Primarchs are already a thing from forge world and nobody is complaining about that ruining the early lore. Storm Talons? Terminators are troops, then not, assault squads the same.įunny how all these things have been invalidating armies for years yet the setting and the hobby moves on just fine yet whenever anyone mentions a primarch someone goes off the deep end on one of these forums. Or lets tackle centurions or Grav for a minute. My brothers Dark Angels never had Plasma talons, corvus hammers, DJ land speeder, DW Knights, Black Knights. Last I checked my 2nd edition blood angels never had sanguinary guard, the sanguinore, librarian dreads, storm ravens etc etc. They won't disrupt it.Įxcept your not being fair here. Fortunately I think GW is smarter than that. And if they don't do something nuts, have they actually advanced the story like you want? If things aren't different, what is the point? By definition you want the setting to change. "They wouldn't do something that nuts!" you might say.
And all because some people couldn't comprehend how to enjoy the game unless something galaxy-shaking huge and crazy happened to some named characters in a campaign book. New players will not understand the theme or tone or history of your army, because it isnt written about in new material. Sure, you can keep your old fashioned Dark Angels army with its outdated organization and color scheme and you can play things out in 999M41as long as you like, because you know the old fluff and have old sources and you can approximate things with the 8th edition rules.īut your army is dead as you know it. Tons of space will be dedicated to fleshing out the new reality, while a bone will be thrown to grognards in the form of a few paragraphs describing what the Dark Angels used to be like. And the 8th edition Dark Angels codex will reflect this. The new setting is the result of it, because this is what you asked for - shaking things up. The story you wanted is a few campaign books. What a great story, right? What a cool twist that plays on the themes of the Dark Angels while giving you two new factions to play that aren't like the old Dark Angels at all - the New Fallen and the Survivors or whatever.Įxcept it's not just a story, it's a new setting now. Azrael and a minority of Dark Angels live on as scattered rag-tag rebels while The Lion quests to become a Daemon Prince. Most of the Dark Angels and their successors fall in line with him, a crazy civil war is fought. Except surprise, the Watchers in the Dark weren't guarding him, they were guarding *against* him. CalgarsPimpHand wrote: I'll tackle this, since you're being a bit dense about it.