This book is $100 AUD - and nothing in here is necessary to play the game. THIS is where the threat, the body count, the feeling that you WANT to join the fight and have to win needs to be put in place. THIS is where the agenda needed to be set. If they are going to communicate the dire threat through the novels, then that's a mistake because not many people buy them and from what I am told the quality is pretty sporadic. Well that's not happening, so the narrative is failing. Th supposed dire state of the Imperium and humanity is on the brink is not evident here and how they will communicate that narrative will be interesting, because frankly I expected to read this and get so hyped up I was going to spend today building my army up to join the fight. The apparent massive losses amongst Space Marine Chapters is glossed over - there is only one reference to one Chapter. The rue extent of the mass destruction of the Imperium is not stated. This seems very same old same old in terms of the universe. The background we get is heavily recycled and we don't really get a great idea of a big leap ahead. To get any real fluff you need the Codex for your designated faction which aren't even on the radar yet. To get any weapon stats at all you needs to buy the Indexes. So as far as rule books go - this is not the mutha-load.
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There's also a section on campaigns and how to run them.
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There are also the Advance Rules, including the use of terrain, Battlezones, Planetstrike, Cities of Death, Stronghold Assault and Death From The Skies. Here we also get the Open Play, Narrative Play and Matched Play over view with their respective Crucible of War missions, Eternal War missions and Maelstrom of War missions. no comment! The rules are well set out and quite reminiscent of the old Rogue Trader layout - which to an old Beardy like me is refreshing. The basic rule set is short - 15 pages in all and sadly a day after release of this expensive book, is now available online for free. If this encourages more women to turn up to stores and kick people's butts, then bring it on!
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Hit up Twitter some time and see the amazing armies some female player turn out. It's actually refreshing to see more female players in the 8th Edition book - and no it's not political correctness - this is just a visual cue that women do play, women to hobby. I might add at this point that this picture with the man and woman playing is not the only image of women in the rule book. Certainly this will get the mind churning through some ideas, but being so far from the initial fluff at the front of the book it seems oddly placed. This goes through some of the current campaigns and forces aligned with it. We are now 152 pages into the rule book and we're starting to see some of the battlefields and hot spots emerge in the Eternity of War section. Interesting to see goes back to 1st Edition and nice to see this carried on, especially with references to Red Corsairs etc. This is followed by The Forces of Chaos which goes through their ranks, including interestingly Renegades, which in 1st Edition was a force against the Imperium but not necessarily fully Chaos. Plastic of these regiments would be amazing, especially the Vostroyans and Valhallans.
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There is a reference to an attempt to wake Angron and bring him froth through the Warp though, so that was cool.Īrmies of the Imperium takes you through the various Imperial forces, interestingly including the old Imperial Guard regiments from Tallarn and others. If you read gathering Storm then you know all this. Was hoping for some interesting surprises, but none were forthcoming!ĭark Imperium is four pages of catch up to where we are today - post- Girlyman waking up. If you are not an Imperial player, this entire section is not for you. The sense of humour from 1st and 2nd Edition is still missing, and we're pretty much introduced to factions inside the Imperium we all know. There's no hover tank, no new dreadnought - NOTHING!ĭark Millenium is where this all kicks off and is basically the same fluff from the last Editions. There's a very cool Ultramarines diorama splash page as you get passed the index, and if you look closely you get your first big clue to one of the things missing from this book - there are no hints or previews of any new miniatures apart from the Primaris Marines and the Plague Marines - all from the starter box! There is one small panel that seems to show the multi-part Nurgle Marines, but they actually look like conversions not the multi-part set we are all waiting for. The Index is broken up into chapters, then sub-chapters after that. As expected this book is sizable, but as you will notice as we go along, it probably didn't really need to be.