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Give me back formations.

I would like Squats vs EC.

Hearthguard & Bikers for Squats(or those floating dudes from (AOS).

Fabulous Bile w karkophany and termies.

Fighting over Archaeotech on a world on outskirts of northern part of cicatrix maledictum.

Do another rewind to just before the 13th Crusade. Bring back Corsairs and the announcement of 9th that will be a redo of the system (again).

The Deer Hunter wrote:
Give me back formations.

Gross.

Formations were one of the worst parts of 7th.

 dan2026 wrote:
All three Eldar factions need some love.
They have all got feck all in the last few years.

Craftworlds are the worst. They badly need new models for Aspect Warriors and Phoenix Lords. The army is so out of date its silly.

Dark Eldar fair slightly better but badly need new models for at least Incubi, Grotesques and Mandrakes.

I'm puzzled as to why you think Craftwords are in a worse state when it's DE that have had their codex completely shredded. We've lost:
- Vect
- The Decapitator
- The Duke
- Baron Sathonyx
- Lady Malys
- Jetbike Archons.
- Skyboard Archons
- Jetbike Haemonculi.
- Skyboard Haemonculi
- Dracons
- Mini-Haemonculi
- Harlequins
- Bloodbrides (Technically still in the Index but there's basically 0 point to taking them over regular Wyches)

 Lance845 wrote:

The Deer Hunter wrote:
Give me back formations.

Gross.

Formations were one of the worst parts of 7th.

Way better than 8th though. I actually liked some of them and they made more sense than magic weapons.

 Lance845 wrote:

The Deer Hunter wrote:
Give me back formations.

Gross.

Formations were one of the worst parts of 7th.

I'm in two minds about Formations.

On the one hand, many of them were overpowered (though the issue was more with the difference between early-7th and late-7th Formations, the latter being orders of magnitude stronger than the former) and some would basically shoehorn you into particular combinations of units. e.g. if a Necron player wanted to use Wraiths, he'd have to take a Spyder and Scarab Swarm with them.

However, I think late-7th Formations were vastly more successful in encouraging armies to use a diverse selection of units and provided a more logical and organic army, compared with the mess of 8th edition detachments.

Codex: Black Templars. It's not going to ever happen, but...

 AlmightyWalrus wrote:
Codex: Black Templars. It's not going to ever happen, but...

The Emperor's Champion is so awesome he should have his own Codex full of rules...

"If met in battle by a Carnifex, the beast will immediately fail a moral check and run away, screaming."

"You may field the Champion so long as he has been painted by a Slayer Sword winner."

"If a squad of friendly units are within 12" of the Champion, they receive a D12 bonus to their morale checks and ask for his autograph and selfies."

"Should the impossible happen and the Champion is slain, he is just playing dead and will cast off his broken armour. Replace his model with Sly Marbo."

pm713 wrote:

 Lance845 wrote:

The Deer Hunter wrote:
Give me back formations.

Gross.

Formations were one of the worst parts of 7th.

Way better than 8th though. I actually liked some of them and they made more sense than magic weapons.

Disagree on every level.

Free bonus rules for prepackaged list building in ways that never were balanced. Terrible.

Ork big mek with kff and ork warboss in mega armour. Turn most of the dumb command points things backninto points upgrades like they used to be.

SamusDrake wrote:

 AlmightyWalrus wrote:
Codex: Black Templars. It's not going to ever happen, but...

The Emperor's Champion is so awesome he should have his own Codex full of rules...

"If met in battle by a Carnifex, the beast will immediately fail a moral check and run away, screaming."

"You may field the Champion so long as he has been painted by a Slayer Sword winner."

"If a squad of friendly units are within 12" of the Champion, they receive a D12 bonus to their morale checks and ask for his autograph and selfies."

"Should the impossible happen and the Champion is slain, he is just playing dead and will cast off his broken armour. Replace his model with Sly Marbo."

Please don't encourage them.

Given the latest Regimental Standard they would do it.

 vipoid wrote:

 dan2026 wrote:
All three Eldar factions need some love.
They have all got feck all in the last few years.

Craftworlds are the worst. They badly need new models for Aspect Warriors and Phoenix Lords. The army is so out of date its silly.

Dark Eldar fair slightly better but badly need new models for at least Incubi, Grotesques and Mandrakes.

I'm puzzled as to why you think Craftwords are in a worse state when it's DE that have had their codex completely shredded. We've lost:
- Vect
- The Decapitator
- The Duke
- Baron Sathonyx
- Lady Malys
- Jetbike Archons.
- Skyboard Archons
- Jetbike Haemonculi.
- Skyboard Haemonculi
- Dracons
- Mini-Haemonculi
- Harlequins
- Bloodbrides (Technically still in the Index but there's basically 0 point to taking them over regular Wyches)

DE definitely lost more unit entries to "No model, no rules" than CWE. But from a kit perspective, DE is way better off.

Compare the Kabalite plastic kit to the Guardian kit. The Kab kit has a ton of detail and lots of options. The Guardian kit can... give one guy some tool-looking thing and that's just about it.
Compare the Wych plastic kit to the Dire Avenger plastic kit - again, Wyches have tons of more options. Although the DA kit isn't nearly as bad as the Guardian kit.
Compare the Wrack plastic kit to either the Finecast Rangers or the finecast upgrade kit Storm Guardian sprue... what a joke.

Compare Scourges to the Finecast Swooping Hawks.

Most of the DE line is plastic, and most of the kits have a great variety of bits. Most of the CWE line is Finecast. What is in Plastic is often minimalistic.

CWE have it better for units that can be taken, but has worse kits.

 Lance845 wrote:

pm713 wrote:

 Lance845 wrote:

The Deer Hunter wrote:
Give me back formations.

Gross.

Formations were one of the worst parts of 7th.

Way better than 8th though. I actually liked some of them and they made more sense than magic weapons.

Disagree on every level.

Free bonus rules for prepackaged list building in ways that never were balanced. Terrible.

But actual army variety outside of tournament builds. I could sacrifice flexibility for an outflanking army for example. But now there's no reason to vary. For example my Eldar used to vary so I could try different builds and different formations but now I have absolutely no reason to do anything other than Alaitoc because -1 to hit is amazing. Also I miss initiative.

Bharring wrote:

DE definitely lost more unit entries to "No model, no rules" than CWE. But from a kit perspective, DE is way better off.

Compare the Kabalite plastic kit to the Guardian kit. The Kab kit has a ton of detail and lots of options. The Guardian kit can... give one guy some tool-looking thing and that's just about it.
Compare the Wych plastic kit to the Dire Avenger plastic kit - again, Wyches have tons of more options. Although the DA kit isn't nearly as bad as the Guardian kit.
Compare the Wrack plastic kit to either the Finecast Rangers or the finecast upgrade kit Storm Guardian sprue... what a joke.

Oh, I agree that the DE kits are more up to date. But my point is that this is only because every DE unit without a model was deleted altogether.

Bharring wrote:

CWE have it better for units that can be taken, but has worse kits.

That's fair. However, I still think priority should be given to the army that's had about half it's codex systematically removed.

An Eldar player who wants to field Asurmen but dislikes the model can opt to convert his own model and use that. A DE player who wants to use Vect gets to eat gak.

 NoiseMarine with Tinnitus wrote:

SamusDrake wrote:

 AlmightyWalrus wrote:
Codex: Black Templars. It's not going to ever happen, but...

The Emperor's Champion is so awesome he should have his own Codex full of rules...

"If met in battle by a Carnifex, the beast will immediately fail a moral check and run away, screaming."

"You may field the Champion so long as he has been painted by a Slayer Sword winner."

"If a squad of friendly units are within 12" of the Champion, they receive a D12 bonus to their morale checks and ask for his autograph and selfies."

"Should the impossible happen and the Champion is slain, he is just playing dead and will cast off his broken armour. Replace his model with Sly Marbo."

Please don't encourage them.

Given the latest Regimental Standard they would do it.

So glad GW has a sense of humour nowadays.

Martel732 wrote:
Remove at least one power armor army from the game.

That's kinda rude, the Sisters of Battle haven't had their plastic relaunch and you already want to remove them.

- A serious rebalancing so units are "relevant". Grey Knights have been the most suffering in this respect.
- Get off the pot and release the gosh-darn sisters already, those fans have suffered enough.
- Get to unit activation for goodness sakes and most of the very "legitimate" griping can be dealt with.
- Clean up cover a wee bit more.
- After all the "fixing" release the more stable codex books as version 2 / 3 with all the updates so we do not have to carry around all these updates.

Are we at the age of licensing limited printing of minis yet?
Can we have a 3D painter? Ah! the 3D ink-jet!

Plastic Aspect Warriors and Phoenix Lords.

A new LoW Avatar of Khaine with size and stats to match the new Greater Daemon daemon models.

Some proper melee Primaris marines with decent weapon options.

Leman Russ. For the Wolf Time!

More Xenos.

Tau v Nids boxed set with Godzilla overtones.

 inflatablefriend wrote:
More Xenos.

Tau v Nids boxed set with Godzilla overtones.

Godzilla VS Mecha godzilla?

I want WORLD EATERS! AND I WANT THEM TO BE GOOOD!

But seriously, like emporers children, our only-us stuff boils down to an elites unit that becomes troops, and a special character. There is so much potential for both, all the allies shenanigans that can be done with the new knights etc, and if both get a revamped range even just the size of TS I would be over the moon.

Oh what I would pay for a box of three multipart many optioned WE characters. The exalted sorcerer kit is just perfect.

Angron and Fulgrim too! What potential to flesh out the primarchs! We all know they're still kicking about, unlike many of the loyalist ones who would need a major plot development to emerge. The potential of how goddamn awesome they could be....

If they were to be made any good, too, I would be left with no money. The lack of any mention they get makes me upset really. I've already bought a full AoS khorne army as an excuse 'ill use them as allies.' and I'm really considering getting some of those knights too ooo they're pretty.

Like alot of people have said, a living ruleset would be cool.

But berserkers! Please GW! 1996 models !

So, for my Necrons, I want:
A Lieutenant-esque HQ option that helps alleviate some of the heft of our HQ tax.
A reasonable means to avoid folding to MWs and Psyker-heavy armies like a wet paper bag.

So, ultimately I want a Lord Pariah HQ option with Culexus-esque abilities as an aura buff.
AND/OR
A Specialist Detachment that turns Lychguard (who need the buff, good gods) into Pariahs with similar anti-psychic buffs. Brings back an old unit type but also fills niches instead of lumping us with more 1-trick melee infantry that can't get into combat.

 Phaeron Gukk wrote:
So, for my Necrons, I want:
A Lieutenant-esque HQ option that helps alleviate some of the heft of our HQ tax.

Isn't that a lord? That is our cheapest HQ option, and is basically a lieutenant.

Specialist Pariah detachment sounds fun. A Pariah Lord would be cool, but I'd rather have a Canoptek HQ, a canoptek elite and scarabs moved to troops.

 fraser1191 wrote:

 inflatablefriend wrote:
More Xenos.

Tau v Nids boxed set with Godzilla overtones.

Godzilla VS Mecha godzilla?

I swooned a bit...

Fulgrim, Angron, Dorn, Perturabo, Lorgar. In that order.

 vipoid wrote:
I want to see my favourite faction - Corsairs - actually get their rules back.

Seriously, it's beyond a joke at this point. If it was just working with Index rules that would be one thing but they've literally removed ~95% of Corsair units from the game altogether. And it's been like this for bloody years now.

Please!!!

Also, I want the dark eldar to get their named characters back.

 Argive wrote:

 fraser1191 wrote:

 inflatablefriend wrote:
More Xenos.

Tau v Nids boxed set with Godzilla overtones.

Godzilla VS Mecha godzilla?

I swooned a bit...

I thought Go Ji Ra was a good guy? So how are xenomorphs or space commies good?

Khan

Sisters with good rules.

More units in an expanded Harlequins Codex

Power armor that is actually tough and decent protection.

That's about it, really though I'm pretty happy with the state of 40k so if things keep on the way they have been for the last couple years I'll be good.

Leaving off the items that have already been announced.

- Emperor's Children Codex, new Noise Marine kit, new Lucius sculpt, new Sonic Dreadnought.

- World Eaters Codex, new Berzerker kit, new characters for the army.

- Cult Terminators for each of the above.

- Fulgrim, Angron sculpts.

- Renegade & Heretics Codex, new model kit (Blackstone Fortress models would be fine.)