Planetstrike - New info - Summary in First Post

[The Dude]

***Read this first***

I'll be keeping this post updated, so make sure you check it first before posting any "new" info

For those that don't know, Planetstrike is a rumoured Expansion in the same vein and Cities Of Death that will add extra rules to regular 40K games. It appears it will focus on Attacker/Defender type missions with special rules to suit. This could even go so far as to cover Siege warfare.

General Info:

Planetstrike will be released on July 4 and is 80 pages long.

Cover can be seen here:

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Rules:

Brusilov said the following:

Originally Posted by Brusilov

Phil gave me a rough outline of how the game plays : equal points for each side, opponents agree on a number of stratagem points (like in Cities of Death or Apocalypse). Defender buys fortifications with these points (as well as a few tricks : like a back exit to your bunker to charge the enemy in the rear). Attacker picks nasty tricks.
Weapons mounted on fortifications can obviously fire upon the enemy (cannot remember if it's only in the first turn, may be so). Defenders appear to get a free round of shooting before the game starts..."

b4z gleaned the following from the Planetstrike trailer:

Originally Posted by b4z

Page 8 of the Planetstrike book - Source http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/co...p?aId=15800010

ORGANISING A BATTLE

Setting up a Planetstrike game is different from the standard set-up process, because all games of Planetstrike use some special rules to add to the feeling of a planetary invasion. This section will talk you through the Planetstrike launch procedure and special rules, and lastly we present terrain rules for the scenery you can use in your Planetstrike games.

When setting up, simply follow the steps below at the beginning of each game, and you’ll be ready to decide the fate of the planet. It may seem like a lot to organise at first, but after a game or two you will have familiarised yourself with the launch procedure and the whole process will be quick and easy. Whilst the defender is busily constructing his lair and deploying his troops, the attacker will have some free time – perfect for concocting an evil plan, refreshing his memory of the rules, or just getting the drinks in!

PLANETSTRIKE LAUNCH PROCEDURE

1. Determine attacker and defender
2. Choose forces
3. Select a Planetstrike mission
4. Prepare the battlefield
5. Determine objectives
6. Attacker prepares invasion
7. Determine stratagems
8. Defender deploys forces
9. Attacker launches firestorm
10. Launch the Planetstrike!


1. DETERMINE ATTACKER AND DEFENDER
If you have not already agreed who will play the role of attacker and who will play the role of defender for your game of Planetstrike, decide by both rolling a D6 – the winner may choose which role to play.

2. CHOOSE FORCES
Choose your force as normal from the relevant Codex. However, in a Planetstrike the Force Organisation Charts allow you to take a greater variety of units.

It is imperative that the first blow on an enemy planet is full of thunder and fury, sending the foe reeling so that more invaders can plunge into the fight. Those coordinating a planetary invasion ensure that their first wave is chock full of the swiftest and deadliest warriors at their disposal, and the bravest commanders take every chance to lead from the front.

For this reason the attacker in a game of Planetstrike has bonus Fast Attack and Elite choices – he is allowed to up to six of each – and an extra HQ choice to lead his assault. Furthermore troops choices are not compulsory, meaning you can create a truly terrifying force of elite soldiers to act as the spearhead of your planetary invasion. When you’re invading a world, you’ll need every weapon at your disposal to ensure victory, so don’t hold back!

Attacker’s Forces FOC

Compulsory – 1HQ
Optional – 2 HQ, 6 Troops, 6 Elites
Optional – 6 Fast Attack, 3 Heavy Support

Defending armies usually include the toughest and most resilient units of all. Tasked with holding the most vital locations against all comers, the best defenders are not only capable of riding out the attacker’s initial onslaught, but also able to unleash a series of punishing counterstrikes and ensure that the impudent invaders are utterly crushed for their folly.

Defender’s Forces FOC

Compulsory – 1 HQ, 2 Troops
Optional – 2 HQ, 6 Troops, 3 Elites
Optional – 3 Fast Attack, 6 Heavy Support

Scryer in the Darkness tells us the following about step 9:

Originally Posted by Scryer in the Darkness

If I've got it right, the attacker gets a number of orbital bombardments in the form of S9 AP3 large templates, the total being D6 + the number of objectives determined in step 5.

Terrain Rules:

The Landing Pad can be Shielded, giving a 4+ invulnerable save to anything on it, or unshielded, allowing you to disembark no matter how far the transport moved.

Walls give a 4+ cover save, and if you go to ground behind them, you get +2 to cover.

Originally Posted by Imperius

Atacking a fortress:

Each section of the Fortress is treated as a seperate target for the purpose of allocating attacks. A Player shooting at the Fortress must declare which section he is targetting before rolling to Hit.

Sections of the Fortress that are destroyed may not be entered if they contain enemy models.

New Weapon!

Missile Silo Range: (??/??) Strength: 9 Armour Piercing: ?

Just thought you might want to know :P

Also the landing pad is configurable in TWO ways only, shielded and unfurled.

Defender
Gets to place all terrain on the battlefield and picks his table edge.

He can declare Terrain to be dangerous if he wants (Mined for example) although it’s not clear how much he can do this for.

There will be buildings with mounted weapons, like armed bunkers etc. These can likely fire in the enemy's Movement phase targeting DSers.

Probably, the defender will have to place all of his army.

Attacker

***NOTE: It is mentioned specifically that the old Dark Eldar rule does not apply and they and Daemons can be Defenders***

May place some Craters to get some cover.

Scryer in the Darkness tells us the attacker can deploy non-vehicle units by Deep Strike, however units that already have that ability as standard can assault after DSing. This does not apply to units disembarking from a vehicle that has Deep… Stricken (?) This means Terminators can Assault after Teleporting, but not Drop Podding.

There is a new table for rolling for reserves:
Turn 1: 3+
Turn 2: 2+
Turn 3: automatic

May also get some goodies like a prepared Artillery fire on the defending units, special equipment etc.

Will most likely get first Turn.

What the actual Missions will be is yet to be seen.

Stratagems and Assets

Originally Posted by Scryer in the Darkness

the stratagem system is apparently similar to Cities of Death, sharing some stratagems but with "a little bit more". Stratagems cost from 1 to 3 points and generally revolve around buildings and other table emplacements, no doubt tying in with a lot of the new kits they are releasing. There are also new deployment stratagems for armies if I got it right.

Thanks to Badger[Fr] we have some details on race specific assets:
-IG: a mass deep-strike ability; a single reserve dice is rolled for the whole army, but each squad that deep strikes must make a dangerous terrain test when it lands.

-Dark Eldar: a penalty to enemy leadership equal to the number of turns passed since the beginning of the game (an interesting bit of background: it mentions Khaine-worshipping Dark Eldar).

-Imperium: Power of the Machine Spirit. BS 3, unshakable turrets.

-Adeptus Mechanicus (any imperial army): a teleporter beam that kills any model in a building on a successful armour save, as its flesh melts with the walls.

-Space Marines: when a Drop Pod deep strikes, all enemy units surrounding the landing zone must make a morale test.

-Tau: a massive EMP blast that disables all targeting systems on the battlefield; all vehicles are now BS 1, but all infantry units gain +1 BS,

-(possibly Ork) basically throwing an asteroid at the enemy

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Releases:

PLANETSTRIKE (80 page Book) July 4 £15/US$25.00

AEGIS DEFENCE LINE (1 Model Box) July 4: £12/US$19.75
28-peiece set includes four double blast shield sections and four single blast shield sections that can be set up in a limitless array of configurations. Joined together they provide 28" of defence lines. Also included is a quad-gun emplacement that can be placed onto one of two different mounts supplied.

Yes, we are all aware you could make a slightly passable Hydra out of it. This had been discussed at length

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Sprues:

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SKYSHIELD LANDING PAD (1 Model Box) July 4: £24/US$39.50

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Sprues:

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IMPERIAL BASTION (1 Model Box) July 4: £18/US$29.75
85-piece set that includes an Icarus-pattern lascannon and additional components for personalising the bastion

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MINES, BOMBS AND BOOBY TRAPS (Resin Markers) July 4: £12/US$20.00
Four sets of resin counters, including: three sign posts, six bases of bombs, four booby traps and nine clusters of mines. Also supplied are twelve 40mm round bases.

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BLASTSCAPE (5 Craters) July 4: £12/US$19.75/AU$33

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reds8n says the following:

Originally Posted by reds8n

The blastscape aren't just terrain, they also represent the affects of some of the stratagems. For example there is a longer narrower trench type one that is caused by the giant orbital cutting laser that can fire down and hit models in a strip X inches long. Another one represents asteroids ( meteorites i would have thought but, hey..) and so on.

SHRINE OF THE AQUILA (1 Cathedral Plastic Kit) July 18: £20/US$33.00/AU$55

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BATTLESCAPE (1 Plastic Terrain Feature): £15/US$25.00
Incorporates craters, dead trees and a wrecked Rhino.

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IMPERIAL STRONGPOINT (2 Bastions, 3 Defence Lines) July 18: £55/ US$90/AU$150

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Direct only Releases:

CHAOS BASTION: £27.40/US$45.75
Imperial Bastion and two plastic Chaos Tank Accessory frames

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IMPERIAL OUTPOST (5 Model Set + Gameboard) July 18: £201.80/US$380
1 Citadel Gameboard, 2 Bastions and 3 Aegis Defence Lines

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IMPERIAL DEFENCE NETWORK (13 Model Set + Gameboard) July 18: £309.65/US$559
1 Citadel Gameboard, 5 Bastions, 7 Aegis Defence Lines and 1 Skyshield Landing Pad

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SPEAR OF SICARIUS (Direct Only): approx £600/AU$1200
The box is rumoured to contain:

Sicarius
1 Command Squad
2 Dreadnoughts (regular)
4 squads of 5 termies
5 Vanguard
60 tactical marines
40 assault marines
9 drop pods

[The-Malefic]

Neat. Thanks dude.

[Lionsbane]

very cool, new terrain is always welcome

[Dictator]

Plastic thunderhawk seems far fetched, but then again so was a stompa and a Valkyrie. Thanks The Dude

[arch_inquisitor]

The new edition is the death of diversity indeed.

I like the direction GW is going with the expansions.

Thanks The Dude.

[GeneralBUTTERBAR]

Any word on if Force total points will be higher (ie.. 2000+ point to just below Apoc. point levels), or will this remain standard game points?

[pointedstick]

A game can be whatever size you want it to be.

[Born Again]

Nice. Looking forward to it, this could be fun.

I imagine the games could be played at any "standard" size, or even Planetstrike Apoc. with a bit of minor reworking. Drop-podding Titans, yikes!

[Bregalad]

Originally Posted by The Dude

Planet Strike will supposedly come sooner than expected. I’m told July at the latest.

So Harry was right 6 weeks ago (and everyone expected it in July from then on)
http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=180871

Well, new terrain is desperately needed. Possibly the tiles from the 5th edition rulebook.

[The Dude]

Originally Posted by Bregalad

So Harry was right 6 weeks ago (and everyone expected it in July from then on)
http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=180871

Sort of. Harry said July, my source says earlier than exprected, July at the latest. The difference is subtle, but could be significant.

[Wolf Scout Ewan]

New scenery will be very nice.

Sounds like this will be good for a laugh.

[boogle]

so other rumours to possibly add RE: models

Plastic Grey Knights (especially for teleporting squads as an attacking force)

Plastic Stormtroopers/Arbites Riot Squad (ST as an attacking unit, Arbites as a definate defending unit)

Rumoured early 2nd wave of IG stuff (Hydra, Leman Russ recut kit)

2nd Wave of Daemons (makes sense as they have DS as part of their deployment rules)

Land Speeder Storm (pushed up from the 2nd wave of SM)

Eldar Jetbikes

IG Vendetta conversion Kit (via Direct - as the plastic frames we have seen don't have enough weapons to make it and the Valkyrie instructions don't seem to include it)

Other possibilities (based on nothing but 'they would fit the release')
Plastic CSM Havocs

Plastic CSM Raptors

Wazzdakka

[Occulto]

Sweet. I wonder if that new terrain is what they used to make the bunker/fortified tower in the rulebook.

[The Dude]

Originally Posted by Occulto

Sweet. I wonder if that new terrain is what they used to make the bunker/fortified tower in the rulebook.

I assumed so. There was an earlier rumour that that piece would appear as a plastic kit.

[Wolf Scout Ewan]

What page would that be??

Any further info on what the IG Stormtroopers look like?

[Gravek]

Nice! I hope plastic GK comes true.

[Khornies & milk]

New terrain will be a great boon, as I have a new 8' x 4' table waiting ready to go.

Our group has loved all the other Expansions so Planetstrike should be no different.

GW are trying their best to squeeze every last cent from me this year, and succeeding.

[boogle]

Originally Posted by Wolf Scout Ewan

What page would that be??

Any further info on what the IG Stormtroopers look like?

Rumoured to look like the Green that's in the IG rumour round up (with Shotguns that is)

[Battle-Brother Wags]

Originally Posted by Occulto

Sweet. I wonder if that new terrain is what they used to make the bunker/fortified tower in the rulebook.

How about the Imperial Palace? Now THAT'D be insane . . . there are alot of good things in this little gem of a rumor.

Would plastic Grey Knights lend any credence to the thought of them getting a new codex any time soon? I have a friend who doesn't currently play 40k, but I've told him about the various armies and he'd totally join my gaming group if the Inquisition had an updated list and models. Even if he didn't, I'm afraid to admit I'd probably get sucked in myself if the models were plastic and cheaper than they currently are . . .

[boogle]

Originally Posted by Battle-Brother Wags

How about the Imperial Palace? Now THAT'D be insane . . . there are alot of good things in this little gem of a rumor.

Would plastic Grey Knights lend any credence to the thought of them getting a new codex any time soon? I have a friend who doesn't currently play 40k, but I've told him about the various armies and he'd totally join my gaming group if the Inquisition had an updated list and models. Even if he didn't, I'm afraid to admit I'd probably get sucked in myself if the models were plastic and cheaper than they currently are . . .

It's rumoured that they may be up for consideration in 2010