New Dark Angels rumors!

My insider sources have just leaked the following juicy info to me and nobody else, because I am the closest thing the Warhammer community has to James Bond.

Release Date:

• 100% confirmation that there will be a new codex in July August September October November December January.
• Featured in White Dwarf.
• There will be advance orders available.

Codex:

• The Codex will be hardcover and in color.
• It will be about 100 pages long and feature both new artwork and some "surprising" new fiction.
• It will be available in a variety of languages, including "possibly" Chinese.
• The cover is a "very intimidating" Dark Angels painting.

Characters:

• All the current characters will be back, plus "some" past characters and "at least one" new character.
• Azrael is supposed to be "very scary" now.
• Ezekiel gains "at least" Mastery Level 2.
• "New upgrade character" - possibly Namaan?
• "We could see a lot more Watchers in the Dark in the board..."
• Cypher is "in the book", but maybe not playable (?). My sources conflict on this.

Units:

• Tactical squad is supposedly "more useful" thanks to a "Chapter Tactics-style rule".
• Deathwing terminators are "a lot more dangerous" than their vanilla counterparts.
• Deathwing "may function like Wolf Guard".
• A unit with "a scary-sounding name" who are supposedly "a bit like Sternguard, but with more plasma, maybe".
• Ravenwing "make the White Scars look like they're on scooters" - sounds nasty!
• Scouts are either Troops, Elite or "maybe" Fast Attack.
• At least one unit gets Flakk Missiles.

Vehicles:

•  New "Plasma-heavy" tank, either a Predator or possible Land Raider variant.
• Rhinos available for "most" squads.
• Dreadnoughts have "a lot more" ranged weapon options.
• New vehicle that "has a name that sounds a bit like something from the Book of Enoch" which is "either a flyer or a large walker".
• Supposedly Dark Angels vehicles have "a way around" the Gets Hot! rule.

Weapons:

• Plasma gun.
• Combi-Plasma.
• Plasma-Plasma.
• Plasma Cannon with twin-linked Plasma Gun.
• Plasma Cannon with another co-axial Plasma Cannon.
• Gatling Plasma.
• Flamer with a "Plasma-like" profile.
• Boltguns.
• Force Weapons as standard on Psykers.

Models:

• "Most of" the new vehicles will be part of the initial release.
• "At least" two new plastic unit kits.
• Finecast characters.
• Finecast upgrade frame.
• Plastic Deathwing kit with "many options".

Keep in mind that these are playtest rumors and therefore won't be 100% accurate. Anyone asking why I'm discussing playtest rumors for something that's already been printed and therefore finished being playtested months ago will be banned.

Over and out,
Branchbaboon.