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https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/07/12/chalnath-dispatches-at-all-costs/

huh, wonder what this is supposed to be a teaser for

Assassins, I reckon?

Wasn't Chalnath first brought up in killteam with Sisters vs Tau? Could be a continuation of that with Scion Kill Team vs a Tau one. Wasn't there some rumor of new Scion stuff and Vespids awhile back?

'Let them darken the skies above the Alpha Asset' - Elysian Drop Troops?

 kurhanik wrote:
Wasn't Chalnath first brought up in killteam with Sisters vs Tau? Could be a continuation of that with Scion Kill Team vs a Tau one. Wasn't there some rumor of new Scion stuff and Vespids awhile back?

Yes, but it was also meant to be the setting for a 40k campaign book. We've seen snippets of that repurposed as material for White Dwarf.

Phil Kelly wrote a novel as well, with Shadowsun featuring. Chalnath is part of where the Startide Nexus is situated and thus ties into the whole Death Guard v Tau narrative.


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 Shadow Walker wrote:
'Let them darken the skies above the Alpha Asset' - Elysian Drop Troops?

It's Scions.

We could pull [CODE PHRASE OVERLAY DRAKUS FEROCITOR] out of Operation Vortex. Tempestor Magnificat Westren has a one hundred percent combat effectiveness record. Her forces only just committed to the war on Wyldreach and could be rapidly extracted with minimal disruption.

 Kanluwen wrote:

It's Scions.

We could pull [CODE PHRASE OVERLAY DRAKUS FEROCITOR] out of Operation Vortex. Tempestor Magnificat Westren has a one hundred percent combat effectiveness record. Her forces only just committed to the war on Wyldreach and could be rapidly extracted with minimal disruption.

Ah, yes, you are right

Yeah next Kill Team box is rumored as Vespids vs Tempestus Scions which fits this perfectly

 Matrindur wrote:
Yeah next Kill Team box is rumored as Vespids vs Tempestus Scions which fits this perfectly

I mean, Scions have been due a bespoke Kill Team for as long as Mechanicus have been.

Nothing there pointed to Vespid. It might be Vespid or it might be Fire Warriors plus an upgrade frame.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 kurhanik wrote:
Wasn't Chalnath first brought up in killteam with Sisters vs Tau? Could be a continuation of that with Scion Kill Team vs a Tau one. Wasn't there some rumor of new Scion stuff and Vespids awhile back?

Yes, but it was also meant to be the setting for a 40k campaign book. We've seen snippets of that repurposed as material for White Dwarf.

Phil Kelly wrote a novel as well, with Shadowsun featuring. Chalnath is part of where the Startide Nexus is situated and thus ties into the whole Death Guard v Tau narrative.

Which White Dwarf? I was trying to find it a few weeks back but the White Dwarf articles from around the time the Kill Team release happened slip from warzone Octarius to Warzone Nachmund and skip Chalnath in the middle.

There was apparently stuff in Psychic Awakening, I've not read it though. Maybe there were WD articles accompanying that?

Psychic Awakening, C: Knights & Deathwatch for 9E, this month's White Dwarf.

There's other stuff but I'm not a librarian paid to do your research.

 Shadow Walker wrote:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/07/11/warhammer-40000-metawatch-the-pariah-nexus-companion/

Isn't that a Deathwatch Kill Team and their Deathwatch flier in the top right of this picture?

Edit: Combined with those agents of the Imperium facing the Necrons, it seems the rumor might be true of an "Imperium" or whatever codex with DeathWatch rolled in.

 kronk wrote:

Isn't that a Deathwatch Kill Team and their Deathwatch flier in the top right of this picture?

Yes.

I'm betting the redacted force is Deathwatch ("100% combat effectiveness" and fighting xenos), and that Tempestus Scions will be selectable as Ordo stormtroopers. Plus misc inquisitorial character and retinue choices.

The curveball would be Grey Knights in here as well, benefitting from more unit options but somehow locked out from joining with Deathwatch (maybe the Ordo keywords determine which half the codex comes out)

 kronk wrote:

 Shadow Walker wrote:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/07/11/warhammer-40000-metawatch-the-pariah-nexus-companion/

Isn't that a Deathwatch Kill Team and their Deathwatch flier in the top right of this picture?

Edit: Combined with those agents of the Imperium facing the Necrons, it seems the rumor might be true of an "Imperium" or whatever codex with DeathWatch rolled in.

that image isn't new. it was in a warcom article from a few months ago... but the fact that they're reusing it makes it feel pretty sure that the fate of DW is sealed

 StudentOfEtherium wrote:

that image isn't new. it was in a warcom article from a few months ago... but the fact that they're reusing it makes it feel pretty sure that the fate of DW is sealed

I don't have a dog in this hunt, either way. But the timing is what it is...

PoorGravitasHandling wrote:
I'm betting the redacted force is Deathwatch ("100% combat effectiveness" and fighting xenos), and that Tempestus Scions will be selectable as Ordo stormtroopers. Plus misc inquisitorial character and retinue choices.

The curveball would be Grey Knights in here as well, benefitting from more unit options but somehow locked out from joining with Deathwatch (maybe the Ordo keywords determine which half the codex comes out)

Inquisitorial Stormtroopers are certainly a possibility, but the Militarum command structure isn't going to be "pulling out" Deathwatch assets from an operation. It's not in their command structure.

Worth mentioning that there's a Tempestus Regiment that was constantly having its name changed specifically to keep Tau intelligence sources from getting a fix on their assets while they operated in Tau space and sometimes alongside of Tau forces under the eyes of the Inquisition back in the Scions minidex.

 Dysartes wrote:
Why London? GW are in Nottingham.

I'm an optimist that plans on making a long path to underscore my point. lol

 StudentOfEtherium wrote:

 kronk wrote:

 Shadow Walker wrote:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/07/11/warhammer-40000-metawatch-the-pariah-nexus-companion/

Isn't that a Deathwatch Kill Team and their Deathwatch flier in the top right of this picture?

Edit: Combined with those agents of the Imperium facing the Necrons, it seems the rumor might be true of an "Imperium" or whatever codex with DeathWatch rolled in.

that image isn't new. it was in a warcom article from a few months ago... but the fact that they're reusing it makes it feel pretty sure that the fate of DW is sealed

It's for the Pariah Nexus Crusade book I believe. Draxus's assault on the Necrons. Not saying they won't reuse it elsewhere, but the pictures in that article are in the book on a page where she's calling in Sisters and Sword Brethren. She's actually cropped out of the bottom picture from the article, standing on the balcony just to the right of the Black Templars.

Love that picture, a classic inquisitorial "the jig is up" move, jumping the gun while the DW are still far behind trying to get to their transport that is beeing harassed by the night scythe.

Quite possible I've brain farted completely, but the only outstanding previewed items they can put infront of agents at this point is the mechanicum box and/or the LI expansion book?

Dudeface wrote:
Quite possible I've brain farted completely, but the only outstanding previewed items they can put infront of agents at this point is the mechanicum box and/or the LI expansion book?

Literally anything. There's a [Redacted] bit that was on the roadmap, but it hasn't been confirmed as to what it is at all. Agents has been the one people kept shouting it would be from the day that roadmap went up, and the leaked printshop pictures have continued to have them pointing towards it.

As for outstanding previewed items?
-Mechanicum box
-Mars campaign book
-LI expansion book
-Briar and Bone for WarCry
-The individual characters from the various large boxes
-The addon items for Newcromunda Hive Secundus

Worth mentioning that the fiction piece on Friday for Chalnath Expanse was, for a brief time, labeled as the first of a new series of "Astra Militarum fiction".

There's also the LI Titan and Knight battlefirces that were previewed around Christmas that still haven't released

chaos0xomega wrote:
There's also the LI Titan and Knight battlefirces that were previewed around Christmas that still haven't released

They've been previewed at the end of August last year

Only 1.5 months more and it will be one whole year without any sight of them

So in reality there's at best a month of potential releases we know about before the only thing left is [REDACTED] or complete surprises.

Dudeface wrote:
So in reality there's at best a month of potential releases we know about before the only thing left is [REDACTED] or complete surprises.

This should be the full list of things currently revealed and not released yet:

Necromunda:
Yageloth
Malcadon, Yeld, and Jakara Spyrers
Trazior Sentry Guns
Malstrain Coalescence
Malstrain Alpha
Lady Haera Helmawr
Tech-Priest Biologis Hermiatus

Age of Sigmar
Starter sets (to be revealed this week)
SCE Torrus
Skaven Broodhorror

Warcry
Briar and Bone

Horus Heresy
Mechanicus Battlegroup + Thanatar + Achmagos
Fate of Mars

Warhammer 40k
REDACTED faction

Legions Imperialis
Knight + Titan Battlegroups
Terrax Drills
Solar-auxilia Super Heavy
Devastation Tallarn book
Sabre tank
Leman Russ variants
Sicaran variants

Of course many of these will likely be released together so less weeks than it seems at first.

For next week its apparently finally Warcry time according to someone on TGA who was right before, probably together with some smaller things like Necromunda and maybe the LI Battlegroups.
The AoS starter sets also shouldn't take too long so probably the week after that.

 Matrindur wrote:


For next week its apparently finally Warcry time according to someone on TGA who was right before, probably together with some smaller things like Necromunda and maybe the LI Battlegroups.
The AoS starter sets also shouldn't take too long so probably the week after that.

Elarin has said the AOS starter sets will be a July 27th preorder, so most likely they release alongside Warcry.

 xttz wrote:

 Matrindur wrote:


For next week its apparently finally Warcry time according to someone on TGA who was right before, probably together with some smaller things like Necromunda and maybe the LI Battlegroups.
The AoS starter sets also shouldn't take too long so probably the week after that.

Elarin has said the AOS starter sets will be a July 27th preorder, so most likely they release alongside Warcry.

True forgot about that one, that means starter sets and Warcry next week and the week after should be open again for anything

New Valrak rumors about Dethwatch being rolled into Agents of the Imperium.

Their only entries will be the Corvus Blackstar, Watchmaster, Artemis, and power armor kill team. No Terminators, no bikes, no specialist marines. That's it.

I'm willing to bet that "agents" will allow you to ally into another force, like Space Marines, so you could use that to recreate a full-on Deathwatch army.

when you say power armour, does that include the veterans? or are they finally getting their firstborn cull?

 StudentOfEtherium wrote:
when you say power armour, does that include the veterans? or are they finally getting their firstborn cull?

It sounds like its only the veterans. No more Primaris Kill Teams.