Forgeworld seminar at Gamesday

[Gir]

They also need to make sure that these rules are not compatible with 40k as Primarchs in normal games are going to be all sorts of broken..

Mephiston seems to work okay, and he basically has a primarch stat line.

[Dalleron]

Mephiston has a greater demon statline, which I see as Str and Tgh of 6. The rest of the stats vary but those to me. Now maybe a primarch would have the same base stats. Who knows. Wait and See I guess

[Rev. Tiberius Jackhammer]

I'm kinda hoping they take a subtler approach to the Primarchs - they were largely well known for being amazing generals, after all. Even the Emperor was nearly killed by a Warboss.

Remember, just like when we have lone marines killing dozens of chaos marines in the books, the Primarchs are plot-important protagonistesque figures. Nearly everything will go right for them. In the books, they are always rolling 6s. That shouldn't transfer into gameplay.

[Gir]

Mephiston has a greater demon statline, which I see as Str and Tgh of 6. The rest of the stats vary but those to me. Now maybe a primarch would have the same base stats. Who knows. Wait and See I guess

And Greater Daemons are better than Primarchs, so it makes sense.

Hell Angron as a Daemon prince is S7, T6, W5.

[eldargal]

Something that is actually interesting from Games Day:

I know it seems like the same crap people are used to hearing -around here, but take it as you will, sorry for the vagueness; designers were very tight lipped.

Without actually comfirming or denying anything directly at the meet and greet at games day, the games designers in attendance did suggest the following:

There is at the moment no ink being lain on an Eldar or ork codex, but both are scheduled, a lot of hats in the ring for the ork book
A Lot of focus being placed on tau (suggestions of play testing), direct questions were met with smirks and sidelong glances to one another sorry I didnt press this further, but there were a crush of questions being hurled and each one was met with an eagerness to answer but a very measured response
Lots of new models with individual rule sets will be released in the next few months
Codices are now being worked on in blocks of three, ostensibly this is to help balance, but is not indicative of release schedule
The play styles within GW (even during play testing) tend to lean towards the cinematic rather than competitive
All designers were very excited while describing the volume of new models due to be released over the next few months, and hinted that recent releases are indicative of the volume we can expect with regularity
Possible new tyranid anti-flyer unit
Company wide changes to bring forge world, wd, digital, and core releases into alignment are underway

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

The Horus Heresy is interesting. Just putting it out there......

[Rev. Tiberius Jackhammer]

The Horus Heresy is interesting. Just putting it out there......

A big lad has daddy issues, throws a hissy fit and converts to a hokey religion :P

Will be fun to see how FW handles it, and good that it isn't slowing the IAs down. Considering that they already have most of the pre-heresy marine kits done, shouldn't overwhelm the model releases.

[Tzeentch's Dark Agent]

The Chaos Gods are pretty fantastic, I must say.
Seriously, join the dark side; we have cake!

[Wildeybeast]

Something that is actually interesting from Games Day:

Now that is it interesting. Hopefully the mini Daemon booklet in this months WD is a sign of things to come with WD featuring more rules updates for smaller release waves. Though this months WD did feature a Hobbit advert so we can expect the amount of boring LotR finecast releases to increase in the run up to this Christmas.

Roll on the Tau!

[Neelam]

Roll on the Tau!

If it's one thing I want to see it's XV-9s either in the codex or lowered in points , such awesome models but so expensive to use anywhere outside of Apoc battles. I think it was 260 points for a pair with fusion cascades and a shield drone .