Warhammer 40,000 LEVIATHAN - The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly!

Peter dives into 10th edition Warhammer 40,000 with the new boxed set, LEVIATHAN, and tells you what he thinks is good, what's bad, and what's UGLY!

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[AngryJoeShow]

How do you feel about Alternating Activations for 40k? Im with you on getting rid of Battle Ready and Wound rolls! Faster means more fun, more games, mroe time to focus on tactics.

[marklong]

Hi Peter, if I remember correctly the Starship Troopers game system (Andy Chambers) had just a two roll system, basically hits caused damage (one roll, if a shot is made it hits and just causes the damage), then a save which portrays the armour/chitin shell effect to absorb the wound. Much quicker, and still loads of fun

[Stewart-tx]

I enjoyed your unboxing to see product in the box. A great job painting your minis. I will be getting box set sat.25- 23. Question what paint color was used on the minis. They did not have contrast paint in the 90s. Your paint job was awesome. Thanks sharing and have a good day.

[unclebones]

Peter, the voice of sense in miniature gaming, thanks again for a sensible review

[brother_wesley]

Really like your idea of less rounds of dice rolling. Hope they listen for future editions. 👍

[ignitedxblaze]

Actually started by wargaming journey with conquest, yup the two wound step dated and giving feel bads. Would like to see more conquest bat reps in the future!

[beermonster]

Great video. Those Tyranids really look menacing. Great paint job! Looking forward to the battle report.

[HunterKiller]

There was a rumor that they were getting rid of wound rolls for 10th, but there was a decent amount of backlash for that. i imagine, if GW were planning to do that, they changed their mind when they saw the reaction to the leak

[grimskald]

That is a beautiful rulebook. It could be the nicest they have ever done.

[wolfie]

I like the 2 rolls system, however I think when I started playing there was a smaller volume of dice to roll (e.g. in WHFB back then it was more uncommon that one side would roll more than 10 dice to attack). It only took a few seconds to roll, pick up the successes, and roll again. These days I feel like much of the time units are rolling 10's of dice, and a single turn might see 100's of dice thrown... in which case the 2 rolls system becomes a bit onerous.

[PanZermn]

Thanks for the review. Just played an intro game at the local gw and I completely agree about the wound roll. Both my opponent and I were bogged down by asking each other ‘and what’s your toughness?’ We rolled like 50 dice each and there were only three total casualties. If you haven’t played One Page Rules, check that out. For a newbie like me, it was much more streamlined and fun. I hope to enjoy the official rules one day though.

Regarding painting, I think there should be some incentive to painting your miniatures. In a casual setting, strict adherence to the rules seems moot anyway, so I’m fine with the inclusion of the extra vp ‘rule’. I would never ask for the extra points against an unpainted army, but would point to it in jest in the hopes of getting someone to paint their stuff. Painted armies look cool. It’s all about the spectacle for me.

[noprobllama]

Can't believe the hype from three months ago. All calmed down now but still lots of new miniatures to collect with the tyranid codex launching today.

[MustContainMinis]

Thanks so much for making this video. I am really hoping to buy this box. I have my name on a list for it at a FLGS so fingers crossed! Happy Gaming!

[stuartrathbone]

10 and a bit years ago I was a regular player at a 40k club. We made a decision not to get into power gaming but to play a bit more on theme, which isn't a criticism of anyone else, just how we wanted to play. We would attend tournaments, but had no intention of playing at the top tables. So each year by the time the tournaments came around we would have fully painted and nicely presented armies. However after that we'd normally be developing new armies for next year and go from piles of fresh grey plastics to fully painted over about 9 months. We would have had ZERO problem ignoring a rule like battle ready, but oh boy can I see other groups and players struggling with this. What a silly addition.

[matthewjohnmoriarty]

just discovered your channel, love your vibe

[Flamethrower]

I use to like the old flames of war method of shooting ( i say old because i only played the last edition)
Simply rolled to hit and added modifiers so -1 long range -1 if unit is in cover -1 if the unit had gone to ground etc, after shooting and the relevant modifiers are applied the opponent got to roll their saves .

[thedourkin]

I love the Tyranid colour scheme, it's similar to a model Ninjon painted recently which was also very organic and Xenomorph inspired.

[m.e.]

Nice review! I can imagine high school and college gaming clubs having a copy of this as a way to get members. And that vp rule would quickly be ignored if they wanted to keep their new members!😊

[kayosiiii]

As I understand it the wound roll is there to deal with limitations of basing the game on the six sided die. I think you could combine to hit and wound if you used say a 10 sided dice for each attack.
Alternatively you could have game mechanics that trigger on the number of hits, like being able to pin units in place.

[davedeputyZX]

You're right they should merge the To Wound role and the Save roll, but you cant do that using a D6 system.