Reply To: [unofficial weekender] almost one third done

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Oh, definitely. GW tried to reinvent the wheel with the changes to the new styles…then decided that their new wheel had to have lots and lots of straight edges because that approximates a wheel close enough. I really wish stat cards were a thing in GW games (I did think of making my own at some point), but they would have to be so big to fit all the rules that they just wouldn’t be viable (main reason why I never bothered). I like having flavour to an army, so things like Chapter Tactics for different Marine Chapters is a nice addition for me, but the Strategems just ruin the game… “I’m going to shoot Marine Bloggins at your Necron Termobot5000” shouldn’t be followed with “YOU FOOL! YOU’VE ACTIVATED MY TRAP CARD!”; it drags down the game away from a fun night out with friends to a game of ‘I have to declare something stupid to drag out your counter before I try and do the thing I want’. I play Magic, I deal with that enough in THAT game… If you want a more simplified ruleset (which I believe was the purpose of 8th and AoS), then you can’t bloat it with useless fluff and still call it simple… That being said, I personally find AoS to be a much more streamlined game than 40k right now. It ain’t perfect, but it’s better.