Imperial Guard Rumor Roundup

[Al Shut]

I call Bullgryn on that.

Actually I'm not, I just wanted to use that phrase.

[Bigred]

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Plastic Ogryns
So some exciting news. A listener of ours was at a GW store today that mistakenly received a shipment of some unreleased items. It was the plastic Ogryn kit. The rename is confirmed as they were called Militarum Auxillia. Boom! Nailed it.

[eldargal]

Well that makes more sense than Militarum Astra, still seems a bit suspect though unless it's really just the codex name that changes.

[Proiteus]

Okay either that's one screwed up shipment or Guard are going to be released in March before the rumored imperial titans. Bugger I'm taking my guard to Throne Of Skulls that month and don't fancy a week of quick adjustments!

[Wolfshade]

Anyone else smell the influence of the SPQR?

If guard are Auxilieries
then marines are Legio

Which makes sense, the trouble is that while legio is itself latin, it doesn't sound latin-y

[GravesDisease]

Which makes sense, the trouble is that while legio is itself latin, it doesn't sound latin-y

What would a dead language sound like?

[lattd]

A dead language would sound very quiet in my opinion.

[TheWildRider]

Just gonna mention if they are renaming/refluffing the IG, that a giant proportion of the BL's back catalog becomes ridiculously confusing for people who want to read more about the IG. My inner conspiracy nut tells me this is why we haven't had a Gaunt's Ghosts book in a while, 'cause Dan's had to re-write half of it to be more in line with the new fluff.

[Mr Mystery]

What would a dead language sound like?

Like a Giraffe falling down some stairs?

[Veteran Sergeant]

Anyone else smell the influence of the SPQR?

If guard are Auxilieries
then marines are Legio

Which makes sense, the trouble is that while legio is itself latin, it doesn't sound latin-y

It's actually probably more likely that the "Auxilia" are all of the non line units like Ogryns, Ratlings, etc. IE, auxiliary troops from the abhuman races, next to the regular human line troopers. Similar to how the Roman legions were made up of citizen soldiers, and the Auxilia were non-citizen troops (Gauls, Illyrians, etc).

So Astra Militarium encompasses all of the Imperial Guard in its entirety, but the Milarium Auxilia are the auxiliaries to the Guard.