Graham McNeill, 40k games designer at Conflict : Edinburgh was kind enough for Q & A:

Rapid fire weapons -
Stationary - Shoot once out to 24" OR Twice up to 12"
If moving - Twice up to 12" BUT may not assault (no one shot >24" option).

Pistols can fire twice, even on the move, and allow you to assault.

Plasma weapons overheating will be tied to the number of shots, as rumoured. i.e. fire once, overheats on a 1. fire twice, overheats on 1 or 2.

Troops with assault weapons can move, shoot, and still assault at full effect (+1 Attack)

Also, importantly, he was VERY specific that defensive weapons on tanks would only be those >= STR 5 (NOT 6). So dont be sticking to many multilaser onto your chimera's just yet...

Ordanance move and fire, as long as the tank moves <6"

Marine Codex, wording used was something like "Its called _Codex_ Space Marines, so will include rules for chapters which stick reasonably closely to the original codex orginisation, but maybe with a few exceptions. He mentioned Raven guard as an example, broadly vanilla, but with some minor diffs. Graham also described BA, DA SW etc as being a bit "out there" compared to the codex chapters, and would get thier own books.

Also, kicking around the table where plenty of concept sketches for the new marines, and there are a lot of the rumoured "roman" bits on there, sculpted shileds, kinda winged helmets etc. Also SIX armed Techpriest terminators...

Confirmed Terminators will be ball jointed waists and heads, but arms will be similair to the current style...

Defo a GD UK release for 4th ed.

Regarding Imperial guard doctrines, and contrary to other rumours, there are NO PLANS for sentinal squadron, roughrider squadron, shotgun, or rhino doctrines. He did say that feedback on the "creature creations" chapter approved section in this months WD has been well recieved, and we will likely see similair things in coming months.

- New 4th Edition Rulebook will have a glossary and an index.

- New Terminator Techmarines

- New Apothecaries

- Plans to make Techmarines and apothecaries elite choices with attached servitors.



- New Marine command sprue with 80 add on bits for Marines including power armour lightning claws, right handed power fists, armour plates, scrolls, seals, all sorts of nice add ons, etc.

- New Assault Marines, one with a assault shield (Bolter incorporated into a shield)


- Hyperdetailed 40K. This is 40K with rules for running out of ammo, throwing grenades, etc. This was going to be in the rulebook as an appendix, but they ran out of space so they had to cut them. They should be in WD around the time of the 40K release

- No new armies for 40K in the near future. Production schedule is pretty much set for the next two years of the 8 year plan, but things are fluid after that.

- Adeptus Mechanicus army list ? Concepts being investigated at the moment by Jes Goodwin

- New Uriel Ventris novel with cross over characters from Storm of Iron

- Possible new Night Lords Novel

- Confirmation that TAR and TVR are pretty much the rule we'll see in the 40K Revised book. He expects the not being able to assualt out of a closed topped vehicle(except Land Raiers) will cause complaints at first among SM players, but adaption will happen.


- Redemptionists were droppoed from the Sisters list because they found them too good at what they did, cheap expendible troops with Eviscerators, hence they began to see SoB armies with not many Sisters. People who wnat them however can see the Zealots list(next WD?) Which represents an insane angry mob riled up by Ecclesiarchy preachers(he might have mentioned Crusaders hwere as well, but I can't remember. They will get positive Ld modifiers where toher troops get negative ones to represent their crazed(i.e under half strangth confers a +1 Ld modifier rather than a -1 Ld modifier)

- Adeptus Mechanicus WILL get an army list of their own. Jes Goodwin are working concepts at the moment. There not sure whether it'll be a book to itself or a list in a book with many armies(like EoT or Armageddon). Graham also hinted that the thing on Mars may not be a C'Tan.

- Graham is writing a new Ultramarines novel. There will be some crossover with Storm of Iron character making appearences.

- No new armies for 40K in the near future. Production schedule is pretty much set for the next two years of the 8 year plan, but things are fluid after that.

- New codices will be SM, Tyranids, and then either Eldar or Orks. The reason the SM codex is being redone is simply that while it was fine whan it was released, now production wise it looks tired compared to the new style codices like Tau, CSM, Witch Hunters, etc.

- The Background for the new 40K edition has Chaos on the ascendant at this point in time, Humanity is on the backfoot and Chaos is waxing 'at this point in time'.

There were a few WFB questions too, mostly on Storm of Chaos and Ogre Kingdoms

Other things at the event were:

Fanatic: Fanatic Magazine- Sadly not to buy, but there was a copy to look at. Skimmed it and it looks well produced and pretty good, latest Iteration of the Enforcer rules for Necromunda, Epic:A battle reoprt between 1,500 points of SM and Eldar, and a article on what you can do with the Citizens blisters for Inquisitors are the things that stood out in my memory. It's going to be the same price as WD according to the cover. Also there was the Empire in Flames book for Mordheim. Didn't notice any changes, but I'm not too into Mordheim. Models on show(but not to buy) were the 3 =I= civilian models and the Kroot Warsphere. Both look nice. Also, plastics for Battle of the fiver mies from the Hobbit. Looked nice but don't know much more about them. Looked to be about Warmaster scale.


Huge circular Inquisitor board. 3 way game between Purtians, Radicals and Undivided Chaos warbands. Great fun and very nice models(check Exterminatus 10 article on character generation to see some of the models used)

SPEEDBOWLLLLLL!!!!!!! - 7 a side Blood Bowl Rules, Necromunda setting- House Ulanti(Humans) team v. Pit Slave team(Orcs), Inquisitor scale! First touchdown wins! Simply great. Expensive to do outside demonstarions(this was just a mad idea from the staff at the Edinburgh Store so don't expect to see this on sale)

The tournament games were as depressing as last year. Iron Warriors w/ 2+ Ordinance and Obliterators, Eldar w/ ungodly numbers of Starcannons, SIGFAH and Shooty Marines were the order of the day. Still I'm tempted to get a competitior ticket next year... didn't get a good look at much of thw WFB armies. LOTR oddly enough was the first tournament to sell out, though it did have 25 tickets instead of about 200, but considering last year they had 5 compeititors that's a pretty good increase. 1st place, 2nd place and Best army went to people from Edinburgh, so it's obviously a game increasing in quality all the time

also ich hab konzeptzeichnungen gesehen und die sind... hmmm... sagen wir mal so... ich würd überlegen sie zu spielen wenn sie halbwegs ans konzept rankommen....

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