Black Templars Rumor Roundup

[Bigred]

It seems like the terminators either don't take squires anymore or they fall under sword brethren.

This line gives me pause...

As in the current codex there are no options for any of the three Terminaor units to take Neophytes of any type.

[btk_kilroy_winterhart]

I welcome any and all changes to my Templar army. Make us a horde army. Quit make us pay for grenades and other things that other marines already have. More than one assault weapon for every 5 marines? I say YES! I'll take the BS3, running across the battlefield you can never shoot straight anyways. I feel there will sales for this army. Buy the basic marine squad then buy the up grade pack.

[pgarfunkle]

If this rumour is reliable I'm most curious to see how the change to the overwatch rules will work as it could make assault armies more viable if it is a mechanic which gets shared around other new books.

[Galadren]

To quote Eldargal, I'll be in my bunk "purging the heretic..."

[HsojVvad]

I don't believe in rumours anymore. GW has done it's job in locking down any rumours that come out. We seem to only get rumours when GW let's them "leak" out a month before release now.

I find it funny there was no mention EVER of any Iyaden (sp?) supplement, and now we have a few rumours of supplement releases. Why is that? If any of these rumours that are a few months or more out are true, then somebody should have caught wind of the Iyaden supplement release. So I can't see any of these BT, Ork, Tyranids releases to be true anymore.

So unless GW let this "leak" out, and BT will be released in August or September, I can't see this being anymore true. Anyone can make "rumours" up and throw out enough crap, some of them are bound to stick.

[DarkLink]

I find it funny there was no mention EVER of any Iyaden (sp?) supplement, and now we have a few rumours of supplement releases.

There were quite a few rumors about an Iyanden supplement. And quite a few rumors that turned out to either be completely true, or pretty close.

[Cap'nSmurfs]

Also some which were totally false, to be fair.

[a_musckrat]

I've always wondered about that, the whole way that we get any information prior to a codex release. I assume that most of the true rumors come from play testers, but i have no idea how GW does that whole process. Like how many of them there are, do they have to sign non-disclosure agreements, i assume that they do and hence why all these rumors come from anonymous sources... Or is it people just speculating and looking for a little bit of notoriety on these forums...

[DarkLink]

Also some which were totally false, to be fair.

There's a difference between false and lies. Stuff changes over the development of a new book, so anyone who thinks that rumors will be 100% accurate is stupid. Similarly, anyone who thinks that a lot of these sources (who routinely get a pretty good chunk of their rumors dead on) are wishlisting are idiots.

[Bigred]

This just in regarding Black Templars

A large kit design was reported as follows:

- a fully enclosed "dreadknight"
- wielding a large crusader shield and mace
- upper body mounted assault cannon

Sign me up for that!