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 Delvarus Centurion wrote:

usmcmidn wrote:
I heard that GW was going to create a new army... what ever happened to that?

Or did I just imagine that rumor?

The old ones coming back would be cool, but they'd have to be too OP considering the lore. I'd like to see a silicone based species or a species created in sulphuric acid or maybe even bring back the cabal as an elite type army all different species where you play them kind of like deathwatch.

Having just read Talon of Horus....

Were the Old Ones to come back, they would find the Webway they built to be a tangled, disheveled mess in need of repair. As much of their power drew from their ability to get anywhere they needed in the Universe at any time, it stands they would be significantly diminished from their former stature.

I would actually hate to see a new race introduced to the game. It feels like GW has their hands full trying to manage the ones they already have. We're watching units / armies being removed from the game entirely with 8th edition.

But if it had to happen, Old Ones would be a good place to start.

BrianDavion wrote:

 Formosa wrote:
They said once during the marketing for 8th that one loyalist would go traitor and one traitor go loyalist and a new army would be coming.

If that’s custodes, sisters or just a already existing army then it’s a big cop out, while what I think is a new army may be different to what they meant, it’s still a cop out if true.

yeah except "they" was the "totally unsubstantiated rumor mongers" in this case

Agreed.

Happy to be proven wrong, but I'm sure no one ever said there would be a faction swap.

Custodes most likely are the new army. They've never been an army in 40k before, and have proven extremely popular, so I really don't see it as a cop out.

 Delvarus Centurion wrote:

 Formosa wrote:
They said once during the marketing for 8th that one loyalist would go traitor and one traitor go loyalist and a new army would be coming.

If that’s custodes, sisters or just a already existing army then it’s a big cop out, while what I think is a new army may be different to what they meant, it’s still a cop out if true.

GW are the kings of cop outs

\is it a cop out if GW never said it though? cause they didn't

 techsoldaten wrote:

 Delvarus Centurion wrote:

usmcmidn wrote:
I heard that GW was going to create a new army... what ever happened to that?

Or did I just imagine that rumor?

The old ones coming back would be cool, but they'd have to be too OP considering the lore. I'd like to see a silicone based species or a species created in sulphuric acid or maybe even bring back the cabal as an elite type army all different species where you play them kind of like deathwatch.

Having just read Talon of Horus....

Were the Old Ones to come back, they would find the Webway they built to be a tangled, disheveled mess in need of repair. As much of their power drew from their ability to get anywhere they needed in the Universe at any time, it stands they would be significantly diminished from their former stature.

I would actually hate to see a new race introduced to the game. It feels like GW has their hands full trying to manage the ones they already have. We're watching units / armies being removed from the game entirely with 8th edition.

But if it had to happen, Old Ones would be a good place to start.

Yeah but they created the webway, they can make more connections and paths, where daemons haven't infested them or where Slaanesh's birth destroyed them, the Eldar still get by using the remains.


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BrianDavion wrote:

 Delvarus Centurion wrote:

 Formosa wrote:
They said once during the marketing for 8th that one loyalist would go traitor and one traitor go loyalist and a new army would be coming.

If that’s custodes, sisters or just a already existing army then it’s a big cop out, while what I think is a new army may be different to what they meant, it’s still a cop out if true.

GW are the kings of cop outs

\is it a cop out if GW never said it though? cause they didn't

Nah I'm just saying they always just cop out, like when they said that they were releasing plastic sisters and then they released 3 models.

A rumor which once again wasn't actually GW, but rather was some random rumor monger, who proab ly saw one of the sisters Germania and immediatly rushed to the internet screaming "PLASTIC SISTERS ARE COMING"

I think a giant humanoid xenos race would be cool. Kinda like the engineers in Prometheus

 Delvarus Centurion wrote:
I think a giant humanoid xenos race would be cool. Kinda like the engineers in Prometheus

There are several novels out there about beast orks.

If there's no such thing in the ork codex when it's finally released , a grot army . Complete with tanks, walkers, transports, koptas, snipers, specialists, ...

I think Adpetus Custodes was the new army. There's also Sisters of Battle coming in 2019 which may get renamed/reorganized as well.

I also think Sisters will have army. Maybe at the end not and it only is new Sisters Units in plastic, but knowing how GW likes Codex....there are good options to see the Sisters as new army.

Alex_85 wrote:
I also think Sisters will have army. Maybe at the end not and it only is new Sisters Units in plastic, but knowing how GW likes Codex....there are good options to see the Sisters as new army.

Games Workshop already confirmed they were updating Sisters. They mentioned they’re getting a Codex in 2019, and plastic kits.

Funny how in all these discussions about possible new armies that used to have rules in the game, nobody discusses Arbites.

Imperial soup faction? Check.

Used to have rules in a prior edition? Check.

At least one box coming for Necromunda purposes? Check.

Perfect army for a one infantry kit/one vehicle kit/one elite infantry (biker) kit/one clampack and throw it in a box set release.