40K Rumors: The New Army of 2016

This is just in, it apears that we shall have a new (40k) army...

Behold brothers... more Astartes!

As I've said before, usually I don't care much to rumors in the warhammer universe, except when they come accompanied with images that seem minimally legitimate, which doesn't seem to be the case today ... on the other hand they've made me quite excited about it. Here's what I have so far:

Via BOLS:

40K RUMORS: The New Army of 2016
Posted by Larry Vela
at November 24, 2015

You won’t believe what new faction is coming in 2016 Grimdark fans. Come on in for details:

• A source who spoke to BoLS on condition of anonymity, says:
• Look for the Deathwatch to arrive in the Grimdark in 2016.
• They will make their initial appearance in a boxed boardgame like Execution Force / Betrayal at Calth.
• The Deathwatch models are based around a new Deathwatch upgrade sprue.
• The sprue will contain items such the distinctive shoulderpads, and specialist equipment and weapons of the Deathwatch.
• The Deathwatch sprue will be bundled atop the Sternguard base kit in the boardgame.
• The game will allow for you to equip your Killteam’s weapons and equipment in a variety of ways with rules to support them all.
• As with Betrayal at Calth – these are standard 40K models fully usable outside the boardgame.
• There will be an opposing force the Deathwatch is pitted against with their own models in the box.

More as we get it. You can see the pattern forming of 2 of these types of things a year as GW begins to hammer down their winning formula for these boxed games. There is no date listed for this new boxed game, bit I wold expect sooner than later. In 2015, the two boxed games arrived:

Execution Force: April 25th

Betrayal at Calth: November 7th

I can imagine already that a lot of folks will wish for a genestealer cult to be the opposing force, and to be fair a lot of fans deserve it... although the reaction of most will be something like: "NEW ARMY 2016!!!!!! ...Oh Space Marines ..."

I need to confess that I have some mixed feelings here: On the one hand I've allways wanted a good plastic sprue to built a Deathwatch force, and even an army ... but on the other hand I've to admit that it's going to be (yet) another Astartes release...In the end it doesn't feel like a NEW army at all... a new army should be something like:

• Eldar Exodites;
• Nurgle/Slaanesh/Tzeentch Daemonkin;
• Daemonhunters/Witch Hunters or just Inquisition as a whole ...

 What's your opinion? Who's the opposing force?

Who knows ...

Thank you for your time and until the next publication

Joaquim de Oliveira

This publication was only possible thanks to:

BOLS