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I am old. Way older than many of you, having started with this grand game back in second edition. As such, the mindset and intentions of modern Games Workshop rules designers are completely opaque and senseless to me. All I can see is that they're in constant conflict between simplification and complication, and the Custodes gun-katas being a poorly formatted example of the latter.

Why 9th edition is better with rules like this instead of, say, a list of USRs in the rulebook like 6th, or a separate Strategy Card deck like 2nd, I can only guess at. Presumably they've done all their market research and their findings show, that this game of mess will sell well for a year or so, before another cull in the name of simplification, and thus the cycle begins anew with 10th edition.

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You say that like there has been any edition other than 8th that cleared away the complications of a prior edition on mass. Whatever they pile on today will stick around until the next version of the codex arrives. Only then will they get rid of unliked mechanics in favor of new mechanics.
   
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 alextroy wrote:
You say that like there has been any edition other than 8th that cleared away the complications of a prior edition on mass.


3rd Ed did that coming from 2nd. There's a reason the BRB contained army lists. It was a MASSIVE change.

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People complained armour facings were the devil. Making Crossfire a USR would probably make peoples brains melt.

   
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 Platuan4th wrote:
 alextroy wrote:
You say that like there has been any edition other than 8th that cleared away the complications of a prior edition on mass.


3rd Ed did that coming from 2nd. There's a reason the BRB contained army lists. It was a MASSIVE change.


To go even further, I'd argue the changes from 2nd to 3rd were even bigger then the changes from 7th to 8th

   
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 Arbitrator wrote:
People complained armour facings were the devil. Making Crossfire a USR would probably make peoples brains melt.



Crossfire is a very simple mechanic that uses the same "core" as several others (obscuring, dense cover), and those aren't blowing any minds.

Armour facings would be fine if we also cared about non-vehicle facings and also had a consistent intuitive way to figure out facings of non-rectangular vehicles.

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Rihgu wrote:
 Arbitrator wrote:
People complained armour facings were the devil. Making Crossfire a USR would probably make peoples brains melt.


Crossfire is a very simple mechanic that uses the same "core" as several others (obscuring, dense cover), and those aren't blowing any minds.

Armour facings would be fine if we also cared about non-vehicle facings and also had a consistent intuitive way to figure out facings of non-rectangular vehicles.

This. Facings were crap, poorly represented on models (Land Raider with exposed engine being AV14 all around while armoured Russes for some reason are paper thin 10 at the back, but exposed engine FW Russ variant being 11, go figure), monsters ignored them, caused no end of issues when firing unit was on diagonal, etc, etc. Either everything in game has facings or nothing, abstraction on only half of the units is a garbage system that makes some unit trash for no reason whatsoever (which was always mentioned in discussions about vehicles in old editions, but I guess rose glass blinkers brigade already forgot about that).

And then joker of a writer for Tau made facings even more comical by giving Tau special rules that ignored them (special super penetrating tactic that allowed Tau to always target rear AV, apparently they can make lasers and railgun bullets fly in U shape when firer is in the front) or made Tau walkers steered with a joystick monsters to give them T instead of AV and a bunch of broken rules MCs had (when SM walkers piloted with a thought like your own body were still clumsy and easily beatable by Tau ones in melee), such fluff, much wow LOL

I also like people still defend flaming trash can that was USRs after playing a game of old edition recently and seeing why they were stupid idea again. Let's see, dozens of rage/furious charge/fury/other charge and similar nonsense ""USR""s that differed only in tiny details and were pretty much 'bespoke' rules we have now only requiring you to frantically flip big book to look up instead of being on unit card (funny that some people always whining about 'bespoke' never seem to complain about these, eh?), ""USR""s that were limited to one unit in one army (CSM blaze thing was super ""universal"" LOL), really, there is a case to be made about armies each having a page of common rules of their own in Codex for ease of update, but USRs of old edition in rulebook were as garbage in use as armoury system that sadly only 5th edition dared to can for a bit.

So, yeah, I am puzzled how people can still be about terribad system that was rightfully binned. Are you people still using MS DOS or something?
   
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This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.

Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...

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 Red Corsair wrote:
 Platuan4th wrote:
 alextroy wrote:
You say that like there has been any edition other than 8th that cleared away the complications of a prior edition on mass.


3rd Ed did that coming from 2nd. There's a reason the BRB contained army lists. It was a MASSIVE change.


To go even further, I'd argue the changes from 2nd to 3rd were even bigger then the changes from 7th to 8th
The move from 2nd to 3rd, as I've heard, was almost a completely different game. That being side, did it clear away the complications of the prior edition or just change everything for a different play experience?

But we can agree that only 3rd and 8th editions invalidated priorly released material at release.
   
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Gathering the Informations.


Well, there it is!
   
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Hmmmmm...I quite fancy the Genecults if Henry want to go halves.

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AUD$280 then.

Ouch.

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Looking at the sprues the new GSC character has 2 head options whilst the blade Champion has 1 helmeted and 2 bare as well as an option for big sword in one hand and smaller blade in the other as an alternative to the big swinging dual hand option.





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ListenToMeWarriors wrote:
Looking at the sprues the new GSC character has 2 head options whilst the blade Champion has 1 helmeted and 2 bare as well as an option for big sword in one hand and smaller blade I the other as an alternative to the big swinging dual hand option.


I'd assume it's just the same sword plus misericordia.

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 Laughing Man wrote:
ListenToMeWarriors wrote:
Looking at the sprues the new GSC character has 2 head options whilst the blade Champion has 1 helmeted and 2 bare as well as an option for big sword in one hand and smaller blade I the other as an alternative to the big swinging dual hand option.


I'd assume it's just the same sword plus misericordia.


Agreed, but it is nice to have even minimal variety, so you can run 2 non identical models if you like.
   
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"Ok, a few things here.One, clandestine is a Saboteur ability, not army wide. Maaaaybe things like Sanctus get it, but certainly not Primus or Magus.Both Primus and Magus are better than before. Magus cast 2 powers now. I think the familiar allows a reroll.Primus is a mini-skitari marshall now, rerolling 1s to hit and wound. He's going to be a must have. Also gain +1T and one extra attack with the claw.Patriarch gains 4++ and one wound, but loses 1 point of Strength and both auras (fearless is combat attrition now, which sucks, and +1 to hit for genestealers is gone). Claws are better (damage 2, still flat 3 with 6s). Overall, it's better, 4++ is a big boost, so is the 7th wound (need 3 hits from D3 weapons now).The saboteur gimmick bomb is going to be pretty useless. It's deployed in command phase (so can't use in the turn she deepstrike), at 1", and can't move while doing it. I don't see it being used much, unless there are stratagems to boost it, like placing it at range.

Shotguns are S4.I can't read the webber, or the seismic cannon.
EDIT: I think Webber is S1, roll 1d6, if the roll is higher than the highest enemy S in the target unit, do 1 mortal wound."

   
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Boneswords are +1S 2D, hopefully that carries over to the Tyranid codex too. Edit: might just be for the Primus

As expected the Patriarch changes from D3 to flat 2 damage.

Looks like Neophytes can have any 2 heavy plus 2 special weapons per 10 models, and they're not limited to the bits in the kit like Skitarii.
They're going to be fairly shooty.

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So +1 wound and attack for trajan but only +1 wound to the Vexillus so I'm not sure if custodes will receive more attacks or wounds. At least, Trajan weapon goes to damage 3. Thats nice.

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Misericordia no longer has a line about storm shields, so that's possibly good.
   
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making misericorda's free isnt quite as good as +1A across the board, but its certainly not a bad fix.

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 Eihnlazer wrote:
making misericorda's free isnt quite as good as +1A across the board, but its certainly not a bad fix.

Datasheets don't typically show points, so it's unlikely to be free.
   
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 Galas wrote:
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So +1 wound and attack for trajan but only +1 wound to the Vexillus so I'm not sure if custodes will receive more attacks or wounds. At least, Trajan weapon goes to damage 3. Thats nice.


Do my eyes deceive me or does the Prosecutor have Move 7”?

Trajan looking more like the badass he should be.

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https://www.instagram.com/p/CXVs0t3tMEI/

For those curious, here's the alternate pose with the custode character. I sort of like this one better, though I'd like to swap out the knife hand with one of the open hands from the standard kit.
   
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Man, my Skitarii Marshal is jealous of that Custodes character.
   
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 GaroRobe wrote:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CXVs0t3tMEI/

For those curious, here's the alternate pose with the custode character. I sort of like this one better, though I'd like to swap out the knife hand with one of the open hands from the standard kit.


It's weird that I actually like the alternate bare head for once rather than the helmeted version, especially with the two sword pose option they have set up. I'm not sure why but something about the helmet angle makes it look off for me.
   
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 MajorWesJanson wrote:
 Laughing Man wrote:
ListenToMeWarriors wrote:
Looking at the sprues the new GSC character has 2 head options whilst the blade Champion has 1 helmeted and 2 bare as well as an option for big sword in one hand and smaller blade I the other as an alternative to the big swinging dual hand option.


I'd assume it's just the same sword plus misericordia.



Agreed, but it is nice to have even minimal variety, so you can run 2 non identical models if you like.



No Misericordia on the Blade Champion, his datasheet reads " A Blade Champion is equipped with: vaultswords". With those he has 3 fighting modes , select one when making your attacks.

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