Anyone miss Formations?

[keening]

I DO NOT miss the imbalance but I do miss the flavour. 

We've had Codexes released without them but do you think Formations (or specialised detachment) will come back?

Fun addition to the game or slippery slope to imbalanced Hell?

[vywein]

I miss them. I loved the idea of stuff like The Eight (tau/farsight enclaves) to lead a force, or using ghostkeel stealthsuits in formation with xv25s as a focal point in a force.

[Jabberwocky]

You can kind of achieve the same feel with the new detachments. Most of the old bonuses seem to have been rolled into unit or character buffs too.

[snowdaman]

Many formations are becoming Stratagems.

As said before you can build the army the way you want.

The bonuses from the old formations will now be Stratagems or hive fleer bonuses.

[LordPathos]

Do be aware that we will certainly not get as many "formation stratagems" as we had actual formations. There is no way they would put every special from Rising Leviathan and Shield of Baal into Stratagems for us. Not that any of them were particularly amazing. Just dont get high hopes for a billion stratagems.

[mattblowers]

No. They ruined the game.

[nidzy]

I don't miss them. I like list building in this edition a lot and I think the playing field evened in that regard. I am really hoping that the nid book addresses some of our issues. Until then, I am throwing down with space marines.

[Overread]

I think formations work better in much larger scale games.

In skirmish games, which is basically what every 40K game is unles you're playing Apoc, they can feel restrictive because once you've put your one or two formations down you've done your whole army. So there's little wriggle room for you to vary things whilst having the formation be a part of your army - instead the formation is your army.

I think they are a great idea for Apoc style games where you might have 10K points to play with; but at 1-2K points its just a much bigger chunk of your army choice.

[nikh]

I started Necrons in 7th just to stop getting stomped every game. I liked their formations quite a bit, especially the Destroyer Cult. I miss those but from what I hear Crons are still good. Haven't played them yet

[infornography]

I do NOT miss formations. In fact the only thing I miss in this edition that existed before it is the initiative stat, but I can live without that. Seriously, formations were a lot of what was wrong with the last two editions.

[gigasnail]

i don't really care. we still have formations, regardless of what you call them. so far what we don't have is 700+ points of free vehicles, which i'm very happy about.

[Hive Bahamut]

I miss Detachment formations that rewarded you for building your army to lore and had good rules to support it (GSC)

Now there is little reason not to just spam the best stuff. In fact I've had little incentive to bother with GSC as they massacred their playstyle.

What I don't miss is free. Upgrades, transports or units.