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https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/05/05/new-warhammer-40000-battle-forged-armiesgw-homepage-post-4/

Take a look at 3 of the many detachments that will be available.

I am liking this frankly. What's not to like?

I personally find it really interesting that there are no LOW in the Brigade detachment.

Every day I get more excited because of these previews.

Thread already here: https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/725140.page

I absolutely love the change. Formations are a cool idea in theory, both fluff-wise and in terms of gameplay with getting less-popular units some table time. Unfortunately, they shattered the fabric of the game, given that you can just plop down basically whatever formations you want from any faction at all, often without tax units. Of course, the promoting weak units thing becomes dramatically less important in a more-balanced environment that's constantly being update to "fix" busted units. Anyway, I like that they're moving back towards diverse army lists. It'll make the game quite a bit more interesting.

Those were the three they "showed" us on the live stream, nice to get some detail on them though. Notice the lack of lord of war, solid bet they get their own force org, at least one probably two. The first will be a single lord of war, so you can add them to an existing army. The second will be an all lord of war FoC so you can have things like imperial knight houses. The thought of using the second one for baneblades or wraithknights is a little weird, but hey it's a new edition.

If all existing formations can fit into one of the new FoCs, then there will be at least three were troops aren't compulsory, and instead have fast attack (ravenwing/white scars), elites (deathwing), or heavy support (Imperial Guard tank companies) are the compulsory units. If they have three tiers each, that's 9 more, which added to the two lord of war and three troop style FoCs is all 14.

 jreilly89 wrote:
Thread already here: https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/725140.page

Indeed!

Please see that thread there for the ongoing discussion...