40K: A New Chaos Book is Teased!
Everyone loves Chaos Renegades and Heretics – either for joining or for burning! Look what just got teased for Chaos fans:
via Forgeworld:
This is said to be an upcoming book from Forgeworld. It ties very neatly into these previous rumors:
via Warseer’s Pushkin 2-4-2014
IA13 is called War Machines of the Lost and the Damned. It is written by Andy Hoare and edited by Talima Fox.
It will be released in Summer/Autumn 2014.
The book will contain an updated Chaos Renegades list similar to the one found in the Vraks trilogy, along with numerous chaos vehicles/war machines including updated versions of the Horus Heresy vehicles for the traitors to use in regular games of 40k. It’s unclear whether this will be a variant of the ‘Defenders of Vraks’ list in IA1, the servants of slaughter list in IA6 or the servants of decay list in IA7. I imagine it will be a reworked version of all three. (i.e. quite chaosy but without the campaign specific units like the Alpha Legion). Talima described the list as being the renegade version of what the list in IA12 was for the Death Korps of Krieg – make of that what you will!
The art book was on display at the open day and had pictures of a Chaos Thunderhawk, Chaos Stormeagle and the Anvilluss pattern and Kharybdis assault claw.
Speaking to Andy Hoare he mentioned the rules for the Horus heresy era war machines would be updated to reflect the ten thousands years that they had spent in the warp and the access to munitions that the chaos legions had. He gave two examples, the first being the missile load out on the Storm Eagle, instead of the tempest rockets load out it will have access to Balefire missiles.
The second example was the class M2KB Landraider. Instead of the explorator augatory web which is designed for scanning enemy positions and co-ordinating forces, however due to the corruption of the warp this is now used to intercept enemy positions and thwart their movements. It will be interesting to see the rules for this.The greater brass scorpion of Khorne and the decimator engine also had new renders on screen in the graphics part, which suggests that updated rules for these models.
It’s also worth noting that HH3: Extermination contains references to Iron Warrior specific siege tanks used during the battle of Paramar and the dark mechanicum using stalk tank like units to hunt the raven guard survivors on Istavaan, so it will be interesting to see whether these units crop up in either future HH books or IA13.
I am speaking to my friend who was also chatting to lots of the designers about this and many other things, so ill ask him if i’ve missed anything!
via warseer’s Rolsheen 9-22-2014
Just received an email from Forgeworld answering a query I had about updated rules for the 4 Daemon Lords, they said that they are currently right in the middle of a 7th edition rules update and the upcoming IA13 would be out soon with the new rules for them
The Vraks traitor lists are a lot of fun and should certainly be given the full 7th Edition overhaul. The reworking of a bunch of Heresy-era equipment as ancient/outdated 40th Millenia Chaos vehicles will go a long way to giving CSMs a real “living ancients” feel to their lists that will set them apart from the Loyalists standard equipment. I will be first in line for something like this.
~ Death to the False Emperor!
