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I haven't been able to find any discussion or review of the new planetstrike, was hoping someone could either post a link to a review or give their own impression of it. Cheers.

This might be only a little bit helpful (or not at all!) because I haven't read or seen the new Planetstrike book, but from what I understand, there have been very few changes. A warlord traits table, a slightly different force org...not much, really. Just enough to bring it up to date with 7th and then shine it up a bit.

 tomjoad wrote:
This might be only a little bit helpful (or not at all!) because I haven't read or seen the new Planetstrike book, but from what I understand, there have been very few changes. A warlord traits table, a slightly different force org...not much, really. Just enough to bring it up to date with 7th and then shine it up a bit.

Yeah it was the force org stuff I was primarily interested in, with them already throwing out the foc's rules, wasn't sure what they could do.

There's some different command benefits, but I can't be more specific than that I'm afraid.

where are you guys getting this info? is there a link to the product?

 Sir Arun wrote:
where are you guys getting this info? is there a link to the product?

http://www.blacklibrary.com/games-workshop-digital-editions/warhammer-40000-planetstrike.html

It used to be a printed expansion in 5th edition, just trying to figuer out what's changed.

Here. Look like they change it name to "death from the sky"

http://www.blacklibrary.com/Downloads/Product/PDF/Warhammer-40k/7th-faq/Death_from_the_Skies_v1.0_May14.pdf

No, death from the skies is a different supplement, focusing on aerial combat.

Planetstrike is another thing.

Solidcrash wrote:
Here. Look like they change it name to "death from the sky"

http://www.blacklibrary.com/Downloads/Product/PDF/Warhammer-40k/7th-faq/Death_from_the_Skies_v1.0_May14.pdf

Edit - oops! That was flyer version.

Hmm! There are no planet strike so far.

So no errata for planetstrike or battle missions?

The new planettrike is the last chapter in The Red WAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGG ! its required to say that

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Sanctus-Reach-The-Red-Waaagh

New missions, traits, FoC. If you play planetstrike games or campaigns its a must get I think. I will be missing some of the old scenarios in with these for our new campaign.

I picked it up yesterday.
I never played it pre 7th so cant really comment on previous iterations.
However some things that I noticed / stood out:

Warlord charts for both the attacker and defender.
The defender can place as many fortifications as he likes during deployment but also any other terrain as sees fit too.
Stratagems - these range from 1-4 points depending on lethality/usefullness. Both attacker/defender have stratagems. Warlord traits can affect these.
There are several special mission rules:
Firestorm - the attacker gets to make a shooting attack at certain str and AP.
Planetary assault - attacker can make reserve rolls from turn 1.
Shock tactics - any attacker units that have deepstrike and deploy via deepstrike can charge first turn.
Scramble - the defender makes reserve rolls from turn 1 and a d6 roll also dictates the table edge.

There are 6 missions in the book which vary in terms of the victory conditions and stratagems and special rules.
Most however seem to be objective based.

Force org charts similar to the previous edition, attacker is elite and fast attack orientated, defender is more troop and heavy orientated.

Most of the missions seem well thought out and I'll give a few a whirl I think. However its a short publication overall, the pictures are few and far between - theres no "ooo wow" pics.

Anything else just ask.

 Ratius wrote:
I picked it up yesterday.
I never played it pre 7th so cant really comment on previous iterations.
However some things that I noticed / stood out:

Warlord charts for both the attacker and defender.
The defender can place as many fortifications as he likes during deployment but also any other terrain as sees fit too.
Stratagems - these range from 1-4 points depending on lethality/usefullness. Both attacker/defender have stratagems. Warlord traits can affect these.
There are several special mission rules:
Firestorm - the attacker gets to make a shooting attack at certain str and AP.
Planetary assault - attacker can make reserve rolls from turn 1.
Shock tactics - any attacker units that have deepstrike and deploy via deepstrike can charge first turn.
Scramble - the defender makes reserve rolls from turn 1 and a d6 roll also dictates the table edge.

There are 6 missions in the book which vary in terms of the victory conditions and stratagems and special rules.
Most however seem to be objective based.

Force org charts similar to the previous edition, attacker is elite and fast attack orientated, defender is more troop and heavy orientated.

Most of the missions seem well thought out and I'll give a few a whirl I think. However its a short publication overall, the pictures are few and far between - theres no "ooo wow" pics.

Anything else just ask.

Thanks dude

The main thing I was trying to figure out was how they made the force org stuff relevant with the new army construction method. Why would someone care about different force orgs when they can already just take whatever they want essentially, that's what I wanted to see.

Sounds to me like the only change is the Warlord Traits.