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A less comp edition sounds good to me!

I'd like to see walkers be re-evaluated, more specifically their rules for CC.

But I'm definitely banking on the new rulebook coming out in time for my birthday mid-July.

thenoobbomb wrote:WHFB-like rules in 40k?
Heh, 40k is wavy to competive for that.

That's funny.

Tauzor wrote:There is no 6th... it has a different name.

Interweb users who will refer to it as 6th will be burnt .

The new 40k? ?

I hope 6th ed is like the leaked pdf. Mainly because I told someone I'd do a nudie lap of our gaming club if it wasn't real....

Trasvi wrote:

Tauzor wrote:There is no 6th... it has a different name.

Interweb users who will refer to it as 6th will be burnt .

The new 40k? ?

I hope 6th ed is like the leaked pdf. Mainly because I told someone I'd do a nudie lap of our gaming club if it wasn't real....

The leaked PDF was an internal playtest according to BoW, and I find no reason to doubt them mainly because no person would go to those lengths to fake one. I hope the whole evasion thing remains, it should be harder to hit an Eldar Harlequin than it is to hit a Rhino, regardless of BS!

Rumor mill in Seattle currently places the new B?B in July and the starter set in September.

Bramgaunt said he's 100% certain its June 30th apparently.

Well the only GW store in NI is just down the street and.today's the suppossed day. Sundays are wholly goven over to beginner lessons but I'll be in tomorrow to pick up WD (I want a Stormtalon and my brother has SM and Orks) so I can check tomorrow.

Just saw this come across twitter:

@deepstrikeradio wrote:@EternalWarriors 40K Rulebook no longer available on GW website.

And I double checked... I can't find the 40k rulebook on their website

Alfndrate wrote:Just saw this come across twitter:

@deepstrikeradio wrote:@EternalWarriors 40K Rulebook no longer available on GW website.

And I double checked... I can't find the 40k rulebook on their website

Praise Chaos! I hope the changes are good. The game could use some revitalization.

I hope that for once they break their preview nonsense and actually hype up the new edition release more than 2 weeks in advance.

Yes anything concrete from GW will be hugely embraced by the community.

What's new today could show rules teasers on the changes and really get people talking.

tetrisphreak wrote:Yes anything concrete from GW will be hugely embraced by the community.

What's new today could show rules teasers on the changes and really get people talking.

I remember the White Dwarf from a few months before 4th edition had a whole bunch of details on things changing and it was a cool read. Wish they'd do that again!

Brother SRM wrote:

tetrisphreak wrote:Yes anything concrete from GW will be hugely embraced by the community.

What's new today could show rules teasers on the changes and really get people talking.

I remember the White Dwarf from a few months before 4th edition had a whole bunch of details on things changing and it was a cool read. Wish they'd do that again!

I recently dug out some old White Dwarf issues, and in one case they had Epic 40k articles and previews 2-3 months before it was released. The fact that you only get a week's notice about GW updating their flagship product is insane.

Yay, I can plan a 6th eddition party, where we all try and play using the new rules, and probably getting them all wrong.

the 5th edition rulebook is now no longer available on GW's website.

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/armySubUnitCats.jsp?catId=cat440343a&rootCatGameStyle=

had a read of the leaked PF the other day. i actualyl like the Evasion thing. The movement modifier confused me a little (charge = doubel distance, fleet = +2 to movement). if thsi works otu then scarabs just got a lot nastier:

Move 9 (beasts move 7 and fleet adds 2)
Charge 27 (beasts can "gallop" which means they charge 3x movement rather than 2)

Scarabs total movement into combat = 36" with no rolling required!!!
Also Swarms get +1 to Evasion so scarabs are also now tougher to hit.

Wonder what else will get nastier once the new rules hit.

Sadly I think they said they scraped the evasion thing, but we can't believe anything they say. After all, Everything is a lie!

My 2 cents... I also was told at the weekend that its coming this time next month. Also if anyone bought the book in store this month - they'd get a small rulebook replacement (but I think this might be a country/language specific deal).

Milisim wrote:A less comp edition sounds good to me!

Why? A more competitive ruleset doesn't hurt you in any way, and if anything would make the game more enjoyable for everyone to play.

I don't understand why people are like this. Making the game, any game, balanced for competitive play doesn't actually hurt or hinder your ability to play it casually at all. If anything it would probably make the game even better, because all those "obviously bad" choices in your codex that you would only ever use "for fun" wouldn't be "obviously bad" in the first place, and there would probably be less "no-brainer" choices that you take in every game because they're so much better than everything else, too. And let's not forget that all those stupid rules arguments that shouldn't happen, but do because of GW's poor writing (Like when the DE codex came out and a lot of people were trying to argue that flicker fields "do nothing" because vehicles can't have invulnerable saves per the rulebook?), would probably happen a lot less if GW cared more about catching that gak during play-testing.

But no, you're right, go on. Keep that imaginary divide between competitive and casual players alive, please.

well i am excited..possibly in vain, but this is a fantastic opportunity to totally finish painting my chaos army, just 6 dudes left. Then top up on models for my daemons, and complete the list to completely finished status (which i am excited about too). then i have 2 finished painted armys ready to play with 6th ed and no need to buy anything, just enjoy the game.

if something exciting comes out it will be easy to assimilate into the armys (fingers crossed for chaos drop pods and viable raptors for me) and if the rumor on beast movement is right...oh baby my flesh hounds will be the bomb...x3 yay.

minimum cash spending, new rule book, and hot armys to play with...oh yeah i'm excited

I don't know whether to use all my cash on the new book and starter set or go for the tau in 2013. They are probably spaced enough that I can get the book and go for dex updates later knowing GW.

Find a friedn who plays DA or Chaos (if the rumours are true that is going to be the starter set).

When Black reach came out a friend and i went halves on the set, i started a SM army and he started an Ork one. amazing deal.

I keep telling you lot. Stop calling it 6th !

Does anyone know anything about what they are actually releasing for chaos in 6th? I've heard the starter set is to include a plastic dreadnaught, cultists, and chosen, but has anyone heard anything beyond that? I want a Slaanesh army that could stand on its own...

Tauzor wrote:I keep telling you lot. Stop calling it 6th !

Enlighten us, what should we call it?

DarthOvious wrote:

Tauzor wrote:I keep telling you lot. Stop calling it 6th !

Enlighten us, what should we call it?

Warhammer 40K - Fantasy Edition?

So, what IS a competitive ruleset anyway? How the hell do you have an uncompetative ruleset?

If by competitive you mean more clarity, more choices and more fantasy elements while maintaining the best of 40k stuff, then I'm all for it.

You know what walkers need? Stomp attacks. A SM dread can only kill 2 grots a turn? bullshizzle.

Gw store managers yold to tell customers that ask about the rule book that something exciting is
Just around the corner......and that june meetings will be revolutionary, but nothing new will be shown.

I was at GW and they still had 40k books on display with the price tag. When I whispered this rumour to the staff on duty they said, well, basically, bull.