Pyschic Awakening: Speculation

[Sete]

I would bet spring time. Around March

Edited October 25, 2019 by Sete

[Taliesin]

Crossposting what SFpanzer posted elsewhere, this looks like a very legit leak to me.

 

 

 

 

Psychic Awakening: Blood of Baal then next Kikasstou has not been wrong on anything yet.

 

I see Space Wolves get a battleforce alongside the rest of the factions that were rumoured to be in the books, but no Orks.

There is however one for T'au, based on the battleforces I would think book 4 might be Space Wolves vs T'au.

 

Also would confirm the rumors that a Chaos Sorcerer and Mephiston will be the new models accompanying both books.

Edited October 25, 2019 by Taliesin

[Triszin]

Battle forces are the Xmas boxes.

 

 

This appears to go through year end.

 

 

Pa4, was rumored to be Jan, Ork v wolves box set

[Panzer]

 

 

I see Space Wolves get a battleforce alongside the rest of the factions that were rumoured to be in the books, but no Orks.

There is however one for T'au, based on the battleforces I would think book 4 might be Space Wolves vs T'au.

 

 

Battleforce boxes are completely separate and have nothing to do with other releases. Also there's no way the T'au would get where PA4 is supposed to be. They don't have FTL travel and barely got roughly in the direction to Baal thanks to their new accidentally created wormhole.

[Marshal Loss]

The second list has attracted some criticism, as the Ogres are called the Fire Mountain Gut Busters, per the Spiel preview, not the Oldheim Ogres (which is the name of an oldschool BB team). That being said, all of these releases look plausible

[Slasher956]

apparently as said else where (FB) GW have done a limited/LCB run of the old metal teams a little while before /overlapping the release of the new teams.

 

IF this is the case then that list makes 100% sense

[Marshal Loss]

Ah good point, thanks for the correction. Looks like a shoe-in then

[Vermintide]

 

 

All the fluff has him being massive by marine standards.

 

Additionally, all the fluff flat-out states his body is breaking down due to his psychic powers. So him undergoing the Rubcion would be a BAD IDEA per the fluff (as he'd very likely die, and VERY LIKELY explode into a warp rift because of it)

 

 

honestly, if they wanted it, the could have that doing the rubicon would regenerate him completely and make his body more stable. Not saying that'll happen, just saying I could easily see them going either way with it, if they really wanted.

 

 

There's no "if they really wanted" about it. Do you think they're gonna let a little bit of flavour text stop them from selling a new model for one of the most popular characters? Or do you think they're gonna take the chance to fluff it out as PRIMARIS MEPHISTON: LIKE MEPHISTON FUSED WITH ANOTHER MEPHISTON.

 

[NTaW]

It could be that it's a redone Mephiston who is subtly larger in size than a normal marine and thus has been confused for a Primaris release. Not overly invested in it one way or the other, just a possibility.

[Closet Skeleton]

It could be that it's a redone Mephiston who is subtly larger in size than a normal marine and thus has been confused for a Primaris release. Not overly invested in it one way or the other, just a possibility.

 

There's a difference between a technical possibility and a real possibility.

[Doctor Perils]

Weren't the cypher lords released alongside the Warcry box set - for me, that they should be included in that list, along with precisely every rumour that's been released so far, but no new information... Starts alarm bells ringing imo

[Bryan Blaire]

Weren't the cypher lords released alongside the Warcry box set - for me, that they should be included in that list, along with precisely every rumour that's been released so far, but no new information... Starts alarm bells ringing imo

Or shortly there after - they are available now, as are all the gangs on the list from Warcry.

[Slave to Darkness]

Very interesting indeed. I wonder if that indicates a Fabius/Lucius/DE connection somewhere down the road.

That would be pretty sweet actually, always fancied runing my Hellbound with a Dark Eldar Haermonculous covern, really nail home the Hellraiser asthetic that Im running with. 

[Lord_Caerolion]

 

Weren't the cypher lords released alongside the Warcry box set - for me, that they should be included in that list, along with precisely every rumour that's been released so far, but no new information... Starts alarm bells ringing imo

Or shortly there after - they are available now, as are all the gangs on the list from Warcry.

 

 

Actually, given that they're being released around the time of a Slaves to Darkness AoS book, I see it as being the same as how the Warhammer Underworlds/Shadespire bands got both an "Underworlds release" and an "AoS release". We've already had the Warcry releases for these warbands, but I fully expect them to be included in the Slaves to Darkness book, so can see GW releasing them without the Warcry cards included.

[Taliesin]

So to sum up, looks like we get Book 2 on pre-order on November 23rd and then Book 3 one week later.

Surprising, but very excellent if true.

[Marshal Loss]

Next story up: A Test of Faith

[Xenith]

Russ appears.

 

Maybe it's Russ's acknowledgement that he is a psyker after all, and his magic weather control shamans have been warp wyrds the whole time? That's a huge awakening. 

 

That said, Endless Spells 40k seems about right. What was that old marine spell with the ancient beast of myth that runs in a straight line 18" from the psyker? I'm sure people would like a giant fist floating about the battlefield to represent "Assail".

 

Realistically, Mankind has been on the cusp of a psychic awakening since 30,000 in the fluff. It's why the emperor wanted to protect them from the warp. With the great tear in the sky, stands to reason a lot of latent warp powers will be activated. 

[Panzer]

Next story up: A Test of Faith

 

Fairly boring and predictable story imo. Also I kinda assumed that we're passed the Eldar focus for PA now and would get stories focussing on other things.

[Dark Shepherd]

So to sum up, looks like we get Book 2 on pre-order on November 23rd and then Book 3 one week later.

Surprising, but very excellent if true.

Book 4 better be no later than January. Preferably mid January

 

Think Anne Margaret's not coming/we're not getting endless psychic powers with PA

[DeadFingers]

Think Anne Margaret's not coming

The what now?

[Dark Shepherd]

 

 

Think Anne Margaret's not coming

The what now?

Full Metal Jacket :)

[DeadFingers]

Full Metal Jacket

Oh. Gotta admit it's been quite a while since I last watched Full Metal Jacket, so the reference didn't even cross my mind.

Edited October 28, 2019 by DeadFingers

[Red_Shift]

With the weekend's pre order announcements the leaked release list looks to be accurate. I'm afraid it's completely killed my interest in the psychic awakening. GW are very good at ramping up the hype and generating speculation but looking at the books and the paltry releases that support them it seems not very much happens at all, although if I collected one of the featured sub factions I guess they might be interesting background reading. Not enough interesting progression to get me to buy into the series though and I'd be interested to know how many people are intending to pick up each of these books.

[Sete]

With the lack of BT associated goodies, not even a sprue and transfers, I think I will skip it aswell. 

Unless the Start Collecting Primaris box  brings a surprise, which I know its unlikely.

[Red_Shift]

Missed opportunities abound. IIRC the Lictor is still finecast and could have been plasticised to support the third book. BT could have had an upgrade sprue. I had high hopes that some less loved factions would be given some attention but it's looking very unlikely.