40k New Edition Summary - 14th June 17: Lord Duncan paints Primaris in Gravis/non-codex SM focus

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**Ragnar69**

I need to check my German WD again, but I think it was also the 9th

**Eyjio**

I believe someone said that WD was delayed due to change of supplier? If so, June 9th still fits with a June 10th pre-release, and June 16th fits with release the day after - it's just a little squeezed. At this point, we can almost certainly take the dates as read.

**guru**

Ragnar69 wrote:
I need to check my German WD again, but I think it was also the 9th

German WD say 16th

**xttz**

A two-week preorder timed to start with Warhammer Fest just seems really plausible to me.

Also the faction preview articles are on schedule to be all done by June 10th.

**Imateria**

From what I know (friend who worked for GW and still has contacts in the company) we're looking at a June 10th release for 8th.

**Daedalus81**

Imateria wrote:
From what I know (friend who worked for GW and still has contacts in the company) we're looking at a June 10th release for 8th.

Release or pre-order?

**krazynadechukr**

Daedalus81 wrote:
Imateria wrote:
From what I know (friend who worked for GW and still has contacts in the company) we're looking at a June 10th release for 8th.

Release or pre-order?

Pre order

**theharrower**

krazynadechukr wrote:
Daedalus81 wrote:
Imateria wrote:
From what I know (friend who worked for GW and still has contacts in the company) we're looking at a June 10th release for 8th.

Release or pre-order?
Pre order

I've heard the same with a release on the 17th.

**Daedalus81**

krazynadechukr wrote:
Daedalus81 wrote:
Imateria wrote:
From what I know (friend who worked for GW and still has contacts in the company) we're looking at a June 10th release for 8th.

Release or pre-order?
Pre order

Thanks, but you aren't the same person?

**Lithlandis Stormcrow**

Exact pricing would be swell, too...

**docdoom77**

They're redefining "late" for articles today.

**eauxlune**

Of course my work prep period is at 10 the day that the article is late.

It's just about Ultramar, though, so it's likely fluff, right? Hopefully there's some juice in it.

**Eyjio**

docdoom77 wrote:
They're redefining "late" for articles today.

Eh, it's about Ultramar, so chances are there's no rules information in it anyway. Still cool, but not all that exciting to talk about.

**docdoom77**

Eyjio wrote:
docdoom77 wrote:
They're redefining "late" for articles today.

Eh, it's about Ultramar, so chances are there's no rules information in it anyway. Still cool, but not all that exciting to talk about.

Dang, I forgot. The fluff articles are always a let down. Sigh.

**xttz**

Eyjio wrote:
docdoom77 wrote:
They're redefining "late" for articles today.

Eh, it's about Ultramar, so chances are there's no rules information in it anyway. Still cool, but not all that exciting to talk about.

Last time they gave a vague "more news from the Indomitus Crusade" hint they unveiled Primaris marines. I think we'll see more of those today.

**Future War Cultist**

A release date of June 16th? Could it be?

**Eyjio**

An inexplicable, unexpected cities of death post appears!

**eauxlune**

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/05/22/new-warhammer-40000-cities-of-death-may22gw-homepage-post-4gw-homepage-post-4/

Link is up! It's Cities of Death

**ClockworkZion**

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/05/22/new-warhammer-40000-cities-of-death-may22gw-homepage-post-4gw-homepage-post-4/

My favorite way to play. Mostly because it makes every shooty army into a short range shooty army like my Sisters.

**Ghaz**

Eyjio wrote:
An inexplicable, unexpected cities of death post appears!

It does talk about Ultramar at the end of the article.

**krazynadechukr**

ninjad

**xttz**

Well that was a bit of an anticlimax

**BrookM**

Ohohohoho, that grenade buff!

**Verviedi**

These aren't just rules, they're ADVANCED rules.

Posted 22/05/2017

New Warhammer 40,000: Cities of Death

Today we take a look at brutal urban combat in the 41st Millennium, and a little bit at how terrain works in the new game generally.

Battles in the sprawling gothic hives of the Imperium provide many of the most iconic images of war in the 41st Millennium. To recreate battles like this in the new edition, you need look no further than the new Warhammer 40,000‘s Advanced Rules on Cities of Death. These rules, like the Stronghold Assault rules we’ve seen already, are an optional add-on to theme your battles and add more variety to your games. In these types of games, certain units will thrive, while others will find their paths across the battlefield more limited.

So, speaking of cities… let’s chat about ruins.

The crumbling masonry of once-proud Imperial architecture has been a staple of Warhammer 40,000 battlefields for a while now. In the new Warhammer 40,000, they still will be, but the way they interact with the game will be a little different. Their impact takes the form of bonuses for units with certain keywords, and limitations for others.

Infantry are the big winners here. They alone have the flexibility and dexterity to move easily between levels of a building, over ruined walls, through doors, hatches and windows, as well as taking advantage of holes blasted in the ruins themselves. They are also the only units that benefit from cover naturally, just for being in a ruin. Other units (monsters, vehicles etc…) will need to actually be obscured to gain any bonus.

In Cities of Death games, these bonuses get even better – if a unit does not move, its cover bonus from being in a ruin is increased from a +1 to their Armour Save to +2, representing the unit digging into cover and fortifying their position. This can make even a humble Guardsman squad difficult to shift, and a power armoured unit all but invulnerable.

It’s not just Infantry though, flying units will do very well in Cities of Death games, as they are able to leap from rooftop to rooftop easily. Some of these units will be Infantry as well! Imagine facing an entire army of Night Lords Raptors in the twisting streets of a ruined hive, and you start to understand what terror means…

It’s not going all Infantry’s way of course. There are solutions to dug in enemies. Grenades for example. Any Grenade thrown at a unit in ruins will always count as having rolled the maximum number of shots (6, in the case of a frag grenade) and can reroll to wound thanks to the “Fire in the Hole” mission rule.

One last thing Cities of Death gets us is a new selection of Stratagems. One of our favourites is Sewer Rat, which lets you set up a sneaky units of subterranean infiltrators in the enemy’s face during deployment or right on an objective.

One war zone where the narrative certainly calls for Cities of Death battles is Ultramar. At the end of the Gathering Storm, we already saw the forces of the Traitor Legions launch their attack on the Ultramarines utopian* worlds. Now the great cities of every planet are either surrounded or active battlefields.

With his home under siege, you better believe that the liberation of the 500 Worlds** are high on the list for Guilliman’s Indomitus Crusade…

*Well, by Imperial standards anyway.
**Being in stasis for 10,000 years, it probably only feels like yesterday to Guilliman that he liberated them from the Traitor Legions the first time…

**Lithlandis Stormcrow**

Cities of Death are automatically upvoted for me.

I also enjoy the way the grenades work against ruins. Very, very much.

**vim_the_good**

My camping Guard HW teams will be quite happy with a +2 to their armour save thank you very much. That is until a grenade goes off :O

**Galas**

So this are the news from Ultramar? 3 lines in the bottom of the article?

(Now GW will post pics of Deathguard or new Primaris Marines to make me look bad!)

**kestral**

Disembarking before the transport moves is a solid choice - it was that way back a few editions and I think it worked. Disembarking into close combat.... ....how exactly is that going to work with model placement? We can assume that everything open topped now, but still.

**Deadshot**

That grenade rule is awesome! Likelyhood is that'l rarely if ever kill anyone, especially because people will always forget, but its an awesome inclusion to have! I'm really liking those rules if not the costs of having a CoD board

**changemod**

Sounds like true line of sight is only getting stronger. Shame, I can't think of anything that causes more arguments on the tabletop.