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I loved this book. I used to be able to create lists from memory.

 Stormonu wrote:
2E was the reason I left 40K for almost 20 years. I still collected the minis, but didn't want to play the game. The last minis I remember buying with intent to play was the Cadian plastic miniatures box.

Your statement seems chronologically challenged. That Guard Codex is from the 90's. The plastic Cadians didn't come for around another decade, in the latter portions of 3rd Ed. There weren't 20 years between that Codex and the plastic Cadians. A 20 year break would bring you back... well... now, not when the plastic Cadians were out.

 Stormonu wrote:
It's been a while - I got out somewhere in 2nd (I have a photocopied version of the starter set rules that came with orcs & Dark Millennium boxed set - that is 2nd, isn't it?), didn't get back in until the latest Necron release.

This is a photo of the "Cadians" I'm talking about...http://www.flickr.com/photos/118158058@N03/12650002744/. They're certainly plastic (30 in a set) - I think the minis were just called "Imperial Guard" back then.

Yes, Dark Millennium was 2nd Ed. And I see what you mean about those Guardsmen - the original plastic Guardsmen. At the time GW had them as the "Necromundan 8th", among other things (just 'generic Guard' really, much like plastic Guard are now). Cadians weren't really a thing until later on, but I can see how someone who took a long break could miss the distinction. Perfectly reasonable. Thank you for clarifying.

 Vladsimpaler wrote:
You need to work on your analytical skills.

Nah I was mostly right. The timeline I based my conclusions on was correct based upon available information (plastic Cadians exist now and they're the only plastic Cadians to have ever existed). He just got them confused with the old Imperial Guard plastics (which were Necromundan 8th, or meant to be in the same way that most Guard armies are Cadians now even if they're not Cadians). He's clarified what he meant, and now it makes sense.

It occurs to me that I now have a scanner, so I could do this with some of my Codices. It'd be interesting to take a look at the monolithic "yellow book" Chaos Codex from 2nd Ed, assuming the Kid hasn't already done it.

 Azazelx wrote:
Mark Gibbons. His leaving was really a loss for GW..

Huge. Mega. Ultra-loss for GW.

He remains my fav artist that they've ever had.

 Vladsimpaler wrote:
You were mostly good about the years stuff was made but completely off in your assumptions of the poster as I demonstrated.

Awesome. Have fun with that hair-splitting device you appear to be so fond of, whilst the rest of us drift back into nostalgia land.

I have a feeling that if you told Mark Gibbons that he doesn't create, only re-creates, he might punch you. And he'd be right to.