Planet Strike Rumours

Planet Strike will supposedly come sooner than expected. I’m told July at the latest.

Rumoured rules:

In a game of Planet Strike, the Attacker/Defender split will be very important, with them possibly getting different FOCs.

Defender
Gets to place all terrain on the battlefield and picks his table edge.

He can declare Terrain to be dangerous if he wants (Mined for example) although it’s not clear how much he can do this for.

There will be buildings with mounted weapons, like armed bunkers etc. Probably, the defender will have to place all of his army.

Attacker
May place some Craters to get some cover.

May move in from his table edge, Deep Strike and Outflank, similar to a "Dawn of War" Scenario.

May also get some goodies like a prepared Artillery fire on the defending units, special equipment etc.

Will most likely get first Turn.

Releases:

New multipart plastic terrain kit similar to the Cities of Death ruins. With enough of those you will possibly be able to build fortresses, defensive structures for tanks, or control towers, outposts etc. (believed to be seen on Page 243 in the 40K rulebook).

Aircraft landing pad

New craters

Ironclad Dreadnaught

Land Speeder Storm

Vulkan Hes'tan

Plastic Thunderhawk is again mentioned.

"Imperial Bastion"

"Chaos Bastion"

"Temple of Skulls"

... remember these names.

I believe the craters are slightly more detailed than the current plastic ones-- I've no idea of what they are made, but I believe they contain more detiled rubble/corpses/tat/etc etc.

There's also a set of "markers" for things like minefields and so on, I think these presumably work in a manner akin to the strategic assets from cityfight.