A purported World Eater points list is doing the rounds today, but there may be less than meets the eye. Take a look and decide.
We are deep into the Astra Militarum leadup to release, and already folks are chomping at the bit for World Eater news. There has been a lot of talk and yes, we know the codex ic coming. Based on GW needing to fully release AM, and the upcoming holiday season, I expect GW to stick with their normal release strategy.
That is to release something BIG and spicy early in Q1 to shore up numbers in a normally slow quarter and World Eaters fits the bill perfectly. We will have to wait to see if those 10th Edition reboot rumors from a couple months back pan out – but any 9th edition World Eater codex may have a short shelf-life indeed.
Onto World Eaters the “Rumor-Leak”
This image has been doing the rounds all over the place today but this one comes from Bolter & Chainsword’s Handsome Fred:
Some Basics
First off this comes out to:
World Eaters Total Units: 22
- HQ: 5
- Troops: 2
- Elites:4
- Fast Attack: 1
- Heavy Support: 6
- Flyer: 1
- Transport: 1
- Lords of War: 2
Now compare that to say Leagues of Votann, also an all new army, then Thousand Sons – a direct equivalent CSM Cult Legion codex:
Leagues of Votann Total Units: 12
- HQ: 5
- Troops: 1
- Elites:2
- Fast Attack: 2
- Heavy Support: 2
Thousand Sons Total Units: 25
- HQ: 6
- Troops: 3
- Elites:3
- Fast Attack: 2
- Heavy Support: 8
- Flyer: 1
- Transport: 1
- Lords of War: 1
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Thoughts
This one’s got some fishy things going on. first up, The file image has no metadata – which is unnatural. So the metadata was manually deleted. This implies volition on the part of the image creator. Next, It has a lot of things we would expect like Lord Invocatus, but there are some odd omissions. To me in particular only 1 FA choice (Spawn) seems very odd. Now maybe Zerks riding Juggers is good enough for an Elites and or HQ choice, but things like fast assault elements NOT being in a World Eaters codex don’t add up. Where are the Raptors? Where are the Bikers? For that matter, where is the Generic Chaos Lord?
Let’s Talk Angron. I think 360 is a bit light for a Daemon Primarch. Magnus is 450, Mortarion is 490 and a Bloodthirster/Skarbrand runs right around 330. So the question is after all these decades of waiting, do we think Angron should just be a minor variation on a Bloodthirster, or something far greater? Hmmm. Finally that sheet being on page 88 of the codex is a little on the nose. Overall there’s a lot of odd choices and coincidences. Could it be accurate – certainly. But I’m leaning more towards 60/40 in favor it being hoax.
Let the Khornate buyer beware (yet still eagerly awaiting the new codex).
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