Ish

I’d be interested... But I dunno if anyone else would be. Maybe we should hold an exposition game. Fair point.

The third-party bitz market was quick to develop conversion kits that fixed the derpy design of the Taurox, Storm Raven, Dreadknight, and various other designs from GW that almost-but-not-quite worked. I have no doubt that the Ultramar-io Kart will be fixed soon enough. (All it really needs is a less go-kart looking front-end.) I’m also tempted to try to fit a classic Space Marines Attack Bike side-car to one of the new Primaris Outrider bike... The rear half of the Outrider bike looks to have the same (or very similar) dimensions to the older bikes. Swap the torso of the old gunner for an Intercessor, replace the heavy bolter with a gatling gun... Done.

Now we just need you to move both displays cases (and yourself) to Portland, so I can finally have someone to play Saga with...

Well, it’s new to me!

Wait. Sensible gates, internal walls, and they remembered to include farmland so the city can feed itself...? Are you sure that’s a D&D map?

Oops, I left out a key bit: Emphasis added.

Kamikaze Orks!

Fixed that for you. Getting the last codex of an edition as much a part of their character as fleur-de-lys and flame-throwers, has been since practically day one. The first Codex: Sisters of Battle back in Second Edition came out a mere two months before Third Edition; they spent third edition standing around with just the “back of the book” list for years until Codex: Witchhunters came out in 2003, a mere eight months before Fourth Edition; and then they had to wait nine years and three editions for Codex: Sisters of Battle during Sixth Edition in 2013, followed shortly by Seventh Edition... during which, once again, they never got a codex. Here we are at the arse-end of Eighth Edition and their shiny new codex is one again the last in the line.

I guess this means Tom Holland is no longer the only Spider-Man actor who didn’t see Uncle Ben die.

Fans have been making variations of the above for decades now. Gee Dubya should just make it a real kit.

I’m still not clear on what happens if the enemy character is within 3” of an appropriate unit but the character is visible and the unit is not (and both character and unit are equidistant or the unit is closer). If Captain Hero has come ‘round the corner of a building, but line of sight to Grunt Squad is still blocked by it... Can the enemy shoot Captain Hero or not?

GW could announce every copy of the new rulebook would include a cashiers cheque for £10,000 and a massive number of “fans” would take to the internet to complain that their bank charges a currency exchange fee.

Fixed it for you.

My problem with Objective Secured was that they introduced a thousand and one ways to bypass it. Effectively rendering it meaningless as any player who didn’t want to bother with the “boring” “tax” of Troops would just tailor their list to take advantage of one of the ways to bypass it. Maybe I’m just being a grumpy old grognard, but I think the core game should be designed to heavily incentivize basic grunts over silly elite niche armies... and I say this as someone who has spent many years playing silly elite niche armies: Armored Company, Deathwing, etc.

If we’re lucky, we’ll see a return to ‘only Troops score, no if’s and’s or but’s, just Troops, we mean it: just Troops.’

I wouldn’t put too much stock in these snippets. It’s perfectly plausible that the LOS requirement* is still in the actual rulebook, they just didn’t put it in the preview. Remember, these articles are marketing hype, not the final product. * They also never discuss range limits.

The problem wasn’t that shooting was too good for “shooty armies,” it was that it was too good for all armies. Factions that should have played with a blending of shooting and assault coughSpaceMarinescough were opting to lean hard into gun-line lists. This seems like a much better design paradigm: Universally nerf shooting in general rules, then boost the shooting of a specific subset of factions via supplements. It’ll be rough for Tau and Imperial Guard for a few months, tops.

Improvements to Overwatch via Orders, Chapter Traits, Stratagems, and Relics will pop up in the codices of Tau, Imperial Guard, and Spess Mahreens approximately three weeks after 9th Edition goes live. Probably something like:

Whizkids sells a Wind Orc and Vulture miniature as part of their “Wardlings” lineup. The orc is more of the typical 28 mm size used for D&D, so it’s more like a GW goblin in size, but the vulture is suitably large and should look good perched on the arm or shoulder of a Ork Nob sized figure: That’s a 20 mm round base that it’s on, approximately the size of a nickel, if that helps visualize the scale. Reaper Miniatures offers miniatures for everything, and they make a very nice set of Vultures. (Guardian Games stocks the Wardlings line and Reaper Miniatures if you want to shop locally.)

I also hate the practice of “hitman’ing,” not that I’m aware of it ever happening in the Ordo, but it happened often enough in other leagues that I developed a distaste for it. Adam knows he’s got a key game against Bob soon. But Adam knows Charlie is playing against Bob first... So Adam pays Charlie to try to injure (or kill) as many of Bob’s best players as possible.