9th Edition Updates Thread - Core Rules Download July 2

[kwisatzhaderach]

I wanted to make a new threat to post updates for 9th that was hopefully a little more positive.


Today's Updates: 
www.warhammer-community.com/2020/07/02/free-core-rules-new-models-sighted/

Takeaways: More stuff for Necrons and Marines, new rules



Links to Previous Updates:


Rulebook Information
imgur.com/a/J4Bygoq


Faction Focus - Thousand Sons
www.warhammer-community.com/2020/07/01/faction-focus-thousand-sons/

Takeaways:
Psychic actions - some units can use a psychic power to gain VP
Can't use psychic powers after falling back
Supreme Command Detachments allow you to take Primarchs/Supreme Commanders/Daemon Primarchs without much of a drawback

Faction Focus - Grey Knights
www.warhammer-community.com/2020/06/30/faction-focus-grey-knights/
Takeaways:
They're Grey Knights.

Faction Focus - Genestealer Cults
www.warhammer-community.com/2020/06/29/faction-focus-genestealer-cults/

Takeaways:
A lot of stuff. You lose models that are out of coherency.
Coherency rules in general
New core stratagem to disembark if your vehicle is wrapped. 
Doesn't cost CP to use Guard allies with GSC, but I don't think you can use stratagems from AM now. 
Actions - and new secondary called Raise the Banner 


Faction Focus - Chaos Knights
www.warhammer-community.com/2020/06/28/faction-focus-chaos-knights/

Takeaways:
Chaos Knights (and presumably Imperial) get CP refunds if their Warlord is part of their superheavy detachment.


Faction Focus - Imperial Knights
www.warhammer-community.com/2020/06/27/faction-focus-imperial-knights

Takeaways:
High command point cost for Superheavy and Auxiliary Detachments.

Faction Focus - Drukhari
www.warhammer-community.com/2020/06/26/faction-focus-drukharigw-homepage-post-4fw-homepage-post-4/

Takeaways:
Really wordy fly rules that seem to have made it so there is less abuse.

Combat Patrols
www.warhammer-community.com/2020/06/26/join-the-combat-patrolgw-homepage-post-1fw-homepage-post-3/

Takeaways:
Around 500 point games.

Faction Focus - Tau (or T'au, I give up)
www.warhammer-community.com/2020/06/25/faction-focus-tau-empiregw-homepage-post-4fw-homepage-post-4/

Takeaways:
No more fall back and shoot with Fly keyword.
Modifiers don't care where they came from, it still evens out to either +1 or -1.
Tau don't pay for Overwatch like other factions.

Master Your Strategy - All About Reserves
www.warhammer-community.com/2020/06/24/master-your-strategygw-homepage-post-1fw-homepage-post-2/

Takeaways:
Can put models in reserves by paying command points
They can come in from different edges depending on the turn

Also, Faction Focus Imperial Guard
www.warhammer-community.com/2020/06/24/faction-focus-astra-militarumgw-homepage-post-4fw-homepage-post-4/

Morale rules.


Faction Focus - TYRANIDS!!!

www.warhammer-community.com/2020/06/23/faction-focus-tyranidsgw-homepage-post-4fw-homepage-post-4/

Takeaways:
There is now cover that gives -1 to hit if it's 3" tall
As expected, most of the focus was on elite Tyranid units like Carnifexes, Tyranid Warriors, and the like.

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Faction Focus Craftworld Eldar
www.warhammer-community.com/2020/06/22/faction-focus-craftworldsgw-homepage-post-4fw-homepage-post-4/

Takeaways:
New secondary objective that prioritizes board control
Most armies will only want one detachment for maximum CP. Great for Marines and Eldar.
www.warhammer-community.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/z7PpK4G3hO2rM8kV.jpg

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Faction Focus Adeptus Mechanicus
www.warhammer-community.com/2020/06/21/faction-focus-adeptus-mechanicusgw-homepage-post-4fw-homepage-post-4/

Takeaways:
Desperate Breakout Stratagem 2 CP
www.warhammer-community.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/4rCi0EI2b7Hoz9R9.jpg

Faction Focus Orks
www.warhammer-community.com/2020/06/19/faction-focus-orksgw-homepage-post-4fw-homepage-post-4/

Takeaways:
There is a stratagem or some other way to give your units -1 to hit if they're in terrain.

Faction Focus Adepta Sororitas
www.warhammer-community.com/2020/06/18/faction-focus-adepta-sororitasgw-homepage-post-4fw-homepage-post-4/

Takeaways:
New changes to character rules

www.warhammer-community.com/2020/06/17/overwatch-overhaulgw-homepage-post-1fw-homepage-post-2/

Takeaways:
Overwatch is now a stratagem! Costs 1 CP.
Models in terrain can increase their to-hit chance to 5+, or get +1 to hit for being prepared.
Reserves can appear within 1" of enemies in your deployment zone.


www.warhammer-community.com/2020/06/16/faction-focus-space-marines/

Takeaways:
Marines are going to be the largest benefactor of rules changes in 9th
Marines get a new powerful volkite pistol




Necron Faction Focus 
www.warhammer-community.com/2020/06/15/faction-focus-necronsgw-homepage-post-4/

Takeaways:
Necrons will do better with more CP
Overall pretty vague, but we do know Necron Warriors are going up to 12 points from 11.

Taking Flight
www.warhammer-community.com/2020/06/12/taking-flightgw-homepage-post-1/

Takeaways:
Fliers can't move block anymore since you can move within 1" or past them
Fliers can go off the board without dying
Fliers can come back within 9" of enemy models

June 11th
Terrain Rules and Line of Sight
www.warhammer-community.com/2020/06/11/terrain-rules-and-line-of-sightgw-homepage-post-1/

Two types of cover: light (vs ranged) and heavy (vs melee)
Four categories – Hill, Obstacles, Area Terrain and Buildings. Depends on unit's size how they interact.
There are more types of terrain that have rules like Scaleable and Obscuring.

June 10th
Having A Blast (aka Robin Cruddace is still losing to Tyranids)
www.warhammer-community.com/2020/06/10/having-a-blastgw-homepage-post-1/

Takeaways:
Blast weapons make minimum 3 attacks vs units of 6-10 models
Blast weapons make max attacks against 11+ models
D3 shots get max vs 6+ (confirmed on stream, apparently)

June 9th
Tanks Are Back On Track (emphasis Tanks)
www.warhammer-community.com/2020/06/09/tanks-are-back-on-trackgw-homepage-post-1/

Takeaways:
Monsters and vehicles can fire in close combat
Heavy weapons get -1 to hit, all other weapons are fine
Can only fire at unit they're in CC with.

June 5th
Four Sizes Fit All
www.warhammer-community.com/2020/06/05/four-sizes-fit-allgw-homepage-post-1/

Takeaways:
Different number of detachments allowed per points level
2000 points board minimum size is 44x60"
We get more information on types of missions

June 4th:
Command Points
www.warhammer-community.com/2020/06/04/taking-command-of-your-pointsgw-homepage-post-1/

Takeaways:
1 CP generated per turn as long as you're battleforged
Detachments cost CP instead of generating it
Your warlord's detachment has the CP cost refunded as long as it's Patrol, Battalion, or Brigade

June 3rd - Matched Play Points, Actions Taken to Get VP
www.warhammer-community.com/2020/06/03/warhammer-40000-matched-play-points-and-an-appgw-homepage-post-1/

Seems like points are going up across the board, and they're readjusting points based off of effectiveness. 
There will be new ITC style secondaries.
One of the secondaries involves casting a WC4 psychic power. 

[asvic]

Most importantly - there are ACTIONS which can take multiple phases to complete.

[purestrain]

Mental interrogation you say? sounds like fun
These secondaries being custom will help out bigtime I think

[purestrain]

20ppm intercessors? is that a big up?

[deedus]

Jun 3, 2020 15:39:17 GMT purestrain said:

20ppm intercessors? is that a big up?

I think they're 17 now

[purestrain]

Jun 3, 2020 15:45:42 GMT deedus said:

Jun 3, 2020 15:39:17 GMT purestrain said:

20ppm intercessors? is that a big up?

I think they're 17 now

not anymore lol

[hivefleetkaiju]

Guess if you played 2000pts back in 8ed you now have to play 3000pts in 9ed

[garg]

The new missions sound like they will be cool adding in the secondaries.

The points example is quite a big nerf to chaos cultists. The intercessors go up 18% the cultist 50%. Well the same happen with termagants?

[sidedisc]

Jun 3, 2020 16:02:19 GMT garg said:

The new missions sound like they will be cool adding in the secondaries.

The points example is quite a big nerf to chaos cultists. The intercessors go up 18% the cultist 50%. Well the same happen with termagants?

Most likely. 5 or 6 points would be my guess. 

[hivefleetkaiju]

Jun 3, 2020 16:02:19 GMT garg said:

The new missions sound like they will be cool adding in the secondaries.

The points example is quite a big nerf to chaos cultists. The intercessors go up 18% the cultist 50%. Well the same happen with termagants?

Maybe the gears of intercessors will go up too?

[acehilator]

No you don't. You will be back to army sizes like at the start of 8E. Point costs have been dropping throughout all of 8E with a tiny handful of exceptions, because making underperforming stuff cheaper was GWs only balancing mechanic (couldn't be bothered to update datasheets).

Not really sure what to think of this. Yeah you will need a few models less than before to start an army, but does not solve the underlying problem that a large part of all datasheets in the game are semi-unuseable and totally unuseable junk.

[kaervek]

I don't mind the point increases if it's across the board.. The amount of set CP we get is harsh however. All it does is makes shooty armies safer since they don't have to blow 3-9cp just to get in combat.

At least some more information came out overall.

[niiai]

If GWs primary strategy of helping out underperforming units is to lower their points then increasing the price of stuff at the start of 9th edition makes sence. It gives them more room to balance things as the edition moves on.

Also, some really undercosted units performed very well in the start of 8th edition. 3 point razorwing flocks and cheap rokkie guardmen comes to mind.

(Mind you psykick awakening has helped bad units with good strategems.)

[autoxidation]

Honestly I am a huge fan of the point increases across the board. The last thing I wanted to see was even cheaper hordes. They are already a pain to build, paint, and play with in a timely manner.

[hivefleetkerrigan]

12 cp at 2k is going to really hurt cult and could create issues for melee nids. With cult, I could burn through 18 cp by end of turn three even with strict budgetting in place. It's going to be really hard to play cult with only 12 cp.

The missions I'm split on. More variety and paths to victory is good, but this makes the missions seem more like ITC. ITC scoring makes 40k feel like an accounting class as I have to tabulate multiple things instead of one easy score.

Fingers crossed on the point increase. I'm hoping that will help out with balance and make it cheaper to own or start an army.

I'm looking forward to the 9e app. I'm looking forward to being able to plan some armies before the edition drops.