So...what are your theories as to what happened to our codex launch?

[chapter master 454]

Kind of curious. Imperial Knights were clearly meant to be out by now or at the very least follow on from chaos knights right after however, here we are...nary a peep about whats going on.

So, to help pass time what are your theories as to what has happened or does anyone have any possible rumours as to what happned.

 

And for a bonus:

Do we think the defender kit will also mean we get 3 new questoris variants in the codex? (Plasma gun only, Conversion beamer only and then the one they showed off).

[Lord_Ikka]

My guess is that the Emperor's Children leak spoiled some of GW's plans, they weren't meant to come out in spring but probably now or a little later. That might have been why they had a somewhat staggered release of their units rather than a big single one. 

 

I think the Defender will be just its own thing, like the Preceptor. I'll probably wind up getting one eventually, but unless their shield ability is something like "Increase the invulnerable save of IMPERIAL KNIGHT models within X inches", I don't see it as something that will be extremely useful. The guns look ok, but the plasma won't be as powerful as the Castellan's and the conversion beamer seems an odd choice for a Knight with the description of being out in front of it's fellows, guarding them (as conversion beamers are better from farther away, or at least get Sustained when shooting afar). 

 

I would have much rather had a different Armiger pattern for the Imperials, something good at taking down hordes armed with a weapon like the CK's chaincannons. 

[Naryn]

13 hours ago, chapter master 454 said:

 

And for a bonus:

Do we think the defender kit will also mean we get 3 new questoris variants in the codex? (Plasma gun only, Conversion beamer only and then the one they showed off).

Unfortunately I doubt it. There are a lot of things rules-wise they should do for us in terms of possible weapon loadouts that they haven't done--weapon mix & matching freely within each armor class (questoris, cerastus, dominus, acastus) would be an easy win for them and cost 0 sprue space, for example. I suspect the plas-only and c-beamer-only variants would be the same.

 

As for release, I suspect something went weird in the release order that booted us out of the queue. Maybe the EC release got pushed up like Lord_Ikka said, or maybe the big sprue Knight Defender parts come on had a mold issue that needed to be fiddled with.