Sentinels of Terra is obviously coming digitally in October, and was a Games Day Surprise for the us. This is great and all, and its exciting, but exactly what is this supplement? Is it an Imperial Fists codex supplement, or something else entirely?
Obviously Imperial Fists will be included, or they would not be so prominently displayed upon the image. These are the images that kept flowing out of Games Day showing the release....
What is quite obvious is that this supplement is not an "Imperial Fists" codex supplement (according to the information below), and it may very well include other chapters and/or allow a wider force of Space Marine Allies.
Whatever the case is, this supplement will be the first of the Space Marine codex supplements.
via Pins of War..... (follow the link to see more on what they are saying)
http://pinsofwar.com/sentinels-of-terra-the-first-space-marines-supplement/
The first new product revealed was “Sentinels of Terra”, which was announced both in the GD Programme and on the show booth of the Digital Editions display.
I had a brief chat with a lady from the Digital Editions team. She’s obviously not a Codex writer, but part of the team doing app-design and project management.
Still, she seemed knowledgeable enough, stressing the Sentinels of Terra would not be an “Imperial Fist supplement” (as they’ve been covered in the new Space Marines Codex).
Instead, the focus is on the 3rd Company of the Imperial Fist (who now go with the honourific “Sentinels of Terra”, it appears) and to focus specifically on the history and battles of the 3rd Company with the tried Supplement-format of Missions, a few items, Warlord Traits, etc..
There also was a “preview” version of the Supplement available on one of the iPads GW had out to display eBooks. Similar to previews directly from GW’s iBookstore, it had no crunchy bits. It did have a sample mission, a few pics and a few pages of background.
Curiously, the preview seemed to feature Captain Lysander very heavily. There was a 1-page spread of the Lysander miniature and a background-chapter titled “The Rise of Lysander”. That seems to contradict the “3rd Company emphasis”, but I guess we’ll find out soon enough.
The Sentinels of Terra Space Marines Supplement will be released (as eBook) in October 2013.
I also saw printed versions of the Black Legions Chaos Space Marines Codex (both limited and unlimited), so they all seem to make it into print eventually.
