<![CDATA[Latest posts for the thread "Warhammer 40k 8th edition - what could it bring?"]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/69.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net Warhammer 40k 8th edition - what could it bring? BRB as it'll be a lot bigger but it also means GW can release smaller books with a few extra kits specific to the book (like plastic eldar rangers with an alaitoc suppliment or aspect warriors with biel tan).
I know the first argument against this would be GW losing money on annual codex sales but I think it would be a great way to bring the game back some balance and release kits that people have wanted for a long time but they never got round to doing (I've used eldar as an example btw as I'm an eldar player but this could work across all armies).
What do you guys think to this and what do you think 8th could bring?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/709017/9034531.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/709017/9034531.page GMT Warhammer 40k 8th edition - what could it bring? SM armies. I'm hoping 8th slims down tons of rule bloat by actually doing the data slate stuff ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/709017/9034726.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/709017/9034726.page GMT Warhammer 40k 8th edition - what could it bring? 40k is how there's a lot of emphasis on individual models when it wants to be a massive battle game. You can't have both without bogging the game down which is why it upwards of 3 hours to play a standard sized game. I would love to see them put more emphasis on viewing whole units as a single entity rather than treating a unit as a group of models.

Maybe go as far as Kings of War and make it so that you never remove wounded models, but each wound is a -1 modifier to your leadership value. If you fail your morale check, the unit is routed and destroyed. Of course, you'd have to rescale the leadership values somehow based on the squad sizes. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/709017/9034945.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/709017/9034945.page GMT Warhammer 40k 8th edition - what could it bring? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/709017/9034953.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/709017/9034953.page GMT Warhammer 40k 8th edition - what could it bring?
I hope, because that's what it needs to bring me back.

Nah, really just waiting to see. I hope it streamlines and gets rid of the bloat with special snowflake rules and has data cards instead of full armybooks.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/709017/9034997.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/709017/9034997.page GMT Warhammer 40k 8th edition - what could it bring? AoS is freely available war scrolls for units. They can still do Codexes or something similar(they've got a ton of books for AoS) that has all the fluff and maybe special formations or what ever, but don't make them part of the mandatory point of entry. The upfront cost of books is what's really turned me off to 40k for a long time(did finally but a Tau Codex). Despite all the issues with AoS, the one thing GW has done right is lower the barrier for entry.


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 Formosa wrote:
i want 2 games from 8th, sub 2k and above 2k, above I want more streamlined battles, larger scale, below I like the complexity we have now, but would still be happy with a bit of streamlining.


I'd like to see something like Kill Team enshrined in the core rulebook as the low points way to play too. 3 tiers of battle in the core rule book. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/709017/9036138.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/709017/9036138.page GMT Warhammer 40k 8th edition - what could it bring? GW and a few people agree with me: there will no longer be templates or blast markers.

Why do I think this? The newest dice boxes don't have a scatter die. Yeah you can buy them on their own but I believe that is part of the change over to 8th. If any of the supposed rumors prove true 8th is going to slim down the game rules. Eliminating Templates and Blasts would be an easy cut seeing as AoS doesn't use them]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/709017/9036224.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/709017/9036224.page GMT