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kingheff wrote:

Spoiler:

 Shadenuat wrote:

 Imateria wrote:
I can't help but laugh at all the comments regarding Exarch armour eating it's occupants, Gav Thorpe himself retconned that out over a decade ago in his Path of the Eldar books, if not earlier. And a good thing too because it was a dumb bit of lore.

Drukhari scum were not given a word on awesome Eldar lore.

And Thorpe also had Avatar of Khaine infested with genestealer. Yeah great writer.

That avatar patriarch thing was a true abomination, just not in the way the writer intended.

But at least it fits with a long standing tradition of "Worfing" the Avatar.
Need to show how badass a Space Marine is? Have him punch an Avatar.
Need to show how dire the situation is on a Craftworld overrun by Nids and left to the ravages of Slaanesh Daemons? Have a Keeper of Secrets possess an Avatar.
Need to show players how ridiculous the existing model is? FW creates an awesome sculpt showing what an Avatar should look like

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I'm surprised they didn't bring out a new Avatar ages ago, when GW was in their churn out a ton of huge models phase.

 Galef wrote:
I love how people are freaking out about Necrons/Tau/Black Templars getting rules with Psychic Awakening. There is hardly any confirmation that these rules will be Psychic powers for them. More likely, they will be getting ANTI-PSYKER rules.
And you know if GW didn't confirm those factions as getting new rules, people would be complaining about that too.

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I donlt think the Sisters of Silence logo is there either and they are the prime defence against the Psyker ....

 Mr Morden wrote:

 Galef wrote:
I love how people are freaking out about Necrons/Tau/Black Templars getting rules with Psychic Awakening. There is hardly any confirmation that these rules will be Psychic powers for them. More likely, they will be getting ANTI-PSYKER rules.
And you know if GW didn't confirm those factions as getting new rules, people would be complaining about that too.

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I donlt think the Sisters of Silence logo is there either and they are the prime defence against the Psyker ....

I didn't see Custodes there either, unless they aren't using the right logo.
Maybe they are only displaying "major" factions?

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

 Mr Morden wrote:

 Galef wrote:
I love how people are freaking out about Necrons/Tau/Black Templars getting rules with Psychic Awakening. There is hardly any confirmation that these rules will be Psychic powers for them. More likely, they will be getting ANTI-PSYKER rules.
And you know if GW didn't confirm those factions as getting new rules, people would be complaining about that too.

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I donlt think the Sisters of Silence logo is there either and they are the prime defence against the Psyker ....

I didn't see Custodes there either, unless they aren't using the right logo.
Maybe they are only displaying "major" factions?

Is the eagle with the wings up (2nd in on the 2nd row) not the Custodes? Or possibly Talons of the Emperor (covering SoS too).

 ImAGeek wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

 Mr Morden wrote:

 Galef wrote:
I love how people are freaking out about Necrons/Tau/Black Templars getting rules with Psychic Awakening. There is hardly any confirmation that these rules will be Psychic powers for them. More likely, they will be getting ANTI-PSYKER rules.
And you know if GW didn't confirm those factions as getting new rules, people would be complaining about that too.

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I donlt think the Sisters of Silence logo is there either and they are the prime defence against the Psyker ....

I didn't see Custodes there either, unless they aren't using the right logo.
Maybe they are only displaying "major" factions?

Is the eagle with the wings up (2nd in on the 2nd row) not the Custodes? Or possibly Talons of the Emperor (covering SoS too).

That's what I thought at first, but apparently the Custodes symbol is supposed to be this :



Maybe it does mean Talons of the Emperor.

That image is from the Dark Heresy rulebook which was published in 2008.

 Geifer wrote:

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

Spoiler:

Does this mean the Black Templars won't get a primaris librarian?

All the new witchcraft goes into Tau and Necrons. Don't be greedy now.

Still bitter the Arbites Psi Judges don't seem to be getting new rules

And in all seriousness... Inquisition?

Hello?

 Geifer wrote:

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

Spoiler:

Does this mean the Black Templars won't get a primaris librarian?

All the new witchcraft goes into Tau and Necrons. Don't be greedy now.

Don't forget my poor World Eaters.

World Eaters can now deny psychic power cast within 1" of them by ripping off the psyker's arm and beating them to death with it.

World Eaters have a strategem for denying Witches without any witches of their own, and have the Brass Collar of Borghaster, which has to be one of the better anti-psycker doodads, just from its description alone (although the increased odds of Perils is cool too).

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

 Geifer wrote:

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

Spoiler:

Does this mean the Black Templars won't get a primaris librarian?

All the new witchcraft goes into Tau and Necrons. Don't be greedy now.

Still bitter the Arbites Psi Judges don't seem to be getting new rules

And in all seriousness... Inquisition?

Hello?

Inquisition, you say? Nah, never heard of them.

It's a real shame GW doesn't give Arbites a second look. We have Genestealer Cults now and there been an upsurge in Traitor Guard and Cultists in plastic lately. You'd think Arbites would be a good match for an opposing force.

Then again, we have our third Rogue Trader now and they're not getting anything akin to a real army list.

Sometimes I wonder if anybody at GW even sees these opportunities...

 Jidmah wrote:
World Eaters can now deny psychic power cast within 1" of them by ripping off the psyker's arm and beating them to death with it.

In spite of a shocking lack of fiery death in your proposition, I approve of this way of treating witches.

The Eagle with its wings up is the new emblem for the Custodes, has been since their release in model form. My guess is their add on for the Psychic Awakening campaigns will be them getting the SoS rolled in, and becoming the Talons.

So uh, when's the next update? Because for a huge event GW is keeping pretty quiet about it.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
So uh, when's the next update? Because for a huge event GW is keeping pretty quiet about it.

Probably closer to its pre-order date. Also remember that 'Psychic Awakening' is a series of books, of which 'Phoenix Rising' is just the first.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
So uh, when's the next update? Because for a huge event GW is keeping pretty quiet about it.

"we’ll have another update next Monday"

 Albino Squirrel wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
So uh, when's the next update? Because for a huge event GW is keeping pretty quiet about it.

"we’ll have another update next Monday"

Huh, so they do tell you.
A bit long of a wait, but it'll probably pick up nearing release date.

 Overread wrote:

Not Online!!! wrote:
Well about damn time the knife ears get an updated range.

They are basically the last ones in 40K at present. Which is not to say that there isn't room to still update/remove finecast and to add new models or update old plastics in other ranges; but that Craftworlders are very much the last. I hope that they get a good slew of releases to update their aspect warrior lines and add a few more neat things to the range. Give them a proper series of updates and new sculpts to really get them back on track.

Maybee we get a bunch of mortal heretics?
Pls.
Probably not.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
So uh, when's the next update? Because for a huge event GW is keeping pretty quiet about it.

they can't give us tooo much before it releases or the hypes died down. this is proably still a month out

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

 Albino Squirrel wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
So uh, when's the next update? Because for a huge event GW is keeping pretty quiet about it.

"we’ll have another update next Monday"

Huh, so they do tell you.
A bit long of a wait, but it'll probably pick up nearing release date.

Honestly, I'm expecting them to announce this Sunday that it will be up for pre-order on the 21st. October and November look to be busy months with two essentially new armies being released (the Ossiarch Bonereapers in October and the Adepta Sororitas in November). It's possible they could fit them in somewhere with those releases or wait until December, but I feel a release on September 28th is most likely.

Beastgrave is the 21st.

We don't know exactly what is coming for Sisters of Battle(it might just be the codex and a pretty hefty stock of the army box) in November, but we're getting close to running out of time for what we know they want to get out this year.

We have Mawtribes that got teased at the AoS Open Day, Free Cities, Orruks, and Bonereapers--that's pretty packed for AoS.
We have Beastgrave on the 21st(the preorder date for the novel has been known since it went up on the "Coming Soon" section), if the novel's date is anything to go by. We don't know if it comes with any other warbands right off the bat but it might.

We know Sisters for 40k, the supplements for Marines, and Phoenix Rising...but Phoenix Rising(and Psychic Awakening at large) might actually be a way to lighten the load for revamped codices next year or in 2021.

GW still has specialist game stuff such as Beastgrave, Lizardman Blood Bowl team and AT Knights pending. There's a Beastgrave novel confirmed for the 21st, so this Sunday's preorder could well be all that stuff.

I reckon Psychic Awakening is a bit further out, and we'll see a few weeks of previews before any release.

Beastgrave isn't considered a "Specialist Game". Just so we're clear.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Beastgrave is the 21st.

I could see Beastgrave, Phoenix Rising and the new Banshee kit all being released the same weekend. We'll see in four days.

 Ghaz wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
Beastgrave is the 21st.

I could see Beastgrave, Phoenix Rising and the new Banshee kit all being released the same weekend. We'll see in four days.

I think if anything's coming with Beastgrave, it's likely to be the Free Cities and Orruk Wartribes books--we know they aren't getting scenery, Endless Spells, or models with them.

 Imateria wrote:

 Shadenuat wrote:
Obviously. I doubt it's Thorpe who is furiously typing the news on GW website.

It would be nice if those finally would be some female faces goddamit.

I can't help but laugh at all the comments regarding Exarch armour eating it's occupants, Gav Thorpe himself retconned that out over a decade ago in his Path of the Eldar books, if not earlier. And a good thing too because it was a dumb bit of lore.

I find it rather funny that people don't remember Yvraine reconstituting the bodies of a number of Thousand Sons during Gathering Storm. Doesn't take a long stretch to have the Ynnari reforming the bodies of Exarchs that were subsumed into their armor, assuming this still a thing.

Honestly, the sheer number of ongoing projects GW tries to support is frustrating. The air game should have been left for Xmas, did we really need another specialist game right now? New Kill Team, new Blackstone Fortress expansion, new Beastgrave expansion, Warcry expansion (ha, haven't even finished building my warband yet). Then we have new AOS faction coming, new Sisters....oh and let's try to finish up these marines, plus the 2 new supplements. But wait, how about this new campaign....
It's insane.

Where does this thing about Exarch's being empty suits come from? My understanding was that even with the Phoenix lords there is a physical Eldar inside the suit. It was the wearers personality that was overwritten and absorbed by the suits spirit stones not there body.

Ah yes "let's only throw in more stuff at marines" is obviously so much better...

GoatboyBeta wrote:
Where does this thing about Exarch's being empty suits come from? My understanding was that even with the Phoenix lords there is a physical Eldar inside the suit. It was the wearers personality that was overwritten and absorbed by the suits spirit stones not there body.

That's my memory as well.