8th Edition

I bet it will be new chaos Eldar... ;-)

Draco wrote:

It can't be right? Probably just some chaos thing, or maybe nids?

Wheres this from?

CptMetal wrote:

I bet it will be new chaos Eldar... ;-)

If they steal my ideas I'll...actually be rather flattered

Squidmaster wrote:

Draco wrote:

It can't be right? Probably just some chaos thing, or maybe nids?

Wheres this from?

http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2016/11/40k-rumors-sisters-of-battle-8th-ed.html

Hmmm, I'm not sure if this is just the inner Nurglite in me (disliking Change), but the 'big change, halfway to AoS' worries me somewhat.

Which halfway? Halfway on the rules/codices/gameplay front? That might be quite welcome actually.

Halfway on the apocalyptic nuking of the setting/reorganisation of all the factions/squatting of the less popular armies front? Hell no that would be really alienating.

Squidmaster wrote:

Wheres this from?

It was originally posted on Bolter and Chainsword then the rumor groups jumped all over it. Here is the original thread on it.
http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/327684-possible-8th-edsob-rumors/

Sorry, but the 'sharp edge alien things' could also MUCH more likely be daemons which follows the SoB Meta a lot better.

A church guarding force going up against daemon sounds way more interesting and possible considering the vast amount of chaos players compared to our little niche group.

I doubt with all certainty that it is not DE.

If they were DE, then they 'WOULD' look more like the eldar in his collection. The fact that he says they dont look anything like his eldar is a further indication that they are not.

sorry folks but that's my two cents

EDIT: Also, this rumour comes from a guy 'On the retail side of things WHO RECENTLY FINISHED TRAINING!!!!!'... Its a new store runner who is fresh at his store not someone at GW HQ, Nottingham.

Get out ur salt shakers and start pouring.

I agree with smith, Chaos Daemons, probably Nurgle or Slaanesh suits a lot better with Sororitas. Maybe Tyranids, but don't know

Anyway true or not rumor, I wonder what GW is gonna do with Dark Eldar, we are the only army with Tyranids that actually miss a decurion

Not in their eyes we're not. You remember "The Kabalite Riding Party" and the one in the covens book that I don't own? Those count in GW's mind; ours was first, and thus weakest, as per usual.

megatrons2nd wrote:

Not in their eyes we're not.  You remember "The Kabalite Riding Party" and the one in the covens book that I don't own?  Those count in GW's mind; ours was first, and thus weakest, as per usual.

It's not the same thing as a Necron decurion for example, is very different. That was a single formation, yes maybe a prototype of a Decurion style-foc but other armies of the 7th edition, like Orks, Space Wolves and Blood Angels that got a codex before the introduction of the decurion, had a formation like our Kabalite Riding Party but they also took a Decurion with a campaign or update.

I'm just hoping we can have the same treatment of those armies before the end. 8th edition can erease Dark Eldar from be an indipendent army and if a decurion do not comes out, maybe this can really be our destiny...

Ultimatejet wrote:

megatrons2nd wrote:

Not in their eyes we're not.  You remember "The Kabalite Riding Party" and the one in the covens book that I don't own?  Those count in GW's mind; ours was first, and thus weakest, as per usual.

It's not the same thing as a Necron decurion for example, is very different. That was a single formation, yes maybe a prototype of a Decurion style-foc but other armies of the 7th edition, like Orks, Space Wolves and Blood Angels that got a codex before the introduction of the decurion, had a formation like our Kabalite Riding Party but they also took a Decurion with a campaign or update.

I'm just hoping we can have the same treatment of those armies before the end. 8th edition can erease Dark Eldar from be an indipendent army and if a decurion do not comes out, maybe this can really be our destiny...

That Happens, and my army will hit ebay real quick. I'm already a bit disenfranchised with 40K as it is due to the rules bloat, and the imbalances in the game. I've played about 8 games in the last 4 years for the same reason.

I play once a week with my friends with 7th edition rules with no faq and no supplements and I sometimes manage to win with my Dark Eldar. We still have fun and we're not sure to introduce 8th edition in our games, maybe a fun made (like 9th for fantasy) edition could better fit our desires. We will see, 7th edition have its problem but I don't want a new edition in which I have to sell one of my two army.

Even if 8th edition will ruin them, I will not sell them because they're the most beautiful miniatures GW have ever created and I love the background.

Ultimatejet wrote:

I agree with smith, Chaos Daemons, probably Nurgle or Slaanesh suits a lot better with Sororitas. Maybe Tyranids, but don't know

Anyway true or not rumor, I wonder what GW is gonna do with Dark Eldar, we are the only army with Tyranids that actually miss a decurion

Is there a point to that by now? Even if a DE decurion came out in January, it would be obsolete two or three months later when 8th Edition rules change everything again. It wouldn't be the first time, but I for one would not be thrilled.

Barking Agatha wrote:

Is there a point to that by now? Even if a DE decurion came out in January, it would be obsolete two or three months later when 8th Edition rules change everything again. It wouldn't be the first time, but I for one would not be thrilled.

(Note: Please read the following as sarcasm with some truth)

Who cares, we didnt choose the true kin because they are easy to win with.

We chose them because they are evil, twisted, self centered bastards that play the game on hard/expert level.

We use the tactics of pain because we like it and we are used to enduring the pain that our GW Overlords give us.

If u wanna run a competitive, true-kin-esque faction and win a lot, go play Corsairs.

Otherwise, grab ur BDSM gear, drink ur absinthe and go teach the chaos player what true depravity in the 40k universe is.

WE DONT NEED NO STINKING NEW DEX!!!!

@smith1186 Exactly.

Let the frail Monkeigh worry about "the next greatest thing". We will destroy them with our dark light and poison which has remained largely unchanged since 3ed Ed.

Only the cunning survive in the Dark City, why should it be any different on the table-top?

Barking Agatha wrote:

Ultimatejet wrote:

I agree with smith, Chaos Daemons, probably Nurgle or Slaanesh suits a lot better with Sororitas. Maybe Tyranids, but don't know

Anyway true or not rumor, I wonder what GW is gonna do with Dark Eldar, we are the only army with Tyranids that actually miss a decurion

Is there a point to that by now? Even if a DE decurion came out in January, it would be obsolete two or three months later when 8th Edition rules change everything again. It wouldn't be the first time, but I for one would not be thrilled.

Yes there is no point for the purpousal of the game. Decurion will be obsolete in 2-3 months as 8th edition is probably coming out in spring 2017.

A Dark Eldar decurion/formation release means that Dark Eldar will have the "power" to remain an indipendent army. If we're going to be the only "major army" without a decurion before the 8th edition it means that probably we will become, even more than now and totally, just an Eldar supplement and I personally don't like it because they're very different.

Grey Knights probably will get their decurion in the next Wulfen campaign book.

So I am guessing that there is no GK decurion in this wolfen release? That leaves us, GK, and the Nids? (not counting SoB/Inq)

I think so, and Inq is getting a new supplement soon.

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I think so, and Inq is getting a new supplement soon.

From what I've read: Nope. Codex: Imperial Agents is just all those small factions (Inquisition, Militarum Tempestus etc.) rolled into one book. I do expect that those factions get some rule updates etc. but it won't be a supplement for the Inquisition (and most likely won't contain that much new stuff that I would count it as a supplement for any of the other factions). Still looking forward to it as I just started building a Militarum Tempestus army and I have some Inquisition too. ^^

That's just it, if they are all in one book there is likely a way to field them with the support they need in a single detachment. So far I have not gotten the impression this will be a simple anthology.

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That's just it, if they are all in one book there is likely a way to field them with the support they need in a single detachment. So far I have not gotten the impression this will be a simple anthology.

Hmm... sounds interesting. So that would be Inquisition, Commissar and Tempestus Command Squad as HQ choices, Scions and Henchmen Warband as Troops and Custodes, Sisters of Silence, Gray Knight Termis etc. as elite choices + vehicles.

I'll already be pleased if each of those squads get some love. Give the Scions their Infiltrate back and lift that stupid "Ordo XY only" restriction for the Inquisition (the Ordo Xenos can't take a Power Fist for example).

Also: Relics!

More likely there will be a Macro-detachment with a wide variety of formations for each of the above. Although what your suggesting would also be very/more interesting and more like what people have wanted based on web chatter.

I love all these rumours of 8th ed when the previous editions have all lasted 4-6 years save 6th ed which lasted 2.

Given the new releases of late, 8th would likely be a minor set of updates incorporating the FAQ - more 7.5 than a true 8th. GW are not in the habit of releasing a codex only to invalidate it a month or 2 later by a complete rule set change.

No? Have you ever heard what happened to the last real Sisters codex?

Uh, The End TImes.

Massive releases, new rules sets, and months later, bam.

Granted, its the other system, but still.



TO add, we haven't really had a major rules shift in a LONG time. Even 3rd to 4th, 4th to 5th, 5th to 6th, and 6th to 7th, those were smallish jumps in rules variations. Nothing MAJOR really changing between them, and no books made obsolete by them.

The last time we had a major shift was from 2nd to 3rd, and at the time, Sisters was released in August 1997, with the release of 3rd Edition and the new Space Marine and Dark Eldar books being September/October/November 1998. Minimum over six months.

And I notice that by adding, I also argued the point against myself.




3rd edition Sisters (Witchhunters) were released in April 2004, with 4th edition dropping in August 2004, just 4ish months later.
But 4th was just a little step. More of a 3.5 itself.