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Pretty confident this is a longer quote split into parts now.

Which probably means it’s not!

This new one sounds very Sisters of Battle.

 Aenar wrote:
New teaser image:

Remember the BT ships in the first PA trailer and the BT in the background of the last one? Maybe they are finally gonna get some attention again.

JSG wrote:
Remember the BT ships in the first PA trailer and the BT in the background of the last one? Maybe they are finally gonna get some attention again.

Yeah, it all sounds more and more Black Templar-ish to me. There are not many chapters who believe in the God-Emperor as a divinity.

Seems that every teaser image is very faith in the emp related, which kinda steers away a bit from marines...

Marines inflict suffering, armour is their armour not faith.

I'm wondering if there is gonna be some crazy imperial extreme religious divide like ynnari. If you think about it all this citrix maledictum stuff kicked off more or less when Bob showed back up again with all his reason and logic, must be an undercurrent of zealots about to kick off in the imperium... would be cool.

edit: Now i flesh it out more in my head its too grim dark for they way GW is taking the 40k fluff.

Could be a red herring. Faith is also a big part of some chaos forces

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Pretty confident this is a longer quote split into parts now.

Which probably means it’s not!

Don't they all sort of link to the forces in Pariah? Inquisition, Sisters and Necrons? Maybe Pariah is the precursor to the new starter [sisters vs Necrons?] and the next phase of 40k ..Plus wasn't the conclusion of Blackstone Fortress supposed to have implications for 40k?

either this is a troll action trying to tie us to the more religious imperium side, or we indeed get to see inquisition.

Or chaos fodder for another.

I'd say inquisition

Im suspicious of the teaser quote that said they are "raised to believe that the God-Emperor watches over us all".
Sounds bitter, and a true believer would probably not see it as something they are just raised to believe.

Might be the friday quote end it with something like "but we now know it is all lies".
However, I admit Im just trying desperatly to cling to the hope of Traitor Guard

I always liked the "Tyranids are running from something worse" theory. I like it even more because they've never ever explained it, whether they be running or just the vanguards or a truly enormous galaxy-spanning (or bigger) fleet, or whatever. The origins of the 'Nids should forever be secret. What I'm trying to say is that I hope Cawl didn't create them by accident.

Selfcontrol wrote:
The Horus Heresy novel "Pharos" explicitly states at the end of the book that Tyranids were attracted to the Milky Way when loyalists destroyed an ancient xeno-artifact to prevent the Night Lords from conquering it.

And is easily one of the dumbest "revelations" from the HH novels. BL couldn't have picked a better way to shrink the universe further.

Right up there with the tragedy of Fulgrim being all "Psyke! I'm totally evil and I conquered the daemon which stole my body and locked me inside his former daemon sword. I don't feel bad about lopping of Ferrus' head at all! Let's go kill the Emperor!".

They really needed a plan for those books... one that didn't involve dozens and dozens and dozens of titles.

To me it just reads as Black Templars being in the new starter box, along with Not!EndlessSpells with a divine theme, particularly when manifestations that could coincidentally work as models were described in Faith & Fury's fluff.

 Corrode wrote:

 p5freak wrote:
Yeah, GW is great at screwing up rules of new big models, see ghaz. I second that the silent king, if he gets a new model, will be a big disappointment. Just like szeras, judging from what has been shown.

Show your work. Why do you think Szeras is going to be disappointing?

He's a Xenos model.

 silverstu wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Pretty confident this is a longer quote split into parts now.

Which probably means it’s not!

Don't they all sort of link to the forces in Pariah? Inquisition, Sisters and Necrons? Maybe Pariah is the precursor to the new starter [sisters vs Necrons?] and the next phase of 40k ..Plus wasn't the conclusion of Blackstone Fortress supposed to have implications for 40k?

Could be something to this.
Sisters - Even in the face of death we shall not submit. Suffering is our prayer. Faith is our armour
Black Templars - We must not falter, We are his sword, We are his wrath
INQ - We are raised to believe the god-emperor watches over us, so we are charged to cleanse the mutant, the heretic, the alien (from the last reveal we know there is a new INQ model)
Necrons - In the darkness between the starts the weak and the faithless find no deliverance... - least one that makes sense

Sisters
Marines
Inquisition
Necrons

Sounds like Psychic Awakening : Pariah

Refight/return to Sanctuary 101 to tie the Sisters into the new Necrons might be nice.

New boxed set/starter set?

John D Law wrote:
Could you imagine somthing so terrifying that the Tyranids and Necrons fear it?! If they ever imply in the fluff that “somthing” out there could cause the Tyranids to feel cornered enough in this galaxy to ally with the other races against it I may just lose it! In a good way or bad I’m still not sure! It too over the top to contemplate until more if ever is revealed. Ok conspiracy rant done

My Little Pony faction confirmed.

Tho, at this point, I might prefer it to plus sized Black Templars.

So did the theory for what is getting shown Saturday go from new necrons to new black templars?

I guess if its black templars I can put all my necrons back in their box and not have to think about them again lol.

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Well starter sets always have marines so if this is related to starter sets it lends to possibility of black templars being the marines of 9th ed box set(like in 3rd ed). They are one of the few chapters who would treat emperor as god.

Of course it could be non-starter set related quote as well.

got it!

Primaris High Marshal Helbrecht

I'm beginning to think this may be another battlebox rather than a starter set. Depending on the size of the Silent King model (assuming there is one) it could easily be something similar to Prophecy of the Wolf. Possibly vs. Primaris Black Templars.

A battlebox wouldn't have gotten the hype this has been set up with.


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 BrotherGecko wrote:
So did the theory for what is getting shown Saturday go from new necrons to new black templars?

I guess if its black templars I can put all my necrons back in their box and not have to think about them again lol.

We know Necrons are getting something shown on Saturday. The Silent King preview video literally says to come back on May 23rd for the reveal.

Black Templars is just swinging off of the blurb bits that GW is posting on their Facebooks.

tneva82 wrote:
Well starter sets always have marines so if this is related to starter sets it lends to possibility of black templars being the marines of 9th ed box set(like in 3rd ed). They are one of the few chapters who would treat emperor as god.

Of course it could be non-starter set related quote as well.

Just wanna note how obnoxious it is to me that a bunch of coolboy edgy atheists have spontaneously created a situation where they don't want their marines to be religious because religion bad, so like 95% of space marines are monastic orders of explicitly brainwashed super-soldiers who live in a technobarbaric theocracy... but they don't believe the emperor is a GOD you guize theyre totes cool science based atheist skeptics!

.....

....ignore the fact that gods are REAL in this universe and also that sisters of battle exist, a faction that worships the emperor as a god and the emperor gives their units holy protection occasionally and summons reincarnated winged saints with flaming swords to answer their prayers in battle.

So because of these cool atheist bros marines are just stupid and believing things in spite of evidence, except they're doing it in the opposite way that religious extremists in our world do. They're skeptical extremists!

What? Space Marines have never treated the emperor as a God... I mean... thats what all the fuss with Word Bearers in the horus heresy was about. Space Marine chapters are all about their own cultures, thats what their Chaplains are for.

BrianDavion wrote:

Slayer-Fan123 wrote:

 Sasori wrote:

 Valkyrie wrote:

 Sasori wrote:

 Valkyrie wrote:
I'm struggling to understand where everyone got the idea that the Silent King will be released. I've seen the vid and I'm getting the vibes of something big, but my gut feeling is that it'll just be the proper announcement and overview of the new Szeras model, perhaps another infantry kit, possible even Pariahs, but not the Silent King.

Really? It's a video about the Silent King and him returning and you are wondering where people get the idea that he will be released?

More in that, in my opinion, the Silent King is never explicitly mentioned. They use the term "king", but that could refer to any of the Necron dynasties, not necessarily the Silent King. That, and with the fact that this seems so completely out of the blue, I'm sceptical that they'd drop something like this so suddenly.

The rulers of Dynasties are called Phaerons, not Kings. So no, it would not really refer to any dynasty. Not to mention, there is no individual dynasty that gave the people immortality, the Silent King did.

The opening clip even has him sitting with his two advisors to form the Triarch.

You don't even need to have a deep understand of Necron lore to know this clip is clearly about the Silent King. At this point I have to think you are being intentionally obtuse about it.

Well hold on now. King > Lion King > Lionel Johnson. Also all the hieroglyphs were carved on rock. Lionel Johnson is on the Dark Angel's ship, which is the ROCK.
It was really about Lionel Johnson returning just confirmed it.

I mean... I've seen people use more twisted l;ogic.

Surely you remember the people here not accepting what's in front of them and thinking the rumor was Lionel returning, though I forget what the particular result was.

 Corrode wrote:

 p5freak wrote:
Yeah, GW is great at screwing up rules of new big models, see ghaz. I second that the silent king, if he gets a new model, will be a big disappointment. Just like szeras, judging from what has been shown.

Show your work. Why do you think Szeras is going to be disappointing?

I said judging from the preview, they have shown szeras empyric overcharger ability, which will most certainly never go off. Maybe in 1/100 games. But thats just one ability, maybe i will be pleasantly surprised by his other rules, or stats. Also, because of xenos, especially necrons, their HQ choices are mostly overpriced taxes, with little use.

So the blurbs so far do indeed feel like they are the contents of Pariah, which is the closing act of PA. This could possibly mean that the blurb tomorrow gives a clue for what is the next chapter in 40K, which would be revealed on Saturday. It's a possibility that the end of PA is the big set-up for this next chapter. There may be a battle box for Pariah with what has been mentioned, but I doubt that is the big reveal. I assume that will mostly be for the direction of 40K for next 2-3 years. New edition? Possibly, new campaign series? Also possible. Obviously the Silent King returning is a big deal, but how much that will influence the next saga I'm not sure.
We have seen that blurry image of marine bikes/speeders, and the only way you'd see both Ultras and BAs in one place would be a rulebook or campaign book, otherwise it would be just one or the other.
I think a new edition or reboot is likely soon just because of the sheer bloat of 8th currently. Some consolidation is necessary.

the_scotsman wrote:

Just wanna note how obnoxious it is to me that a bunch of coolboy edgy atheists have spontaneously created a situation where they don't want their marines to be religious because religion bad, so like 95% of space marines are monastic orders of explicitly brainwashed super-soldiers who live in a technobarbaric theocracy... but they don't believe the emperor is a GOD you guize theyre totes cool science based atheist skeptics!

.....

....ignore the fact that gods are REAL in this universe and also that sisters of battle exist, a faction that worships the emperor as a god and the emperor gives their units holy protection occasionally and summons reincarnated winged saints with flaming swords to answer their prayers in battle.

So because of these cool atheist bros marines are just stupid and believing things in spite of evidence, except they're doing it in the opposite way that religious extremists in our world do. They're skeptical extremists!

Shut up and watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq-6aj9sNvo

 lord_blackfang wrote:

the_scotsman wrote:

Just wanna note how obnoxious it is to me that a bunch of coolboy edgy atheists have spontaneously created a situation where they don't want their marines to be religious because religion bad, so like 95% of space marines are monastic orders of explicitly brainwashed super-soldiers who live in a technobarbaric theocracy... but they don't believe the emperor is a GOD you guize theyre totes cool science based atheist skeptics!

.....

....ignore the fact that gods are REAL in this universe and also that sisters of battle exist, a faction that worships the emperor as a god and the emperor gives their units holy protection occasionally and summons reincarnated winged saints with flaming swords to answer their prayers in battle.

So because of these cool atheist bros marines are just stupid and believing things in spite of evidence, except they're doing it in the opposite way that religious extremists in our world do. They're skeptical extremists!

Shut up and watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq-6aj9sNvo

Cringe. Not canon from the parody.

well, this is interesting timing

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/05/21/the-imperiums-endgw-homepage-post-4/

and all but the last one has already been put in motion......so a new civil war is the next Chapter?

After the newest article from the Community let me repeat myself:

 dadamowsky wrote:
Imperor is gonna ded.