Warhammer 40,000

Codex Daemonica

Brimstone 17/02/2008 - 19:58
Thanks to Pentagram Sam we have these pictures of new Daemon models taken at GD Barcelona.

Warseer discussion is here.

First we have the Soulgrinder of Chaos a vehicle and one of two heavy support choices in the codex (Daemon Prince is the other)

Comes equipped with two Dreadnought close combat weapons, a Harvester and a upgradeable Mawcannon (Vomit, Tongue or Phlegm).

This picture is described as Epidemius Tallyman of Nurgle, however he doesn't have an option for a Palanquin (the standard Nurgle Herald does).

Finally Nurgle Plaguebearers of Nurgle command group (these are used in 40K as well).

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5th Edition rumour roundup

Brimstone 02/01/2008 - 11:26
5th Edition Rumour roundup

‘5th’ edition 40K is due for release in 2008 although we have conflicting reports about the release date, it’s going to be either summer or more probably autumn (GDUK 08).

There will be a new rulebook and new starter set which will be Orks vs marines, it will include both troops and vehicles (a marine dreadnought is likely and possibly others). The 3up grot seen at UKGD ’07 is also for the starter box.

Rumoured rules amendments

1. the addition of a ‘run’ option (similar to fleet but with a trade off to keep fleet special).
2. Improvements to the cover save rules.
3. Rending toned down (rending i.e. auto wound/no armour save on a 6 to wound & reduction in effectiveness against vehicles).
4. Template(Blast) weapons rules streamlined.
5. Sniper weapons rules amended (rending probable)
6. Close combat rules amended with a combat resolution phase similar to fantasy
7. Single vehicle damage table.
8. Vehicles without a WS in CC always get hit in the rear armour.
9. Vehicles able to ram
10. Other vehicle amendments
11. Mission rules changed in a similar manner to Apocalypse (no more Alpha, Gamma or Omega).
12. Only non vehicle non swarm troop choices are scoring units (Note I did not say infantry)
13. Vehicles types are adjusted (the rumoured skimmer nerf)

Overall the ruleset hasn’t changed dramatically but areas have been clarified, streamlined and in some cases brought closer to 2nd edition.

I’ll add to the list as we hear more. Don’t forget these are rumours and should not be treated as the truth.

Ork Sprues

Brimstone 16/12/2007 - 20:23
Thanks to Blackadder for these pictures of the Ork Spearhead contents.

Warseer discussion and more pictures can be found here.

Ork Sprues.

Ork Burnas & Lootas

Ork Tankbustas

Imperial Armour: Apocalypse

Brimstone 10/11/2007 - 15:30
Thanks to Rictus we have details of the content of Imperial Armour: Apocalypse, the Forgeworld book giving Apocalypse compatible rules for their releases.

Warseer discussion is here.

Limited Edition Gamesday 2008 Miniature

Brimstone 22/10/2007 - 04:41
Thanks to mks063 for bringing this to our attention and from the french GW website we have this green of the 'limited edition' GD model for 2008.

Warseer discussion is here.

Various pics taken at the "Spiel'07"

Sylass 21/10/2007 - 15:01
A few pictures I took at the german gaming fair "Spiel'07" today:

FW - Plastic baneblade conversion kits

Brimstone 24/09/2007 - 16:00
Thanks to godgolden who took this picture at UKGD2007 we have a shadowsword conversion kit for the new plastic baneblade.

Warseer discussion is here.

Imperial Armour 6 DKoK / Chaos Thread

Brimstone 24/09/2007 - 15:42
Thanks to Swifty who took these photos at UKGD2007 we have a preacher of Nurgle.

Warseer discussion is here.

New plastic Jetbike

Brimstone 24/09/2007 - 06:29
New plastic jetbike created by Jes Godwin

First release may be for the upcoming shining spears due later this year.

New Forgeworld Reaver Class Titan

Brimstone 23/09/2007 - 20:45
Shown for the first time at UKGD we have these WIP shots of the new resin Reaver titan.

- Due for release around Christmas 2007
- Approx twice the cost of the Warhound (so just under GBP 600)
- Chaos Version planned
- Weapon Arm variants planned.

Warseer discussion and more pictures can be found here.

Front

Rear (thanks to Chaos & Evil)

Cockpit thanks to Bolter & Chainsword.

Ork Rumour Thread

t-tauri 23/09/2007 - 13:50
Thanks to Kaine here at Games Day some new Ork stuff.

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The Apocalypse Thread

Brimstone 30/06/2007 - 06:57
Codex Apocalypse is the latest 40K expansion set (in a similar fashion to cities of death) this thread is a compilation of the rumoured rules and miniatures due for release.

First up of course is the plastic Baneblade, expected to cost around £50 and is GW's first 'super-heavy' release. It takes inspiration from the FW model but unlike the earlier Tau releases is not a direct copy.

Warseer discussion is here.

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Imperial Guard Rumour Thread

Brimstone 11/06/2007 - 07:40
Thanks again to selfconstrukt we have these pictures of new metal commissars and an Ogryn.

Warseer discussion is here.

Chaos Space Marine Rumour Compilation.

Brimstone 23/04/2007 - 20:15
This is a collection of Chaos Marine rumours, these are rumours NOT facts, if you want facts wait for the codex.

I’ll be adding to it as more information becomes available and is not a complete list of codex contents.

HQ
Daemon Prince (can be winged but no daemonic speed) cannot be instakilled.
Chaos Lord (highly impressive new multipart plastic kit to be released)
Chaos Sorcerer (force weapon as standard).

N.B. No restricted units i.e. the Ancient enemies rule is gone.

These are all individual entries.

Elites

Possessed Chaos Space Marines (New models on the way which are a vast improvement on the more recent ones)
Dreadnoughts (still frenzy)
Veterans (only unit that can infiltrate)
Terminators – Can be marked (new plastic kit, reasonably impressive but not that different from Imperial versions), points brought into line with Imperial Terminators.

Troops – All troops come with bolter, bolt pistol CC weapon and grenades as standard.
Chaos Marines – Can be marked
Cult Marines
Khorne Bezerkers (lose their Khornate Chain axes).
Plague Marines (lose their plague weapons but keep blight grenades)
Noise Marines (retain their options for sonic weaponary but may be more restricted, Doom caster is AP3).
Thousand Sons (Power armour save / 4+ Invul save) and bolters with inferno bolts (AP3)

Fast Attack

Raptors – Can be marked (new champion model on the way) no 0-1 restriction.
Bikes – Can be marked

Heavy Support

Obliterators – Can be marked, S and T reduced to 4, no 0-1 restriction.
Defiler – Loses indirect fire option but can be given a CC upgrade.
Vindicator (New plastic model for release).
Havocs
Predators

Misc Rumours
Codex follows the DA/Eldar format.
No books of Chaos in the codex.
Daemons (greater/lesser) have generic stat lines (will be expanded upon in a Daemon/LatD codex).
New unit – Chaos Spawn (1-3 cannot be split)
No basilisk option in the codex.
Wargear highly restricted – Daemonic gifts are gone, options are all given in unit entries.
Daemon weapons standardised – power weapon 1D6 attacks (if you roll a one you take a wound), can be upgraded with power specific options i.e. Khorne gives 2D6 attacks.
Any unit can be marked to the Chaos gods in the form of a Icon, marks are as follows – Khorne (+1A), Nurgle (+1T), Slaanesh (+1I), Tzeentch (+1 to invul save (max 2+) if already present or gives a basic 5+ invul save).
Recut CSM sprue.
Special characters – All survive and now include Huron Blackheart (model due for release) Ahriman has all chaos psychic powers and a force weapon as standard.

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Modular Gaming board

Brimstone 03/02/2007 - 08:39
With great thanks to Bregalad and from the Nürnberg Toy Fair we have these pictures of the new modular gaming board (we have pictures of the new fantasy buildings as well but go look in the WFB rumour forum for them)

Marine Rumour Thread (Generic)

Brimstone 12/12/2006 - 19:20
New plastic Devastators due for release alongside the DA codex.

New Generic Librarians also due for release.

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Misc Forgeworld Rumours

Brimstone 07/08/2006 - 05:43
Thanks to Darkwarrior1981 we have some Forgeworld titbits from yesterdays German GD.

Aeronautica Imperialis due for release in November 2006
Imperial Armour update 2006 due September/October 2006
Imperial Armour Vol. 5 due around March 2007

Forgeworld are working on
Gorgon (superheavy Imperial guard transport).
Death Korps of Kreig Heavy weapons
Traitor Guard - Mutatated IG for IA5
Christmas 2007 release is a Reaver Battle Titan.

Codex Release schedule

Brimstone 29/07/2006 - 06:30
A rough list of upcoming 40K codex releases the ones with months against them are reasonably accurate IMO but could shift a few months either way.

On Chaos we have some rumours that GW may split the Legions up into multiple books in order to extend their release schedule but more information is required on this.

Fantasy is going to be GW's primary focus following 7th editions release.

October/November 2006 - Eldar
April/May 2007 - Dark Angels
September/October 2007 - Orks

2008 - Chaos Book 1
2008 - Blood Angels
2008 - Codex Apocalypse ?? (Rumoured mega battle book ala cities of death)

TBC - Necrons
TBC - Space Wolves
TBC - Dark Eldar
TBC - Ordo Xenos (expected in a combined book with the other two ordos)

The Demiurg

Brimstone 02/07/2006 - 20:45
Long rumoured to be the sucessors to the Squats the Demiurg have so far only made an appearance in Battlefleet Gothic.

Jervis Johnson has had this to say on the subject.

Quote Originally Posted by Jervis johnson
I know I shouldn't get drawn on this... but... can't... resist

Seriously, a couple of points just so you can have an informed debate based on the real reasons that Squats are no longer available. Be warned, it is going to be hard reading for people that like the Squat background.

First of all, Squats were *not* dropped because they were not selling well. There were then, and are now, plenty of other figure ranges that sell in the sort of % quantaties that the Squats pulled down, especially when you look across all of the ranges produced by GW rather than just those for 40K.

No, the reason that the Squats were dropped was because the creatives in the Studio (people like me, Rick, Andy C, Gav etc) felt that we had failed to do the Dwarf 'archetype' justice in its 40K incarnation. From the name of the race (Squats - what *were* we thinking?!?!) through to the short bikers motif, we had managed to turn what was a proud and noble race in Warhammer and the other literary forms where the archetype exists, into a joke race in 40K. We only fully realised what we had done when we were working on the 2nd edition of 40K. Try as we might, we just couldn't work up much enthusiasm for the Squats. The mistake we made then (deeply regreted since) was to leave them in the background and the 'get you by' army list book that appeared. With hindsight, we should have dropped the Squats back then, and saved ourselves a lot of grief later on.

Anyway, the Squats made it into 2nd edition, and since we were doing army books for each of the races, we started to try and figure out what to do with them. Unfortunately we just couldn't figure out a way to update them and get them to work that we felt was good enough. The 'art' of working on an army as a designer is to find the thing that you think is cool and exciting about an army, and work it up into a strong theme. This 'muse' didn't strike any of us, and so, rather than bring out a second-rate product simply re-hashing the old background, we kept doing other army books instead, with stuff we did feel inspired by.

Now, while this was all going on for 40K, we were actually doing some rather good stuff for the Squats in Epic. On this scale there was a natural tendancy to focus on the big 'hand-made' war machines the Squat artisans produced, and this created an army with a feel that was very different to the biker hordes in 40K. However, this tended to reinforce the problems we saw in the Squat background rather than alleviate them, underlining what we *should* have done with the Squats in 40K.

In the end (and it took years to really get to the roots of the problem) this led to a realisation that we were going to have to drop the Squats in their 'Squat' form from the 40K background. There was little point having a major race that we weren't willing to make an army book for, and their inclusion in the background meant that people kept asking us when we'd do a Squat Codex. Instead we decided that we'd write the Squats out of the background by saying that their Homworlds had been devoured by a Tyranid Hivefleet. This would give us the option in the future to return to making a race based on the Squat archetype for 40K. This race was given the name of Demiurg, and a certain amount of preliminary work was done to get a 'feel' for what the race would be like. At present the only hint of the Demiurg in 40K is the Demiurg spaceship for BFG. However, we do have this race 'in our back pocket' as a possible new race for 40K, or an interesting character model in Inquisitor, or whatever. So far the Demiurg have lost out to other projects, and it may be that their time never actually comes, as they will have to win through on their merits, not simply because we once made some Squat models in the past. At present, I have to say that it is more lilely that they *don't* make the cut than do, as there is a certain predudice these days to simply taking races from Warhammer and cross them over to 40K like we did in the early days, so it may be that the Squats/Demiurg end up remaining a footnote in the history of the 40K galaxy. Only time will tell...

I'll finish off by saying that whatever we decide to do 'officially', there is nothing stopping players with Squat armies from using them, either in Epic or 40k for that matter. There is no GW 'rule' against using old Citadel Miniatures, as long as you use them with exisiting army lists and in a way that won't cause confusion for other players. I recommend taking a positive stand by saying "Have you seen these cool old models? They're called the Squats and GW used to make them back in the late eighties/early nineties. I love 'em, so I count them as Imperial Guard and use them with the current rules..." Put like this I can't imagine that anyone would stop you from using your army.

Best regards,

Jervis Johnson
Head Fanatic

The concept sketch thread

Brimstone 02/07/2006 - 19:43
One of my favourite things are GW's concept sketches especially the ones by Mark Gibbons.

This thread is for some of my favourites from my collection, I don't know where they all came from so if they are yours and you want credit please let me know.

Things you will not see posted here are the Ork and Dark Angels concept pictures as GW legal have already had a hissy fit and they cannot be posted.

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Lost in the Warp (Unreleased Models)

Brimstone 02/07/2006 - 17:13
This thread is for models that have been shown over the years but as yet have not been released by GW (if they ever will be).

Generic Chaplain

Veteran w/combi plasma

Catchan Standard Bearer

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How does the Rumour Roundup forum work?

Sylass 24/06/2006 - 14:00
Hiho,

this time each subject will get it's own thread instead of compiling all news and rumours in a single thread. New pictures, rumours or news will be added as a new post so that these updates will show up if you use the "new posts" feature of the forums.

In order to prevent pictures added by [img]-tags vanishing (bandwidth of the gallery exceeded or picture got deleted), pictures will be added as attachments from now on.

Brimmy did a very good job on keeping the old Roundup updated and I hope he'll continue working on the new Rumour Roundup like he did before.