Originally Posted by
Uberbeast
The Ghaz supplement is actually decent, but I'm still amazed at the beating the normal ork codex took. It really pisses me off that they planned these two books together and decided to make one a pile of nerfs and the other stand out in every way as superior. They had such a good framework to go with from the last ork codex. Why would they just go through and systematically nerf nearly everything in a book that was already an out of date underperformer? It really shows that GW is intentionally forcing 40k into a "pay to win" game where buying one book isn't good enough and you have to go out and play premade lists (formations) full of expensive models you don't otherwise need in order to keep from being someone's punching bag.
I'll bet everyone looking at those new formations is thinking to themselves: "okay, I need another of these, and two more of these..." I myself have a massive ork collection of everything they offer for the range except the new gork/morkanaughts and I would still need to add stuff to run some of these formations.
As formations and supplements provide an ever increasing advantage; prepare to see the same armies over and over again. Copy paste-pay to win.