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Wow, so I was going through some old things and look what I found!!!

Ah, the bbb. I remember my father showing me that.

Um, no, this is probably older than me! (I'm 13)

Wow that thing is old in a good way

yeah, I found it and I was looking for Tau and Necrons... Then I remembered! This book was out before the necrons and tau were even launched.

I have had it for 11years... =x

Is it really that old didn't think I've been in the hobby that long?

yeah, that's on my book shelf right now... I use their missions instead of the current ones!

Nice! I have one of those, for $2 courtesy of GoodWill.
They have a little concept sketch-like pic in there with kroot, necrons, "Nocturnal warriors of Hrud", "Dorovian Fiends" and two "Unknowns", one of them appearing to be a spiky octopus.

Deminyn wrote:yeah, that's on my book shelf right now... I use their missions instead of the current ones!

Same here breakouts are amazing! I miss using this book

LOL

Lol. I must be getting old, the first thing I thought when I saw the pic was "so.... I have 3 of them sitting in a box."


Good find, I love the necron gun in there LOL.









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Mine started falling apart after a week, so I sliced it up and put it in a ring binder.

Ah, GW's Crappy Binding Age...

I have one sitting on my shelf also. I still remember playing against the first Necron Lists and the warriors looked just like that picture. Oh how they phased so quiclkly to three Vindies and a pissed off chaplin with a jump pack back then.

I have that and the classic space marine codex...ahhh memories.

Look in the front. There is a picture of the emperor on the throne and he has barely rotted. Now, check the beginning of your 5th ed book.

Sort of a 'then and now' thing going on...

LoL, I lost my thread... I went back to where it was suppose to be and it was gone... I was like, "NOOOOooooooooooo *cough* ooooooooo"
I remember getting that book with my battle set, with the 1 piece space marines, and my dark eldar.... lol

Isn't the BBB a fairly new rule book? When I think of the old one, I think of this cover:



Still worth a read, even after all these years...

It almost makes me want to make figures for some of the old Rogue Trader monsters. Anyone remember the Carnivorous Sand Clams or Catachan Face-Eaters?

Yep there is nothing like a marine using a ork head as a close combat weapon or the development crew drawn up on the inside with crazy mutations.

Yes I remember the pretty well. Never played but loved reading the book. Was sad when I got back that they were not around anymore. I loved the catachan Sundevil.

The BBB has had many a beer or 2 spilled on it. Brings back memories seeing that. i may have to dig mine up and give it a read again sometime.

My friend still has his copy, saw it earlier when I went over to his house.

Nightwatch wrote:Nice! I have one of those, for $2 courtesy of GoodWill.
They have a little concept sketch-like pic in there with kroot, necrons, "Nocturnal warriors of Hrud", "Dorovian Fiends" and two "Unknowns", one of them appearing to be a spiky octopus.

Aren't those the enslavers?

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Enslaver

I want a Chuffian Power Maul!!!

That was the book that launched my addiction, a friend gave me his old and battered copy and i spent a year just reading and re-reading it, absorbing the rules and background.... ahhh the memories.

Thanks to a friend of the family who stopped playing i have 2 of both these and the 3rd ed marine codex, my ones (battered but loved) and his ones which are absolutely pristine, and yeah missions then were much better, now where's Capt Cortez ;-)

It's only a 3rd ed rulebook.
Still have mine - apart from it being a softcover, it has more in it than the 5th ed book does.

It was also the reboot of 40k version.
Dump the shooting and armour save mods and replace with a new system and newer issues.

I'm with JB on this one. The rulebook with black templars on the cover will always be "the new edition with the simplified rules" in my mind. The 1st ed book still sits on my close-to-the-computer bookshelf and I read from every second month or so, often when planning pen and paper RPG sessions.

I don't see this as being an "old" book because it's the last edition of the game I bought and the simplified rules put me off playing. I stuck to 2nd edition. I hated the fact the vehicles had no turn radius rules and could turn as much as they wanted, I hated that all figures now moved 6" instead of having their own movement stats, I hated the fact that the psychology had mostly been dumped, I hated that all vehicles had the same simplfied damage table and were only differentiated by three stats, I hated what they did to the bikes, bikes were no longer vehicles but simply made you move further and gave +1 toughness, I hated the way that the majority of the wargear and psychic rules had been discarded. It was so dumbed down I was angry that I'd wasted the money on it.

What's even more scary is that some people on here were in nappies when this book was released which makes me feel old even though I'm not.

OK, now I feel old................

Something to do with the bookshelf at home that has every rulebook and codex from 2nd ed (when I started) on sitting on it. And I've picked up a few of what I consider the older books as well, and intend to complete the collection eventually.