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I'm loving this, but trying to plan a tournament at the end of June has me stressed. We're running 8th even if it comes out the week beforehand, cause no one wants 7th.

Just now, VonVilkee said:

I dunno if they held Frankie back so much as he just didn't consider sharing specific rules. On the frontline site his articles were always at the surface level. The focus reads very much like each of them. 

I have info privy to the topic as an FLG writer.

Like holy cow man. If the hype is to believed, then we shall see so many variations of forces out on the tabletop. That is something I am very excited to see. It also appears having well rounded tool like lists will also be a good thing.

Now that's a real Faction Focus article. Shame they held Frankie back with the Chaos one. When they saw the backlash, they opened it up for Reece to discuss more.

45 minutes ago, WestRider said:

Now, where did I put all those dinosaurs I found, that were just the right size for a Guardsman to ride on? :D

I did the same thing!

8 minutes ago, pretre said:

Yeah, still need to wait to see how that shakes out.

That they are even saying that there was loopholes is a big step IMO.

12 minutes ago, pretre said:

Well... I don't know about that. It depends on the powers in their bubbles.

If Azrael still gives a 6" 4++ bubble and you put him next to 60 wolves, and you can still cast invisibility on them and the TWC lord can Heroic over when they charge/get charged, you get effectively the same thing without the Star appellation.

"Instead, you’ll tend to find that a lot of Characters will have an ability that affects nearby units with a certain Keyword within a radius of effect"

I think they will mitigate this with Azrael giving that 4++ bubble to Faction: Dark Angel units. There may still be Faction type Death Stars, but hopefully not as bad as we have now.

"So here’s a big thing – Characters can’t join units anymore. The age of the <add prefix>-star is over."

Golf Clap.

Oops.

20 hours ago, InfestedKerrigan said:

A guest contributor who is heavily involved in the tourney scene saying certain models don't get play cuz they blow isn't the same as GW admitting that some units are actually bad. 

But a guest contributor who is a tourny player who loves the fluff of Chaos but won't play certain units because they are bad and is now saying that you will want to run units x,y,and z becasue he is a playtester and has been putting a ton of time into playtesting this edition. He now is telling us a lot without actually telling us things. While this article could have been better with some actual rules and unit info, it shows that GW is taking a lot of different voices into the game to make it the best it can be (hopefully they won't blow it). 

Getting there!

41 minutes ago, VonVilkee said:

 With the switch to wounds maybe landraiders will get so many they are worth their points! Maybe a rule that ignores effectiveness reductions who knows yay all new 40k!

I for one would be super excited to see Land Raiders more often on the field! They are such a cool kit!

I wanna punch someone in the pit that has a problem with Wonder Woman's pits. Apparently there was a recoloring "fiasco" that had people up in "arms". 

Seems a silly waste of energy and time to be upset by this.

Holy Keerap, you're on a roll!

I vow to print and paint a Bold Pistol from my new 3d printer! (Its for a trophy concept for the Boise Cup.)

I bought a bunch. Very nice overall, bit fragile with the resin, but they send extras in each pack.

2 minutes ago, phyfor88 said:

I understand assaulting will be viable. But by the look of it now you have to have a good armor save like a space marine. Orks get no saves, this is a world of difference.

 

I'd say speculating and worry too much right now is a waste of time. I'm trying to be more optimistic in this next edition as I stated in my article on FLG - https://www.frontlinegaming.org/2017/04/29/its-the-end-of-7th-as-we-know-it-and-i-feel-fine/

I mean, I"m a bit "worried" as I started a whole new Tzeentch army before the edition change and have to wait and see how it is impacted.

I've heard from playtesters that assault armies will be viable, I'm sure units like Boyz and Berserkers will have rules to aide in the narrative of their bloodthirsty nature.

I'm excited that morale is once a turn instead of once each phase, it really feels like GW is taking streamlining into advice and doing many things to make the game play faster and more efficiently. How many times have we forgotten a unit took casualties and didn't take a test and then shot, then rolled for leadership to back up and failed and ran off the table? I am enjoying all these streamlines.

Yesterday I spatchcocked a chicken...and I feel pretty good about it.

I am so excited about how faster of play this looks to be. It is going to help overall so much.

Also the admission that invulnerable saves are still a thing.

1 minute ago, fluger said:

I can, again, virtually guarantee there won't be facings.  Vehicles and MCs are going to be identical for the most part.  

Facings were always complicated and sometimes confusing (I've never heard a convincing argument one way or the other on the facings of Knights, Valkyries, or Eldar Skimmers, we all kind of winged it).  Best to scrap them entirely, honestly.  Again, the game is going for streamlined, and checking facings and precise model movement are anathema to speedy play.  

Your reasoning has reasoning...

15 hours ago, fluger said:

They already posted the Dreadnaught statline.  Facings are gone.

Don't be so sure. They could put in save modifiers for facing.

You can put it together pretty much how you want. Each kit will work with the others. Its basically a bunch of squares and rectangles.

Just now, evil_bryan said:

Feel free to PM me to see if it could work within this year's modified structure.

Check your PM's cause I already did brother!