Like OH MY GOD, is it really true, do my eyes deceive, a non-Imperial codex coming out?
Say it isn’t so GW!
Poor Blood Angels and Dark Angels need codices, not stupid Xenos! I was even hoping GW might announce 6th edition so we could get another basic Space Marine codex.
How dare you crush my dreams GW, instead in four short months we will be getting…
Tyranids!
Confirmed at Games Day UK: come the new year The Great Devourer will be gobbling up Imperial worlds with impunity. What does this mean? The fluffy bunny in me cannot wait to see the ending of Hive Fleet meets Ork Empire, falls in love and makes babies. The new IG and SM codex didn’t do a good job furthering the story of the 41st millennium as hinted in the big rule book.
As for everything else, here is a cut and paste of the latest rumors:
General Infomation
To be released January 2010
Written by Robbin Cruddance, and is already completed.
New Units
4 whole new races never before seen, one of them larger than the carnifex and also a plastic Trygon. More coming in second wave according to rumors.
Special characters, such as Old One Eye and possibly the Red Terror, will return. These will be survivors of wars and also have been mutated, instead of indurviduals.
Many people are saying they will be a plastic Hive Tyrant kit (with wings).
Malanthrope may be a new HQ choice.
A new broodlord was spotted at Games-Workshop design studio open day.
Also according to Xas Genestealers are going to be elite unless you take a Broodlord.More anti-tank weaponary.
The Plastic Trygon may have bits to make a Trygon or a Zoanthroph. Something else is also possibly buildable from the kit. More on that as i get info.
Plastic Gargolyes.
Warriors to be improved. Again Xas says that they will be available in every slot. Wings will them Fast Attack, a Tyrant as a HQ makes them troops, heavy support have +1t, +1sv and each can take a “heavy” weapon.
Possible new Biovore.
Possible new more powerful psyker.
Gaunts
Hormagaunts to be seperated from other gaunts as a box set.
According to Xas Hormagaunts will be 6 points and normal Gaunts 3 points including Without Number (WON). I Myself can confirm after talking to Phil Kelly at UK Games-Day That is without ANY other weapons, only with WON. Hormagaunts will be able to buy WON for the same cost as the current Termigaunts.
Four new races, two of them giant things destine to create rule problems (Valkyrie anyone). Is it just me or will we look back five years and think, when did Apocalypse models become the norm? My favorite rumor is plastic Gargoyles, they just better have a way of becoming a Troop choice. I really like the idea of Warriors being built for every slot. That is a good way to change the structure of an army without breaking it. As for the Guant changes, sounds more in like with fluff and that is great, Nids are suppose to keep coming and coming and coming.
It is time to take a journey to fantasy land. Here are my dark hopes of what should be including in the dex.
To keep true to fluff and create a river of tears for Rune Priests everywhere, Nids should have an army wide universal psychic hood. It only makes sense according to fluff: the sheer psychic energy of the Hive Fleet drowns out all other psychic power. My other fantasy would be the ability for certain assaulting Nids to hit vehicles on 4+ no matter the how far they have moved in the previous turn.
Of course I doubt either will be in the dex, still a player can hope.
Questions to comment on,
- What do you think the dex should have?
- What things should not be brought over from the old dex?
- Will the Nids usher in a new era of horde play?