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 Marshal Loss wrote:
Looks like no major DG release in July/August. No Mortarion for Konor is a bizarre decision, in keeping with this painfully drawn-out DG hype.

Turns out the Plague Champion in the 'easy to build' box has a plasma gun on his back - pretty cool.

Source on release schedule?

cerberus_ wrote:

 Marshal Loss wrote:
Looks like no major DG release in July/August. No Mortarion for Konor is a bizarre decision, in keeping with this painfully drawn-out DG hype.

Turns out the Plague Champion in the 'easy to build' box has a plasma gun on his back - pretty cool.

Source on release schedule?

White dwarf July talks about upcoming releases, and the only DG mentioned are new models of the existing units. The teaser for white dwarf august talks about astartes index with no mention whatsoever of DG. It isn't confirmed 100%, but assume this is all we get for the next couple months at least.

SilverAlien wrote:

cerberus_ wrote:

 Marshal Loss wrote:
Looks like no major DG release in July/August. No Mortarion for Konor is a bizarre decision, in keeping with this painfully drawn-out DG hype.

Turns out the Plague Champion in the 'easy to build' box has a plasma gun on his back - pretty cool.

Source on release schedule?

White dwarf July talks about upcoming releases, and the only DG mentioned are new models of the existing units. The teaser for white dwarf august talks about astartes index with no mention whatsoever of DG. It isn't confirmed 100%, but assume this is all we get for the next couple months at least.

Kind of a let down really. You want the hype to be maintained throughout a spoiler season; it's kind of dying down without any new "real" spoilers. I think they jumped the gun on the first DG teaser.

With the summer campaign and 8th launch buzz they probably wanted Lil Timmy splashing as much as possible on new Space Marine releases before the presumably less popular DG.

So GW just announced that codexes are definitely coming.
Kicking it off with Space Marines, then Grey Knights, then Chaos and then we get ours. Aiming to get 10 of them out before Christmas so that's roughly 2 a month.
We won't be getting our Death Guard release until at least September it seams, so I'm not expecting any new stuff on us for a while. They went way too early with the DG teasers

 Tiberius501 wrote:
So GW just announced that codexes are definitely coming.
Kicking it off with Space Marines, then Grey Knights, then Chaos and then we get ours. Aiming to get 10 of them out before Christmas so that's roughly 2 a month.
We won't be getting our Death Guard release until at least September it seams, so I'm not expecting any new stuff on us for a while. They went way too early with the DG teasers

Wait really? Where was this announced?

 ZebioLizard2 wrote:

 Tiberius501 wrote:
So GW just announced that codexes are definitely coming.
Kicking it off with Space Marines, then Grey Knights, then Chaos and then we get ours. Aiming to get 10 of them out before Christmas so that's roughly 2 a month.
We won't be getting our Death Guard release until at least September it seams, so I'm not expecting any new stuff on us for a while. They went way too early with the DG teasers

Wait really? Where was this announced?

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/07/05/your-codex-is-coming-july-5gw-homepage-post-1/

Well at least CSM isn't the first this time, that's certainly going to be interesting.

I like that they paired the two by faction. SM/GK, then CSM/DG. Maybe we'll see Craftworld/Dark Eldar the next month.

Kinda weird that they say they will include sub factions in the codex, then goes on to release codex death guard. Does this mean that legions like World eaters wont be included in the CSM codex and get their own later, or will they just be included in CSM and never get a codex?


PS:

Ok i just read this on the questions part of the article:

"Wait, did you say Death Guard?
We did. The Plague Legions of Nurgle are getting their own book to represent the fact that their way of war is substantially different from that of most Traitor Legions, as is the range of miniatures you can choose to use in your Death Guard army."

So I take it death guard will be the only legion with their own codex which is extremely sad. Or maybe they are just talking about the "minor" legions like nightlords etz.?

FudgeDumper wrote:
Kinda weird that they say they will include sub factions in the codex, then goes on to release codex death guard. Does this mean that legions like World eaters wont be included in the CSM codex and get their own later, or will they just be included in CSM and never get a codex?

I'm expecting something like the Space Marine one. Everyone, except for the 4 god specific factions, will be included in the Chaos codex and get their own legion rules within it. And then Death Guard, Khorne, Slaneesh and TSons will get their own, like Blood Angels, Space Woofs, etc.
that's my guess anyway

 Tiberius501 wrote:

FudgeDumper wrote:
Kinda weird that they say they will include sub factions in the codex, then goes on to release codex death guard. Does this mean that legions like World eaters wont be included in the CSM codex and get their own later, or will they just be included in CSM and never get a codex?

I'm expecting something like the Space Marine one. Everyone, except for the 4 god specific factions, will be included in the Chaos codex and get their own legion rules within it. And then Death Guard, Khorne, Slaneesh and TSons will get their own, like Blood Angels, Space Woofs, etc.
that's my guess anyway

Hey, that's a good guess. I'd be fine with that.

Exactly. The Death Guard idea is clearly to finally give CSM their own versions of the SM big chapters. The ones that have always been getting their own books, even though they're clearly SM. The rest are minor sub factions in the main book, like Black Templars are for the loyalists.
Maybe it's only Death Guard for now, but I really think the idea is to have a few of these larger sub-factions.

 Purifier wrote:
Exactly. The Death Guard idea is clearly to finally give CSM their own versions of the SM big chapters. The ones that have always been getting their own books, even though they're clearly SM. The rest are minor sub factions in the main book, like Black Templars are for the loyalists.
Maybe it's only Death Guard for now, but I really think the idea is to have a few of these larger sub-factions.

Thousand Sons are probably getting one as well, given the whole push and all earlier.

Do note that the wording means it isn't impossible for DG in late August, maybe even sooner. It sounds like space marines are the only release in July, but CSM and grey knights almost sound like concurrent releases, with DG taking place later. But who knows for sure.

Wasn't there a rumour floating about which listed odd pairings of armies that everyone dismissed as being strange?

And now we see the 10 Codexes before the end of the year plan....this seems kind of feasible.

 DarkStarSabre wrote:
Wasn't there a rumour floating about which listed odd pairings of armies that everyone dismissed as being strange?

And now we see the 10 Codexes before the end of the year plan....this seems kind of feasible.

The pairings wouldn't seem to match what we've been told though. It had primaris and DG up first (primaris isn't getting a unique codex, DG is coming fourth), both in July. It had IG and eldar next, who haven't been mentioned, followed by sisters of Battle and chaos marines.

If we want to be generous... DG got pushed back either to do more playtesting or space out model releases, they confused sisters of Battle and grey knights, and got the order slightly wrong with IG and eldar coming 5th and 6th (followed presumably by demons/tsons if they were at all accurate).

More likely it was just an educated guess with two codexes per month, given we knew something like 15 are currently in development.

SilverAlien wrote:

cerberus_ wrote:

 Marshal Loss wrote:
Looks like no major DG release in July/August. No Mortarion for Konor is a bizarre decision, in keeping with this painfully drawn-out DG hype.

Turns out the Plague Champion in the 'easy to build' box has a plasma gun on his back - pretty cool.

Source on release schedule?

White dwarf July talks about upcoming releases, and the only DG mentioned are new models of the existing units. The teaser for white dwarf august talks about astartes index with no mention whatsoever of DG. It isn't confirmed 100%, but assume this is all we get for the next couple months at least.

White Dwarf July also says nothing about the Codex release for Space Marines, yet we now know that it is coming.

They don't put all of the releases in WD. Given that Death Guard are supposed to play a big part in the "Fate of Konor" I would be surprised to not see them get anything big. There are supposedly specific events that will happen during the campaign though, which is where I would expect to see releases happen.

We'll see, I am unconvinced but who knows.

The hint for August is 'Index Astartes,' if the codex goes on preorder in the last week or so of July then you have the SM codex linking up with the articles in the August WD.

If they cared about having Mortarion and the DG fully released for Konor, they would have already ramped it up, as the 'building period' that they are promoting in their stores concludes at the end of July.

A Daemon Primarch is a big deal. When you want a model like that (or in this case the accompanying codex) released, you want to have your WD articles and the like released in unison. As a result, I'd expect to see Mortarion and crew available for preorder in the last week of August, earliest.

Happy to be wrong, but I doubt it.

 Marshal Loss wrote:
The hint for August is 'Index Astartes,' if the codex goes on preorder in the last week or so of July then you have the SM codex linking up with the articles in the August WD.

If they cared about having Mortarion and the DG fully released for Konor, they would have already ramped it up, as the 'building period' that they are promoting in their stores concludes at the end of July.

A Daemon Primarch is a big deal. When you want a model like that (or in this case the accompanying codex) released, you want to have your WD articles and the like released in unison. As a result, I'd expect to see Mortarion and crew available for preorder in the last week of August, earliest.

Happy to be wrong, but I doubt it.

I wonder if they will release DG models before their codex releases. Like how SM are just getting a captain/librarian. They just put the datasheets in the box. They could easily release the 5-10 man plague marine kit for the campaign because the datasheet is already out. What they might hold for the codex is the vehicle, mortarion, and any brand new concepts we have not seen yet. I'm probably just wishing too hard here...but oh well...late august/september it is I guess.

 Thargrim wrote:

 Marshal Loss wrote:
The hint for August is 'Index Astartes,' if the codex goes on preorder in the last week or so of July then you have the SM codex linking up with the articles in the August WD.

If they cared about having Mortarion and the DG fully released for Konor, they would have already ramped it up, as the 'building period' that they are promoting in their stores concludes at the end of July.

A Daemon Primarch is a big deal. When you want a model like that (or in this case the accompanying codex) released, you want to have your WD articles and the like released in unison. As a result, I'd expect to see Mortarion and crew available for preorder in the last week of August, earliest.

Happy to be wrong, but I doubt it.

I wonder if they will release DG models before their codex releases. Like how SM are just getting a captain/librarian. They just put the datasheets in the box. They could easily release the 5-10 man plague marine kit for the campaign because the datasheet is already out. What they might hold for the codex is the vehicle, mortarion, and any brand new concepts we have not seen yet. I'm probably just wishing too hard here...but oh well...late august/september it is I guess.

Well under the article where they announced the Primaris Reivers and the new snap-fit DG with the Blight Launcher, they did say we'd be getting more stuff in July, but I'm pretty sure, from how they worded it, that it'll be more snap-fit stuff. It may just be more Plague Marines but who knows

Also, it is entirely possable that they could release the models with the data sheets in the boxes soon, and follow with a codex later.

So it appears at least one vehicle of ours may have been leaked "plagueburst crawler". Possibly artillery of same sort?

Sounds cool. Where's the leak?

 Marshal Loss wrote:
Sounds cool. Where's the leak?

Newest white dwarf (or preview of next months im not certain) Battle report death guard va primaris. Pictures are in news and rumors, codex discussion.

Oo, thanks for that. Exciting stuff!

SilverAlien wrote:
So it appears at least one vehicle of ours may have been leaked "plagueburst crawler". Possibly artillery of same sort?

Yeah it has some big mortar on its back, definitely. Looks interesting, though I'd have to see a better image to guess what it actually looks like. Looks very old school from here though, which is pretty ace. It's definitely legit though, as it's totally from that old, dark green artwork shown a while ago with the two shovelled vehicles

The top left thingy -
Pic reposted from the news and rumors

A mortor tank seems very DGey - hopefully it'll have a 2nd kit as well

After mentioning that Death Guard, "march into battle in organised ranks, covered by artillery fire," several times in both the index and mini Death Guard book, I did wander if we were going to get some kind of artillery

I am liking that tank, hopefully we get a few more units though, a single tank isn't going to plug the holes in the DG codex.