Friday, May 29, 2015

More 9th Ed Rumours

Over lunch I was bored and headed over to Warseer to check out the latest WHFB rumours (yes that bored!).

The latest guff seems to be:
  • 9th Edition coming out this year....Summer (northern) is mentioned
  • Round-based game
  • Still can be played with square bases but post 9th launch everything will ship with round bases
  • All units will be able to skirmish, some will be able to rank up
  • GW will release WotR-style movement trays to do this
  • Unbound will transfer in from 40k
  • Balance will be provided by objective scenarios given benefits to bound armies
  • One new faction - effectively Empire + Brets
So that all sounds very unappealing at first glance. Ticks a lot of "ALARM" boxes for me.







6 comments:

  1. Dear Bored
    What's Bound and Unbound
    Yours ignorantly

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    1. In it most simplest terms - One uses a single book, the other bring what you want across various books. Another possibility has limits on %, the other not.

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  2. Woopwoopwoopwoopwooop... Alarm status critical. Mediaeval feudal ranked soldiers in blocks becoming a thing of the past ? It will take me YEARS to rebase all my armies on round bases LOL

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  3. Remain clam.

    If unbound is like 40k - then it is not going to be used very often. If you are playing at home nothing to stop continuing to use whatever the 'normal' option is (might still be > 25% core, >25% rare etc). If at a tournament, TO can always define what armies must conform to. Hopefully they don't go ally crazy like 40k though - I like the idea of focused armies with strengths/weaknesses and don't want to have to patch up an army with allies.

    Sarissa already make WotR style conversion trays to make round to ranked... I've used some to transport/display my Tau armies. Maybe companies like this will make a square to skirmish option for fantasy if the rumours turn out to be true. If skirmish/steadfast stays relatively the same most units will not want to skirmish. Who knows.

    Oddly the one that worries me the most though is objective based gaming. I don't like the idea of morphing into 40k style cheap fast units zooming onto objectives in the final turn of the game to secure a win. WHFB should be about the big battles and the grinding of the enemy in my opinion.

    In about a month we will know for sure. Hopefully whatever emerges allows some form of mass fantasy battle game we all know and love to continue.

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    1. Best comment ever. Well done Ryan. Agree wholeheartedly.

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  4. https://manticforum.com/forum/kings-of-war/kings-of-war-2-beta/222648-beta-phase-2-please-read-this-before-posting-latest-rules-15-apr-and-lists-2-5-12-mar

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