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Custodes & SoS have so few units that a single infantry LI kit could feasibly contain everything for both of them

Very salty, but who knows:

Depends on what they ultimately intend to do with Adeptus Titanicus, but the Psi-Warlord and Belicosa-Warbringer would be ideal as new plastic kits.

Imperial Knight variant could be the ones we’ve just had previewed.

The rest is at least plausible. Barring the general lack of Mechanicum and Solar Auxilia release.

 Dysartes wrote:
I'd hope for the duology of the Talons rather than the Custodes alone.

Does LI have enough of a psychic presence for the SoS to fight?

 Shakalooloo wrote:

 Dysartes wrote:
I'd hope for the duology of the Talons rather than the Custodes alone.

Does LI have enough of a psychic presence for the SoS to fight?

Perhaps if you had that as part of the expansion focus. Librarians & sorcerers (perhaps using something like the fate card/tarot system rather than individual powers), SoS and daemons etc.
Feels like that could be a fairly solid book/range expansion.

 Tastyfish wrote:

 Shakalooloo wrote:

 Dysartes wrote:
I'd hope for the duology of the Talons rather than the Custodes alone.

Does LI have enough of a psychic presence for the SoS to fight?

Perhaps if you had that as part of the expansion focus. Librarians & sorcerers (perhaps using something like the fate card/tarot system rather than individual powers), SoS and daemons etc.
Feels like that could be a fairly solid book/range expansion.

The "natural" expansion to have that as a focus would be the Burning of Prospero, it conveniently had both Custodes and Sisters present and a lot of psykers in the form of the Thousand Sons (and some 'Can't believe it's not psykers™' Runepriests) present. It also is early-heresy, which seems to be the era we've been stuck to at the moment. On the contrary, the legions present are very much not generic, and you'd need to have Primarch models to do that battle proper justice, and it does not feel like either Primarch or legion-specific units are on the menu for now, which is probably a wise decision for a game that's just getting on its legs by providing the bread-and-butter, generic/iconic stuff for the largest factions.

Prospero is the only Scenario in which I could see Custodes and Sisters as a LI Army.

But that also needs non-Mk6 Marines.

Legion Windicator please! It's about the only model missing from the 1st edition epic Space Marine + Codex Titanicus ruleset

RazorEdge wrote:
Prospero is the only Scenario in which I could see Custodes and Sisters as a LI Army.

But that also needs non-Mk6 Marines.

War in the Webway? Seige of Cthonia? Seige of Terra? There are plenty of conflicts they can participate as a full-fledged force, not just a detachment.

I personally don't believe we'll see them anytime soon. There are plenty of units to release for existing factions in 2025.

Well, Andy did say they will be fleshing out auxilia and astartes for the next year or two..

CorwinB wrote:
I'd love to have the small Knights (Harmigers/Helverins) in plastic (they are the ones I thought of when I said the resin model broke my spirit).

Their existence in AT broke my brain.

 tauist wrote:
Legion Windicator please! It's about the only model missing from the 1st edition epic Space Marine + Codex Titanicus ruleset

My imperial fists yearn for the vindicator (and typhon). Also some more infantry options to use the legion trait with would be cool.

That rumour list above seems to be a bunch of the most common theories / predictions for LI from the last few months. Even if the rumour is made up I fully expect to see several of those kits this year anyway.

Yeah, infantry variants would be cool. Mixing and matching stands would be nice. What else could they put on the MkIII sprue? Breachers? Mortalis Destroyers? Despoilers?

 zedmeister wrote:
Yeah, infantry variants would be cool. Mixing and matching stands would be nice. What else could they put on the MkIII sprue? Breachers? Mortalis Destroyers? Despoilers?

Breachers, Despoilers, Tartaros terminators, Recon marines

Indeed. another infantry kit with all those would be great. I could LItbash those heavy weapons for my beakies as well. Tartaros Terminators would be a delight since they look much more like Indomi termies at epic scale than the existing ones..

Would expect more Bolter-Marines, but just in Mk3, maybe Breachers instead of Assault Marines.

 tauist wrote:
Custodes & SoS have so few units that a single infantry LI kit could feasibly contain everything for both of them

Including the caimans!

RazorEdge wrote:Prospero is the only Scenario in which I could see Custodes and Sisters as a LI Army.

Schrödingers Primarch wrote:

War in the Webway?

I agree. Impossible City siege. Mechanicum, Titans, Knights and Custodes vs Demons, Chaos Legionaries, Chaos Titans.

ccs wrote:

 tauist wrote:
Custodes & SoS have so few units that a single infantry LI kit could feasibly contain everything for both of them

Including the caimans!

Armour Thralls are still missing in 32mm Horus Heresy, Astartes serfs too. Support units for Knights too. On the battlefied they could provide support to the main detachment.

 MajorWesJanson wrote:


Breachers, Despoilers, Tartaros terminators, Recon marines

Doubt we’ll see recon marines. MkIII is too clunky and noisy for stealth operations,

My guess for a mk iii box:

- 4 stands for a Tactical squad
- 4 stands for a breacher squad - breachers become a second core option
- 2 stands meltaguns
- 2 stands lascannons
- 4 contemptors with alt weapons
- 2 mkiii command stands

ccs wrote:

 tauist wrote:
Custodes & SoS have so few units that a single infantry LI kit could feasibly contain everything for both of them

Including the caimans!

SoS have caimans?

 ph34r wrote:

ccs wrote:

 tauist wrote:
Custodes & SoS have so few units that a single infantry LI kit could feasibly contain everything for both of them

Including the caimans!

SoS have caimans?

Yep, the Sisters of Silence have gators...

So what are we expecting today? The Atrapos or Asterius would be the save choices but maybe we'll see something unexpected?

(Or maybe they'll finally show off the Karacnos and Krios)

I bet my soul for Karacnos and Krios.

More salt:

Maybe the Knight will be that Knight with a AWACS dish on top, that's been rumored for a while.

Still not holding my breath for 4chan rumours.

Having said that, if GW were to do a new knight at that size then the old slaanesh hellknight or hellstrider chassis would be a cool callback to do.

I have no comment on the validity of 4chan rumors, but these don't sound super out there.. so some of them might end up being correct

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/3lswhui5/heresy-thursday-mechanicum-heavy-support-for-legions-imperialis/

Took them a while. Still good to see them