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I was saying doubtful to the Death Korp I just failed to make it clear enough. I put my faith into getting some Valhallans I need to round out that red army of mine.

So right now as i stand I need

Plastic Baneblade
Stuff to make my custom rough riders
Paint enough to redo my whole army

thanks fully not all my guardsmen had taken more than a basecoat yet

That's the whole point of a codex book, it centers around a single army and gives insights into others. So Chaos is now Red Corsairs (correct?), Space Marines focuses on Ultra Marines and Tau Empire spotlights T'au. Cadians are the trademark IG regiment and one of the most exported regiments in the galaxy, save for maybe penal legions and the Death Korps of Krieg, whose sole purpose is to produce troops for massive wars of attrition where people will die, only to be replaced by thousands more. Only too bad that GW almost let Cadia fall during the Eye of Terror campaign, depriving their then soon to be released army of their home world. D'oh!

Guard is supposed to be more mainstream than Astartes. Marines can't defend every ball of dust and mud. The Imperial Guard does that, they are the first and last line of defence who dig in, face the brunt of the assault and fight back. Not like Marines who rely heavily on artsy special attacks to throw the enemy off-balance.

My main boon for a revised codex is, what more can you add? The current line of doctrines is solid. The addition of restricted troops balances things out to a maximum. While there is always room for new regiments of Guardsmen to bulk out the Imperium, I can safely say that the codex doesn't need much else.

Oh wait! I know: a Griffon (Whirlwind), Exterminator (Predator) and Vanquisher maybe! Gimme back those tanks you marine c*nts!

well some of the rumors ive heard flying around indicate that their will be no more sub-list AKA Armoured Company but rather they will be included in the new dex. That said it would make sense for them to include the existing Leman Russ variants included in the AC.pdf list.

The previous rumour mill of years back mentioned the option for Russ tanks to have turret upgrades such as the battle cannon, twin-linked autocannon and Vanquisher cannon, so who knows what might come in the next edition. But I am dead on sure that the "new" codex will be for the Infantry Company, just like the previous incarnations. All tank armies are not something normally done in 40k, those formations are now more for Apocalypse than anything else.

But I sincerely hope that there will be NO super-heavies included in the new edition. They are Apocalypse only material and should be handled through the Apocalypse book and the Imperial Armour Apocalypse book plus any datasheets released online and in the White Dwarf.

In fact, all super-heavies made by FW are now covered in their latest production, made up to date to Apocalypse terms. Even contains a handy guide on how to use each model for what.

Still, the reintroduction of some old tank patterns (Griffon, Exterminator and Vanquisher) and maybe finally Rough Rider recasts (with option for lasguns, shotguns and hunting lances would be really grand). With those out of the way most models have been revised, save for those awful Ratlings. Maybe some more Guard-like priests.

OB i thought you were dead or somthing. (adds killing back on to-do list)

But really like the did with Chaos I here what they are doing is streamlining it.

Dare I say, Dark Eldar? Bahahaha, as if!

However, if they streamline the Imperial Guard they are basically taking a big step back in terms of customization and flavour. Before the current codex all armies were the same with just different uniforms. Now you can decide the build up of the regiment, something a hundred times better than those Space Marine chapter traits.