8th Edition Reprise - opinions, impressions, ideas

[Sexiest_hero]

Remember you can always do some converting and unit fillers, while surfing ebay. you can also play smaller point games

[Scythe]

it's funny everyone says dark elves and skaven are power-gamey but I find them to be very squishy indeed

i guess at the end of the day, it's the player, not the rules.

i'm with you on picking an army for the models. that's why i picked o&g's in the first place.

power gaming wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the fact some people are still using 7th edition books a full 18 months after 8th came out.

release the books all at once, i say. then you can at least TRY to balance them

While releasing new lists together can lead to a more balanced game (as Ravening Hordes showed us, at the start of 6th edition), it doesn't make much sense from a marketing point of view, and releasing complete army books all at once simply isn't feasible production wise (remember that Ravening Hordes was just a 'get-you-by', with only army lists, and compression of those to 2-3 pages per army).
While it is ok to speculate, we will never see an edition in which a full range of army books will be released together with the edition.

[Da_White_Orc]

While releasing new lists together can lead to a more balanced game (as Ravening Hordes showed us, at the start of 6th edition), it doesn't make much sense from a marketing point of view.

exactly, it's all about marketing.

which is a shame, because that approach only ever hurts the games

[Deroga]

I can think of only a couple things i will like to see change, but overall i like this edition a lot and i like how they are doing on balance with the new books so far...

1.) Steadfast gets negated if disrupted. This would help stop the crazy hordes, reward a player for getting a flank, and would bring back some effectiveness of cavalry, who can maneuver into a flanking position more effectively.

2.) Change Dwellers Below to allow a look out sir roll on characters.

3.) Bring back 50% points

[Yowzo]

2.) Change Dwellers Below to allow a look out sir roll on characters.

3.) Bring back 50% points

Most tournaments I've attended lately houseruled those two.

For #3 it was either 50% pts for 25% unit strength or 25% pts for 50% unit strength.