WH40k RevisionV1.02

8/7/2019 WH40k RevisionV1.02

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WH40k Revision

Making the grim-dark a more fluffy,

balanced, sequence of never endingblood-shed.


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Design Goals

Help the game play more like the fluff.

Consistent and Variable Victory Conditions

New Deployment System.

Allow for more tactical depth.

Alternating Turn Sequence

A less have it or you dont Leadership

system. Anti-wound abuse rules.


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Index

Shooting Phase

Wound Allocation

Saves

Coherency

Leadership

USR

Deployment Sequence

Turn Sequence

Deployment Type

New Objective system

Consistent Objectives

Army Objectives


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Shooting Phase: Weapon Types Rapid Fire weapons

fire 2 shots at full

range if they have notmoved, or 2 shots at

12 if they have.

Snipers ignore cover

saves


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Shooting Phase: Overwatch If a unit forfeits moving,

shooting and assaulting, it

may go on overwatch.The unit places a 12-inch

line template anywhere

within their shooting

range. They may shoot at

a unit that passed over theline (at the end of that

units movement phase),

then overwatch expires.


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Wound Allocation, Now Hit

Allocation In the shooting phase, hits from

different weapons are allocated

in batches.

For example; if a space marinesquad is hit from AP 2

weapons and AP 5 weapons,

either all the AP 2 hits must be

allocate first, or all the AP 5

hits. A single model could not

be allocated 2 hits from the AP2 weapon before everyone in

the squad was allocated at least

one.


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Shooting Phase: Save Cover Saves derived

from the main rule

book are 1. The average cover save

is hence 5+

Saves are taken

against hits.

See 40k FAQ about units

give each other cover


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Coherency A unit must designate

always have a Leader

model. Coherency isdrawn from the Leader

equal to his leadership.

Models in a unit must still

remain in 2 coherency.

The furthest a unit can

now span is 20


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Leadership: Morale and Pinning When a unit takes a

Morale or Pinning test

they are 1 LD

foreach unsaved woundthey took in excess ofthe one(s) that causedthe test.(only extra Piningwounds cause Pinningtests to be 1)

These affects of

enemy shots are

cumulative. A unit may be called

upon to take both their

morale and pinning

test.


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Fearless Fearless models take their

Morale and Pinning tests,

They are 1 LD

for eachwound they took in excess

of the one(s) that caused

the test.

The unit takes a number of

wounds equal to the

difference between theirLD value (with modifiers)

and their LD test result.

Cover saves cannot be

taken against these

wounds.


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USR

Stubborn allows you

to re-roll a failedleadership test, the

modifiers still apply.


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Deployment

Player take turns deploying units. The

player going first chooses a unit and either

deploys it onto the battlefield, or declares it

is in reserve (or deep striking or

outflanking, etc). Players then take turns

deploying infiltrators.


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Turn Sequence Players take turns activating units.

An active unit takes it full turn; movement

phase, shooting phase and assault phase.

The active player either Passes, allowing the

other player to activate a unit, or attempts to

Retain The Initiative and activate anotherunit.


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Activations When a unit is activated it

takes any Pinning or

Morale test incurredbefore its activation.

Independent Characters

are activated as part of the

unit they are in.

A vehicle with

embarked units is

activatedsimultaneously with

the unit(s) inside.

Vehicle and unit do

movement phase, thenshooting, then assault.


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Retaining theInitiative

After a unit ends it activation, instead of Passing,

you may attempt to Retain the Initiative.

Select a unit to activate, that unit takes aleadership test at 1 LD if it passes it activates

normally. If it fails, it activates and immediately

goes to ground. You may not attempt to retain the

initiative until after you opponent activates a unit.


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Rolling forD

eployment Roll 2d6

1-2

3-4

5-6

1-2

3 4-6

Pitched Battle

Spearhead

Long Road

Turn 1 NF

Turn 5-end NF No special rules


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Victory Points There are potentially 10 pts to be had in any

given game of 40k. 6 are all ways the same,

they are called Consistent Objectives, the

other 6 objectives vary from army to army.


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Consistent ObjectivesDestroy the majority of

the opposing HQs

+2 points

Hold the majority of the

objectives (always 2d3)

+2 points

Have more kill points

than your opponent

+2 points


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If you take an etherealand he lives

If you take an etherealand he dies

Declare a non-HQFOC entry in your

opponents army at thebeginning of the game,if you destroy thatFOC entry entirely

+2pts Morale Boost!

-2pts Morale Fail!

+2pts Strategic Target

Tau Victory Objectives


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