The command phase is both the first thing to happen in the turn and the easiest to explain. The golden armoured dreadnoughts of the Adeptus Custodes lead the charge. Each turn consists of seven phases the command phase, the movement phase, the psychic phase, the shooting phase, the charge phase, the combat phase and the morale phase. The game is played across five battle rounds, with each player taking a turn in each battle round. Two players control an army of miniatures each and take turns to move their armies across the board, shooting their opponent’s figures or mashing them up in close combat as appropriate. Getting back to basics, the game of Warhammer 40k is played in a space populated with various bits of terrain (or whatever you have lying around in your kitchen cupboards). If you’re a veteran of recent editions of 40k you can find a piece that looks at the changes between 8th and 9th edition here. This is a review of the game for those who are new to it, or who have been away for some time. Having said all that, the release of the 9th edition of the game is both a great opportunity, as well as a big risk. With the model range for 40k being so broad, and gorgeous, that was all it took to propel the game, and the company, to the next level it seems. Providing comparative simplicity of rules, but still with plenty of depth, 8th edition was a ruleset that had mass appeal in spades. Players who are familiar with the mess of 7th edition may appreciate that this is quite the achievement and it has happened, in large part, due to the new direction the 8th edition of the game took back in 2017. Games Workshop, as a company, has soared in recent times, making it to the FTSE 250 for the first time. From its humble beginnings as a small scale skirmish game (with a completely different name) Warhammer 40,000 (or 40k, as many of its players refer to it for the sake of speed) is a behemoth in the tabletop miniatures scene. Warhammer 40,000, Games Workshop’s flagship offering, has been through many different iterations in the twenty-plus years it has existed.
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