[GW] Jervis Q&A

Hey,

Jervis was in Cork, Eire for Warpcon and some Q&As recently.
The following are recollections of an attendee (antaeus at relicnews):

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The idea behind the Chaos legions is that he felt that the last book
tried to cover every aspect of the Chaos forces, and did it badly. The
way he saw Chaos was as this huge amalgamation of different forces
serving the Dark Gods, each deserving their own army book.

The current Chaos codex is meant to represent renegade marines, not
necessarily the ancient 10,000 year old servants of Chaos. He felt
that while splitting up the different aspects of Chaos into their
separate sections while at first painful (as shown by the displeasure
at the recent codex) will, in the long run, do each component part
more justice than a small 20-30 page footnote in an army book.

Epic will receive some more support, as he feels it's currently pretty
under-represented. A Space Wolf codex is high on the priority list,
and he revealed they're among his favourite chapters, purely because
they actually care about the civilians, they're the good guys as he
put it.

He wants to release a book of scenarios for 40K as he feels most of
the complaints from people come from the fact that there are a limited
amount of scenarios and mission types, and people can tailor their
armies to excel in those limited confines, and as such win more
easily. He feels a more varied aproach to missions and scenarios might
help to balance the game, rather than a more kill things and have more
scoring units than your opponent aproach.

Nagash will make a return to the fantasy world. He's not quite sure
how it'll be done, but he feels he deserves a new model, and possibly
an army based around him. Key word being possible.

Jervis revealed (and I can quote him on this) that Cypher is
"absolutely NOT a Chaos Space Marine". The way he envisioned Cypher is
as an avatar of redemption, that in some sense the fallen Dark Angels
are the good guys, as they see their mistakes and learned from it, but
the Dark Angels simply can't see past it, and instead decide to kill
things to solve the problem. He also said that Cypher is not entirely
human (or super human as the case may be) anymore due to the rend in
reality that shattered Caliban, casting the fallen angels through
space and time. He said there's a mystical aspect to his character. He
also explained a lot of where he got the idea from, a Clint Eastwood
movie called High Plains Drifter was his main inspiration.

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Chaos legions WILL be getting a full codex. His exact words were "if
we're going to do things, we're going to do them right."

Dark Eldar are HIGH on the list guys. Alien hunters isn't on the
radar, since the focus is on updating current army lists rather than
starting new ones. This means Dark Eldar, Guard and Space Wolf players
are going to be happy

Sorry for you armoured company guys, Jervis mentioned when I asked
that they'd be ridiculously hard to manage balance wise, but they're
throwing around the idea of giving Guard maybe 4 Heavy Support slots.
He first said 6 and then when my eyes widened in shock he laughed and
shrugged, "Well maybe 4...". He feels armoured company are better off
in Apocalypse, and he might do a datasheet on them for it, but as far
as 40K it doesn't look good.

Jez Goodwin (hope I spelt that right) is already throwing around some
concepts for Dark Eldar plastics btw.

Update on Liber Apocalyptica. Based on what he said last night and
today it's going to be a White Dwarf segment. The April edition
contains a datasheet for an Emperor's Children Warband, with lots of
juicy sonic weapons.

Basically Jervis sort of apologised for the Chaos codex. He said they
regret not letting Chaos guys in on what the big picture was, and he
feels they probably should have pushed that angle a little more

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A new Imperial Guard codex is being talked about.

A Space Wolf codex is high on the priority list, and he revealed
they're among his favourite chapters, purely because they actually
care about the civilians, they're the good guys as he put it.

There's not going to be much in the way of Lost And The Damned as
Jervis feels they're covered already and more suited to Apocalypse as
it is.

Void Dragon fans don't hold your breath. I asked him if we're going to
learn any more about it and it was the only question I asked to which
he replied he has no idea.

Basalisks will be back in Iron Warriors, the demon book while as of
now is not allied with the Chaos Codex I suspect bits will find their
way into the Word Bearers book....overall, I am pleased by this...we
may even see the return of the 2 wound 1000 Son Terminators

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in all respects Jervis is a tool for the company, nothing more

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Well, now. That was a bit of an eye-opener, wasn't it?


Playa

Hey,

On Jan 31, 10:32 am, "The Cheshire Cat" <Rokn....DeleteThis@comcast.net> wrote:
> > His exact words were "if
> > we're going to do things, we're going to do them right."
>
> am i the only person who laughed so hard his stomache ruptured at this
> remark?

He probably got enough emails to fill his cube with Poison Pen
letters.
And now, upon reflection, he feels things might have been done
better?

LOL!


Playa