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Killa Kanz, Deff Dreads, Orkanauts and stompa.

Trukks full of Boyz whizzing about firing off dakka in all directions, and not getting blown up turn 1.

Flashgitz, StormBoyz, burnaboyz, shokk attack gun, squiggoths.

Pretty much the whole current codex.

I am excited, but tomorrow's article on the Assault Phase is going to be the kicker. Will my Blood Angels be worth it? How about my close combat Crimson Fists units? I am hopeful. I am seriously considering modifying some of my Blood Angels Sergeants to have special pistols now that they can fire them in close combat. I might be making a new Command Squad for my Crimson Fists as well. Rather than have Plasmaguns, they might have Plasma Pistols and Power Weapons. The ability to attack first on the charge has possibly made Power Fists on Sergeants a thing for me. It always made me sad that I didn't have much of any Power Fists in my Crimson Fists army. That might change now. I might be making a Crimson Fists Assault Squad with a Power Fist on the Sergeant. Lots of modeling opportunities ahead.

I am also hoping the humble Rhino will be good. I want my Tactical Squads in Rhinos again.

High speed Gaunts.
Fielding Hormagaunts to do something other than cripple my Nids for newbies who choose to try my Space Wolves.

Just look at this cute guy!

Soon... Soon.......

 Powerfisting wrote:
So, we don't have the full rules yet so everything is speculative, but I've been itching to see what other people have speculated so far.

My personal prediction is that infantry blobs and light vehicles will be slightly better. Tar pits will be harder to pull off, but falling back out of combat will allow gunline armies to actually have real decisions to make.

I predict that most weapons will fall very clearly inside "high ROF, low damage" and "Low ROF, High Damage," causing a sweet spot to emerge in units of multiple 2-4 wound models. I totally see SM/GK players just taking 34 terminators. Also, IG sentinels will be secretly awesome for this same reason.

I'm most excited about the fact that they HAVE TO, HAVE TO rewrite the Sisters of Battle Army list. Just putting us into the same decade would be awesome.

I got myself a couple of Rhinos and a Land Raider. I want to load them up hate-filled Black Legionary Marines and Terminators to rip and tear anyone or anything that dares oppose them. Yelling, " We have Metal Bawkes! Tremble and despair you cowards, you fools!" is totally optional.

Also, I really want to make use of my Warp Talons, Forgefiend and Hellbrute.

I might be reading a little too much into what I've seen thus far, but Guardsmen. Every. Single. Guardsman.

 Saturmorn Carvilli wrote:
I got myself a couple of Rhinos and a Land Raider. I want to load them up hate-filled Black Legionary Marines and Terminators to rip and tear anyone or anything that dares oppose them. Yelling, " We have Metal Bawkes! Tremble and despair you cowards, you fools!" is totally optional.

Also, I really want to make use of my Warp Talons, Forgefiend and Hellbrute.

You are right! I need to get myself a Land Raider... Unless Spartan Assault Tanks are usable by chaos in 8th...

My rough riders, ratings and bulgryns!

UrsoerTheSquid wrote:
My rough riders, ratings and bulgryns!

I already run Bullgryns, even in my most competitive list. I have lauded them as the Mighty Punchers of Riptides. I plan on using, and possibly even converting Rough Riders as long as they get bumped up to 2W and aren't overcosted. My greatest desire is to see Rough Riders suddenly dominate the IG meta and be considered an auto-include in competitive lists...

I have also had ludicrously good luck with basic Guardsmen against all sorts of much fiercer threats. I'm glad that I'll always be able to shoot at something, and that I can have a few desperate Guardsmen clubbing a vastly superior CC unit to death (as they already have on more than one occasion!). On the other hand, while I'm happy that my own tanks will be fairly safe from instant destruction, I'll miss the stray meltagun snapshot exploding a key enemy vehicle or flyer...

Also, I haven't played my Orks outside of Kill Team in 7th, so I guess I won't understand the great struggles of the past when I start fielding them in 8th, but I'm a big fan of the idea that they won't be a joke/super weak army.

Running a gunline of Guardsman behind an Aegis Defence Line with loads of artillery behind them.

And not get slaughtered by turn 1 charging formations.

And actually having a shot at winning if two of my objectives are in/close to the defence line (by effectively shooting enemies of objective markers).

Doctoralex wrote:


And not get slaughtered by turn 1 charging formations.

Not if the numpties in the charge phase thread have anything to say about it.

Heavy Rail Rifles. Heavy Rail Rifles as far as the eye can see...

Dual flamer XV-8's. More Breachers in more Devilfish. Squadrons of Hammerheads. Hell, squadrons of SKYRAYS!

Basically all the under-utilized options in my Tau codex. Not to say that I don't run some of these now (I had to make one of my XV-88 teams HRR, because they just look amazeballs!), but after seeing the preview of the Lascannon the other day, I started to salivate profusely that HRR's would have similar rules.

My DKoK becoming an actual competitive army instead of the cool fluffy army that almost always loses that it currently is.

 Sensual_T_Rex wrote:
My DKoK becoming an actual competitive army instead of the cool fluffy army that almost always loses that it currently is.

This. Can't wait to field them with all new rules

Black Templars horde army. Assuming they keep the same army structure, just waves of black and white meat shields.

Tanks not being made of spit and bailing wire:

It might just make an ork walker army viable : )

I want an excuse to buy penitent engines and multi meltas.

Noise Marines!

No Initiative and no Fearless. That means Noise Marines are going to change pretty radically.

ERJAK wrote:
I want an excuse to buy penitent engines and multi meltas.

Shouldn't need an excuse to buy the coolest model GW sell!!
I was thinking of converting a penitent engine for my Nurgle

Yarrick leading the charge while other commisar backed blobs follow and sentinels flank. Also Sgt harker grav dropping in behind enemy lines and digging in until pask gets there.

Penitent engines priests and repentia.

Meganobz, every ork plane , squiggoths, biker's.

Man I'm excited. I really feel they are promoting diverse armies

 Powerfisting wrote:
infantry blobs

It will all depend on the race cause the mob rule phase pretty much screws lightly-armored large footslogging units if they don't get some sort of battleshock mitigation.

Nids without wings.

Superheavy tanks without it breaking the game.

 malamis wrote:
Superheavy tanks without it breaking the game.

Knights as an army being an interesting game instead of a binary board wipe one way or the other would be great too.

I have 6 Baal Preds that are currently one of the most overcosted vehicles in the game. They were ok-ish when they had scout and took up a FA slot. Exterminatus gave that option back... at the cost of a Techmarine+Landraider tax! Another one of the most overcosted vehicles in the game. Would love to field my BA Armoured Column with ASM/DC support again (who all used to be troops).

I really want to see Orks and Tyranids be viable this edition.

I cant wait for Blood Angels to make a come back.

Assault marines with pistols firing while locked in combat here we come!!

For Eldar: Spiritseers, Shining Spears, Howling Banshees, Dark Reapers, Wraithlords, Guardians! I want my Fire Prism to actually be good. (And I don't mean 7e Eldar good, I mean "as good as anyone else".)

For Tau: Stealth suits without the OSC. Fire warriors. VESPIDS! Give me a reason to want Vespids. Make Kroot decent at anti-assault defense. Crisis suits should be as good as Riptides, not the thing I take when I'm gimping myself. Riptides should be short-medium range fire soaks, not the Tau be-all-end-all.

For Sisters: Repentia and Penitent Engines. Battle Conclaves would be nice too. Give me a reason to bother with Celestians.

For Dark Eldar: Please make the whole army not a mountain of dead goombas on fire? Specifically, I want Wyches to be useful. I want Kabalite Trueborn to be scary. I want Scourges to be something other than expensive suicide squads that don't usually even kill their target. Archons should, y'know, direct armies and skillfully assassinate enemy leaders. Haemonculi should be creepy and weird. Lelith Hesperax should be genuinely scary in melee.

For Space Marines: Give me a reason to want something other than grav, grav, grav with a side of grav and maybe the odd melta here or there. Drop pods should be good, but not the only option. Missile launchers or plasma cannons on tac squads should, y'know, actually make sense.