RUMORS: Even More Warhammer 40k 9th Edition Rules Emerge

By Wesley Floyd | January 10th, 2020 | Categories: Adeptus Custodes, Adeptus Mechanicus, Adeptus Sororitas, Chaos Space Marines, Dark Eldar, Eldar, Necrons, Orks, Space Marines, Tabletop Gaming News, Warhammer, Warhammer 40k

More 40k Warhammer 9th edition rules rumors are emerging. With so many small details continuing to unfold, something must be up. Don’t miss the latest!

If you haven’t already seen it, we made a post of rumors of a pseudo-9th edition 40k on the way. However, this time, even more rumors are beginning to circle the web. Get caught up on the earlier rumors as well as the latest that people are beginning to talk about.

Earlier Rumors of New 40k Edition Arise

Chapter Master Valrak on B&C dropped some added info on what we can expect to see about the rumored “new 40k edition”.

next summer 9th edition, marines and Necrons.

I wouldn’t expect it to be like 8th edition. More like AOS 2.0 where all the books stay current with the exception of the main rule book which is fine-tuned.

From a business point of view having a new edition, next year seems like the only logical outcome in my opinion.

As far as his source goes, he claims to have been right about a few other previous rumors which have since been gathering popularity. GW products like Faith and Fury and Slaves to Darkness support. Looking at the rumors themselves, it looks like 8th edition could be taking a turn to AoS 2.0 where “all the books stay current”.

Could this mean that all the units’ datasheets will have a flat wound roll to make regardless of what they’re targetting? Will charges alternate back and forth like they do in AoS?

Psychic Awakening To 40k 9th Edition?

Spotted on BoLS, the source of an Industry Insider mentioned:

Psychic Awakening is setting the framework/testing what’s ahead for 9th edition.
The Psychic Phase is getting reworked. (Which might be why we haven’t seen much psychic support in Psychic Awakening).
Keywords will be reworked.
More aspects of AoS will be ported over into the game. (We still don’t know about flat wound rolls).
More codex supplements will continue to come out before 9th Edition drops.
Look for 9th Edition 40k to hit sometime in 2020.

LATEST: Even More Warhammer 9th Edition Rumors Emerge

Coming from BoLS once again, there is even more that’s being tacked on to the rumor details from above.

About four faction supplement books are left before the new edition arrives. (probably once Psychic Awakening concludes)
Endless Psychic Powers are coming. Similar to Endless Spells in AoS. (This would make sense to see with the new “awakening” of Psykers across real-space).
The Endless Psychic Powers will be coming in a small box set similar to Malign Sorcery in AoS when Endless Spells were first introduced.
Flyers might be getting a total rework on how they operate.

With all of this taken into account, it seems that there’s a substantial amount of reasonable talk emerging about a new edition. There has been new word after new word and it’s beginning to gather a little bit of weight. There aren’t any outlying changes that seem too difficult to believe either. With that said, the general conclusion about all this looks to be that 40k will be picking up even more AoS-style elements.

One of the more interesting possibilities to think about might be the Psychic Phase being moved before the movement phase!

What do you think about these rumored changes on the way? Would you like to see all the rules shaken up once again?

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