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Topic Started: 14th November 2009 - 04:59 PM (467 Views)
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Just got email from GW, The new beasts of chaos codex will be released iin Febuary!!!!

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im going to be really interested to see the new models. I still think the last batch are fantastic!
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Tenoshii
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I don't think they'll change the beast herds, they're pretty new models. I would expect plastic minotaurs, centigors and bestigors and possibly a plastic chariot kit aswell.

Can't wait to see what they do with the army list now that GW seem intent on all Chaos armies having completely unique units and Warriors getting all the monsters from Beasts. Plenty of new units ahoy! :D
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units that wont be released until 2011 :P
so...she was made of chimps?
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Yeah 2011 if your lucky they still got to do the second wave of daemon models!!!!

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Incoming! Beastmen

In the dark places of the world, the Beastmen have been gathering in number and in February they will unleash their rage on the Warhammer world with renewed vigour. A feral army of twisted monsters, the Beastmen have inhabitant the dark forests and wild places of the world since such places existed. To lead a Beastmen army is to field vast herds of braying, brutish beasts who worship Chaos in all its forms, and who fight to level the civilised world.

This will be the first time ever that the Beastmen have had their own, completely stand-alone, army list. The forthcoming Warhammer Armies: Beastmen is full of twisted monsters old and new, and an all-new lore of magic. The Beastmen are the original inhabitants of the Old World: in February 2010 they come to reclaim it from the hands of Men.


The Beastmen are the original inhabitants of the Old World? This is a new tact, though I can't say if it is a bad one or not. And a new lore. Looks like they are trying to define the Beastmen as something now, rather than just a random collection of mutants and monsters.

Hopefully the are a little bit more inspired than they were with the Warriors of Chaos and Daemons books, and we just don't get variations on the same three troop types.
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sweet! always liked beasts, might go for a second army...

so they've been named beastmen rahter than beasts of chaos?
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probably see plastic bestigors, given the trend so far. I would think plastic chaos trolls, but I doubt it will happen. Dragon ogres deserve new models though/
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i vaguely remember reading somewhere, think it was sixth edition high elves, or maybe a lizardmen book, that when the olds ones came there were 'primitive creatures', that roamed the old world. maybe they were talking about elves and dwarves. i know men didn't come along until the daemons did their thing, but i think beastmen were among the first inhabitants of the old world.
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Nov 14 2009, 12:37 PM
I don't think they'll change the beast herds, they're pretty new models. I would expect plastic minotaurs, centigors and bestigors and possibly a plastic chariot kit as well.

except for the minotaurs, I'd say the same. I would expect the minotaurs, ogres, and trolls to stay metal. I'm also hoping they redo the dragon ogres.

@clanlord Trask: "The Beastmen are the original inhabitants of the Old World?" I think, in the case of dragon ogres and Shaggoths, this is actually true with the current book. The REST of the beastmen however... not so much. I may be wrong on that.
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Nov 14 2009, 10:28 PM
'primitive creatures', that roamed the old world. maybe they were talking about elves and dwarves. i know men didn't come along until the daemons did their thing, but i think beastmen were among the first inhabitants of the old world.

nope. elves and dwarves are both 'younger races' than the Old Ones, Slaans or even Lizardmen.

Dragon Ogres and Shaggoths are both listed as being very old, even by Warhammer world standards. Shaggoths are speculated to pre-date even the Old Ones. So there's certainly at least some Beasts of Chaos that precede men.

Perhaps more importantly though, the Beasts of Chaos were first made when man was still effectively in the Stone Age. One (at least one not of the Emprie) could argue that they have an equal claim on the Old World, seeing as Man had not even approached forming nations when the Beasts began ravaging the Old World. So, original inhabitants... not exactly, but they do seem to have a claim on the Old World which could be re-claimed. ;)
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Plastic bestigors, minotaurs, and apparently split boxes between gors and ungors. Some rumour mongers are fairly disappointed in the new models, there's a new character/monster/thingy that looks like Pumba from The Lion King...
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I'd be expecting no ogres to be in this list. Possibly no trolls either. From what i've read in GW's emails it says it's out with the old in with the new and is going to be very focused on them becoming their own army
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