40K: After the Codexes – The Books We Need Next
Ork, Space Wolves and the tease for Genestealer Cult Codexes mean we are fast approaching the end of the Codex Cycle. Here’s what should come next.
Once the Ork, Space Wolves and Genestealer Cult books have come out, which given their recent announcement should be soon, we will have reach pretty much the end of the line for the current Codex Cycle. While not all the index armies will have a Codex, all the major Codexes from the last edition will have been remade. So what comes next? Lets take a look at the next books we need.
***N.B. I’m not going to include Sisters of Battle in this list, they are supposed to be coming out sometime next year and would be after the things I am listing.
1. Agents of The Throne
You could call this book a number of things, Talons of the Emperor, Codex: Inquisition, etc. Basically we need some sort of catch all book to update and consolidate the minor Imperial groups that don’t really stand on their own. This would include the Sisters of Silence, Assassins and the Inquisition units (Inquisitors, acolytes, Jokero, etc.) for sure. It could optionally also include Ministorum units and some Sisters of Battle stuff, if they wanted to update the list before their codex. Legion of the Dammed could be here as well, but wouldn’t be the best fist. For an added bonus you could throw some major new charterers and even some Rouge Traders in.
This is a needed book, but also a hard one to try and make stand alone at all. In fact I’m not even sure if you try to make it work alone, or just acknowledge this is going to be a book of spices for your soup builds. In theory Inquisitors can justify a lot of unit combinations.
2. An Abbadon – Centric Campaign
When Abbadon destroyed Cadia and opened the Great Rift he won the greatest victory the Forces of Chaos have had since the Fall of the Eldar. And yet since this massive victory we’ve heard relatively little about him. Mostly just vague rumors that he’s heading towards Terra, slowwwwwwly. What we need, and we’ve heard rumors of something like this, is a Gathering Storm style campaign to move the story-line forward. This would focuses on Abbadon and his attack towards and possibly on, Terra. We would get an updated model of the big himself and some cool new units and rules, and move the story forward. All around good stuff.
3. Codex: Ynnari
You can love or hate the Ynnari but they are a huge factor in 8th Edtion 40K, both in the fluff and the meta. Realistically they are too big a factor not to have a Codex of their own, and we’ve been hearing rumors of this for a bit. While many people want to Ynnari to grow into a proper army, with full units, I’m of a different mind. I think Ynnari should always draw units from other factions, that fits the fluff. What I would like to see is a growing number of Ynnari characters, heroes who have sworn to the cause. I think this would make the Ynnari unique.
4. Codex: Space Marines
I can hear you groaning already. And yeah I get it, didn’t these guys just get a new Codex? But look, first off we all know Space Marines get more books than anyone else, so it it shouldn’t surprise anyone if they get a new Codex already. More that that however is the fact that Space Marines, despite being the poster boys of 40K kind of suck. The Space Marine book is one of the blandest most underwhelming books in the game. For such a popular army they really need a do-over.
On Into Infinity
I really could go on and on about more new books. I think both a T’au Auxiliary book, which I’ve talked about, and the rumored Emperor’s Children book would be great. More new races would also open up the setting. We’ll get a new Sisters of Battle book in 2019 and soon enough we’ll most likely start the whole cycle over again (maybe Grey Knight will be good this time?). I think the above books would be the best for the health of the game and the setting, but the only thing I would be on for sure is that we will be surprised.
Let us know what books you think should come out next, down in the comments!
