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The following rumors have no guarantee to be correct. However, most of them are very likely to be accurate. If you know of a rumor and would like to see it posted here, don't hesitate to email it to warhammergallery@yahoo.com and I will post it.

11-27-00

Bretonnians

On this section of the GW UK site, I found an interesting Bretonnian rumor
Here is the URL: http://www.games-workshop.co.uk/rumours.htm

"Q. Do you have any idea when the Bretonnia army book is coming out?
A. Not for at least a year, but a Ravening Hordes update will appear in White Dwarf before that."

10-23-00

Orcs and Goblins

• New Waaagghh spells
• Choppa's replace normal hand weapons and give +1S on a charge but don't give +1 save if used with a shield. If 2 choppas are used, no S bonus is recieved
• Black Orc Warbosses cost a hero+lord slot
• Black Orc characters still stop animosity, and their units don't suffer from it.
• One unit of Orc Boyz, Savage Orc Boyz, Boar Boys or Savage Orc Boyz can be upgraded to Big Un'z and they get +1 WS, I, S
• Fanatics are pretty much the same but explained in much more detail.
• Netters are upgrades to individual night goblins in a unit (at +2 points each). They go first and if hit remove 1 attack from the enemy. They then also get a normal attack in the same round.

10-22-00

Daemons

• Daemons will not be released in plastic.
• It is possible that Daemons will be released as part of the Chaos army list. That is why they are not mentioned in the new rulebook's summary and in the back of the Empire book.

9-11-00

Orc and Goblin Rumors

• 50% of the army must be the same race as the general
• Orcs will have +1 T and +1 WS, but -1 BS
• Black Orcs will still have +1S, +1WS, +1L
• Black orcs will be subject to a new kind of animosity. If they fail they will charge the nearest unit unless it is a unit of Black Orcs
• In a Black Orc army, you can choose either a wizard or alternately, a beserker. The player can choose what kind of rage they want to make it go into at the start of the turn
• Gobbos will have +2I, and -1S
• This rumor seems kind of strange, but there will be two new troop types, a "head butter" and a "head-hunta"

9-10-00

Empire Rumors

• The Empire Will have a new knightly order which will be called "Inner Circle Knights". They will be the only Empire knights who will be able to have a strength of 4.
• The Empire will have a Cult of Ulric army list which can be used instead of the main list.

8-20-00

• The new Warhammer edition will be released in a boxed set (which includes a rulebook, templates, dice, and both Empire and Orcs starter armies). The rulebook will also be released by itself
• The new rulebook will inlude rules on how the play the game (obviously), as well as siege rules and magic rules.
• The new Warhammer rulebook will be larger than the 40k rulebook for the current edition!

• Each spell deck will only have 6 spells in it
• Race specific magic will return with the release of each army book, not with the new edition boxed set.

• Double handed weapons will still always strike last, except on the charge when they strike first.
• Any armor saves will be failed on a roll of 1 (including 1+ saves).
• Fast cavalry will be able to march and still fire their weapons. They will also be able to flee if charged and automatically rally if they are caught.
• Wearing heavy armor and carrying a shield will no longer slow a model down.
• There is a special rule called stubborn which allows models to roll break tests on their unmodified leadership.
• Flyers will now move 20" and will lose the flying high rule.
• Chariots still do d6 impact hits. However, scythes now add +1 impact hit.
• Wearing heavy armor and carrying a shield will no longer cause the -1 movement penalt.

• Dwarfs will get a 5+ save from carrying a hand weapon and shield.

• There will be some changes in how combat results are figured out. Rank bonus will still be a factor, except each rank of cavalry will add 2 to rank bonus and each rank of large monsters (orgres, minotaurs, etc.) will add the number of their wounds to rank bonus. This will strengthen these models tremendously!

Rumors for 8-12-00

• There will be no flying high in 6th edition.

Rumors for 8-5-00

• Here are some rumors for the empire knights in the new edition:
  Empire knights of the blazing sun will be -1 to hit.
  Reiksguard knights will have a 1+ save because they own the finest armor in the empire

• Here are some rumors for dwarf special units:
  Dwarf rangers will apparently have the ability to infiltrate
  Dwarf longbeards will be immune to panic

• The magic rules will be entirely different in the new edition. I heard this from a store owner who heard it directly from GW, so I assume it is accurate. The new magic system will use dice instead of cards. Each army will have a dice pool starting with 2 dice. A 1st level mage will add 1 die to the pool, a 2nd 2 and so on for the 4 levels of mages. Each spell has a difficulty level ranging from 3 to 15. When a mage wants to attempt to cast a spell, he must decide how many dice from the pool he wants to use, and then roll them. If the score of the dice is higher than the casting cost of the spell, then it is cast, unless his opponent attempts to dispel it. The dispelling is also dice based. The dispelling wizard can take dice out of his dice pool and roll them. If his score beats the casting wizard's score, then the spell is successfully dispelled. Also, a first level wizard may only roll one die at one time, a second 2 and so forth. If at any time double 6's are rolled by the casting wizard, the spell is cast with something like total power and the wizard rolls on a table to see exactly what happens. If double 1's are rolled, however, the spell is a terrible failure, and the wizard must roll on a disaster table to see what catastrophic result occurs (wizard's head explodes, etc.)

Rumors for 7-31-00

• Instead of the usual types of Magic (Necromantic, WAAAGH!, High Magic, etc.) the 6th edition will be divided into different lores such as: Beasts, Death, Fire, Metal, Shadow, Heavens, Life, and Light.

• These are the models that are going to come in the 6th edition boxed set:
  16 Empire Handgunners
  16 Empire Spearmen
  1 Empire Cannon
  1 Empire Hero
  16 Orc Arrer Boyz
  16 Orc Boyz with two choppas each
  1 Orc Boar chariot
  1 Orc Hero