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the only ap that matters is 3 or less

True JWDD, too bad every other army is MEQ...........

Yep.

Except for Nids, Orks, Dark Eldar, and other Guard...

Would be great to play against them for once, seems like all I ever fight is marines with or without spikes

I think Imperial Guard would benefit from an ability which allows them to shoot into HtH. Seems like the kinda thing they'd do anyway: Take advantage of a dying unit's sacrifice.

Seems like something a unit led by a Commissar would do.

EdMorgan wrote:

JohnHwangDD wrote:@Ed: For a Guard player, she's on of the few "must-haves" in any Guard collection.

I know, alas she's rather hard to track down though :( Just the one on ebay atm going at £25 and rising currently

hehe, is this a bad time to point out I've had 7 of these lovely ladies (yes you read correctly....seven) and I am never going to sell them? muwahahahahahahahaha.

~Bart

@Necros - I count myself blessed to be, face and ally with players whose primary armies are non-MEQ.
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@Bart - pics, or it didn't happen...

EdMorgan wrote:Oh man, you've got the female one. I'm jealous now...

Did you know that the female commissar was available through GW US mail order for years, even tho they were never on the site, price was $6 IIRC. Then they dropped the bitz order program and couldn't get it any more. Part # 010513101. Means the mold is proably still stashed somewhere at the Memphis location...................

don_mondo wrote:

EdMorgan wrote:Oh man, you've got the female one. I'm jealous now...

Did you know that the female commissar was available through GW US mail order for years, even tho they were never on the site, price was $6 IIRC. Then they dropped the bitz order program and couldn't get it any more. Part # 010513101. Means the mold is proably still stashed somewhere at the Memphis location...................

that figures..

I won the Female Commi btw

That's how I got mine. I just bought it from GW US ages ago.

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H.B.M.C. wrote:That's how I got mine. I just bought it from GW US ages ago.

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I always thought it was amusing to see this model and the dark eldar slave girls sold on eBay as some kind of rarity. They were always available through the bitz orders service.

Did you pay more for shipping your female commi overseas than for the actual price of the model? (I would have done the same in your situation.)

Not really. I didn't just order her anyway. I always did large bitz orders to make it worthwhile.

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JohnHwangDD wrote:@Aga: For Commissars, I have:
- old Mordian Captain, converted
- female Commissar
- classic PF Commissar

I wonder how fieldable they will be next edition...

I'm in the same boat, almost:
2x Female Commissar(both purchased off the rack at my FLGS 2-3 years after she had gone Direct Only)
Old one with Axe/Pistol
Old Bolter/sword
Old Chainsword/Hand Flamer
Old Yarrick
New Yarrick
FW Death Korps Commissar drawing sword

Then again, I also have an old Primaris Psyker I wish was still useful...

Yeah, I must have 20+ Commissars and a dozen or so psykers from different eras. Last time any of them saw the table was when I needed three messenger models and pulled out three old commissars to do that duty.

I miss the old Primaris battle psyker, he was awesome and his powers were actually something to fear, not pathetic crap we have now.

Wow, this thread has veered off topic!

I saw a bunch of second hand plastic Space Marine scouts going cheap today. I look forward to buying them and many of their brothers if the new Imperial Guard codex does the job it should.

Reecius wrote:I miss the old Primaris battle psyker, he was awesome and his powers were actually something to fear, not pathetic crap we have now.

I've got him too, along with all three of the Adeptus Astra Telepathica psykers that came and went quite quickly in the mid-to-late 80's. Using them to cast Lightning Arcs and teleport squads around with Displacement was heaps of fun. And this was when Lightning Arc was a S6 -3 Save Mod bad-ass lightning bolt that jumped around from person to person, not a complete-waste-of-time Heavy D6 Lasgun.

Reecius wrote:Wow, this thread has veered off topic!

We're remembering the good ol' days, which in the case of the Guard really were the good ol' days as they're so utterly hosed now.

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Reecius wrote:I miss the old Primaris battle psyker, he was awesome and his powers were actually something to fear, not pathetic crap we have now.

Wow, this thread has veered off topic!

The current Psyker is pretty good as a relatively cheap bullet-catcher who isn't an Officer and doesn't carry Plasma / Melta. But god forbid that you actually try to use any of his powers... Often times, I don't even bother rolling for them.

Once upon a time, the Guard had some way cool stuff...

Shut it apocalypse boy. You have three quarters of all apoc formations and vehicles.

Methinks someone over-exaggerates...

We're remembering the good ol' days, which in the case of the Guard really were the good ol' days as they're so utterly hosed now.

Hahaha, too true.

Dark Millennium was sweet. Gate was my favorite power, running a squad through one template and coming out the other was just cool...until the enemy used it against you!

I still use my Primaris Psker in my gaurd army when I am playing for fun. Sometimes I will even use him as an Inquisitor. I could not believe how craptacular they made psychic powers in third ed coming off of 2nd. As you said, back then, the Gaurd Psyker was something to fear. He wasn't on the level of the Inquisitor lord, Librarian or Farseer, but he was still really bad ass.

You like the current psyker, John? I hate him on principals sake. My command squads always deep strike or hide and yell out inspiring words to the poor suckers on the front line. I only ever took him for a laugh.

...

I'll take it you've never been to forge world. There are more malcador variants then there are tau anything.

Reecius wrote:You like the current psyker, John?

I like that he is W1 and costs less than any other model in the Command Squad...

ShumaGorath wrote:I'll take it you've never been to forge world.

There are more malcador variants then there are tau anything.

I've been there - lots of inspirational stuff, but nothing at a price point that I'd consider reasonable, as I am perfectly capable of cutting and reshaping styrene, so what FW does matters very little to me.

I don't doubt that there is more FW Guard than FW Tau. Don't care, either.

Pfft, guard get the cool stuff. A disproportionate amount of it. They just get crap psykers because they have crap psykers compared to everyone else.

They do need a bit of a buff though, or at least some sort of useful role.

JohnHwangDD wrote:Methinks someone over-exaggerates...

Methinks he could've been talking to me, given that I do own 3/4 (or thereabouts) of all Guard Apoc formations ('cept aircraft). Could be wrong.

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It was a general comment at both.

Ok, I'll count that as me being right then.



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Don't know if I should post this is a new thread, so I won't. Rumors from Warseer:

Gropius wrote:I didn't find this little info I got on the forums so here it goes.

1) Apparently the Griffon will be back in the artillery section.

2) Two different kinds of sentinels. The normal ones and others in support role. These can not scout but get heavier weapons (like plasma cannons).

3) At least one completely new unit and old units coming back (thats all I have been told)

I can't guarantee for the truth of these rumours and I am sorry if this has already been posted.

The griffin will be nice to see back. Hopefully we'll see it in a squadron as is rumored with other tanks. It's probably a little to weak and vulnerable to be a heavy choice all by its lonesome.