Upcoming codecies; what we want and what we expect

[General Biakal]

well im not too sure when the new IG codex is comming but i know it is. I always think a good place to start guessing is with the new realeses of models mooted.

if plastic storm troopers are in the works you can bet they will be made more attractive to use. iv read some wild talk on some pages about "assault 2" hell guns or other such rubbish. but if lots of work has been put into new plastic models they will wantto sell them. so cheaper, better.

valkeyie
if a plastic V is a deffo then i expect it to be the STs main taxi. maybe a gunship version as heavy support.

bye bye ratlings
either a complete erasure or a rebirth.

Ogryns
plastic? cheaper? nork deddog in main codex?

Tanks
iv heard the new (thank god, the old LR is a terrible fitting model) leman russ will have three varients out of the box- normal, demolisher and..... exterminator returns? if forge world are selling loads then maybe. they do use FW as a test bed to see whats popular



what i would like to see- some sort of LIGHT VEHICLE like a jeep or 3-tonner in todays army.  a wheeled light apc with a pintle HS would be just theticket.

increase in chimera armout to 12 11 11   no way a tank is as vulnerable as a sentinel

Rough riders

get rid or provide a motorbike option for cadians. fast attack is a real empty space for IG so fill it. salamnders would be nice...


Platoons
iv a feeling doctorines are gone like elvis but platoons have their own fire support squads. it would be easy to do- just make it so junior officers can have the same support squads as HQs. think about it in a catachan army- possible 33 sentinels in a legal army (although it would be about 15,000pts)!

thoughts?

[MarkRG]

cool ideas mate i like them. i'm in time thinking of a wheeled salamander. what i would also like is maybe to have heavy stubber side sponsons on L russ as defence weapons, this in thory keep them moving firing their lascannon. using the battle cannon more as an artillary gun.

motorbikes yes cool idea i like that.

Sentinels as a regiment sounds very cool with all different types of gats. in fw has a missile laurcher and other conversions available. some of these were in w dwarf about a year ago.

If you likes commisar's maybe he can have a bitch, ie a conscript on temp asignment. He can be used as cannon fodder.

Game on

[Scumdog47]

Plastic Ogryns, hell yeah!

Anything making them cheaper suits me fine.

The new metal ones actually look fairly decent so the design could stay more or less unchanged.

[General Biakal]

that was an assumption more than fact but GW are moving away from metal to plastics and ogryns are a big seller. also the price at the moment is a bit silly. 25pts? bugger off!

iv heard Forge world is a "Proving ground" and what sells well there gets made into plakky (drop pod and baneblade for instance) so i expect maybe a few plakky elysians or kreigs might be in the next codex if they can be bothered.