Warhammer 40k 10th edition leaks condensed

GENERAL INFORMATION

- Terrain can be destroyed
- Almost all mechanics work on D6 rolls
- There are rules for rerolls and +/- 1 modifiers
- New mechanic called Advantage/Disadvantage
- Advantage means rolls of 6 are 'critical'
- Advantage stacks, so double Advantage means 5 and 6 are 'critical'
- Advantage/Disadvantage cancel each other out
- 'Criticals' count as additional successes, can trigger additional things

ATTACK SEQUENCE

- Disadvantage means that 6 is a 'Glancing' hit
- 'Glancing' means not outright failure, you can combine Glances to still get some hits
- Attack sequence is hit - damage - saves - invulnerable saves
- Hit scores are fixed, modified by Advantage/Disadvantage
- To calculate Advantage/Disadvantage compare Hit traits with enemy Evade traits
- Pairings are Rapid Fire/Dodge, Tracker/Speed, True Grit/Jinx, Seeker/Obscured, Pulse/Flicker
- Unnegated Evade traits give Disadvantage
- Two Glances to Hit are one success
- Determine damage before saves
- Armour saves are fixed, modified by Advantage/Disadvantage
- Compare Armour traits with Penetrate traits to calculate Advantage/Disadvantage
- Pairings are Armored/Penetrating, Shielded/Fusion, Aegis/Infused, Artificer/Killshot
- Examples given: Power weapons are penetrating, Melta is Fusion, Infused is Force weapons, Snipers are Killshot
- There are two 'Wildcard' traits: Veteran Instincts for Hit, Hardened for Save
- Two Glances to Save are one Save
- Damage spills over but this is often limited by weapon rules
- Invulnerable saves after, and in addition to armour saves
- Mortal Wounds still exist and circumvent all this
- Traits can have tiers, and need a appropriate-tiered counter-trait to cancel them
- Weapon profiles are not uniform, a bolter on a Captain has different rules than a bolter on a Guardsman
- There are a number of rules that give Advantage/Disadvantage directly
- Blast weapons work by doing additional damage on critical successes

UNIT PROFILES

- Profiles are completely redesigned
- General structure of the Profile now follows the Phases
- Profile layout:
- Stats and Picture
- Then boxes for every phase
- Boxes have Special Rules, Weapons, Enhancement slots and Keywords that are relevant in that phase
- Stats: Movement,  Evade Traits, Save value + traits, Invulnerable Save value +traits, Wounds, Initiative, Morale
- Weapon profile: Range, Attacks, Hit value + traits, Penetration traitss, Damage, special rules
- Every unit has a 'Morale' special rule
- Morale threshold is when the rule is triggered
- Some recurring rules: Indomitable: no additional result, Shaken: can't get Advantage, Attrition, Broken: unit destroyed
- ATSKNF is a special Morale rule and better than Shaken

ARMY SELECTION

- You select 'Battle Profiles' from your roster datasheet
- 'Battle Profile' contains all the information you need to play
- Stratagems are mainly unit upgrades now
- You pay for the availability of Stratagems with Requisition points before the game
- In-game you pay for using them with Command points
- Power levels are completely gone
- Everything uses points now, but most squad loadouts are free
- Powerful loadout options are free, but cost Requisition points instead, e.g. Lascannon, Plasma
- Many Stratagems cost 0 CP to use
- You usually get 2 CP a turn, +1 to go second, +1 if you fulfill a Secondary Mission
- Every army has a Signature Stratagem that is free
- Stratagems take up Enhancement Slots on the Battle Profile
- Relics, Warlord traits and Secondary Missions also take up Enhancement Slots
- Troops have many slots, elite units and tanks only have a few
- Scoring secondary missions gives you Victory points and an additional Command point
- You can only score each Secondary mission once, and only one per turn
- Relics and Warlord traits cost real points too
- All that stuff is supported by a new App
- All armies get new rules in a book called 'Warhosts'
- Subfactions basically gone / merged with factions
- You now build an army by selecting a Detachment
- Detachment rules will tell you which keywords you can include
- Stuff like Relics, Psychic powers etc. now also has keywords
- In practice this means that with the right Detachment, army building is much more flexible
- Instead of playing 'Eldar' you now play a Detachment that mainly contains Eldar, but could have Harlequins, Drukhari etc. as well
- Faction/Subfaction rules are now bound to the Detachment
- Supplements add a lot of keyworded things to represent a specific Chapter etc.
- Due to the keyword structure, stuff for e.g. Orks can also be in the e.g. Space Marine codex

GRAND TOURNAMENT

- GT allows only one specific faction
- GT is its own thing in organization and troop selection
- GT only allows pre-made Battle Profiles you select from
- The only thing you can change is weapons loadout and some stratagems etc.
- These function like some sort of 'sideboard'
- These GT profiles will rotate each season
- GT Terrain is drawn from a list of Terrain in the GT packs
- GT terrain is symmetrical
- Each player is supposed to bring two GT Terrain sets
- GT Battle Profiles are not in the Codex, but in the GT pack for each season

TERRAIN, COVER AND MOVEMENT

- Terrain rules much clearer
- Three classes: light, hard, fortified
- Three types: area, landmark, obstacle
- You need to discuss what happens with destroyed Terrain
- Line of Sight stays mostly the same
- If you can see any model in a unit, unit is not obscured
- If you can't, unit is hidden
- Cover is much better, offers bonuses both to Evade and Save
- Units within 6'' ignore Cover
- No Cover in Melee
- You only get Cover if fully in Area Terrain, or within 3'' of Terrain and obscured
- All distances are measured horizontally, no diagonal measurement
- Units may move upwards up to their movement allowance in addition to their horizontal movement
- Downwards movement is not limited at all
- Non-Infantry Models need to physically fit everywhere they move unless they have the 'Fleet' special rule
- Heavy Infantry like Terminators also can't ignore Obstacles
- This means that e.g. dragons teeth actually work as intended to stop tanks
- Every player can bring one obstacle and one large terrain piece in addition to mission-specific terrain
- These can be free or paid with points
- Size is a keyword in every Profile
- Not very granular: Light - Solid - Heavy - Superheavy - Titanic
- Terrain can be destroyed by units of different sizes moving through its
- Light can be destroyed by infantry size 'solid' and up
- Hard can be destroyed by terminators, tanks
- Fortified can be destroyed by superheavies
- Area terrain is one level harder to destroy, fortified area terrain is indestructable
- You can move through Light and Solid-size models of your own army
- Tanks can also move through Light enemies
- Blast weapons and weapons with 'Demolish' can also destroy terrain by scoring a number of wounds in a single turn
- There are plastic tokens to mark destroyed terrain etc.

TURN STRUCTURE

- Turn structure is different now
- Battle rounds and turns stay as they are
- Within a turn, you activate units one at a time and go through all phases, in an order you determine
- You can activate several units at once, e.g. characters and units
- Units can skip phases for bonuses or to use them later in e.g. overwatch
- Fight phase cannot be skipped if enemy is in CC range
- Interventions can be used to interrupt an enemy activation
- Overwatch is an intervention that allows you to shoot during an enemy activation
- Units that are within 6'' of an unit that has fought can intervene
- Initiative is used for this
- Melee weapons have lots of attacks, but you usually just fight on your turn
- Melee weapons have a 'reach' stat that determines how many models can fight
- Reach 0: direct contact, Reach 1: contact with a friendly model in direct contact, and so on
- Weapon types have gone, but some, e.g. Pistol, remain as special rules
- Charging is done in the movement phase
- Due to the players chosing phase order each activation, you can shoot before charging, or even after fighting

INITIATIVE, ACTIVATION AND INTERVENTION

- Everytime a unit has fought, nearby enemies may intervene
- Both sides roll 6D6 against their Initiative - if the intervening player has more successes, he can intervene
- Interventor immediately gets a movement phase and can pile in, and a fight phase after that
- Units with high Initiative can use this to fight back, then immediately fight again on their turn
- No strike first/strike last effects anymore
- No consolidation anymore, you use your normal movement
- There are only five movement types
- Charge: in movement phase, normal move + 2D6'', must end in CC range of enemy
- Pile-in: if within 6'' of an enemy. 6'' move that needs to end in CC range of enemy
- Retreat: normal move that needs to end outside 6'' of the enemy, forgoes shooting and psychic phase
- Run and normal Move: stay the same

PSYCHIC POWERS

- Psychic powers are selected by appropriate keywords, no unified 'lore' list anymore
- Psychic phase can be whenever you like, one per activation
- Units can use different numbers of powers
- Powers have no warp charge, but a casting score. Use Advantage/Disadvantage
- You still roll 2D6 with perils on snake eyes - if you have at least one succes, the power goes through
- Deny now works as a collective action of all your psykers, use the best psy stat
- You can deny any amount of powers, but if you go over the limit you get Disadvantages
- Denying needs more successes than using powers, so double-crit when casting makes powers undeniable

AIRCRAFT

- Aircraft only exist in hover model
- If an enemy comes within 6'' of an aircraft, that aircraft is removed from play and replaced on any board edge by the controlling player

RANDOM TIDBITS

- Primaris 'Rupture Squads' with warp shunt modules are a new unit
- There is a plastic sprue with tokes for all sorts of effects
- Starter Box is Blood Angels vs Tyranids
- 'There are 0 accurate rules leaks out there - the AoO stuff is correct, other stuff is laughable'
- The Lion is coming and will be out before 10th edition