On Saturday, June 17, 2023 at 9:58:09 PM UTC-4, Insane Ranter wrote:
I am mixed.
I'm... intrigued, cautious, and a bit unhappy in a couple places.
Okay, so they trimmed out all the fat of 9th edition, but how long does that last? They need enough of a change in three years to justify 11th edition, so we've got three years at best to enjoy this. Assuming they don't bloat it again with all these
campaigns they're going to be putting out.
It's nice to not have to pay for the temporary rules for armies this time around, especially since they've already had to start making changes for balance and will probably fix some things that have to be errors (some weird choices that just don't make
sense as being on purpose).
Points being for a set number of models with no points differences for wargear is a bit concerning. And annoying when a lot of us have vehicles we haven't modeled every option on, so we're paying points for gear we don't have. Like my Knight which was
one of the ones released before they added a carapace weapon, but I'm paying the points for the carapace weapon. Might as well declare all my Battlewagons have deathrollas, even if they don't have it modeled on (because it was an expensive addon),
because I'm paying the points for it anyway.
The extra annoying thing to me as an Ork player is how unit composition is set up to be "Buy a current kit off the shelf and run that." So Tankbustas are limited to five models with the exact set of weapons in the current boxed set. Which means if you
had a unit before that was more than five or had multiple hammers or were all rokkit launchas, your unit is illegal now. Similar deal with Burna Boyz and Lootas being multiples of one Spanner plus four BBs/Lootas. Did you build either unit in a prior
edition? Congratulations! Your unit is now illegal! Better get more Spanners! At least the old Boyz kit is still around so you can convert these things if you're really clever. But it does mean I'll have to paint up models in an attempt to match
existing units, which is a right PITA.
It's also wild seeing how some of my older stuff isn't legal but some is. Like there's no rules at all that I can fit my Iron Warriors Warsmith into. Chaos Lord doesn't have the right options to fit the model. (Not a Warpsmith. That's a whole other
thing. I have that kit, but it was Failcast so it snapped in multiple places trying to assemble it and I gave up.) But then my 2nd edition Death Company, which I built when I was a teenager so just assembled them with "ALL THE THINGS" instead of any
kind of logic, is actually legal.
Also weird how some things got smashed into a shared profile, like combi-weapons. Power weapons I'm used to (from seven editions back).
Guess we'll see how it goes. I'm gonna have to see what kind of armies I can put together with my existing models, and hope they're mostly legal.
- Erik
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