Horus Heresy / 30K N&R

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**Dudeface**

Dryaktylus wrote:
Gadzilla666 wrote:
MeanGreenStompa wrote:
Dudeface wrote:

You're going to have to explain the "less bloat" to me. The churn is also looking to be identical or worse, same 3 year cycle, but now with regular splat books.

While I've not played 40k in a number of years... I'm under the impression that the rules for 40k, down to unit performances in the various armies, is in a near constant state of online, live changes, or at least the occasional viewing of an 'auspex tactics' video has led me to believe. 'Balance Dataslates' et al, being regularly pruned, edited, amended etc according to outcomes of tourney play.

Also, this is one instance of a 3 year turnover, prior to that the distance from 1.0 to 2.0 was, what, 11 or so years? One swallow does not a summer make. If it's an ongoing trend, I'll agree, it's an unwelcome one, but we cannot base that assumption of pattern from one instance.

Hope springs eternal..... despite the obvious signs that dispute said hope.

We'll see. Their take on of HH is quite different to 40K and AoS (fully accepted legacies, free downloads for armies that need conversions or the use of whatever models you want). For me as a Mechanicum player 2nd edition sucked hard as half of the list was unplayable. With 3.0 that changed.

Yet ironically in 40k they'd have tried to do something about it so they weren't stuck being unplayable for what people hope is 4+ years. Which is why running away from "the churn" to a game that remains static for years at a time isn't always a positive.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

There’s also the possibility that with four Main Games (40K, AoS, Old World, Heresy) that we’re back to a four year cycle.

Note the wording. Possibility. We may very well not be. And it may be a year or two before we see the evidence one way or the other.

Personally? I’m hopeful, but not exactly holding my breath or nailing my colours to the mast on this one.