The biggest bit for me from reading through the book and the core rule book is the freedom that Imperium Armies will have to create some themed lists Sorry, Xenos!
Units now have multiple Faction Keywords and all units within a detachment must have a common Keyword. So where does this leave things for me? Irresistible' Allan Massie Sunday Telegraph 'In Harris's hands, the great game becomes a beautiful one' The Times 'Genres ancient and modern have rarely been so skilfully synthesised Gripping and accomplished' Tom Holland The Guardian 'A joy to read in every way, and as a mirror to the politics of our present age has no equal' The Independent 'Harris deploys the devices of the thriller writer to trace the perils and triumphs of Cicero's ascent The stranger is a Sicilian, a victim of the island's corrupt Roman governor, Verres.
Warhammer 40, 8th Edition also known as Warhammer 41, Age of the Emperor to the rumourmongers is the newest edition of everybody's favorite wargame, which picks things up where the Gathering Storm campaigns AKA 40k End Times, meaning we're living literally after year 40, now left off, and was released June 17th, The new edition will advance the storyline from 5 minutes to midnight to 4 minutes to midnight, and considering the campaigns leading up to it have had the Imperium lighting an entire region of space ON FIRE , Magnus trolling the Furries half to death, Cadia falling and not getting up , a new Eldar god being born, Rowboat Girlyman getting off his stasis-frozen ass and joining forces with Cypher to go on a journey to see daddy, shit's about to get real.
But hopefully not too real, but hey, things have been fun so far and Gdubs cannot be accused of being dull this time. Gone are the pages and pages of fluff and background flavour text, instead you get a bare basics of each faction broken down to its raw bones. Index: Imperium 1 features army lists for the iconic figureheads of the 40k universe, the Space Marines and contains everything needed to field your Space Marine army, just not one particular Chapter either, but army list details for generic chapters such as Ultramarines and their successor chapters as well as full rules for all the chapters listed below.
Each chapter is given its own rules and their place in the new streamlined version of 40k, and includes a lot of impressive photos of studio miniatures, all exquisitely painted to the highest standard that most of us can only ever dream of being able to aspire to. After a very brief overview of what Space Marines are and how they are organised, the supplement wastes very little time in getting stuck into the meat of the matter and presenting the armies, all ready to be used to fight against the enemies of the Imperium in the grim dark future!
Each of the various chapters and spin off successor chapters is given roughly a page of background information and then its down to the lists, with each featuring all the units available for each army, such as heavy support or fast attack; and any special rules that they may have. Much like Age of Sigmar which the new edition follows quite closely in some aspects, key words that are vital to the force are written in bold type so that they stand out from the rest of the text.
Many units seem to have changed very little over the transition to the new system and will play like their old version counterparts for the most part, but some new rules do make some units extremely tough to take out already hard in the previous edition Roboute Gulliman is now devastating in close combat. As mentioned above, this book and the others in the Index range are all bare bones and if you are looking for pages and pages of background information, painting guides and such, sadly those are not to be found here!
Rules are given for chapter specific traits such as for the Blood Angels or Space Wolves and also over thirty characters for various chapters are presented for use, along again with their special rules.
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