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 An Actual Englishman wrote:

 Jidmah wrote:
There is a slim chance that they learned from last year and wrote the marines codex with the CA changes in mind, thus rolling out a marine army that is fits in with the power-level of post CA/PA armies.

Yes, you can stop laughing now

Chapter Tactics have already confirmed this not to be the case.

Chapter Approved is written way before Marines were released. Its why I don't buy it, its literally paying for rules that are instantly out of date.

In theory, nothing prevents them from looking at and testing with the finished marine book even if it's not released.

In practice, the codex teams hard-reset their brains by downing a mug of citadel plastic glue before starting on a new one.

 Jidmah wrote:


In theory, nothing prevents them from looking at and testing with the finished marine book even if it's not released.

True enough.

In practice, the codex teams hard-reset their brains by downing a mug of citadel plastic glue before starting on a new one.

Also true.

it's certainly possiable they could release updated Chapter tactics for all the other armies in it. assuming each faction has on average 5 subfactions, that's about 10 or 11 factions they'd need to do, so really only 10 (maybe less if they are creative with layout) pages. sounds like a lot but the sisters beta dex in CA 2018 was about 20 or so. I personally doubt they'll do it, but GW could certainly if they where of a mind to update army traits in chapter approved.

BrianDavion wrote:
it's certainly possiable they could release updated Chapter tactics for all the other armies in it. assuming each faction has on average 5 subfactions, that's about 10 or 11 factions they'd need to do, so really only 10 (maybe less if they are creative with layout) pages. sounds like a lot but the sisters beta dex in CA 2018 was about 20 or so. I personally doubt they'll do it, but GW could certainly if they where of a mind to update army traits in chapter approved.

GW could do a lot of things, but they’ve made it clear that unless you wear power armour they aren’t really interested at the moment. Not to mention the likely scenario that they would prefer to charge factions individually for any substantial update - ala supplements and campaign books. Besides, I believe they have stated that Chapter Approved is for points changes, not rule changes.

So in essence I doubt very much they’ll do this. They’re too busy nerfing those way over performing Grots.

One thing I wanted to say is tau are only good in the hands of the best players of that faction. If you look at the data from other player they have issues.
The tau codex has some serious design issues. The current riptides + commanders + drones list is just a symptom of a larger problem. Also drones promote a not interactive playstyle. E.g. if I shoot you useful dudes all I do is kill drones. Players can hide drones from anything but guard. SM can't deal with the amount of drones tau field.

Drones are not fun to play, neither with nor against. I can't wait for a shakeup in the Tau meta in order to play different units with a different playstyle.

 An Actual Englishman wrote:
GW could do a lot of things, but they’ve made it clear that unless you wear power armour they aren’t really interested at the moment.

Woah what a change from when they were so invested in releasing new models for orks but didn't care about sisters despite then wearing power armor!
Well right now GW has this to say about power armor wearing Sisters:
"We produced a huge number of this box, but even our optimistic estimates didn’t anticipate the full scale of the demand."
And this to say about Orktober:
"..."
Wow incredible! Woah.

 Aenar wrote:
Drones are not fun to play, neither with nor against. I can't wait for a shakeup in the Tau meta in order to play different units with a different playstyle.

Crossing my fingers that FSE get a good supplement to mix up the T'au gameplay.

Heck, bringing back the mobile gameplay rather than this non fluff compliant, pseudo Guard style castling would be good. Viorla can do it a bit but could do with some love.

With CA coming out most likely in a few weeks time Is it usually this quiet rumour and news-wise? Maybe all the attention is currently being pulled by PA but I get the, completely unjustifiable, feeling that the book may not be a whole lot of anything...

 Mixzremixzd wrote:
With CA coming out most likely in a few weeks time Is it usually this quiet rumour and news-wise? Maybe all the attention is currently being pulled by PA but I get the, completely unjustifiable, feeling that the book may not be a whole lot of anything...

Yeah just over 2 weeks till release and no leaks is weird. Maybe it's because pa is sucking up all the oxygen.

Or they are releasing it as a free online PDF

I guess that some real rumours and leaks will come out soon enough.

 Jidmah wrote:
Or they are releasing it as a free online PDF

You're joking right? Drunk?

People are wish listing for way more unreasonable things than that

I would love if they incorporated some kind of melee capable suits just for Farsight Enclaves

 An Actual Englishman wrote:

BrianDavion wrote:
it's certainly possiable they could release updated Chapter tactics for all the other armies in it. assuming each faction has on average 5 subfactions, that's about 10 or 11 factions they'd need to do, so really only 10 (maybe less if they are creative with layout) pages. sounds like a lot but the sisters beta dex in CA 2018 was about 20 or so. I personally doubt they'll do it, but GW could certainly if they where of a mind to update army traits in chapter approved.

GW could do a lot of things, but they’ve made it clear that unless you wear power armour they aren’t really interested at the moment. Not to mention the likely scenario that they would prefer to charge factions individually for any substantial update - ala supplements and campaign books. Besides, I believe they have stated that Chapter Approved is for points changes, not rule changes.

So in essence I doubt very much they’ll do this. They’re too busy nerfing those way over performing Grots.

Not all power armour is created equal, GKs and to a lesser degree DW can attest to that.

 Jidmah wrote:
Or they are releasing it as a free online PDF

This man hit his head somebody call a doctor

chnmmr wrote:

 An Actual Englishman wrote:

BrianDavion wrote:
it's certainly possiable they could release updated Chapter tactics for all the other armies in it. assuming each faction has on average 5 subfactions, that's about 10 or 11 factions they'd need to do, so really only 10 (maybe less if they are creative with layout) pages. sounds like a lot but the sisters beta dex in CA 2018 was about 20 or so. I personally doubt they'll do it, but GW could certainly if they where of a mind to update army traits in chapter approved.

GW could do a lot of things, but they’ve made it clear that unless you wear power armour they aren’t really interested at the moment. Not to mention the likely scenario that they would prefer to charge factions individually for any substantial update - ala supplements and campaign books. Besides, I believe they have stated that Chapter Approved is for points changes, not rule changes.

So in essence I doubt very much they’ll do this. They’re too busy nerfing those way over performing Grots.

Not all power armour is created equal, GKs and to a lesser degree DW can attest to that.

Actually... all power armor is equal. Some is just more equal than others.

This appeared in the Admech Tactics thread. Apparently from the "French Guy". Valrak is normally the first to verify if its from the "French Guy" so take this with a grain of salt. https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/1290/777332.page#10636784

 Gareth_Evans wrote:
This appeared in the Admech Tactics thread. Apparently from the "French Guy". Valrak is normally the first to verify if its from the "French Guy" so take this with a grain of salt. https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/1290/777332.page#10636784

If this is true...uh oh

Worried supplements Wouldn't make marines good enough? Rofl....

 Gareth_Evans wrote:
This appeared in the Admech Tactics thread. Apparently from the "French Guy". Valrak is normally the first to verify if its from the "French Guy" so take this with a grain of salt. https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/1290/777332.page#10636784

Hello battle brothers! Who is up for a rousing game of paintball, to practice for the Emperor!

I'm mainly a marine player and please god don';t drop good marine unit points. Please, PLEASE, don't do this. They're already so very good. STAHP IT

>no pointsdrops for CSM or oblits.

This seem to be a curated leak to cause controversy.

 Galas wrote:
This seem to be a curated leak to cause controversy.

if the french guy really confirmed that one, i don't know.

Considering how incompetent GW sometimes can be, and considering that GW killed off WHFB via lack of errate in 7th and faqs more or less themselves?

No rumors of nid changes? Not sure how to take that

I still don't find this rumour believable. Games Workshop has done too much recent damage to afford such a big mis-step. I give it a 5% chance of happening, and only because of the source.

Considering the sheer incompetence of Game Designers at GW, they might have buffed Marines even more whilst nerfing other armies