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Very very impressed with the warhammer40000.com website. Superb artwork, quite navigable, good info for new and existing players (albeit some rehashed), like the FAQ doc (at least their being darn honest) and some exciting ideas seem to be in the works.

Kudos GW, Kudos so far.

streetsamurai, do you even like anything GW does? You hate AOS, you pre-hate Nu40K... c'maaaan dude.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Apologies if already discussed, but thread is TL/DR...

That image. Clearly Deathguard on the right....but I'm having a hard time identifying the Chapter on the left. Doesn't seem blue enough for Ultramarines?

Blue with Red highlights is Crimson Fist

Youn wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Apologies if already discussed, but thread is TL/DR...

That image. Clearly Deathguard on the right....but I'm having a hard time identifying the Chapter on the left. Doesn't seem blue enough for Ultramarines?

Blue with Red highlights is Imperial Fist.

Looks way more like Raven guard IMO

I'm fairly optimistic for a new ruleset. I'm quite fond of the new marine models as well, although I'll probably stick with my current armies.

I wouldn't mind new chaos marines. Bigger and more evil looking than ever. The past ones looked very cartoony.

New rules set is sounding 'from zero' - so many of people's current issues may well be dealt with - from Nids needing an update, to Maureens having bent formations.

Definitely going to be an interesting launch!

My sole concern at the moment is a specific piece of wording, that 'low-cost' army books will be available at launch. Simply because by evidence of omission, it may be we don't get AoS free scrolls. Which is a shame,

 Azreal13 wrote:

 ncshooter426 wrote:

 Azreal13 wrote:

If you'd like to try and call me a "white knight" then come at me.

White Knight!



I make my charge

Sadly you died to my overwatch.

Good game!

Chalice of Shenanigans (Also known as a Big Gulp™) allows me to ignore Overwatch.

 Vulkan_He'stan wrote:

Youn wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Apologies if already discussed, but thread is TL/DR...

That image. Clearly Deathguard on the right....but I'm having a hard time identifying the Chapter on the left. Doesn't seem blue enough for Ultramarines?

Blue with Red highlights is Imperial Fist.

Looks way more like Raven guard IMO

Actually, my error as I edited. Blue with Red shoulder pads lines are Crimson Fist.

 JohnnyHell wrote:
streetsamurai, do you even like anything GW does? You hate AOS, you pre-hate Nu40K... c'maaaan dude.

Just set him on ignore like I did, makes reading Dakka more pleasurable.

Oh, and +1 for the Boosh.

 ncshooter426 wrote:

 JohnnyHell wrote:
streetsamurai, do you even like anything GW does? You hate AOS, you pre-hate Nu40K... c'maaaan dude.

Just set him on ignore like I did, makes reading Dakka more pleasurable.

Oh, and +1 for the Boosh.

While not 100% pleasant (which shouldn't, this is a forum and we've got the right of saying things how we like as long as we don't break forums) he does provide valid criticisms on due occassion.

He maaay be kneejerking a bit here but I think we are a bit saturated with power armor in 40k, so he's not really out of the line in his comments.

Nice rundown, HBMC.

And yeah, I liked what imperial agents did with inquisitor retinues, but it was pretty much a waste of a release.

 streetsamurai wrote:
So far, there is nothing to dislike as current 40k turned into a joke with all the formations and additional rules. Unfortunately, I don't really have trust in the current rule writers and I expect a ridiculously shallow and boring game a la AOS (which is pretty much the checkers of wargaming, no matter what 3 or 4 delusionned fans spew). After all, while I really like SWA, it is pretty much a direct copy of Necromunda. The only difference is the campaign rules: they are terrible, and really shows the mentality of the design studio (lesser is better).

Still, I'll give a chance to the runner, as we say in french, and sincerly hope that GW will prove me wrong.

This is pretty much my view. Not expecting anything great, but the fact that they're dumping the current garbage that 7E has turned into and will not try and carry anything over directly makes me more optimistic than I would have otherwise been.

Not sure what 8E will look like, but I sure won't miss 7E.

@ncshooter426,

He actually does it's just very rare and covered in spite which makes it hard to discern as a compliment.

Anyway, sounds like I'll be getting into 40k!

Lord Kragan wrote:

 ncshooter426 wrote:

 JohnnyHell wrote:
streetsamurai, do you even like anything GW does? You hate AOS, you pre-hate Nu40K... c'maaaan dude.

Just set him on ignore like I did, makes reading Dakka more pleasurable.

Oh, and +1 for the Boosh.

While not 100% pleasant (which shouldn't, this is a forum and we've got the right of saying things how we like as long as we don't break forums) he does provide valid criticisms on due occassion.

He maaay be kneejerking a bit here but I think we are a bit saturated with power armor in 40k, so he's not really out of the line in his comments.

They're just incessant, add nothing to the thread, are often off-topic and rarely moderated. Maybe Ignore might be an idea.

 JohnnyHell wrote:
streetsamurai, do you even like anything GW does? You hate AOS, you pre-hate Nu40K... c'maaaan dude.

That's a weird thing to say, as I clearly said that I was willing to give it a try. I'm cautiously pessimistic about it, since there is a lot of indications that they might head toward a direction that I don't like, but calling it hate is a huge stretch.


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 ncshooter426 wrote:

 JohnnyHell wrote:
streetsamurai, do you even like anything GW does? You hate AOS, you pre-hate Nu40K... c'maaaan dude.

Just set him on ignore like I did, makes reading Dakka more pleasurable.

Oh, and +1 for the Boosh.

oh a lollypop man


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 JohnnyHell wrote:

Lord Kragan wrote:

 ncshooter426 wrote:

 JohnnyHell wrote:
streetsamurai, do you even like anything GW does? You hate AOS, you pre-hate Nu40K... c'maaaan dude.

Just set him on ignore like I did, makes reading Dakka more pleasurable.

Oh, and +1 for the Boosh.

While not 100% pleasant (which shouldn't, this is a forum and we've got the right of saying things how we like as long as we don't break forums) he does provide valid criticisms on due occassion.

He maaay be kneejerking a bit here but I think we are a bit saturated with power armor in 40k, so he's not really out of the line in his comments.

They're just incessant, add nothing to the thread, are often off-topic and rarely moderated. Maybe Ignore might be an idea.

If you're having a problems dealing with persons that have different opinions than you, that's more on you than on me.

GENERAL IN THREAD WARNING TIME!

RULE #1 - BE POLITE.

RULE #2 - STAY ON TOPIC.

Not on topic?

Discussing other users and whether or not you feel like responding to them - just go ahead and ignore anyone you want to, either figuratively or literally.

Just don't feel like the thread needs to be updated about it!

Keep it coming gents

Looks great. Truthfully I'm glad for one main reason I think the described reboot will make it easier for new players. The new web site is a great place for new players.

I think for those of us familiar with war gaming and the Warhammer worlds in particular we forget just how complex the worlds and rules have become. When you grow with them you don't notice it too much but a new player runs the risk of being swamped and overwhelmed. Setting rules and background out in a simple starter friendly way has to be applauded. Especially when it's backed up with the complexity we already have. New players are what it's all about.

When it comes to gwmoaners. I'm always mindful on Dakka there are more than a few out there who have would benefit financially from gw performing poorly. Their worst years saw quite an industry grow on the back of gws old attitude and game problems.

I wonder if the new embark/disembark rules AoS got is the the same 40K is going to use

 streetsamurai wrote:
cautiously pessimistic about it, since there is a lot of indications that they might head toward a direction that I don't like, but calling it hate is a huge stretch

Pretty sure that's where you lost 'em. I've had plenty of times where I've been cautious, or even optimistic with a "but" that fanboys have jumped on me for all the hate. If you're questioning it, that means it's not perfect, which is not okay.

 spiralingcadaver wrote:

 streetsamurai wrote:
cautiously pessimistic about it, since there is a lot of indications that they might head toward a direction that I don't like, but calling it hate is a huge stretch

Pretty sure that's where you lost 'em. I've had plenty of times where I've been cautious, or even optimistic with a "but" that fanboys have jumped on me for all the hate. If you're questioning it, that means it's not perfect, which is not okay.

lol, it does seems that for qite a few of them, nothing less than blind unconditional adoration is akin to hate.

Come on peeps, there have been white knights and haters since the interwebz was born in relation to GW.
Expressing differing opinions in a constructive way is what makes the forum interesting.

So they're really gonna redo SMs again after we got a new all these new kits?

They could at least give us new Scouts and Termies first.

Maybe even a new commond squad/honour guard dual kit.

The rules in our current range of Warhammer 40,000 codexes aren’t compatible with the new edition of Warhammer 40,000.

The Eldar codex is no more.
Ding Dong, the B- is dead.

 Ferrum_Sanguinis wrote:

They could at least give us new Scouts and Termies first.

the reason behind SWA, to clear off the Scout boxes that get replaced?

 JimOnMars wrote:

The rules in our current range of Warhammer 40,000 codexes aren’t compatible with the new edition of Warhammer 40,000.

The Eldar codex is no more.
Ding Dong, the B- is dead.

And nothing of value was lost

Seeing the current Eldar, Space Marine, and Necron books go the way of the Dinosaurs is getting me more excited for this edition than any other changes suggested

Yea I can't wait to see every faction as playable. Death to grav, death to eldar, death to tau MC spam etc etc. I will be so greatful to see an ork army again, if I told myself in early 5th ed that I'd hit myself lol.

Give Nids some love too

Any date set for release yet? I just bought into two new armies (Nids and GK) and am a little frustrated - I bought models specifically for certain builds and rules, and now my purchase is put into doubt before even opening up the boxes. I put the blame on me as much as GW for invalidating every single codex to date, as maybe I should have waited, but it's still frustrating.