The book is bad. What can we do about it?
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| Dang it, I only finished this guy months ago! |
This may be pissing into the wind, but I think we're entitled to voice our displeasure to GW, and there are a couple channels by which we might do so. The first is the Warhammer 40K community Facebook page, which infuriatingly (considering how poor the book's rules are) has Dark Angels in the banner art. One doesn't have to scroll down far to find an entry featuring Dark Angels. Leave a response voicing your displeasure with the book there.
It is also (kind of, maybe) possible to email GW directly. The Warhammer Community site has a contact us page with a couple options for emailing the company. The first obvious choice is the customer service email (CustServ@gwplc.com), but this strikes me as more intended for resolving issues with product availability or purchasing problems. There's also a customer service phone number (1800 394 4263), but again, probably for purchasing problems.
Perhaps more promising is the 40K FAQ email ( 40kFAQ@gwplc.com), which isn't presented as being a channel for complaining about bad rules, but it does purport to be a way to contact the 40K rules team directly. Does it count as an FAQ if enough of us ask why they did such a bad job on our rules?
I'm not saying that trying to communicate to Games Workshop through these channels is going to do a ton of good. Rules are printed in a book, and GW really doesn't like to alter those. The best we may reasonably be able to hope for is to see more appropriate points costs in the next balance dataslate. However, as GW's customers, we deserve to be able to let the company know we are unhappy. I'm going to give it a shot, if for no other reason than to get it out of my system. My effort may never reach anyone relevant at Games Workshop, but that will be because GW decided to place barriers between the rules team and the playing community, not because I failed to give it a shot. If you feel the same way, fire an email to GW. Letting GW know they've given us an unsatisfactory book doesn't just serve we DA players, but it also gives notice to the rules team that they need to do better with other players' rules as well.
Here's a quick body of text you can copy and paste into an email that brings up what I think are the top issues that need to be addressed. Feel free to edit it as you see appropriate, just be sure to keep the language and tone civil.
To the Games Workshop Warhammer 40K rules writing team,
I am writing you today to express my disappointment with Codex supplement: Dark Angels. I had been looking forward to fun, competitive units and exciting detachments, but this book did not deliver those. Here is a list of the failings of the book I am most disappointed by:
1: The Unforgiven Task Force was not improved. It has the worst detachment rule in the whole game.2: Lion El'Jonson was nerfed but his points cost was not appropriately reduced. With his current dataslate, he should be no more than 250 points.
3: Deathwing Knights were nerfed, but their points were not appropriately reduced. With their current dataslate, they should not cost significantly more points than a Terminator Assault Squad.
4: The Land Speeder Vengeance was nerfed, but the points of the unit were not appropriately reduced. In this case, it would take a drastic points reduction to make the Vengeance a unit I would be inclined to take. I would much prefer for it to remain at its current points value, and have the plasma storm battery be restored to a Damage 2/Damage 3 profile.
I am a fan of Warhammer 40K, and I hope the 40K rules team will put the effort needed into ensuring I remain so. I will look to see these issues addressed in the next balance dataslate. I also strongly encourage the rules team to revisit the Dark Angels book, as these are not the only failings in the Dark Angels book, only the most egregious.
Sincerely,
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