RUMORS: New Imperial Guard Models & 40k Rules

By Travis Pasch | April 9th, 2022 | Categories: astra militarum, Imperial Guard, Tabletop Gaming News, Warhammer 40k

There are some spicey new Imperial Guard models and rules rumors floating around about their 9th edition codex book- check it out!

If you’ve been hoping for something to actually spice up your Imperial Guard army, these rumors new model and 40k codex rules are a step in the right direction. The rumors have everything from a new tank, to what may happen with the Cadian line, some rules updates, and even DKoK.

This round of rumors comes from Reddit and they are consistent with some of the new Imperial Guard rumors we saw before. However, they are rumors, so take them with as much salt as you need. Let’s check it out!

RUMORS: New Imperial Guard Plastic Model Kits On The Way

Chapter Master Valark claims to have the good on not only the new Rumor Engine model that may for Imperial Guard, but also on even more upcoming kits.

Did a video on this for those who want to watch but listed down below as well, this comes from the source who I call Alpharius who hasn’t been wrong before. This comes with the Rumour Engine image from today.

Lots of New stuff for the Imperial Guard:

- New Tank (Apparently named Rogal Dorn Battle Tank)
- New Kasrkin Kit
- New Sentinel Kit
- New Veteran Cadians/Command Squad
- New HQs

From what was said to me, it’s basically a range refresh with a bunch of badass looking Cadians.

As always trust in what you want, just because I trust this source doesn’t mean you have too.

So either someone is Trolling Valrak or perhaps there is a shred of truth to be gleaned from all of this.

New Model rumors

This bit looks exactly like an Imperial Guard Auspex right down to the camouflage pattern we have seen on Caidan Kasrkin models in the past.

As you can tell from the old kit, these hands are clearly very similar in design. The little device in the hand is completely new, but it could be a host of things that don’t really need explaining.

Perhaps the biggest “tell” is the urban style camouflage that is clearly visible on the rumor engine bit, and the old Cadian Karskin models above as well.

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After that, it makes sense for them to continue to upgrade the Cadians line as they have already added an upgrade sprue to the troops to bring them into the new decade. The only one we’re really not sure about is the new Sentinel. So take that one with some salt, but it could really use a new kit.

Lastly, pretty much every army has received at least one new HQ, so nothing too crazy there.

Latest New Imperial Guard Models & Rules Rumors

These rumors also come from Reddit and seem pretty solid. The tank has all but been confirmed, and we’ve actually seen a few Rumor Engines around what may happen with the Karskins.

Rogal Dorn Tank is confirmed, it has less than 18 wounds and is Toughness 9.
Hopefully Baneblades and variants are also Toughness 9, but he didn’t hear anything about them, so fingers crossed.
Tank Commanders are nerfed to BS 4+. Ouch. Turret weapons no longer fire twice, but they have a +1 to hit and they can now shoot out of combat (as in, if you’re locked in combat with a melee unit, you can still shoot your turret weapon at another unit not within engagement range with your tank, hence allowing you to still shoot blast weapons even though you’re locked in combat). Sponson and hull weapons remain the same, so they are probably still BS 4+ and have to shoot into combat with a -1 penalty.
Probably get a bunch of tokens (like Genestealer Cultists? Crossfire markers and whatever).
Deathstrike now can take 3 missiles, seems like its weapon has improved, and firing mechanism has also been changed. Main explosion does lots of damage to the primary target, then 3D3 mortal wounds to units within 6″ of the primary target.
Death Korps of Krieg are in the book as their own new regiment, will have a new Regimental Doctrine, Stratagems, Relics, Warlord Traits and stuff.
Rough Riders are back in the codex, no longer shunted to Legends and having a new model.

We also heard the name of the new tank has more or less been confirmed as the Rogal Dorn Battle Tank (cause we cant have just one tank named after a Primarch lol). It also makes sense in a way as it gives you another choice that is bigger than a Leman Russ but still smaller than a giant Baneblade.

Supposedly it will also be less than 18 Wounds, so can still be obscured. With Toughness 9, this will be much harder to kill than normal tanks. Krieg becoming their own regiment makes sense and with how they are moving with the line, they could (read as should) come out with more plastic for them. Hopefully, come out with a cheaper unit for troops (this is just a hope, nothing confirmed at all on that for them).

If Tank Commanders move to BS 4, that would be quite sad, but it does seem like they will have +1 to hit on their turret weapons. Eh, pretty sad, but maybe they are getting enough buffs in other places and may have been done to keep the power a little lower on the new tank because it might be insane.

The bottom line is, some new Guard may be on the way, as Cadians might make their return to the spotlight! We’ll just have to wait and see…

Here’s all the latest on the upcoming rules updates and points changes for Warhammer 40k.

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Here’s the most up-to-date list of new Games Workshop bits from preview models that we should keep an eye out for. Click on the gallery above to see dozens of Rumor Engines with new models still left to be revealed!

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