Re: COMMENT: does 40k need a new race?
Posted by BobbieTheDamned on Feb 28, 2011; 5:09pm
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/COMMENT-does-40k-need-a-new-race-tp6073096p6074095.html
They did have a full army list in 3rd or 4th ed, was a chapter approved list but still seemed to work quite well. I think that was before the FW extra units so with those as well you'd probably get a fairly well-rounded army. The Kroot are pretty technologically inept though so you're really going to struggle against tanks, as they have no equivalent so far and no heavy weapons.
There's always room in the 40k universe for more races, typically you get an extra one each edition, though 5th hasn't had a new army yet. 2nd edition had the most new armies released for it I believe, even if you don't count different marine codexes as new armies.
Personally I'd love GW to do something interesting with some of the races already hinted to, like the Kroot or the Demiurg. They definately need to do something new rather than repeatedly re-re-re-re-releasing the same space marines and then saying they're the only thing that sells. Of course they are they're all that you release.
There's plenty of stuff in the background that GW is just plain ignoring that would make great tabletop armies, how awesome would for instance an Adeptus Mechanicus army be? They do have full armies, they're in the background all the time, and there would be chances to have a lot of compatability with the IG plastics to boost the variety there. However doing something 'new' is probably seen as too risky by the shareholders so we'll just get more and more of the same space marine chapters.