Originally Posted by
Erik Setzer
I loved 2nd edition, and would be giddy if they ever did a true skirmish level 40K again, but I think what he meant was all the rules scattered insanely all over the place. And some of it's in the worst places, like when they did the Cities of Death rules in two White Dwarfs with the cards in those magazines... and if someone doesn't have those issues, they don't have any way to get the stuff to play that style of game. I have the Planetstrike rules and Cities of Death rules, nobody will play them because they can't get the rules easily. Then there's all the various formations and detachments that people can make. And I still have to explain to people that "Battle-forged" doesn't mean just CADs, and how Unbound and Battle-forged actually work. Those are just a few examples. Throw in the "you can mix any allies you want" and it gets a bit insane. 2nd edition had various restrictions. While the core rules were more complex, it was a "simpler" game overall.