Necrons, T’au & Drukhari Coming With New Codexes & More For 40K
January 26, 2018 by brennon
With the Las Vegas Open going on right now, we're getting some news about what is around the corner for Warhammer 40,000 by Games Workshop. The first bit of big news was that we're getting some new Codexes soon...
You will have a lot of Xenos races to look forward to over the next couple of months. The T'au are getting their mighty force tuned and ready for action, whilst we have an update on the Dark Eldar who have now become the Drukhari. Lastly, there is, of course, the Necrons...and they get themselves a new character too in this teaser.
The teaser showed off the new Cryptek model, lunging forward with hand outstretched. It's not often you see Necrons looking so animated!
As well as the preview for the Cryptek we also saw a video showing off the newest model for the Imperial Knights. Another titanic walker is on the way, the Armiger Warglaive.
It looks like there is plenty of awesomeness on the way for the world of Warhammer 40,000. Are you tempted by one of these new armies?
Drop your thoughts below...
"...we have an update on the Dark Eldar who have now become the Drukhari"
I’m still building my Aeldari force stuff I got for xmas and yet I know I’m going to end up getting the Drukhari Codex too… Damn lovelyeldar (real name!) models.
The new Knight is actually a smaller type.
What more Xenos stuf !?!? I am sick of it!!!!!! Do some imperial stuff for a change !!!!!! heee heee heee … Okay I am leaving …… I was just trying to fit in with the cool 40k crowd 😉
That is good news. That said I would had love to see Orks among those three instead of Tau but then again I hope that they make it so that Tau won’t be able to protect they battlesuits as easily with drones as they do now.
Nice looking new models the new Necron spiders I like, so when did dark elder change to Drukhari?
If I am not mistaken it was with release of 8th ed when they changed it. Those are still Dark Eldar to me no matter what GW wants to call them. I will never call them anything else than Dark Eldar and same is with other factions that got they names changed.
Imperial Guard you say? Never heard of these new chaps.
Yup GW copyright king of kings on over drive on the strange names front.
I never followed or played 40K until the last couple years. I understand that people are set in their ways about names but I kinda like the name Drukhari. To me it sounds more ominous than dark Eldar.
The day GW realised they couldn’t copy right dark elder. 🙂
Okay I need to know when T’au come out and if I am going to use that book for Adepticon.
Good to see these, always been more of a xenos player, and my regular opponent is keen to get hold of the Dark Eldar book. Reading a few bits from the seminar reported out I do have concerns about ‘major’ changes to the necrons from the index as they play really nicely and feel right. Also apparently less of a Kroot focus which I am not a fan of always loved the kroot.
Cryptek is a great mini though will be grabbing one of them.
Did we really need yet another Imperial Knight?
The Cryptec is really cool but, i’m anxious to see what they do with the Tau, it’s really not the same army as it was and will we have some new units or, is that only reserved to the Imperium?
My son and I have been looking forward to see whats in the new Necron Codex so I am pleased for him to see a bit more focus on the Xenos races rather than more Imperial faction releases. Noticed yesterday on GW online the Necron Doom Scythe / Night Scythe flyer kit is marked as no longer available? I hope this is because it’s being re-released and not dropped in the new Codex as we find them useful in game as well as the Forge World variant being the Night Shroud Bomber. Hope we don’t end up with shelf ware… Read more »
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Cryptek looks like what happens when a Tau and a Necron have a baby.. 🙂
And I hope that’s an eye in the middle of the face not his nose.
Cryptek is nice, I didn’t expect any models either. I think they are going to just focus most big model relases on new armies as it seems most existing armies are just getting books. I’m ok with that though, but I do wish they’d release some new xenos races, but I guess they’ll likely make Ynnari an army later on.
I tend to be quite stuck in my ways, but I’m actually on-board with the name changes. As an Imperial reference ‘Dark Eldar’ worked but why they called themselves that never made any sense. Same with the ‘Dark Mechanicus’ in 30k, kinda sounds like they’ve just come to terms with being the baddies.