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It's more that if you read and understand the rules, you'll likely know that using a building as the entire objective area will mean vehicles can't contest/score it, and will create your tables accordingly. I think this is kind of a bad effect of the whole Objective Terrain thing, but it's very manageable overall. At the end of the day, it's probably best to just throw it out, along with GW' fairly boring modern mission design as long as you're at it. That's a whole different conversation, tho.

Yeah, if you look around at late 7th/early 8th Edition, you can see the sketches of an initial intent to mirror what AoS did in 40K. Eldar and Dark Eldar were clearly meant to be merged, fr'ex (the origin of the Ynarri model trio, I'd wager), and the 7th Ed Harlequin Codex was already setting up Slaanesh's doom as part of the bargain. Primaris were likely intended to be a wholesale replacement of Space Marines, with Gravis as the Terminator equivalent and Phobos replacing Scouts. Things changed, tho, probably mostly due to the strongly negative reception AoS got on launch. Who knows what other wild shenanigans we missed out on?

I mean, yeah, if you're not familiar with the game you're playing before setting up your table, it's probably not going to work out like you want, but this seems like less of a recommendation for pre-made terrain layouts than it does for...reading the rulebook?

Huh, bringing back some granular points costs and individual Combi-Weaponry getting distinct profiles again, plus lots of new Orks? Might have to actually play a bit of 11th now...

Yeah, this is my take as well, more or less. Hand-painting terrain's been an option rather than a requirement for quite a while now. My friends who run multi-filament printers are getting table-ready stuff right off the plate these days. Over in Infinity land, Warsenal's been making eye-poppingly gorgeous pre-printed terrain for years now, and they're not the only ones in the market. It's definitely meant that you see more finished tables out there in the community, but it's certainly not stopped or even slightly slowed the march of interesting new hand-built layouts. It's great! The problem with 40K isn't pre-painted terrain, it's pre-made table layouts, and the community's sad, simpering surrender to that absurd idea, all in the name of "well, that's how everyone else is going to play..." It's, again, sad. Man, is it ever sad. Seriously, people need to learn how to properly sneer at GW's nonsense and take ownership of their own damned game environment.

Okay, they got me here, this is fun - especially the dice tower crane! - and the STLs are real cheap. I'm in. Thanks for the recommendation!

Wow. I have been kind of ‘eh’ on every Ork bike GW has ever released up until more or less this exact moment. These are gorgeous.

It’s been, like, fifteen years or more, but I think GW still suffers from some serious Doom of Malan'tai trauma.

After initial trepidation, I am almost absurdly sold on this Ork revamp. Incredible box.

Part of what makes that photo so weird is that the little guy's ears are extended straight at the camera. They make more sense in the turnaround video in the article, tho I can't grab a screenshot at the moment.

See, this I actually like, it makes them more fun and cartoony. Ork physiology should be kind of fun, IMO, it’s why I was a fan of the gorilla-type bodies on the old Boyz.

This is my favorite so far, except for the tiny ears that make it look legitimately kinda creepy?

Really enjoying the Grots* and coming around to the idea that I may end up owning the greenskin half of this box, at the very least. * Tho they're not quite as fun as the classic Gorkamorka ones, which remain the best Gretchin miniatures ever made

I’m very curious to see if Burnas/Lootas get a revamp, or just get Legends-ed out in favor of some new and different unit concepts.

"Morale: The Imperial Guard special rule that accidentally got printed in the rulebook" was something we used to say in my old 40K club a lot.