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If I hadn't bought Elysians I would have bought Catachan. They do look cool well painted.

Most people can't paint the muscles to well to make them loook good. As for you cadian players. Catachan dont use armour cause they know thier anyway if they get hit

Cadians just use armour to boost morale.

My guard army is Catachan. Picked them because they're the ones I remember seeing all the time as a kid. Also, I agree that the sniper models are some of GW's best work. I mean, those things are cool looking!

The flesh is daunting, especially since you're painting mook infantry so don't want to spend oodles of time on it. I've gotten it to a level acceptable to me, but it's definitely more of a pain than my CSM were.

They DO seem to be cheaper than most other IG on Ebay, which is nice. Yes, I will take 6 metal snipers for $3.15, thank you.

It's a pity the metal models are so much nicer than the plastic ones. I was a little surprised at how poor the plastic is - there's not a lot of definition or detail and everything fits a little wonky. They're workable, but I definitely like the metal ones more. Thankfully they're very near the same price it seems (on the secondary market).

LunaHound wrote:

SaintHazard wrote:A wifebeater wouldn't but neither would long sleeves.

1) exposed face
2) exposed neck
3) some mosquitoes (especially in tropical regions) can bite through fabric anyway.

Here is personal experience from living in asian country... ( tons of mosquitos )

Long sleeves does help. It limits the bite areas to near your face / head / neck where you can visually see or hear the mosquitos.

In other words compare to your limbs , you will be more alert and aware from potential bites.

Keep in mind the Catachans live and fight in alien jungles not our normal Terran jungles. I think mosquitos are the least of their worries.

Except for the heads I like the models though I do agree they need an update. I always had plans of making an Armagedon Ork Hunters regiment by combining Catachan and Cadian parts like they did in the codex. but I've never convinced myself to be just normal humans when I can be an alien instead

As for fluff someone on here said that the Catachans have the most useless fluff compared to other IG regiments like the Cadians. Seriously? The Cadians are cool and all that I mean they are anti-chaos kings but personally I would prefer having an entire regiment that could kill it's enemies without being seen by using really big knives then one that just charges straight forward and gets masacred but wins because they use attrition tactics. That being said though I think Vostroyans are the best

As for the OP I've seen 4 Catachan armies within the last year (well kind of). 1 was combined with chaos marauders to be a viking regiment, another was combined with beastmen to be a Beastmen regiment, the 3rd was a normal Catachan army that the owner did an excelent job on conversion and paint wise. And the last one was kind of cheap in that the owner put bushes and jungle bits on all of his bases except for his vehicles and said that his guys where so well camoflauged you coulden't see them. Nobody let him play with his Catachans

Warboss Imbad Ironskull wrote:the owner put bushes and jungle bits on all of his bases except for his vehicles and said that his guys where so well camoflauged you coulden't see them

I've considered doing something similar with Kommandos if I ever added them to my Ork army.

Rocks, bushes, trees, and possibly a Space Marine.

"These are my Lootaz, these are 'Ard Boyz, and these over here are not Kommandos."

Saw a catachan army today, one of the guys at my club runs one

My mixed regiment has around 60 catchcan fig's and the same number of cadians as well as a few mixed in from dkok and fantasy converts.

templeorks wrote:fantasy converts.

I'm intrigued, tell me more. Do you have pictures?

SaintHazard wrote:

templeorks wrote:fantasy converts.

I'm intrigued, tell me more. Do you have pictures?

Not yet I will some day when i have a camera that dosn't suck.

...I have a Catachan Army.

I didn't realize they got so much hate. I'm by no means the best painter in the world but I put a lot of effort into mine and I think they look decent. I like them a lot better than the Cadian models anyway.

If they redid the Infantry Squad to match the heavy weapon team and new command squad, I'd do a Catachan army in a heartbeat. At the time (what, like 12 years ago?), they were one of the first plastic units that GW put together. GW's plastic minis have improved a lot since then.

While I do own a lot (150+) of painted Catachans they are never fielded as Catachans as such. Partly because that list doesn't really exist anymore and partly because they make decent assault-blobs.

Well I collect renegades. I combine Cadians, Catachans, Zombies (fantasy), Forge world renegades to make them look cool. The Catachans look pretty bad ass beacuse they look muscualr and tuff and alot of my friends and people I know have catachan. But I more prefer Cadains, Armaggadon steel legion, Talarn, more for some reason. But I think Valhallen IGs are the least pickecd out. I think they are bad ass but they havent improved the minitures for them so people dont buy them at all.


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Well I collect renegades. I combine Cadians, Catachans, Zombies (fantasy), Forge world renegades to make them look cool. The Catachans look pretty bad ass beacuse they look muscualr and tuff and alot of my friends and people I know have catachan. But I more prefer Cadains, Armaggadon steel legion, Talarn, more for some reason. But I think Valhallen IGs are the least pickecd out. I think they are bad ass but they havent improved the minitures for them so people dont buy them at all.

My army is about a 50/50 mix of Catachan and Cadian guardsmen. I like to keep the different squads around since it gives my army some distinction from regular Guard armies and it makes it easier to tell squads apart.

the Catachan CCS is well made, they got the proportions right and whathave you. If they manage to make a new catachan infantry kit with the same detail/quality i would consider buying around 60 of them :]

i use catachans for fw chaos renegades it makes them look more vicious

Well, if anyone wants some Catachans, let me know. I don't need three IG armies....................

don_mondo wrote:Well, if anyone wants some Catachans, let me know. I don't need three IG armies....................

I need about 60 of them

I have actually played two IG armys with Catachan models in them and one of them was very cool looking the owner had done an awesome job of painting them.

Samus_aran115 wrote:Vostroyans would be much better, as would steel legion (DKOK look alikes ) in plastic.

The catachans don't really have any worth-while fluff..The cadians?

Actually, I just got done reading the second story in the IG omnibus. The story was quite fun, and they tore up some Orks. All and all, I considered it a good read for a IG faction I generally did not care much about.

Also, I actually had about 100 catachans I got for a steal from an ebay auction. I took them to Adepticon because a teammate was borrowing my Cadians so we could fit our overall theme better. I ended up just selling them at an auction a few months ago though, as I preferred the Cadians. Football players trump roid rage any day. That, and all my officers, tanks, and other stuff was already heavily Cadian themed.

my girl runs catachan traitor gaurd under khorne and she murders most Cadian and Voystran armies

the catachan used to have awsome rules i dont know if they are still useable with the new imperial guard codex but catachans used to have their own codex seperate from the other codex
its a shame the models dont look very realistic their arms are too fat and dont look like they bent the have bigger arms than astarte.s the command sqaud looks cool tho and iron hand straken


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Sabatine wrote:my girl runs catachan traitor gaurd under khorne and she murders most Cadian and Voystran armies

khorne catachans sound like theyd be ace i could probably forgive the stupid arms if the were all khorned up and phycopathic

Well as people said theres the amount of flesh and sometimes they look kinda funky. And possibly some disgruntled guard players probably thought in their heads on why catachans got their own sets while possibly more popular regiments (maybe even more than cadians!) are restricted to metal infantry packs and blisters

kenshin620 wrote:Well as people said theres the amount of flesh and sometimes they look kinda funky. And possibly some disgruntled guard players probably thought in their heads on why catachans got their own sets while possibly more popular regiments (maybe even more than cadians!) are restricted to metal infantry packs and blisters

true... I'd be over to steel legion in a second if they were plastic... or even DKOK if there was a FW dealer located in Canada... Eventually i'll save the money to order them...

I don't mind the Catachan models... It''s alot easier to get the look botched then cadians... whose long sleeves and such are in my opinion more forgiving to the newer painter... Saying that... I prefer Cadians, as in real life infantry are not muscle heads but are usually the skinny guys on the base. But I have thought about doing a Catachan Veteran squad w/ GSgt. Harker or a PLT with a Al'rahem like character of catachans to be my, "special covert strike force". I guess what im trying to say is, although I prefer others, I still like the catachans, just not as a staple model for my army.

Draggoon wrote:

kenshin620 wrote:Well as people said theres the amount of flesh and sometimes they look kinda funky. And possibly some disgruntled guard players probably thought in their heads on why catachans got their own sets while possibly more popular regiments (maybe even more than cadians!) are restricted to metal infantry packs and blisters

true... I'd be over to steel legion in a second if they were plastic... or even DKOK if there was a FW dealer located in Canada... Eventually i'll save the money to order them...

thats a damn shame are there no indipendant suppliers of forge world stuff? must cost a fortune shipping it over

My biggest issue with Cadians is that they're nowhere near manly enough. I mean, in a universe full of unbelievably manly armies, Space Marines with their imposing armor, Chaos Space Marines with their imposing everything, Tau with their faceless HAL-9000 helmets, helmetless Tau with their stoic "you owe me money" looks, Necrons with their unfeeling zombie stares, Orks with their stupid bloodspattered grins, Eldar with their grim determination, Dark Eldar with their sadistic unsmiles, and Catachans with their bulging muscles and fearsome yelling faces... Cadians just look like they're about to crap themselves constantly.

I don't like that.

That's one out of two reasons my Traitor Guard army is going to be Catachans.

The other reasons is that Catachans just lend themselves to Traitor Guard, the lack of a uniform look and roided out Khornrage bodies just scream Chaos.

But thats just it about cadians...They arent war crazed orks. Graceful eldar, Crazy khorne marines. There humans...Just like you and me and everyone else.

SaintHazard wrote:My biggest issue with Cadians is that they're nowhere near manly enough. I mean, in a universe full of unbelievably manly armies, Space Marines with their imposing armor, Chaos Space Marines with their imposing everything, Tau with their faceless HAL-9000 helmets, helmetless Tau with their stoic "you owe me money" looks, Necrons with their unfeeling zombie stares, Orks with their stupid bloodspattered grins, Eldar with their grim determination, Dark Eldar with their sadistic unsmiles, and Catachans with their bulging muscles and fearsome yelling faces... Cadians just look like they're about to crap themselves constantly.

I don't like that.

That's one out of two reasons my Traitor Guard army is going to be Catachans.

The other reasons is that Catachans just lend themselves to Traitor Guard, the lack of a uniform look and roided out Khornrage bodies just scream Chaos.

You'd be surprised how little muscle is actually needed to be strong... Infantrymen generally burn so much energy on a daily basis compared to other trades, that the cadian physique makes perfect sense from a infantry stand point. Where- as the Catachans frankly remind me slightly of my PT staff when i did a stint in Gagetown... More roids and muscles then they know what to do with, and look like they belong on a tank or behind a artillery piece, not with a rifle in hand.

kenshin620 wrote:thats a damn shame are there no indipendant suppliers of forge world stuff? must cost a fortune shipping it over

Nah, no dealer that I've been able to scrounge up over here, the only way to do it is in 200$ increments minimum so you can take advantage of the free shipping. Problem is hanging out with the lads and doing the university social scene, and still save up over 200$ for random spendings.

SaintHazard wrote:My biggest issue with Cadians is that they're nowhere near manly enough. I mean, in a universe full of unbelievably manly armies, Space Marines with their imposing armor, Chaos Space Marines with their imposing everything, Tau with their faceless HAL-9000 helmets, helmetless Tau with their stoic "you owe me money" looks, Necrons with their unfeeling zombie stares, Orks with their stupid bloodspattered grins, Eldar with their grim determination, Dark Eldar with their sadistic unsmiles, and Catachans with their bulging muscles and fearsome yelling faces... Cadians just look like they're about to crap themselves constantly.

I don't like that.

That's one out of two reasons my Traitor Guard army is going to be Catachans.

The other reasons is that Catachans just lend themselves to Traitor Guard, the lack of a uniform look and roided out Khornrage bodies just scream Chaos.

thats the point tho cadians are supposed to look like they are terrified if you were facing down a horde of tyranids as a mere mortal youde be pretty terrified catachans look less scared because they come from a death world and are constantly batteling horrific man eating beasts. cadians although they are right next to the eye of terror probably dont fight as often


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has anyone ever been on bitzbox.com its awsome for getting little bits for converting your models and the best thing about it is its dirt cheap

templeorks wrote:

SaintHazard wrote:

templeorks wrote:fantasy converts.

I'm intrigued, tell me more. Do you have pictures?

Not yet I will some day when i have a camera that dosn't suck.

Ur camera doesnt suck...

you just need to take it from a foot away instead of right infront of the lense.

sometimes its a bit sparse tho you have to have a bit of patients