40K RUMORS: The New Army of 2016

You won’t believe what new faction is coming in 2016 Grimdark fans.  Come on in for details:

A source who spoke to BoLS on condition of anonymity, says:

• Look for the Deathwatch to arrive in the Grimdark in 2016.
• They will make their initial appearance in a boxed boardgame like Execution Force / Betrayal at Calth.
• The Deathwatch models are based around a new Deathwatch upgrade sprue.
• The sprue will contain items such the distinctive shoulderpads, and specialist equipment and weapons of the Deathwatch.
• The Deathwatch sprue will be bundled atop the Sternguard base kit in the boardgame.
• The game will allow for you to equip your Killteam’s weapons and equipment in a variety of ways with rules to support them all.
• As with Betrayal at Calth – these are standard 40K models fully usable outside the boardgame.
• There will be an opposing force the Deathwatch is pitted against with their own models in the box.

More as we get it.  You can see the pattern forming of 2 of these types of things a year as GW begins to hammer down their winning formula for these boxed games.  There is no date listed for this new boxed game, bit I wold expect sooner than later.  In 2015, the two boxed games arrived:

Execution Force: April 25th

Betrayal at Calth: November 7th

~Would you be all over Deathwatch forces that could evolve into a standalone codex later down the road for the Grimdark?

Author: Larry Vela

Dad, Gamer, Publisher, Pilot, Texan. All games all the time since junior-high. I started BoLS Interactive in 2006. I’m a lifelong tabletop & RPG gaming enthusiast, and internet publisher working to entertain and inform my readers every day. I've been playing RPGs and Tabletop Games since the 1970s. I'm been playing and covering Warhammer and Warhammer 40K for over 35 years.