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Weird that we know very little beyond Drukhari release.
Sisters/Wych box set but no news of next few codexes. 9th gonna be a slow burn.

Well the pandemic surely also caused problems and delays for GW, on top of that there is brexit, which also really doesn't help to speed things up.

My guess is, that we are going to see the sisters codex shortly after the dark eldar codex, since both armies feature on the next box set. It would make sense imo, because they recently revealed 2 new units for sisters.

After that it's anybodys guess. I am purely guessing here, but I think the mechanicus and ork codex are not too far away, because they revealed a new skitarii character and some new ork model a few months ago. As far as I recall we don't have any other teased models for any other armies right now, so my guess is for orks and admech.

Edit: Correction, GW just teased a new skitarii character and ork model a few months ago, they haven't revealed them yet as far as I know. My point being that we don't have any such teases for other 40k armies, so those two might be coming soon?

Probably SoB next, and Orks & AdMech have both been teased.

The yet to be released Warzone Charadon has rules for Death Guard, Drukhari, Adeptus Mechanicus, and Imperial Knights. My money is on AM and IK being the next two codexes.

AoS is dominating at present. There's Lumineth getting a second wave; Vampires getting a whole new army (a way off yet) and Warhammer Quest getting a huge AoS release. Ontop of that AoS is doing campaign books with 2 more coming (Lumineth are being updated with the next and Belkor is in the next).


Basically after a big 40K 2020 end there's a big AoS 2021 start. IT just feels wrong because Corona slowed everything up for 2020 in a big way and 2021 is still reeling from those same impacts.

Wait...if we get Sister's codex...then 9th edition is already done and 10th coming? Isn't that the pattern...

edwardmyst wrote:
Wait...if we get Sister's codex...then 9th edition is already done and 10th coming? Isn't that the pattern...

There's no pattern because the samole size of Sisters codexes is so low

 Overread wrote:
AoS is dominating at present. There's Lumineth getting a second wave; Vampires getting a whole new army (a way off yet) and Warhammer Quest getting a huge AoS release. Ontop of that AoS is doing campaign books with 2 more coming (Lumineth are being updated with the next and Belkor is in the next).


Basically after a big 40K 2020 end there's a big AoS 2021 start. IT just feels wrong because Corona slowed everything up for 2020 in a big way and 2021 is still reeling from those same impacts.

The problem with dedicating a bunch of time to AoS is it makes Xenos players even more disgruntled.
Going from rapid fire Space Marine releases to practically nothing once they are done is *sigh*, expected but extremely dissapointed.

And its not like they can't do both at the same time. I seem to remember AoS and 40k having a lot of releases back to back early on during 8th. You would have a major 40k release every 2 weeks and AoS releases on the other weeks.

Donno if I buy the Corona excuse either, it didn't seem to slow down Marine releases last year?
It is hard to deny the feeling of "marines are done, feth it lets chill".

 Insectum7 wrote:

edwardmyst wrote:
Wait...if we get Sister's codex...then 9th edition is already done and 10th coming? Isn't that the pattern...

There's no pattern because the samole size of Sisters codexes is so low

4 or 5.

I mean I'm sympathetic to Xenos players, but Age of Sigmar is a full game that should get development time as well.

They also go through slower release periods, I assume to allow people to "catch up". It's probably a good thing but if you have a long awaited release it's probably frustrating and will not help how people feel about marines right now.

I'd have thought they could probably put out 40k and AoS releases in the same week but they clearly feel differently and they have the data.

 Da Boss wrote:
I mean I'm sympathetic to Xenos players, but Age of Sigmar is a full game that should get development time as well.

It's tempted me back away from 40k as my main game with all new, all sparkling high elves release. I may get a Nurgle Daemon army (3x start collecting boxes, Great Unclean One) to play in both. I'm certainly more keen to see AoS releases than 40k right now and yes that is due to marine overload largely. They've just discovered that everyone loves elves, release Craftworlds! And more Dark Eldar!

Also even "poorly" updated armies in 40K like Eldar have big model ranges now. AoS has a LOT of armies that have tiny ranges. Lumineth getting a big update is a must have; meanwhile the new Vampire force is basically giving Vampires/Legions of Nagash the full update that many want Eldar to have.

AoS, both because of new armies and the way fantasy was treated prior to its demise, has a lot of armies in need of updates. Skaven still have metals and generation 1 plastics etc...

Even if you want new models for Eldar there's still a lot you can do with them. Meanwhile armies like Fyreslayers are often spamming the same unit to reach 2K because they don't have all that much diversity within their ranks.

 Overread wrote:
Also even "poorly" updated armies in 40K like Eldar have big model ranges now. AoS has a LOT of armies that have tiny ranges. Lumineth getting a big update is a must have; meanwhile the new Vampire force is basically giving Vampires/Legions of Nagash the full update that many want Eldar to have.

AoS, both because of new armies and the way fantasy was treated prior to its demise, has a lot of armies in need of updates. Skaven still have metals and generation 1 plastics etc...

I assure you that there are no gen 1 plastic Skaven in the line. There aren't any G2 either.
THESE are a pair G1 plastic Skaven (standing in front of 40k 2e gretchin. I bought mine in the summer of '89.

Oh I thought the Rat Ogre set was G1 or at least very early plastics along with things like the night runners

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Skaven-Rat-Ogres-and-Giant-Rats

 Da Boss wrote:
I mean I'm sympathetic to Xenos players, but Age of Sigmar is a full game that should get development time as well.

Why can't we have both?

 Overread wrote:
Oh I thought the Rat Ogre set was G1 or at least very early plastics along with things like the night runners

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Skaven-Rat-Ogres-and-Giant-Rats

Actually, no. Those are surprisingly late skaven plastics. Rat ogres were metal (and better models than that garbage) for a long time.


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Anyway. Delays have really warped the release schedule.
Sisters are getting their Lt in the Dark Elf Versus Sisters box, which should be sometime in the next month or so. They may also get another codex (but maybe not).

The warzone book definitely has 'more rules' for Ad Mech and IK (as well as dark eldar and death guard) so those are almost certainly in the 'next wave' of 40k releases. Ad Mech also has a partial model preview.

Orks have a partially previewed model outstanding, so they're likely on the end of the shortlist.

I'm hoping that we see chaos and the other Marines that haven't gotten their second wound yet. While I would hate that this would mean yet more marine releases, getting that second wound is kind of a big deal since they will not just do it in an errata.

I mean, it's COVID. GW even said COVID was going to slow down their releases. What'dya gonna do?

Heck we are still on the once every 2 weeks for orders system. GW just can't speed up at present and you can expect that to remain the state until the UK can remove covid safe work practice from the workplace.

Audustum wrote:
I mean, it's COVID. GW even said COVID was going to slow down their releases. What'dya gonna do?

Personally? Just get on with playing games, as best as local conditions allow, with the vast inventory of stuff (40k & otherwise) I've already got.
And when not gaming I've got some building to do & plenty to paint.
Eventually when new stuff arrives? Pick it up if it's of interest, ignore it if not.

ccs wrote:

Audustum wrote:
I mean, it's COVID. GW even said COVID was going to slow down their releases. What'dya gonna do?

Personally? Just get on with playing games, as best as local conditions allow, with the vast inventory of stuff (40k & otherwise) I've already got.
And when not gaming I've got some building to do & plenty to paint.
Eventually when new stuff arrives? Pick it up if it's of interest, ignore it if not.

I feel about similar, though I've been leaning on TTS.

There will be another tease end of this month or next. They're about quarterly now.

 Daedalus81 wrote:
There will be another tease end of this month or next. They're about quarterly now.

They are really unpredictable right now. Both in terms of when they appear and how much GW shows. Since the major hobby events aren't really happening and since GW's production and shipping (and basically everything) is hampered right now. I'd not expect any kind of reliable schedule. If we get them great, if we don't we aren't missing anything .GW is likely having to play quite a few things on the fly and see how things settle in terms of how well they are able to keep up production and shipping as well as a whole host of other things.

The problem is that despite the fact GW has promised us a 40K release once every month, and Sigmar seems to be getting something similar, Dark Angels came out the first weekend of February while Drukhari wont be out until the last weekend of March. That may be consecutive months but it's almost 2 months of actual time between the releases, and beyond that we have no idea whats coming next, GW's roadmap for releases has already reached it's end and they are content to leave us without any information.

 Daedalus81 wrote:
There will be another tease end of this month or next. They're about quarterly now.

But what kind of teaser? Some sort of codex release road map would be nice. Wouldn't even need dates, just let us know what's coming up next.

From 'The Sunday Preview – News From the Front' on Warhammer Community:

There are loads more to come in 2021 – of that you can be sure – and our goal is to make sure that hobbyists around the world can get their hands on the latest Warhammer within a similar timeframe. Global events certainly make this challenging right now, but by moving the release dates of certain products in our schedule, we can make it more likely that everyone can enjoy the latest models, books, and games together.

I read that as they're not sure what they're release schedule is going to be as it's still in flux.

Hopefully CSM arrive by the end of the year, although I won't get my hopes up

Thats the thing, they need to keep community interest or that interest will drift to other systems/games.
By all means, state that things are super backed up but show us some teasers for the next 6 months. Couple of codex covers, some more models....you have to keep the community talking. Nothing worse than silence.

I believe a while back there were images of AdMech reboxes (with the 'new' boxart style), so I'd assume AdMech are next up.

 Gadzilla666 wrote:

 Daedalus81 wrote:
There will be another tease end of this month or next. They're about quarterly now.

But what kind of teaser? Some sort of codex release road map would be nice. Wouldn't even need dates, just let us know what's coming up next.

We've had those in the past. We just feel a little forlorn, because AoS abd Warhammer Quest is taking some spotlight ( which is fair, I think ). I recall being really Fantasy centric ages ago and being aggravated at 40K releases ( but they were sooo much farther apart back then ).