40K – WFB Schedule Q2-3 and Lots of Notes
Lots of items bubbling up from all over regarding the second half of 2014. Let’s take a closer look.
First of all, go check out the 2-month old January rumors here Q1-2 2014 Schedule post HERE and here Q3-4 2014 Schedule post HERE.
It turns out with hindsight that in particular the Q1-2 rumor slate was pretty dang accurate. As we move into Q2 of 2014, and hindsight combined with the latest rumor scuttlebutt paints a slightly different picture. All the same actors are in play, just moved about in the rumor-schedule. Here is the latest:
Onto Q2-3 2014!
March – Imperial Knights (duh), CSM miniwave (Helbrute, Havocs)
April – Imperial Guard (aka Astra Militarium)
May / June – Warhammer Fantasy 9th (pre-orders in May, shipping in June – unknown details)
Post June – Warhammer 40,000 7th
Free Agents: Codex:Orks & WFB:Wood Elves (Both of these are said to be coming in the Q2-3 timeframe but with the new weekly release schedule, there are several windows they could be slotted into.
Dataslates: There is chatter the much rumored Chaos Veterans book may arrive as a Dataslate, along with others to help spike sales of the associated CSM kits (I’m looking at you Helbrute!).
Next, we have seen a general steady drumbeat from multiple sources saying that we may indeed see GW update BOTH of their core systems in some fashion this year. Something I can’t ever remember happening before. But the catch is that at least on the 40K these are the “soft” updates meant to tidy things up instead of bringing grand change.
