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What would you announce, implement, or change?

Would you rehire some of the old guard? Have Mat Ward right a new Codex? Would you dig put all the FW units that were put out to pasture and bring them back into the fold... and I don't mean through the Legends rules?

Me, all I need is to make three announcements, and then leave the company to try and implement my madness.

First, True Scale Grey Knights.

Second Imperial Knights/Chaos Knights:Combat Patrol

Finally a plastic Warhound Titan.

That should keep the 40k studio guys on their toes for a while.

In charge for 1 day & then gone is not enough time to get anything done.
The next guy is just as likely to cancel whatever I'd announced etc.

So I'd write my self a very generous & immediately payable bonus and promptly cash the check.

 Lathe Biosas wrote:


Second Imperial Knights/Chaos Knights:Combat Patrol

Finally a plastic Warhound Titan.

So, what exactly would you put in this Knights combat Patrol the match it's value to the others?

I'd like to request the Reaver as well, that's always been my favourite Titan.

As for what I would do, first I'd give the Kroot their own codex and expand there range, there is so much untapped design space in the Kroot. I'd have them be able to ally into Tau Imperial Agents style and expand on the Tau's auxiliary range, some Jokero, Nicusar, Vespid, Demiurg, and Gue'Vesa models. They've got plenty of units for the mecha style army, lets see some more Covenant themed Tau.

Oh, I'd put 3 Armigers: 1 helverin 2 warglaives... under 500 points

Easy.

First, declare myself Dictator for Life, thus never relinquishing my power.

Then drag everyone and everything, kicking and screaming, back to the 2nd Ed system, with rules for all existing kits.

FUN WILL BE COMPULSORY.

For me the biggest thing that the 40K setting is missing is Epic 40K. We don’t need every single kit that is currently available in 28mm but a functioning and supported Epic 40K would be great.

Of course this would be a challenge to support alongside Legion Imperialis. Since I’m only in charge for a day I’ll let others worry about that though.

deprioritise space marines and assign equal weight to all factions and put a concerted effort into advertising all of them in positive ways that make people more inclined to play them.

If you are going to present yourself to your consumers as providing a game with a range of factions of equal footing, then you should damn well actually sell that.

Not this weasely system we currently have where from the outside the orks and tau look like they're equivalent to marines, but when you get into the game you realise they're just there for marine fans to kill, miniscule fiction, no line of ork heroes, no special one off ork boardgames, no 'how many tau ethereal models are they going to make' range, no merch.

Nothing at all to suggest this supposedly equal faction in the setting is anything other than an NPC and chosing them as your faction is just giving marine players something to shoot at. You have no autonomy in the setting, just NPC cannon fodder,


GW have literally two product lines in 40k - platinum membership space marines where every whim, desire and need is catered to with far more merch, options and releases than you could ever collect and dirt membership which is every xenos army where you sit outside their door begging for scraps while you watch the marine fat cats walk past with their billionth lieutenant, trillionth novel and merch forever laughing at how much they enjoy the game. I literally stopped playing space marines because of how gross the whole thing made me feel.

Oh I forgot one thing. I'd announce that the Emperor would be released for 30k... and then give him lore accurate superpowers and make special rules for him for Epic 40k, Li, and Titanicus.

Have recast all the RT-2nd ed CSM and issue myself gratis copies of them all

 Lathe Biosas wrote:
Oh, I'd put 3 Armigers: 1 helverin 2 warglaives... under 500 points

Two problems with this though. 1 The armiger sprue is designed as a pair, you can't part it out. 2. The cost of 1.5 kits or Armigers is already less than a Combat Patrol.

Now you could solve this by doing 4 Armigers, but then, why would anyone buy the solo kits. I guess 2 of each could work. That's probably the best route. However, then the problem is it's not balanced for the Combat Patrol game mode.

I would make a whole slew of new product announcements - new games, new models coming for existing ranges, re-release of all classic rulebooks, revile the Pan Fo, a return of the original Skullz program, a worldwide GT taking place on a cruise ship over the course of 18 months... none of which would actually happen, because I'm only there for a day.

Im glad im not the only one who remembers the pan fo

chaos0xomega wrote:
Im glad im not the only one who remembers the pan fo

The wha?

 Lathe Biosas wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:
Im glad im not the only one who remembers the pan fo

The wha?

Beware the buntblunders

If I were only in charge long enough to do one thing:

GORKAMORKA!

 Lathe Biosas wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:
Im glad im not the only one who remembers the pan fo

The wha?

They will be reviled

I would implement a policy that the three year edition cycle begins when the last dex of the edition hits the shelf, not when the launchbox hits the shelf.

This would extend editions by 2.5-3 years.

That or create a living edition with digital updates that come at a reasonable pace. Part of me prefers this option... But 10th isn't my favourite edition, so I think there is still a point to edition change. I just think that three years is a really feel-bad experience for the last folks in line to get their dexes.

Having said that, if 11th is actually a 10.5 (as 9th was actually 8.5), it does soften the blow a bit.

chaos0xomega wrote:

 Lathe Biosas wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:
Im glad im not the only one who remembers the pan fo

The wha?

They will be reviled

Uhhh.... my access to this little slice of remembrancer lore is lacking...

Care to fill me in?

While the original Geocities origins of the Pan Fo are sadly lost to the ravages of time, you can find some of the story here.

canonize female space marines. specifically establish that they always existed, and that the lore of the last 40 years was incorrect

i assume it'll take a few hours, so once that's done, i stop for lunch

when i get back, GSC superheavy based on this thing

plastic kit, of course

if i have any time in the day left after that, i'll bring back the wolf head HH SW upgrade kit

"Hence forth, the squad level Warhammer 40,000 shall produce rules, including unit stats, at the unit level rather than the model level." I'll be at Bugmans if you need me for anything else.

Make a retrohammer ruleset based on the cool bits of Rogue Trader and 2nd ed, put it up for download on warcom and then call it a day.

Mandate a return to a smaller scale of model that fits on 25mm bases!

 StudentOfEtherium wrote:
canonize female space marines. specifically establish that they always existed, and that the lore of the last 40 years was incorrect

i assume it'll take a few hours, so once that's done, i stop for lunch

when i get back, GSC superheavy based on this thing

plastic kit, of course

if i have any time in the day left after that, i'll bring back the wolf head HH SW upgrade kit

Okay, I gotta ask, is the female Space Marine idea because you actually think it's a good idea, or because you want to kick back and watch the impending community shitstorm while laughing maniacally?

Also, that looks like exactly the kind of excavation equipment that the Imperium would make and the GSC would take over. It's amazing and now I want one.

 Tawnis wrote:

Okay, I gotta ask, is the female Space Marine idea because you actually think it's a good idea, or because you want to kick back and watch the impending community shitstorm while laughing maniacally?

 Tawnis wrote:

 StudentOfEtherium wrote:

Spoiler:

canonize female space marines. specifically establish that they always existed, and that the lore of the last 40 years was incorrect

i assume it'll take a few hours, so once that's done, i stop for lunch

when i get back, GSC superheavy based on this thing

plastic kit, of course

if i have any time in the day left after that, i'll bring back the wolf head HH SW upgrade kit

Okay, I gotta ask, is the female Space Marine idea because you actually think it's a good idea, or because you want to kick back and watch the impending community shitstorm while laughing maniacally?

75% because i actually want it, 25% because it would make people mad

I would finally release the long delayed and eagerly anticipated codex:primaris lieutenant.

Deadnight wrote:
I would finally release the long delayed and eagerly anticipated codex:primaris lieutenant.

Only if he comes in a box set with a new Primaris Lieutenant.

Or Maybe a Primaris Lieutenant Kill Team.

I'd also like to retcon in female marines, but in the most obnoxiously hamfisted manner.

They were always 50% female. The astartesification process just makes them all turn out the same. Meaning half of your forces were female all this time, you just didn't realise! And they were actually calling eachother b'rother, which is high gothic for sibling.

I'd introduce a boob-plate redemptor kit, and an upgrade kit that turns Guilliman into Guilliwoman. Then I'd ask Jeeves to pull up the company limo, since that torches-and-pitchforks mob is getting awfully close...

Without burning down the company as if Heath Ledger's Joker was at the helm, there is an easier female Space Marine Retcon, that people would accept.

Remember the two space marine legions struck from the history books?

Make one of them have a female primarch and dump them in the Pacificus region where not much happens.

Now you can come up with a nifty reason for her return and maybe have a new faction of the Imperium, maybe a new civil war to further break down the Imperium.

There are countless, but fun, and not universe destroying ideas that could be unleashed.