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Just read an article online proposing a 40k rules change question:

If you could change one single rule from the main rulebook, or any of the codices, what would it be?

Please bare in mind the balance of the game when sharing and not just something silly or overpowered.

This can be something that you think is balanced badly or just makes sense with the narative side of the game.

I personally think they change when a play deploys their fortifications. In the rulebook it states you're meant to put it down before other scenery. This seems rediculous to me as someone could just place a huge line of sight blocking piece in front of it.

true but that's why you should use the other version not the d3 twatty scenery version of deploying terrain in a "mutually agreeable fashion"

To make charging a little more even to all the shooting make the range
2d6 + 3" that way you can at least make a 5" charge at minium over two.

 cormadepanda wrote:
To make charging a little more even to all the shooting make the range
2d6 + 3" that way you can at least make a 5" charge at minium over two.

Still, then you would have an average charge distance of 10". Granted it isn't like assault is overpowered. For me it would probably be to modify the to hit rolls in melee so that someone who is 2 WS higher than their target can hit them on a 2+, and someone who is 2 below their target needs a 6+ to hit them. It is stupid that an Avatar of Khaine or a Space Marine Captain can only hit a guardsman on a 3+, plus it makes WS 6 more useful since you can now hit marines and Orks on a 2+.

Charge out of stationary vehicles. It's ******* stupid that you can't.

Make Night Scythes a 0-3 choice.

I would remove the pile in at every initiative step and only pile in at the end of combat. It doesn't make sense that if my guys wreck the first 2-3 rows of termagaunts that I then have to let the remainder pile in 3 inches and hit me back.

Assaulting out of outflank please thanks

 shamikebab wrote:
Charge out of stationary vehicles. It's ******* stupid that you can't.

Yes please.
Barring that, assault from outflank and the old Fleet would be nice.

Let cover modify to hit instead of granting a save...
OR
Give weapon an armour save modifier instead of A
OR
let every unit have its own M value

...heh, there's quite a lot I'd like to change

 Enigma wrote:
Let cover modify to hit instead of granting a save...
OR
Give weapon an armour save modifier instead of A
OR
let every unit have its own M value

...heh, there's quite a lot I'd like to change

We could just play mordhime

"All dice rolls are replaced by statistical averages. Partial wounds can happen, and must be kept track of. Round all numbers to the 5th decimal."

As Enigma said, but also modifiers for distance, movement (yours and theirs), night fight etc.

"At the start of each of your movement phases you generate D6 Faith Points for each Primary or Allied Detachment of Sisters of Battle in your army. The value rolled for a given Detachment is how many Faith Points that Detachment has available..."

With the consequent errata that Jacobus only grants a reroll to the detachment he belongs to, and that Laud Hailers return Faith Points to the pool of the detachment of the unit that triggered the relevant Act of Faith.

I would replace the igougo -turn system with warpaths activation system.

I'm hoping I'll get to try this someday.

If I must pick one and nothing else...

Hull Points - drop 'em and go back to the 5E vehicle damage table.

 Enigma wrote:
Let cover modify to hit instead of granting a save...

This for sure !

There can be no more Space Marine Codex update or replacements until all the other Non-Space Marine ones have been brought up to 6th Edition..

There are too many things that need to be changed.... Too many! I mean.... what do I pick from? Deploying fortifications is idiotic how they wrote it, at least make charging a bit more reliable. I would much rather accept as 3+d3 or better yet a 3+d6 (I'm biased :U) maybe even your initiative plus certain other things (problems with MC though perhaps but gosh darn it how is it that somehow MC move at the same speed as your troops?), area cover shouldn't be giving cover saves to a MC if it is a small blast, make WS a bit more meaningful than it is now, be able to charge out of a stationary vehicle, old fleet, old hitting out of reserves, balance shooting and cc so we don't have one being better (assault in 4th ed shooting in 6th and no 5th vehicle shooting), cover influencing to hit (cool part is marines will be more wise to use terrain. Negative is it will be even harder to kill em). How is barrage a better sniper than snipers themself. PSYKERS! Warlord traits. Why so random?

 illuknisaa wrote:
I would replace the igougo -turn system with warpaths activation system.

I'm hoping I'll get to try this someday.

Forget what I said before, this x1000

Either adding a movement stat or to-hit modifiers based on range and cover.

 NeedleOfInquiry wrote:
There can be no more Space Marine Codex update or replacements until all the other Non-Space Marine ones have been brought up to 6th Edition..

There can be no more whining about how unfair it is that Space Marines get all the updates when the oldest book is a Space Marine Codex and there's only been two so far in 6th, of which one was Chaos. Seriously, the reason so many Space Marine Codices, Vanilla aside, got updated in 5th is because they were ancient and desperately needed to be updated.

 chrisrawr wrote:
"All dice rolls are replaced by statistical averages. Partial wounds can happen, and must be kept track of. Round all numbers to the 5th decimal."

nice idea but this will make a long game drag on for an eternity

give furious charge back the +1 intiative, and assalts after outflanking, and if you are going to make charge and run move randomised at least alow some units to do them together, ie run and charge admittedly this shouldnt be allowed for jump units but for everything else.

Fortification placement AFTER terrain placement.

The ability to shoot into close combat.

I would take anything. (ANYthing.) Shots that miss your enemy automatically hit any friendlies? Okay. The whole combat is treated as a single unit, with ALL wounds being allocated to friendlies first, with only the remainder applying to enemies? Likewise fine. Really, anything that circumvents a squadron of Leman Russes and two artillery batteries from firing into a huge seething mass of gaunts because one lonely guardsmen managed to both survive the first round of combat AND roll snake eyes for his leadership test.

 Jimsolo wrote:
The ability to shoot into close combat.

I would take anything. (ANYthing.) Shots that miss your enemy automatically hit any friendlies? Okay. The whole combat is treated as a single unit, with ALL wounds being allocated to friendlies first, with only the remainder applying to enemies? Likewise fine. Really, anything that circumvents a squadron of Leman Russes and two artillery batteries from firing into a huge seething mass of gaunts because one lonely guardsmen managed to both survive the first round of combat AND roll snake eyes for his leadership test.

On a similar note, except the complete opposite, allow Consolidate moves into close combat once per turn. I don't want to be penalized for finishing my enemy on the charge. As it is now, you want your assault units to break the enemy during your opponents turn as opposed to your own, which is just silly.

 Jimsolo wrote:
The ability to shoot into close combat.

I would take anything. (ANYthing.) Shots that miss your enemy automatically hit any friendlies? Okay. The whole combat is treated as a single unit, with ALL wounds being allocated to friendlies first, with only the remainder applying to enemies? Likewise fine. Really, anything that circumvents a squadron of Leman Russes and two artillery batteries from firing into a huge seething mass of gaunts because one lonely guardsmen managed to both survive the first round of combat AND roll snake eyes for his leadership test.

Please no. Pleeeeeaaaase no. For the sake of assault don't make close combat any worse than it already is. Shooting doesn't need another buff. And to hit means for most armies a 3+ to hit and seriously tau gunning into tau just no. I can see it now. Riptides in cc tau shooting since the riptide won't get wounded.

AlmightyWalrus wrote:

Jimsolo wrote:The ability to shoot into close combat.

I would take anything. (ANYthing.) Shots that miss your enemy automatically hit any friendlies? Okay. The whole combat is treated as a single unit, with ALL wounds being allocated to friendlies first, with only the remainder applying to enemies? Likewise fine. Really, anything that circumvents a squadron of Leman Russes and two artillery batteries from firing into a huge seething mass of gaunts because one lonely guardsmen managed to both survive the first round of combat AND roll snake eyes for his leadership test.

On a similar note, except the complete opposite, allow Consolidate moves into close combat once per turn. I don't want to be penalized for finishing my enemy on the charge. As it is now, you want your assault units to break the enemy during your opponents turn as opposed to your own, which is just silly.

I will happily allow limitless consolidation from one combat straight into another in exchange for the ability to shoot into close combat penalty free.

StarTrotter wrote:
Please no. Pleeeeeaaaase no. For the sake of assault don't make close combat any worse than it already is. Shooting doesn't need another buff. And to hit means for most armies a 3+ to hit and seriously tau gunning into tau just no. I can see it now. Riptides in cc tau shooting since the riptide won't get wounded.

I'd be willing to go with the 'treat the CC as one big unit,' in which case the Riptide WOULD get wounded. (Since the majority toughness would be whatever unit he'd charged into.) And ALL the wounds would go to the Riptide until he was dead. That option would be better than NO ability to shoot into close combat at all.

Any model that can take a missile launcher can choose to take 1 of the following 3 missiles, Frag, Krak or Flakk. The choice must be made at the start of the game before deployment.
In tournaments you can choose each game which missile you take, but are stuck to that choice for that game.

 cormadepanda wrote:
To make charging a little more even to all the shooting make the range
2d6 + 3" that way you can at least make a 5" charge at minium over two.

If we must have random charge. Roll 3 d6 discard the lowest d6