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Alright, so I've been trying to make 40k more thematic while also giving every army a reason to take any of their units and options and have it be 'competitive'. Everything that I've finished is here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/us4nnsq1qrlhosp/ApLli_QJiU

I'd love for anyone to give me some constructive feedback but what I really want is anyone willing to make lists and playtest in Vassal. If this interests you or if you're bored and want to do something for a few hours, shoot me a message and I'll give you my Skype so we can play a game or discuss the changes. Thanks in advance!

This is going to take a while to go over, though I've got some first impressions now. I'd prefer negative AP values to be a bit more widespread; one of the biggest problems with 40k today is the linearity of armour saves/armour penetration. I like shooting into CC, interesting extra dynamic to the game. Most of the point cost adjustments look pretty good, though.

I'm seeing a couple of specific things to remark on in the army lists too:

Honour Guard/Command Squad: WS5 for Command Squad vets and Champion, but not for the Apothecary or Honour Guard Marines?

Missile launchers: I like the option of taking two of three missile types for cheaper weapons.

Farseers: Mastery 4 for 120pts? Seems a bit much.

Eldar weaponry: Not sure where a Shard of Anaris entering the list makes sense, lore-wise the only Shards of Anaris are the Wailing Dooms wielded by the Avatars.

Mind War: I don't like the revision; it's gone from about even chances of getting people to about one in twelve. It's no longer a useful power.

Aspect hats: Cool. Not perfect, but a good idea.

Guard Transports: I don't like Valks as Dedicated Transports under the main Codex; the Elysians get them at the expense of no Russes. A scheme sort of like the old Doctrines rules wherein you get a limited selection of restricted units would be better. Also as a sidenote it's spelled "Bayonet", not "Bayonette".

Sisters: Acts of Faith as per the current Codexes don't work right, they're going to need a bigger fix.

Twin linked blasts doing double damage. Prescience cover-ignoring riptides inflicting 2 times more wounds? Is that what we really need?

 koooaei wrote:
Twin linked blasts doing double damage. Prescience cover-ignoring riptides inflicting 2 times more wounds? Is that what we really need?

In absence of Tau rules we don't actually know that's how it'll work.

That's just an example. It's gona work awfully with twin-linked blasts considering how easy it is to get something twin-linked with prescience. Around 50% chance to do double the ammount of wounds with every plazmacannon/battlecannon/demolisher/suncannon/etc shot...Why not make it like twin-linked templates if you want changes? Rerolling to-wound, shred basically. Anywayz, it's not really fluffy in either case. Leave tl-blasts like they are.

Thanks for the feedback! Let me see if I can address a few things you've mentioned and the ones that I don't I've probably already changed.

The negative AP was something I wanted to keep as something special back when I had more complicated firing into melee rules. There are more weapons I can apply it to, but I'd like to keep them uncommonly seen.

The mastery levels is something I'd like to distinguish the stronger psykers in the galaxy - mainly Chaos, Eldar, and Tyranids.

I reworded Mind War. I wrote it as an opposed leadership test (D6 + Lds value) but it wasn't very clear.

The Valk thing is actually a good idea, as I was struggling to make Drop Troops worth it. Also, look at the Company Traits, I tried to replicate Doctrines without actually having them.

The Sisters are totally revamped, with a focus on squad leaders, transport options, and Imperial Navy air support.


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I fixed the Template and Blast weapon thing. Those were one of my oldest rolls and were pretty clunky. Thanks for pointing that out.

I've also added a bit of gear to the IG fliers that the Sisters had.


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There, I made a changelog document as to keep track of updates. I made some significant overhauls in a bunch of little places. Current and first changelog number is 1.01.