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I hope my Tau will finally be established as the true multi-racial faction.

New kits for Kroot, Vespids and Gue'vesa with each of them fulfilling a meanigful and unique role within the army would be a dream come true.

I'm hoping that space marines in power armor, on foot and without grav will actually be competitive.

As a 'Nids player I do hope their MCs become top of the heap again - but - I am looking forwards to high speed Gaunts and hopefully Genestealers to pin the shooty down until the MCs arrive.

For Space Wolves I'm hoping Counter Charge sticks about - I will miss the Ironwolves formation though.

Deathwatch are the elite of the elite, their small model count will always be crippling.

Eldar - give howling banshees grenades, make swooping hawks not aweful, lovely models that are just bad

orks- where to begin... bring back cybork body to a 5++, lower the points of literally everything (they do not have a single appropriately points costing unit in the codex right now in some cases they are in the ballpark but nothing is valued properly or even undercosted... ok possible exemption plain old cannons cause of grots shooting them and T7 ) bring back kff working in vehicles, make deffrollas worth a damn again, an ork battlewagon should be rushing around ramming everything. less randomness, maybe a random option like Shokk attack gun hitting at a fixed str 7 ap2 assault D6 but you MAY choose to roll on the table making it up to str 10 ap2 but risking the rest of the table. fixed values would allow for a more competitive army while retaining the fluff of orks in casual play.

space marines - remove grav guns or nerf them down signifigantly. make each weapon have a use and not just grav be auto take unless you lack points.

Nids- multiple diverse viable builds.

Harlies- more upgrade options for Harlie tanks.

1k Sons- Viable rubric flamers. Soul reapers at 5 man. Lose boon of mutation and the primaris. Have Magnus have better synergy with his army.
I say it again, viable rubric flamers.

 Skerr wrote:
Nids- multiple diverse viable builds.

Harlies- more upgrade options for Harlie tanks.

1k Sons- Viable rubric flamers. Soul reapers at 5 man. Lose boon of mutation and the primaris. Have Magnus have better synergy with his army.
I say it again, viable rubric flamers.

That's an interesting hope, Magnus is currently all about synergy with his army, when they're both together they're boarderline broken, as parts get removed their effectiveness drops incrementally. When Magnus and all the other Psykers are gone they're bottom tier rubbish. It's not like there is just a single decent build either.

Magnus is about synergy with Tzeentch Daemons. He works much, MUCH better with them than with TSons.

And he's also a crutch-you should not have to field Magnus to be competitive with TSons. But you really do.

 JNAProductions wrote:
Magnus is about synergy with Tzeentch Daemons. He works much, MUCH better with them than with TSons.

And he's also a crutch-you should not have to field Magnus to be competitive with TSons. But you really do.

Fair call.

Something done to rough riders.

I'd like tanks to be less melta prone, ogryns to be better, and please why does everyone get lord of war but us (and a few others). Make baneblades, macharius, and those tanks in the army

Also, I know this is a lot, but can models be cheaper, that'd help with the 30 man conscript units per platoon (of which I usually have three)

I do love my guard.

CommanderRednaxela wrote:

I'd like tanks to be less melta prone,

That's never gonna happen... the whole idea of melta is to bust tanks

Honestly, for my daemons, I expect I'll get nearly an identical port from AoS. Rend becomes AP, obviously, but I'd like to see them get something similar to mortal wounds that just ignore armor (like the D-thirster's axe doing extra mortal wounds if you kill at least 8 in combat). But if it's as similar as can be, including some of the Khorne Daemon formations...I'll be happy.

As a Chaos Space Marine, specifically Black Legion player, I would like to keep this trend of each legion having a bit of their own flair. Even it is only if is only Black Legion can take Chosen or Terminators as troop choices or the like. For sake of simplicity, I wouldn't mind losing things like Hatred or Veterans of the Long War, but I won't complain if they stay either.

I would also like to field a force that didn't rely on cultists as I wanted to play CSMs not cultists allied with CSM. I also want to make better use of my jump pack troops. I want to maybe use my warp talons as more than 'count as' raptors to bulk out the squad.

Finally, I want to see more Fallen Dark Angel stuff as they are sort of becoming a sub-warband of my collection. I am looking forward to hopefully being able to more easily switch back and forth from CSM to Space Marine rules depending on which units I am taking. I also don't want to see a radical jump in tier levels doing so. Of course, if for some reason CSM spaces or allied Fallen have access to scouts, land speeders and drop pods, I wouldn't have to.

Less random stuff to keep track of.
I have to record 20 powers, 5 rewards and a warlord trait at 1500 points of Tzeentch daemons.

 DarkBlack wrote:
Less random stuff to keep track of.
I have to record 20 powers, 5 rewards and a warlord trait at 1500 points of Tzeentch daemons.

I kind of liked that aspect of daemons though I just got in to them.

Standard riflemen are worthwhile in their own right and are capable of engaging equilivant enemy units in fire fights.

This does not mean that they are extra wounds for special weapons, nor does it mean they are there "to secure objectives".

I vehemently despise people who claim certain units should be relegated to "claiming objectives" what this really means is that all they are good for is standing there and doing nothing. NOTHING SHOULD BE GOOD FOR "STANDING THERE".

Not having the worst terminators when lore wise they are meant to be some of the best.

T. The deathwing

I want Blood Angels to be able to field more options viably than they currently do. Right now, there's little point in fielding Sanguinary Guard over Death Company. I want to put some Sanguinary Guard on the tabletop, they're some of my favorite models after all, but in the hotly contested Elite slot its almost always better to drop Death Company in instead.

This has the makings to allow for a very fast, melee oriented Blood Angels force that doesn't eschew shooting completely. I will continue my plan to build my 5th Battle Company oriented force with 10th company and 1st Company support elements. I'm working on it being primarily a descent of angels style list, lots of drop pod deployment (Minimum 3 to 4 in the list) with jump packs and a Storm Raven supporting the assault from the air.

Hoping it will be viable, and based on what I'm seeing so far I'm optimistic it will be.

Take it easy.

-Red__Thirst-

Regiment specific benefits/rules.

Pewter metal ranges redone in plastic.

More updated lore/art on regiments outside of Cadia.

More heroes. We are down to like 4 heroes left in the IG. We should have dozens.

Give guard a reason to take guardsmen again.

Balanced codex that is on even footing with all other armies.

Fix absolutely absurd point costs on units within IG codex. 125 points for a hellhound? GTFO of here.

 Backspacehacker wrote:
Not having the worst terminators when lore wise they are meant to be some of the best.

T. The deathwing

Best based on fanboism? I think you will find that non-pain feeling plague host Death Guard would be a cut above

 digital-animal wrote:

 DarkBlack wrote:
Less random stuff to keep track of.
I have to record 20 powers, 5 rewards and a warlord trait at 1500 points of Tzeentch daemons.

I kind of liked that aspect of daemons though I just got in to them.

The idea is cool, love that my army is a bit different every game. The problem lies in the practicality.

an 'Aggregate Fire' rule which allows you to swap, say, 5 lasguns for one much stronger shot which does dX wounds, perhaps scaling the weapon strength to the number of models.

If 50 las-men are putting out 10 Autocannon shots at full strength down to 10 multilaser shots at half strength, that would make them not only interesting but useful and a lot faster to resolve.

SoB:

Plastic models, fer cryin' out loud
Repentia and Penitent Engines worth putting on the table
A GW Repressor
A faith system that reflects the fanaticism in the fluff
Imperial cultists or Red Redemtionists or some other angry mob
This no-template thing better work
A refund on Imperial Agents and Fall of Cadia, which I bought after years without an update only to have them yanked before I could play an actual game with them.

 MacPhail wrote:
SoB:

Plastic models, fer cryin' out loud

This thread is hope for 8th edition, not hope for last 15 years

The main thing I want is for space marines core units to become viable options.

I would just love to be able to take an army consisting of primarily power armored marines with some terminator support and maybe some dreads and predators backing me up and be able to purge Xenos.

I want the army to be an elite army - not a horde army like it currently is.

I probably won't be playing 8th, but I'd say plastic Aspect Warriors, and Exodite Dragon Knights would be my top two.

Well, I'd like to unshelf my Eldar after becoming over the top.
I'd like to consider my GK again and i want my Necrons to be still playable.
I hope GW has a plan for vehicles.

I'd actually really like to see Tempestus being viable and fun. I've always wanted to collect an army of Tempestus lead by an inquisitor (and some day adding a retinue of plastic sisters).

-Flashgits
-Burna boys
-Killa kans
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Please?

I just hope that they are reworked so that the new rules don't make them completely non-viable.

The new rules described so far are good and I like the changes for the game as a whole, but the fixed to-hit, removal of initiative and especially the retreat mechanic are going to hit the Harlequins really, really hard.

Ad Mech being one cohesive faction. Please. Instead of being split oddly between skitarii and mechanicus.