Mark your Calendars for June 3rd – the Next Edition of Warhammer 40,000 is coming your way! Games Workshop just dropped a TON of info about the new boxed set. Pictures are worth more than words: via Games Workshop (Warhammer Community) “June 3rd – mark your calendars folks, because that’s the day you’ll be able to pre-order your copy of the new edition of Warhammer 40,000. You’ll then be among the first to get your hands on it come release day on June 17th.” New Starter Box and Contents Intercessor Squad 1 Intercessor Squad 2 Hellblaster Squad Inceptor Squad Primaris Lieutenant with Power Sword Primaris Lieutenant with Auto Bolt Rifle Primaris Ancient Captain in Gravis Armour Plague Guard Foetid Bloat-drone Poxwalkers Lord of Contagion Noxious Blightbringer Malignant Plaguecaster Primaris Space Marine Datasheets Death Guard Datasheets Warhammer 40,000 Rulebook “And rules. Lots of rules. All the rules you need to wage the bloodiest of wars in the far future. Alongside the core rules for the game, there are missions, full guidelines for the 3 ways to play (open, narrative and matched) and advanced rules to represent the myriad war zones of the far future, including all the rules you need to play games of Cities of Death, Planetstrike, Stronghold Assault and Death from the Skies.” Warhammer 40,000 Indexes “Of course!

These five books are the most requested things from you guys and gals out there; all of you wanted to be able to use your army with the new edition from day one. Between them, these five softback Index books provide rules for every single Warhammer 40,000 Citadel Miniature we sell. They are broken down into themed books: 2 for the Imperium, 1 for the forces of Chaos, and 2 for the xenos races of the galaxy.” It’s Official.

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Pre-Orders June 3rd, Release Day June 17th. Who’s ready for a new WARHAMMER!? Hate to break it to you, because I know facts just get in the way of a good old tantrum, but the Marines of 30 years ago are nothing like the Marines of 24 years ago, who are almost nothing like the Marines of 2 years ago. There is no break with 30 years of fluff, it’s been broken many times in those 30 years. Are you upset the ultramarines chief librarian is no longer half eldar? The fluff has been stuck in neutral for 20 years, it’s finally moving, and you’ve spit your dummy from the pram before you’ve even gotten a copy of the new game.

You’re doing a remarkable impersonation of a millennial •. Yeah details in the fluff changed a lot for the first few years (though its been pretty stable since the end of 2nd) but the atmosphere and crucial ingredients of the franchise have been the same since the beginning. In fact one could argue since before the beginning, since the fluff of the Laserburn setting, the primary ancestor of 40k, has the same basic concepts and mood. Deriving somewhat from the feeling of 2000AD and Metal Hurlant. I would have been ok with the setting moving on if it had been in keeping, but the major genre shift lately is disappointing. Its not a tantrum, no dummies involved (except perhaps you for resorting to insults instead of reasoned argument).

What we have from all the upset people is a mature assessment of recent changes to a long running artwork, the 40k universe. I have couple of issues here. First of all, the annoying “splitting” they have done. I have to get 4 of the 5 books in order to play my armies. I collect Space Marines, Imperial Guard, Orks and Eldar, all are in their own books. To me, this is very, very annoying. Secondly, the rulebook.

I seriously hope that the rulebook won’t be “super” expensive. If that thing costs 60€ like the AoS one, then I’ll be very angry at GW, because the likelihood that actual rules I need to play the game will be in there and in the compendiums.

If they are priced around the Grand Alliance books (for example, Chaos), then that means I have to pay 156€ to play the game with my armies Other than that, those Death Guard look amazing. It will remain to be seen if I get the box as I have no interest on Guilmarines.

I already have my 5th Company in the making and adding Guilmarines into it will make it look very weird. It is also hard to justify buying the box just for Death Guard, as I am not sure if I’m going to play them really. “Also, while we’re on the subject of rules, we’ve some great news – the core rules for Warhammer 40,000 will be available for free! You’ll be able to download the Battle Primer PDF on games-workshop.com and warhammer40000.com from June 17th. Current players will probably still want to pick up either the full Warhammer 40,000 book or the Dark Imperium box set though, as this gets you the Advanced Rules sections, loads more missions, as well as stratagems for open, narrative and matched play and of course, over 100 pages of new lore and background on the shape of the galaxy in the new Warhammer 40,000.” From the community page.

The future Codicies wont “replace” these books (unless major changes happen but then the PDF will do that) but add too them. Just like in AoS, there are things in the new books that add to the army, like new formations, Command Point uses, etc but I see what you are saying. GW stated their goal is to support all forms of play, but really you should only need the core book to accomplish that as a Competitive/Tournament gamer, unless you MUST have every single option available which means buying all the supplements. Gordonshumway answered this one pretty well, but I will add to it. First of all, in earlier editions, I didn’t have to drop 150+€ in order to play it with all my armies. I only needed the BRB and that’s it.

If I wanted to “go wild” I could buy the starter box and have the mini rulebook instead. I only needed the core rules and, in the “worst” case, an updated codex for one of my armies. They have no invalidated all the earlier books, so I can’t use them to test the game out. They haven’t said anything about the Dataslates, only that they will release “cheap books” that will allow you to play the game from day one on.

I might get the Core Rules for free, but there is currently no guarantee that I’ll also get the dataslates I require in order to play. On top of that, I have now have to buy these and the new ones for each individual army as they release them later on. So maybe next time you feel like “insulting” someone, maybe check the facts. I mean technically you would need 4 codicies in the old format anyway, but I can see that ruffling feathers in the new “cheaper” format if you got your hopes up. You should only NEED the core rulebook if they follow through with the AoS styled system.

Core Rules give you pretty much what the GHB did, and should have the points costs only there so they can be changed with a single stroke. Index books should have all the stats and power levels and formations/command point abilities, etc like the Grand Alliance books. These are not needed since the unit stats and power levels should be available in online PDFs, but they give you extra stuff as incentive. What would convince me? What would convince me is to see armies like Sisters of Battle return in full plastic and game becoming balanced all around, at least mostly.

Basically things that people have been crying out since the beginning of time when it comes to 40k, but never seems to happen. Also, we have yet to see them actually accomplish the “no need to carry around lots of books” problem. Let’s wait for a couple of years as the faction books start to bile up alongside supplements and other minor books. Then it would be just like AoS, where there are plenty of books and factions books and even Grand Alliance books.none of its needed though, especially since they already stated there would be an app. Already have some Plastic Sisters, even got the new Sister of Silence line, then they also gave us Primarchs because people were asking for them, and before the big shake up we got new 1Ksons with Sorcerers and Rubric Terminators. From the look of it we are getting Nurgle Terminators to go with our new Nurlge fodder and Nurgle Marinesnone of that is good enough though?

No, but I also dont feel a company should/could change release plans just to cater to fans. We knew AoS was going to sit on the back burner when 40K8e was announced, so its no surprise that we havn’t gotten anything for AoS really than a single release that was teased months ago. Also the new Skirmish game is putting Death on the front and center and new pictures of Skeletons are already circulating.so its in route and likely the first thing we see after the 8e launch is finished. A Faction no one asked for?

That is completely wrong and you know it. Sure no one knew to ask for the Cloud Dwarves because its a brand new thing no one knew about, but people WERE asking for Dwarves that were technologically superior as they always were. Everyone was asking for the old Dwarves with armor, cannons, etc just like the old lore, AoS just took that concept and dialed it up to 11 like the setting calls for. So yes, Cloud Dwarves WERE asked for. So they listen to people asking for Cloud Dwarves but not to people asking for anything Death? Yep, that does sound exactly like they are listening to the community. The problem is that GW makes it look like they are listening to the community while really they are doing their own thing and just looking at what people are saying so they might be able to cater to them better so they can make more money.

This isn’t the same as listening to people. There just happens to be some happy accidents where some people’s requests miraculously gets fulfilled because the design team happened to have the same or similar idea. They saw that 40k was suffering and they found out why. Instead of listening to the community, they reached out to the tournament scene. Not a bad idea, but still the community has very little say on what will happen with their armies.

You’re right, cherry pick one example and ignore all of those I mentioned before.makes for a great argument. “The problem is that GW makes it look like they are listening to the community while really they are doing their own thing and just looking at what people are saying so they might be able to cater to them better so they can make more money. Download Free Cwap Study Guide Pdf more. ” Seriously you are coming off as a conspiracy theorist at this point. 1Ksons, Nurgle, Legion Rules, removing ‘stars, nerfing Grav, creating apps, and lowering the amount of books required for gameplay seems like a LOT of “happy accidents”. Not to mention better communication, less secrecy, activity on social media and the introduction of a platform where you can offer direct feedback on the new 40K to the developers. They’ve also gone down the modern route of compact rules, rules for each unit comes in the box with the miniatures and are accommodating current players by releasing all the information to play the game in a few books. Some of their products can now be considered ‘cheap’ to buy. I bought a ton of Shattered Dominion round bases because they’re damned cheap compared to some of the stuff you can buy.

I am actually, when GW does something right and well. For example, Chaos Legions was released, I praised GW for doing something right. They released something that GW fans have been crying for since 3.5 was replaced. I am super excited for Tyranids. The Faction Focus showed some amazing rules for them and made them sound very fun to play.

They released the Disciples of Tzeentch and Blades of Khorne. This would indicate that they will also release one for Nurgle one day.

I’m already painting some test models for my Nurgle army in preparation for the book and I am one of those that didn’t find AoS interesting in the beginning. Those are just few of the situations that I have been very happy about when it comes to GW. The problem is, I have been burned way to many times in the past by GW to be excited about anything before I can get my hands on all the facts. Until that happens, I will always expect the worse, because it makes the release less painful. So you are one of those that praise GW no matter what they do? You seem to misunderstand what giving criticism means. You also seem to think that anyone who doesn’t automatically feed into the hype is nothing more than an spoiled, entitled brat.

First of all, GW hasn’t been doing a great job in the past year or so. Late 40k 7th edition was done under the “new GW”. They released some utter garbage for certain armies.

For example, the CSM book never got an update in 7th, even under the new management. It wasn’t until they released the Traitor Legions that CSM got something going for them. I mean, they re-released the Black Legion and Crimson Slaughter Supplements, where only the Black Legion gave something to CSM, which most people hated, the Cabal. These gave CSM nothing new beyond that. What else did they release at the time?

Angels of Death for SM. This “massive” book with formations, detachments, missions and relics for all the major Chapters within Space Marine Codex. They also got a bunch of new Psychic Powers to boot. Then there was the whole AoS release BS which resulted in GW panicking. When they released AoS without points and a rule set filled with more wholes than swiss cheese, they quickly started to write the GHB. The most recent stun they pulled was the Gathering Storm, where they gave the most broken armies even more broken tools while leaving the main antagonists in the dark.

CSM got the Traitor Legions book and 1K Sons, but were still completely left out in terms of extra rules, detachments and formations when the Gathering Storm rolled up. These are just releases done under the “new GW”, I have plenty more examples, CSM codex in general, the massive unbalance in 7th, Orks Codex, Tyranid Codex, Dark Eldar Codex and so on. I have never understood this mentality that you should never criticise a company, because if you do, you are nothing more than a self entitled brat that should be happy if they got even a scrap of rotten meat thrown their way. You are basically the perfect customer for GW. No matter how bad the product is, you will buy it because you cannot fathom GW releasing anything bad. They could literally release a packaged pile of the design teams waste from lunch with a price tag of 99.99€ and you would go and buy it, while attacking anyone who disagrees with you. You criticize everything they do before you see it.

Myself if Im not sure I keep my opinions ot myself till I get it in my hands to thoroughly read and then make an my opinion known, doing otherwise is just speculating and being Self Entitled as any company has to please the majority over the minority. Your AoS comment about points is totally unfounded and your speculation which couldn’t be further from the truth regarding points.

8 Ball Of Crack Profit. They said from day one with AoS they would support matched play and it was being worked on, so the Handbook was no hastily written thing and if you believe that there’s no point talking to you about it. How is that prey tell in relation to the Gathering Storm? You moan that there is no narrative play and when they do it to advance the timeline in preparation for 8th etc you moan as they need to introduce units and tools to do so and accurately represent whats happening. As I said your very much a glass half full guy, which if you read your comment back is very evident. CSM and TS didn’t need any new formations and tools as you had all you needed in Traitor Legions to allow you to play the narrative as a lore based army. If criticize 80% of the time like you do sir, people stop listening and just see you as someone who wont be happy no matter what and is very much self entitled which is the perception you give out. Still getting 1 additional codex per army is not something you should complain about either.

As far as I know every edition people start whining for GW to give them their new codex first. Fact is: new editions means you should expect new codices. If you don’t can’t/won’t afford that you probably play to many armies. And to tie it back into your comment: to “test out the game” you just need the basic rules and maybe one codex. Playing all your armies at advanced rules is hardly testing anymore that is playing and playing wargames is EXPENSIVE. BTW if you just want to test is: buy nothing and watch others who have invested or play with someone who has a rulebook.

Here we go again. Let’s start out with your first point, “People start whining for GW to give them their new codex first.” First of all, wrong. Everyone who knows how GW operates, you NEVER want to be the first book in the edition. You want to be right after Marines preferably, as that is usually the golden period.

For reference, look at the 7th edition release lineup and then look at the “power levels” of each codex. Secondly, this situation is completely different than before. Before, if a new edition came out, I needed exactly 0 new army books. The old books were 100% compatible with the new edition, if there was a new book for one army, I could get it if I found the edition worth my time.

Thirdly, it is very wrong to assume that if one player has multiple armies, it means they have no issue spending hundreds of euros on something. My entire collection is a result of almost 10 years of collecting and painting. So yes, I do believe I have the right to complain about being “forced” to buy 4 books right out the gate in order to play my armies. It would be completely different story if I had to buy one now, then maybe two months later another and so on. Now I have to buy all 4 if I want to play my armies.

Lastly, your comment regarding testing the game out. Something to consider here, first of all, living in bumf*ck nowhere is a problem. The nearest gameshop is 45 minute train ride away from me.

Watching something like a Youtube video on the matter is also problematic as it doesn’t give you two things, ability to actually read all the rules yourself and come up with your own opinion. The video is usually filled with someone telling their own opinion on the matter while mostly avoiding showing the actual rules themselves. I want to be able to read the rules, test out the rules and come up with my own opinion without someone influencing me against it. This is mostly to, as funny and ironic as it might sound, for me to avoid a massive negative image towards the game from forming. AoS was a great example of this.

I didn’t read the rules when it was released really. I took a glimpse at them, but since I didn’t own a Fantasy army, I didn’t test the game out. I looked at what others had to say about the game and guess who were the most vocal about the game? Those that hated literally everything about AoS from top to bottom, purely because it replaced Fantasy.

Reading their comments, my opinion on the game was formed. This changed dramatically after GHB was released and I finally decided to invest more time on looking at the game. I started to analyse the rules and look for the good things in the game while simultaneously looking at my own mostly wrong original opinion on the game. Now I am painting a sample units for my Nurgle army in preparation for the day when they release the Nurgle version of the “Chaos God” books that Tzeentch and Khorne have. You have seen how negative I am. You most likely haven’t seen me being positive.

When I get positive, which takes awhile because my process is always the same; look for everything negative and bad about the situation, picture the absolute worse scenario and now start building a positive scenario and solution to the matter. In order to achieve that, I post very negative comments and almost apocalyptic predictions on things, because there is always someone who is extremely positive and has their own optimistic view on things. I then take that idea and start to see if its true and if it really is a solution to the problem.

This has always been my way of handling any massive change. This happened with AoS when Fantasy got replaced. I just want to avoid bringing out way more hate than this site already sees on a regular basis.

That’s why I would have liked to test out the game without having to resort to buying 100+€ worth of books just to play the game. That way I can avoid going 100% negative right out the gate and maybe start somewhere on the Neutral territory. Wow wall of text: Anyway: you presumably have people you play 40K with. Just go watch when 2 of them play a game instead of playing a game yourself. It shouldn’t be harder than getting a game of your own (irrespective of the fact that might be harder than avarage where you live). Anyway: if you buy 1 book you can play at least 1 army to test the game. Can’t play all armies at the same time anyway.

If you like it you play that army for a few months and get to know the game with them. Then save money and buy a new book. Personally I only play 2 games a month of AoS which is the reason I only had 1 army (now wood elves are wanderers and sylvaneth I actually have 2 but I’m only really playing Sylvaneth atm). If you can play more (even in the middle of knowwhere) or want more armies. Power to you.

But what is wrong with just trying out a game with 1 army? PS you are right about the codices and that the first ones usually end up being weakish. But none the less. People want a new codex. Not getting a codex in a new edition (or 2. Or 3) is usually not appreciated (I’ve read some pretty strong opinions on that here on BOLS).

“Also, while we’re on the subject of rules, we’ve some great news – the core rules for Warhammer 40,000 will be available for free! You’ll be able to download the Battle Primer PDF on games-workshop.com and warhammer40000.com from June 17th. “Current players will probably still want to pick up either the full Warhammer 40,000 book or the Dark Imperium box set though, as this gets you the Advanced Rules sections, loads more missions, as well as stratagems for open, narrative and matched play and of course, over 100 pages of new lore and background on the shape of the galaxy in the new Warhammer 40,000.” Which doesn’t completely answer your question. The “core rules” are free, but is that enough to play? If there are no stratagems in there, then I’m guessing no, you can’t play with just the core rules. And what’s in the Advanced Rules? So jury is still out on this one.

“Critics who treat ‘adult’ as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms.

Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”- C.S.

The models look great, the boxed set actually includes a hardback book which is a nice surprise, and the indexes are much cheaper than buying all new codices and should hold us over for a while. I would anticipate given how they have been releasing Battletomes that it will take a while to get through all the armies and even then I bet they don’t release one without a few new models to accompany it.

It remains to be seen if they will release the data slates for free or in an app. I have a feeling they might but only with a power level attached, not the points. For those of us who have been playing a while, a complete re-write of the rules always meant you would have to buy multiple books.

I don’t know how this is a surprise. Of course they have to come out with silly crap like wound markers and combat gauges but I kind of expect that with a new edition. This is pathetic. Even if you ignore the fluff crazyness of all this new imperium technology out of nowhere you can’t ignore the hilarious proportions especially on the captain and the hellblaster spider legs. Not to mention the design of the flying centurions.

It’s just too much of everything all over the field. And the deathguard (which I had some hopes in) mainly look like a bunch of rotting clowns apart from some nice bits. I know nobody cares, but I’m gonna save a lot of money in the near future.

The writer behind, has assembled a PDF magazine called which is going to be releasing over the coming months. The first issue will be out for download on June 30th. For fans of the extravaganza, this magazine will be a great port of call for those wanting to get a bit more out of their game. The first issue will contain • Rules for using black powder firearms • Rules for horses in the Frozen City • Rules for Knightly Orders which add variety to your knights and templars • Alone in the Crypt – a solo Frostgrave scenario in which you play a captain with a quiver-full of magic arrows trying to escape a crypt full of undead • The Catacombs of the Evrenbright – a three scenario mini-campaign originally created for Adepticon 2017 This sounds like a great labour of love from the writer and it will be fun to give this a read. I really like the Alone In The Crypt scenario he’s put together showing off what you can do with Frostgrave. Will you be downloading this?