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H.B.M.C. wrote:
Commanding the Grand Armee of the Sunglasses, would be:


Corey Heart, during his 'Really Bad Hair' phase.

But does he still wear his sunglasses at night?

H.B.M.C. wrote:

Yeah, that's really him.

This is how I always still picture him. Of course, he had to go and get buff his last few years at GW and mess it up.

H.B.M.C. wrote:

I actually like Adi Wood. He always had such bad luck in Battle Reports. Funny guy. Where did he go?

He had to return to his Waaagh. He's really an ork, ya know.

1995 was when I was just getting started...

I jumped in with the release of 2nd edition which I think was the year before?

H.B.M.C. wrote:Yes, this one is so big it has three writers - Andy Chambers, who I'm going to refer to as Corey Heart for the rest of this review (cookie for the reference),

I too liked the days when a tank was a little harder to pull down than a lucky first roll from a heavy weapon.

And having recently read an old white dwarf back for necromunda reference, it's interesting how Mark Gibbon's dark elves work looks exactly like his house escher necromunda work.

I <3 that song.

What is Mark Gibbons doing anyway? I thought I saw some artwork in more recent codecies.

As a ten year old, I watched his artwork in the skaven army book (the 4th edition one that is) in awe.

Greets
Schepp himself

You can check out his site at http://www.redknuckle.com/

I know he's been doing stuff for warcraft recently but I don't know much else.

He's working on Avatars of War, along with a few other ex-GW allumni (including Mike McVey!). Mark's influence on the game's visual style is very obvious, not that that's a bad thing.

BYE

whatwhat wrote:

Sorry, Platuan4th got the reference first.

BYE

Wow.

I first jumped into 40k around the keg-end of 3rd edition.

Looks like I missed out on some awesome times. I just about gak a brick when I saw that demolisher's armor values.

But alas, I was but a wee snotling around these times still sucking on cereal and watching power-rangers. Good times though.

P.S. I still to that brain battle stuff with staged photo's. I've also noticed that most staged photos with guardsmen also have them in a paddle-less shitscreek situation, even in their own flippin codex. And the fact that all battle reports now are product placements for new releases with the new stuff ALWAYS winning.

Tonight I'm going to go dig up my oldest WD and give it a skim, sadly though, my oldest one is most likely 2 or three years old. :(

Another reason I was born in the wrong decade. 70's would have been great, even the 80's would have been ok, even with the hair.

Trust me, the 80's were great, and so were the early to mid-90's, if you were the right age, of course...

Heh, I too took down that issue from the shelf and reread it.

The first thing I notice...

This battle report specifically banned the blind grenade.

Ah blind grenades... when even GW thinks you're too much trouble, you're too much trouble.

NOTE - If you're too young to remember the 30 minute blind grenade phase, basically they were small blast templates that blocked LOS and if you ran through them you had to roll a scatter die or lose your sense of direction. they also drifted every turn.

And EVERYONE could take them. So on turn 1 you'd throw 10, 20, 30 blind grenades to cover your advance, roll to scatter with each one, play a turn. Then your opponent would do the same. Then turn 2 you'd drop some more, and roll to scatter for them, and roll to drift for the old ones. then turn 3...

I'm sorry HBMC, I just can't work up enthusiasm for 2nd edition.

Yeah, Blind Grenades and the Virus Outbreak Strategy cards were the two things my local group barred from 2nd editiion

Don't forget to add Vortex, Rad, Smoke and Plasma Grenades to that one.

First time it happens, having a character pursued around the board by a voracious warp portal is quite funny.

After that, it's just tedious.

2nd Edition...too detailed for it's own good.

Awesome post

I also started 40k near the end of 3rd and missed out on all the 2ed insanity :( Thanks for giving me a taste of the madness.

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:2nd Edition...too detailed for it's own good.

To be fair, it inherited a lot of THAT from RT

Hey HBMC, congrats on the 5,000 posts! And a great review of I think my still favorite battle report of all time. Also I think when I really fell in love with Dark Angels after watching the Deathwing completely take apart the Imperial Guard's flank.

Oh and Varlak has since been added to the 40k universe with a few references back to his rebellion and the gathering of the four chapters.

Ozymandias, King of Kings

Yeah, every once in a while a batrep get adopted into the official fluff. Kinda nice. I still have the Epic batrep where Commissar Yarrick first uses the Fortress of Arrogance (as it was later known) against Ghazkhull at Golgotha.

I liked all the wacky grenades from second edition. I had an entire box just for cotton balls glued to pieces of cardboard, spray-painted grey and tiny pieces of cardboard with various vehicle damage effects written on them in sharpie. I called it my mobile fog of war.

Something's just struck me after reading this thread through properly. Seems a little odd the seemed affection everyone has for andy chambers, especially when some of the same people are those on this forum who have so much issue with the way gw do things nowadays. Chambers was like a figurehead in turning GW into a more business like set up, specialist games wouldn't be 'specialist' if it wasn't for him.

May have misread what I've taken as 'affection' however.

It's nostalgia for Andy Jervis & Adrian Wood as WD contributors, explicitly not as rules writers or business direction, at least in my case.

I remember getting that issue, one of my favourite battle reports ever, if only i hadn't thrown my old ones away.

Congrats on 5K mate... look forward to many more

I remember that BR and you've done a brilliant job recapping it and the issue.

I started with issue 124 and went on the Epic path for Apocalyptical style battles...

It was that BR and other pics that got me into 40K 2ed and now into Apocalypse.

Congrats again

Mik

Ah, one of the few pre-#200 issues I still have.

I did however recognise a terrain piece in that battle report - that wasn't a GW terrain piece.

The 'bastion' thingy was a Ziterdes model (still available, btw). The 'bunker' was a (cardstock) WD insert as I recall as well. These days, you can get a very good copy of that cardboard one by Conflix. Same size, too.

Holy mother of God you weren't kidding:

- found here.

That is my fav piece of GW terrain... and it's not GW terrain. When they were doing their card-stock things (Firebase, Battlebunker, Bastion) there was a fourth one that I've only seen once that was a cardboard & Necro bulkhead copy of that piece of terrain. I saw it once on eBay but missed the end of the auction, and haven't seen it since.

But you can buy the real one! That's amazing. It really is one of my fav bits of GW terrain... and now I know it isn't! Thanks for the heads-up Chromedog.

BYE

My club has one of the cardboard and necro bulkhead "imperial bastions" (slightly worse for wear), and was looking at sourcing a replacement for it. I suggested that one to them as well.

Several other of the ziterdes terrain pieces on the link you provided should also look familiar - some are very close to pieces GW also sold as "theirs" (I can't be sure without seeing better pictures).

That terrain is awesome, and I'm glad that it still available.

Sadly, that store's 'rest of the world' delivery charges are quite painful.

Shame too, as it is a nice piece...

Oh, it's no less painful for us down under. It's just that I have two stores that either already carry their stuff, or can order it in. Savings won't be as high as direct, but most of those savings are eaten up by freight charges anyway.

I really do want that Bastion piece though.

I might take the hit on shipping anyway. Ouch!

AWESOME!