Forge World Talks New 30K Rulebook
With 8th Edition out the door, it’s time to look at what is in store for the upcoming 30K Horus Heresy rulebook.
A couple of months back before 8th hit, we said that the way to handle 30K was to keep it’s rules firmly planted in 7th Edition, reward their enthusiasts who shelled out for all those extra-pricy leatherbound books and kick out a new rulebook along these lines:
- Keep the Current Rules – The last thing 30K players want is to have seven $150 leatherbound books invalidated. These are your super hardcore-customers and they should be rewarded for even taking the plunge into the hothouse flower world of all Forge World 30K gaming. They are content. Let them be, and leave the current rules alone.
- New Rulebook – GW will need to make a new 30K rulebook as GW certainly can’t keep printing the old 7th Edition core rules alongside 8th. That would confuse the heck out of everyone. Here is how I would do it:
Like this – but with WAY more heresy…
30K Core Rulebook
Take the current 3 book 7th Edition set and do the following:
- Update the core 7th rules with the latest FAQs
- Replace all the art, hobby and background sections with Heresy content. Go over the Primarchs, the Great Crusade, all the legions, and the Heresy itself. Famous Battles, uniforms, the whole 9 yards. There are tons of art and passages from Black Library books – this should be easy. Make sure the hobby book is gorgeous showing the best of what 30K gaming looks like with all the stuff from early Land Raiders to Warlord titans stomping around.
- Replace the Allies table with the 30K one
- Replace the Missions with the 30k ones
- Upgrade all the default Psychic Disciplines with toned down ones that befit the Heresy era. We all know which ones need to go… Librarians weren’t the level of crazy they are in 40K and you dont have all the Deamon and xenos insanity running around either.
- Put all 18 default Legion rules in the book.
Fast forward to today. GW has already announced they would be keeping the Horus Heresy set in 8th Edition, but it would be recieving an all new core rulebook.
Forge World Reports In
Today Forge World writer Neil Wylie talks about what to expect in the new rulebook:
“There won’t be any major changes to the game. Instead, the rulebook is designed to be a better resource for Horus Heresy players dedicated to your needs during a game and filled with information relevant to you. A good example of this is the Special Rules section; rules not present in the Horus Heresy like And They Shall Know No Fear won’t be featured, while common rules like Legiones Astartes and Agile will be, making this section, and the book as a whole, much easier to use as a reference guide for Battles in the Age of Darkness.
AdvertisementThe book will also include rules from now out-of-print expansions like Stronghold Assault in the book. You’ll be able to protect your Legions with Aegis Defence Lines and other fortifications from the previous edition of Warhammer 40,000.”
We’ll see how much other stuff is in there, but it sounds like it is already off to a solid start.
~Looking forward to this one.
