Slackjaw

The rumours are true - a new edition of 40K is coming.

That's not why my jaw is slack, it's about as surprising as facing a Nurgle daemon horde at a Woffboot these days. My jaw is slack at hearing key designer Jervis (on the GW homesite newspage today) refer to a new system of 'unbound armies', where you can take whatever you want within points limits.

Whatever you want.

I guess sales must be dipping again; I can only dream in twitching spasms about the horror this could unleash on 9th ed Warhammer, which will presumably be swung on us by year's end. But talk of all-special-character armies or massed ranks of nothing but Land Raiders does do the job - it makes me remember the original Rogue Trader, where you could design your own vehicles by points cost.

It's good and bad, open to terrible flights of potent rule maxing as well as creative fluff heaven. And yours is to say which of those is good and bad, of course. But it certainly does the job. I suddenly have a sparkle of interest in 40K again...