[Epic] New 40K and E40K implications

From: C.Sinclair <csi_at_...>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 16:54:32 +0000

Word is the new WH40K will include Dark Eldar and something else (can't
remember what but NOT Space Skaven). What this means for E40K, where
everything we needed (except the hundreds of pounds worth of miniatures
!) was in the box, no add-ons, no supplements, no batteries required, is
open to debate.
>
>> Word on the Squats is that they have their new "character hook". The
>> Squats
>> are not as we had all suppposed Homo Sapiens Rotundus, but are in fact
>> Tyranid Hunters from Another Galaxy (gasp, shock, etc., etc.). This
>> will
>> probably mean a release late this year or early next (in 40k) anyway
>> to
>> coincide with the new WH40K box.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Colin
>>
>---------> Well, allright! - this is a pretty cool angle. I'm sure it
>will completely trash all the older concepts, assumptions, etc we've
>built up over about the last 9 years, but...maybe they'll publish
>"Imperial Squats" as a small section in the back of the codex, kinda
>like the quasi-accepted chaos cult armies in the back of the Chaos
>codex, which are shunned in WH40K, but work fine in E40K.
>
>Wonder if this means we'll see "nids and squats in the WH40K 3rd ed
>box...
>(not too thrilled at the thought of this, but then I never thought we'd
>see Brets & Lizardmen in the fantasy box either...)
>
>Now all we have to worry about are those bloody Necrons...
>
>Chris Miller
>
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Cheers,
Colin

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Glasgow Caledonian University
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