With the final day of 2018 being here I think I’ll remain positive. Today I’m gonna make a vague wishlist of things I hope for Xenos next year, tomorrow I’ll do an overview of how my expectations for 2018 went.
Let them just exist! I was so excited when Fracture of Biel-tan seemed to really be bringing Aelindrach into focus, empowering it, building it up…only for all of it to just be completely abanonded throughout 8th Edition, including in the Drukhari Codex itself! I hope in 2019 we see Aelindrach actually have some significance.
A Kheradruakh miniature as powerful as a Primarch.
Let this army be redone and made more effective. Normally, as a minor force, I’d not really expect them to even get rules, but the Anhrathe DID have rules, many, so it sucks to see them degraded to basically nothing.
I’d love to see more fiction starring them, even if only short stories, novellas and audio dramas. The Anhrathe could be for Aeldari literature what Inquisition stories are for the Imperium.
Clarify Biel-tan’s state! Please! I’d also like Biel-tan, considering the beating it’s taken recently, to get a major win against a notable force or character.
Feature the Phoenix Lords more in the Lore; be it Phoenix Lord Novels or simply more mentions in the codices I would just like to read more about them.
LET THE AVATAR OF KHAINE WIN AN IMPORTANT FIGHT.
Plastic Aspect Warriors, please.
Lady Malys miniature and Lady Malys focused lore and stories, particularly explaining her connection to the Ynnari.
Arhra coming back into the lore! Whether he be Drazhar or not, I just want to see him back.
Haemonculi actually demonstrating they have superior genetic manipulation capabilities to humans.
Asdrubael either dying or getting off his ass and winning even just one major battle.
I would love a story featuring Exodites in which they don’t just die to Space Marines or Daemons but actually are shown as capable of defending themselves.
A special character. Sylandri Veilwalker would most likely be best (and make her a stronger Psyker than Voldus who’s way younger than her).
A story of a Solitaire killing like a Shield-Captain or something to make up for the awful ‘died to kill an Eversor’ fluff we got in the Codex.
Death Jester guns actually being worth something without having to take Curtainfall every time. >_>
Give Harlequins actual extreme anti-Daemon and Chaos capabilities, in excess of Grey Knights, since, you know, HARLEQUINS HAVE ACCESS TO THE BLACK LIBRARY ITSELF! Seriously they should have access to more True Names than anyone in the Galaxy.
Let them actualy exist. By far the biggest dropped plotline of all of 8th Edition. Just let the Ynnari actually do meaningful things.
Show that the alliance with the Imperium is reciprocal, not one-way.
Have a story in which Ynnari kick Captain Artemis’ butt.
Have a story in which the Yncarne is shown to be as strong as a Daemon Primarch.
Show the consequences of the Absorption Wars. Imotehk conquered the largest territory of any single being in the last 8000 years, most of it Imperial, yet in none of the works about the Imperium, not Guilliman or anyone, does anyone even MENTION that the Sautekh Dynasty has just carved the largest congruent, centralized empire in the galaxy out of their territory.
Female Phaerakh Special Character.
Expand on the notion of potential alliance between the Necron and Ynnari.
CLARFIY THE STATUS OF THE OCTARIUS WAR!
I’d say ‘let them win Armageddon’ but at this stage I honestly think I should give up.
Have Nazdreg win a war against the Dark Angels decisively.
Have Snagrod win a major conflict against the Imperium.
Have Wazdakka defeat the Dread Host sent to kill him.
Let Orkimedes have a miniature.
Give me my Mega Armour Warboss.
Have Shadowsun win the Battle of the Startide Nexus without needing assistance.
Introduce a new, female, Ethereal Supreme.
Give Battlesuit pilots BS 3+
Have the T’au complete the conquest of the Dovar System as Shadowsun’s major triumph of the Third Sphere Expansion as, without it, she basically conquered a grand total of 1 planet; Prefectia.
Give them a playable army under the T’au Empire Keyword!
Let there be a fourth Tyrannic War and LET THE TYRANID WIN FOR ONCE.
Show that the Swarmlord is as strong as a Primarch.
Let them be the victors of Vigilus, though I know that won’t happen sadly.
Give them lore in which they actually win battles and don’t, in their own codex, just constantly lose every conflict they get into.
Have a story about them slaying a Death Watch strikeforce.