5 Big 40k 8th Edition Changes GW Just Teased

By Guest Author | March 23rd, 2017 | Categories: Adepticon 2017, Tabletop Gaming News, Warhammer 40k

Welcome back 40K Fanatics! Games Workshop is teasing 8th edition changes tonight at Adepticon!

Straight from the powers at Games Workshop here a few drip teasers for upcoming changes to our favorite game, Warhammer 40K 8th edition!

Games Workshop is introducing their new Command Points system for playing thematically! They want to reward players for being enthusiastic about the lore of the game! If you build an army keeping the fluff in mind you can gain all sorts of awesome stuff such as re-rolls and faction specific bonuses! Will painting be part of this? GW was tight lipped!

The movement value is back! Each unit will have bespoke values! Unit types will be gone, you only have to learn the rules for your own units! This sounds a lot like the Age of Sigmar movement rules!

Every weapon is going to have its own armor save modifiers. Weapons will “act more like you imagine in the lore”. So we can probably expect some sizable changes to weapon interactions to go alongside this!

Assault Phase

MAJOR changes coming in the assault phase! Charging units are going to strike first, enabling players to control the tabletop based on their movement and assault decisions!

Morale

Leadership is being simplified significantly. Now you roll 1D6 and add the number of casualties you have taken this turn. If that value is greater than your Leadership, you take wounds equal to the difference!

Here’s the video from their event that they just posted up as well:

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