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 Gamgee wrote:

 Leth wrote:
Honestly with bits resellers its not as hard to get the parts you need to conversions.

It is if your Tau. I've been trying to find a bloody light saber ripoff thing I can slap on my commander for a year now that I can paint up in a custom colour. I can't find a generic light sword anywhere lol. Or even a cool energy blade type thing.

It's called a painted toothpick (and green stuff if you *need* a handle)

Been doing that since my Kenner obi-wan lost his...

Hmm, so did the make the converted models first and then had art made of them or the other way around?

I'm guessing the first option.

GW are a bit confusing:
Unit does NOT have a model but been in other rulebooks for 10+ years? -REMOVE FROM CODEX!
Unit does NOT have a model and never existed before? -ADD WD ARTICLE ON HOW TO CONVERT ONE!

Well here is hoping GW saw the plethora of threads, emails, letters from IG players & actually release some of the older regiments in plastic

 Commissar Benny wrote:
Well here is hoping GW saw the plethora of threads, emails, letters from IG players & actually release some of the older regiments in plastic

Plastic Vostroyan regiments will no doubt send me broke...

 NurglesR0T wrote:

 Commissar Benny wrote:
Well here is hoping GW saw the plethora of threads, emails, letters from IG players & actually release some of the older regiments in plastic

Plastic Vostroyan regiments will no doubt send me broke...

I'm willing to drop a lot of money if they follow through. Been waiting decades for the old regiments to be redone. The pewter models look good but when you have 100+ mono pose models that all look the same, it takes away from their beauty.

 MadCowCrazy wrote:
Hmm, so did the make the converted models first and then had art made of them or the other way around?

I'm guessing the first option.

Most assuredly the first option.

 Commissar Benny wrote:

 NurglesR0T wrote:

 Commissar Benny wrote:
Well here is hoping GW saw the plethora of threads, emails, letters from IG players & actually release some of the older regiments in plastic

Plastic Vostroyan regiments will no doubt send me broke...

I'm willing to drop a lot of money if they follow through. Been waiting decades for the old regiments to be redone. The pewter models look good but when you have 100+ mono pose models that all look the same, it takes away from their beauty.

The real dream would be plastic kits of DKOK

With the other regiments they may not do full kits, but at the very least it would awesome if they released upgrade packs similar to the space marine chapter upgrade sprues. A set of heads/torsos and various gear will go a long way to kitbashing a lot of variety into the standard Cadian kits.

Pleasantly surprised that this is going up for pre-order next weekend, as I was expecting this to not go up for another month.

Quite chuffed that the Militarum Tempestus is one of the regiments listed, makes me feel less bad about having bought seven of the Start Collecting! boxed sets of theirs.

However, I am setting my expectations low, as this will for the most part be a copy-paste job from the index, with abysmal fluff about your dudes dying in droves and being overly incompetent, while no doubt making everybody else look good again.

What is this strange sensation stirring in my breast?

Is it hope?

Or should I have skipped the Chicken Tikka...

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
What is this strange sensation stirring in my breast?

Is it hope?

You know what they say about hope, Kyoto.

 Unit1126PLL wrote:
I will be even more upset if the regiment rules only affect infantry.

*Welcome to the Imperial Guard, most vast and diverse formations in the galaxy. They field tank regiments, air defense regiments, superheavy tank regiments, reconnaissance companies...

... but if you play an thing other than infantry you get NOTHING.*

I can absolutely guarantee you that your superheavies won't benefit from regiment tactics. I can also absolutely guarantee you that there will be stratagems specifically catering towards Baneblades and such.

At the very most Leman Russ tanks may get the benefit of regiment tactics but I wouldn't bank on it.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

Is it hope?

Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.

There is a lot that could be done with the IG to make them interesting, not least proper regimental doctrines (light infantry, mechanised infantry, armoured squadrons, artillery batteries, siege engineers...) that could introduce a lot of variety in the IG without tying all armies to specific regiments. However I expect to be disappointed.

I wonder if Sgts will remember how to use lasguns?

Wonder if we'll see stuff like the Genestealer Cult conversion pack?

Rules/stratagems for the Armageddon Steel Legion?

OH HELL YES. PREPARE THE CHIMERA CHARGE LADS! YARRICK IS BACK IN TOWN! WOOHOO!!!

Dayummm GW now people are gonna copy my guard! Praefects indeed.

Shame it means no new kits if they're encouraging conversions. And weird they're encouraging conversions here yet locking down Marines.

 JohnnyHell wrote:
Dayummm GW now people are gonna copy my guard! Praefects indeed.

Shame it means no new kits if they're encouraging conversions. And weird they're encouraging conversions here yet locking down Marines.

GW's crusade against conversion is a fabrication. I can't say why they got rid of some of the conversion-only units but between this, the Grandmaster Dreadknight, and the Exalted Champion "no model no rules" is obviously not an ironclad rule for them.

 Arachnofiend wrote:

 JohnnyHell wrote:
Dayummm GW now people are gonna copy my guard! Praefects indeed.

Shame it means no new kits if they're encouraging conversions. And weird they're encouraging conversions here yet locking down Marines.

GW's crusade against conversion is a fabrication. I can't say why they got rid of some of the conversion-only units but between this, the Grandmaster Dreadknight, and the Exalted Champion "no model no rules" is obviously not an ironclad rule for them.

The test will be units like Vets (no real models ever), Last Chancers (models, no real rules in a while) and Rough Riders.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

 Arachnofiend wrote:

 JohnnyHell wrote:
Dayummm GW now people are gonna copy my guard! Praefects indeed.

Shame it means no new kits if they're encouraging conversions. And weird they're encouraging conversions here yet locking down Marines.

GW's crusade against conversion is a fabrication. I can't say why they got rid of some of the conversion-only units but between this, the Grandmaster Dreadknight, and the Exalted Champion "no model no rules" is obviously not an ironclad rule for them.

The test will be units like Vets (no real models ever), Last Chancers (models, no real rules in a while) and Rough Riders.

The Index Remembers. Should Rough Riders be binned I can still field them!

 streetsamurai wrote:

 Grimskul wrote:

 Gamgee wrote:
I like the Praefects the most followed by Chem-Dogs but that is way too much work for me to convert them.

Yeah, especially if IG continues to be infantry focused like it is so far in this edition, it becomes incredibly tedious to model through for 50+ models. Cool for maybe a squad, not so much an entire army. Dammit GW, greatcoat plastics or bust!

yeah, the conversions are cool, but in no way doable for a swarm army like IG (unless you're a millionaire and have ton of free time). Such a shame that we're still stuck with atrocious looking IG regiment.

It is pretty doable actually, even if you do not have much money or time. You just need to build the army very slowly over time. Or you could just play a list that is light on infantry...

Yup, totally doable. Plan what you use bits for. The Pistoliers kit gave me heads for all my dudes, horses for Rough Riders, and I used the torsos, guns and capes for Scions. Blog link in my sig. ended up costing no more than upgrade sprues would and created a characterful force.

Do they start previewing the regiments this week, or after it has gone up for pre-order?

 BrookM wrote:
Do they start previewing the regiments this week, or after it has gone up for pre-order?

I'd expect the previews to start showing up from next week, they usually go up the week before preordering on the Saturday

 Stormonu wrote:

 Gamgee wrote:

 Leth wrote:
Honestly with bits resellers its not as hard to get the parts you need to conversions.

It is if your Tau. I've been trying to find a bloody light saber ripoff thing I can slap on my commander for a year now that I can paint up in a custom colour. I can't find a generic light sword anywhere lol. Or even a cool energy blade type thing.

It's called a painted toothpick (and green stuff if you *need* a handle)

Been doing that since my Kenner obi-wan lost his...

It's actually kind of hard to get greenstuff here other than liquid green stuff and too much money and work just to use it for that. Actually I finally got mad enough to do some more serious digging and I think I found the right gundam piece finally. Granted it is a steep price to pay for a friggen sword. *sigh* At least I'll have a cool gundam model.

Green stuff isnt particularly good for the money. I strongly auggest looking into the Tamiya putties.

Lythrandire Biehrellian wrote:

 Unit1126PLL wrote:
Damn. I was hoping regiment rules would be based around type rather than homeworld, so you don't end up with Cadian tank regiments that re-roll 1s to hit with Lasguns or Tallarn infantry regiments that get +1 armour save on Leman Russes.

You can bet that the bonuses will only affect infantry.

I know admech affects all units, but their unit roster is paltry compared to the guard. The regiments will be more in line with space marines than admech, if I were a betting man.

Marines CT can effect Dreadnoughts so hopefully something equivalent for Guard - like Tanks.

I wouldn't expect the regimental rules to affect tanks all that much. There's a handful of dreads in comparison to the dozen tanks available.

BroodSpawn wrote:
I wouldn't expect the regimental rules to affect tanks all that much. There's a handful of dreads in comparison to the dozen tanks available.

Dozen? So the Hellhound, Leman Russ, Leman Russ Demolisher and...

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https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/09/25/regimental-focus-catachan-sep25gw-homepage-post-2/

So Catachans get both Infantry AND Tank buffs, which is a good start.

Infantry get +1S (not amazing on guardsmen, but it might be fun to try out with cheap units), and +1 Ld when near an Officer.

Vehicles get to reroll one of the dice used in weapons with a random amount of shots (ie, flamers, blast weaponry, etc etc).

AND Strategems too! Mordians coming tomorrow.

 Sgt_Smudge wrote:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/09/25/regimental-focus-catachan-sep25gw-homepage-post-2/

So Catachans get both Infantry AND Tank buffs, which is a good start.

Infantry get +1S (not amazing on guardsmen, but it might be fun to try out with cheap units), and +1 Ld when near an Officer.

Vehicles get to reroll one of the dice used in weapons with a random amount of shots (ie, flamers, blast weaponry, etc etc).

AND Strategems too! Mordians coming tomorrow.

See, this is more like what I was hoping for.

The random-dice-for-shots reroll is pretty much what always spend CP on, so you might see the 2nd Concordian ISHTR pretending to be catachans in the future!

Looks like my Cadians are going to be calling themselves Catachans now.