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 Tastyfish wrote:
Chaos get to bring Damned units in the same manner, and the Knights can sacrifice them to get the Dark Pacts abilities (sustained/lethal hits)

...and I love it!

Plus, until something changes, you can still take Daemons, too. The only thing missing is the 'rotate shields' stratagem.

Interesting and sensible pairings.

My only gripe is I'd prefer they lean away from requiring multiple codices for armies. I definitely wouldn't mind seeing Knights and Mechanicus merged or some Mechanicus datasheets in the Knight codex I suppose. Honestly, I'd love to see Agents get a Mechanicus datasheet and be the place where the Freeblade datasheet is housed.

Huh, my prediction was right. Good to see, as those are nice thematic combinations.

 LunarSol wrote:
My only gripe is I'd prefer they lean away from requiring multiple codices for armies. I definitely wouldn't mind seeing Knights and Mechanicus merged or some Mechanicus datasheets in the Knight codex I suppose. Honestly, I'd love to see Agents get a Mechanicus datasheet and be the place where the Freeblade datasheet is housed.

Fair comment, wouldn't have sucked to reprint the datasheets.

The Knight Index had Noble Lance, Grotmas handed out its Mechanicus brother... now, will this detachment still be valid when the Codex comes out next year?

I think they said that these detachments are in for the whole edition?

SamusDrake wrote:
I think they said that these detachments are in for the whole edition?

Correct

Huh. That's good. I wanted to know before I added some little people to my Knight army...

I'll miss Mysterious Guardian though... No more deep striking Dominus :(

 Lathe Biosas wrote:
The Knight Index had Noble Lance, Grotmas handed out its Mechanicus brother... now, will this detachment still be valid when the Codex comes out next year?

According to GW, the Grotmas detachments are additions to the upcoming codexes. I'm betting that the upcoming Imperial & Chaos Knight codexes include other variations of these combined army detachments. Imperial Knights mixed with Space Marines, Imperial Guard, or Agents of the Imperium are easy options to imagine. Chaos Knights having one detachment per Chaos god (with 500 points of daemons) plus an undivided Chaos detachment makes total sense with Daemons being put into god specific codexes.

Allies going away for a majority of factions could also be a result of these strict combined detachments. There are many benefits to it in terms of balance for the game and allied models, which tend to be underpowered.

Is there already a thread about the Secret Level show? Because I need to geek out with someone else about how AWESOME that was.

O_O

I would watch that series in a heartbeat. That Tzeentchian sorcerer was terrifying.

 Scottywan82 wrote:
Is there already a thread about the Secret Level show? Because I need to geek out with someone else about how AWESOME that was.

O_O

I would watch that series in a heartbeat. That Tzeentchian sorcerer was terrifying.

Holy fething Omnissiah we truly need more 40k animation of that level!

I’ve made a post in the TV Thread down in Geek Media.

Just remember to pack your spoiler tags!

 Scottywan82 wrote:
Is there already a thread about the Secret Level show? Because I need to geek out with someone else about how AWESOME that was.

O_O

I would watch that series in a heartbeat. That Tzeentchian sorcerer was terrifying.

Just sent a text to a friend saying the exact same thing about that sorcerer!

I've no idea what to expect from a Librarium/book focused detachment for regular Astartes.

A return of the librarian dread? Something oddly specifically Tome Keepers?

I'm sure Blood Ravens players are grabbing their popcorn.

 BorderCountess wrote:
I'm sure Blood Ravens players are grabbing their popcorn.

I've noticed that all the armies you have are getting good detachments from grotmas and positive news all around...

Maybe there's something to this Tzeentch stuff....

 BorderCountess wrote:
I'm sure Blood Ravens players are grabbing their popcorn.

No, they're grabbing someone else's popcorn.

Do we think they'll preview EC before the year ends? Red Gobbo is teasing it, so I expect at least a model reveal, if not Fulgrim.

 GaroRobe wrote:
Do we think they'll preview EC before the year ends? Red Gobbo is teasing it, so I expect at least a model reveal, if not Fulgrim.

Rumor has it they're getting revealed on Christmas Day.


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 Lathe Biosas wrote:

 BorderCountess wrote:
I'm sure Blood Ravens players are grabbing their popcorn.

I've noticed that all the armies you have are getting good detachments from grotmas and positive news all around...

Maybe there's something to this Tzeentch stuff....

My collection:

Blood Ravens (which include 'borrowing' from Blood Angels and Dark Angels)
Custodes
Agents
CSM
Thousand Sons
Tzeentch Daemons
Chaos Knights
Dark Eldar
Necrons
Tyranids

So far, my only real disappointment is Tyranids due to having all of three Warriors models. I'm also apprehensive about the Thousand Sons one, since Magnus actually prefers to NOT be in his army's zone of control.

Overall, though, I don't think they've released an actually bad detachment yet.

Has anyone heard of these detachments are making it on to the app?

Andykp wrote:
Has anyone heard of these detachments are making it on to the app?

They will appear on the app, later.

 Lathe Biosas wrote:

Andykp wrote:
Has anyone heard of these detachments are making it on to the app?

They will appear on the app, later.

Nice. Thanks.

Andykp wrote:
Has anyone heard of these detachments are making it on to the app?

GW has said it will be at some unspecified time in January. Also, it sounds like none of these will be appearing directly in a codex, so factions that don't currently have a book aren't getting shafted (yet).

 BorderCountess wrote:

My collection:

Blood Ravens (which include 'borrowing' from Blood Angels and Dark Angels)
Custodes
Agents
CSM
Thousand Sons
Tzeentch Daemons
Chaos Knights
Dark Eldar
Necrons
Tyranids

So far, my only real disappointment is Tyranids due to having all of three Warriors models. I'm also apprehensive about the Thousand Sons one, since Magnus actually prefers to NOT be in his army's zone of control.

Overall, though, I don't think they've released an actually bad detachment yet.

I just noticed that there are no accursed Tau in your collection. +25 points!

 GaroRobe wrote:
Do we think they'll preview EC before the year ends? Red Gobbo is teasing it, so I expect at least a model reveal, if not Fulgrim.

I’m hoping they reveal the rumoured army box, as that should come a bit earlier than the rest of the release. And then they can show Fulgrim and the rest early next year. But it might just be like one model.

Balance dataslate is up, some big changes in it for marines.

RIP, Armor of Contempt.

Also, my Chaos Knights really could have used all those Sisters changes a week ago...


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New Marines detachment is up, and I'm no longer certain I have enough Librarians for my Blood Ravens.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-us/articles/doxl2avk/the-ecstatic-epistle-immaculate-armaments-of-agony/

More EC goodies

i'm not sure i'm reading the new GSC rule, because this seems unilaterally worse than the previous rule. it's less random, yes, but i'm not seeing anything about gaining additional points during the game, so it seems like the points you start with are the points you have... which means that in a standard 2k game, if i bring back a 20-man blob, that's over half the points i have available. there's the one enhancement, but that's it. the army already sucks this edition, so why did they feel the need to nerf us

it genuinely feels like they forgot the second half of the rule where you would gain points during games


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 GaroRobe wrote:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-us/articles/doxl2avk/the-ecstatic-epistle-immaculate-armaments-of-agony/

More EC goodies

these are very cool, at least