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Is the new rule book a fully new edition, or just a Version 2.0 of the edition we were just in? I took a break from waiting to be spoon fed a new model kit that I may or may not want for one of my armies every week, thinking I could come back in a few months and be able to order several at once... now there's a new book and a new starter set?

Depends on how you define the difference between "a new edition" and "version 2.0 of last edition". There are core rules changes, but they're closer to the 3e->4e or 4e->5e changes in scope than the 5e->6e or 7e->8e changes.

 AnomanderRake wrote:
Depends on how you define the difference between "a new edition" and "version 2.0 of last edition". There are core rules changes, but they're closer to the 3e->4e or 4e->5e changes in scope than the 5e->6e or 7e->8e changes.

Well a new edition would replace all the codex, a version 2.0 would only replace the ones that didn't get replaced already (or didn't get replaced well enough) In other words if we're looking at a new Codex Space Marines in the next few months its a new edition, if we're not going to see one until after the NEXT new rule book, it's just a 2.0

On that logic we would be on 3rd edition now

tneva82 wrote:
On that logic we would be on 3rd edition now

I've got a lot of different Space Marine Codexes for us only being in 3rd edition. Some of the other armies get the short end though. I think what people call 4th and 5th used the same SM Codex but different rule books. The rest I believe all replaced rulebook and SM codex.

Breton wrote:

tneva82 wrote:
On that logic we would be on 3rd edition now

I've got a lot of different Space Marine Codexes for us only being in 3rd edition. Some of the other armies get the short end though. I think what people call 4th and 5th used the same SM Codex but different rule books. The rest I believe all replaced rulebook and SM codex.

well if you wanna use space marine codices as your guide, we're in 10th edition

Breton wrote:

 AnomanderRake wrote:
Depends on how you define the difference between "a new edition" and "version 2.0 of last edition". There are core rules changes, but they're closer to the 3e->4e or 4e->5e changes in scope than the 5e->6e or 7e->8e changes.

Well a new edition would replace all the codex, a version 2.0 would only replace the ones that didn't get replaced already (or didn't get replaced well enough) In other words if we're looking at a new Codex Space Marines in the next few months its a new edition, if we're not going to see one until after the NEXT new rule book, it's just a 2.0

New edition.

BrianDavion wrote:

Breton wrote:

tneva82 wrote:
On that logic we would be on 3rd edition now

I've got a lot of different Space Marine Codexes for us only being in 3rd edition. Some of the other armies get the short end though. I think what people call 4th and 5th used the same SM Codex but different rule books. The rest I believe all replaced rulebook and SM codex.

well if you wanna use space marine codices as your guide, we're in 10th edition

I would use Matched Pairs of Rule Book + SM Codex. Some editions had two Codex, or a Codex, and a Supplement (i.e. Angels of Death in 7th Ed) or more. But back to my question, is this just a new rulebook because the BRB errata made it cost effective (because people will buy it, especially in a new units Starter Box) to reprint version 2.0 or are they going through the editionary cycle?

tneva82 wrote:
On that logic we would be on 3rd edition now

Wouldn't it be 4th now?

RT (1.0), 2nd ed. (2.0) and 3rd ed. (3.0) are all significant changes, with stat lines being completely reworked and completely invalidating what came before.

4th-7th (3.1, 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4) all built on the framework of 3rd so can be argued to be iterations of the same edition, and the 8th was a fully new editon, so would be "4th" (4.0) and the current new edition would be 4.1

On-topic:

Yes this is a new edition, built on the framework of 8th. As others have said it is similar to the transition from 3rd - 4th and 4th - 5th. it is more than simply updating the BRB with the Errata and FAQs that have been released since 8th launched.

tneva82 wrote:
On that logic we would be on 3rd edition now

In many ways we are.

Again, numbering editions is mostly convention among players. GW traditionally hasn't referred to editions by numbers. Whether "5th Edition" was genuinely 5th Edition or 3.2. Or whether 7th Edition was perhaps 3.4 or 5.2 or whatever, is basically down to your own preference.

That said, GW's social media side at least has now, for the first time, adopted the "commonly used" designator of "9th", which they never did before.

Sunny Side Up wrote:

tneva82 wrote:
On that logic we would be on 3rd edition now

In many ways we are.

Again, numbering editions is mostly convention among players. GW traditionally hasn't referred to editions by numbers. Whether "5th Edition" was genuinely 5th Edition or 3.2. Or whether 7th Edition was perhaps 3.4 or 5.2 or whatever, is basically down to your own preference.

That said, GW's social media side at least has now, for the first time, adopted the "commonly used" designator of "9th", which they never did before.

4th edition had a big Roman numeral IV on the cover at least.

The box set retrospective also mentions some edition numbers.