An Interview with Jervis Johnson - 40K Terra

Baron Spikey · 01-27-2008

Courtesy of Big Red at Bell of Lost Souls

~It looks like Jervis had a nice chat with some folks at Ireland's Warpcon. Lets see what's tidbits are coming out of the Emerald Isle:

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Liber Apocalypica
April among other things will see the release of Liber Apocalyptica, which deals with different sections of existing armies, then creates Apocalypse Datasheets for them. First up is Chaos with the Emperor's Children Noise Marines. 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.

Traitor Legions
There are plans in place to implement the Chaos Legions in 40k. That means codex's for Emperor's Children, World Eaters, Death Guard etc...bear in mind this is pretty long run stuff (2 years +). 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."

Other Codices
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. Jes Goodwin is already throwing around some concepts for Dark Eldar plastics.

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.

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.

Thoughts on the CSM Codex
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.

Basically Jervis sort of apologized 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 (hindsight is always 20/20 though...).

Misc. Items
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 approach to missions and scenarios might help to balance the game, rather than a more kill things and have more scoring units than your opponent approach.

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.

Also 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.

Ides · 01-27-2008

Nice to know the legions haven't dropped off the radar completely...still, I'll believe it when I see it.

Baron von Lexus · 01-27-2008

Nice new guard codex... maybe we'll see more regiments than one filled with the Cadian 8th... not that I have anything against them its just not very helpful picture or rules wise if you want to play a different regiment.

Warmaster Romulas · 01-27-2008

new wolves dex
cant wait

masterofweirdness · 01-27-2008

very nice interview... thanks for posting it up.

Lord Commander Erus · 01-27-2008

NEW CHAOS! EMPERORS CHILDREN DATA SHEETS! WOLVES GETTING THERE DEX!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!! mYES!!

Ikarus · 01-27-2008

How old is this interview? I think I seen it before when the CSM dex was released... i think..

Dragoon King · 01-27-2008

I love the ideal of Legion codices. The 3rd ed. dex was impossibly hard to use, I like the 4th. Each Legion NEEDS a dex, SM armies get em, why not us? The new Daemon and Legion dexes will make Chaos very cool, indeed. High Plains Drifter and Cypher both rock!

Dan296 · 01-27-2008

guys......this is a sign on the apocolypse.....
"Jervis sort of apologized for the Chaos codex"
"Dark Eldar are HIGH on the list"
jervis admitting they f-ed up....AND theyre redoing dark eldar?!?!?
as soon as the codex hits the shelves WWIII is going to go off. nuclear winter, ect. ect.

New Dark Eldar!

New Emperors Children stuff!

Chaos Legion Codices!

New Space Wolves!!

Ides · 01-27-2008

in 2 years!

Baron Spikey · 01-27-2008

this interview was done 2 days ago...so unlikely that you've read it before then

Brother Warchild · 01-27-2008

Thanks for the breakdown on that stuff.Good read

Lord Commander Erus · 01-27-2008

@Ides: 2 years or not, that gives me just enough time to finish the Black Saints and their Sentarus hell jumpers, as well as get a small Pre-Heresy Salamanders force up before I return to the III Legion

Ides · 01-27-2008

Please, we both know you'll still be planning half those armies by then...

Ikarus · 01-27-2008

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Originally Posted by Baron Spikey

this interview was done 2 days ago...so unlikely that you've read it before then

Ah yeah, I was reading up an interview with Jervis upon the new CSM release, and he just had similiar comments, so it does seem strong upon these ideas.

No 5th edition talk or so.. hm.

IG, DE, Daemons.. looks like the good slate is coming.

Its about time we see some cool kickass armies.

hairyyahoo · 01-27-2008

if this is true then it means that GW might actually be starting to think in the right ways. i have some rather high hopes for the dark eldar designs but we'll see about those when the time comes.

masterofweirdness · 01-27-2008

Ya as hairy said, slowly, slowly, it would appear that GW is, maybe, possibly, hopefully, becoming a "nice" company.

The past few releases, while have had their serious dislikes, were aimed at destroying those evil powergaming noobz... and while powergamy lists are still around, I would say, from what I've heard, they have been put to a minium.

Also, this isn't the first time that Jervis Johnson has "mentioned" that GW "might be wrong"... or maybe it was Gav Thorpe... anyways... at least thats what Stitch has said...

So... to better, less powegamy, more fluffy, more fun, codices and rulesets.

Oh, and the no mentioning of 5th ed. is very nice indeed!

Heroka Vendile · 01-27-2008

that's all good news as far as i'm concerned.

Spartan-11755 · 01-28-2008

I'll take this with a Grain of salt and confirm stuff at GT and GD

MillardFlemming · 01-28-2008

Woot for first post. I'll get around to that introduce yourself thread later, but anyways...

I think it would be a great idea for GW to do more specialized codices, for more than just SM's, and now rumored CSM's. I think that individual Tau Sept's, or a Farsight Enclave codex would be sweet, or different Craftworlds, Ork tribes, IG companies, etc. It would be easy for GW to do, as they just need to tweak the existing army list, expand a bit on existing fluff, make a couple special upgrade sprues and maybe a special character or two, and would allow players a way to get exactly the force they like, without creating entirely new races or intimidating new players (the races standard codex would always be there.)

Just my 2 cents

Ikarus · 01-28-2008

Supposedly - this came from Warpcon, some con in.. europe somewhere.

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MillardFlemming Conscript Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: An Interview with Jervis Johnson Woot for first post. I'll get around to that introduce yourself thread later, but anyways... I think it would be a great idea for GW to do more specialized codices, for more than just SM's, and now rumored CSM's. I think that individual Tau Sept's, or a Farsight Enclave codex would be sweet, or different Craftworlds, Ork tribes, IG companies, etc. It would be easy for GW to do, as they just need to tweak the existing army list, expand a bit on existing fluff, make a couple special upgrade sprues and maybe a special character or two, and would allow players a way to get exactly the force they like, without creating entirely new races or intimidating new players (the races standard codex would always be there.) Just my 2 cents