Captain Idaho

You know, I didn't notice they got left out of all discussion. I wonder if GW is pushing them away? They not in one of the gang books to start at least?

Yeah I'm happier getting Orlocks only rather than everyone's rules I'll never use. Having to wait is annoying. I want my toys noooooooow.

Just caught up with the news. I'm down with the Journals being an essential extra to the base rules, simply to add much needed flavour... ...I'm surprised it's going to be drip fed to us though. I've got friends who enjoy a campaign but if a bunch of us haven't got a Journal whilst some do, it'll be a difficult sell to start the campaign. After all, why play with the base gang of Cawdor whilst the Escher gang gets new skills, weapons and even variant gang lists? Perhaps it is unreasonable to expect GW to release the 6 Houses simultaneously, though I think a mulit-million dollar company can and should do such things. After engaging with Magic the Gathering, we can see what a quality release schedule is and how it is kept to. The Final Fantasy commander decks weren't released one at a time, they ALL came out simultaneously alongside the starter boxes and ALL the booster support cards. A complete and total release. Anyways... I'm happy with the content of the Journals, going by what appears to be in them with the contents page teaser. I wonder just what Orlocks will get as their variant gangs. Lots of explosives, but that's already a thing surely? So maybe a heavy augmented theme since they're working as miners, so some sort of variant servo harness rules perhaps? The 2nd variant for Orlocks? Likely a Wrecker theme with gang leaders and champions? Tempting as a principle and likely.

Been thinking about the leaks... maybe I can use a Wrecker, level him up BS early and then get the 2 plasma pistols after like 3 or 4 games? Like an upgrade.

Leaks seems to be assuaging to my worries which is good. I like most rebalancing efforts in the weapons. I really like that even power weapons have flat strength of user, which means a T4 model is really useful now. Like my Arms Master. Who I might give a Full Servo harness for T5! Only things I'm upset about is my Wrecker with dual plasma pistol is illegal unless I pay at the trading post, which wouldn't be awful if it wasn't for the fact they're rarer AND the Wrecker only hits on a 5+ instead of 4+. This is fairly terminal for what I considered a well painted model too RIP

I find the trick is to worry with all guesses and then when you're wrong, you win anyway because you got a lovely new game! "Oh I was wrong was I? Oh no, I'll just have to enjoy this new game." Win win

Fingers crossed for Wilcox Conderjack, the best story in all of Necromunda!

Keep those thumbs middle of the road. Remember 3rd edition Heresy that the articles made look great and everyone got excited and people said "told you it was too early to worry" etc etc I'm cautiously hopeful I'll be proven wrong, but Heresy is still a sore contention.

Having played non-GW wargames and Magic the Gathering, the latter in particular which has massive historic releases that are STILL relevant now without exception, you see illustrated just poor GW games development really are. Magic the Gathering in particular has concise and consistent rules and only a few banned cards compared to the literally thousands of cards available and the games work... what's GW's excuse beyond just being incompetent? This HH edition feels weak and it's starting to show.

The key thing is, what is it about that new Nazdreg that shows it to be a Nazdreg representation? If GW never told us it was Nazdreg, everyone would just say "oh good new Warboss".

As long as Orks call their unit champions "nob" I don't see the point in making less goofy Anyway, GW didn't have to do a literal translation of the classic art, but they could have at least taken some ques from it. A power claw that is more pincer shaped for example.

I do like this dude as a generic Ork Warboss... but this art feels substantial: Some sort of semblance to that would have cheered me up. Rules aren't very corpulent in their theme. He's just a hard nosed taskmaster, which is disappointing.

Fun conjecture as opposed to rumours and news so moved to Amicus.

I just don't like being called a fool. Besides that, we shall see how it goes with the new edition. Maybe it'll be cool, I doubt it since GW have turned into a particular style that has meant their new games are putting me right off.

Um, there's been 2 editions and a single core rulebook since 2017? What other core rulebooks have we had since?