Warhammer 40K - What could the two new armies be?

 

When GW announced the new edition of Warhammer 40,000 they mentioned that there were going to be at least two new armies coming.  Since then people have been speculating as to what they could be, so I thought I’d through my hat into the ring and let you know what they might be.

The first army that I think they might release (and I’m certain this is a safe bet) is Chaos Renegades.  GW have already released rules for Renegade Knights so is seems like the next sensible thing to do is expand upon this and do rules for other renegade units such as traitor guard.  Thematically as well, with the narrative of 40K shifting to be focused on the Imperium Vs Chaos it makes sense for there to be more chaos renegades visible on the battlefield.   With the Great Rift tearing the galaxy in two you can easily picture once loyal Imperial Guard legions abandoning their hope and turning to the Chaos gods for salvation.  This army is also a good cash cow for GW as they can do what they did with the Genestealer Cults and release new sprues to convert already existing kits into renegade ones.   

The other army I think is certainly possible is a Khorne themed one.  Again this sort of makes sense as 40K now has Nurgle and Tzeentch themed armies with the Death Guard and Thousand Sons, so Khorne would make logical sense to be next (especially as GW are keen to distance themselves from Slaanesh).  If you look at Age of Sigma, again both Tzeentch and Nurgle have Armies as does Khorne, and we already have a new plastic Kharn the Betrayer miniature.  Now weather this army will be Legion Specific, like World Eaters or more general will be seen but I would be highly surprised if Khorne doesn’t get some love in the next year or so.  The only thing I see possibly preventing this is the fact that the Chaos Space Marine Codex has already been released and many of the Khorne Legions and units have already been covered in that book. 

So what do you think?  What new armies do think GW are working on for 40K? Comment below with your thoughts and opinions.