What Wargear or Equipment do you miss from older Editions of 40k?

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**Zonder**

Null rods, power weapons that ignore ALL psychic things...soon to go but still awesome!

**Sanctjud**

Hmmm.....

Everything in the 3.5 ed Chaos Space Marine Armory.....yes, even the stuff few would purchase like Daemonic Visage...

**Lexx**

Storm bolter for Imperial guard commanders.

**AlexHolker**

Sanctjud wrote:Everything in the 3.5 ed Chaos Space Marine Armory.....yes, even the stuff few would purchase like Daemonic Visage...

Armouries in general. The ability to equip even squad leaders with their own unique wargear was far superior to how things are done in the 4th and 5th edition codices.

**AbaddonFidelis**

Sanctjud wrote:Hmmm.....

Everything in the 3.5 ed Chaos Space Marine Armory.....yes, even the stuff few would purchase like Daemonic Visage...

kai gun ftw?

**Quintinus**

Hallucinogenic grenades.

that is all

**BuFFo**

Horrorfexes. It was fun using the last weapon in the game that could reliably pin. Why it was taken out of the new DE codex is beyond me.

**pzbw7z**

Displacer Field (2+ Invulnerable) was nifty and smoke grenades were a blast.

It wasn't wargear, but Iron Arm was a pretty cool psychic power.

The 2nd edition assault cannon was a blast. S10, d10 wounds, three sustained fire dice - good times!

**MechaEmperor7000**

which book was the Displacer Field from?

**chromedog**

mwnciboo wrote:Ah Lifta-Droppa's !! How about the old Shokk attak gun, Hop-Splat guns were ace..

WHat was the Space Marine Weapon in "Space Crusade Mission Dreadnought" was it "Fusion" Cannon or something?

Conversion beamer. Yes, the weapon that SM MotF can take as an upgrade.
Otherwise, the heavies available were Heavy bolter, Multi-melta, lascannon, missile launcher.

@MechaEmperor:
RT and the Dark Millenium set.

**DarknessEternal**

pzbw7z wrote:Displacer Field (2+ Invulnerable)

Displacer Field was 3+. Power Fields were 2+.

**Quintinus**

DarknessEternal wrote:
pzbw7z wrote:Displacer Field (2+ Invulnerable)

Displacer Field was 3+. Power Fields were 2+.

The Assault cannon was also Str 8 (not Str 10) with a -3 save mod. Yikes.

Power fields were pretty snazzy. Putting one on a Terminator major hero would be really cruel. Of course, in melee combat the field goes away.

**Mukkin'About**

Lots of the old ork upgrades like bionic bonce
old choppas
kai guns
All instances of "armoury" type selections. Even though many people took improper upgrades / point cheated.

**pzbw7z**

MechaEmperor7000 wrote:which book was the Displacer Field from?

Dark Millennium box set. It was a Wargear card.

**candy.man**

AbaddonFidelis wrote:
Sanctjud wrote:Hmmm.....

Everything in the 3.5 ed Chaos Space Marine Armory.....yes, even the stuff few would purchase like Daemonic Visage...

kai gun ftw?

+1 to this. The Kai Gun and the “toy shop” armoury in 3.5 was indeed awesome

**Althuran**

All the Ork artillery in 2nd edition.

**Asgeirr Darkwolf**

All the old grenades gave meaning to the words 'tack on'.

I miss them so!

**nataxcan**

if you want hand flamers,just get the rules and the point cost,buy some @ http://www.letthedicedecide.co.uk/product/Blood_Angels_Death_Company_Hand_Flamer_Left_SMBA119
and there you go!

**Maenus_Rajhana**

2nd ed Shuricats and D-Cannons
Collars of Khorne
2d6 Terminator armor
Throwable grenades
Pulsa Rokkits

Not wargear, but friggin Overwatch!
Mission Cards

**spya**

Well you still could use old wargear not in codexs and stuff but you need the rules(of course) and tell the person(s) your versing and make sure they agree.

**Monster Rain**

I miss Terminator Honors more than anything.

**purplefood**

spya wrote:Well you still could use old wargear not in codexs and stuff but you need the rules(of course) and tell the person(s) your versing and make sure they agree.

It's nice to have it in the actual rules... gives the army a bit more flavour. It's like adding salt after you get chips whereas if they came with salt already on they'ed be fine but adding salt after just isn't as good... gonna get some chips now.

**Ghiest1**

Hello,
Blight grenades had to be a personal favorite. I had a roll or 2 of pennies and would fill the field, ah the fun of assulting through that.

Regards,
Carl

**warpcrafter**

Althuran wrote:All the Ork artillery in 2nd edition.

Don't remind me. I used to have such a good time with my pulsa rokkits...

**mwnciboo**

Does anyone Remember the old Cyclone Terminator missile launcher, the one where you could fire a full salvo and you got a blast template the size of a Dinner Plate? or am I having non-existent memory recall issues.

**AlexHolker**

mwnciboo wrote:Does anyone Remember the old Cyclone Terminator missile launcher, the one where you could fire a full salvo and you got a blast template the size of a Dinner Plate? or am I having non-existent memory recall issues.

You remember correctly. It was 1" diameter for every missile fired, and a total of 12 missiles to last the game.

**Th3ee Legged Dog**

AlexHolker wrote:
Sanctjud wrote:Everything in the 3.5 ed Chaos Space Marine Armory.....yes, even the stuff few would purchase like Daemonic Visage...

Armouries in general. The ability to equip even squad leaders with their own unique wargear was far superior to how things are done in the 4th and 5th edition codices.

Agreed.

**gazelle**

I miss Wargear Cards, especially the Vortex grenade. You got one with the boxed set, and one with Dark Millenium. As an Eldar player, I would give both to a single Exarch with Fast Shot and Crack Shot, with a Warp Spider pack. Turn 1, warp into the opponent's deployment zone and vortex his two biggest, baddest targets. Horribly abusive...

**whocares**

Bionics!

"Didn't I kill that guy?"

"...no?"

**mwnciboo**

Yeah, some wargear combinations were horrendously unbalanced. I don't remember feeling guilty when I was laying down the hurt tho! Ghazkull was nails without Wargear and once you added that on top he was nuts, lucky that the Vortex Grenade was so freely available.