Reply To: My 40k Story (and why I loathe GW.)

[deamonwolf 905xp 0]

i have a similar experance.

started with 7th Ed WHFB , went to 8th ed and the only way to run an army was mobs ., and loosing the extra armour point to the front for melee combat with sheild just destroyed the army , Dwarfs went from a slow ploding army that didnt stop for any one to having to be a gun line ( note i  liked close combat and in 7th ed , people discunted dwarfs in close combat)

played a beast man army and the guy quit turn 2 because my organ gun and 2 x 10 man hand gunner units were too powerful apparently.

 

i popped in and out of 8th ed until it was pulled but i only ever felt dissappointed with the rule set.

 

i moved to WH40K with Grey knights and Space wolveswent to tournements and had lots of fun up until 9th ed , where things stared going down hill, i started finding more and more rules lawers and A*rsehole players in tournements

they then brought out the story where fenris was filled with deamons , and the inquisition told the space wolves , kill everyone on the planet or we will kill you .

that cost my love of the wolves ( i understand that they were trying to progress the story but i couldnt play them after that )

 

then the thousend sons grey knights starter box came out and the grey knights got some cool stuff , but the thousend sons were just so powerful you couldnt block thier powers .

 

i went to the 2019 LGT and was just holding by my finger nails , i played 2 Custodian guard and 2 Thousend sons armys , and had okay games but lost . , then i played a Guard player who rules lawayered everything  i did to the point that for every thing i did i had to make sure i had the rule book open at the page that it said i could do what i was doing .

I quit in turn 3 because I couldn’t take it and told him take the win, we were right at the bottom of the tables and the win meant nothing in the grand scheme of things.

 

that showed me that the community GW had fostered was turning rancid

 

i moved away from GW games into Star Grave , Infinity , Silver Bayonet and one page rules and have not looked back as people are veteran gamers and there for fun even when at a tournament