MGibster
Legend
I don't mean to take this off on a tangent, but let's talk about playtesting for a moment. Games Workshop is currently one of the largest producers of table top miniature war games. Scratch that, they're the biggest company in the industry with $367,000,000 revenue in 2020. They released the 9th edition of Warhammer 40,000 in 2020 and even before I even played a single game I could see a glaring problem. If you were the second player, your last turn of the game was essentially pointless.
You don't just win the game by killing your opponent('s army), you win by scoring points primarily by capturing objectives on the map. You score these objectives at the beginning of your turn. So in turn one, if I capture an objective, I don't score it until the beginning of turn two assuming I'm still holding it. A standard game of 40k consists of 5 rounds, so the player who went first ended up with four rounds where he could score his primary objectives whereas the second player only had three rounds to do the same. You could still score some secondary objectives, but those aren't typically as lucrative as the primary objectives.
I'm not going to blame Lorraine Williams for the state of unbalanced rules in 2nd edition. Though is it fair to blame her for The Complete Book of Elves?
You don't just win the game by killing your opponent('s army), you win by scoring points primarily by capturing objectives on the map. You score these objectives at the beginning of your turn. So in turn one, if I capture an objective, I don't score it until the beginning of turn two assuming I'm still holding it. A standard game of 40k consists of 5 rounds, so the player who went first ended up with four rounds where he could score his primary objectives whereas the second player only had three rounds to do the same. You could still score some secondary objectives, but those aren't typically as lucrative as the primary objectives.
I'm not going to blame Lorraine Williams for the state of unbalanced rules in 2nd edition. Though is it fair to blame her for The Complete Book of Elves?