Solar Auxilia is apparently the mystery army

[Petitioner's City]

So there is a fair bit of swearing in the thread so not sure if perfect to share visual images - but here is a link to the original conversation - https://discord.com/channels/832649952043204659/1137485132299768020/1140346586380111983

[Astartes Consul]

3 hours ago, Petitioner's City said:

So there is a fair bit of swearing in the thread so not sure if perfect to share visual images - but here is a link to the original conversation - https://discord.com/channels/832649952043204659/1137485132299768020/1140346586380111983

 

Had a good laugh at some of the general chat and misty-eyed nostalgia going through that! Also now quite hyped for the reveal.

[Orion]

So this rumour list is dead now?

[Cruor Vault]

20 minutes ago, JayJapanB said:

So this rumour list is dead now?

100% Dead...  It was obvious nonsense.

[Noserenda]

Oh yeah the Editorialised reddit summary has been dead since arrival, the discord leaker i think its premature to write off personally given all his recent stuff is at least second hand conversations, i certainly believe they used to work at HQ based on some other stuff anyhow.

[OttoVonAwesome]

On 8/28/2023 at 11:14 AM, Gorgoff said:

The rumor came from Discord and the one who brought it up already said that he was just speculating. I already said that so we shouldn't keep it alive. 

I couldn't imagine any universe in wich GW would release an army without any infantry at all anyway 100% it's gonna be Solar Auxilia the epic set and new heavy sentinel pretty much garuntee it. I just really wanted the older tidbit about the army being completely new to be true wich it seems very very unlikely now but I've been obbsessed with the generic imperial army guys since they first popped up in heresy art.

 

Probably gonna end up making a traitor militia since the chaos guardsmen as I mentioned are wearing that armour helmets slightly off but the original blackstone ones are actually even closer to them they just lack that rim that goes around it. It hurts knowing that GW basically has the base files sitting around for them and no plans to actually release them. Almost as much as it hurts that Skitarrii actually have physical models and no rules. lol

 

It's going to be pretty glorious when all the factions are actually represented alot of why artillery sucks is the marine on marine meta and it's gonna be hella fun to drag those tanks out of semi retirement to blow up some Solar Auxilia. Hopefully next year mechnicum gets the treatment and I got my fingers crossed sisters of silence and dark admech are gonna be dual 30k/40k releases.

[The Scorpion]

On 8/31/2023 at 6:54 PM, OttoVonAwesome said:

I couldn't imagine any universe in wich GW would release an army without any infantry at all

 

Never ever underestimate the sheer lack of priorities that GeeDubs/ForgeWorld has.
Remember that not only did we get a Mk3 revamp before the missing Mk2 and Mk5, or even the older Mk4 kit, but that this revamp changed the aesthetic of the Mark3 and caused a fair amount of bickering among the community.

It would be entirely in character to release a plethora of tanks and expect people to buy chunks of resin voidsmen.

[Marshal Rohr]

Valraks rumor says there is infantry so there is infantry. He hasn’t been wrong in a long time. 

[The Scorpion]

On 8/30/2023 at 7:56 PM, JayJapanB said:

So this rumour list is dead now?

 

Wasn't Valrak the first to leak this stuff as soon as it hit the AoD Discord?

[WrathOfTheLion]

That doesn't mean its his information. There's a big difference between covering something you see on the internet vs relaying something you've actually heard. I can certainly see why he's hesitant to cover other things that go around, given that the community at large has a problem with making that distinction.

 

Moving back to Solar Auxilia, they almost certainly are the army, given the sculpts for Legionnes Imperialis. Given the statements they've made in articles on the design process, it makes total sense to be so.

Edited December 14, 2023 by WrathOfTheLion

[Marshal Rohr]

21 hours ago, The Scorpion said:

 

Wasn't Valrak the first to leak this stuff as soon as it hit the AoD Discord?

He made a video saying he heard different info

[sarabando]

On 12/14/2023 at 11:57 PM, WrathOfTheLion said:

That doesn't mean its his information. There's a big difference between covering something you see on the internet vs relaying something you've actually heard. I can certainly see why he's hesitant to cover other things that go around, given that the community at large has a problem with making that distinction.

 

Moving back to Solar Auxilia, they almost certainly are the army, given the sculpts for Legionnes Imperialis. Given the statements they've made in articles on the design process, it makes total sense to be so.

from what i can see he seems hesitant because he doesnt want to be seen as leaking stuff that shouldnt be leaked, he can technically get in a lot of trouble if he was getting insider information and making it public which is why he tries to clarify that its not him leaking images etc hes just reporting on them. 

[Waaagh?]

Pinch of salt with anything he says. His "sources" aren't always reliable, just more clickbait content. 

 

Good chance it will be SA but it could also be Sisters of Silence etc. 

[WrathOfTheLion]

There's a pinch of salt to be said with anything said on the internet.

 

As evidence however, @TheMawr mentioned in another thread (and I confirmed) that Solar Auxilia have started to be marked sold out online on the warhammer webstore, which is a very strong indicator.

 

As of now, on the US webstore, the Tactical Command, the two Veletaris squads, the Basilisk/Medusa, Dracosan and Malcador Annihilator are all no longer available, and the Lasrifle Section is also no longer available/sold out online on the UK store. So vast swaths of that range are being taken down now, which as we've seen over the course of 2E is a very strong sign that something is happening there.

Edited December 22, 2023 by WrathOfTheLion

[MoriyaSchism]

56 minutes ago, WrathOfTheLion said:

There's a pinch of salt to be said with anything said on the internet.

 

As evidence however, @TheMawr mentioned in another thread (and I confirmed) that Solar Auxilia have started to be marked sold out online on the warhammer webstore, which is a very strong indicator.

 

As of now, on the US webstore, the Tactical Command, the two Veletaris squads, the Basilisk/Medusa, Dracosan and Malcador Annihilator are all no longer available, and the Lasrifle Section is also no longer available/sold out online on the UK store. So vast swaths of that range are being taken down now, which as we've seen over the course of 2E is a very strong sign that something is happening there.

That's a bit strange because the Malcador Annihilator doesn't come with any Solar Auxilia crew. It still ships with M41 era Imperials and Renegades. The Solar Auxilia tank crew and Rapier platforms are still up. On the EU side I see that the Tactical Command, Veletaris Storm Section, Auxilia Basilisk, Lasrifle Section and oddly enough the Solar Auxilia army cards for Legions Imperialis are listed as sold out online. Could be an error, but it seems that the only tank that's sold out online is the Medusa/Basilisk while everything else is listed as temporarily out of stock.

Edited December 22, 2023 by MoriyaSchism

[WrathOfTheLion]

9 hours ago, MoriyaSchism said:

That's a bit strange because the Malcador Annihilator doesn't come with any Solar Auxilia crew. It still ships with M41 era Imperials and Renegades. The Solar Auxilia tank crew and Rapier platforms are still up. On the EU side I see that the Tactical Command, Veletaris Storm Section, Auxilia Basilisk, Lasrifle Section and oddly enough the Solar Auxilia army cards for Legions Imperialis are listed as sold out online. Could be an error, but it seems that the only tank that's sold out online is the Medusa/Basilisk while everything else is listed as temporarily out of stock.

I think the Malcador was designed prior to Solar Auxilia, imported from the Imperial Armour 40k campaigns. Going forward, it'll be a Solar Auxilia vehicle. We can see in Legions Imperialis the Malcador redesigned a bit with the trim more typical of a Solar Auxilia vehicle.

 

LI is another good cross reference to what we may expect for them. The Leman Russ is a solid guess for a kit that may come out, as well as that new Heavy Sentinel. We'll have to wait and see the scope of it all, but anything gone off the store has a good chance for being in the first wave. Anything that doesn't have dedicated 30k kits, like the Leman Russ or the new Sentinel are harder to pin of course.

Edited December 23, 2023 by WrathOfTheLion