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Emperor's Children. Really hoping that 2021 is the year we finally get a plastic Noise Marine kit (& a whole lot more besides)

 ArcaneHorror wrote:

In the latest model preview, we saw one model that looks like a vampire hunter and another that looks like a zombie pirate. Old World might be coming sooner rather than later.

For Age of Sigmar.

Full suppressor kit, outrider, and any other that you can only get in etb

- Total pause on all Marine releases. Release the stuff that's already been announced, but we don't need anything else.

- New Phoenix Lord sculpts.

- Some new Dark Eldar characters, god knows why they're redoing Lelith when they could bring back one they scrapped in 6th Ed.

- Honestly, a PDF update giving all Marine equivalents (Chaos, Thousand Sons, Grey Knights, etc) the same stats as the standard book, along with an appropriate points change would be a good stopgap until the Codexes are released.

- Update to psychic-heavy armies such as Daemons, TS and GK so they're not as scuppered by the current rules such as "Smite-levels".


The last two could easily be released just as a PDF, while it would take some thought to rejig the points to reflect these changes I'm surprised GW didn't release some sort of update when they redid the SM book.

 Bosskelot wrote:

 wuestenfux wrote:

The start of a Craftworlds range refresh.

This would be a big project for GW.
At least, the aspect warrior kids should be reworked which has already been done for Banshees (and Incubi).

That's why I said the start of one. Obviously the Necron refresh would be ideal, but I'm not sure GW has it in them to do something similar again so soon.

The Necron-style 5th Edition refresh is both more needed and more likely than the Dark Eldar's 5th Edition refresh for the Craftworlds. While the Guardians and Dire Avengers could probably do with an update, they aren't nearly as needed with all the finecast still in the line.

And what the Necrons have just gone through is nothing compared to either of those events, imo.

ccs wrote:


Yeah, because no new player can figure out to read the Force charts & opt to play Wraiths, Bikes, Aspects etc....

You sure can, and i sure did. Doesn't mean that players should be gated by the age of the minis.

 VladimirHerzog wrote:

ccs wrote:


Yeah, because no new player can figure out to read the Force charts & opt to play Wraiths, Bikes, Aspects etc....

You sure can, and i sure did. Doesn't mean that players should be gated by the age of the minis.

It's also not been my general experience that new players are off-put by sculpts older than they are, or by Fine Cast in and of itself.

1st, they generally don't know, or care, how old a model is.... Because they're new to the game. And they also don't generally have any bad exp with Fine Cast - yet.
The "Hobby Poison" ? That's spewed out by existing players who're mad at GW for _(insert mostly asinine reasons here)_ & get's picked up on by the new players.

2nd, the RULES do a perfectly fine job of steering a prospective Eldar player away from Guardians (all types) & most aspects. It doesn't matter how old/new the sculpt, or what it's made out of.

In no particular order

- 2nd Wave Sisters of Battle release with new characters and a new unit (heavy battle sister squad, BIKES) and a plastic repressor with 20 troop capacity.

- Sisters of Silence release, including jet bikes.

- New Daughters of Khaine models but with a Dryda (half woman/half black widow) form. Led by a reincarnated Hellebron who Morathi brought back as the big spider lady.

- New Stormcast Chamber. Warrior chamber female character that isn’t limited edition. Female Liberators and Paladins.

- Plastic Greatcoat Guard

Either kill off Eldar once and for all or redo all the outdated models.
New Khorne Berserkers models.
Bring back Rough Riders (on alien steeds)
FW full armoured plate conversion kit for Mega-Gargants.
Endless spells and terrain for all AOS factions that missed out
Shield upgrade sprue for Orruk Brutes
An actual banner bearer model for faction that don't have one.

ScarVet101 wrote:
I do expect more Primaris but I hope it's things like filling in the gaps in the character lines up (eg Phobos Apothercary/Gravis Chaplain) along with a Rhino equivalent.

...I don't want to, but I guess I should introduce you to the Impulsor, as it seems to be the equivalent basic transport. As it stands, I don't think Primaris are getting a 10-man transport, at least not any time soon. If they were, I think it'd've arrived in either the Shadowspear wave of releases, or the Indomitus stuff.

Here's a slightly related wish - someone goes through all the In-or Steroid Marine units and gives them names which are more easily distinguished. Design studio is then educated with the concrete cluebat as to why names need to be distinctive.

 Valkyrie wrote:
- Some new Dark Eldar characters, god knows why they're redoing Lelith when they could bring back one they scrapped in 6th Ed.

You see all the people saying to get rid of Finecast? That's almost certainly why.

Not arguing that DE don't need at least 3 new generic characters (assuming the three branches stay split, then a generic Lt.-level character for each), but there is a small degree of method to the Lilith madness.

 Dysartes wrote:

ScarVet101 wrote:
I do expect more Primaris but I hope it's things like filling in the gaps in the character lines up (eg Phobos Apothercary/Gravis Chaplain) along with a Rhino equivalent.

...I don't want to, but I guess I should introduce you to the Impulsor, as it seems to be the equivalent basic transport. As it stands, I don't think Primaris are getting a 10-man transport, at least not any time soon. If they were, I think it'd've arrived in either the Shadowspear wave of releases, or the Indomitus stuff..

Yeah I know about the Impulsor but that is the razorback equivalent (less transport/more guns).

To be honest, just letting Primaris use Rhinos and Drop Pods would be perfect and wouldn't need anything new

There are very few 1st born units which don't have a Primaris unit now so fingers crossed they may hold off another big release until we're well into this edition though

My wishlist.

A complete Overhaul/Removal of the Matched Play section. It wouldn’t even be too much to ask that we get some sort of functional alternative that’s playable, or even relevant to the 40k community. Just really sucks that we’re going to have to wait through another edition before we see Tournament 40k instead of Tournament Matched Play. I’m still trying to remain optimistic.

Realistically though I’d be happy with a Maelstrom Mission Pack. We know it’s coming, I’d just like to see it sooner than later. Just none of that CA19 crap.

Model Wise, I’d like to see more character re-sculpts. Not just the ‘Primaris’ versions of existing Marine Hero’s. I like the Szeras and Fabius models. Abbadon, Jain Zar and Drazhar are also well done. Ghaz is just awesome. It’s the first time I’ve wanted to collect models just to paint them up. Zahndrekh has been a favorite of mine and I’m sure other players have their own favorites they’d love to see as well.

A ground up redo of the Craftworld line.

New Aspects
New Guardians
New Rangers
New Phoenix Lords
New Avatar.

Its baffling that they have been left 20 years in the past.
Its time to fix it.

In terms of total model range refreshes, Craftworld and Guard are 100% in the greatest need. I'd also like to see Bezerkers and Noise marines in a new kit, because behind aspects they're arguably the worst-looking 'iconic unit' still in the game and they actually would work well with GW's current style of mono-loadout, minimum customizability. Ditto for Possessed Marines. CSM could use a wave 2 to purge their range of the rest of its ancient crap.

I hope that GW is going to push stuff further apart in 2021 and that we don't get a new eldar codex this year. DG, then maybe the other chaos stuff, 2ed wave sob and ad mecha, follwed by an tau or ork update at the end of the year. Would be a good thing for the game, people could enjoy their stuff for longer and maybe even play with their 9th rules when summer comes, like last year. I also hope that GW starts to do design work on GK this year, with the codex droping second half of 9th, after all the nerfs and knee jerk reaction changes to early 9th happen.

Chaos Primaris

For my GK army, I would really really love the possibility to have a brother captain in nemesis deradknight and a brotherhood champion in nemesis dreadknight.

It would be awesome if on top of that there were a resculpt of the nemesis deradknight (a.k.a the baby carrier), which is the oldest model of the kind centerpiece - big robot stuff that GW did for the regular set of 40k.

psipso wrote:
...It would be awesome if on top of that there were a resculpt of the nemesis deradknight (a.k.a the baby carrier), which is the oldest model of the kind centerpiece - big robot stuff that GW did for the regular set of 40k.

Trygon/Mawloc kit and Tervigon/Tyrannofex kit are older. I will concede they've aged better, though.

The only downside of the Mawlock/Trygon kit is that it originally was supposed to be a near Knight level monster and by today's model (and Tyranid) standards is just average for a big bug. Heck the two smaller knight class Hieroduels from FW have suffered the same. Tyranids now lack an actual "knight equivalent" type model until you hit the titan scale.

My wishlist is short (and I'll still be disappointed):

Plastic Grotesques, preferably 5 to a box so GW isn't tempted to upscale them to the size of a Talos (and sell two for $80).

I'd like to see a customizable Inquisitor kit, along the lines of the Space Marine Commander box and the ability to be taken as an HQ choice for any Army of The Imperium.

I also want to be able to buy the DireChasm Slaanesh folks without, ya know, DireChasm. Just gimme the damned models.

Ynnari update rules and honestly, more crusade support. Also a reword of Fortifications is needed.

I'll never get my real wishes, The Baron back and Corsair codex.

Karol wrote:
I hope that GW is going to push stuff further apart in 2021 and that we don't get a new eldar codex this year. DG, then maybe the other chaos stuff, 2ed wave sob and ad mecha, follwed by an tau or ork update at the end of the year. Would be a good thing for the game, people could enjoy their stuff for longer and maybe even play with their 9th rules when summer comes, like last year. I also hope that GW starts to do design work on GK this year, with the codex droping second half of 9th, after all the nerfs and knee jerk reaction changes to early 9th happen.

I hope GK get deleted from the game then.

 VladimirHerzog wrote:

Karol wrote:
I hope that GW is going to push stuff further apart in 2021 and that we don't get a new eldar codex this year. DG, then maybe the other chaos stuff, 2ed wave sob and ad mecha, follwed by an tau or ork update at the end of the year. Would be a good thing for the game, people could enjoy their stuff for longer and maybe even play with their 9th rules when summer comes, like last year. I also hope that GW starts to do design work on GK this year, with the codex droping second half of 9th, after all the nerfs and knee jerk reaction changes to early 9th happen.

I hope GK get deleted from the game then.

Don't you get that Karol is just posting these extreme things to fish for reactions?

 Jidmah wrote:

 VladimirHerzog wrote:

Karol wrote:
I hope that GW is going to push stuff further apart in 2021 and that we don't get a new eldar codex this year. DG, then maybe the other chaos stuff, 2ed wave sob and ad mecha, follwed by an tau or ork update at the end of the year. Would be a good thing for the game, people could enjoy their stuff for longer and maybe even play with their 9th rules when summer comes, like last year. I also hope that GW starts to do design work on GK this year, with the codex droping second half of 9th, after all the nerfs and knee jerk reaction changes to early 9th happen.

I hope GK get deleted from the game then.

Don't you get that Karol is just posting these extreme things to fish for reactions?

Yeah, i really should just ignore them. I just have a problem when people from the country where half my family comes from say objectively stupid things and give poland as a whole a bad image.

 Jidmah wrote:

 VladimirHerzog wrote:

Karol wrote:
I hope that GW is going to push stuff further apart in 2021 and that we don't get a new eldar codex this year. DG, then maybe the other chaos stuff, 2ed wave sob and ad mecha, follwed by an tau or ork update at the end of the year. Would be a good thing for the game, people could enjoy their stuff for longer and maybe even play with their 9th rules when summer comes, like last year. I also hope that GW starts to do design work on GK this year, with the codex droping second half of 9th, after all the nerfs and knee jerk reaction changes to early 9th happen.

I hope GK get deleted from the game then.

Don't you get that Karol is just posting these extreme things to fish for reactions?

I actually think these posts are generally completely sincere.
But since they don't map at all to GW's plans or intentions, they're more amusing than anything else.

 VladimirHerzog wrote:

Karol wrote:
I hope that GW is going to push stuff further apart in 2021 and that we don't get a new eldar codex this year. DG, then maybe the other chaos stuff, 2ed wave sob and ad mecha, follwed by an tau or ork update at the end of the year. Would be a good thing for the game, people could enjoy their stuff for longer and maybe even play with their 9th rules when summer comes, like last year. I also hope that GW starts to do design work on GK this year, with the codex droping second half of 9th, after all the nerfs and knee jerk reaction changes to early 9th happen.

I hope GK get deleted from the game then.

I mean, not a zero chance tbh, they're the only loyalist marine faction that isn't being in any way updated with the marine range refresh...

Female Space Marines, Female Chaos Marines, Female Cadians, Female Orks, SOB bikers, SoS that are troops, Custodes rules that don't make the entire faction need to go FW to compete, and Custodes damage buff to spears/swords/axes. Flat 3, 2,4 respectively.

The main thing I'd like to see is Ynnari specific units. I think that's a really cool design space which hasn't been explored.

Plastic Grotesques with the Drukhari Codex

 M0ff3l wrote:
Plastic Grotesques with the Drukhari Codex

I'm not hopeful for anything besides bad plastic lelith trapped in a 250$ box set, but I'm not holding my breath. Mandrakes, Grotesques, Razorwings, Urien, Clawed Fiends, Beastmasters all the Court except for Ur-Ghul, and Khymerae still in Finecast before GW might even consider making a single new unit....maybe in 2040 lol.