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tneva82 wrote:

BrianDavion wrote:
Tau will likely get some relics, some stratigiums a list of names etc. the useal supplement level support everyone has been getting.

Yep. Every non-marine. Marines get more because marines.

Marines got more because they'd already gotten supplement level support so they needed to ensure marine players got SOMETHING oput of F&F. this is also why chaos got deamon weapon rules, so that black legion and renegade players would buy it.

So the community page has a blurb from the next months white dwarf and it mentions the return of the silent king to 40k and it dawned on me then how similar his actual name, Szarekh, is to Illuminor Szeras and I am starting to think that large model that comes on an oval base with stalker legs will be him. Sort of like the Necron version of a primarch.

It gets me a bit more excited for a new large character model for my crons, since it seemed strange that it would just be a redesign of a named cryptek originally. If the Silent King returns that would make for some epic narrative involving none eldar xenos for once.

 Red Corsair wrote:
So the community page has a blurb from the next months white dwarf and it mentions the return of the silent king to 40k and it dawned on me then how similar his actual name, Szarekh, is to Illuminor Szeras and I am starting to think that large model that comes on an oval base with stalker legs will be him. Sort of like the Necron version of a primarch.

It gets me a bit more excited for a new large character model for my crons, since it seemed strange that it would just be a redesign of a named cryptek originally. If the Silent King returns that would make for some epic narrative involving none eldar xenos for once.

Large model with Stalker Legs? Was this a Rumour Image?

If Orks get shafted in their book for another fething Space Marine model, I am going to (gently) flip a table.

Someone pointed out over in the Tau thread that the Genestealers looked a bit different. We might be seeing the Purestrain kit finally!

The Shadowsun image has a notable protrusion that none of the current images I can find have:


The current kit has those 'kneeplates' as modeled directly onto the exoskeleton:

Slayer-Fan123 wrote:

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

MiguelFelstone wrote:
Grey Knights aren't Space Marines, they don't share a gene-seed with any chapter.

They share geneseed with the Exorcist chapter. Checkmate, atheist!

No they don't...

“They were formed as a successor chapter of the Grey Knights at the end of M35, or early M36, in the Thirteenth Founding (The Dark Founding).”
How many successor chapters don't share geneseed with their parent chapter???

 Kanluwen wrote:
Someone pointed out over in the Tau thread that the Genestealers looked a bit different. We might be seeing the Purestrain kit finally!

The Shadowsun image has a notable protrusion that none of the current images I can find have:

Spoiler:

The current kit has those 'kneeplates' as modeled directly onto the exoskeleton:

Spoiler:

Tau versus GSC is kinda cool, throw in AdMech and we are set for party.

Also, Purestrains are in need of some love so new kit doesn't harm.

Sotahullu wrote:

Tau versus GSC is kinda cool, throw in adMech and we are set for party.

Also, Purestrains are in need of some love so new kit doesn't harm.

I'm pretty sure ad mech will be throwing down with Necrons, Then again I never saw the DA vs thousand sons thing coming so I could be completely wrong.

If it is Tau vs GSC I hope that this turns out to be some massive screw up by the ethereals that created a situation they needed shadowsun to bail them out of. Like they were experimenting with using GSC to make psychic Tau, things went sideways, and now they have a strain of GSC that is a threat to the empire as a whole. They send in shadowsun to clean things up and she continues her journey of disillusionment with the leadership of the tau.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Someone pointed out over in the Tau thread that the Genestealers looked a bit different. We might be seeing the Purestrain kit finally!

The Shadowsun image has a notable protrusion that none of the current images I can find have:

Spoiler:

The current kit has those 'kneeplates' as modeled directly onto the exoskeleton:

Spoiler:

Could just be a genestealer from the Deathwatch Overkill box (although i'd like a new 'full' box of them with a bit of pose variety so here's hoping)

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

Slayer-Fan123 wrote:

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

MiguelFelstone wrote:
Grey Knights aren't Space Marines, they don't share a gene-seed with any chapter.

They share geneseed with the Exorcist chapter. Checkmate, atheist!

No they don't...

“They were formed as a successor chapter of the Grey Knights at the end of M35, or early M36, in the Thirteenth Founding (The Dark Founding).”
How many successor chapters don't share geneseed with their parent chapter???

The only source for that is a throw away line in some recent short story.

I think the difference in genestealer is just down to the absurdist edge highlighting used.

It is. It's not a new kit.

Voss wrote:
I think the difference in genestealer is just down to the absurdist edge highlighting used.

It is. Its one of the of style stealers we see in the GSC codex.

 Carnikang wrote:

Voss wrote:
I think the difference in genestealer is just down to the absurdist edge highlighting used.

It is. Its one of the of style stealers we see in the GSC codex.

right, the Genestealers in the studio GSC army are all the DW overkill models.

BrianDavion wrote:

 Carnikang wrote:

Voss wrote:
I think the difference in genestealer is just down to the absurdist edge highlighting used.

It is. Its one of the of style stealers we see in the GSC codex.

right, the Genestealers in the studio GSC army are all the DW overkill models.

Same o ainting style, not necessarily that one model repeated. The Codex shows both the standard and DW:OK models alongside each other in the same exaggerated-highlights scheme.

BrianDavion wrote:

 Carnikang wrote:

Voss wrote:
I think the difference in genestealer is just down to the absurdist edge highlighting used.

It is. Its one of the of style stealers we see in the GSC codex.

right, the Genestealers in the studio GSC army are all the DW overkill models.

No, many are on 25 mm bAses, and have the regular kits back ridges.

The Overkil stealers are in the codex, but you can tell theyre different from the rest.

Slayer-Fan123 wrote:
The only source for that is a throw away line in some recent short story.

Ok still official canon!

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

Slayer-Fan123 wrote:
The only source for that is a throw away line in some recent short story.

Ok still official canon!

And what's the specific line anyway?

What's that Tau model doing in my Deathwatch book?

Slayer-Fan123 wrote:

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

Slayer-Fan123 wrote:
The only source for that is a throw away line in some recent short story.

Ok still official canon!

And what's the specific line anyway?

"Even the mighty Grey Knights, from whose seed Rauth's Chapter had been born, could hardly have been more suited to the task."
For context, Rauth is a member of the Exorcists assigned to Deathwatch Kill Team Talon.

Headhunted, pg 279 Hero's of the Space Marines

 MajorWesJanson wrote:

Slayer-Fan123 wrote:

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

Slayer-Fan123 wrote:
The only source for that is a throw away line in some recent short story.

Ok still official canon!

And what's the specific line anyway?

"Even the mighty Grey Knights, from whose seed Rauth's Chapter had been born, could hardly have been more suited to the task."
For context, Rauth is a member of the Exorcists assigned to Deathwatch Kill Team Talon.

Headhunted, pg 279 Hero's of the Space Marines

Such a bad throwaway line. For all intents and purposes anyone citing The Exorcists as a Grey Knights successor were just spouting fanon from 1d4chan.

Wow xtrathicc Shadowsun looks great. That suit looks like someone is actually wearing it, as opposed to an action figure with a head stuck on.

 Red Corsair wrote:
So the community page has a blurb from the next months white dwarf and it mentions the return of the silent king to 40k and it dawned on me then how similar his actual name, Szarekh, is to Illuminor Szeras and I am starting to think that large model that comes on an oval base with stalker legs will be him. Sort of like the Necron version of a primarch.

It gets me a bit more excited for a new large character model for my crons, since it seemed strange that it would just be a redesign of a named cryptek originally. If the Silent King returns that would make for some epic narrative involving none eldar xenos for once.

Linking Szeras and Szarekh just because their names start with Sz seems... well, pretty thin. And honestly those two are practically opposites: Szeras was the architect of biotransference and continues to look to ways to augment the necron form because, as the Iron Hands say, the Flesh is Weak. Meanwhile Szarekh completely regrets the biotransference fate and would like to reverse it if he could. I doubt the two would ever work together. Besides, Szarekh has people for that. The Praetorians have been fulfilling his wishes for a while.

Welp, since we already knew Sisters of Battle and GSC would be in the same book this bums me out if we have to buy a big box set to get Shadowsun. At least I can probably find someone to offload Sisters on but GSC will be harder, I don't know anyone who doesn't dislike their models.

Crossing my fingers it's Tau vs. Sisters box set.

What time does the reveal seminar start today, anyone know?

Guys.
Did you notice that Shadowsun dont have any weapon?
Edit: i found weapons with some addiotions

Slayer-Fan123 wrote:

 MajorWesJanson wrote:

Slayer-Fan123 wrote:

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

Slayer-Fan123 wrote:
The only source for that is a throw away line in some recent short story.

Ok still official canon!

And what's the specific line anyway?

"Even the mighty Grey Knights, from whose seed Rauth's Chapter had been born, could hardly have been more suited to the task."
For context, Rauth is a member of the Exorcists assigned to Deathwatch Kill Team Talon.

Headhunted, pg 279 Hero's of the Space Marines

Such a bad throwaway line. For all intents and purposes anyone citing The Exorcists as a Grey Knights successor were just spouting fanon from 1d4chan.

It's still official, and there is nothing to contradict it anywhere.

In context, the kill team is going after an Ork psyker, so the Exorcist's abilities make them more useful than the anti-daemonic specialist Grey Knights,

LoftyS wrote:
Welp, since we already knew Sisters of Battle and GSC would be in the same book this bums me out if we have to buy a big box set to get Shadowsun. At least I can probably find someone to offload Sisters on but GSC will be harder, I don't know anyone who doesn't dislike their models.

Crossing my fingers it's Tau vs. Sisters box set.

Odds are very good that the only release is Shadowsun by herself.
So you probably won't be 'bummed out.'

I'm sad that the Tau book isn't vs Necrons.

They could'a called it "The Dull & The Shiny".

Voss wrote:

LoftyS wrote:
Welp, since we already knew Sisters of Battle and GSC would be in the same book this bums me out if we have to buy a big box set to get Shadowsun. At least I can probably find someone to offload Sisters on but GSC will be harder, I don't know anyone who doesn't dislike their models.

Crossing my fingers it's Tau vs. Sisters box set.

Odds are very good that the only release is Shadowsun by herself.
So you probably won't be 'bummed out.'

When exactly is the fact that sisters are with genestealers been said?