Check this out, some guy on warseer has put up rumours for releases for most of the next year! The only WHFB things he listed are daemons, which obviously doesn’t mean there are no fantasy releases next year ;). Some of these may be in 2011.
Several replies put togther here:
IG:
new style Chimera w/manticore option
new style LR with original+2 of the remaining variants
new style basilisk +medusa and one other variant
stormtroopers
SM:
new predator
t-hawk
ven dread
characters
Orks:
dread
buggy/trakk
copter
flashgitz upgrade for boyz
grot cannon in plastic w all options
Daemon/CSM:
plastic Greater demon (later quoted as daemon prince)
plastic nurgle warriors (later quoted as plaguebearers)
Im really looking forward to seeing the new Grey Knights and Necrons. Other than that it sounds like its going to be a boring year for warhammer.
Pyro Stick
On the contrary, if the other rumours are to be believed this is supposed to be the greatest year for fantasy releases in a long time.
Grimstonefire
Well the forge world rumours sound interesting but i am sick to death of Space Marines, Orks, and Imperial Guard. Im not a fan of Tau and Eldar either. I should have specified that for 40k its mostly going to be a dull, fairly repetative year, but for fantasy it should be better than the past few years. I doubt ill buy any warhammer at all this year though...
Well the new daemons sound very promising, as do the new Dark Eldar.
I’ll reserve judgement on the inquisitorial stuff, but hopefully they can still take guard - I lack the money to do a full guard army, and some grey knights or sisters would chew up the points nicely. My theory is that they’ll do a single Inquisition codex covering the three main Ordos.
I can see the logic of keeping Ordo Malleus and Ordo Hereticus merged (as before), but it would be nice to see them separate as well (Codex Sisters of Battle & Codex Grey Knights). Would there be any point merging in Ordo Xenos as they only have Deathwatch don’t they?
The issue would be what to name it though… Codex: Inquisitors seems likely, but that doesn’t really describe the army itself. Daemonhunters may not be appropriate if they put in Ordo Xenos.
The original plan was to have three codecies; Witch Hunters, Daemon Hunters and Alien Hunters. As it turned out, Alien Hunters fell by the wayside, perhaps because of the sucky name and the fact that the Deathwatch already had rules. From what I gather, it would have featured rules for Ordo Xenos inquisitors, radicals using xenos tech, more specific variations on the Deathwatch, such as other specialists and Kill Teams equipped for varying roles.
I agree three codexes would be cool and certainly have a lot of scope. However I think they would have the same issues with updates as all rulesets split over several books. Effectively, all ‘Imperial’ armies would then be split between five books.
Codex: Inquisition would make more sense to me. You could use the HQ sections to shape your army - giving an Inquisitor certain upgrades would decide their Ordo and shape his or her force selection. Each Ordo would have access to its own chamber militant, as well as standard selections such as Storm Troopers, Assasins and Arbites squads. Other upgrades would allow you to take allied Marines or conscripted Guard units, and making your inquisitor radical or puritanical would affect the equipment and units you could take in other ways. In larger games you could take more than one Inquisitor That way Inquisitors would rightly be the defining feature of the army, and a valid choice over Captains or Cannonesses. Alternatively if you wanted, you could take an HQ choice from one of the Chambers Militant and build an army based purely around one of those instead.
Likewise allies would be more logical. Anyone wishing to take Inquisitorial allies (with some exceptions like assasins) would first have to field an Inqisitor who authorised their deployment. A Space Marine player could choose to represent a chapter like the Relictors siding with a radical inquisitor and featuring Daemon Hosts, powerful psykers and/or devastating Xenos weapons. Alternatively, you could represent a more orthodox Chapter like the Black Templars siding with a puritanical Ordo Malleus Inquisitor and his retinue of Grey Knights against a daemonic incursion, or with the Ordo Hereticus against a rogue psyker. Similarly, the Ultramarines could take up cause with the Ordo Xenos to take on the Tyranids.
I’ve said something similar about an “all-in-one” Inquisition codex many times in the past.
Army list as-is, the only difference between the Inquisition armies is the chamber militant/seconded forces option for the Ordo in question. Thus, it becomes four army lists in one book.
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We could just collect 100.000 authographs from different countries and the EU and then send it to the European Parliament, my teacher in Sociologics ( well something like that XD ) told me that if you could get enough people to sign up for a petition, the EP would be forced to discuss it ;D
And then we’ll have 100.000 people saying they want a new line of CD’s, including an armybook xD
(Let’s keep on dreaming, our day will come, 'till then: “Please stop the torrent of marines.”.)
