Portent kirjoitti: 1) The new Hive Tyrant model is unbelievably awesome! Jes Goodwin's done it again! It uses the 2nd Edition model as its spiritual successor, but improves on it by quite a bit... Book out in June (army deal in May)
2) Not sure of biomorph names, or point costs, but it will be possible to have a Carnifex with a toughness of 7, or one with 5 wounds. And you'll be able to do the 8 monstrous creature army, but that will probably be most of your points! They showed a shadow outline of the new model, and mentioned that EVERY biomorph for it will have bits on the sprue...
3) NO Genesteeler cult list in the book, but they definitely want to do it it the future (Possibly in the oft mentioned Alienhunters book, which was hinted at being a LONG ways off). It is possible though, by using the Brood Lord (Big Huggy Bear HQ Steeler) to have an ALL Steeler army.
4) The "background" (no dead kittens here!) is being moved forward with the 'Nids, which is how they're explaining the new studio color scheme.
5) NO Harlequins in the upcoming Eldar codex, and no Dark Eldar in that one either (no dates! But seemingly a bit of a ways off. Black Templars are next, with Orks somewhat strongly hinted at as next after that. But, as always, anything beyond two books out is subject to change). Phil Kelly said he'd like to do a Chapter Approved on them though... And that the Dark Eldar will get their own book sometime in the future...
6) This one took me back a bit: NO PLASTIC DROP POD is planned, at all. They were rather sure of this. Stated it strongly. So, will this be the "Wave Serpent" for the Marines? Or will Forge World continue to reap the benefits?
7) Phil Kelly mentioned wanting to do something more for the Necrons, using the "bastard red headed step child" C'Tan, the Outsider. Possibly with a new troop time as well (No timetable given).
Inisfail kirjoitti:Space Marines
Next up in the roller-coaster tri-system seminar was Space Marines. Marneus Calgar and his bodyguard were shown off. Mention was made of Calgar's Land Raider shown in White Dwarf 303, which Phil refered to as a "Pimp My Ride" Land Raider. The Space Marine painting guide and the new Terminators were shown off, the latter being largely nothing new as most of us in the seminar room had already gotten our mitts on a box (or two!).
Tyranids
Practically the whole Tyranid range is being redone. Brilliant stuff! The Gaunts, Stealers, Warriors, and Carnifex will be plastic.
The Brood Lord is a nasty HQ choice to help you create an all-Genestealer army. He has S5, T5, counts as a power weapon for attacks, and can Infiltrate (as well as the Genestealers). He cannot, however, use Fleet, as he's simply too big.
The Zoanthrope can have two psychic powers, and has vanes that belch out a gas containing bacteria that attack nearby organisms. This gives the Zoanthrope some bite in an assault.
Synapse creatures aren't the only ones that benefit from no Instant Death. All models within the Synapse range are immune to Instant Death! This was done to promote more use of the "midrange" bugs, such as Warriors. It is said to represent the Hive Mind adapting to new combat methods.
Living ammunition now has rules! You can reroll to wound rolls with any weapon that has living ammunition. This includes fleshborers, devourers, and deathspitters. Termagants are now mighty little bugs with their guns, but the points cost for these weapons has been adjusted to match their new effectiveness. Make of that what you will.
A silhouette of the new Carnifex was shown, and it's a big, hunched bug. He has several options, including +1T, +1W, 2+ Sv, D6 Attacks, and Regeneration. As has been rumored, any Carnifex under 115 points counts as an Elites choice. No minimum army points were mentioned for this, so it's possible any size Tyranid army has the option of running six Carnifexes.
"Make your own hive fleet" is gone. It was too confusing, so they scrapped it and made Tyranids customizable to a degree hardly ever before imagined. As they suggested, there is no "special hive fleet", the Hive Mind will be quick to spread useful mutations, and will test other mutations across several warzones.
Tyranid seeding swarms will still be around, but as a downloadable list on the Internet.
Codex: Black Templars
We were shown a picture of Paul Dainton working on the cover for it, and hinted that it could be out soon. There is supposed to be "lots of goodness" for them, both with rules and models.
Q&A
Basic work on the Eldar has started. Phil hinted at new aspect warriors. The same answer was given for Orks: A lot of preliminary discussion, but not much actual work so far. Alien Hunters are even worse off.
Warhammer 40K will be getting a campaign book like Lustria in the future, but not any time soon
Harlequins could get a Chapter Approved list in the future to allow people to continue using the current model line, this will be a holdover until they can figure out what direction they want to take Harlequins in.
Ghazghkull is not dead.
