Tons of rules updates may be on the way for Chaos Space Marines and Daemon if these rumors are to be believed. Are they getting “primarised”?
Coming from Faeit 212, there’s a screenshot of a user on Facebook named Lagrath who is pulling some “rumors” from the Tizcan 40k Podcast. (Yes this looks like a he said-she said rumor). However, as we know nothing aside from the factions that will be in the second wave of Psychic Awakening, we can’t ignore what comes up. Check out the latest as we move into the second wave of Psychic Awakening.
Chaos Support Mentioned Once Again
Originally spotted somewhere on Facebook by a user named Lagrath:
Pulling out the highlights of these rumors, the mention of two-wound units coming to Plague Marines, Noise Marines, Berzerkers, and Rubric Marines is definitely nice. However, it’ll be interesting to see the lore standpoint behind all this. As Chaos Marines don’t have explicit access to a Rubicon Primaris (which is what gave regular Marines an additional wound and such), GW may just say that these guys are warp-fueled or maybe Fabius Bile has done some genetic “upgrades”.
As for the points going up on Plaguebearers and Lord Discordants, which are two of the obviously most-used and probably most-powerful units to pull from Chaos, it will be interesting to see how GW alters them.
Things to note about the next 6 weeks according to the rumor roadmap:
- Necromunda Dark Uprising: November 16
- Battle Sisters Army Box: November 30
- Psychic Awakening 2: Faith and Fury (with Black Templars and other imperial and chaotic factions involved): November 30
- New Chaos Sorcerer: November 30
- Chapter Approved 2019: December 7
- Psychic Awakening 3: Blood of Baal (according to previous rumors, Blood Angels against Tyranids): December 7
- New Mephiston: December 7
- Varied holiday Battleforces: December 7
Chances are updates for the T-Sons would be coming from the Chapter Approved, and perhaps new rules for the other legions will be in Faith & Fury the week before.
We may be seeing the meta shift away from Plaguebearer screens depending on how hard they get hit. As for Lord Discos, they are a newer Chaos unit that is the Chaos-equivalent to a Smash Captain. We know that the Loyalist character wargear went up a few points (thunder hammers costing more now) so maybe GW will increase the standard points on wargear for the unit in general.
At the end of the day, these are all still rumors that seem to have originated from a very odd source. What do you think about was mentioned? Would you like to see two-wound Chaos Marines? How would GW tame Plaguebearers and Lord Discordants?
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