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Power Creep has always been a thing with codex releases.

Why they insist on releasing CSM as one of the first codexes is boggling.

Release them at the end of 8th and watch a Heldrake anhilate an entire army single handedly.

Although the constant FAQ'ing and CA goes some way to prevent this - it just means your army is good depending on the way the wind blows.

But GW doesn't care about quality of rules or balance. The CA2017 changes were just for sake of making more money at the expense of balance. And that's the problem. Nobody can seriously expect GW to actually aim for trying to balance so if you play 40k you do it knowing GW is doing it's best to not make it balanced.

What army do you play? The one I play massively benefited from the CA2017 changes.

 Daedalus81 wrote:


EDIT: And just because you like to roll out the Sokar nerf as your little shock and awe statistic.

The Space Marines’ Superheavy tanks (Fellblade, Falchion and Typhon) were the bigger issues for them. All of them needed either a serious point drop or to be up-gunned to match the Guard Codex Superheavies. As it is now for the cost of a Fellblade you can field a Baneblade with similar-ish capabilities to the Fellblade, plus an entire Shadowsword, which like as not will either destroy the Fellblade outright in a single turn or at least cripple it enough for the Baneblade’s auxiliary weapons to finish the job. There really is no defending a certain few of the Chapter Approved changes.

kombatwombat wrote:

 Daedalus81 wrote:


EDIT: And just because you like to roll out the Sokar nerf as your little shock and awe statistic.

The Space Marines’ Superheavy tanks (Fellblade, Falchion and Typhon) were the bigger issues for them. All of them needed either a serious point drop or to be up-gunned to match the Guard Codex Superheavies. As it is now for the cost of a Fellblade you can field a Baneblade with similar-ish capabilities to the Fellblade, plus an entire Shadowsword, which like as not will either destroy the Fellblade outright in a single turn or at least cripple it enough for the Baneblade’s auxiliary weapons to finish the job. There really is no defending a certain few of the Chapter Approved changes.

Oh, I know. You and I have gone back and forth on the math over it.

Nevertheless a handful of items does not produce evidence for GW's motivation being "nothing about balance". Nor does rolling out the Sokar as evidence of this make any lick of sense.