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We have a house rule that whichever player has the shortest shorts receives in game bonuses. Rumors have said that this is making it's way into the new edition. Can you confirm?

Also, anyone wearing a romper gets an auto-win.

Any news on how AdMech will be factionalized in coming edition? Cult/Skitarii separate with different Canticles/Imperitives like now? Or some kind of unification as implied on the website?

No information on guard regiments this time either. lots of interesting information, but I still wonder if there is a chance for any rules to make different regiment be more than optional minis. Marnies have chapteractics and I would love something like that for the guard so that i can play my catachans like catachans and not shirtles cadians without going down in the basement and getting my 3rd ed stuff (theres a spider down there, and he looks a bit shifty)

"If your army is built using Formations right now, you’re going to be fine. " How does this even remotely match up with the rules for tactical reserves if one has an army built on drop pod formations, like Skyhammer formations? Or will those armies now be forced to play only Narrative/Open instead of Matched?

Hey pete I'm interested in knowing how will work drop pod regarding the new rules you published yesterday (charge when disembarking?)
Also you didn't talk about the flyers in vehicle part... are they still obliged to start in reserve?

Are we going to see Primaris Space Marines with Jump Packs, Special/Heavy Weapons, Bikes, Jetbikes, or Terminator Armour?

And more importantly, will there be female Primaris Space Marines like there are female Stormcast Eternals please?

Seriously, guys, it's 2017; it's time to address Warhammer 40,000's misogyny.

You guys are asking the wrong questions when you ask "Can I play X army??" They will always say yes now because there is OPEN PLAY. When they say "yes", that doesn't mean they will be legal in matched play, such as the all Dreadnaught army someone asked about

18 months to make the new versions - so every time that some GW peeps said "we're not sigmarising 40k" was lying through their teeth.

And wont be phasing out the old marines in favour of the new primaris marines... but every chapter will have "access" to them and all marines can "upgrade" ... so over months GW can totally phase out the normal marines... but really wont use it as an excuse for taller everything and new rhinos (plus variants) ... noooo of course not, and with the recent level of truthfulness we have no reason to doubt their word.

1) We've seen rules referencing different things like <Chapter>, <Sept>, and <Hive Fleet>. Will these rules be similar to current Chapter Tactics and Legion rules?

2) For Necrons, will the various C'tan (Nightbringer, Deceiver, Transcendent) have distinct rules again or will we go back to generic C'tan? Also, what will their role be on the battlefield - big threats that wade into the opponent, or more like heavy support for the troops?

3) With Templates gone, will there be a way to shoot at multiple units with those heavy weapons or will they be more focused at destroying one unit at a time?

Thanks for doing this stuff!

I cannot watch live right now since I am on a train. But I got one question: How tough are the huge Plague Marines we've all seen in the leaked picture? And how does their toughness translate to their profile in Warhammer 40,000's 8th edition? I need to know 😁

Hi I started back on 7th with Tau, was still learning the rules and formations on my army, how much changes should I expect for my army (tau), like what should I focus before I do some mistakes..

Hey, How will the new primaris re-enforcements be received by the Dark Angels if they have not been put through the different rights of initiation. The same sort of applys to the different flaws of the gene-seed, do they have them?

Thank you very much for all of this community engagement. Did the tau lose their iconic "jump - shoot - jump" for their suits? If so, this would be a big change to their play style.

How are you going to make Tzeentch daemons viable with the nerf of summoning and split ? Since they rely so heavily on summon extra points onto the battle field to not get overrun ?

Are you going to introduce the 3 rules of 1's in 40k as you have in AoS matched play ? If so, how are armies like Tzeentch Daemins that rely heavily on psychic powers going to survive ?

Can you please clarify Explosion type weapons as they pertain to wound allocation. Taking the battle cannon as an example. Let's say I get 4 shots out of the d6 and they all hit and wound a squat of space marines for a total of 8 wounds after saves are taken. Do I pull 8 space marines or 4?

speaking of Psychic Powers, can we get some info on Grey Knights and how they work now? PLEASE? Especially their Force weapons and their Storm Bolter, since they have no "pistol", will the bolter replace it?

One of the fun aspects about 40K for me, is the idea of siege warfare. Heroic charges into the breach and heroic last stands all play a major part in 40K. However, these type of games seem to be largely passed over in the table top. Other than a few specific fortifications, a lot of them are hardly taken. So I have a few questions regarding Fortifications and Buildings.

'Will Fortifications be getting their own updated rules for 8th edition or will they be lumped in with all buildings'?

6th edition brought fortifications into normal play in a standard FoC. In 7th edition they had been mostly limited to CAD and Unbound with very few options in formations for them.

'Will 8th edition make them more readily available for play in Battle Forged armies by being included in more detachments?'

'Will we be seeing any Siege War type missions in 8th with their own objectives and stratagems?'

Some armies like Necron and Eldar do not have fortifications. Xenos as a whole lack basic terrain for the battlefield.
'Would it be likely to expect to see some non-Imperial fortifications similar to what you did for the T'au in the future?'

'Can we expect to see some non-Imperial buildings and other terrain to represent battles on Xenos worlds?'

Over the years you have produced small terrain items for different sets such as the Tyranids terrain bits in the Battle for Macragge set.

'Would it be possible for you to bring back small terrain items like that to sell in sets for purchase or possibly make new ones for each army?'

A long time ago I bought a Citadel book on how to build terrain and how to paint it up for game use.

'Would it be possible to get an updated version of such a book?'

'Would it be possible to get terrain building tutorial videos similar to what Duncan does for painting?'

what about multi squad shots, for example a Vindicator would be able to target more than one squad with good template placement, will this now templates are gone be only able to attack 1 unit at a time?

will the venom cannon get a rule to represent the venom in the crystals it fires? and will venomthropes now be a "To Hit" modifier instead of a cover bonus? A lot of models in the game have access to some kind of poison, now that everything uses toughness, will there still be poison, and if so, is there anything stopping it's effects from damaging vehicles, like a "MACHNE" keyword, for example?

Hey Pete, can you confirm blood angels won't be squatted. Also (pushing my luck) any chance any of the "lost" primarchs (khan,corax,vulkan) will return? Raven guard fan here lol. Thanks for your time!

Will Space Wolves' Blood Claw be brought on par with the other chapters Scouts, since they are their equivalent?
Being the only chapter with WS/BS 3 Marines felt really bad (and the fact that our Scouts, that were supposed to be veterans, were barely better than the others, and only because of some options and 1 more attack, didn't help)

Hi. I was wondering if you have any plans for kill team in 8th edition. I'm not talking about armagedon. I'm a little concerned about how flamers are going to work in kill team, hoping you have any plans for it.

Is there a chance of making emperors children ore then only "noisy" chaos? because formerly (30k), they where nearly perfect skilled figthers. in 40k, that was only presented by lucius, but he isn't the emperors children on his own. Even this is not the reight place to answer this, i want to thank you for your great work. Keep on going!

Would you say that Assault is now more viable than it was in 7th compare to shooting? If so, why? What specifically was done?

When vehicles lose their last wound, is there still a chance for them to explode? How does this impact transports and their tendency to become a death trap for lightly armored armies in open topped transports? (Dark Eldar raiders).

Thanks a lot for the Q&A!

My question is this: What can we expect for the future of the Khorne Daemonkin faction? Will Khorne Daemonkin as we know it survive the transition to 8th? With the Blood Tithe mechanic and table survive? And if it does, how will it change, due to the coming changes for summoning?

Sorry if this has been asked, how do the new Astra Militarum orders work, and can you give us some examples besides first rank fire second rank fire?

If different Tyranid Hivefleets will be defined as per the keyword "Hivefleet" seen in their faction focus, can we expect that specific Necron dynasties will be defined as well ?

...and...

When?! ;-)

My brother and I play nurgle vs. orks all the time and we always have the same debate. So can you finally give a definitive answer to who is the stinkiest orks or plague marines?!?