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I'm just curious, given that there is a huge amount of pre-history to 40K I wondered if any one would ever be intrested in or has ever played games set in the 40k past. Parts of the history such as The Great Cursade, the war with the Iron Men, Unification Wars, etc. (Excluding Warhammer Ancient Battles).

The only games I belive are set in the in the 40K past are The Horus Heresy (obviously) and Dark Millenium (possibly).

(I applogise if this subject has been raised before)

A few guys and me had a campaign of a few battles during the Horus Heresy. We even broke the "10 is maximum stat limit" for the Primarchs. A few of us (me included) had to play a few different primarchs (I played Mortarion, Sanguinius and Perturabo on seperate occasions). It was possibly the most fun I've ever had playing 40k.

Sorry my mistake I ment Dark Future not Dark Millenium based in the far future of 1995!!

If your gaming group do it, then the sky's the limit, cos you can pretty much do any time when there is a decent amount of fluff so you know what sort of stuff to do etc, it can be loads of fun!

I think there is quite a lot of it going on actually.

IA books 9 and 10 cover the Badab war, an event in the history of 40k.

There is a budding Pre-Heresy community out there, with loads of fan run as well as (semi) official campaigns which have taken place.
Come and take a look at http://z15.invisionfree.com/The_Great_Crusade

Unification wars, and older, definitely sounds interesting. Now that Pre-Heresy has been done a lot, I can see some of the more adventurous modellers and converters already beginning to turn down this path