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brettz123 wrote:Always amuses me when people bring up armies that have been gone for over a decade. My first suggestion would be to get over it and stop crying about it years later.

My second suggestion would be to use a different list and enjoy all the hard work you put into collecting and painting them.

Squats - use them as guard.
Chaos Dwarves - use them as dwarves or even chaos warriors
Lost and the Damned - use them as guard
Genestealer cult - hmmm you guys actually are pretty fethed but I guess you could use them as just a normal Tyranid list.

Or even better get together with some good friends who will let you just use the old list. It really isn't that hard.

It also amuses me that people with no apparant investment in a discussion feel the need to butt in and be so flip and and state obvious straw-man responses.

Most of us have moved on. Heck we might even play other armies or leave our houses from time to time . However when someone opens a thread like this and asks a question about somethign we have a personal experience with we :gasp: respond.

Crazy I know...

Mine have just become part of another legal army, or 'count-as' units.

The only army to get really invalidated was a Slaanesh biker/demon bomb I built with my ex-fiance. Luckily for me she took it with her when she left...

Iron Warriors.

Yea yea they are still technically still alive but their spirit and what made them unique was gutted. Extra heavy armor, Basalisk? oh how I miss thee.

snurl wrote:Chaos Dwarves are alive and well with a new book (PDF) that was produced last year from the people who run the grand tournaments. I'll look for a link later.


Link: http://issuu.com/mattbird/docs/f_dwarfs_of_chaos

Lol,in that book,there is a Dwarf giving the finger.

I thought Chaos Dwarves were getting a codex back in 07,when the Previous Warhammer rulebook came out and Chaos Dwarves had rules in the back.

Brother SRM wrote:What do you do with your illegalized armies?

eBay

MeanGreenStompa wrote:

brettz123 wrote:Always amuses me when people bring up armies that have been gone for over a decade. My first suggestion would be to get over it and stop crying about it years later.

Certainly, those people should do just that, immediately after you send them the money they spend on the army they suddenly found no further support on from the company they bought the expensive miniatures from.

Or you could just hush your inflammatory commenting mouth.

Ummmmm probably not I love being inflammatory........... . But my point still stands! Just keep using them. You don't need GWs support or opinion to keep having fun with your toys.


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CT GAMER wrote:

brettz123 wrote:Always amuses me when people bring up armies that have been gone for over a decade. My first suggestion would be to get over it and stop crying about it years later.

My second suggestion would be to use a different list and enjoy all the hard work you put into collecting and painting them.

Squats - use them as guard.
Chaos Dwarves - use them as dwarves or even chaos warriors
Lost and the Damned - use them as guard
Genestealer cult - hmmm you guys actually are pretty fethed but I guess you could use them as just a normal Tyranid list.

Or even better get together with some good friends who will let you just use the old list. It really isn't that hard.

It also amuses me that people with no apparant investment in a discussion feel the need to butt in and be so flip and and state obvious straw-man responses.

Most of us have moved on. Heck we might even play other armies or leave our houses from time to time . However when someone opens a thread like this and asks a question about somethign we have a personal experience with we :gasp: respond.

Crazy I know...

Well my straw friend I own Lost and the Damned and Squats so I certainly have just as apparent investment as anyone else in this thread..... or do I need to post every army I have ever owned over the last 20 or so years every time I make a post? Yeah I didn't think so. So just like you I RESPOND...... the way I want. Next time I will ask your permission before giving my CONSTRUCTIVE suggestions about what one can do with their no longer supported armies. But thanks for letting me know how you feel


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Smolo82 wrote:Iron Warriors.

Yea yea they are still technically still alive but their spirit and what made them unique was gutted. Extra heavy armor, Basalisk? oh how I miss thee.

Well at least you got vindicators for them.... not as good but still cool.

MeanGreenStompa wrote:I recommend forging all those squatted armies into great and heavy chains, massing them into great heavy links and then wrapping them about Tom Kirby before hefting him off the end of the pier...
As a message to GW...

I never understood why people hate on Kirby for everything that they dont like about the game, hes the Chairman, not a game designer. Thats like blaming Obama for an increase in municipal taxes(for you americans out there)

MeanGreenStompa wrote:Tonight Don Kirby sleeps with the pan fo.

This statement totally makes up for it though.

Brother SRM wrote:

Nagashek wrote:

Kymera wrote:I've never lost an entire army but my Iron Warriors basilisk has spent the majority of the last few years in a drawer.

And good riddance to it. :shakes his head:

I play WE. Does that count? Also my 4e Marine Army. "The Brotherhood of Steel" hasn't seen action since it was 27 and 2 in 4e. There were alot of Apothicary Sgts...

Well, you could use those Apothecary sergeants as sanguinary priests if you ran as Blood Angels; you could do a pretty conservative counts-as.

...

I also can't believe people would just scavenge their old armies for parts; I don't understand why folks wouldn't keep using old rulebooks in friendly games. If any of my armies were no longer tourney legal from GW, you bet your ass I'd still play them.

Though it would let me buy and paint a Baal to include in the Brotherhood, (Proudly embazoned with the flying sword and gears) but unfortunately the army is mostly a shooting army with counter assault elements, not an assault army with a single good tank.

And it's hard to imagine Squats or the GSC still being in any fashion balanced against 4-5e armies. God knows why GW doesn't put out an "Enemies of the Imperium" codex with Heretics, Sorcerors, GSC, and LATD in it.

Hi all.
I have not had any 'illegalised armies' .
Mind you I dont let GW tell me what minatures to buy and what rules to use...

TTFN

Nagashek wrote:
And it's hard to imagine Squats or the GSC still being in any fashion balanced against 4-5e armies. God knows why GW doesn't put out an "Enemies of the Imperium" codex with Heretics, Sorcerors, GSC, and LATD in it.

Trust me, if they came out with a "Codex: Weirdos" book with all the above, Adeptus Arbites, and all kinds of the sort of background elements of 40k, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

You can still do counts-as, which is an imperfect solution but it's something. Also, BOLS actually did a fairly decent Genestealer cult fandex if I recall correctly. That was back before the website was all opinions and bad advice.

Titanbravo wrote:

I never understood why people hate on Kirby for everything that they dont like about the game, hes the Chairman, not a game designer. Thats like blaming Obama for an increase in municipal taxes(for you americans out there)

I don't know what municipal taxes are but I do know they are Obamas fault.......

Brother SRM wrote:what about the Genestealer cults, Squats, Dogs of War, Lost and the Damned, and other armies that have been effectively taken out of the game?

I've had various armies nuked by rules changes or neglect, mainly my Dogs of War. Dogs of War were the army that got me into actually playing Fantasy, via the 6E Border Princes campaign. I loved the models, with their variety and options. Around the time 7E WFB appeared to move away from supporting my Dogs of War, I started consolidating my armies down to things that I figured GW would be guaranteed to supports. When 8E WFB put the nail in the coffin, I decided to switch over to Empire, with a plan to convert whatever I could (e.g. Crossbowmen, Artillery) and simply mothball the rest (e.g. Giants, Ogres). I don't have much interest in Fantasy, and will prefer to play BattleLore in its place.

Having learned my lesson in 7E, everything I get or build is "core" stuff now - no more experimentation, as I don't have the time for it.

My Mutants from my old LatD army are now wracks in my NEW dark eldar.

My Dogs of War got rolled into my VC. It wasn't that big deal since I was not too attached to them. I do miss my redemptionists. Spent all that time tracking down necromunda models. People freak out when you bust out the old chapter approved from 3rd edition, so i just don't use them anymore. /sad 120 redemtionists just sitting there...... Till I see what codexs they are making for sister's and the church half.

Inquisitor_Dunn wrote:My Dogs of War got rolled into my VC. It wasn't that big deal since I was not too attached to them. I do miss my redemptionists. Spent all that time tracking down necromunda models. People freak out when you bust out the old chapter approved from 3rd edition, so i just don't use them anymore. /sad 120 redemtionists just sitting there...... Till I see what codexs they are making for sister's and the church half.

Dogs of war is the one army I would really love to see come back.

I had a half finished Dogs of war army that I was building up from whatever regiments of renown I could find and afford and a bunch of heavily converted centaurs as cav (and also for a future chaos dwarf army)....so now I have halflings, really tiny marauders, manflayers and a bunch of pikes and centaurs that have no home. I found some of them places, but I can't bring myself to play Empire to give the pikes and halflings a home.

I had 120 metal flaggelants from WHFB and mordheim converted up for 40k SOB zealots.

The witchhunter list stopped me using them.
Then I decided to start stripping them to be used for a WHFB empire army, did 30, and GW anonounced their plastic flagellants.
The rest still sit in a carry case :(

My 125 models slayer cult army sits in a storage case.
(Here is the first part of it)



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I have learnt my lesson and will only do core amies from now on.