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Really not a fan of how most of the new 30k tanks look.  Ugly!

In case you missed this:

" Moving forward we are going to have to continue to make tough choices about what is in the books and what is not. We don't make them lightly and we (as a team) definitely have robust discussion before committing to leaving anything out a book.""

That is disappointing, but not surprising.

What gets my goat is this whole process of forcing existing players to wait on a glacial release schedule to get the new v4 mid-war army lists.  It stinks of GW.  Just BF trying to convince impatient players to buy and build a new army while waiting for the lists to be released for the army they REALLY want to play.  No thanks.  I can wait another year, but really, the last time I did that with a GW game, I never picked it up again.

I agree with you BG: using rule changes as excuse to drag-out the release of new army books.  I have lived through this WAY too many times with GW games. Disappointed to see this from BF.

Yes.  Happy to see new edition rules, as have no played since V3 released, but not happy about dragging out the re-release of army books.  Just like GW does.

No, you are calling it right.  It is not a change from V3, though.  They have almost the exact same picture.  They just dropped the paragraph that went with the picture.

I plan to be there.  I will bring all my British and German tanks

PM sent

bump!

There is a good chance I will still have them later in the year, Bro ;-)

email sent.  Also, deleted my PM inbox, so working again.

I have bags of 15mm historical Napoleonic figures I would like painted.  I will base and prime.  I would like them painted in batches of at least 20.  Here is an example of what I am looking for.  Anyone interested in the job? What are your rates and time?

AW ships have plenty of hull and shields, but plenty of attack dice too.  The big difference is all the special abilities granted from upgrades.  Stacking them easily gives a player the power they need to one-shot ships - 8 or 9 dice is not unheard of.  IMO, a X-wing combat involves less dice, and more of a balance of attack dice vs defense dice, so the results are more unpredictable.  AW attacks are more predictable in smashing a ship, so high captain initiative is Critical: shoot first, focus fire on weak ship, kill it before it gets to fire.

AW games I have played/seen are always 2-3 ships per side.  I think 1 ship vs 1 ship would be fairly boring, and would be a predictable victory for the ship with the better initiative.