Quote Originally Posted by LeSwordfish View Post
I've only played one game (but it was a pretty big one... I need to post the pictures from it!) but what I found myself missing was the power of heroes - I would personally beef up Space Marine Captains etc to make them more powerful and capable, since that lets you tell small-scale individual narratives within the big game. At the moment heroes get a bit lost and don't achieve much by themselves.
Yeah, it definitely diminishes characters a lot, particularly psykers, who are reliant on drawing the right cards to actually use a power. I maintain that it’s a better overall game system than base 40k, but base 40k delivers things Apocalypse cannot.