Chargers strike first. My Orks just gave a mighty cheer!
They added a movement stat, but took away initiative? How will they determine who strikes first after the first round? Did Slaanesh units just lose a buff?
They made WS a "fixed" stat, but kept toughness and strength. Thought they would have gone with the AoS "fixed" to hit and to wound stats, and just gave very Tough models (like a Great Unclean One) a bunch more wounds.
Speaking of more wounds, I like how vehicles are now treated like every other model (toughness, armor save, wounds) but I read some vehicles will have "dozens of wounds". Dozens?!?!? No, that won't be a bitch to keep track of at all! Will an Ork Stompa have 36 wounds???
No more templates, and, although I will miss them, it makes more sense and makes the game go faster. Not sure how they will handle scatter, though.
Terminators have two wounds. Will Meganobs have three? No? Price decrease maybe?
No army is to be "squatted"(awesome), although all my old codex's are now just for pretty pictures and fluff (not terrible).
All in all, still a lot unanswered, but I like more than what I hate, so far. The mere fact that the main rules will now be free will certainly help in bringing in new players, and if they keep the new codex's cheap, I won't have such a hard time convincing new players that they won't need to take out a 2nd mortgage to afford to play this game.