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I'm not worried at all. This is the best news I've heard in the past few months I've been investigating the game.

New stuff means a chance to correct some evils

I'm optimistic. I'll only be upset if the new rules are bad, and even then - maybe the new rulebook is the harbinger of new Codexes?

I hope it will bring more players into the fold. My community is limited as is...We don't need to lose more people because games workshop **** the bed...

There will be much nerd rage.
Matt Ward will then take the distilled essence of said nerd rage and use it to write his next codex

But really, there shouldn't be a problem if people are smart enough to read the rules before crying about how "bad" they are.

Doomhunter wrote:There will be much nerd rage.
Matt Ward will then take the distilled essence of said nerd rage and use it to write his next codex

You heard it here first, Codex: Angry Marines confirmed!

labmouse42 wrote:My prediction :
Just as when 4th edition D&D was released, were going to see a small (and very vocal) portion of the player base quit with major nerd rage.

Armies will be sold cheaply on ebay as half of them liquidate their armies swearing never to play a GW game again. The other half will swear to only play 5th edition and hold 5th edition events -- cradling their rulebook like a puppy.

80% of them will be playing 40k 6th edition with their friends again in 6 months time.

Well done for characterising any and all disappointment with the new edition as 'nerdrage'; that's both constructive and honest.

I'll try out 6th edition, I'll even buy the rulebook, but if the sum of the the changes is as mechanically clumsy and poorly-balanced as the leaks suggest, I don't imagine that I'll be impelled to play more Warhammer 40,000. If it disappoints the rest of my gaming friends as much as I anticipate it will myself, then with luck it will be just the impetus we've all needed to try out Warpath or Project Pandora.

Besides, I'll always have Space Hulk.

English Assassin wrote:Well done for characterising any and all disappointment with the new edition as 'nerdrage'; that's both constructive and honest.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, sir. I am fallen into using in the past as well, and I find it never adds to a discussion.

As I am sure you know there is a difference between these two statements
"OMG WTF ALLIES! I QUIT!!!!1111"
"I'm disappointed with the ruleset of 6th edition, and you know -- I think warmachine is the game for me"

This thread is to question how much the prior will occur, and not the latter.

The internet can't separate "change" from "apocalypse". It will be the biggest, and most pointless, shitstorm about 40k there's ever been.

Nerd rage about 6th edition is getting old already. Everyone's just bandwagoning on. Cool kids like me are already launching their nerdrage about 7TH edition. I mean, c'mon guys, it's only like years away and it's gonna completely force me to buy new models!

I'll be buying some armies off ebay fairly cheaply when the rage-quitters start!

kronk wrote:I'll be buying some armies off ebay fairly cheaply when the rage-quitters start!

As I said on /tg/ buy one of every army for 90% off. Might need to strip a lot of paint. Then again I can finally make a space marine chapter without sacrificing much of my Imperial Guard budget. Buy hordes of assault marines, paint them gold and I will field my Golden Angels chapter. A Blood Angles successor chapter filled with gold plated ego maniacs.

As we all know, it will be epic.

There is no point to this discussion. Obvious troll is obvious.

I don't know why the mods haven't come down yet.