A new edition is coming... New 40K discussion thread!

[The Other Dave]

And in non-Marine news, apparently Forgeworld is making up new aspect warriors now?

https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-ES/Shad ... rior-Squad

Stealthy jet-packy anti-tanky dudes, yippee! With man-portable stone spires for dramatic posing no less.

(The important take-home is that this now means, with any luck, we may get Slicing Orbs of Zandros eventually. )

Those have been around for ages. They're so old that M_i_J has a fully painted unit of them.

That's what I get for being out of 40K since 4th edition.

[Konrad]

And the SM codex preview: https://www.warhammer-community.com/201 ... ge-post-1/
Ultramarines get +1 Ld (boring, but makes 5-man squads essentially immune to morale) and the ability to shoot after falling back, which strikes me as huge..

What?? that's it!? Laaaaame. sounds kinda boring but after playing a few games, shooting after falling back is going. to be such a life saver. Huge.

Personally I'm all in favor of the design philosophy of "simple rules with characterful effects," so shooting after falling back works for me. I've certainly heard about how scary it makes Inceptors, since they Fly and always get to.

The Warlord traits also got a mention - the UM one is to recover a CP after spending it on a 5+, which again seems to fit the blue dudes' theme of "martial discipline" pretty well.

Smurfs have always been more dangerous when they are running away.
Those bigmarines are super cool. All the armor options are are making me think of Gundam. I hope things don't get too clean and modern looking. I like me my grimdark skulls, parchments, and assorted gothic anachronisms.

[me_in_japan]

And in non-Marine news, apparently Forgeworld is making up new aspect warriors now?

https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-ES/Shad ... rior-Squad

Stealthy jet-packy anti-tanky dudes, yippee! With man-portable stone spires for dramatic posing no less.

(The important take-home is that this now means, with any luck, we may get Slicing Orbs of Zandros eventually. )

Those have been around for ages. They're so old that M_i_J has a fully painted unit of them.

That's what I get for being out of 40K since 4th edition.

Hey, now, steady on. Fully assembled, yes, but painted? Noooooooo. Still on the workbench, metaphorically speaking. I've used them a few times, though. They're a fun unit to play. Really must get them done up...

[The Other Dave]

More marine chat, but hey, they're the first big release of the edition. Word is intercessors and hellblasters will be out early next month, in 10-dude boxes. I'd kind of got myself hoping, after chatting with jus, for a shared box, since they're only different in weapons, because what I really want is 5 intercessors with auto bolt rifles and 5 hellblasters with heavy plasma guns - anybody want to go halfsies on a couple boxes?

Looks like the csm codex is due out the same time, with grey knights soon to follow.

[jus]

Hmm the new space marine codex is out now. After a cursory perusing of it, it seems a little light on the fluff side of thing. Can primaris really be upgraded from regular joes? How are losses from primaris squads reinforced? No mention of any of that in there,but they do make a big show of big and small marines working together. Hmmm, maybe i won't be selling my okd marines off after all. I held off on buying a box of reivers but put in an order for some aggressors.
Wouldn't mind working something out with tod about those intessesors coming out soon though.

[jus]

squeal! It's primarchs galore. So cool cool!

[YellowStreak]

squeal! It's primarchs galore. So cool cool!

Saint Celestine has *really* let herself go....

[The Other Dave]

I can dig it. (Although the combination of the sort of busy design and the photo angle left me thinking the tasselled thing between the wings was his head for quite a long time.)

[The Other Dave]

Looks like we are go for codexes for Death Guard at the beginning of September and AdMech shortly thereafter. One wonders if they're going to expand the (sort of thin) AdMech range at all.

[me_in_japan]

Death guard is looking to be a large release, with at least mortarion, typhus, a tank, a termi unit and a box of those blight drone thingies. I'd be surprised if admech saw the same scale of release the next month. S'not impossible, but I'd be surprised if their production facilities could stretch so far. We shall see...