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 Grand.Master.Raziel wrote:
I'd start by having GW stop trying to make a profit off their rules books and offer them for free online

GW tried that with AOS. They won't make that mistake again.

 JohnHwangDD wrote:

 Grand.Master.Raziel wrote:
I'd start by having GW stop trying to make a profit off their rules books and offer them for free online

GW tried that with AOS. They won't make that mistake again.

Thats is because they wrote laughable rules such as having beards and such. Also no system of balancing.

I recently came back to 40k after over a decade away. I love a lot of the new models but the fluff has changed so much its unrecognisable.
Back then no one was good. Literally NO ONE! now every faction has to be seen to have some redeeming features on a moral basis. This should not be the case. Go back to imperial military forces being brainwashed, highly xenophobic, murderous psychopaths while the rest of the human race is watched and basically systematically exploited and subjected to mass genocide by an organisation (or groups of organisations that make the gestapo look like a womens institue bake sale) and every other race just as, if not even more, evil and morally bankrupt or as in the case of the tyranids a wave of galaxt consuming monstrosities. The whole things just feels like grimdark lite atm. At least if writers took this approach we could say bye bye to this allies nonsense. I just used to love the futility idea that despite different races thinking what they fight for is right the fact is theyre all wrong and all positions are morally indefensible and no matter who wins each battle or war they are all going to die as the entire universe tears itself apart.

But yeh get rid of centurions... where did the imperium find this tech? Really? (And they look ridiculous)
And grav... we never had grav!

Snd for christ sakes can we please get a petitio to GW to make sisters out of plastic. I remebrt looki at SoB armies longingly and widji theyd make it a more accessible army and that was 12/13 years ago!

 JohnHwangDD wrote:

 Grand.Master.Raziel wrote:
I'd start by having GW stop trying to make a profit off their rules books and offer them for free online

GW tried that with AOS. They won't make that mistake again.

To be fair, the rules themselves were pretty poorly received by a large segment of the community and they killed a large part of the playerbase, and they haven't released all rules online for free either. They also had an extremely wonky download system. I don't think the free rules was AoS's problem.

Add real, official models for women in the game. Even if Space Marines aren't supposed to look feminine at the very least Guard should have tons of women in it.

Slayer-Fan123 wrote:
I swear some of you posted as though you didn't read the title.

Such is life on the internet.

Chaos
I would tone down the horns, spikes, etc on Chaos minis, not a total removal of them but tone it down. Many of the current chaos models are cartonish and I really seem dated next to the DV CSM models. I would also create some kits that have a mix of chaos symbols and the loyalist symbols, like combining blood angels type stuff with khorne iconagraphy or some ultrasmurfs with undivided symbols. Plastic nurgle everything, yes everything, IG, SM, Mechanicum, orks, etc.

Orks
Just sell me bitz and gubbins to go on that baneblade or fireprism. Though some kits that are orky/ captured vehicles, etc could be cool. I personal think the orks should be a little bigger as well, less hunched over more tall, upright with no question that they lift.

NIDS
more bug varients to show the hive fleets evolving and adapting over time.

IG
Less constipated heads. plastic kits for the various worlds or at lest greatcoat and desert guys. Make their walkers more mecha like.

People finally, literally got what they paid for with the FREE AoS rules. But people are paying money for the General's Compendium, and saying it's fine.

I hate the look of Rhino spam. Lunchbox after lunchbox. Maybe it's just the players who do it to others that should be changed. I suppose what I also have about it is lack of miniaturer on the board. It's not natural, it's not what 40k is about.

Dump both Imperial Guard and Ultra Marines. I'd rather see stupid looking armies than boring ones.

Change Tau vehicles to look more in design with their suits, something about the blocky suits and curved tanks just seems awkward.

 Vaktathi wrote:
Likewise Centurions.

I frickin' love Centurions. Whenever I scroll past them, I always think "is there any way I can work them into my army, because I really want them! I guess they're a kind of "either you love them or hate them"-model.

As for what I'd change, I'd change Tyranids for sure. Make them much more bug-like, and remove every single held weapon. Their weapons should be organic and a part of their bodies. They look goofy as f**k carrying around little carapace pistols. They should be a scary disgusting threat. Not Looney Tunes.


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sturgeondtd wrote:
Leave only named characters as heroic scale, and make all other units size appropriate. I dislike having cultists that are almost as large as a chaos space marine or terminator.

Found it really funny when I started Skitarii that they are supposed to be normal people with a little limb augmentation, but they are considerably taller than space marines if you account for the fact that the SM are wearing armour that they would be smaller outside of. Space Marines are supposed to be huge humans.

I'd change slaanesh and tzeentch daemons. Keep the bird motif but god the crab claws and silly looking tzeentch daemons hurt me so bad, especially because thay army seems fun to play. There's probably a few others but that's what comes to mind.

Guard:

If it were up to me, I'd scrap the Chimera, LRBT and all their variants and come up with something a touch sleeker - lower silhouette, tracks that could feasibly reverse without stubbing itself on a rock and remove the ridiculous front sponson/barbette. I'd come up with a re-designed sprue of Guardsmen that look more functional like FW's Elysians and an additional upgrade sprue for a number of Guardswomen (or vice versa). I think combining Male and Female sprues into one box penalizes the player who wants an all male or all female force so the best way I can see would be to offer one gender or the other as an upgrade sprue. Either that or release a second box in the other gender. I'd also offer some sort of upgrade sprues to the baseline to represent a variety of other regiments (And not just the Tallarns/Mordians/Vostroyans that have been around for ages now). Taurox would get wheels - job done there.

SoB

Complete re-design from the ground up. - in plastic. I can't understand why GW hasn't either re-done them or just dropped them by now.

Space Wolves/Blood Angels/Dark Angels

Enough already! - They are another 6 First-founding Chapters out there and countless other Chapters - do something fresh instead or re-hashing the same old styles. Or don't, because you'll probably muck them up as well.

Space Marines

I'm okay with most SM stuff, aside from the Stormtalon and SM Bike/Attack Bike, but the thing that gets me the most - the fact that tank crews are wearing Pauldrons despite the hatch being too small to fit their torsos through, let alone their huge shoulders...