Sup guys. Wow have the releases been hopping lately from GW. This last weekend we saw the release of the new Space Wolves codex and coming up on the heels of its release the rumors are telling us that Grey Knights are next. Rumor no more as various websites and 40K talking heads have confirmed the rumor not to mention a buddy of mine just shot me a pic of next weeks White Dwarf with you guessed it, Grey Knights on the cover. So before I start with this whole Grey Knights mess, I wanted to give my first impressions of the Space Puppy book. On first impression the book is great. It manages to keep a lot of the flavor of the old dex and bring the costs in line with other newer space marine books. Instead of the beefed up chapter master, they get the beefed up thunderwolf lord with access to runic armor and storm shield at a points discount. Not just that but thunderwolf cavalry are now cheaper and thus easier to take in lists that will not sacrifice a lot making them perfect bodyguards for your lords. The new flyer is also very good with the transport one being the true winner allowing you to take 16 models or 8 terminators and still providing great supporting fire once the cargo has been delivered. The new murderface Dread has great rules and wont cost you an arm and a leg to use. I can only hope when blood angels are redone they get a special dread too. The supplement just improves on the rules and gives you the type of flexibility that I as a CSM player can only dream about. You want to run 6 wolflords, go for it. You want to run a scout army, do it. Space Wolves always get great books and this is no exception. Yes grey hunters got nerfed a bit but you have to realize that they were way under costed compared to other marines (hint, hint CSM). They were brought in line with other imperial marines and for the most part the strength of the codex and supplement really hides this short coming. About the only bad thing I would say about the space wolves release is the Grimnar santa sled. I don't know if someone at GW is hooked on history channels Vikings but making a chariot look like a mini viking longship complete with shields on the side is just horrible. Overall though the pups got a pair of great books.
And now Grey Knights?? Wow what a surprise this was. Right on the heels of the Space Wolves release we get codex Grey Knights. No models for this release just updated rules which is ok in my book. There are several armies that need to be updated and a quick rules update to an army that already has great models is good for the hobby. Release new models with white dwarf rules and your good to go. Now as expected the grey knights are indeed getting the nerf treatment with the rules leak that I have seen so far. Removing all inquisition models, most of the special characters and rules, changing psycannons to salvo weapons, losing psybolt ammo are few of the nerfs that are coming. Along with this a price reduction on all models and some new items including a force weapon gun, awesome formation and maybe the calls of this book sucks could be premature. We only have a couple of days left until the book is released and so everything will be confirmed.
Pics are of my almost complete Storm Raven for my blood angels/space marines. I am hoping to get this army done by October.
