Intial reactions to 6th edition

[jaqenhgar]

I had a great time

I'm really liking the new changes, although it's going to take a while to get used to them and work out how they affect each unit/army.

One thing I did notice aside from the vehicles going down easier, the flip side is that glancing hits can't stop your own vehicle from shooting or lose weapons etc. So although they die easier, they are harder to stun/shake so fire output is better.

Transports are faster, moving 12" and then 6" flat out in the shooting phase, so they are going to be great especially in the first turn or two to really put the pressure on.

Vince, I realised we forgot the look out sir rule that your sergeant could have had when he was the closest model.

Model placement within the unit is important to try and protect those special weapons (ala my meltagun guy who bought it). Also snipers/shots from characters are going to be good being able to pick out a model on a 6 to hit. Terminators are going to go down to massed shooting easier, since no wound allocation shenanigans.

Oh yeah, and large blast S10 ap1 shots from a vindicator are awesome as are the new psyker powers (at least foo Dark Angels).

Trying to think about something I don't like and can't at the moment. Possibly the mysterious objectives are going to be hard to remember during the game, maybe some way of marking what they are would be good. Didn't get to try out any challenges so don't know what that's like yet.