Maybe if GW wanted to show some good faith towards their loyal customers they could start by making the rulebooks and armybooks for 8th still available on their webstore and shops as opposed to making it appearas if it never existed. Perhaps even promote balancing structures like the swedish system that has seemed to work well on the US tournement circuit, a circuit that GW has so gracious refused to support for well over a decade now. In fact GW has seemed to wash their hands of any US organized play anything, gone are the days of weekend long Grand Tournements and Games Days. But it looks like they are right on track to rebuild those bridges by putting out a system that bears literally no resemblance to any edition of it predecessors.

AoS was sold to the owner of my local game store that this system would allow anyone to play with whatever someone may have in their collection no matter how big or small. With these suggested limits (should they be adopted as official or become the unofficial standard) then years long collectors like myself could have masses of models that will never see playtime. By endeavoring to create a system that doesn’t limit the “creative” play of it’s players GW has managed to create an outcry for structure, much as their games always have, which may in turn be more limiting than any edition before.

All snark aside, I find it interesting to hear supporters make reference to narrative play. These games are not RPGs they are Tabletop Strategy Game and 2 need not be entwined. There have always been opportunities to play WFB in whatever manner you wish, wheather it be through official campaigns and scenarios or through the creativity of your own gaming group. I recall some excellent themed campaigns we ran in the past even if they weren’t built off of official rules. D&D 4th ed is an excellent example of a game that suffered greatly from trying to be something it shouldn’t be(a tabletop strategy game). The response to that has been arguably the most successful edition of the game with 5th ed returning to the roots of RPGs dB while incorporating elementsfrom hard learned lessons of the past. AoS has taken out the most important elements of TSGs primarily the strategy in an effort to attract anyone it can of any age with a simple(minded) “game”. There is no place in a serious rule system for a TSG that requires someone to talk to an imaginary horse they have to pretend to be riding, and explain to my wife why she needs to grow a mustache to get the most use out of her empire character. These elements have nothing to do with STRATEGY but some of them would be perfectly acceptable in the environment of an RPG. Be what you are GW and work hard at doi g it the very best you can.

Furthermore, if GW is turning over a new leaf and trying to make itself more approachable then why not take a page from Wizards of rhe Coast and make its back catalog of editions and even other games available to be purchased as downloads for an AFFORDABLE pricepoint and let players have easy access to the editions they may actually pefer as opposed to leavinf them to hunt in the secondary market.

Current extended rant finished.