40K - Should I .... or not? Where to start?

Found a cool piece of 40K terrain, entitled "tardis":



I wonder "who" made this

 

So this isn't me, but someone on Facebook just posted this:

 

Obviously GW got the order wrong for their codex release - it should have been Necrons first to get a Codex then Dark Eldar and then Tau. I wonder if Matt Ward was managing the release schedule?

 

Unless they revive the old Necron lore it makes little difference. *grumpily shakes clenched fist*

 

I prefer the new lore myself because it was more Tomb Kingy and I didn’t know much about Necrons before the 5th Ed update anyway, except that they had very few unit selections, but I can see how such a big change in lore would affect existing Necron players when the 5th Ed update arrived. Nevertheless, it has made Necrons more popular in recent years and I think it, along with the new troop types and characters released, was what saved them from going the way of the Squats.

 

The new units and steady stream of codexes was definitely a welcome sight. The new models look great, and Necrons were definitely in need of updates. My only issue is with the new lore. The old lore was fantastic.

 

But certainly the new lore allowed characters other than C’Tan characters to be possible - in the old lore this wouldn’t have been possible because even the Lords were little more than mindless slaves to the C’Tan and there were no individual Necron personalities.

 

It would have been a simple fix to just add some characters that were becoming more self-aware and slowly rising up against the C'tan. That way players could choose to play with C'tan led forces or splinter forces. Alternatively, GW could have just added more C'tan of very different personalities, and they would in turn lead forces that reflected their innate nature.

I just think it would have been better to add to the lore rather than to pull a retcon. Matt Ward's contribution just felt sloppy and rushed to me.

 

While Kill Team is not something I am terribly familiar with, I can say that it is, functionally, rather similar to Skirmish, albeit more pared down. The traditional point limit was, if memory serves, 200 points, so massive monstrosities, while not wholly impossible to use, were quite rare. It runs rather more like a specialist game, such as Gorkamorka, Mordheim, or Necromunda, with a small force of hardened specialists.

 

I imagine it is very similar to Shadow War Armageddon except it uses the 8th Edition rules. The first edition of Kill Team was released in 7th Edition where I imagine it was used to test the public's reaction before Shadow War Armageddon was released so see what they thought of a Warhammer 40,000 skirmish game. Now that 8th Edition's here GW have decided to bring back Kill Team with the new rules.

 

Honestly, I can't offer a great deal of advice in this field, the most "Recent" small scale games I played were Gorkamorka and Necromunda (Haven't gotten around to playing the new release yet, waiting for them to put out Van Saar rules so I can use my good old boys), but I'd imagine the synergy wasn't to significant a problem. The 7th edition of Warhammer 40k was VERY different from 8th edition and Age of Sigmar, in that there weren't really "Bubbles" for buffs, so much as a character joined a unit, and applied it's buff to that unit. But, since in Kill Team, every character is an individual character and there aren't really units, I'd assume that buffs weren't really a thing. At least, that's how it was if memory serves, I can't seems to locate my 7th edition rulebook.

 

Idkman. I like the wacky overlord who collects things

 

I'll take a C'tan any day!

 

Trazyn the Infinite - he is a pretty good character lore wise.

 

Yup

 

It should be fun, yeah. Anyone gotten the chance to take a look at the Tau codex yet? Tau are being Tau, as usual.