Getting rid of the circles is a great idea but with it now going to be scenery rather than just a marked blotch on the landscape I do worry that if it were to be made any other shape than circular that it could easily be utilised by the player placing it for greater advantage towards themselves giving their area more space to occupy so that their troops don't have to travel so far.
And whilst the two battlegrounds that have been released in the Warhammer Community post go to show that the board is quite fair with mirror image set ups, I still worry that a big part of the narrative part that they're trying to include is going to be missed. After all, when you look at them boards, troop transports are going to have a hard time getting through without taking massive detours that could have them being redundant for a huge chunk of the game.
That said, I do have high hopes with them saying that the game is going to be more narratively driven and each army will have goals that they want to achieve be it the annihilation of their foes or which piece of ground to hold, will be pretty cool with each battle becoming its own story that the players will love to tell. However whilst this is a great option, one of my biggest bugbears and something that I think they really need to address is that you can't destroy terrain, surely if the building has been splattered, pitted and falling apart, that means that its not indestructible and with people being able to hide troops within it does feel like a missed opportunity especially when within the books characters have been able to call down things like orbital strikes or bombardments that would do the job nicely.
Its something that really needs to be looked into and with GW releasing various terrain for the objectives they do need to look at options like making them army themed for example an ork ammo dump will be chaos whereas a marine one will be organised.
All round I am hopeful that the new edition will give the players a lot more freedom especially now that they're going to have to think of ways round being unable to stack multiple bonuses upon one unit which used to make them unkillable, but another thing that has me concerned is what happens if you don't buy all the new books for the end campaign of 10th with strategies for specific troops, will these then be provided in the new codices when available or will it be a case you need to have subscribed to the Warhammer App to get everything required?
It is a big question and one that is all going to depend upon which way GW is thinking of going. As their approach currently is to talk about new mini's with higher price hikes that plays on peoples FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) reaction (especially with this weeks release of Defilers which has been grossly under stocked) before they have real chance to think purchases through.
Yet at the end of the day, the way that everything is going price wise, whether its to play in a tournament such as Adepticon or keeping up with the miniatures, its making it an "exclusive" hobby that heavily limits opportunities to play other games keeping you either fully in 40K or Age of Sigmar leaving those who have been with them since the beginning having to seriously think about alternate wargames options with more reasonable pricing from other Independent Companies.
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