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I think it is interesting how these seem to polarise people's views. In the end it'll come down to TO's and popular demand as to how they get used in tournaments.

The argument that 'I've never played it before so it's unfair' seems daft to me, I've not yet played the new necrons, are they unfair as I've never played them - cause their doomsday arc seems well over powered

If people take them people will come up with counters and other ways of dealing with them, we get 2-3 new codecies a year with incomplete model ranges which we have to figure out how to play, I don't see how this book is any different.

I hope they'll do another in a year or two's time with units for other armies which haven't been updated hopefully, maybe balance some of the older books against the newer

DevianID wrote:So Vaktathi, if you want to say that the rules let you play forgeworld, what about the most important rule? If your opponent wants to play with the core rule book and an army codex, and you bring a rulebook tangentially related to the codex (and its not exactly cheap to get those FW books) are you not playing with more stuff than the normal codex allows? To me, its similar to playing with an old army codex. Sure, it was made by GW, but its certainly implied that you will play with the most recent book.

How is that different to playing a new codex you've never seen before, or a unit featured in White Dwarf (like the Eldar Night Spinner) or bringing an army that's too tough and won't be fun to play against (e.g. Razorfangrunespam vs Warrior heavy Tyranids?), or an army that's just far and away too expensive for you yourself to ever collect (e.g. Mech IG at ~$1000+ vs Draigowing at ~$200-300) etc?

It's not. None of it boils down to being any different than any other play issue. The units exist in the 40k universe and background, they are designed for play with the codex's and normal basic mission rules. Other than that, it's no different than if people don't want to play against anything in a codex. You can't force Mephiston or 3 Stormravens on anyone any more or less than you can force a Leman Russ Annihilator.