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Fairly straight forward.
Do we really need more Marine Boys? Is getting to play Horus Hersey in 40k, Primarchs and all a good thing?
Who even wanted another Xenos codex anyway?

[You knew sisters of silence would be excluded. They've got the word, 'Sisters' in their name.]

None of the vote options really fit my mood.

I don’t love it, but wish they would have been in an ensemble codex (like agents of the Imperium)
But I don’t hate or resent it.

IMHO the custodes shouldn’t be a full on army. I’m fine with a squad or two being attached to other armies, but this isn’t 30k here. At least they are giving them a decent spread of units to fill their army. I strongly dislike the old one-unit* codexes (imperial knights, scions, etc) If you don’t have something for every FOC slot, you probably don’t need your own book.

So I don’t think it needs to exist, but it looks like they did a decent job on it, and I’m sure lots of people will like it. Minis look nice.

Just not my cup of tea.

I don't really care about it either way. No option really fits that.

Discouraged. More imperial junk, no rhyme or reason to the releases.

And unless there is a lot more than what has shown off, it looks like yet another partial army that will have to stand on the back of the imperial soup.

Plus, given how elite armies are handled, on the table it will likely be pretty bad. The alternative is absurdly overpowered death machines that just won't die,

Where is the "I dont care" option? Edit the bikes are cool

Just an overwhelming sense of "meh".

Love the models but need 30k rules for them to be of any use. Codex is irrelevant for me since they aren't 30k rules.

I'm just hoping FW uses opportinity to give the new units 30k rules so I have reason to buy the models

Put me down for the I don't care option.

I just pre ordered my Daemons dex (yay!) they just announced an incoming Death battletome and 1kSons dex (yay two times!). I have only gotten 11 games in with the Chapter Approved upgrade for my Sisters (Boooo!). I only have two of the three refinery kits I bought cleaned and assembled (so much plastic....) All three of my plasma reactors and three plasma pipe sets are assembled (yay!). I do have the underhive terrain all painted up (yay again!) but I have yet to get my Cawdor beyond the primer stage since deciding to strip and repaint them for Newcromunda.

I don't have the hobby time to care about the Custodes dex, I still haven't gotten to play with all the other new toys!

Should have done some Xenos first and then Sisters of Battle.

No problem with the AS being an amry - they have at least eight times as many fighters as the Snowflake chapters and they are everywhere.

Quite bitter. The level of neglect so many factions are getting while GW decides to introduce a wholly unnecessary new faction is a real kick in the head. Especially since it's just another marine army.

New armies make more money...probably...i don't know. There are enough fans to buy them.

I don't see how introducing an Adeptus Custodes army helps the game as a whole. I mean, what niche do they fulfil? We already have a bunch of powered armored imperials.

If they were part of agents of the imperium book, that covered minor add ons such as inquisitors and what not, sure, that would make sense, as then you can give space marines inquisitorial support or have custodes accompany imperial guard, maybe throw a couple of supporting buffs in there to add a bit of synergy, but as a complete, stand alone army? I don't see the point.

As a player with about 3K of Talons of the Emperor, I'm pretty happy. The new models look great and match the aesthetic.

Having 40K rules for the Horus Heresy models will be huge too since I've got a lot invested in those.

The models are selling so GW is releasing... I guess that is the way the world works.

The game certainly does not need more imperial factions with oversized pauldrons and manly manliness.

PS: 8th edition is much better than 7th edition and Forgeworld makes terrible rules full of errors.

I give it a resounding meh.

Beautiful models(what else to expect from GW), but otherwise I don't find it that much exciting.

Going to echo someone else's sentiment and say that I would have been more excited if this were an Imperium as a whole(Inquisition, Custodes, SoB?) rather than another testosto dudes in power armor army.

I have a boner harder than a chair leg, but I voted for the second option. This could have been a nice November army for this year. They should have started with new xenos.

Resent and really should have been another neglected faction, SISTERS, Inq, Xenos Mercenaries, etc.

As I said in the other thread, Xenos Hype, New Army Hype, Oh its Custodes, Meh.

As people said its just Marines+. I guess they must sell, but I don't really see why there needs to be a dozen power armoured factions that are variations on a theme.

This probably takes us to at least mid Feb/March, where they will probably have to roll something out for AoS - probably two lines. So it could easily be 6 months before there is even a hope of something "new" in 40k (although I'd expect a new 40k Codex every month, so that's something I guess).

If Slaanesh are getting a release very late 18 early 19 (pure speculation imo - but not totally implausible) that suggests maybe one possible release window for a Xenos faction. I am not holding my breath.

Extremely bitter.

Adeptus Custodes get a codex but my fricking Skitarii couldn't be made to be a standalone? We literally just needed an HQ.


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Tyel wrote:
As I said in the other thread, Xenos Hype, New Army Hype, Oh its Custodes, Meh.

When people are mirroring the image and then flipping it upside down to justify their "IT'S A NEW XENOS ARMY!!!1!" speculation...they're just setting themselves up for disappointment.

There are a long list of things I would have preferred over this, but still, cool models and new army options, so I'm fine, even a bit exited. I would have liked to see them bundled with SoS and other imperial agents stuff, but it's not a big deal.

I'm not sure I will get them, maybe a squad or two at one point to include in my imperial soup. And regardless of my personal feelings about them, I know this is something a lot of people have wanted, so it is good thing that they're here.

 Otto Weston wrote:
Resent and really should have been another neglected faction, SISTERS, Inq, Xenos Mercenaries, etc.

Yeah, but GW is releasing what is selling. And giant space-romans with oversized testicles and six coats of gold-plated golden gold-armour will sell like ecstacy at a rave-party. You know it's true.

PS: 8th ed much better than 7th ed.

 Crimson wrote:
There are a long list of things I would have preferred over this, but still, cool models and new army options, so I'm fine, even a bit exited. I would have liked to see them bundles with SoS and other imperial agents stuff, but it's not a big deal.

I'm not sure I will get them, maybe a squad or two at one point to include in my imperial soup. And regardless of my personal feelings about them, I know this is something a lot of people have wanted, so it is good thing that they're here.

And I hope that half a year after the release, they then get their own codex snaked out from under them and forced to share a book with some other faction that the players have no interest in so I can say "You're the only one who wanted that anyways!".

Really Happy.

I picked up 30 custodes models, and brand new on the sprue for £120 over last year, ready for 30k.

Now finding out they are a legit 40k army too means my money goes even further.

 Dr. Mills wrote:
Really Happy.

I picked up 30 custodes models, and brand new on the sprue for £120 over last year, ready for 30k.

Now finding out they are a legit 40k army too means my money goes even further.

They were a "legit army" before. They just didn't have an HQ so in 7th, they ran their own special detachment like a few other armies did.

Games Workshop re-directed resources away from existing factions waiting for a codex to make yet another army of giant power-armoured dudes. Pretty annoying to be honest. Was hoping they would have some sort of interesting character, or something that I could relate with, but they're just more of the same.

As cool as they look, yeah GW needed to get all armies into 8th edition before releasing a new army.

 AegisGrimm wrote:
As cool as they look, yeah GW needed to get all armies into 8th edition before releasing a new army.

Disagree.

It doesn't take a whole lot for them to "get all armies into 8th edition". Doing actual semi-new stuff lets the writers do things that isn't just effectively revising/editing work.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 AegisGrimm wrote:
As cool as they look, yeah GW needed to get all armies into 8th edition before releasing a new army.

Disagree.

It doesn't take a whole lot for them to "get all armies into 8th edition". Doing actual semi-new stuff lets the writers do things that isn't just effectively revising/editing work.

If it doesn't take long, then they should be getting them out first instead of re-directing those resources to making newer power-armoured dudes.

Expensive elite power armor armies with limited numbers are my favorite type of opponent. And I'm not one for blinged out shiny Imperial models but those jet bikes are amazing.

Darsath wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

 AegisGrimm wrote:
As cool as they look, yeah GW needed to get all armies into 8th edition before releasing a new army.

Disagree.

It doesn't take a whole lot for them to "get all armies into 8th edition". Doing actual semi-new stuff lets the writers do things that isn't just effectively revising/editing work.

If it doesn't take long, then they should be getting them out first instead of re-directing those resources to making newer power-armoured dudes.

We've gotten 8 armies(Craftworld, Guard, Mechanicus, Marines, Dark Angels, Blood Angels, Chaos Marines, and Death Guard) since 8th edition dropped. We have another army going up for preorder today and two more armies(1 new, 1 revised Custodes and Thousand Sons) announced. We also have two armies in the "stand by for announcement" phase since they didn't get updated in the Chapter Approved(Tau and Necrons) along with the Daemons(preorders today).

That makes 5 more armies slated to come out sometime in the next 5 months, with GW having said that by July 2018 all of the 40k armies will have been updated.

They're moving along at a freaking breakneck pace and you want them to move faster? Working on "new" projects like Death Guard and now Custodes are a great way for the writing teams to stretch their legs(so to speak) from just doing what amounts as editorial and revision work.