Context;

\- This game was played only on what has been revealed or reliably implied thus far from Adeptacon and Warhammer Community articles. The remainder of rules were 10th.

\- Both armies used single detachments (Army of Faith, Hearthband) and their ‘assumed’ dispositions were Disruption & Take and Hold (Death Trap vs Determined Acquisition) as that is the only mission pairing revealed at this time.

\- Incursion Game Size (1000 points)

\- Intranzia was just an armiger on a 60mm base to match for height. 

What was learned;

\- This will be the edition, not of combat, but of movement.  Yes the shooting does start earlier for your frontline units , but proper placement is key. You can’t dawdle in your deployment zone for long before a large vehicle comes barrelling over the horizon on turn 2. A Hekaton in this case lol.

\- Playing your independent primary actually feels fun. Death Trap was a blast, though it will definitely lend itself to an MSU style of army.

\- Cover being -1, very simple. What type of terrain counts as obscuring or LOS blocking? Easy to lose track or get confused by. Recommend a printout of your battle map at the ready or easily discernible light terrain and heavy terrain.

\- Secondaries keep the game moving and make it quite intensive too. Planning who is performing Booby Traps, who is performing the kills on trapped objectives, who’s running around to Establish Locus. It’s very involved. Which gets me as a player more involved. So even though I was tabled by bottom of turn 3, I didn’t feel downtrodden at all.

\- Intranzia is great, does her job well. Her + Paragons are great fun. The problem (and we’ve all been saying it) - no lone op or leadership quality. If she had that she’d of felt fearsome, but unfortunately she was sniped out by a Hekaton on round 2 lol.

\- Bigger objectives - bigger fights to hold them. Your OC is going to matter big time this edition. It probably won’t be uncommon to place 2-3 units on the middle NML objective just to fight off Tyranid chaff or Necrons with Command Barges, or Sacresants with a Dogmata in Champions lol.

\- This was a weird one, but: the Terrain article showed a mortifier wholly within a Terrain objective. So we treated that as “vehicles on bases = terrain area compatible”, whereas unbased vehicles like tanks and transports could only touch for OC. I’m unsure how far this will extend. Does that mean Knights on bases like Questoris variants and Armigers can enter? Will walkers/super heavy’s/mounted/titanic/towering all have different rules? Remains to be seen. If you can sit a super heavy 10OC Knight Paladin in the midboard or a Tau Supremacy Suit - could cause problems. 🤷🏻‍♂️ 

\- No stratagem stacking felt fine tbh. Just meant you took 10 extra seconds before landing on a choice that phase.

Overall, simpler, more fun. Hopefully the full manual keeps that vibe going. Thanks for reading 🫡 

Pseudo-11th w/ “Intranzia” - Actually pretty fun.