Orks got dicked in 8th

I'm not talking about their strength, which is pretty good from my experience so far. I'm talking about their customisability.

I have some gun trukks (one with the sexy flakk gun) that I hoped to field in-game, as well as a couple of Looted Wagons. As of 8th "your army is still valid" edition, neither of these units exist anymore.

I got an email back from Forgeworld to say that the Battle Fortress doesn't have rules because it is no longer sold... despite, you know, the Repressor and the other several dozen things they no longer sell getting updated rules:

>Hi user,

Our rules team have got back to us regarding this unfortunately according to what we have been told the rules team had intentionally left this out as the model had not had up to date rules in nearly 8 years and the model has long since left the range. they have suggested using the kit as a battle wagon or as an orkified bane blade

To be fair, they didn't check that the Kill Tank would be a better fit, as it has transport capacity etc in 8th. I'd still prefer the actual KBF though.

To make use of my flakk gun, I'd have to rip it off my trukk and buy a big trakk - this despite the fact that Forgeworld sells 2 (!) different trukks that are designed as weapon platforms, as well as the weapons themselves. And on the GW front, no Looted Wagon rules.

Orks got made very bland and boring in this edition, for no real reason.

Every army got hit with this and some, like tau, got fucked hard by lack of customization. Wait 4 the codices, and for a real forgeworld book (it should only take thirty or so years)
Also, did you ask them about the mega-dead? They're still selling that with no rules.

I didn't ask. I don't field dredd stuff in my Evil Sunz lot, which is why I'm annoyed at less wheels-on-the-ground options.

>for no real reason.
It's called streamlining. Expect a lot of extraneous and older things to start vanishing in order to make the game more appealing and easier to get into for new fans. I suspect this effect will eventually apply to unsupported factions like Sisters of Battle, as the imperium already has faction bloat and the SoB's have heavy overlap with the inquisition.

If I was a GW designer, i'd be aiming my hatchet at SoB's and elements of the inquisition and splitting the IoM factions up thusly:

Space Marines
Imperial Guard
Inquisition
Ecclesiarchy (SoB and some IQ elements, their own units)
Mechanicus

Grey Knights would be folded into Inquisition instead of being their own army

You may hate me, you may think it's bad design, but having 4 primary Imperial armies with options is better for improving transient pick-up. Instead of the cluster fuck of minor imperial factions we have now.

In other area's I would expand, like bringing back the Eldar Exodites as a faction. But the Imperium needs trimming

That's not what Forgeworld is though. Forgeworld has always been (and still is, as it doesn't have a physical presence in-store etc) the advanced gamer's domain.

Looted Wagons are one thing, but the trukks are nearly exactly the same as the big-trakks, just with a different chassis. They could literally copy and paste one more unit entry and change the wounds and stuff.

The baffling thing about the streamlining is that they turned around and added things as well, though. Don't Nobs now have a new weapon called a Power Stabba? Grot attendants are now part of the Big Mek/Warboss/Painboy "unit" as ablative wounds etc - I think that's awesome and I can now use Futwell the grot as a "proper" unit, but it makes the action slightly more complicated rather than him just being a token to be removed when fixing a vehicle.

I'd fold Deathwatch into the Inquisition as well.

Wait for the codexes you fucking retards

>Wait for the codexes
>Forgeworld tells me there is no plans for releasing the model

Ok.

>it's called streamlining!
No, it's called adjusting for the lowest common denominator.

>Repressor and the other several dozen things they no longer sell getting updated rules

There is a quite believable rumor that a new repessor is going into production at FW.

Fair enough, but it's just disappointing that they still sell the Trukks but there's no rules for them anymore. As above, they are still selling the Mega-Dread with no rules, either.