When a beloved tabletop universe spanning decades of dice rolls and painted miniatures meets the demands of digital strategy, something must give — and Creative Assembly has chosen wisdom over literalism. By treating Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000 rulebooks as a compass rather than a constitution, the studio is asking a deeper question: what is the soul of a game, and can it survive translation? The answer, if history is any guide, lies not in faithful reproduction but in faithful interpretation.