Intial reactions to 6th edition

[jaqenhgar]

So after my second game of sixth, I need to remember to roll for night fight and mysterious objectives since we forgot. Also I forgot and managed to place more than half my army in reserve (3 DW squads and two characters from a total of nine units), so there's a bit of a limitation there but just requires a bit more thought - I could have left my librarian with the DW squad that deployed normally and it wouldn't have changed the game very much.

My librarian underperformed this time, didn't do much useful and killed himself on a perils, no inv. saves against it. The wound allocation, although it makes my DW squads marginally more vulnerable to shooting, it does mean that the cyclone missile launcher guy survives longer since he's at the back so that's nice, but the same is true for the enemies heavy/special weapons as well.

Vehicles are definitely much easier to kill, glancing AV13 dreads to death in combat with thunder hammers. Tried my ravenwing and they were awesome, and got more survivable to krak missiles and heavy weapons (5+ jink save and T5 on the 2-wound attack bikes), plus I am really liking the pre-measuring.

Also the flyers being in reserve means they are a bit hit and miss, might not come on until turn 3 or 4 and so only get two or so turns of shooting. If you don't have juicy vehicle targets then they are quite easy to ignore with certain armies, as they can't contest objectives (vehicles and hull needs to be within 3" of objective anyway)