Rumors on the new Guard Codex??

[Dakka,Dakka,Dakka]

Just_Me why dis one of our better elites?

ratlings are better than techpriests, or ogryns

in 5th edition snipers are getting better, and other than eldar pathfinders, and the vindicare, i think ratlings(other than deathworld catachans, mad larkin) are one of the best snipers in 40k?

[Just_Me]

I don't object to their rules, just them. They are silly! They are a holdover from the time that GW was still porting WHFB stuff into WH40K, and they have no place in the current universe. We do deserve a dedicated sniper unit, or at least a better sniper, but they should be humans, not space-hobbits...

[Dakka,Dakka,Dakka]

lol yea i agree.

i thought you were saying that they were a bad unit, yeah i agree that other than roughriders, they are the worst models in 40k

personally i just use cadian snipers, and if people argue that the height of them is different from ratlings, i just use the cadian sniper that is crouching, he is the same height(at least close to) as the ratlings.

[Zeewulf]

Since we've got ratlings, via some inspiration elsewhere on this forum I've decided that I'm going to convert some Skaven to be snipers. They should look pretty ratty! I honestly hate the little space-hobbit models, anyway!

[warhammer madman]

how can you hate space hobbits seriously!!!
i know the minis suck but i want to see the little folk in 40k when where in 6th,7th and even 8th

go space dwarfs/hobits.

[TheSlyde]

I'm just waiting for those new scout bikes that the Space Marines get to convert into my rough riders. Enough of this silly riding a horse (exception being those Cyber Horses that Krieg have) into combat, time to put men on bikes with some lances, THERE'S your modern day calvary charge. Depending how the sprue is set up, all i might really need to do is put on the upper half of a guardsman.

As for the space hobbits... Yea the models could be tossed, and I'd prefer that the ratlings were just changed to snipers. The unit is good, but I can't stand those models.

[Wolf Lord Herby]

Ratlings have as much a place in 40K as Ogryns. They just need better models, lol.

Tbh, I'd like to see more abhumans in IG armies. Anyone remember that WD article with another half-dozen different types? Including Afriel Strain?

[warhammer madman]

O yea those feral ogrns looked cool and i was seriously considering makeing some of those homosapiens (useing beastmen heads) i have got the artical in question in my hand now...

[jaybird]

wasn't afriel strain a bunch of genetically engineered guardsmen who had genes from heroes of the imperium?

hmm...that reminds me...what would a regiment of ciaphis cain clones be like?

[Wolf Lord Herby]

hmm...that reminds me...what would a regiment of ciaphis cain clones be like?

A regiment of Ciaphis clones, probably.