[Squig69]

Hi folks

Well a friend of mine has purchased the new HE book and we sat down and had a look at the new rules with fear and trepidation.

We'd both heard the web rumours about the "Always Strike First" rule but didn't believe it.

Boy were we wrong! ;o

The funnist thing was that the book referred us back to the Core Book for the rules about Always Strike First.

I'll be honest, I'd never even noticed the inclusion of these rules in the CB as I don't think any army actually benefits from them (barring the odd magical item). I certainly never have had cause to look up these rules when talking about normal troops/special or even rare choices.

But now it's here and remarkably few comments have been made concerning this rule that pretty much shakes up the entire concept of the game.

Maneuvering your troops around the table to position them for a charge against the enemy in order to gain the said bonuses with that charge is the standard of every game of Warhammer I've been part of.

Now the new HE have shaken up that standard in dramatic style.

To say that new tactics will be needed to defeat a HE army is understating the change this has made to the game.

Always. Strike. First.

No way around it, no twinky way to kill a character model and deny the ability, no way to charge the enemy in the flank and avoid it.

Now some of the heavily armoured Armies may well be shrugging there collective shoulders and saying "So what? Their poxy Str 3 will bounce off our T4 and 3+ Sv."

But for the rest.......well life just got a lot more interesting.

I could list the effects this is going to have on the game but I thought it would be interesting to get everyones take on the new situation.

When a new army comes out the knee-jerk reaction is for everyone to say "Oh no, now no one can beat army X, we're all doomed."

So, please, don't post "I hate High Elves cuz they suck."

Regards

The Squigster ;Y