How 40K 5th Rules Changes Affect Each Army

Nice summary of how you can expect your army to change with the new Warhammer 40K rules.

How 5th Edition Affects Each Army:

Chaos Demons

Lots of Deep Striking Daemon Troops can capture game-winning objectives with ease.
Assault units like Greater Daemons and Daemon Princes can now Run and get to grips with the enemy faster.
Running also allows units to disperse after Deep Striking, offering them protection from template weapons.

Chaos Space Marines

Chaos Marines and Daemons provide many units of Troops to capture objectives.
Both running and more resilient transports will get close combat specialists into combat faster.
Template weapons, such as Havoc's missile launchers, Obliterator's plasma cannons and the Defiler's battle cannons are now more effective at hitting multiple targets as there are no longer partial hits from template weapons.

Damonhunters

Grey Knight Terminators can Deep Strike to contest objectives and with more forgiving Deep Strike rules, you are much less likely to lose expensive units to an unfortunate roll of the scatter die.
Now that units assaulting vehicles always strike the rear armor, Grey Knights with Nemesis force weapons (+2 Strength) can damage almost any vehicle they can reach.
Storm bolter shots from Grey Knights offer reliable, massed firepower on the move. This fire can be applied to smaller units to force armor saves on models carrying special or heavy weapons.

Dark Eldar

Dark Eldar transports are much safer now that glancing hits are less dangerous and passengers take less damage when their transports are destroyed.
The new rules for intervening models allow units of Dark Eldar Warriors or Scourges to be screened by friendly troops.
Dark Eldar Wyches count as Troops in Lelith Hesperax’s Wych army meaning they can capture objectives, and as noted above, the increased chance of receiving a cover save greatly enhances their surviveability without hampering their movement.

Eldar

Now that transports have become less dangerous for the passengers, Falcons and Wave Serpents are better for carrying troops.
Given that vehicles now receive cover saves from enemy shooting when obscured, The Fortune psychic power can now affect vehicles, further increasing the survivability of Eldar vehicles.
Avatars and Wraithlords can now run, allowing them to get into close combat faster.

Imperial Guard

Missile launchers, grenade launchers and mortars are much more effective against massed formations because misses will land somewhere nearby and there are no more partial hits from blast templates.
The enemy can no longer consolidate into another assault, so your line won't be rolled up the moment a single enemy unit hits your forces.
The new Line of Sight rules give massed heavy weapons far more to shoot at.

Necrons

Now that glancing hits can no longer kill it, the Monolith is even harder to destroy.
Improved infiltrate rules mean that Flayed Ones can now arrive on the enemy’s flank, just where he doesn’t want them.
Now that they can Run, Necrons can effectively field an assault force.

Orks

With the new line of sight rules, Grots can now be used to provide cover for Ork Mobs, giving them a 4+ Save.
When they are done protecting Boyz Mobs, Grots can sneak off to claim objectives.
Running and more resilient transports will get your infantry, Killa Kanz and Deff Dreads into combat more quickly.
With the updated vehicle rules, Kustom Force Fields will provide Killa Kanz and Deff Dreads with a 4+ cover save.

Space Marines

Rhinos and Razorbacks are now tougher and can rarely be destroyed by glancing hits.
Running Dreadnoughts can now keep pace with Rhinos and Assault Marines.
True Line of Sight allows your Devastators far greater fields of fire.

Tau Empire

Enemies can't consolidate into a new assault, so Fire Warriors gun lines can’t be wiped out by a single close combat unit.
With so many cover saves in 5th Edition, the cumulative –1 penalty to Cover Saves provided by Marker Light shooting is an invaluable resource for taking down screened units.
Fire Warriors mounted in Devilfish make excellent game-winning objective grabbers.

Tyranids

A Broodlord and Genestealer retinue can enter on your opponent's flanks and assault in the turn they enter play.
With real Line of Sight, lesser creatures can more effectively shield the all-important Synapse Creatures of the Hive Mind.
Carnifexes can now Run which gets them into close combat more quickly.

Witch Hunters

Flamers and heavy flamers are now much more powerful as there are no partial hits from template weapons.
Both running and safer transport vehicles will make it a lot easier to get Battle Sister’s bolters, flamers and melta guns into range.
The new Line of Sight rules will provide ample targets for Exorcists.

June - A busy month for gaming!

Just take a look at the event calendar below. No, really. Go look at it now. I'll wait...

Okay, aside from the regular weekly events have you noticed the crazy number of cool events going on this month? Things like this Saturday's Worldwide D&D Day (come in and pick up D&D4, play in a short adventure to get your appetite whetted, play some other D&D-related games, etc), FREE RPG DAY, the big Warhammer event. That's not even mentioning JiffyCon which also happens towards the end of this month in town as well.

Well, take another moment to scrutinize the calendar or head over to the forum and see the discussions in our events area.

Speaking of RPGs...

It just occurred to me that we're only about three weeks away from the release of Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition!

I don't know about you, but I'm pretty darned excited about it. So excited that I will DEFINITELY be picking up KEEP ON THE SHADOWFELL when that comes out next week (that is next week, isn't it, Seth?). This is the first adventure for the new edition of D&D and I believe that I will need to run this on the 6th of June when D&D4 hits the store.

It's been too long since I've run D&D. I miss it. It's time to get back to it.

Hey, you know you can preorder the books at the store if you're concerned that we may run out before you have a chance to get yours. Ask Seth.

JiffyCon is Coming - June 21st 2008

Possibly one of the best kept secrets in Greenfield is JiffyCon:

JiffyCon is a one day mini role-playing convention. Focusing on small-press, independently published and story-oriented games, JiffyCon is a whole day devoted
to nothing but having fun playing games.

It's been running for a couple of years now and takes place at the Unitarian church just down the road from the store.

If you're a roleplayer, you owe it to yourself to attend this event. Not only will you get to play some great games but you'll also get a chance to meet some of the people who design indy rpgs (Games like Dogs in the Vinyard and 1001 Nights!).

BTW - Although it's billing itself as a one day event, this year there's a second day devoted to actual game design that you may also be able to take part in.

So, do yourself a favor and check out the website and register today!