Roboute Guilliman Returns To Warhammer 40,000
February 3, 2017 by brennon
Well, this was on the cards, wasn't it! Roboute Guilliman is returning to the world of Warhammer 40,000 in a set of three miniatures from Games Workshop. Will he be able to save the Imperium? You can see the new model and the cover of the upcoming White Dwarf HERE.
The Primarch of the Ultramarines and possibly the greatest Space Marine commander has been resurrected. You'll also see that he comes with the Fallen Angel himself, Cypher (seen on the left of the big image). There is also a third character which I can't quite place right now.
Taking a look at the fluff mentioned in the leak Roboute is non-best pleased with the way the Imperium has changed and Cypher, while seemingly on his side, appears to have annoyed him too.
What do you think is going to unfurl during this next chapter of the story?
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"What do you think is going to unfurl during this next chapter of the story?"
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Initial reaction – Mmm’kay, cool, was gonna happen eventually. Maybe they’ll do an interesting Primarch too.
Upon seeing the model – Bwhahahaha, what the hell is going on with his legs?!
I mean, I don’t want to be unbearably smug, but with my powers of complete guesswork, I said this not long ago when talking about what might be coming up next after the Biel-Tan stuff.
http://www.beastsofwar.com/warhammer-40k/fracture-bieltan-strikes-warhammer-40000-gathering-storm-ii/#comment-331695
“I think you’re missing the obvious in that if they carry on doing triumvirates then we’ll see a Space marine one. The large mini could be a Primarch even. Hasn’t Guillman been rumoured?
A complete guess if we’re looking at advancing the storyline you could have Cyper appear.”
Now to use my powers for good or evil….
On point dude 😉
You were right on the money Fleety… which clearly means you are an unsanctioned psyker. Someone call the Ordo Hereticus, we have a witchbreed here! 😉
Been saying for the last year or so this would happen 😉
Now lion, russ, vulkan and dorn….
Unified eldar happened yet 😉
And another precognitive witch for the Inquisition’s pyre. Keep this up, and the Imperium will be able to phase out Promethium in favour of a cheaper fuel source… 😉
Dude! Misuse your new-found 40k authority and name something crazy for your next update figure-forecast!
the return of… Doomrider!
I’m interested to see where this ends up going, I would also like to know more about the fellow in the cape to the right of Guillman.
Folks are saying that the triple model set will be Cypher, Roboute, and Kaldor Draigo of the Grey Knights.
I think that is the new Cypher model.
Especially with the caption reading “Cypher’s Back.”
The caped model is certainly Cypher, which if you are new to the hobby, you might not be aware of, because the old one must be 15+ years old.
http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Cypher
is a link if you want to know more about him. The marines painted in black (pre-heresy Dark Angel colours) are most definitely some of The Fallen
http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/The_Fallen
What he is up to, there’s all sorts of crazy rumours about (I’ve seen one saying he kills Abaddon, although I’m extremely skeptical of that).
Cypher has always been a wild card. He and the other Fallen don’t seem loyal to Chaos. I’m expecting that he’ll do something to redeem the Fallen (assassinating chaos characters seems in line with that).
http://www.beastsofwar.com/groups/warhammer-40000/forum/topic/gathering-storm-fall-of-cadia/#post-187112
Not been to far from the mark so far plot up for grabs but im standing by who will return…
yaaaaaaaaaaasss.. ultramarines assemble!
This looks pretty awesome in my opinion. Now. Gimme Russ!
Warren told us about this some month ago. 🙂
I guess next one is Leman Russ and than some other Demon Primach. I am exited about it.
There are some leaked pictures of maybe Mortarion (Death Guard Primarch) floating about.
http://i.imgur.com/3YL8pax.jpg
I’ve seen some pretty out there rumours about Slaneesh (to do with recent Eldar story events), that would change things to perhaps it being easier to sell models (i.e. make the background not so “R” rated).
So if it’s cypher and roboute, is that flaming sword Roboute’s weilding the Lion Sword?
That would be an interesting twist.
Did the Lion Sword burn like that? The only burning blade I can remember fro the Heresy era was the Emperor’s force weapon, but since Guilliman isn’t a psyker he shouldn’t be able to wield it, and since Cypher is there I imagine the Lion Sword is as good a bet as any.
It’s mentioned on the Warhammer community site that its one of the Emperor’s blades. The Lion Sword is on the back of Cypher.
Yeah, I am pretty sure it’s one of Emperor’s blades.
That fiery sword looks pretty good. Flames are an easy thing to wrong in my opinion and they’ve done a really good job on that sword.
Harlequin rules for GofC, nice, oh and the Primarch is pretty good to 🙂
Its cool seeing a more dynamic Roboute than the pretty static Forge world one.
If its that he is not happy with the imperium as it stand it would be interesting to see the Ultramarines maybe split off from the rest of the Empire.
The Khan would be a good one to have released after all isn’t he held by that Necron that was on Cadia? of is he with the Eldar?? still would have fitted in better the story either way.
Expancding on @seira034 ‘s comment, in the heresy era novels, when Macragge was cut off from Terra with the warp storms, there was an arc in the story about setting up a salvaged, back-up second imperium. Would be a nice plot point to have history repeat itself.
That sounds cool. Good to see there is a president.
Imperium Secundus take two? Why not? With the Emperor (‘daddy’ to Guilliman, one assumes) out of commission on the Golden Throne, and with the Imperium in disarray and having fallen into ignorance, superstition and totalitarianism, it seems like Guilliman might well be tempted to hit the reset button and try to recreate the Imperium as he believes the Emperor originally envisioned it.
And thus bring in the Age of Gulluman?
I doubt it will be that be that easy and straightforward @somegeezer – I imagine powerful religious groups like the Eclesiarchy and their Battle Sisters, along with the Black Templars and some elements of the Inquisition, might not be thrilled with Guilliman trying to recreate a secular Imperium, and then there is Celestine to consider – what would her place be in a galaxy that doesn’t revere the Emperor as a god? A seriously nasty Imperial civil war, perhaps even on a scale comparable to the Horus Heresy, seems to be on the cards as soon as the immediate threat… Read more »
The Imperium besieged on all sides and they start a vicious civil war. That sounds all too horribly likely 🙂
Smart move, mankind. Smart move!
I know what you mean @somegeezer – infighting is the last thing the Imperium needs when the situation is so dire. Even if the threat of Chaos was temporarily put in abeyance, there would still be Necron Tomb worlds waking up hither and yon all over the galaxy, Orks multiplying and massing for renewed Waaghs under the leadership of Ghazghul, the Tau still looking to increase their domains at the expense of the Imperium (and because the Tau have no idea yet how dangerous the galaxy truly is) and the little matter of the vast armies of near limitlessly numerous… Read more »
Wasn’t that the story in the Dornian Heresy alternative narrative?
I didn’t have high expectations for smurf primarch and turns out I was right to do so as he looks so silly. Kinda makes me wonder how silly Leman Russ is going to look and it makes me careful when wanting to see Lion El´Johnson come back.
This is the best moment for GW to explore and define 40k, on hindsight is was foreshadowed by Greyfax and her shock on what Imperium has become in the millenia she was away. Now Guilman an original who has lived with the Emperor and shaped the Imperium wakes to find everybody in a religious fanaticism departed from Imperial Creed as far as it can ever be and his own legion in the same shape, things should be interesting. I just don’t have high hopes for GWs talent to write the story properly they failed miserably on the end times even… Read more »
They’re definitely better at quantity than quality when it comes to fiction, though they’re far from alone in that regard when it comes to the minis industry (which is why I was pleased to see that it seems Corvus Belli have hired an actual comic book creator to write their comic, rather than doing it in-house).
Don’t forget it was Guilman who was ordered by his father to destroy the city his brother Lorgar had built in dedication to his father the emperor and now the entire Imperium is mirror of that city I think it was called Malarkia.
If The Terminator to the right of Roboute in the photo is not Draigo, I will eat my hat.
Ready your hat eating knife and fork!
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/02/03/gathering-storm-iii-rise-of-the-primarch-first-look/
Oh I feel so uncivilized now, I always eat my hats with my bare hands 😉
You barbarian!
No erion it’s not draigo… I read somewhere hang on
Oh my bad you already found it lol
@erion Let’s just hope your hat is made of chocolate, just in case.
I wonder what Cypher and the Fallen fighting on the Imperial side means for the Dark Angels?
That’s interesting point since Dark Angels have wanted to bring Cypher to hands of they Interrogator-chaplains and when ever they have had him he ends up escaping. So really he is they main target as far as the Fallen go.
I think @irredeemable is hinting at something more nuanced and deep, such as the hinted conspiracy theory that cropped up that the actual active Dark Angels in current 40k aren’t necessarily the ‘good guys’ or perhaps aren’t the ones we think they are from the fall of Caliban
Idea of whole hunting the Fallen does go down to Dark Angels wanting to keep they secret from other servants of the God Emperor and it leads to them keeping secrets even inside they own chapter. So really while they defend mankind and Imperium they have they own agendas and are willing to act based on it. By no means they are good guys but then again no one in 40k universe is. IMO they just happen to be one of more interesting SM chapters.
There’s always been a bit of a conspiracy theory that the surviving Dark Angels are the ones that betrayed the Imperium and annihilated the loyal portion of the Legion on Calibre. They switched back when Horus lost and have been hunting the Fallen to keep this secret ever since.
Space Wolves are the only good guys.
Prehaps G-man will be torn apart by the masses as a heretic…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCFBndlScBc
Well of course he doesn’t like the way the Imperium is today, it’s not really whta his father wanted.
I am an Ultramarines player and was excited but the model isn’t that great, it’S not bad but i think the FW one looks much much better.
While a better look at the Gulliman model is needed to pass final judgement, the legs do look a bit awkward from the angle we have. On the upside, it is good to see Gulliman in a more aggressive, combat pose that helps differentiate him from the more stately and static Forge World 30K Gulliman model, which also speaks to the difference in the situation of the Imperium between the two epochs. Even though the Imperium in the Heresy Era was facing an apocalyptic civil war, it was still lead by the Emperor and still reflected his vision for a… Read more »
Gulliman’s back! And oh my is he pissed!
He is here to kick ass and write tactical texts, and he has run out of tactical texts… 😉
On a tangent, GW’s sense of humour about internet leaks continues to develop apace.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhgS_5r7drI
And verily, it is awesome!
https://youtu.be/F5QWb9Bt6zs
Bit more of a sneak peak but you get a better look at the models.
I must say I’m really liking the Guilliman model, especially with that helmet on. This is definitely one I’ll be picking up on release day if I can get a preorder
I agree that Guilliman does look better when you can see him from more angles, and the leg doesn’t appear as awkward when you can see his stance properly.
The helmet option is a nice touch, and the belt fed bolter type gun under his powerfist is interesting as well.
I mentioned it above but the excellent Warhammer community site has put up some proper photos and information:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/02/03/gathering-storm-iii-rise-of-the-primarch-first-look/
I love the story aspects and the Cypher model is cool! Not too sure about Guilliman, I prefer the forge world version to this. It’s a nice touch that you can give him a helmet as well as bareface and the Emperor’s burning sword looks good, I think maybe its his pose. As this model will be in another triumvirate box with Cypher and the new Grand Master Voldus I’ll probably end up getting it.
Thanks man this the best shots I have seen thus far