There needs to be AT LEAST two different versions of this game!
I've stopped playing because people are all about competition and the people who would rather just convert some awesome models and play scenario games are getting screwed by the new rules systems. There's a butt load of special rules and counter rules and meta-gaming that have ruined the game for me. I have almost no interest in playing it, but I still feel the burning need to cleanse, purge, and kill the unclean.
I propose there be a competition set of rules with a rule book and codecies (as it is now) and a lighter version that isn't completely compatible but comes as a single book full of all the rules needed to play all the major armies in a fun and fast way.
This faster version would have all the cool rules we love as scenario players, such as VDR(vehicle design rules) and MDR (monster design rules). The scenario book would be thicker and cost more than the competition core rule book but it would have more in it and be thicker. I realize this sounds like a contradiction (simplify the rules but make more of them), but the little special character rules are a lot harder to keep track of, than a rule that is universal for both armies playing.
The competition core rule book could cut out a lot of the fluff to make it thinner and easier to carry to tournaments.
I think these changes are LONG overdue. But if it were up to me, I would produce THREE versions of the rule book. I would also post a digital copy of a more realistic rule book online. The 40K "Realism" rules would expand weapon ranges and make bombardment pieces, such as the Basilisk and Deathstrike unusable on anything but massive tables (more than 10 feet).
Discuss.
I've stopped playing because people are all about competition and the people who would rather just convert some awesome models and play scenario games are getting screwed by the new rules systems. There's a butt load of special rules and counter rules and meta-gaming that have ruined the game for me. I have almost no interest in playing it, but I still feel the burning need to cleanse, purge, and kill the unclean.
I propose there be a competition set of rules with a rule book and codecies (as it is now) and a lighter version that isn't completely compatible but comes as a single book full of all the rules needed to play all the major armies in a fun and fast way.
This faster version would have all the cool rules we love as scenario players, such as VDR(vehicle design rules) and MDR (monster design rules). The scenario book would be thicker and cost more than the competition core rule book but it would have more in it and be thicker. I realize this sounds like a contradiction (simplify the rules but make more of them), but the little special character rules are a lot harder to keep track of, than a rule that is universal for both armies playing.
The competition core rule book could cut out a lot of the fluff to make it thinner and easier to carry to tournaments.
I think these changes are LONG overdue. But if it were up to me, I would produce THREE versions of the rule book. I would also post a digital copy of a more realistic rule book online. The 40K "Realism" rules would expand weapon ranges and make bombardment pieces, such as the Basilisk and Deathstrike unusable on anything but massive tables (more than 10 feet).
Discuss.