I have to agree. The data sheets are irritating trash. That they leave out a couple rules and the points (and instead include power which is pretty unworkable at a glance) makes them pretty useless. A simple spreadsheet for each faction would be more useful, and just as easy to update.maglag wrote:First point costs. Loyalist scum basic dudes 13 points each. Remember when they costed as much as 3 guardsmen before grenades? Grav-pistol for sergeant at 7 points (which remember now you can shoot them in close combat), and the squad's most expensive upgrade is the multi-melta at a whooping 27 points. Which it's somewhat fair as now they can move and fire that sucker with BS 3 while frying through cover.
Oh, and summons come out of your army'point cost now, kinda like reserves except you have some choice on what you want to summon after the game started. This is pretty good news since it stops all the summoning chains sillyness that was going around.
GW pulls a really weak excuse to why point costs are not on the main datasheets because "saving space" and that it'll "make it easier to errata costs on the fly for balance purposes". Neither sounds really plausible, since datasheets have plenty of space for a few more numbers and that wouldn't stop publishing errata, but at least GW promising to be willing to change the point cost of stuff more regularly to fix what's broken would be a step up from the current "your army sucks, wait 1d6 years for a new codex/supplement".
Stat line for unit
Indent - attached special rules
Repeat
Stat line for guns.
Complete!
Hell the back of the book summaries were about as useful as these stupid data sheets.
Getting rid of Universal special rules is also galling. Thin out some of the crap ones? Absolutely! Turn the game back to an exception based mess of special rules by unit? Go fuck yourselves.
Summoning is definitely a good change. Not having infinite armies in a balanced game is just... Obvious.
@banshee. A lot of the excitement comes from the fact that it isn't as bad as 7th. While it has some stupid shit, there is a chance to play a functional game without being absolutely shit on by the crazy garbage they packed into the last edition.