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What's your favourite version of the 40k rules and why? I love 6th edition myself. It took what was good about 5th edition and added back some of the rules I felt were missing, like grenades as weapons, scenery that did stuff, ect. I still play 6th out of preference but mainly because I hate 8th edition with a passion for being too simple and having horrible moral rules and stuff. It just feels like 40k dumbed down. (where did all the codex upgrades go? Where is my chapter master? why are space marines leadership 7?, ect)

5th.

It had pretty much everything where it needed to be, the only thing that needed to be adjusted was wounding vehicles as you could end up with the unkillable rhino because you keep rolling destroy weapon. Other then that i would say 5th had the most balance, mostly because apoc units and normal units were clearly defined and separated. Not like now where there is literally no difference between waht an apoc game and normal game are/were.

I can get that. I played a lot of 5th edition. Its just how grenades were treated in 5th was a little irksome to me.

 jobalisk wrote:
I can get that. I played a lot of 5th edition. Its just how grenades were treated in 5th was a little irksome to me.

Yeah which iirc, it was you get to shoot your weapons or throw a grenade, or something really dumb like that which yeah i get but the only time that mattered was if you had a super special grenade, and if that was the case, what ever you were chucking it at most likely had no way of being wounded by your other weapons.

That said i also miss the days when a LR was the big boi unit on the block.

I miss 5th too. 8th seems good, but 5th...man, I loved it!

For me it would probably be a tie between 3rd, 3.5 and 4th.
Sure there were problems with all of them but I really enjoyed them and I thing 5th would have been a much better edition if it had maintained the close combat rules from 4th. There were several issues I had with 5th but I can't recall the names of the specific rules at this point.
8th is Ok for the most part.

3rd with out a doubt, easier to play than 1st-2nd but still with a large amount of variation and books like the Eye of Terror adding in new, good, lists.

3rd. 5th was good as a ruleset but had hard busted stuff like the grey knights that were a huge negative play experience.

3rd - 5th, leaning more towards 3rd/4th as I didn't like some of the vehicle rules in 5th.

2nd with no wargear cards and an ungodly amount of terrain.

8th, because you can't beat consistent FAQs and actual point changes.

 Daedalus81 wrote:
8th, because you can't beat consistent FAQs and actual point changes.

IDK as a tsons/tzeench player im getting pretty tired of needing a BRB, 2 codexes, 2 sets of cards for strats, like 5 FAQs on hand or saved to pull up in case someone needs to see.

4th was good. I used to play a lot of forth.

 Backspacehacker wrote:

 Daedalus81 wrote:
8th, because you can't beat consistent FAQs and actual point changes.

IDK as a tsons/tzeench player im getting pretty tired of needing a BRB, 2 codexes, 2 sets of cards for strats, like 5 FAQs on hand or saved to pull up in case someone needs to see.

I've literally never had those problems and many of those things are no different from previous editions.

8th.
The Rulebook, Index and Codexes are all expandable so I just cut the needed pages out and put them in a sleeved binder along with printouts of FAQs and updates.
I have needed sheets from BRB, Chapter Approved, Space Wolves, Tyrannids, Deathwatch, Astra Militarum plus ITC rules, mission sheets and scorecards in the one binder and still have sheets to spare.

5th edition, for sure.

It wasn't a perfect system, by any means, but it's the best of the 40K systems to date.

2nd Ed would run a close second, as it was an awful lot of fun under the right play conditions... but it only gets second place due to being so unwieldy at larger points values.

3rd edition followed by 8th.

I know it's my nostalgia talking, but I would say 2nd.

4th edition was really nice, especially at the Omega level. I think of it as the most adult version of the game. Lots of customization options were actively pushed, prior to the reintroduction of TLOS, the last edition with a real focus on infantry. No flyers, superheavies, and before the proliferation of high AP weapons.

I started in 4th and skipped 7th. 5th was the best from a game system perspective, 8th is best for amount of content, release schedule, FaQs, etc. 5th's biggest problem was that it got stale because of lack of updates.

The pace of updates and releases now is great, but it feels pointless because of the problems with 8th, mostly related to unit and weapon stat issues and the various ways they dumbed the game down to make 8th more appealing. I'd take 5th ed rules with 8th ed codices. I don't have any problem with superheavies, fliers, etc.

Another vote for 5th. I enjoyed 3rd through 6th though honestly. 8th is cool too but there's aspects I miss like joining units, AV, more interactive terrain and more. There's some great aspects of this edition too though so meh. Life goes on..

I loved 2nd Edition - but I have to say that 8th Edition is the best complete package so far.

I've only played 6th, 7th and 8th. Between those editions, 8th is far and away the best. 6th was non-functional(My character is immune to being killed 'cause challenges!) and 7(though better than 6th) was a dumpster fire.

This could really be a poll, no?

It could, but the reasons why are what makes it interesting.

8th but a really really close second is RT.

To be honest 8th brought me back to the game after not caring 2nd-7th.

I'll vote for the 5ed. The most consistent edition. 6ed (and end of the 5ed) put the genie out the bottle with all those super heavy units and fliers, upscaling the game out of balance. Now we have this wierd situation, when the GW pretends like the difference between bolter snd lasgun is something meaningful, but reality is - it's apoc now, and space marine is just fattier guardsman.


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But I think the 8ed is good second (didn't play 1...3ed and saw 4ed too little to say sinething about it). I love lots of ideas GW put on it. Would be so awesome if they made ally works the same way as in AOS, and scrap this wierd detachment system...

I tried second for one game with a store owner, who basically annihilated me with minutes......stopped playing, sold army. came back for 3rd edition, loved it and 4th edition. Good times. Left the hobby through 5th and 6th edition so can't comment on them. Came back part way through 7th, not great. I have been loving 8th though.

So basically it would be either 3rd edition or 8th for me as they were/are both very enjoyable experiences,

Nostalgia wise would say 2nd, still play it from time to time but 8th is the best the games been. 3rd was so sad because it sucked all the fun out of the game after second and made ORKS so bland.

 Daedalus81 wrote:

 Backspacehacker wrote:

 Daedalus81 wrote:
8th, because you can't beat consistent FAQs and actual point changes.

IDK as a tsons/tzeench player im getting pretty tired of needing a BRB, 2 codexes, 2 sets of cards for strats, like 5 FAQs on hand or saved to pull up in case someone needs to see.

I've literally never had those problems and many of those things are no different from previous editions.

But if they are not different, then the only really effecting stuff thing would be how efficient the list comparing to back in the past and right now. If lets say my army sucks now, but it was great in 3ed, or when ever it was the time GK were good, it doesn't matter how many FAQs and point drops GW brings out, if they only make the list worse.

Same in reverse, if a list was bad in 7th ed or 6th ed, and now it is good, then the FAQ don't matter, as long as it is good now.