I think when they say narrative campaign they just mean slow grow league rules where you can unlock/upgrade models over time. No narrative invloved. As for campaigg creep, which is something I am always very wary of with these things, it might be self balancing, assuming models points costs are balanced and you play points based games. That way unlocking a more powerful model doesn’t give you an advanatge. You’re still only allowed to bring X000 points to the table. Plus if you can upgrade your captain to a dreadnought from being battered too much then there are means to get upgrades even if you lose often. They might actually have thought this through. I doubt it will truely be story based and I doubt there will be future releases for this. It’ll be a couple of pages in the core rules only, although I’d love to see GW embrase the PDF Organised Play Document format other companies use and have one for this.

As for being able to have fun playing at any points level, every game says this and its usually rubbish. Theres always a window where its best. Technically you can play with a tiny force, but it never gives you the feel or lets you take the stuff you actually want. I’ll believe this when I see it.

They say the old Codecies will be viable, but they also say they will need to change some of the stats and points costs immediately so just how viable are they? We know they are going to replace them eventually anyway. If all the stats and rules etc for the models stay the same then I’ve never understood how they can say its a new edition to the game. Its at most a heavy errata to the same edition.

I for one would love to see them do a full new edition where they are willing to murder all their ageing darlings. Go back to first principles and be willing to change everything while focusing on what they want the core of the game to be. Do we really need to stick with D6? Does the turn sequence and different phases really work and do what we want the way we want it? Does a “full size” game really have to take half a day to play? There has to be a better way to list stats etc than having weapons in one chapter, models in another and the points for each scattered over multiple pages of a third chapter. I like 40K as a property and I want to like the game, but as a game its got a lot of problems as far as I’m concerned. My friends and I are talking about starting this new slow grow campaign thing once it lands and I’m likely to whip out my Space Wolves (I’d love the marines start collecting please to add to that) and hopefully I’ll enjoy it.

I’d also love to see them embrace the Start Collecting thing at a rules/game design level. Right now they appear to be model collections aimed more for hobbyists rather than giving new players an equal footing in the game. I’d love for them to be about as balanced as other games starter sets, AND for the new app to give free access to list building using one list from each of the starter sets. It would give new players an easier in to the game without having to throw all their money at lots of rule books and codices before they even get their first game in.

If anyone has any links to suitable 3D printable files for Space Wolves style troops I’d love to see some links. Also, what is the standard policy on bringing non-GW models to 40K/AoS events, wether run by or outside of GW?

Oh, and as for Gelatenous Cubes models: Have you tried buying some Jelly Cubes? Kill the enemy and eat the cube. Love it.