Matt Ward's codecies are balanced against Matt Ward codecies, that is to say the codecies that are written in the new style, sure he can't write fluff that amazingly (it's still better than half the people there and has taken it in a more rogue trader direction which is always good) but he can do crunch. He is the best now that Andy Chambers has left. Robin can't write crunch, Gav can do fluff but can't do crunch. I can't remember the rest right now, but people blame ward despite everyone else writing gimped armies in the old minimalist style which needed to die because it was awful. By now everyone seems to be catching up with the style so hopefully when the new codexes get released they are more up to scratch with the new style.

Yes his rules aren't super tightly written and favour fun, flavour and options over tournament play, but that's usually how GW has been anyway. Notice how ward's demon army book isn't too bad until you get people taking demons from multiple gods and using them to cover each others weaknesses... like that would ever happen in fluff.

This can be summed up as "Don't be a munchkin and then complain that you're overpowered"

I heard he is aslo writting the necron codex.

Galciv 2 is a fantastic buy, I got it and the expansions to it, unique tech trees and the editors are great. I've got the star trek vs star wars mod on there.

Space Marines don't have titans. That's a completely different branch of the Imperium.


He didn't frak anything up with the BA's, and it makes me do nothing but laugh at the incredible amounts of nerdrage over a three-line entry in their battle history. Now, C:SM, yeah, he bungled the fluff on that. Honestly, I don't get why they have one guy do the whole thing these days, they used to have 2-3 guys working on a codex.

GK Terminators vs. regulars, yeah they hit harder, but they can never get better than a 5+ INV against shooting and still go down just as easily to small-arms fire. Strike Squads are only worthwhile if you upgrade their NFWs, which drives up the cost more, and they're going to struggle against high AV vehicles.

And you've got the Dreadknight rules wrong. If it takes a greatsword, it can only use that or the doomfist, not both. So it's either S6 (7 with Hammerhand) with full re-rolls or S10 without. With a greatsword and personal teleporter, it runs at 230 points, and is still very vulnerable to power fists and the like. As for the jump infantry bit, I have no doubt that oversight will get FAQed in no time. But your strawman Apocalypse idea is impossible anyway, as jump infantry take up two spots, and they can't be attached to each other, so only one could "ride" in the Stormraven anyway. But really, if anyone tried to pull that, I think most folks (myself included) would bid them good day.

What? ward didn't write anything for Chaos space marines, that was Gav and Alessio.

C:SM = Codex: Space Marines. C:CSM = Codex: Chaos Space Marines.

Oh yeah. I read it as Chaos Space Marines because I was too busy herping and derping to notice.

anybody looking forward to space marine coming out? i am

i also found a warhammer group in my area n.n
so now i'm inspired to make my troops
which i has done, but i haven't painted them yet, still havent decided on a paint scheme yet D:

Yes, I have preordered the collectors version and the Demo was released yesterday to all members of the Honor Guard (name of the forums on the SM website).

It is awesome, loads of gore and violence, hacking up orks with a chainsword or power axe is sweet, bolter sound effects could go with some more oomph though.

Game looks great and you get a good impression of walking around as a huge marine in power armour, jump pack is great.