Goatboy right here with what the good cash thinks the long run holds for the 40K Primarchs, CSMs, and Marines as we head into 2026!
Goatboy right here and we obtained awhile earlier than we see one other superior 40K GW preview. I wager the following one we see will push the brand new eleventh Version fairly closely with showcasing that supposed boxed set. It looks like we’re retreading a number of the previous battlegrounds so will see if the rumors maintain true for Armageddon. I don’t need to speak about that although. I need to as an alternative see if I can guess what the long run holds for the Iron Warriors tidbit we noticed on the finish.
Perturabo – the Subsequent Chaos Primarch?
The massive factor I feel we have to speak about is the actual fact we haven’t had a Primarch launched for 40k in a bit. This has me considering Perturabo is coming and that has me asking a ton of questions on what this would possibly truly imply. I’m wondering if this would be the first non big Daemonic Primarch for Chaos. I ask this as the one manner I can think about Perturabo as an enormous monster like Magnus, Fulgrim, or Mortarion can be if he has transformd into some sort of big daemonic engine of destruction. I get that it will match into the grand scheme of 40K’s ever escalating state of issues. However as an alternative of that, what if GW made him like Roboute or the Lion?
What if he’s only a massive dude sized like these guys and given guidelines that match up. What if he’s extra akin to a bizarre Daemon Prince desk measurement sensible with a bit extra wounds and the flexibility to be hidden just like the phrase skulking Lone Op? This is able to be a whole change in how we count on the Chaos leaders to be and one thing actually distinctive. Heck we are able to simply make him Lone Op if he’s close to Daemon Engines to make him really feel a bit completely different from the opposite choices within the CSM e book.
He would then have an identical define like the great man Primarchs with a cascade of decisions he can select from. He can be constructed to assist his military out as an alternative of simply being an enormous supersized jerk that runs within the center and smashes stuff. He might give out good machine auras to assist them hit higher. He might give out buffs to rebuke the enemy firepower to assist his associates out. He would have the ability to smash by way of issues if he obtained shut however we shouldn’t see him as this big flying monster of doom. It will even be a cool dividing line design-wise between the enormous sized Cult Legion Primarchs, and the Chaos Undivided ones.
A Fast Leman Russ Apart…
It will be a fairly attention-grabbing flip to the entire design arrange for Chaos versus the Imperium and would have him considering we might go on the other aspect of issues and create Leman Russ because the true daemonic sized menace. This is able to let GW create this monstrous werewolf warped by the energies of the Warp and provides a complete new algorithm to the Imperial aspect of issues. We might have him be a bizarre aura farm of indignant vitality to assist push all his fellow House Wolves into indignant homicide machines. I might let the GW sculptors go loopy with an enormous House Wolf package. It will be a neat backdrop into pushing the brand new version and the brand new yr of 40k insanity.
Lorgar, You Worm!
I hope we see a concerted effort to filling out the CSM aspect of issues with the Legions that also really feel Chaos however doing want their very own e book. I nonetheless would like to see a really fleshed out Phrase Bearers as they’re all the time the enemy within the fluff. Lorgar is an attention-grabbing one in that he must be some sort of big mad preacher giving out his sermon from the again and driving his legion ahead. He looks like one other simple construct however they nonetheless don’t have an thought of what a real zealot for Chaos would appear to be that isn’t only a carbon copy of a Black Templar. With Emperor’s Youngsters now out, GW might resolve to focus Codex: CSM on the 5 Undivided Legions, and provides them some texture.
Basic Marines – Tick Tock…
I get the sensation we’ll see some loopy redone Primaris House Marines quickly. GW loves so as to add extra to the Marine vary and I wager the following version will lastly see a consolidation of firstborn stuff going to Legends – escorted out of the sport quietly after virtually 40 years. The Primaris vary is now huge, and the bloated Marine codex wants a haircut. I fear that some of these items would possibly shift to only CSM or find yourself going away utterly. I might hate to see my Rhino go away however perceive if GW are simply canine uninterested in cranking out that package. Codex House Marines want a ton of models reduce out and I’m certain it’s coming quickly. All of the Marine supplemental codexes appear to have their very own issues that match up so just some snips, some shifts of models, and we might have a a lot smaller and leaner Marine codex to construct off of.
What are you hoping we see subsequent yr? What new reveals which are coming at Adepticon are you excited for?
Thomas Reidy, aka Goatboy, the ever-evil member of BoLS. I do arts, play 40k, and even paint a variety of stuff. I’ve been taking part in Warhammer 40K for the reason that Nineteen Nineties, and have received a number of nationwide occasions together with Adepticon and GW GTs. I have been writing for BoLS for 15 years. Take a look at my Instagram to see what I’m engaged on – or engaged on for somebody. I’m all the time doing one thing interest associated.
