How will the new edition affect us ?

[BLACK BLΠFLY]

Hey all have you been thinking about the new edition and how it will change our faction? As far as ninth edition goes I’m very happy with our rules and how we play. Hopefully geedub will be a little kinder to SM when the new editon rolls out. Any predictions?

 

Edited February 16, 2023 by BLACK BLΠFLY

[Blade of Sigismund]

Going off the rumors I've seen, I think we're in a good place.

 

- strats shaking up doesn't affect our play style too much. Most of our specialties are pointed upgrades (relics), litanies, or chapter specific units.

 

- allowing primaris in older transports gives more flexibility. I could see crusader squads in pods being very useful.

 

 

[BLACK BLΠFLY]

I think we are in a good place as well.

[The Emperors Champion22]

7 hours ago, Blade of Sigismund said:

Going off the rumors I've seen, I think we're in a good place.

 

- strats shaking up doesn't affect our play style too much. Most of our specialties are pointed upgrades (relics), litanies, or chapter specific units.

 

- allowing primaris in older transports gives more flexibility. I could see crusader squads in pods being very useful.

 

 

If templars get indexed they may lose those things though. I would love to keep the champion of the feast strat and all of our relic bearers/ relics but they may be gonezo.

[Blade of Sigismund]

Even so, we have named characters and unique units. I also suspect the multi-melta option to stick around.

[Sword Brethren Durion]

Imagine if deadly cargo become baseline! Would be amazing!

[BLACK BLΠFLY]

That would be pretty awesome plus I’m hoping the landraider gets some love .

[Blade of Sigismund]

The resurgence of terrain rules may also be a oddly useful bonus. Assuming cover becomes more useful, we could use vows other than uphold, and assault units would become more useful for digging enemies out of cover.

[Brother Carpenter]

Looking to earlier version changes well probably be rolled into the codex with the vanilla marines with minimal support for the next 6 editions.

But that my experience speaking. I hope we stay an independent fraction 

[redmapa]

1 hour ago, Brother Carpenter said:

Looking to earlier version changes well probably be rolled into the codex with the vanilla marines with minimal support for the next 6 editions.

But that my experience speaking. I hope we stay an independent fraction 

 

Independent or not we definitely are NOT going to lose what we just gained, all these new kits means that the rule team needs to keep the rules for those units updated, our rules can no longer be ignored or removed and if they minimize the amount of subfaction rules then that's a design decision that will affect every chapter.

[BLACK BLΠFLY]

One good thing is we’ve got units from the codex including the characters so new rules should fall in line with their current stats and wargear.