Still no exact time frame, but Ghost21 over at Warseer has dropped some nice stuff, a few of these are also from Harry from warseer. Information in () is my comments. Frgt/10 at warseer also states that, “All the new Tau models are done; Dave Thomas worked on them for roughly 18 months and he’s finished them all now. They’re just waiting for a releases slot, I don’t now when that is but my guess it is has since been locked in since I found out this info.”
Dave did the new Calgar miniature, the Necron Ghost Ark, Necron Overlord, Master of the Ravenwing(that guy is awesome!).
4 Headquarters Choices(Ethereals, Crisis Suit Commanders, Demirug Ancients, Kroot HQ)
3 Troops Choices(Fire Warriors, Kroot, Demiurg)
Demiurg will be one of the HQ’s and will be some type of Ancient. “ok one more the demiurg ancients , think of them as cranky old wise men who saw the imperium in its infancy they had seen the eldar come n go, n thought it was another decadent empire… though they normally take hundreds of years to make a decision… the tau have something special the demiurg like
Vespid will have two slots.
Another alien race, Ghost21 hints that it may be a four armed wielding crazy weapon race. Stated the last race is “bizarre”
Kroot get an additional…
New Suits (I’m pretty surprised by this) that are more sleek in design.
Experimental Suits for Characters (like Shadowsun and the Forgeworld books suggest)
That’s all folks.
On an aside I’m signed up for Adepticon at the Championships, but have no idea what I am taking. We’re doing heavy playtesting with Necrons. I probably got five games in last weekend, and should get some more in. I don’t plan on taking them, but my buddy is (who is on the wait list for the championships at the moment).
I think the problem is that the super tournament builds that are out there spark little interest in me. I don’t have any interest in power armor, and don’t have the time to put together guard the way I need to. Tau are a possibility, but I think I would want to bring 9 broadsides, and with the emminent release of a new book, I don’t have big desire to push old models. That leaves me updating my marines to either Space Marines or Black Templars (I guess I could make a deathwing list), or I could update my Dark Eldar a bit and push them.
Demirugs are squats ya ding dong .
If you mean dwarf archetype then you are correct.
if you mean they are actually squats then you are wrong.
Ding dong
I have big doubts that the demiurg will be squats but I would probably expect to see a plastic kit that can double as two units, much like the Immortals/deathmark box. Might be Demiurg CC unit and then Demiurg Shooty unit. If demiurg are indeed in, they will probably be more alien than squat and will be decked out in tau armor.
New suits are no surprise to me. I expect that Crisis Suits will not get a new model, will be nerfed and we’ll all have to go out and buy these new shiny suits. I might also expect all plastic broadsides. Who knows? I can’t wait to see what they surprise us with!
I agree with everything you just said.
I’ve been wondering if some (or all) of the XV9 battle suits might show up in the new codex.
My understanding is that Dave Thomas sculpted new suit. I wish they would come out with hazards!
Thank you for the info sir. I will have to start painting my Tau force now!!