The Rumour Engine - 26th November, 2024

[Joe]

 

WarCom Article.

 

Engine of some description. Too clean to be Orks, doesn't look 100% Squat-styled, so possible Imperial?

 

 

[Lord Marshal]

The panels and the bar-thingy make me think Votann.

 

Edited 3 hours ago by Lord Marshal

[CL_Mission]

If it's not Votann then I'm going to go with Space Marine

[Vassakov]

The turbine design is 100% Primaris space marines, and the bar shares some design similarity with the stuff that CL_Mission has posted.

 

But I didn't think there was anything in the pipeline for Marines, unless it's for Wolves maybe? Doesn't really feel like they want a vehicle though. 

[Dezron]

4 minutes ago, Vassakov said:

But I didn't think there was anything in the pipeline for Marines, unless it's for Wolves maybe? Doesn't really feel like they want a vehicle though. 

Who knows, maybe Santa Grimnar will give Primaris Jetbikes to all Space Marines for Christmas.

[Dried]

We can see the antigrav plate of the space marine vehicle just below the reactor. So whatever this is it's relatively small compared to other primaris vehicles.
The paint of the armouring over the reactor feels also light than the ultramarine blue.
I'd say a White Scars named character on grav bike? (if it was not named it would be painted blue)

Edited 2 hours ago by Dried

[Boytoy]

Back of a new, souped-up bestigor chariot for old world

[WrathOfTheLion]

The turbine is very Primaris as mentioned, so I lean towards that. They've had bars like that on some of the other kits, like the Invader ATV iirc. I wouldn't be surprised to see a smaller wave for them sometime this edition, like they did the two editions prior.

[Marshal Rohr]

That’s an impulsor plate underneath it. It’s probably a 40K Scimitar knock off. 

Edited 2 hours ago by Marshal Rohr

[Ramell]

The Storm Speeder also has similar bars, and the turbine end. Some kind of Jetbike is my vote as well.

[Halandaar]

Component on the right looks the same shape as the grav plates on Repulsors, Impulsors etc. So it's something Astartes-ey

[TheMawr]

Maybe the rumored grey knights vehicle ?

[Chapter Master Valrak]

Space Marines are getting a lot of equal attention cake 

[Rhavien]

Primaris Flyer? 

[Lord Nord in Gravis Armour]

[TheMawr]

8 minutes ago, Chapter Master Valrak said:

Space Marines are getting a lot of equal attention cake 

 

For a subfaction ? 

The white element on top left makes me think its not in ultramarines scheme,  thats why I thought grey knights over something else. 

 

Edit : the other top left.. Oh wait thats usually called top right ....

Edited 2 hours ago by TheMawr

[Muck1ng]

Sammael from the Dark Angels? 

Edited 2 hours ago by Muck1ng

[CL_Mission]

I'm generally not big on flyers but if they want to retire the Stormhawk and Stormtalon and replace both with some new, hopefully better looking, interceptor I'm down for it. Ideally they'd retire those two plus the Stormraven and replace them with something more akin to the Storm Eagle (well ideally ideally they'd retire them and replace them with nothing) but this looks too small to be something like a storm eagle. There's another thruster above the one we can clearly see and I could imagine another pair opposite like the back end of the Repulsor so it could be about the size of an interceptor craft.

Would seem weird to introduce jet bikes now we all ready have regular Primaris bikes but GW does do some weird things sometimes and Space Marines have both types in 30k so who knows.

[phandaal]

41 minutes ago, Dried said:

We can see the antigrav plate of the space marine vehicle just below the reactor. So whatever this is it's relatively small compared to other primaris vehicles.
The paint of the armouring over the reactor feels also light than the ultramarine blue.
I'd say a White Scars named character on grav bike? (if it was not named it would be painted blue)

 

Do not forget Sammael! We still need (yes, need) the upsizing for Ravenwing.

[TheMawr]

But sammaels bike would have black plating ? ( the white elements seem to be only in the embossings for ravenwing.) also his jetbike is a relic afaik, while he will likely be primarised, I dont think his jetbike will.   ( I still hang on to my theory that this edition every and all resin 40k will be updated or purged, but from my pov this doesnt fit him, could be wrong. )

 

 

btw equal attention cake makes me think "eldar get a vyper, spacemarines get a vyper"

Edited 1 hour ago by TheMawr

[CL_Mission]

54 minutes ago, TheMawr said:

For a subfaction ? 

The white element on top left makes me think its not in ultramarines scheme

What if we've all been hoodwinked and it's Khan rather than Russ returning next, this is his shiny new jetbike!

[Cyrox]

Gonna guess at this:

 

 

[LostTemplar]

I think its a new primaris vehicle. the exhausts match the repulsor/impulsor/speeder. It looks a bit more compact than the storm speeder/impulsor.

 

But it does look like its got two engines on top of each other. Are Primaris missing any vehicle that the truborn had but hasn't been primarisified yet? 

 

Something small and fast?

 

Maybe the scout transport?

[Sergeant Centurion]

Vindicator with repulsor fields, a new flyer. Thats my bet.

[TheMawr]

23 minutes ago, CL_Mission said:

What if we've all been hoodwinked and it's Khan rather than Russ returning next, this is his shiny new jetbike!

 

Not going to lie, this was my first thought.

And this has been a thought even before this rumor engine.

 

The way drukhari are pushed towards the back end of the edition, Karandras weirdly missing ( ideal candidate for a commoragh narrative) in PL update, no trazynn update ( another ideal candidate for a commoragh narrative.) makes me think the end of edition campaign may involve commoragh.

 

However, I always had this feeling that the horusheresy-level equality in 40k between the non-divergent chapters only exists in the fanbase, not in GW themselves through small things here and there. At most I'd see/saw Dorn returning, but tied to Black templars in 40k.

 

But who knows, I might easily have assumed wrong or this has changed over time at GW.