New Warhammer 40,000 Edition announced!

[Karhedron]

4 hours ago, ursvamp said:

I wonder if that means that some of the current ones are 1’s and 3’s, or some of the current ones are also 1’s.

 

I had imagined a 3 would be something like Warhorde, for Orks, or Invasion Fleet, for Nids. Where the whole army gets a solid buff.

But holding out on what a 3point detachment looks like ’til the first Codex-releases could be interesting.

 

A good question. I am hoping none of them are 3 points as that would mean they could not be used in Incursion sized games.

 

On the other hand, I can see some of them being 1 points. The Eldar Wraithguard Detachment is pretty meagre (basically give Wraithguard/blades/lords the army faction rule which they are normally excluded from). It is only worth taking if you plan to REALLY spam Wraithhost units. If it is 1 point and can be bolted on to some of the more flexible Detachments, I would give a bit of a buff to these units without being all-or-nothing.

[Mogger351]

1 hour ago, Karhedron said:

 

A good question. I am hoping none of them are 3 points as that would mean they could not be used in Incursion sized games.

 

On the other hand, I can see some of them being 1 points. The Eldar Wraithguard Detachment is pretty meagre (basically give Wraithguard/blades/lords the army faction rule which they are normally excluded from). It is only worth taking if you plan to REALLY spam Wraithhost units. If it is 1 point and can be bolted on to some of the more flexible Detachments, I would give a bit of a buff to these units without being all-or-nothing.

I was thinking about the kroot hunting pack. It's an interesting point as it does hyper focus on a subset of units, which would suggest a 1dp. It is a big set of buffs for those units that could well be worth 2dp. However if I'm just bringing kroot, what exactly am I supposed to pair it with? What happens if I don't spend all 3dp?

[ursvamp]

2 hours ago, Karhedron said:

 

On the other hand, I can see some of them being 1 points. The Eldar Wraithguard Detachment is pretty meagre (basically give Wraithguard/blades/lords the army faction rule which they are normally excluded from). It is only worth taking if you plan to REALLY spam Wraithhost units. If it is 1 point and can be bolted on to some of the more flexible Detachments, I would give a bit of a buff to these units without being all-or-nothing.

 

Good example!

it’s the same with the Haemonculus covens detachment for Drukhari; few units benefit from a, relatively, low-impact buff. And still need support from non-buffed units in order to make a functioning list.

Hard to motivate taking, alone, compared to every other availible detach.

 

 

1 hour ago, Mogger351 said:

I was thinking about the kroot hunting pack. It's an interesting point as it does hyper focus on a subset of units, which would suggest a 1dp. It is a big set of buffs for those units that could well be worth 2dp.

yeah. I’m very curious to see what points value they assign to the Kroot one.

As you say; pretty strong buff! But affects such a narrow amount of units.

hm.

Edited 2 hours ago by ursvamp

[Crimson Longinus]

On 5/7/2026 at 2:02 PM, Orange Knight said:

 

Yeah, I guess every army can now do everything the same as every other. Why even give us chapter keywords?

 

True. I wish they would remove those so we could freely mix and match.

 

On 5/7/2026 at 2:02 PM, Orange Knight said:

There is definite narrative erosion. We have seen this all before, we know where it leads.

 

You mean erosion of narrative where the chapter armies are bizarrely flanderised nonsense that does not match the fluff? Like White Scars fielding armies mostly consisting of bikes and no infantry as their chapter rules do not support infantry, even though in lore they are a normal codex compliant chapter with a lot of infantry? The sort of balancing like BA have better assault troops but worse shooty units just does not work. It will just mean a BA army will be all assault units and no shooty units. Only way you can make bonuses like to work is if you give the point increase to units that benefit from the extra rules, but that would be a ton fiddly point costs and GW would never do it. 

 

I am not a fan of any extra subfaction/detachment rules existing, but this new approach in which you can mix things is a definite improvement. The units get priced like they had detachment bonuses anyway and in the old system the detachments support only some units. This leads to flanderised armies where for SoB example you either have basically all the repentia (if you use penitent detachment) or no repentia (if you don't.) With the new way you can more freely choose what units you actually like, and then choose detachment bits that support them. You can actually have fluffy combined arms forces instead of flanderised one trick pony armies that are rare in the fluff.  

 

 

Edited 5 minutes ago by Crimson Longinus