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As requested by user Caffeine

Even though 5th edition is clearly the best, 3rd edition is where I started out in the hobby. The old school marine pictures and stuff bring back the innocent memories of those days. *Sigh...*

The Ultramarines (Second Company) were cooler when they had yellow shoulder pad trims! Anyone agree?

Second edition forme, mainly because it was the first one I played, and I still don´t like that they removed movement from the statline, and all that stuff...

And yes, yellowtrims for the ultramarines please. The new bling bling gold is just.... Sigh...


Having said this, I do enjoy playing 5th edition.

As much as I had enjoyed 3rd (know your roots), I think 5th makes for a more enjoyable game. I think I liked how much more you could customize your characters in 3rd, but then again I never counted them on lasting too long either.

5th is my favorite edition (until I get burned out I guess).

5th. It's the most "bug free" so to speak.

Looking forward to 6th.

I've liked 5th so far because of true line of sight and such 4th left behind some rules I liked but O well hasa 5th!

Rogue Trader!

When I started, it was just before 4th edition. Since I've mostly played 5th edition, thats what I put down as my choice. I wonder, though, if I might have enjoyed the other editions if I had tried those out extensively.

i liked 2nd because armies seems more individual from eachother with far differing stats etc. but games took FOREVER

5th IS a far more streamlined and, I think, more enjoyable game to play overall.

Cosmic wrote: Even though 5th edition is clearly the best, 3rd edition is where I started out in the hobby. The old school marine pictures and stuff bring back the innocent memories of those days. *Sigh...*

The Ultramarines (Second Company) were cooler when they had yellow shoulder pad trims! Anyone agree?

I feel you on that i was brought in durning 3rd. with the yellow trim ultras.

Wonderful minds, Deathmachine, wonderful minds... Lol!

rouge trader all the way! if you dont have the good old book or havnt had a chance to look it over it suggest you do so. it"s the best. mAybe the rules aren't all there and maybe the game is a bit different than you might like, but If you aren't familiar with the RT book it's contents will probably surprise you... I need to dig up my copy, I'm getting all nostalgic about the "creating a mutant" artwork.

2nd edition's my favorite, followed by 1st, then 5th. 3rd I didn't like, and 4th was better than 3rd, but 5th is the best you can get out of the second birth (3rd, 4th, 5th) of 40K.

3rd if only because it had the best direction of for the codexes. I found the base rule set fine, especially after the TAR and TVR.

DH/WH, the second Chaos Codex, SW codex. Then they pumped out the sub codexes that gave us Speed Freaks, Steel Legion and Lost and the Damned, the purest fluff army yet and saddest Jervis-esque casualty.

Variety was awesome.

Now the game is very sterile.

Only been around for 4th and 5th but I prefer 5th. Mainly for the true line of sight and the way the've made it more realistic.

Admittedly futuristic warriors fighting aliens isn't very realistic but heh, can't say GW don't try!

oops I thought it said "What was your first edition of Warhammer 40k?" (so I answered RT)

My favourite is 5th. I didn't like 2nd or 4th (or maybe they were just the times I happened to be taking a break.) I still get my RT book out to read old fluff and laugh at how obscenely complicated it was. jeez a 1000pt game would take as long as a 6000 pt apoc game now, with all the crazy rules. - rolling for scatter for every model that went into "rubber moss" terrain! (maybe I shouldn't played with so much rubber moss)

I can honestly say I hate the TLOS. Your blob vs my blob and the template terrain was rather straightforward, and now I'm back to counting individual trees from 3 and earlier. Pretty minor gripe from the vehicle grid and templates from earlier editions.

I"m 5th edition all the way simply because I started in 5th. But I'm thinking about buying the earlier edition rules

Ive only played 5th edition sooo.

Second edition all the way. You can take your 'true line of sight' and your 'streamlining' and your wound allocation all the other myriad GW brainfarts and stick 'em.

I still have my well worn and thumbed Rouge trader.
Nothing new has been brought to the game since. Its all there if you look hard enough even the Kroot.!

@ Tauzor- So very true.

Long live the Jokaero!!!

3rd is the only edition I've played, but I played it a decent amount back in the day. I'm actually kind of curious about Rogue Trader though. Someday I'd like to get a copy of the book and give it a spin, just to see what it was like back then. I doubt I'll ever play 2nd or 4th, but I may end up giving 5th a try if there's enough interest at my FLGS.

From what I've read about 5th though, 3rd edition might still remain my favorite.

4th...it had kill-team. (smile)

Based on rules alone, and backround, I would asy 5th though.

Gimme a web gun and a vortex grenade any day. Rogue Trader all the way. Not to mention mole mortars! I once wiped out an entire opposing force with a virus round. And, I just loved that grav tank made out of a deodorant bottle.

I do like 5th edition a lot though, but miss some of the customizing you could do with 4th ed Chaos and Lost and the Damned. You could make nearly anything with that.

TLOS is a fiasco, it is just hard to use accurately. Everyone having cover all the time and easily being able to construct your own cover with your own units(two units intermingled, waves like guardiands, bikes, Warwalkers) is a little silly. Their was nothing wrong with Area Terrain in 4th. The problem in 4th was skimmers. And only troops scoring in 5th makes over half of the models in the game noncompetitive.

5th is still the least buggy but they did the same thing they did in 5th. Overreacted to stop what was seen as powerful before. They are really close to a good rules set but the lack of game design(they are games developers) will always keep the game from being truly great. The codexes will always break the game.

2nd Edition will always be my favorite. Loved the feel of the wargear and strategy cards. It was a gamer's game then.

5th edition is ok, and I like the suppliments they have done as of late (Apoc, COD,Planetstrike) the most, but TLOS is sometimes a headache and the changes to area terrain are my least fav changes as they lessen the need to maneuver and disallow you to screen your advance. Its now more then ever just about rolling lots of dice as everything can shoot and everything usually gets a save. I'd like to see terrain be more crucial/tactically useful/important in games and have more strategic value besides giving cover...

I do like the option to run as it just makes sense and allows for more movement and jockeying for position making the game less predictable turn to turn.

Wow. That is a lot of support for Fifth. So much for GW doing everything wrong, as I often hear.

Manchu wrote:Wow. That is a lot of support for Fifth. So much for GW doing everything wrong, as I often hear.

Keep in mind the fact that many many people on these forums are young ones that might not have been born or old enough to play some of the earlier listed editions so it is no surprise that the current (and most familiar to many) edition gets what seems to be a disproportionate representation...

2nd Ed, where tanks acted like fething tanks and not glass hammers (4th) or 'main battle bunkers' (3rd & 5th).