Next codex that Cruddace is going to rui... fix?

[maugrim]

My prediction, and I'm sorry for you pointy ears if I'm right, is the Eldar codex.

My thought process:

The IG and Tyranid codexes both took an older codex that hadn't been altered in a while and "updated" it. Neither older codex had added many new models during its last "update". Both new versions added lots of new shiney units with new models to boost sales. Both new versions changed old units in order to alter game balance and change viable army tactics - so people would be required to buy new models.

What codexes are still left to be redone? Eldar, Chaos, Orks(?), GK/WH, Dark Eldar, Necrons, Tau. With Grey Knights/Witchhunters rumored to be coming out soon, and no mention of Crud in connection with them that's low probability. Ditto with Dark Eldar and Necrons. Orks and Chaos (both types) were more recent rewrites and fit reasonably well into 5th Ed. The only two left would be Eldar and Tau.

Tau had several new models released with the last codex update, and got one more recently than the Eldar. They're also less popular, and there has been less push for a rewrite.

Eldar hasn't had very many new models added to their range in quite a while (say, millenia?). Any straight rules update to the codex, unless the rules change drastically, won't sell many models because most Eldar players already have all the various figs they need.

So who is the go-to guy at GW to redo a codex and add necessary new models to it? Our own favorite. I imagine new Harlis maybe, Farseers hopefully, Exodites?, Maiden Worlders?, Avatars of Eldrad (their answer to Librarian Dreads?)

Eldar players had better start praying he gets assigned Tau.

[welshpaul]

I wouldn't mind if GW introduced new units to boost sales if they actually released the damned models for them! They did the same for a lot of the Imperial Guard units but at least they can buy Forge World variants.

[welshpaul]

Anyway, last I heard was that Cruddace was working on the 6th Edition Rulebook...

[salamut2202]

Apr 30, 2010 8:23:38 GMT welshpaul said:

Anyway, last I heard was that Cruddace was working on the 6th Edition Rulebook...

[maugrim]

Awww... damn.

[Mindshred]

Aren't Eldar getting a new tank with the May issue of White Dwarf?

[jundswarmmaster]

Apr 30, 2010 8:23:38 GMT welshpaul said:

Anyway, last I heard was that Cruddace was working on the 6th Edition Rulebook...

(please do not swear). *cries* T-T

[Hellbreaker]

Apr 30, 2010 8:23:38 GMT welshpaul said:

Anyway, last I heard was that Cruddace was working on the 6th Edition Rulebook...

You better be a successful troll! Otherwise I might kill myself.

Cheers!

[Psychichobo]

Hmm... who's writing the current lots of books?

Guard, Nids = Cruddace
Marines, Blood Angels = Ward
Wolves = Phil Kelly

And we've got Gav Thrope and Jeremy Votek in fantasy... not sure if they'll be let near 40 stuff.


So it's looking weird. Phil Kelly is apparently messing around on the DE dex, so if that comes out it'll be him. But 40k rumours are dead at the moment, so going on the OP's prediction, it could very well be Eldar that Cruddace does next.

I don't personally think he's ruined the Nid Dex. Some things are wrong, sure, but we're still badass and got some seriously decent units.

It could be Eldar on the basis that Cruddace managed to go from Guard to Nids reasonably well. And Eldar are an army that could probably get away comfortably with a complete redesign in terms of what a unit does (unlike Marines, who can NEVER change cos the kiddies would get confused).

It's not a bad prediction. Will be interesting to see what happens, though.

[maugrim]

He didn't ruin it, at least in my opinion. But there are a myriad of poorly written rules, and the way he re-wrote things meant that many old units became much less useful than the new units he created... many of which don't have models. So it leaves a large void.

[The Custodian]

Hes a strange writer.... I think hes the go-to guy for GW when they want a dex COMPLETELY rebuilt... He did it to IG and now to nids. THe way I see it theres 2 races that may get the cruddace treatment... Tau and Eldar. Ward seems to have a hard-on for marines and probably stay there...

[Aux]

Apr 30, 2010 8:29:06 GMT salamut2202 said:

Apr 30, 2010 8:23:38 GMT welshpaul said:

Anyway, last I heard was that Cruddace was working on the 6th Edition Rulebook...

[Leviathan Are Back...]

Apr 30, 2010 8:29:06 GMT salamut2202 said:

Apr 30, 2010 8:23:38 GMT welshpaul said:

Anyway, last I heard was that Cruddace was working on the 6th Edition Rulebook...

Agreed... OH...Oh god... NOOO!!!

*Cough* *wheeze*

Hmm tau online Eh....

[jivetyrant]

So GW Codex writers are given free reign to do whatever they want, and show it to none of the other writers, and don't have to send the codex out to playtest?

[Psychichobo]

May 1, 2010 20:03:50 GMT jivetyrant said:

So GW Codex writers are given free reign to do whatever they want, and show it to none of the other writers, and don't have to send the codex out to playtest?

I know there is a playtesting stage, but I think the overall decisions are made by the codex writer himself, and this usually means if they're rather egotistical they'll be happy to think they're right and the playtesters are just fools, as in the case of the Dark Elf Hydra's point cost and the Pendant of Kaeleth....