Is 10th the free edition?

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**Lord Damocles**

I sure am glad that GW has never had any track record of struggling to keep cards in stock.

Shut up Necromunda!

**Eilif**

Tyel wrote:

Yeah. For me "bloat" is the mental load of rules. Not the fact a certain space marine unit has 3 different choices of bolt gun to take.

I'd argue they both are. Both add options, rules and granularity without an adding value to the experience. I agree though that weapon proliferation is just one layer and as you point out there are many on top of that.

**Karol**

catbarf wrote:
Arbitrator wrote:I'm getting deja vu to the leadup to 9th when people were saying the same things about it sounding positive, cutting back on bloat, streamlining the rules, same old same old. We all know how long that lasted.

I don't remember that at all. In fact, I distinctly remember extensive arguments over whether the Heavy Cover mechanic meant that the attacker gets the benefit or the defender gets the benefit, because intuitively it seemed like the defender benefits but the snippet of legalese they previewed said the opposite. The terrain rules got more complicated, they introduced Blast as a mechanic, they added an exception for vehicles and monsters to Heavy, they added another fallback mechanic, coherency got more complex, they added Actions.

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People were saying that unless GW modifies the marine bloat, it is going to kill the game. Then GW nerfed marines, some like IF so much, that they stayed bad the entire 9th ed, Plus there was the usual cry of how marines have too many subfaction, and they should just all be streamlined in to one army with all outliers either being counts as or removed. Sometimes with people army of choice replacing what ever marine army should be removed fastest.

**Nightlord1987**

How long do we think these Datasheet Cards will be valid for? I might wanna pre order some, but not if they're invalid 3-6 months later when a codex drops.

**Platuan4th**

Nightlord1987 wrote:
How long do we think these Datasheet Cards will be valid for? I might wanna pre order some, but not if they're invalid 3-6 months later when a codex drops.

Datasheet Cards will be good until the Codex release for that specific army when a new set of cards will drop alongside the Codex and the Digital App purchase. According to GW, you only need one of the 3 options to play.

**Daedalus81**

With the community getting cards in printable form it won't be long before people engineer a way to update and re-print them if GW doesn't.