My thoughts.
- The
animated trailer is pretty cool. Looks like a new box dread, Biovore, mini-Carnifex thing and probably a new Hive Tyrant are possibilities if that is anything to go by.
- The studio description makes me less interested. I hear words like "streamlined" and "accessible" and shudder a little. It feels like they mean "AoS style datasheets where every unit has its own "special snowflake" rules which are slightly different to the same named rule on another unit". Still, if they remove the need for dozens of books and stratagems it may be interesting.
- They also say it will play faster... which since my last few games of 8th ed lasted 2 turns before we called the game because both armies were almost wiped out, seems like its probably not even worth setting up the scenery anymore.
- "We've never shown conflict at this scale" means "you'll have to fit even more minis onto the same size battlefield and they'll be wiped out before firing a shot."
- They already have a rules contradiction in that there are two different termagant datasheets on that launch page, one in the video and one in the article.
I hate this. More than anything.