New Edition, or Just Horus Hearsay?

[Mandragola]

3 hours ago, Valkyrion said:

 

 I know you goonhammer folks don't give a tuppeny about promoting Heresy anymore, (5 Legion Focus out of 18 and none for over 2 years) but you actually have a degree of influence with GW as evidenced by asking the LI forum their opinions for a FAQ, so its quite alarming that someone like you is saying that you would tell the design team to port HH over to 10th. 

 

 

My bad for mentioning 10th - a system I don't actually play or particularly like. I just think GW should do something easy, like refining an existing system, rather than something difficult like designing a whole new one. I'm obviously not able to tell GW what to do with these decisions anyway. 

 

Sorry we haven't done more faction focuses. I personally don't have huge amounts of time to write articles so keeping on top of new releases and rules changes takes all my capacity.

[Corswain]

My big question now is will they keep the core box model like 2nd edition or will they move to launch box and various levels of starter like 40K and AoS.

Need to figure out if the bank account is in for a big hit or a huge hit....

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2 hours ago, Mandragola said:

My bad for mentioning 10th - a system I don't actually play or particularly like. I just think GW should do something easy, like refining an existing system, rather than something difficult like designing a whole new one. I'm obviously not able to tell GW what to do with these decisions anyway. 

 

Sorry we haven't done more faction focuses. I personally don't have huge amounts of time to write articles so keeping on top of new releases and rules changes takes all my capacity.

10th was a whole new system. On top of partial rebuild of a whole new system that was 8 and 9. 

I don't think anyone wants HH to use 10th rules. HH 1 and 2 were exactly what you said - refining existing rules. Honestly, the D18 could be used for a variety of things not related to core gameplay mechanics. Or they could just do as I said earlier and triple the current stats so they could add a wider range of abilities without stacking special rules. For example, a dreadnought might get a D18 for its attacks against vehicles instead of str + d6. Or a sergeant could be BS 13 while the rest of the squad is BS 12 (4 * 3). That gives a small boost without a special rule.

Its hard to say at this point what that signifies

Heck, maybe they are going full 2nd ed and there will also be D4, D6 and D10 involved. Who knows? Well, the design team. I would assume they know.

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1 hour ago, Corswain said:

My big question now is will they keep the core box model like 2nd edition or will they move to launch box and various levels of starter like 40K and AoS.

Need to figure out if the bank account is in for a big hit or a huge hit....

Specialist games so I'd wager the single box like mesbg. However, we'll see soon enough.