rat of vengence

Hi all, I dusted off my marines for the first time in nearly 2 years to try out a game of 8th edition. 40K had lost me with it's direction and lack of anything resembling balance, but I was hoping things had improved... Anyway, my questions. 1. It appears intervening terrain doesn't provide any cover? I was driving my rhino around behind some cover, and was told since it isn't IN the cover, there is no cover? 2. I took a Landspeeder (because fun) and it died quickly and horribly. It appears there is no cover save for fast moving speeders? 3. Are units from the initial Imperial Codex type book thing able to be used with the new codex as well? My opponent took 2 rifleman dreads, 2 twin assault cannon rhinos, 5 man lascannon squads and a captain and a lieutenant so nearly everyone was re-rolling 1's to hit and 1's to wound. Yeah, he's a mate, but he doesn't know how to not cheese it up :P Thanks, RoV

Cherrybrook Tech Adepts meet twice a month, Saturdays 8pm to midnight. Cool crowd, pretty chilled. Northern Knights fellas are good value too, been to a few of their tourneys. RoV

Wooo! My stuff finally turned up. It was posted when they said, so it must have been either UK or OZ post. Or both... RoV

I have ordered my new batch of Orcs and Goblins from Wayland, but it would appear that the post either here or in the UK have lost it all ;) I was emailed that it had been sent on the 10th, and it is now the 30th, and I WANT MY NEW BOOK AND TOYS! Meh, not blaming them, but it is very annoying. That said, their prices are pretty damn good, I got the Arachnarok, 2 boxes of savage orcs, the new army book and the O&G army cards for less than half Oz retail, even with postage. Now all I need is for them to arrive... RoV

I didn't even mention the dread, so where are you getting that from? I never said he HAD to assault anything... My original point still stands :P RoV

Were all your models in coherency? Did you have them out of coherency by assaulting in 2 different directions? If they were in coherency, with ALL models moving as much as possible to get into contact, then you are fine. If they weren't, or you had some models not move much to string them out, then yes, you were wrong. RoV

Oooooh.... Mk 8 sculpts. I have enough trouble trying to collect enough normal Mk 8 torsos for my army... Nice stuff mate. I will join the queue for a clus on what you used to cast your sculpts. I certainly don't want to do 30 of the same thing without casting. RoV