A few years ago I collected an Imperial Guard Army. One big move (and many lost/broken models later) I still had my Guard army. My best friend collected Necrons, and last year bought some $5000.00 gaming table. Aside from the derision for how much he paid for the thing, I decided he might as well get his money worth, and one sunday him and I had a few beers and finally got around to playing 5th edition.
We didn’t play any special rules, just our own blow the fuck out of everything on the table games. It was pretty fun, in particular because our armies weren’t really optimised for each other. Its a fun matchup, because it reminds me of the whole Terminator type future where a ragtag army is fighting robot skeletons.
Anyone else into 40k? Its a fun game, especially casual with friends (Why does that Chimera have a flamer glued to the end of its turret? Its a hellhound? oh, ok!). There’s only a couple of gripes with this edition I have:
Wound shenanigans- If you have a squad of multi-wound models that have different loadouts, there’s a loophole that lets you spread out wounds in a way you wouldn’t be able to if they’re all the same configuration.
4+ coversaves which, while benefits armies like mine (with crappy armor saves normally) kind of bogs down shooting and makes things less decisive.
Codexes which offer great units, except one unit is blatantly 20% better/cheaper/etc with no downside which makes taking the other unit tactically pointless- why take a Devil Dog when a Vendetta cost the same points and does everything plus more? Oh yeah, a Vendetta gunship model costs $66 USD :mad: