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I know it's been a while since the Recon-made-famous-thanks-to-Dan-Abnett regiment, The Tanith 1st and Only have been mentioned on this site, or even in general 40k chat, but why did GW get rid of them? I understand that it was very difficult to even run a squad or two of ghosts, forget an army, back in the old edition codex, but I find that it a little harsh in the new codex that the only mention to the Ghosts is at the end of all the famous regiments of the Guard, and is only a small paragraph. Last I heard, the series and the characters from it were very popular and such, so how come GW didn't add them in the new codex. Was it too small and unnoticable army, that no one could really field unless they were really devoted to it. I know the codex came out last year and all, but it has always been a topic on my mind. I just would like to see them bring back some acknowledgement back to at least Gaunt so you could at least field him with a sqaud or two of converted catachans or what not. Just saying.

They are in the fluff.
Otherwise not so much...
It's easily done army-wise.
Lord Commissar and a Company command squad for HQ.
Vet squads with camo cloaks for troops, a couple of platoons.
Not much else otherwise... you could have a few tanks and pain them up in different colours and say they are from a different regiment and are 'providing support'

Yea, that's true, But I was taking a look at some of his (Gaunt) things, and the history of him in the old codex, and it just seems like a symbolic regiment was completely taken out of the Guard. I mean, he's just a symbolic model. It sucks whenever I go to a GW up here in the great white north, and people flip out on me when I bring my Tanith platoon squad, (the one that came with Colonel Corbec, Brin Milo, Larkin, and Dorden) and Guant on the field because they classify them as "illegal" models that don't exist. I know anywhere else, people are like sweet, but here, people are such sticklers that you can't bring these beautiful models onto the field.

Just saying for conversation sake.

Col_Torsin wrote:It sucks whenever I go to a GW up here in the great white north, and people flip out on me when I bring my Tanith platoon squad, (the one that came with Colonel Corbec, Brin Milo, Larkin, and Dorden) and Guant on the field because they classify them as "illegal" models that don't exist. I know anywhere else, people are like sweet, but here, people are such sticklers that you can't bring these beautiful models onto the field.

Just saying for conversation sake.

They're out of production, not illegal. They're still perfectly legal GW produced models. There's nothing in the rulebook saying you cannot use out of production models - the only stipulation is they be used on the bases they were sold with. If they don't like it, find someone else to play games with. Anyone being a dick like that isn't worth playing against.

Yeah, that what I keep telling everyone that starts flipping out on me. I guess it's time to move Does Anyone know why they got rid of Gaunt's stats for the latest codex? I've asked a few people and they said it was becuase just fielding a Guants ghosts army, or even platoon is a real chore, but is possible, ( as stated by purplefood... not to self, don't eat that...) Like, there are deffinetely better heroes to have then Guant, but I'm still trying to figure out why they got rid of him.

As you can guess by now, I'm just really intrested in this stuff... and I like to see my own posts in a forum XD