T5 Orks are a thing now.

You saw the title, folks. Orks are going up a point of toughness. 

   

This may not seem like much, but as stated in this Warhammer Community Article, all greenskins, including grots, are going up a point of toughness.  While this may not seem huge at first, that extra point could cause big waves in your games of Warhammer 40 000. 

First of all is that most infantry weapons will be wounding Orks on 5s. Even boltguns, arguably one of the best base infantry weapons in the game, will be wounding at the same rate as the lasgun, affectionately known as the "flashlight." 

This means that most armies will not have an effective way of combating the 30-strong units of Ork Boyz, outside of heavy weapons, which frankly are not that spread out in units outside of vehicles and a handful of dedicated heavy weapon squads (like Devastators or Dark Reapers). This means that there isn't a good way to avoid a mob of Orks overrunning your midfield objective holders and hacking them away with their -1 AP choppas (That's another new thing. Not too bad for Marines but other armies might be in trouble). 

I think that extra point of toughness makes the Orks of 9th edition much more powerful than they were previously, to the point of brokenness. I am not looking forward to dealing with this sort of thing. Alas, we can only wait and see what GW does with the Orks when their Codex releases.

Happy painting,

FP01