While 8th edition was meant to streamline the edition, making it easier for people to get into and overall be more open and welcoming compared to 7th, the design philosophy the team had used since end of 5th had not changed. People now had more access to the information regarding the process as well as the thoughts of the designers regarding their decisions with the game. Warhammer Community was now open and in general a ton more information was flowing in and out of the company. Unlike through 6th and 7th, GW was now communicating with its customerbase openly. Those were some of the interior changes to the game, however the outside changes during the early days was also major. Allies were also streamlined, there were no longer “tiers” to these, instead Allies were simply just like any other model in your army, however the new Keyword system that was ported over from AoS helped to keep some of the nonsense out of the game, at least in theory. This was done to allow people to truly field the armies they wanted, be it all Heavy Support army or Elites, these were now open. Instead of the Combined Arms Detachment and all the things attached to it, players now built their armies using Detachments, in a way smaller or bigger CADs. Other core changes to game were the ways armies were built. The indexes had both the rules and points in it for players to use, and the armies were relatively level with each other. These Indexes, while only having the “barebones” to run the armies offered a good entry into the game. To counter the fact that all armies were without a book and not wanting to make people wait for ages or have them buy tons of books at once, GW instead simply released 5 Indexes, 2 Imperium, 2 Xenos and 1 Chaos. 7th had grown to be so bloated that getting into it was a struggle and 8th was a welcome breeze. The removal of templates, vehicle rules, terrain and cover rules, facings and so on made the game’s core rules very simple and that is not entirely a bad thing. Changes, Both Inside and OutsideĨth edition did see a lot of streamlining, and simplification as much as GW was trying to say otherwise. This was made to assure those that thought this was going to simply be AoS of 40k, as Gathering Storm was thought to be what the End Times was to Fantasy. To lessen the anxiety, GW released multiple statements to vouch that this edition would be streamlined however the game was not “dumbed down”, still keeping the complexity and feel of 40k. The sky was going to fall, a lot of these rumours were confirmed to be true following up to the release as GW showed more and more models.
An entirely new range of Space Marines that would replace old models were coming, Vehicles, Monsters and Infantry were now all the same, everyone could wound everyone. Rumours started flying around, templates were getting removed. Another source of hysteria was the release of Age of Sigmar only 2 years earlier which replaced Warhammer Fantasy with a totally different game, removed great deals of models, and at the time of release was a very bland game with a lot of problems, so people started drawing their own conclusions that 8th wouldn’t be any different.
This was understandable of course, as I pointed out last time, 7th edition alone saw 50 books, or sources of rules, getting released, and hearing all that becoming unusable was not something people were expecting. 8th Edition (2017 onward)Ĩth edition was a big shock to the player base as majority had not experienced the 2nd to 3rd shift and the announcement that all the books, supplements, campaigns books and WD updates were now going to be invalidated did not sit well with most. Whatever the case may be, 8th Edition differed mechanically from 7th in a big way, however the philosophy of the design team didn’t change. This edition saw a major shake up to the game, what could be argued to be even bigger than the shift from 2nd to 3rd edition.
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