Forge World News and Rumour Thread : p212 Knight Porphyrion

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**Messiah**

aka_mythos wrote:
I'll start saving now, that way when they come out with another couple variants of this Knight, I can take my pick. I hope there is a Mechanicum variant with quad singularity cannons...

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Zywus wrote:
Why does things like those big titans need separate rules for 40K?

Both 30K and 40K is based on the same ruleset anyway. I suppose one could argue that they need to be balanced against different lists but that could be achieved simply by different points costs in the two eras. And it's not like GW care about balance in 40K anyway.
FW tries to present a narrative where they present some units as becoming venerated, poorly maintained, ubiquitous, or rarer... and they tweek their rules to represent this narrative.

I spoke to a guy at Forgeworld on this at Essen Spiel, and he said that because the meta is so different, points cost does not work the same. He recommended me not play 30k Mechanicum in 40k because they were balanced against a meta of power armoured cheese (not his words).