Re: New boxed set.

Posted by greenstuff_gav on Oct 28, 2012; 11:11am
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/New-boxed-set-tp7578552p7579002.html

MortiS-the-Lost wrote

The entire Squat race, the Jokaero made a brief come-back as a (background-defying) special unit for the new (very silly) Grey Knights,

Squats (beastmen and cat-people) are only mentioned in the current edition; it gives rise to small bands of survivors :)
the jokaero were reintroduced as a single guy in an Inquisitorial Henchman unit .. very Inquisitor-themed (after all, i wrote a short peice for an Inquisitor Jokaero) but not practical for 40k IMO

MortiS-the-Lost wrote

Genestealer Cults

ah, i heard from a BL author GW put a ban on using 'stealer cults in books as they don't fit 40k's mass battle games.. i think they dropped the ball, especially with the 40k Allies rules; Tyranids ally with no-one and thus GW missed the opportunity to allow stealer/guard armies :(

i likes the Shokk attack Guns' return; minus the complicated 2nd ed snotling base ammo system it's delightfully random; i've won games by removing units (double six!) and also killed 1000pts of my own army turn one (double one!) with mine; i always field it :D
they tried to return some of the randomness with Bomb Squigs, Zzap Guns / Snazzguns random Str, and Stormboys jump packs (explode on a 1) but didn't quite get back to 2nd ed's pure delightfully randomness
which for a wargame is understandable; you want some fun random (like trukks random destruction table) but with the older editions you couldn't really plan anything or have any control over your own army...