I feel like both of those are fairly large tables, but neither could fit the minimum Strike Force width. With my current furniture, my kitchen table is 74″ × 40″ and my dining room table is 78″ × 38″. Most dining room tables I’ve seen could do a 3′ wide game, but they don’t make it to 44″. Warhammer has used the old table size for pretty much its whole existence.Īccording to Games Workshop, they think that most dining room tables can accommodate the new size of a Strike Force game, but I think that’s a bit of a stretch. One of the unexpected changes in 9th edition was the shift from recommending 6′ × 4′ (72″ × 48″) tables to the new table sizes. The Grand Tournament 2020 Mission Pack has 9 missions each for Incursion and Strike Force (some that overlap with missions from the core book), and no support for Combat Patrol or Onslaught. In the core book, Incursion and Strike Force have 6 missions each while Combat Patrol and Onslaught have only 3 missions each. The middle two sizes seem to be where Games Workshop expects the most games. Here’s that progression of table sizes with a 30″ × 22″ Kill Team board added in as the first step: This allows for the missions to be tailored for different sizes of tables and different sizes of armies. With 9th edition, the game now has different missions for four different game sizes. For example, with a small army you cannot really contest as many objectives as you can with larger armies just due to having a limited number of units to work with. Similarly, the mission rules worked best with a certain size army so that smaller or larger armies would skew things. With different table sizes, the battle maps for missions could break down so that deployment zones or objective placements ended up not working correctly. In previous editions, the game broadly assumed a game on a 6′ × 4′ table with armies at about 2,000 points each.
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One of the features of 9th edition Warhammer 40,000 that I like is the scale of game sizes that it supports.