Musings on 7th edition

I know I have been gone for a while. I have been painting my helldrake. What a labour intensive model! It's finally done now so back to blogging.

With all the rumours circling around about 7th, I wanted to wait until I had the book in hand before blogging about it. The problem is that it is dominating the community and I'm having a hard time thinking of much else. So here we go with my feelings upon the speculations and rumours.

**disclaimer - opinions are like arseholes, I know. If you don't agree with mine that's great! Please share yours in the comments below and we can have a little civilized banter about it.**

I have heard for a while that this edition will allow us to assault out of rhinos and consolidate into combat. I really hope that this true. It will allow us assault junkies to have better odds of doing some actual damage before getting shot to death. Thumbs up!

The designated psychic phase does nothing for me personally since psykers aren't an integral part of my lists. That being said however, I think it's a great idea. It would allow the game to be streamlined and provide a possibility of rival psykers cancelling out your attack. Narrative games would benefit from a psyker duelling phase. Two massively powerful characters wielding the destructive capabilities of the warp. AWESOME!

Now we get to the meat and potatoes of it all: unbound armies. The idea of being a huge jerk and taking all daemon princes and heldrakes just does not appeal to me. That being said, another fast attack slot for a second unit of five spawns would be so fun. But I'm not gonna lie; this development is making me hold back on my tournament plans until I see how the event organizers deal with the changes. I just can't see myself having any fun against an army of baneblades. GW has been pushing us to balance the game ourselves since the beginning of 6th edition, and now I feel like I will play with house rules almost exclusively in my friendly games.

And let's be honest, the "advantages" of playing a force organized army, as the rumours have suggested, just don't seem worth it. Sure if my objectives cannot be contested that might save me the game, but I worry that my opponent's super heavy army won't leave me with many models to hold objectives in the first place. Re-rolling my warlord trait? I don't know how you guys feel about warlord traits but I can take 'em or leave 'em. There aren't many that I feel excited about. Now if I could choose my trait, then we would be talking.

I have this confusing feeling of excitement and dread as the number of days to 7th edition release date grow less and less.