won't see anything for Tau or 'Nids in this series, I'd really be suprised if there was more than a dribble of ork involvement (more like just obstacles thrown in the way, or raiders of opportunity).

This is an IOM/Chaos story, I imagine the only reason Eldar were pulled in is because of the recent Eldrad mini they wish to push.

 Stormonu wrote:
I have a feeling we won't see anything for Tau or 'Nids in this series, I'd really be suprised if there was more than a dribble of ork involvement (more like just obstacles thrown in the way, or raiders of opportunity).

This is an IOM/Chaos story, I imagine the only reason Eldar were pulled in is because of the recent Eldrad mini they wish to push.

The series is called "The Gathering Storm".

Saying that it is "an IoM/Chaos story" is a bit premature. The first book("Fall of Cadia") obviously was the IoM/Chaos...but who knows what else is going to happen?

During the events of the 13th Black Crusade, we had the Tau starting another Sphere of Expansion. We had Orks making their way to the Cadian Sector, spurred on by Abaddon, for "Da Big Fight". We had Tyranids encroaching on the Eastern Fringe.

There's a lot of room for the other factions to get involved.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Stormonu wrote:
I have a feeling we won't see anything for Tau or 'Nids in this series, I'd really be suprised if there was more than a dribble of ork involvement (more like just obstacles thrown in the way, or raiders of opportunity).

This is an IOM/Chaos story, I imagine the only reason Eldar were pulled in is because of the recent Eldrad mini they wish to push.

The series is called "The Gathering Storm".

Saying that it is "an IoM/Chaos story" is a bit premature. The first book("Fall of Cadia") obviously was the IoM/Chaos...but who knows what else is going to happen?

During the events of the 13th Black Crusade, we had the Tau starting another Sphere of Expansion. We had Orks making their way to the Cadian Sector, spurred on by Abaddon, for "Da Big Fight". We had Tyranids encroaching on the Eastern Fringe.

There's a lot of room for the other factions to get involved.

Don't forget that the Necrons have been awakening and even the Silent King has been seen fighting Tyranids (alongside Blood Angels).

sorry, anyone know how much gangs of commoragh will be (£)?

Woa, Duncan and one of the eavy metal painters talking about their work on Twitch, the Eavy Metal guys see stuff 9-12 months in advance. Holy brah, they've known about Celestine for so long. Oh to know what those eyes have seen.......

 unmercifulconker wrote:
Woa, Duncan and one of the eavy metal painters talking about their work on Twitch, the Eavy Metal guys see stuff 9-12 months in advance. Holy brah, they've known about Celestine for so long. Oh to know what those eyes have seen.......

Plastic sisters of battle?

Probably seen a decent NDA or two.

That new guy Is TDA sized I think. So we are assuming the weirdo pistol I posted earlier isn't his?[/spoiler]

Seriously, here I am refreshing the page hoping something will come of that "Plastic sisters got snuck into the WD pics" rumor a bunch of pages ago.

I don't want to make a YMDC thread as the rules aren't out 100% yet but I've been thinking about Belisarius Cawl's rules interactions within Cult Mech formations.

The rules we've got here say that he can replace any tech priest in any formations, however, i wonder if he will count as a tech priest for rules purposes.

For example, the Holy Requisitioner formation states that "This formations kataphron breachers do not scatter when they deep strike , so long as they are place within 6" of this formations Tech-Priest Dominus."

Does this mean then, as the rule specifies a Tech-Priest Dominus, that Belisarius Caw wouldn't apply as, going by GW's specific data sheet wording, he isn't a "Tech-Priest Dominus"

 unmercifulconker wrote:
Woa, Duncan and one of the eavy metal painters talking about their work on Twitch, the Eavy Metal guys see stuff 9-12 months in advance. Holy brah, they've known about Celestine for so long. Oh to know what those eyes have seen.......

Of course they have. The need the models painted for the YouTube tutorials as well as the web site and box art.

 backlash13 wrote:
I don't want to make a YMDC thread as the rules aren't out 100% yet but I've been thinking about Belisarius Cawl's rules interactions within Cult Mech formations.

The rules we've got here say that he can replace any tech priest in any formations, however, i wonder if he will count as a tech priest for rules purposes.

For example, the Holy Requisitioner formation states that "This formations kataphron breachers do not scatter when they deep strike , so long as they are place within 6" of this formations Tech-Priest Dominus."

Does this mean then, as the rule specifies a Tech-Priest Dominus, that Belisarius Caw wouldn't apply as, going by GW's specific data sheet wording, he isn't a "Tech-Priest Dominus"

This is one of those cases where there's an exact words interpretation, and the fact that you might be overthinking it by arriving at that exact words interpretation.

the_scotsman wrote:
Seriously, here I am refreshing the page hoping something will come of that "Plastic sisters got snuck into the WD pics" rumor a bunch of pages ago.

Haha, I was scouring the WD but I cant see anything. I've CSI'd every picture with Sisters on it and you just cant tell. Unless its a super tiny model in the big army overview picture in the BR.

 ThirstySpaceMan wrote:
That new guy Is TDA sized I think. So we are assuming the weirdo pistol I posted earlier isn't his?

That would be correct.

If you look at the image, there's pale flesh underneath of the straps for the Crossbow Pistol and nothing about that image matches up with the shadowed silhouette we got from the Fall of Cadia book.

changemod wrote:

 backlash13 wrote:
I don't want to make a YMDC thread as the rules aren't out 100% yet but I've been thinking about Belisarius Cawl's rules interactions within Cult Mech formations.

The rules we've got here say that he can replace any tech priest in any formations, however, i wonder if he will count as a tech priest for rules purposes.

For example, the Holy Requisitioner formation states that "This formations kataphron breachers do not scatter when they deep strike , so long as they are place within 6" of this formations Tech-Priest Dominus."

Does this mean then, as the rule specifies a Tech-Priest Dominus, that Belisarius Caw wouldn't apply as, going by GW's specific data sheet wording, he isn't a "Tech-Priest Dominus"

This is one of those cases where there's an exact words interpretation, and the fact that you might be overthinking it by arriving at that exact words interpretation.

Oh I agree I'm over thinking it, I stand by the "RAI" that all is fine and no problems. I just figured that if I spotted it, then someone will definitely kick up a stink over it.

 backlash13 wrote:
I don't want to make a YMDC thread as the rules aren't out 100% yet but I've been thinking about Belisarius Cawl's rules interactions within Cult Mech formations.

The rules we've got here say that he can replace any tech priest in any formations, however, i wonder if he will count as a tech priest for rules purposes.

For example, the Holy Requisitioner formation states that "This formations kataphron breachers do not scatter when they deep strike , so long as they are place within 6" of this formations Tech-Priest Dominus."

Does this mean then, as the rule specifies a Tech-Priest Dominus, that Belisarius Caw wouldn't apply as, going by GW's specific data sheet wording, he isn't a "Tech-Priest Dominus"

Think of any detatchment and his rules are going to apply to the whole army. I can say for a fact- THIS guy is that sick.

His rules are better. You would be using his rules. The other detachments that you have the Mechanicus with is just the icing on the cake, and you will use the techpriset rules along with Belisarius Caw as a buff of rules. What we are seeing here is an devolution to the old 2d Edition way of putting an army together, with the new and improved confusion of 7-8th to 9th rules. It sucks, but in the end, I can see them going away with the "Only this and this in an army" schtick, and going to - You can add anything you want, ( Such as in Warmahordes where different combinations compliment, or detract, depending on the choice.)
We haven't even seen discussion on adding in a titan, and adding Caw along with it...

 ThirstySpaceMan wrote:
That new guy Is TDA sized I think. So we are assuming the weirdo pistol I posted earlier isn't his?[/spoiler]

It's a Stormcast/Devoted of Sigmar weapon. Definitely AoS.

Davor wrote:

Alpharius wrote:Let's try and keep to "Plastic Sisters and other White Dwarf leaks' in here, please.

Thanks!

What plastic sister rumours? It's been confirmed there is no plastic sister rumours. That seems misleading now to say "plastic sisters" since I would take that as a range instead of just the HQ choice. Maybe it's time to close the thread then?

Nope, not really, for several reasons, including:

the_scotsman wrote:
Seriously, here I am refreshing the page hoping something will come of that "Plastic sisters got snuck into the WD pics" rumor a bunch of pages ago.

Thanks though!

 Alpharius wrote:

Davor wrote:

Alpharius wrote:Let's try and keep to "Plastic Sisters and other White Dwarf leaks' in here, please.

Thanks!

What plastic sister rumours? It's been confirmed there is no plastic sister rumours. That seems misleading now to say "plastic sisters" since I would take that as a range instead of just the HQ choice. Maybe it's time to close the thread then?

Nope, not really, for several reasons, including:

the_scotsman wrote:
Seriously, here I am refreshing the page hoping something will come of that "Plastic sisters got snuck into the WD pics" rumor a bunch of pages ago.

Thanks though!

Fair enough. I took his statement though as here he though there was news for new plastic sisters and disappointed he didn't see any because of so much page activity. Just a bit puzzled on your stance since when this was going on in prior threads, you would lock them or tell people to stop. Like in this instance actual rumours for Plastic sisters. But I am not a mod, I over stepped my boundaries and I apologize.

Rob talked today with Simon Grant about Fall of Cadia and Disciples of Tzeentch on Warhammer Live:

I really like the Fall of Cadia fluff a lot. 40k plot has been stagnant for too long. Good stuff.

Am I getting dates mixed up, when should you be able to walk into your FLG and grab the latest White Dwarf off the rack? As a subscriber when should you get it in the mail?

Last Friday for both as far as I know. I haven't gotten mine yet though.

Thanks, I have only ever received mine on the tail end of the 2nd week of each month.

Chopxsticks wrote:
Thanks, I have only ever received mine on the tail end of the 2nd week of each month.

This month's official release date was January 6th. Next month is Feb 3rd. It always says in the back of each issue when the next release date is. Subscriber issues is a bit of a mess depending where you live. Here in Japan I have got every single issue on the Thursday before release.

This Friday is the 13th. Coincidence (13th Black Crusade)?? I heard somewhere that Duncan Rhodes is painting up something on Warhammer TV this Friday that is to be something extra special for his 100th video. Will we see a new Abaddon?

 MadCowCrazy wrote:
Has this been posted yet?

It slightly irks me that Blood Angels, (Nor Dark Angels, or Space Wolves) are listed as options to run in that detachment, as I would dearly love to field my Vostroyan Imperial Guard along side my Blood Angels and an Imperial Knight in a coherent Detachment with fun bonuses (Hatred, at least, and the ability to bring troops back on the field one in three times on average is pretty cool) that helps both factions and doesn't use Allies.

Sadly, only the regular Space Marine book is mentioned.

I get that sometimes the Death Company freaks people out* but man, I really like that Detachment.

Oh well.

Take it easy.

-Red__Thirst-

*May, or may not, have killed folks they weren't supposed to kill.

The most important thing:

Codex: Imperial Agents
Codex: inquisition.

 Red__Thirst wrote:

 MadCowCrazy wrote:
Has this been posted yet?

It slightly irks me that Blood Angels, (Nor Dark Angels, or Space Wolves) are listed as options to run in that detachment, as I would dearly love to field my Vostroyan Imperial Guard along side my Blood Angels and an Imperial Knight in a coherent Detachment with fun bonuses (Hatred, at least, and the ability to bring troops back on the field one in three times on average is pretty cool) that helps both factions and doesn't use Allies.

Sadly, only the regular Space Marine book is mentioned.

I get that sometimes the Death Company freaks people out* but man, I really like that Detachment.

Oh well.

Take it easy.

-Red__Thirst-

*May, or may not, have killed folks they weren't supposed to kill.

You know what irks me? There is a picture of a Skitarri ranger right on that page. Skitarri are explicitly excluded. Did Simon Grant see the final draft of the pages before they went to print? He writes the rules, but apparently has no discussions with the art team.

EDIT: if you could possibly take Skitarri ....

HQ:
Coteaz
Celestine

Troops:
1000 points of Skitarri, 700 vanguard, 300 rangers

Heavy support:
6 units of wyverns

Depends on who the editor is.

Typically the Head Rules Developer or Head Background Developer aren't also the Editor.