Let’s discuss some cool new armies Games Workshop ought to make for the Grimdark.

40K is placing out new books left and proper, however few of them are actually “new”. Rather they’re updates of outdated books, or bringing old-school concepts again into the fold. Even Votann are a rehash of a basic military. That’s not a foul factor, nevertheless it’s been without end since 40K has actually introduced in a brand new military, whether or not in idea or lore. You could should look way back to T’au Empire, which regardless of being the “new” military has been round for 20 years now. Age of Sigmar then again is fairly consistently bringing in new and attention-grabbing armies and loopy takes on outdated ones. With the Codex cycle nearly full, GW could be on the lookout for some new concepts to maintain pumping out books. So in the present day I current three military concepts that GW ought to completely steal from me, with my full blessing.

3. The Army With Psychic Guns

Now we’ve actually had some “super” psychic armies in 40K earlier than. Grey Knights and Thousand Sons spring to mine as prime examples, however there are others with loads of powers. However even in probably the most psychically highly effective military their spells nonetheless have a tendency to easily complement the remainder of the military, giving it a lift moderately than being its main supply of injury.

So what for those who made a military that basically performed in a different way by having psychics be their predominant supply of injury. They might as an example merely not have weapons, having developed previous the purpose of utilizing weapons. They would have only a loopy psychic section, no capturing, after which okay shut fight. I feel this may very well be fairly attention-grabbing new faction.

2. Non-Imperium/Chaos Humans

Humans are one of the crucial prolific races within the galaxy and whereas they might not be probably the most quite a few, they nearly actually management probably the most worlds. We know that not all human worlds belong to the Imperium, nor have all non-Imperium worlds fallen to Chaos. Yet at the moment these are the one choices for fielding people. I feel a brand new non-aligned human faction may very well be actually cool. This might one thing just like the outdated Space Pirates, who fought the Imperium, or a bunch of hyper-advanced planets that by no means be part of the Imperium, possibly utilizing pristine STC/Dark Age tech. Heck, even a bunch of breakaway worlds compelled to fend for themselves after the opening of the Great Rift.

1. Humans and Xenos Together

I’ve at all times appreciated the concept of mixed-species armies. They get to have a extremely cool combined visible attraction, and mix loads of cool concepts. I’d like to see some type of grand alliance of races sort military. Right now the closest now we have is the T’au Empire, and their line is fairly missing on this regard, actually being dominated by the T’au themselves for a number of editions. We additionally had a brief teaser of this when Guilliman and Yvraine labored collectively.

In truth, GW has carried out armies like this earlier than, the Rogue Trader Era pirate military had combined species and Cities of Sigmar in AoS mixes people and non-humans in a extremely cool power, hampered much less by its core concept and extra by it primarily being a graveyard for outdated Warhammer Fantasy models. I’d actually prefer to see one thing cool like that added to 40K. I feel this type of cool and new military would actually add so much to 40K.

Let us know what armies you’d like added to the sport, down within the feedback!

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