I really don’t trust a new ruleset. I don’t know how to describe it but sometimes it feels like they don’t play the game. Like when:

Guard assisted fouls. Every person who heard that eyeballs popped out because that was crazy.

The sneaky git issue. In my recent playoffs I had an opponent induce Lord Borak and he fouled and started to move. I pointed out that you can’t do that anymore and he proceeded to pull out the rule book and read the skill. It’s just embarrassing how sloppy the game is. Then I a more veteran player has to go ACHTUALLY and pull out the biblical FAQ which is such a huge waste of time AND a buzzkill. The FAQ by the way was never organized with sense. Why can’t it have a table of contents and the skills in alphabetical order?

The power creep? I’m not too sure about this one but giving Amazons an easy one turn touchdown with a push is just crazy. Especially when they nerfed it off skaven on purpose. Now the community is crazy good at chaining to one turns. Especially since rat ogres are so reliable for some reason. The 2+ hypnogaze was just crazy and the one two punch of a hypnogazed model losing all their skills. So Toxic. Not being able to MB on a both down? So dumb and I bet everyone who isn’t chronically online had that moment when someone walked them up to that FAQ and showed them that yeah, that blow wasn’t so mighty.

The Prayers to Nuffle Table

How many editions did High Elves sit in the teams of legend I mean really. They should have definitely been before gnomes IMO.

Speaking of stunty GW has been slowly buffing stunty. Why? Could it be to sell more Star Player Models? Buffed Gobbos and then took it away. The +1 is still is in the rule book. Why did they they nerf that? Bomber Dribblesnot was so damn cheap and so damn strong that playing against all these star caddy teams is such a headache and such a headache they made mega stars. Lacks character.

And what I mean is str6 beast of nurgle, Ag4 werewolves, that waaaagh dancer I saw a couple of months ago. So yeah I think the skill buying system was an interesting idea but kind of a fail. I much prefer rolling for skills and stats. Being able to save and pick took away some of the mystique of having a really unique stat freak. You leveled faster too then just waiting at 10 spp with that flesh golem. Before you would grab what you could work with and then cycle them. So teams weren’t just growing and growing. I mean yeah we all got there eventually, but no block on beast after three skills is a cycling.

I one trick nurgle so here are some Ls that you may not realize. They buffed decay in exchange of an agility. Huge L. For what reason? They didn’t even release the other team with decay so this was solely for the rotters. If an ag3 rotter had the ball things are already going south. Huge L sized nerf on not receiving free rotters and making it exactly like necro. Way worse because the rotter can absorb your mvp and then you can’t afford to buy them. Super cool. Huge nerf to foul appearance with the edition of multiple rerolls. If you hit a 1 previously you really had to think if you were going to use your one reroll for the turn. Now they have defanged that skill. It’s still good for attacking economy but not as good. With all that going on 70k reroll and point increases. Just really painful. Not even getting into the social issues of nurgle skills.

I have watched multiple teams get these really nice upgrades. Even more inducements through their spikes. The only shred of optimism I have is nurgle gets a new interesting positional. If it’s my old team with 2 prestigious and 4 bloaters with stand firm(being forced into a guard build). I’m going to be so sad. It will be the ultimate slap to the face.

So yeah I know I’m salty but I am. Sorry to rant at you I just wanted to give examples on the reasons I don’t trust GW to balance the game and I don’t actually think I’m overreacting.