Inquisitor_Lensoven

Length is the real difference. a poleaxe is a duelist or body guard weapon. A halberd is a weapon for massed ranks. Halberds also typically have a blade that angles forward so the blade is thicker at the top. a poleaxe can have a hammer or a spike on the reverse side. Hell some poleaxes aren’t even axes at all and have a hammer on the front and a spike on the back.(what’s the official term? Corv-something since it’s crow/raven’s beak in French)

Didn’t make sense to bring any of them back in the first place yet here we are.

TBH, I always preferred TL to effect attacks. Whether it flat out increases attacks a system gets, or issues rerolls. simply having two guns as a single weapon shouldn’t logically make them better at causing damage. It should just make it easier to hit the target via volume.

Detachments that provide big buffs to specific sections of an army will likely be 2DP If you go hard into that section and you can add it to a 2DP detachment that’s more general purpose, or 2 more 1DP detachments, it would probably be over powered. but if you don’t want to go too hard into that section of the army and it’s 3 DP you’re just kinda screwed

New <heavy> rules dropped. you get the +1 to hit if you move 3” or less.

Seems awful. This could be 0DP and I doubt anyone would take it.

What are you talking about? They’re only talking about the newly previewed detachments not the current detachments.

Guard recon/scout detachment rule does not seem to be particularly attractive…

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/wqnpjfux/sneak-close-and-unleash-hell-with-the-cadian-recon-squad/ well I’m a little disappointed by the lack of weapon options but it doesn’t seem like a bad unit. weird wording has me confused. Can you have 2 long las troopers? It says ‘up to one’ can replace their lasgun with a long las, twice. typo, or just poor rules writing?

I could see the centaur possibly replacing the chimera, but it seems extremely unlikely for a few reasons. 1. the number of chimera chassis vehicles we already have 2. they fill two very different niches. The only overlap is transport capacity. Chimera has 5x the firepower or more than the centaur.

Different families of guns lol

That’s how I feel about old SG and DC, yet cluttered looking FB are held up as the standard ideal. wait…do think most of 40K isn’t silly? Purity seals on the iron halo is pretty low on the silly scale for 40k

New=bad is how I felt when the SG, sanguinor, and astorath were introduced. no lore explanation for their sudden existence just “they were always there, accept it” which is ironic because I generally like the new SG models a lot more than the old ones.

I’m offended you said blood angels are the flash

I know on table top the difference seems negligible, but I like the fluff of three and the roles they fill. so, some IRL gun/military chat. the bolt rifle is just your standard combat rifle. M4/AK/G36 etc. the heavy bolt rifle is an ‘automatic rifle’ a silly term in the modern era, but traditionally an automatic rifleman was a dude who carried a rifle nearly identical to the rest of the squad, except typically longer barrel, and heavier barrel, the carrying it often getting 40 round magazines and drum mags, this allows for better sustained firepower without lugging a full light machine gun around, and without the extra training requirements. Look at the AK47 and the RPK, or the G36 family and the MG36 (marine M4 and USMC’s new IAR technically but not doctrinally) heavy bolter fills the role of a light machine gun for marines. GW labels HIs as battleline, but realistically 4 dudes with IARs and an LMG/GPMG is definitely a fire support squad with extra maneuverability. im not sure if this was an intentional design language or not, but its what they’ve ended up doing and i like it.