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[size=12]From a friend of mine who works at GWhq I have heard a troubling rumour about a new supplement coming out over the summer.
Apparently it's going to be a book of rules where you can play 40k armies against fantasy ones. From what I've heard the way it works is that all 40k weapons ignore fantasy armies armour where as 40k has no defence against magic. It sounds really cool I think it said it's called something like warp storm so I'm guessing it's something to do with the warp mixing the 2 words together.
Sounds like a pretty stupid supplement considering there are no ways in fantasy that would even be dangerous to a single space marine really. Conquering entire primitive worlds takes a day or so.
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It's not an entirely unreasonable idea... GW did something similar with Warhammer Siege, which had rules for fortresses for both games, and rules for fighting on 'primitive' worlds.
Skullvane_pants wrote: My source is a good friend of mine at head office, he's been spot on about everything so far
Such as...?
Do tell!
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I heard this too! there was someone who I knew who used to work with the company and they said something very similar... it sounded like it could work after hearing a couple of the rules? it was to do with summoning monsters in 40k?
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Back in 2nd edition Chaos Space Marines could take detachments of Warriors of Chaos, and the Imperial Guard had beastmen. It's not as crazy as it seems.
However, it's going to need more than "40k weapons ignore armour, Fantasy armies have magic" to make both systems compatible.
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Kirasu wrote: Sounds like a pretty stupid supplement considering there are no ways in fantasy that would even be dangerous to a single space marine really. Conquering entire primitive worlds takes a day or so.
Well back in the long day you could actually have wars between the two back when the systems were together, the day when Fantasy was just another world in 40k.
And they gave nods to it too in one of the events, where the items were obviously stuff from 40k renamed by the primitive users.
Agent_Tremolo wrote: Back in 2nd edition Chaos Space Marines could take detachments of Warriors of Chaos, and the Imperial Guard had beastmen. It's not as crazy as it seems.
However, it's going to need more than "40k weapons ignore armour, Fantasy armies have magic" to make both systems compatible.
Indeed. A lasgun being able to break through Chaos Armor? I know that lasguns supposedly have the stopping power of a .50, but Chaos Armor is all magical and nonsense.
Kirasu wrote: Sounds like a pretty stupid supplement considering there are no ways in fantasy that would even be dangerous to a single space marine really. Conquering entire primitive worlds takes a day or so.
Well back in the long day you could actually have wars between the two back when the systems were together, the day when Fantasy was just another world in 40k.
And they gave nods to it too in one of the events, where the items were obviously stuff from 40k renamed by the primitive users.
Ah yes, lizardmen had a few things like that.
The piranha blade, iirc was something like a chainsword, and the scepter of the lost sun had effects not too dissimilar from the staff of light.
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Agent_Tremolo wrote: Back in 2nd edition Chaos Space Marines could take detachments of Warriors of Chaos, and the Imperial Guard had beastmen. It's not as crazy as it seems.
Beastmen make sense within the 40K Lore as countless varieties of mutants exist.
insaniak wrote: It's not an entirely unreasonable idea... GW did something similar with Warhammer Siege, which had rules for fortresses for both games, and rules for fighting on 'primitive' worlds.
But erm..wasn't this during the Rogue Trader days?
AlexHolker wrote: It's a stupid idea, but it's a GWian sort of stupid.
Problem: 40k sells, Fantasy doesn't.
Solution: Fantasy is now a 40k army!
And an Exalt for you.
This will probably be digital only too. The warp storm that 's been keeping the Warhammer world hidden from the Imperium has subsided and now Imperial forces are coming to bring it into compliance...
Agent_Tremolo wrote: Back in 2nd edition Chaos Space Marines could take detachments of Warriors of Chaos, and the Imperial Guard had beastmen. It's not as crazy as it seems.
However, it's going to need more than "40k weapons ignore armour, Fantasy armies have magic" to make both systems compatible.
Indeed. A lasgun being able to break through Chaos Armor? I know that lasguns supposedly have the stopping power of a .50, but Chaos Armor is all magical and nonsense.
Yay, magic or not, even handcrafted sets of armor should offer some protection. Not to mention Dwarves seem to be better armored than, say, orks
But it doesn't stop there. Fantasy armies have punishing restrictions to movement, whereas 40k armies are far more mobile. They'll simply manoeuver around them shooting their formations down like fish in a barrel.
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War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Well, it used to be possible, back in the days of RT & 3rd Ed WFB. Back when the systems were much closer aligned, rules wise, and you had the big daddy chaos books that spanned all three systems (including WFRP) with the ability for fantasy chaos warriors to end up with all sorts of 40k tech through random d1000 reward tables.
These days, the systems just aren't close enough together for a proper cross over.
However, if the supposed 7th ed is a full rewrite rather than just sticking escalation into the main rules, then it could be possible that they'd bring back the movement stat, and go back to the old way of doing shooting and saves. If that happened, then they could put out a crossover book without too many issues.
But changing the 40k mechanics that much isn't something I could see happening at this point in time. Maybe with 8th edition, once they've put out all the books in the current format and want a clean slate.
Skullvane_pants wrote: [size=12]From a friend of mine who works at GWhq I have heard a troubling rumour about a new supplement coming out over the summer.
Apparently it's going to be a book of rules where you can play 40k armies against fantasy ones. From what I've heard the way it works is that all 40k weapons ignore fantasy armies armour where as 40k has no defence against magic. It sounds really cool I think it said it's called something like warp storm so I'm guessing it's something to do with the warp mixing the 2 words together.
Yah, I am going to go with a no on this one.
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Skullvane_pants wrote: He told me about the imperial knight 6 months ago, when all the rumour sights were saying it was imperial guard
Why didn't you share?
Six months ago people were nervously eyeing Centurions and - oh those innocent days - blithely ignorant of things like Escalation, Dataslates, etc..,, much less anything in the new year.
You'd have had your chance to become a rumour god for the ages, right out of the gates.
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