Makutsu wrote:
For those who say that streamlining is bad for the game, imagine if you went away for 3 years from 40k, would you really want to read 100 pages of rules before being able to "properly" play the game again?

Because of this, I've established the following implementations to address some of the issues listed below.

The goal of this is to:
1. Shorten game time

2. Improve game balance

3. Improve fluff per game

4. Reduce amount of time crafting lists

5. Reduce rule lawyering.

6. Ensure that the incentive to buying new models is still there.

So for the BRB, changes that I would like to see is to:
-Shrink the BRB. The game is as complicated as it is, the current learning curve to get into the game is insane.
The BRB really should just cover basic rules, such as:
..Phases of the game and actions per phase(maybe)
..How to measure movement (distance covered in the codex)
..Simplify Terrain Rules ( Behind terrain X cover, on top of any terrain X- cover)
..How to roll your dice
..MOST IMPORTANTLY, Campaigns/Scenarios.

- Scenarios/Campaigns
After playing a bunch of boards games especially Dead of Winter, I've come to realize that a lot of these board games it's possible to just "learn" the rules of the game in under 15-20 minutes, which in 40k time is 15-20 hours.

Also game duration right now can go really high even with playing, and I believe that having the following format would elevate that problem.
Some people will say that you could just play with less points, but I believe that the following is still better for reasons.

So, have game lengths
1. Have a short, medium, long, etc. types of setups.

2. Each setup will have a FOC, For example, a "short" game will have say 1 HQ, 3 Troops, 1 Fast, 1 Heavy, 1 Elite.
and other short ones might have 3 Fast / 2 Heavy / 3 Elite so on and so forth. Also the size of the playing board. Balance will be touched upon later.

Also one major thing that I would like to mention is that I HATED building lists cause it make me feel as if I should go for the strongest/cheesiest list just so I ensure the win. But at the same time if I do bring a list and stomp someone that wouldn't be very nice. This way I can just bring whatever I have and decide what I want really quick based on the scenario.

3. For terrain setup, either say like x pieces of terrain one for each quadrant of the playing board etc.

4. Fluff, playing dead of winter i realize that each game has a unique background and story to it. For those who haven't played before, the gist is that there are fluff stories to why this scenario is happening and "events" happen during the game. Anyway, for 40k at least, you could probably create some shape or form of a random general war scenario fluff in each individual codex and people who like it can read it out while playing which adds immensely to that game's story.

As for Codices
1. Add all the special rules here, instead of having to flip back and forth to know what blind is or some random BRB special rule you can now just read it in your book. This also helps with balance as there could be really similar rules but altered in such a tiny way that provides the slight balance it needs.

I think by adding the special rules TO each unit it makes the unit feel more alive. There was this one character that was a "Mall Santa" and his ability was, "you can sacrifice this character to make everybody happier" in Dead of Winter. This guy only had one line of text and I can tell already that no one wanted him around. So yeah, I know 40k does that but just not good enough.

2. Now for upgrades, same thing you could have 3 sets of things for them to choose from that will have trade offs similar to how the Starcraft System in the campaign works, this will add fluff and a bit more mechanics to the game.

3. Now to balance between codices you would have a baseline for each Category say Fast eg. Hellions vs Heldrakes, maybe the finally total is 15 hellions is equal to 1 Heldrakes. This part would be the harder part, but Synergy between characters is something you would have to watch out for.

As for having people buy models.
- Incentive to buy models. Now I believe the goal here is to push "Count As" as a norm for friendly games, and not for tournaments.
The following also highlights my major reasoning for why it is a good model.

1. Everything in each codex is viable since each slot should be balanced among itself which is easier than balancing a unity throughout the entire codex.
The current system actually doesn't allow for that since if something is good you take 3 units of it, and thus limiting the choices for other options that might be great but just not as good as the best one.

2. By having these scenarios and stories for each game I believe that people look at their models as heroes or actually characters in a setting rather than a chess piece. I do know that some people play fluffy scenarios but it's not fun when you get stomped by cheesy lists. This should actually push people into getting the actual model rather than people wanting to play Count As.

Anyway, these are all really brief ideas I came up as I reviewed some games and their mechanics and how they can work into 40k. Let me know how you feel about them! Also GW if you happen to read and like this ruleset and want to try these out, you have my permission

 Makutsu wrote:


As for Codices
1. Add all the special rules here, instead of having to flip back and forth to know what blind is or some random BRB special rule you can now just read it in your book. This also helps with balance as there could be really similar rules but altered in such a tiny way that provides the slight balance it needs.

I think by adding the special rules TO each unit it makes the unit feel more alive. There was this one character that was a "Mall Santa" and his ability was, "you can sacrifice this character to make everybody happier" in Dead of Winter. This guy only had one line of text and I can tell already that no one wanted him around. So yeah, I know 40k does that but just not good enough.

2. Now for upgrades, same thing you could have 3 sets of things for them to choose from that will have trade offs similar to how the Starcraft System in the campaign works, this will add fluff and a bit more mechanics to the game.

3. Now to balance between codices you would have a baseline for each Category say Fast eg. Hellions vs Heldrakes, maybe the finally total is 15 hellions is equal to 1 Heldrakes. This part would be the harder part, but Synergy between characters is something you would have to watch out for.