Sixth Edition, or putting the Rhino's out to pasture

Now don't get me wrong, 6th edition has a lot of great things in it and my only two complaints thus far are...

Vehicles: They are now WAY too fragile, do i think the hull point system is a good thing? yes, it has balanced things out so gone are the days where you hit a landraider 10 times and only blow off a weapon or two, immobilize it and make it shaken not stirred but it's STILL THERE at the end of the game.

However i just don't think they did enough play testing, because everything is just TOO fragile. From Rhinos, to walkers to the armored legions of Imperial Guard tanks are being shelved across America.

How to fix this? no idea, and i fully expect GW to stick to their guns and it will remain this way for the next 5 years or so but even increasing hull points by ONE across the board would balance things out more fairly in my opinion.



Flyers: with vehicles being on the losing end of the coin toss flyer's are definitely on the winning side. The skyfire rules make sense however GW has not put nearly enough things in the books to combat flyer's, right now here are your options...

Use flyer's: to combat other flyer's: GWs obviously plan to sell more flyer's. The flyer's GW has been pushing out over the last couple years are pretty cool and do add a whole new aspect to the game

Use fortifications: again, an obvious plan to sell more plastic but the inclusion of fortifications has opened up a lot of possibilities and their cheap cost makes them strong choices

Use twin-linked weapons: the lay mans choice, not the best but certainly doubles your odds of rolling a 6 so to speak but not terribly effective

Pray you roll a 6: Pray to the Emperor, Jesus, Allah, Tom Cruise... whatever your go-to real religion/fake religion may be may be



Now, i fully expect (or maybe blindly hope) the first FAQ from GW to include the rules/point costs for "Flakk" missiles which will give pretty much every imperial army more options to shoot down the things zooming over their heads.

This still leaves the xenos out in the cold, rumors are flying around of Tau and Eldar flyer's on the horizon (which would make sense for both GW to sell more plastic and to put the xenos codex's on an even playing field)

However for the time being a Necron army list of multiple Doom Scythe's and such with their cheap point cost, AV 13 and big guns are going to be dominating the tournament scene.