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You can reduce realism without throwing it out entirely. I mean, I'm not a strict simulationist, but a main battle tank shouldn't be optimally configured to engage its opponent at 15 meters range...

It's a wargame, there should be some grounding in basic military concepts, like screens, and using terrain...

Sure, Redbeard it has issues. I'll agree with you. I'm hoping a lot of the things you mention get fixed when actual codexes come out (or in some errata).

Overall though, the way I see it is that 6th introduced a bunch of problems, and then 7th took that, didn't really fix any of them, and then added a whole bunch on top.

Looking at 8th, I feel like they approached it from a point of view of wanting to fix all of those problems. From that point of view, I think they did a pretty good job. Did they create more issues? Yeah. They did. I won't argue that. Will they fix those too? I dunno, but I really hope so.

 daedalus wrote:
I'm hoping a lot of the things you mention get fixed when actual codexes come out (or in some errata).

I'm beyond hope. I had hope that 7th would fix the that was 6th, but it made it worse. I had hope that external playtesting would mean that we might see a decent release.

Fool me, like five times now..., won't get fooled again.

Clearly, no one at GW has a clue since Andy Chambers left.