Is there a guide on base size?  I'm sure the old 'the base it came with' no longer flies since the sizes have changed, and i'm guessing I have to find a way to change the base size of my old armies, but I have no idea what models would now belong on what size of base.

https://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/109817/building-better-warhammer-40000-prohammer

I used to use Army builder for my 40k & Fantasy army building but it could get quite unwieldy. Are there any good apps of this type floating around?  Is AB still good (I registered). Free would be good but not essential. Also for warhahordes if known. Thanks in advance. 

The main one is that thanks to the Great Rift, the Emperor's psychic might has been amplified along with that of the psychic awakening of humanity.  He is actively working from within the Warp to help humanity now.  To the point where He razed a hefty chunk of Nurgle's Garden.  So he definitely has grown in power.

It seems like He knows about Guilliman's betrayal in creating Imperium Secundus during the Heresy too, but doesn't care.

Guilliman got smashed by Mortarion.  But I'm not sure if he deliberately lost or not.  It's possibly he lost on purpose due to what the farseer had seen and advised.

Mortarion has been defeated and Nurgle is NOT happy with him.  Might not see him active for a while now, although the brief interaction between Mortarion and the Emperor may imply that he could be redeemed at some point in the future.

So a smaller spoiler is that there's a Blood Angel character that has feathered wings.  Which poses interesting questions for the possible  resurrection of Sanguinius.  Well, it does for me 😛 But the Yellow King obviously has access to create marines.

Second, and the biggest reveal right at the end, Constantine Valdor is alive and kicking...and is the Yellow King.  Not only kicking, but creating a massive army and fleet in a pocket dimension (possibly in the webway like Commorragh).  He also has a massive amount of clones of pariahs, which he's been using as weapons.  There's been a few theories I've seen as to what his true purpose is.  As the Yellow King, he's been searching for the true name of the Emperor.  This could be to destroy the Emperor...or it could be to resurrect / heal the Emperor.

Either way, the final book in the Bequin trilogy is going to be interesting to see how it develops and pans out!

Look very nice - I don't know the ghosts very well. Mates of mine do though and are very interested:

Some other stuff in there - very cool.

I'm getting back into the Hobby after years away. Not looking to be ultra competitive, mainly looking to increase my social interaction. 
Trying to work out which army to start with, based on aesthetics I'm most interested in the Tau and Space Marines, though Necrons and Adeptus Mechanicus are close behind. Any friendly advice or commentary on who might be easier to start with, that's not super focused on the meta side of things, would be greatly appreciated.

7 (Geddit) New Death Guard Rules

Here's last week's article - mentions plague companies.

Shocking no-one, they're getting some neat buffs and for anyone who said "GW will give more D2+ weapons to deal with 2 wound space marines, thus creating a new baseline for power in 40k" - looks like you were correct.

GW has partnered with some of the more successful 40k fan film animators to make some new official content.

I see this as a win.

I’ve been burning through some 40k books and finding mixed quality in the audio book reads. Some are great; others are not.

Any recommendations for any that particularly shine?

Rules wise, any model with 2 or more wounds has living metal now.

Honestly most of that was better than I expected.

Aside from being 50pts over, could this be considered OP at 1000pts? I'd only be interested in friendlies at this stage and would tweak the list for tournaments (i think my locals do 1500pts)

++ Patrol Detachment 0CP (Chaos - Chaos Space Marines) [41 PL, 6CP, 626pts] ++
Legion: Emperor's Children
Chaos Lord [5 PL, 90pts]: 2x Lightning Claw, Mark of Slaanesh, The Rapacious Talons, Warlord
Noise Marines [11 PL, 141pts]: Icon of Excess
. Marine w/ blastmaster: Blastmaster
. 4x Marine w/ sonic blaster: 4x Bolt pistol, 4x Frag & Krak grenades, 4x Sonic Blaster
. Noise Champion: Chainsword, Sonic blaster
Sonic Dreadnought [7 PL, 110pts]: 2 x Blastmaster, Helbrute fist
Defiler [9 PL, 135pts]: Havoc launcher, Mark of Slaanesh, Reaper autocannon
Heldrake [9 PL, 150pts]: Baleflamer, Mark of Slaanesh

++ Super-Heavy Auxiliary Detachment -3CP (Imperium - Astra Militarum) [26 PL, -3CP, 424pts] ++
Regimental Doctrine: Astra Millitarum
Stormsword [26 PL, 424pts]: Twin heavy bolter

++ Total: [67 PL, 3CP, 1,050pts] ++
 

11 models. not sure if anyone remembers my WAU thread, but almost everything is converted. 

The terminator heavy flamer is also getting a range buff to 12", which I suspect will happen to other flamer weapons.  Or it might be reserved for the bigger / heavier flame weapons.

What do you guys think about these changes?  Makes marines more durable, old marines will be a more viable choice.  If that's the case, it certainly makes me wonder if GW actually are going to phase out the older style marines after all.

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If this terrain feature is at least 3” in height, then subtract 1 from the hit roll when resolving an attack with a ranged weapon unless you can draw straight lines 1mm in thickness to every part of at least one model’s base (or hull) in the target unit from a single point on the attacking model’s base (or hull) without any of those lines passing over or through any part of an terrain feature with this trait.

I see many arguments and much angst in the future.

Personally I think it's hilarious, although the English teacher in me shed a little tear

Sounds like a workable half-way system, though I guess Earthshaker cannons would be a bit OP with their pie plate if they're doing 2D6 to units they hit... But then again it's just for funsies.

Any thoughts?

Which bits stand out the most to you?

Can I please see your best future-proofed 2,000 point Ork Dread Mob lists please.

I've had a small (600pts?) IG force sharing my army bag with my WFB Lizardmen army (guess how much I've used them in the last 4 years? hint, none). I was surprised when I went looking in my assembly box that I still have a double handful of metal not-Soviets guardsmen models and two squads of stormtroopers I clean forgot about! Also have two flavours of 3rd party minis for guardsmen squads, 3 jeep model kit conversions half finished, an aerosan conversion on the go... Plenty to do before 9e drops! I don't think I've touched a tabletop since 6e, though working fly in fly out and moving to a rural town hasn't helped either.

Apparently some people aren't coping with this change or the fact it's a minimum amount, so they can keep on using the old 48" tables / mats they have.  I figured it's probably been done to make it easier to play on a dining table or something to make the game a bit more accessible to new players.

Is anyone concerned about the size change?  If so, why?  I'm curious as to the thinking.