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 Miguelsan wrote:
Though there is a high chance that you are correct I wish the nerf to Imperial Knights is walked back. No overwatch, changes to towering, and no spread of bondsman's abilities was an overnerf.

M.

Chaos Knights auras only affect War Dogs, so this puts the two armies in line with each other. But since Code Chivalric and Noble Lance are better than Harbingers of Dread and Traitoris Lance, maybe dial it back a bit, yeah?

Probably already known to many on here, but GW confirmed in a comment on more than one of their FB posts that the balance dataslate is coming next week.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/01/26/codex-supplement-dark-angels-crusade-to-find-the-fallen-and-ascend-through-the-inner-circle/

New Valrak rumours:

There is a second Votann wave coming but he doesn't know what's in it yet. What he does know is that the next Votann release will be via Kill Team in the form of Pioneers on foot vs Brood Brothers (upgrades for the new Cadians) in the next Kill Team box.

Blood Angels are getting a boxset with their codex, no info about the exact contents yet.
Previously he talked about new Sanguinary Guard, new Sanguinary Priest, new Lemartes, new Astorath, new Sanguinor so it will likely have some of these inside.

He's hearing a lot about plastic Krieg and thinks they will come at the end of this year.

Also a bit about HH:
In terms of books the Scouring is next.
The Magaera Knight is moving from resin to plastic, not sure about the Styrix as he only said Questoris knight and showed an image of the Magaera but I would be surprised if its not both of them.
Also big thinks for the Admech in HH but more in a future video

 Manfred von Drakken wrote:

 Miguelsan wrote:
Though there is a high chance that you are correct I wish the nerf to Imperial Knights is walked back. No overwatch, changes to towering, and no spread of bondsman's abilities was an overnerf.

M.

Chaos Knights auras only affect War Dogs, so this puts the two armies in line with each other. But since Code Chivalric and Noble Lance are better than Harbingers of Dread and Traitoris Lance, maybe dial it back a bit, yeah?

Reckon the way that vehicles - especially towering vehicles - interact with ruins needs looking at, 'cos its all ruins now, in most tournaments at least. In my opinion the main reason chaos knights are more competative right now is the walk through walls strat.

 Matrindur wrote:
New Valrak rumours:

There is a second Votann wave coming but he doesn't know what's in it yet. What he does know is that the next Votann release will be via Kill Team in the form of Pioneers on foot vs Brood Brothers (upgrades for the new Cadians) in the next Kill Team box.

Blood Angels are getting a boxset with their codex, no info about the exact contents yet.
Previously he talked about new Sanguinary Guard, new Sanguinary Priest, new Lemartes, new Astorath, new Sanguinor so it will likely have some of these inside.

He's hearing a lot about plastic Krieg and thinks they will come at the end of this year.

Also a bit about HH:
In terms of books the Scouring is next.
The Magaera Knight is moving from resin to plastic, not sure about the Styrix as he only said Questoris knight and showed an image of the Magaera but I would be surprised if its not both of them.
Also big thinks for the Admech in HH but more in a future video

This pleases me.

Edit - Wait - are we talking about the Magaera for LI scale or for full scale?? I initially assumed it was for LI but now I'm understanding it to be the full scale?

chaos0xomega wrote:
This pleases me.

Edit - Wait - are we talking about the Magaera for LI scale or for full scale?? I initially assumed it was for LI but now I'm understanding it to be the full scale?

As far as I understand the Magaera and the "big things for Admech" are for full scale HH. I have no doubt that that will also coincide with their release for LI, same as the Solar Auxilia are in both games now but Valrak only talked about HH here

 Matrindur wrote:
New Valrak rumours:

What he does know is that the next Votann release will be via Kill Team in the form of Pioneers on foot vs Brood Brothers (upgrades for the new Cadians) in the next Kill Team box.

-_- i do not think that a new brood brothers upgrade is what genestealers need right now. as far as infantry go, we already acolytes and neophytes, plus metamorphs, aberrants, and purestrains. yet another infantry kit (and one that largely just fills the same niche as neophyes) would be pretty disappointing. i hope this means we're getting something more meaningful with our codex, and not just another character...

Kinda agree with that. The only benefit of Brood Brothers is to bring in things like Sentinels, the Leman Russ, and field ordnance, etc. The infantry units themselves are otherwise largely redundant to what is already available to the army.

I really don't feel like they should make any changes to towering or ruins or how they interact. Knights are extremely tough, high wound models which typically have high damage output. The trade off for that is you're easier to hide from and harder to hide. I think that is exactly how it should be. Plus look what happened before they changed how towering units and ruins interacted. Knights had a field day just blasting everything off the table. Nobody probably except Knights players wants to go back to that.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/01/29/white-dwarf-497-tyranids-infiltrate-a-new-combat-patrol-alongside-a-wealth-of-ghoulish-content/

In the grim darkness of the far future, you’ll find comprehensive rules for using Space Marine Scouts in Kill Team. Not content to let the Imperium have all that stealthy fun, the Hive Mind has concocted a brand new Combat Patrol centred around its vanguard organisms.

Nine Von Ryan’s Leapers join a Neurolictor and a Lictor to form the Insidious Infiltrators, who specialise in rapidly closing the distance and shredding their prey with razor-sharp talons. You even get all the datasheets as card attachments to the issue.

i find it really interesting that they're inventing new combat patrols outside of the regular box sets. i guess that's going to make the format feel more like a distinct format, and not just "the format that you play after you bought your first box so that you can learn how to play." if they keep this up, it might end up as a neat alternative to kill team in the "40k but smaller" category

Its a shame that they don't just release them as box sets though. 9 leapers + a lictor + a neurolictor at a discount price would be an insta-buy for me.

chaos0xomega wrote:
Its a shame that they don't just release them as box sets though. 9 leapers + a lictor + a neurolictor at a discount price would be an insta-buy for me.

VRLs are <50% of retail on ebay already. An official boxed set just wouldn't be worthwhile to make.

Leapers are the second issue of the new Hachette magazine so will be 3 for £6.99 so should be very cheap to get once the magazine launches (as you are in US will be a little longer unless you can get copies posted).

So the German Warhammer Community site seems to feature a new Kroot: https://www.warhammer-community.com/de/2024/01/29/warhammer-event-miniaturen-fuer-2024-angekuendigt/?utm_content&utm_term

New Kroot looks very cool in that action pose!

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/01/29/warhammer-events-miniatures-announced-for-2024/

The Hunter Strikes is a Kroot Carnivore caught mid-pounce, striking a mighty two-handed blow with the blade on his rifle.

sounds like it's just a unique Carnivore sculpt. pretty cool one, tho

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/01/30/metawatch-warhammer-40000-the-first-balance-dataslate-and-points-update-of-2024/

It's mostly expected changes, but feels very reactionary in terms of hammering nails that stand out and not a lot of thought put into cleaning up some of the mess they made with the September updates.

Seems like par for the course: React to whatever the past few GTs, not really address anything but appease the competitive players for another few months, rinse and repeat.

 LunarSol wrote:
It's mostly expected changes, but feels very reactionary in terms of hammering nails that stand out and not a lot of thought put into cleaning up some of the mess they made with the September updates.

Yeah it's good to see Custodes got their faction ability back.

Most of why I saw earlier looked pretty reasonable. Accursed Cultists doing the revive in one Command phase instead of two was expected. Wraithguard being forced to fire at the person who shot them instead of an unrelated target is also a nice fix.

I don't play dark eldar, but the addition of a new detachment via index is awesome. This is something they need to do more of immediately. Otherwise as expected

Damn, looks like the Knights stay in storage. I had hoped they would do more to fix them, but a paltry price cut isn't going to do it.

Also, they came for LoV surprisingly hard on points. Sagitaurs make sense, but HG and TK too? Oof.

The Deathguard updates are strange.

Deathsbroud are used much more than blightlord as they are just much better value, so GW decided to make deathshroud cheaper.
Also the ONLY battleline troops have been made more expensive.

This on an army that at present is 50% so considered well balanced, If they are increased, surely to 'balance internally' other troops less taken should be reduced otherwise it doesn't add balance but skews it.

PBC going up was expected, but again, I don't think they are necessarily OP, but others vehicles are not good enough

Wayniac wrote:
Seems like par for the course: React to whatever the past few GTs, not really address anything but appease the competitive players for another few months, rinse and repeat.

Well. Archons with Incubi and a whole new detachment seem a bit more than 'par for the course'

As does preemptively (before the DA release) clarifying enhancements and multi-model character units. Though the incoherent gibbering about the new DA book not being 'official' so they aren't doing (showing) the points yet is just stupid. Especially since they adjusted points for a unit that won't even exist anymore, and another that's radically different in size and purpose.

I do like the formatting changes, though. That's a lot more clear.

Oh, man. I REALLY like that Dark Eldar index update. The skysplinter assault detachment is pretty much exactly how I remember running my Dark Eldar in the days of old.

Archons with Incubi bodyguards? Assaulting out of a transport? Sustained hits 2 on kabalite warriors that disembark from a transport? How about Lance on all of your charging units that jumped out of their ride and ignores cover on the ranged units that disembarked? Phantasmal Smoke giving out cover and stealth is sweet, Sadistic Fulcrum empowering transports within 3” is neato. Nightmare Shroud shutting down overwatch when a unit disembarks from a transport seems like an auto-include if you’re running an Archon with an Incubi bodyguard.

Yeah, I love all of these things. I hope they stay in for the codex (baseless conjecture, I kinda figure this was one they wrote for the codex and released to try and do damage control for Dark Eldar).

Disclaimer, of course: I don’t really play competitively, so I’m not sure how or if these things will be effective in the tournament scene, but it certainly made the decision of what army to play in my FLGS upcoming Crusade league pretty easy!

Credit where credit is due, the updates to the app fix almost every issue I had with it. You can now favorite things in the reference list and the list builder can now provide a compiled list of the rules filtered down to what you actually selected. Easily the best way to play now, IMO.

disappointed with the changes (lack thereof) to genestealers, but the custodes change are very much appreciated. the points drops are nice, too

excited to see how Drukhari do going forward, now that they have a real detachment

side note, but i'm really curious how WE are going to go now. the 1975 list was pretty infamous, but i wonder if there's a new solution to the army that people are going to find, if if there's going to be more variety now

Really good to see the Tyranids points adjustment! The Screamer Killer and Tyrannofex really will benefit from that! They are good units but were simply overpriced. Plus for someone that love playing Genestealers (and broodlord), I'm glad that they dropped a bit too!

 Skywave wrote:
Really good to see the Tyranids points adjustment! The Screamer Killer and Tyrannofex really will benefit from that! They are good units but were simply overpriced. Plus for someone that love playing Genestealers (and broodlord), I'm glad that they dropped a bit too!

I just wrote a list with a bunch of models I used to run in 5th/6th edition lists and it's almost 300pts cheaper than before. Basically a free Norn!