DARKTROOPER:
So…how do you guys feel about it? Excited? Worried? I for one am really excited because Dark Eldar are more than likely getting redone!
AGPO:
I have no idea what’s happening here as I’ve only looked at WFB for the last few years. I thought they only just bought out 4th edition. Are they trying to catch us up or something?
GRNDL:
In most people’s eyes 4th Ed was broken. I’m not up on the specifics but I think it was the fact that alterations to ranged shooting and the like invalidated swarm/horde armies, so armies like Tyranids were becoming shooty rather than choppy.
Thommy H:
No, 4th Ed. was fine. But it’s been, like, five years since it came out. That’s about the average time between editions these days.
Leadblecher:
I have read through the 5th edition book and not muched changed. The things that did change, changed for the better. The rules are smoother now and some clarifications have been made to ease game play. All in all, it is the same.
Thommy H:
I hear the leaked copy going around isn’t exactly final, actually…
AGPO:
I know I’m behind the times but when it was first released people were singing 4th ed’s praises, especially compared to the frosty reception 7th ed WFB got. What went wrong? I’m guessing power gamers broke the tournaments like “Rhino rush” and the like did with 3rd ed
Thommy H:
Nah, people just b*tch about everything. There were plenty of naysayers when it first came out, but people don’t keep posting if they like something - they just get on and use it - so the fans have slowly become outweighed by the complainers as time has come on. It’s been about four years since the last edition came out, after all.
turquois dwarf:
IMO the movement dosent work in the curent edition. because almost everyone moves at the same speed if someone runs away you cant catch up
Thommy H:
Are you playing on an infinite table?
AGPO:
Yeah, I can remember not thinking much of the pursuit rules when it came out
zorn sabretooth:
yaaaaaaaaaaay dark eldar are great
Godbob and his jolly rogers:
but do you really think they will
Willmark:
The changes look good. I sat in a presentation at Games Day and it was focused on 5th edition 40k. For those that play Dark Eldar, both Jervis and Phil confirmed that they will be getting a new book at some point and compared it to the wood Elf situation several years back.
Might just have to dust off my Marines…
Godbob and his jolly rogers:
The changes look good. I sat in a presentation at Games Day and it was focused on 5th edition 40k. For those that play Dark Eldar, both Jervis and Phil confirmed that they will be getting a new book at some point and compared it to the wood Elf situation several years back.i knew they would they can't keep an army unupdated for that long oh wait CD :D
Willmark
P.S. sorry i just had to say that
ashur:
The background preview keeps reminding us that the end of the Empire is near. They keep talking about the time of ending and the end of mankind. Do you think it will have some influence in the game per se? Or is it just a way to make the background as dark as possible?
Lord Darkash:
There is mention of the light of the astronomicon flickering and going out breifly destroying 1000’s of ships stuck in the warp. Also it mentions tech adepts have discovered faults on the golden throne that are beyond their repair. Does look gloomy!
Willmark:
Doesn’t mean anything is going to change thou in terms of fluff…
AGPO:
Well you never know…
AGPO CONSPIRACY THEORY OVERDRIVE!!!
Look at it this way - most of the 40k range is now plastic. There’s not a lot of updating they can do for space marines, orcs etc in terms of range, and their policy of support means they can’t just keep releasing new chapters so…
They’ve got to re-fluff it! A total change in the background bringing some of those lose threads to the fore, a new great crusade maybe, any excuse to totally reorganise human military structures. Ergo we may well see them doing something radical like bringing the Emperor or a primarch back. They can’t kill off mankind and they can’t really make them any more threatened wihout doing so. Their only option fluff wise is either to stop there (no more big campaigns/sales) or to have a fightback.
Far fetched I know, but hey, why not?
Lord Darkash:
Doesn't mean anything is going to change thou in terms of fluff...I suspect very little will change at the moment, but it does fuel the furnace for the future.
Willmark
Julys WD has prophesy in it that mankind will fall and nearly be destroyed but will then rise to even greater glory than before. (the prophet was executed) It does suggest that a long way in the future they could change the whole way the galaxy feels.
They could kill off all the existing characters, some of the less popular SM chapters and alien races only to introduce completely new ones. There is mention of a species living among the ghoul stars that is hyper-violent (whatever that means) they could be introduced. Like AGPO said their could be a new emporer, or the old one gets resurrected and maybe put in an uber-dreadnought body and the great crusade begins anew.
GW COULD do all this and more. But i doubt they will to be honest