40k 11th Edition

 

Well the worst kept secret has been revealed at Adepticon. A new edition of 40k is coming. Lots of new stuff to see and learn it seems. Nothing much revealed about the box it seems other than images of a new space marine intercessor and ork boy.

They are both ok in my opinion.  Space marines will.all look the same they have been done over and over again. Not much different you can do.i imagine. 

Its nice to see the ork having all the guns and a choppa as a proper ork would have. 

As for rule.chamges again all little bits of info have been let out. Sone nice person on Reddit put them together in a handy list!

So let's have a look . Codexes are still valid, good if you have spent a load of cash on one. Bad if your codex ain't great. Does mean not as good codexes will not be getting changes just yet. I do not have the experience playing to comment on what's a good codex and what's not so no deep dive there I am afraid. 

70 new detachments. That sounds a lot but split across the factions its probably 2 or 3 new ones for each faction.  

Now we will be able to combine detachments? I'm not sure how this works maybe my tanks can have an armoured  detachment while my infantry gets a more infantry specific detachment. Could work as long as it does not get to confusing.

As you will know with me narrative play beats tournament play every time! Having missions linked to detachments seems interesting. A fast moving detachment for a quick recon or smash and grab.  A heavier hitting detachment  for a take and Hold type mission. 

Round objective markers are off (typical just as I buy some!!!). Replaced by terrain....now this could be really great and thematic or just rectangle and square footprints. Im hoping for terrain or rules for you to use terrain. 

Benefit of cover changing to hit roll makes sense (my poor guardsmen will now be worse shots). Intriguing is the stay hidden rule that supposedly coming in. If you dont shoot you can't be shot at until they are within 15" of you. Guess this edition will be the melee edition!! 

No stacking of strats well I never remember them any way so I am safe there.  

The charge change is a nice boost to charging units so will be fun to see that in action. 

Well thats it , we shall all have to await the slow drip feed of previews and see what's what.