Warhammer Q&A summary recap

[guy]

Hello, here is a recap i made of 26th may Q&A on warhammer TV:

Stu black (apparently « 40k director »), Pete foley.

Terrain : do more than block line of sight. Clean simple to understand, maximum impact on the game. Woods are different to building, to bunkers, to swamp. Different rules per terrain types. More than cover or not cover. Cannot hide on tops of buildings. Removing gamey interactions.

Shooting, sight, overwatch, fall back 
Sight will be based on base visibility (not clearly explained)
Overwatch : leaving combat has been tweaked. Overwatch has been tweaked. No details. (discussion implies it was nerfed so that melee units who walked the boards for 2 turns dont get simply shot before they can do anything).
Unambiguously said that Shooty army have to work more to shoot with new terrain rules, fall back and overwatch changes. Then again, don't expect any change if you have barebone terrain.

Turn mechanics : not changing. Game works really well the way it does. We think we got a great system with 8th edition. We got the most people ever playing during 8th so not touching it.

Reserves : spend command pts to put things in reserve. You can outflank your opponent. Boost to melee armies.

Change to tanks (point blank shooting) : What tanks can do, monsters can do, just as well if not better.

Command points : we like CP. CP are now linked to game size/game type.
Everyone starts with the same number of CP, just like everyone build armies off the same number of points.
Detachments are not necessary to unlock CP anymore. You’ree free to build the army you like.
Soup now costs command points.

Various stuff: 
- Missions scoring : blablabla variety blablaba
- Bikes accessible to all chapters
- Death watch : Stuff coming soon (Codex ?)
- Old marines : here to stay (what else could they say)
- Forgeworld support coming (namely DKK)
- Legend units will be a trickle, not a river.
- Power levels will be updated, but not as often as points values.
- New future codexes will incorporate past books content (ie Future tyranid codex will have PA content in it) / you wont have to bring PA books with new codexes.

Q&A final words:
- terrain and CP changes are the meat of 9th edition
- crusades are cool

[acehilator]

Here is a transcipt from Goonhammer:

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Sounds decent. Modifiers capped at +/-1 is nice.

[gigasnail]

that sounds like a lot of really good news. let's see how they execute it.

[timcz]

Ghaz has the monster keyword too... that makes me also excited. But def loving the sound of things to help the monster keyword out.

[infornography]

Gah! Ghaz being able to shoot while in melee is a frightening concept!

Fexen, Trygons, and Tyrants being able to punch and pew at the same time is pretty awesome though. Might have to look at Haruspex again and see if that helps him out, but I tend to doubt it would be enough.

[acehilator]

After thinking about this some more, I am afraid my opinion on this isn't as positive as it was.

The new design direction for terrain rules still sounds like a great idea and will probably be the biggest positive factor of 9E.

The rest, not so much.

Capped modifiers will get old real fast. So you put your big MC into the new and improved cover to either block LoS or get some kind of new cover bonus, and a Malantrophe is nearby. Levi Dread can just waddle around to get clear LoS and only gets -1 to hit instead of -2. No more -3 to hit Eldar flyers is nice and all, but overall we are not going to profit much from this. Maybe for Hiveguard to extent their thread range. Exos and Tfexes still don't want to move for double tapping, and BS 4+ for the Tfex is still a liability.

And the worst change, fixed CP points depending on game size. This change has the potential to undo every positive aspect of 9E by itself. Traditional GSC deepstrike playstyle will get killed by it, and I am not going to give GW money for 9 Ridgerunners. Other armies will suffer badly from this too (Nids, Orks).

With vastly reduced need for troops it will dumb down listbuilding by a lot. Best buff characters + most killy units = profit. Opponent can't hold objectives with three models left on the table after T2. Maybe take some token troop choice and a single fast unit for control purposes and that's it.

Looks like I am staying on the AoS side of things indefinitely.

[LordPathos]

I have the models and the desire to play an Eldar Wraith army, but Eldar are cp heavy and I didn't want to take troops for battalions since they aren't Wraiths. Hopefully this will help me out.

[autoxidation]

May 27, 2020 14:08:29 GMT acehilator said:

After thinking about this some more, I am afraid my opinion on this isn't as positive as it was.

The new design direction for terrain rules still sounds like a great idea and will probably be the biggest positive factor of 9E.

The rest, not so much.

Capped modifiers will get old real fast. So you put your big MC into the new and improved cover to either block LoS or get some kind of new cover bonus, and a Malantrophe is nearby. Levi Dread can just waddle around to get clear LoS and only gets -1 to hit instead of -2. No more -3 to hit Eldar flyers is nice and all, but overall we are not going to profit much from this. Maybe for Hiveguard to extent their thread range. Exos and Tfexes still don't want to move for double tapping, and BS 4+ for the Tfex is still a liability.

And the worst change, fixed CP points depending on game size. This change has the potential to undo every positive aspect of 9E by itself. Traditional GSC deepstrike playstyle will get killed by it, and I am not going to give GW money for 9 Ridgerunners. Other armies will suffer badly from this too (Nids, Orks).

With vastly reduced need for troops it will dumb down listbuilding by a lot. Best buff characters + most killy units = profit. Opponent can't hold objectives with three models left on the table after T2. Maybe take some token troop choice and a single fast unit for control purposes and that's it.

Looks like I am staying on the AoS side of things indefinitely.

I would not be so quick to judge based off of the limited information we have. We haven't even seen any new rules yet, just some vague interpretations of them.

[gigasnail]

the terrain changes are one of the things we have the least information about, and seems to be where the greatest amount of change is taking place.

[timcz]

May 27, 2020 14:12:36 GMT LordPathos said:

I have the models and the desire to play an Eldar Wraith army, but Eldar are cp heavy and I didn't want to take troops for battalions since they aren't Wraiths. Hopefully this will help me out.

This is the kinda stuff I’m excited to see.

[LordPathos]

Can we still ask the studio questions? Like is this an ongoing q&a?

[niiai]

I do not think it was so much an faq as a scripted faq. But I have not seen it.

6th edition made me quit playing. Did not play 7th edition. 8th edition started out very weard but got better from there. I really dislike the terain rules, so 9th edition sounds good.

I have faith in the end results, as GW has shown the will to put in the effort over time.

[hivefleetkerrigan]

May 29, 2020 4:17:29 GMT LordPathos said:

Can we still ask the studio questions? Like is this an ongoing q&a?

I'd just comment on Facebook or tweet at them. I'm guessing they'll still collect the top questions and respond to them generally in a community article.

As far as I know, this was their only planned Q&A.

[autoxidation]

May 29, 2020 12:10:48 GMT niiai said:

I do not think it was so much an faq as a scripted faq. But I have not seen it.

6th edition made me quit playing. Did not play 7th edition. 8th edition started out very weard but got better from there. I really dislike the terain rules, so 9th edition sounds good.

I have faith in the end results, as GW has shown the will to put in the effort over time.

I watched it live and they were laughing at some of the comments and were definitely pulling questions directly from the chat. It in no way appeared scripted to me.