Is it actually bloat that's the problem with the Marine books?

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**alextroy**

Siegfriedfr wrote:
In the end we come back to the terrible but sadly fact of life about GW : it's a stock company "in the miniatures selling business".

They cannot release full rules and indexes at the beginning of an edition and not release any new books for new units,
They need to maintain cash influx all trough the year to make stockholders happy.

We can talk and complain however long we want about it, in the end, simple ruleset the beginning = expand the customer base, and codex/rules bloat after that is designed to keep the customer base paying for new books and units.

At this point each expansion feels like a world of warcraft expansion : they seel you bells and whistles pre-release ("we've changed"), then it becomes a grind, because that's the only way to keep people paying their monthly sub.

GW doesn't need to release products constantly because they are a "stock company". They need to release products constantly because they need to pay their employees and creditors constantly. I suppose they could be smaller and live on a feast and famine schedule like a restaurant in a seasonal resort town, but then we would get less stuff out of them.

**Brutus_Apex**

We need to remove pregame decisions attached to strategems.

I shouldn't need to spend command points to equip my HQ with artifacts. They should be points based.

Units shouldn't have to spend command points to be slightly better like 'Ard Boyz for example

Make strategems one use only. No more spamming.

Command point generation should come from destroying enemy units and capturing objectives etc. Make you work for it.

You should only be able to use command points if you still have HQ's left.

**BrookM**

Locking as per request OP.