6/7/2023 0 Comments Spiral kngoht sblaster![]() You also didn't have un-killable flyers (newly introduced) or a cumbersome psychic phase. You didn't have strength D weapons in a regular game of 40k. ![]() Before 6th edition, you didn't have entire armies of knights or superheavy tanks in a game of 40k. Into regular 40k games to push further sales of those Apoc models. I bring this up, because if you look at the changes that 6th edition introduced, most of them were elements of the game that were reserved for Apocalypse games and integrated He went on to say that once the sales team had their way it would end any sort of perceived balance that existed within the game. Rick Priestly, the father of 40k, gave an interview around this time after he had been away from Games Workshop and moved on to Warlord Games and during it he stated that back in the older days of GW the company was very careful not to let the sales team have influence over the rules design team. 6th edition brought a TON of rules changes that have had me scratching my head ever since. 6th edition came out in 2012 and lasted only 2 years which is really nothing more than GW admitting they made a huge mistake with the game. However, the game was pretty well streamlined in that everyone had to follow the Standard Force Org chart for list building, there were only 3 phases of the game, and soup-armies made up from units of different codex books wasn't even a problem yet. People didn't like the 4++ cover save from ruins, the wound allocation rule where if you gave members in the same unit a piece of different wargear you could allocate wounds to them separately, and so on. 5th edition wasn't perfect by any stretch of imagination. ![]() The game was completely backwards compatible with codex books from the previous edition. The 5th edition of Warhammer 40k came out in 2008 and lasted 4 years which was the average cycle for GW games at the time. Here's why I think the downward spiral started in 6th edition and why I think they're desperately trying to recover still from it. I'd still gladly go back and play any of those today. While I'm a huge 40k fan, my best times playing the game were in the 3rd through 5th editions of the game.
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