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I can't be bothered trawling through the various rumour pages for 6th edition, so hopefully someone will be able to help me out.

I'm putting together a ten-man Purifier squad for my Grey Knights, and I want to arm them with Halberds to get the I jump on most things, but I don't want 6th edition to turn around and change the way that I works in combat, so can anyone tell me if the remoured changes for 6th edition are likely to do that? Should I stick with the Halberds or go with Falchions for extra choppines or maybe even Hammers for extra 'pow'?

Grey Knights will be errata'd out of existence. Tau will take over the Imperium and Aun'va will replace the Emperor on the Golden Throne. All chaos will become loyalist again and the chaos gods will join into one super god who draigo will eat in one bite because he's pure.

Truer answer: The odds of them changing the base mechanics of stats is very slim. You have over a year until 6th ed hits and tons more rumors that have yet to be discussed. Do not worry.

Halberds are nice and cheap CC upgrades with no drawback, hammers giveth and taketh, falchions are a bit more expensive for better odds of doing something. Purifiers already get alpha strike in CC, the question is what do you need after that.

Kaldor wrote:I can't be bothered trawling through the various rumour pages for 6th edition, so hopefully someone will be able to help me out.

I'm putting together a ten-man Purifier squad for my Grey Knights, and I want to arm them with Halberds to get the I jump on most things, but I don't want 6th edition to turn around and change the way that I works in combat, so can anyone tell me if the remoured changes for 6th edition are likely to do that? Should I stick with the Halberds or go with Falchions for extra choppines or maybe even Hammers for extra 'pow'?

I don't think you have anything to fear with 6e changing how purifiers+halberds is the most powerful option.

I think the main changes in 6th would be the game mechanics, how to wound/hit. I doubt they would change stats, or change a codex only recently released.

6th edition will allow anything to be wounded on a 6 so you'll be getting a buff.

terranarc wrote:6th edition will allow anything to be wounded on a 6 so you'll be getting a buff.

Great. Bob the lowly Guardsman will now be able to kill my wraithlord.

Iranna.

Iranna wrote:

terranarc wrote:6th edition will allow anything to be wounded on a 6 so you'll be getting a buff.

Great. Bob the lowly Guardsman will now be able to kill my wraithlord.

Iranna.

Don't worry, this is based on highly unsubstatiated rumour. There's no 'will' about it at this stage.

htj wrote:

Iranna wrote:

terranarc wrote:6th edition will allow anything to be wounded on a 6 so you'll be getting a buff.

Great. Bob the lowly Guardsman will now be able to kill my wraithlord.
Iranna.

Don't worry, this is based on highly unsubstatiated rumour. There's no 'will' about it at this stage.

Party Pooper.

terranarc wrote:

htj wrote:

Iranna wrote:

terranarc wrote:6th edition will allow anything to be wounded on a 6 so you'll be getting a buff.

Great. Bob the lowly Guardsman will now be able to kill my wraithlord.
Iranna.

Don't worry, this is based on highly unsubstatiated rumour. There's no 'will' about it at this stage.

Party Pooper.

I live to crush the joy of others.

Inititive won't change.

what will likely change are how vehicles are hit with shooting, changes to save mechanisims(multiples saves), 6s always wound, and possable addition of Flyers and Super Heavies.

Nothing concrete about 6th ed has been said. There were a ton of rumors but apparently it was an elaborate hoax. I wouldn't expect things to change all that much though; more a refinement like 4th to 5th ed than anything.

Oh really? What gave away that it was all an elaborate hoax?

terranarc wrote:Oh really? What gave away that it was all an elaborate hoax?

People in the know said it was 90% bogus.

Great. Bob the lowly Guardsman will now be able to kill my wraithlord.

Yay! Go Bob! He's only little...

but he's lucky!

Brother SRM wrote:

terranarc wrote:Oh really? What gave away that it was all an elaborate hoax?

People in the know said it was 90% bogus.

Well that would be me but it still doesn't answer the question what gave it away.

No one knows anything about 6th edition. It's rumored for next summer.

Some people say it will be the 2012 September release.

In any event, HOW the Halberds work is covered in Codex: Grey Knights, NOT the basic rule book. Since you just got a release this year (March?), don't expect a new codex for another 4 years at least.

So, it won't be changing anytime soon. Fear not. Halberd the hell out of anyone with less than a 6 Init!

We have literally NO information about 6th ed. I can say "gretchin automatically penetrate land raiders with every attack" and be just as legitimate as everyone else.

Cerebrium wrote:We have literally NO information about 6th ed. I can say "gretchin automatically penetrate land raiders with every attack" and be just as legitimate as everyone else.

Oh noes! Now my orkses are ruined forwevers!

...will normally follow such statements. It's kind of funny. Rumours of good things will normally get 'hmm, pinch of salt' comments, rumours of bad things will get 'this is true and all is lost' comments.