DA Rumours

[Bigred]

via Stickmonkey 11-12-2012

HEAVY SUPPORT:

Predator - Plasma and "Reaper Cannon" new main gun option, no new sponson options - new model kit possible (and the Predator is kind of an old kit).

Whirlwind - Flakk missile option.

Land Raider - Dark Angels get all the current Imperial types. Deathwing can take then at dedicated transports.

Dreadnought - The classics that we know and love, moving on...

Devastator Squad - Flakk missile option.

Vindicator - Nothing new here...

Siege Cannon - Techmarine's mortar-like cannon. Multiple sources speak of this model being somehow interchangable with Imperial Guard artillery kits to round out the last missing models. ~Editor's note: the Griffon perhaps?

DEDICATED TRANSPORTS:

Rhino - Standard rules.

Razorback - Standard rules, new updated model kit with ALL turret weapons options mentioned.

Land Raider - Deathwing Terminators ONLY.

Land Speeder Storm - Scouts only.

Battle Bunker - from the Wall of Martyrs kit.

[Bigred]

Aslo, the Dark Angels have been noted as being heavy user and experts with plasma arms for several editions now - due them being the First Legion and possessing an impressive and ancient armoury.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

Cannot wait for this.

[Wildcard]

Land Raider - Dark Angels get all the current Imperial types. Deathwing can take then at dedicated transports.

My Grey Knight Terminators weep because they seem to be becoming the only terminator group in the whole game that cannot take LRs as dedicated

[Deadlift]

No drop pods ?

[daboarder]

My Grey Knight Terminators weep because they seem to be becoming the only terminator group in the whole game that cannot take LRs as dedicated

At least they can still take good land raiders, Chaos is stuck with the god relatively awful godhammer.

[apahllo]

No drop pods ?

My thoughts exactly. I hope it's a mistake.

[Skalver]

No drop pods ?

Possibly it was felt that with just taking away scouts from troops didn't balance out adding both Deathwing and Ravenwing squads so they took away the drop pods and the potential for drop pod deployment to balance it out a little more.

Given the chapter has two full rapid deployment companies beyond what a typical chapter had it could make sense thematically for drop pods to be a seldom used option. The mention that dreadnoughts get deathwing assault, would suggest that drop pod removal is quite a possibility as you would no longer need them to deep strike dreadnoughts. The new large flier option would also make a little more sense, as a former legion it would fit for them to have a large amount of drop ships to use further obviating the need for drop pods.

The army can't just end up as being regular space marines with a ton of extra stuff, they have to have some disadvantages relative to the normal C:SM chapters, maybe drop pod removal was considered a reasonable way to do that, though it would suck for anyone who has a lot of drop pods painted up.

[Rev. Tiberius Jackhammer]

I'd be very surprised if they lost Drop Pods, after all, the Drop Pod has a Dark Angels logo as part of the kit.

[DarkLink]

At least they can still take good land raiders, Chaos is stuck with the god relatively awful godhammer.

Actually, the Godhammer is pretty good. For Grey Knights. I don't think Chaos could properly utilize it. But it does absolutely have a purpose, trust me, I played Daemonhunters and so I spent most of 5th ed with multiple Godhammers in almost every list.