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 oni wrote:
I'm guessing the two redacted covers are Dark Angels and Chaos Space Marines respectively.

Definitely DA since they've already told us that. Literally can't be chaos marines since they explicitly say Xenos.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

 oni wrote:
I'm guessing the two redacted covers are Dark Angels and Chaos Space Marines respectively.

Pretty sure that's the image they used to represent all xenos at one point. So its going to be a xenos book.
Hopefully Eldar, Dark Eldar or Orks. I think they still have a fair bit of their range still in finecast?

I see it now. I thought it looked familiar.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/06/04/the-art-of-new40k/

We all knew that Dark Angels and a Xenos book are scheduled for January so they somehow managed to make an announcement out of telling us less than what we already know.

Well, hopefully it's obvious but - given the standard approach of putting an archetypal army member front and centre of the artwork - there's no way those are the actual Codex covers. If they used those, the hint would be too blatant.

And still nothing on the release date for the Imperial Armour Compendium.

Looks like Dark Angels and Tyranids to me.

The xenos book is using art from the miscellaneous xenos races art in the rule book, that's not its cover. The wording of "xenos race rise up to put those Space Marines in their place" says stealer cults to me.

The images say practically nothing except it's one Imperial and one Xenos race. They are NOT the actual covers. We know that Dark Angels is the Imperial one (unless they changed their mind, but i doubt they will want that kind of heat since it's just a supplement that follows on from the SM codex, it needs releasing sooner rather than later), and we know that the second is Xenos, but the image gives us zero clues. It could literally be any of them. I doubt Eldar as they need a significant range review. It could easily be nids, GSC, Orks or Drukhari.

Voss wrote:

 oni wrote:
I'm guessing the two redacted covers are Dark Angels and Chaos Space Marines respectively.

Definitely DA since they've already told us that. Literally can't be chaos marines since they explicitly say Xenos.

The yellow-ish cover is current artwork from the GSC Codex. A shrine for the 4AE.

Could be a misdirect, but GSC sure need some love.

The Newman wrote:
We all knew that Dark Angels and a Xenos book are scheduled for January so they somehow managed to make an announcement out of telling us less than what we already know.

Well, we didn't actually know January, just 'early 2021.' I'm honestly surprised both are January. But they told us xenos both times. They didn't name DA this time, but we were already explicitly told that. They could have easily reiterated that here, but largely this is an increase in info with the specific month for each pair of books.


Biggest downside to this is people are going to expect a pair of books every month from now on, because they're establishing a pattern. First time it doesn't happen, there is going to be a big fuss.

 Asmodai wrote:
I wonder if the Codex cover all in gold depicting the Imperial Palace might be Custodes.

Nah. Da confirmed, xenos also confirmed, just not which.

Those are placeholders to hide factions. Though with　gw naming da before why bother. Unsurprisingly already caused speculation sleepikg beauty in cover

That second one makes me think more Dark Eldar or Slaanesh than anything else.

 bullyboy wrote:
The images say practically nothing except it's one Imperial and one Xenos race. They are NOT the actual covers. We know that Dark Angels is the Imperial one (unless they changed their mind, but i doubt they will want that kind of heat since it's just a supplement that follows on from the SM codex, it needs releasing sooner rather than later), and we know that the second is Xenos, but the image gives us zero clues. It could literally be any of them. I doubt Eldar as they need a significant range review. It could easily be nids, GSC, Orks or Drukhari.

There's been multiple eldar codexes without range review. No quarantee anybody get more than random hq model with codex　if that.

Sunny Side Up wrote:

Voss wrote:

 oni wrote:
I'm guessing the two redacted covers are Dark Angels and Chaos Space Marines respectively.

Definitely DA since they've already told us that. Literally can't be chaos marines since they explicitly say Xenos.

The yellow-ish cover is current artwork from the GSC Codex. A shrine for the 4AE.

Could be a misdirect, but GSC sure need some love.

No, it's from the rulebook pg 26 and is an Imperial shrine

 Gadzilla666 wrote:
And still nothing on the release date for the Imperial Armour Compendium.

...Fires of Cyraxus...

 Overread wrote:
That second one makes me think more Dark Eldar or Slaanesh than anything else.

Well they said one was a Xenos Codex so not goign to be Slaanesh (unless worhippers of the god in that race) - Eldar being a major enemy of NEcrons may make some sense.

The other seems certain to be Dark Angels - which would sort out all the supplement Marines

Hopefully the various other "Lt" HQs come out quickly with the various Codexes.

 Mr Morden wrote:

 Overread wrote:
That second one makes me think more Dark Eldar or Slaanesh than anything else.

Well they said one was a Xenos Codex so not goign to be Slaanesh (unless worhippers of the god in that race) - Eldar being a major enemy of NEcrons may make some sense.

The other seems certain to be Dark Angels - which would sort out all the supplement Marines

Hopefully the various other "Lt" HQs come out quickly with the various Codexes.

Definitely dark angels, they were mentioned in the 'Codex Show' article about SM and Necrons.

Though with the other 'LT' models, I'd put the likelihood of the Xenos codex being Orks or Dark Eldar pretty high. We know those models exist.

So with DA in January, I guess that means no primarch. It was always a long shot though.

 Lord Damocles wrote:

 Gadzilla666 wrote:
And still nothing on the release date for the Imperial Armour Compendium.

...Fires of Cyraxus...

Yeah no.

Gadzilla continually gets riled up whenever there's no mention of the Compendium with things that clearly aren't going to mention the Compendium.

We know the Compendium is coming.
They previewed it with the Codex Show back in September. It's very likely to come out later this year, but it's not something that would have been part of their Codex Roadmap.

 Grimgold wrote:
So with DA in January, I guess that means no primarch. It was always a long shot though.

Not sure I follow you. January isn't any more or less likely to produce a Primarch than any other month.

GW can toss one out any time they redo a codex, supplement or some sort of event book. If they're playing their cards close to their chest, it could still theoretically happen. Though I'd expect some hype.
Anyway, we've known this book was coming early next year since the 12th of September:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/09/12/the-codex-show/

what is the artwork that is immediately above the Xenos artwork? All of the other ones have their codex covers pictured above or below the actual book (minus the DA one) and there is an image here, but i don't recognize it. It has different skulls impaled on spikes?

Nevermind..it's just generic art from the Xenos section in rulebook.

Voss wrote:

 Grimgold wrote:
So with DA in January, I guess that means no primarch. It was always a long shot though.

Not sure I follow you. January isn't any more or less likely to produce a Primarch than any other month.

GW can toss one out any time they redo a codex, supplement or some sort of event book. If they're playing their cards close to their chest, it could still theoretically happen. Though I'd expect some hype.
Anyway, we've known this book was coming early next year since the 12th of September:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/09/12/the-codex-show/

Before there were rumblings ahead of time of primarches. Would be unlikely that would come completely out of thin air so to speak. Presumably refers to that

Voss wrote:

 Grimgold wrote:
So with DA in January, I guess that means no primarch. It was always a long shot though.

Not sure I follow you. January isn't any more or less likely to produce a Primarch than any other month.

We know the lion is a Libra

I imagine the worst possible outcome in it being a Harlequin codex. Technically Xenos; no new models needed; has White Dwarf rules like Deathwatch that need to be consolidated; doing pretty well in 9th so needs to be revised.

 Oaka wrote:
I imagine the worst possible outcome in it being a Harlequin codex. Technically Xenos; no new models needed; has White Dwarf rules like Deathwatch that need to be consolidated; doing pretty well in 9th so needs to be revised.

That's giving GW way too much credit. They're really bad at predicting the meta.

Besides, if GW had been troubled by Harlequins, they would have produced a FAQ with a paragraph explaining on how they didn't intend for <rules> to be used that way.

Voss wrote:

 Oaka wrote:
I imagine the worst possible outcome in it being a Harlequin codex. Technically Xenos; no new models needed; has White Dwarf rules like Deathwatch that need to be consolidated; doing pretty well in 9th so needs to be revised.

That's giving GW way too much credit. They're really bad at predicting the meta.

Besides, if GW had been troubled by Harlequins, they would have produced a FAQ with a paragraph explaining on how they didn't intend for <rules> to be used that way.

This is true. GW are almost always at least an edition behind when it comes to correcting really bad outliers with balance. I mean, Eldar Jetbikes and Wraithknights are still paying the price for what they were back in 6th-7th edition.

Primarchs don’t even need a codex or supplement, could always do a campaign book like for Guilliman originally

So if your favourite army isn’t mentioned above, don’t worry, you won’t have long to wait until you get your incredible new codex. This is set to be an exciting time for fans of every faction in the 41st Millennium

Well, if its only two codices a month being released then some players are going to be waiting a long time for their codex.

I really hope each codex comes with at least 1 new model for each faction.

 Tiberius501 wrote:
I really hope each codex comes with at least 1 new model for each faction.

We know Death Guard are coming with at least one and a piece of scenery.

Marines might have things organized so that it staggers out the release of the basic stuff from the Marine book, like they did with the supplements.

Space Wolves at the least is likely to include Ragnar and possibly have Ghazghkull getting a solo release at the same time.