8th edition 40k the best edition of Warhammer 40k yet or is it Nick speaking
and welcome to this video right in today's a wonders of video I am gonna be
answering the ultimate question is Warhammer 40k 8th edition the best
edition of 40k yet now 8th edition has been out for
around a year now and I have the Codex for my main army now Games Workshop said
this is going to be the Edition that we asked for is going to be the best
Edition yet so I thought I would review that and answer the question do I think
this is the best edition of Warhammer 40k yet now before that if you would
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sub and hit the bell button so you don't miss an upload now when eighth
edition was first announced it was fair to say it was quite a scary but exciting
experience this game of ours was going to change in a big way and apparently it
was going to get simpler to play we had a core rule set that was going to be
free for everyone to play now that did happen but of course if you wanted to
play the game properly you also needed a big rulebook then they introduced all of
the indexes with all army rules released at once this was a fantastic way to go
and you have to give credit to Games Workshop for this everyone could play
this brand-new edition from day one with any of their armies and then in a very
short space of time the codex's were released to go with the 8th edition
rulebook now sadly not everyone has a codex yet they are still waiting but a
good majority of armies have their codex and we've seen GW updating the rules
along the way either with faq's errata's or chapter approved so it's
quite clear that Games Workshop are committed to 8th edition to try and make
it the best Edition they can keeping on top of the rules keeping all
the armies updated as quickly as possible and reaching out to the
community in several ways with questionnaires with Facebook updates
with warhammer community website it's been a long time since games workshop
did this interaction with us and I think they're doing a fantastic job they even
have their own YouTube channel where they're doing painting tutorials and
updates and releases etc so pretty exciting times from that point of view
but how about from the game point of view
okay so 8th edition had a brand new simplified rule set so one would think
that you could just read those rules and play well that was certainly possible
however the problem that I came against was my actual army itself now army
list-building had totally changed now one thing that I was able to do with 5th
edition 6th edition 7th edition was take my army lists adapt them slightly and
then carry on playing them however with 8th edition that just
wasn't the case the way we build our armies is totally different now we don't
even have the standard force organization chart of one HQ and two
troops like the old days things are very much different and on top of that
they've introduced command points and stratagems so now you have to build your
list to get as many command points as you can so you can use the goodies in
the stratagems to make your army work so for me the biggest change was in how I
built my lists and that not necessarily caused a problem but it certainly meant
a slowdown on learning curve indeed it's been so slow that I've only
played one game with my Tyranids and I haven't even opened my Elder codex which
I've had since it came out I just haven't had the inclination to do it
I've been concentrating on the Necrons and list building for the Necrons well
now I'm getting quite competent with that now i'm quite happy and settled with
that I feel like I probably am ready to go into a second army but it's taking me
around a year to be able to do that now of course I
haven't had the Necron codex for that's long
so that has had an impact on that learning curve
however the points that I'm making is the complicated side of the game that we
had in sixth and seventh edition seems like it's moves from the game itself
over into the armies now I think this is probably a good thing because it means
if you want to play it more of a basic game without all of those complicated
rules the game is there you can use power levels if you want to as opposed
to points so the game is definitely simpler and easy to play if you want it
to be however in match play I find the rules are still just as complicated
they've just moved from the game to the actual armies and of course this is
compounded by faq's chapter approved beta rules or any other way that GW want
to change the rules to try and level the playing field to try and make what is
basically an unbalanced game as balanced as possible so the actual game
of eighth edition is definitely a lot simpler I look back at 7th edition and
8th edition is a lot easier to play even though there are some rather odd rules
like a tank being able to shoot around the corner even though they're gun
doesn't have line-of-sight some rather odd non-cinematic things happening on
the table but the actual game itself definitely is a lot simpler but like I
said I think the complicated side of the game has been moved into the armies
however although they are a bit more complicated they certainly have a lot
more flavor so whilst building an army it's definitely more complicated we
certainly have a lot more flavor just take the Necron codex for example
we have five dynasties to choose from each of them making a necron army work
differently then you have your stratagems you've got to build your list
and round those stratagems once you start using those stratagems again it
can change the way the army works you can change how a unit works on the table
it means even though you're playing a necron player you don't know what type
of army you are going to be facing the armies can be a lot more favourable
there can be a lot more varied I think on the whole this is
a great thing it also makes list building a bit more interesting a bit
more challenging to make a list that can only be a good thing for the Hobby it
also means you will get lots of different armies and army playstyles on
the table so with all that said and done what do I think of 8th edition is it the
best addition of 40k yet okay well my answer is yes it is I think it is the
best edition I don't think it's the easiest edition I think it is actually
just as complicated as what we've had before however I think it's a lot of fun
the game itself is a lot simpler I think making lists is a lot harder but also a
lot more tactical which is great for the game it means it can be as complicated or
as basic as you want it to be you don't have to use stratagems you don't have to
use command points you can play power levels you can just use the standard
core rules or you can go all out and of course we have the campaign section in
the main rule book as well this has to be the best edition of 40k and it's
backed up by Games Workshop now how long Games Workshop will keep 8th edition
going that is the question personally my hope is that eighth
edition in its current format with all of the updates that they're doing all of
the time it would last quite a long time I would like to see 8th edition stay
around for a very long time it is slightly concerning that age of Sigmar
has had an update only after three years Warhammer 40k usually gets an update
between two and four years so what is going to happen with eighth edition will
it be updated anytime soon or will it last the distance
I am hoping it will last the distance especially when you consider that the
updates of age of Sigmar are now incorporating a lot of eighth edition
rules in now of course this is just my opinion and I would love to hear what
your opinions are so do you like eighth edition
do you think is the best of ever do you like stratagems and command
points do they bring flavour or do they bring an unnecessary complicated element
to the game and how long do you think 8th edition will stay around let me know
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