[40k] Paris Games Day Discussions

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>I had a chance to attend Games Day in Paris along with several
thousand
>French Teens.
>
>I had 3 interesting discussions with Games Workshop Staff Members
from
>the UK - all designers and model makers.
>
>They all indicated that some of the races that had not had recent
model
>releases would see new items this year (Orks,

They need a range update, but they need a rules update more - any hint
on whether these releases would be linked to a new Ork Codex?

> Tau,

This is interesting. Unless GW has seen sense and decided to replace
the Battlesuits already (unlikely), this presumably means new
units/special weapon troopers rather than updates to existing models.
Then again it could be nothing more than a new special character. This
may be a tie-in with FW's Taros campaign.

Necrons, etc). They
>were all chuckling about a new Necron model that would be out before
the
>fall.

The C'Tan Dragon was supposed to be released a couple of years ago
(around the time the Tau got Pathfinders with pulse rifles) but never
was - I've always presumed because the Necrons were a flop. That's
probably all this will be - a long-delayed release of a model that's
been finished for years.

>Also got to see all the new 'Nids that are coming - I do not want to
be
>across the board from all airborne 'Nid army.

I wouldn't want to be the one having to convert it (or use the
Gargoyle models, come to that)...

Philip Bowles