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I was going to say this doesn't quite fit as the models are still in production, but I can now see with the new releases they have actually finally been dropped;

Goff Rockers!

How can I use these?

Perhaps as nobs and their 'Axes' are Big Choppas?

 Cephalobeard wrote:
And rough riders. I want to convert rough riders so bad but I feel like they're gonna be phased out, and as a result I can't do pretty of the hobby I want to do, because it'd be a waste.

know what you meen. I've about 15 horse, 10 wolf and a couple of cold one for mounts. I've stopped getting them for now, though I may still build them for the fun of it. I had hoped to have rough riders from at least 6 planets available to me. could always stick with 7th ed though...

I haven't really checked what is not valid in 8th. I've a number of characters on bikes, so expect to be modifying them or using as 'counts as...'.

If I find a club local to me that plays older editions though, I can still use them.

Not a lot - I was never super into bikes and that seems to be the most common complaint.

I do have a Dreadnought with Twin-Autocannons. If the option was gone, I'd probably just count it as twin-lascannons and go about my day.

I made a really nice Blood Angel Sanguinary priest in terminator armour, loads of bits from various kits and some forgeworld shoulder pads, alas no rules for him even in the index :(

There is a silver lining though, you can give a BA terminator ancient a relic banner that grants 5+ ignore wounds within 6" - Bang! I've got a use for my priest model and he even has his old FNP aura back to boot :-D

Dark Eldar HQ's...... enough said

No its not enough, F GW, why does every army get their number 1 named character but DE cant?

Why does DE the army forced to lock out detachments and HQ dependent not have more than 1 basic HQ like Draco, or Merch HQ like Mandrake/Scourge?

Why cant the fast moving army have Jump/Bikes/Skyboards for their HQ's? Even the Index took them out, so we dont even have Index rules for them.

A whole bunch of Deathwatch characters didn't make it into the Codex (anyone on a bike or with a jump pack, for instance). There's also a "FW models that really should be in 40k but aren't" list with a bunch of Custodians and my entire Ordo Reductor army on it.

Hmm... nothing yet exactly, I think, but I do have a few "made to order" figures that don't have a contemporary model, inquisitors and ministorum priests basically. So I guess they'll go bye-bye in once the next round of codices for them comes around.

And I'll be sad when I can't use twin autocannons on dreads anymore, that's what I've been using for shooty dreads since I got the arms from FW. I can just swap the arms but the dakka is nice (if my rolls didn't suck, anyway).

 Excommunicatus wrote:
I have two Heralds on Steeds and one on a Seeker Chariot that I can still use, but they have worse weaponry than Codex Heralds because reasons.

The rule of three is vastly more irritating, 'cause I built five Hellflayers.

I have 12 exalted Flamers. I feel for you.

 AnomanderRake wrote:
A whole bunch of Deathwatch characters didn't make it into the Codex (anyone on a bike or with a jump pack, for instance). There's also a "FW models that really should be in 40k but aren't" list with a bunch of Custodians and my entire Ordo Reductor army on it.

oh yeah, I forgot about my 2500 point mechanicum army collecting dust because GWs just too fething lazy to give it rules for 40k.

Plaguebearer herald on palanquin just got plucked off to be rebased today (it was the original metal palanquin too, not epidemius).

Space Wolves with hand flamers. Dead at the hands of third edition.

Chaplain Xavier, who I picked up in the M2O re-release - what do you mean I can't give a Chaplain a Thunder Hammer, so he can't even be a WYSIWYG proxy?

Further back, though in one case still covered by a M2O re-release - Lord Solar Macharius (M2O purchase), Captain Al'Rahem, Colonel Chenkov. The latter two can at lease by WYSIWYG Company (or Platoon) Commanders - not sure about LSM, as I've yet to build him.

I have a unit of Death Guard bikers led by the ubiquitous lord with fist and claw, not to mention my Death Guard autocannon toting havoc squad.

Just dropped $$$ putting together a force of 50 Adeptus Arbites...

 Huron black heart wrote:
I have a unit of Death Guard bikers led by the ubiquitous lord with fist and claw, not to mention my Death Guard autocannon toting havoc squad.

Ah yes, the staples from last edition. I've still got these same units boxed away as well.

 BaconCatBug wrote:
Zero, because Indexes are still legal, for now.

I have five Necron Pariahs that would like to have a word with you

hvg3akaek wrote:

 BaconCatBug wrote:
Zero, because Indexes are still legal, for now.

I have five Necron Pariahs that would like to have a word with you

For all intents and purposes, Pariahs are now Lychguard and can still be used as such. Granted the fluff and rule mechanics are hugely different to their early iteration of being soul sucking dead zones of life

And/or human Professors of Archaeology called Tom.

hvg3akaek wrote:

 BaconCatBug wrote:
Zero, because Indexes are still legal, for now.

I have five Necron Pariahs that would like to have a word with you

And all the Dark Eldar stuff mentioned earlier.

Two conversions - an Ork Big Mek with Kustom Force-Field, and a Herald of Slaanesh on Steed.

Nothing else stands out to me.

Drager wrote:

hvg3akaek wrote:

 BaconCatBug wrote:
Zero, because Indexes are still legal, for now.

I have five Necron Pariahs that would like to have a word with you

And all the Dark Eldar stuff mentioned earlier.

To be fair, both of those were axed long before the Chapterhouse Lawsuits.

Biggest losses:
- I made up a Herald of Nurgle on a Palanquin from bits of corpse wagon, nurglings and a fantasy herald, because I didn't want to use the Epedemius model for a generic herald. Now I have to use the generic herald as Epedemius (if I ever fielded him which I have not done so far...)

I also made two Silver Towers of Tzeentch from scratch out of polysterene, populated them with official horror models capering on the battlements, back in the day when GW had Silver Tower rules on its website. They sucked then, now they don't exist...

Mark.

What kinda buggs me is that some of the ork stuff was still sold on the store page in 2018 before it mysteriously disappeared and went from the codex. Careful what you buy I geuss.

Oh......... My Corsairs

Cheeslord wrote:


I also made two Silver Towers of Tzeentch from scratch out of polysterene, populated them with official horror models capering on the battlements, back in the day when GW had Silver Tower rules on its website. They sucked then, now they don't exist...

Mark.

Silver tower rules? When was that?

I supposed they can work as bastions or superheavy tanks though.

Aelyn wrote:
Two conversions - an Ork Big Mek with Kustom Force-Field, and a Herald of Slaanesh on Steed.

Nothing else stands out to me.

So, I finished painting two Heralds on Steeds to celebrate the new Daemon codex the very day it was released. Then I popped off to buy the Codex, that doesn't have Heralds on Steeds in it.

That said, they're still in the Index, so there are still rules for 'em.

I have one of the OOP Forgeworld Thousand Sons dreadnought that has a chain sword type arm and a twin Auto Cannon. The chain sword thing can be a scourge, I think that might even have been what it was used as in 3rd when the model was created, but there is no option to take twin Auto cannons even in the Index. Now, one can say that they are just a reaper cannon, although they are twice the size, and twin auto cannons are better than reapers as you get same number of shots, AP, St, but the twin auto is D2. In the purest technical sense it would not be legal as the weapon is clearly not a reaper cannon. I just proxy it as a twin laser cannon however, because it actually looks more like a laser cannon than a reaper cannon, and actually most of my opponents never notice until I show them the little ammo box on the side and most just assume it is a laser cannon anyway (I don't hide it from my opponents, I tell them laser cannon, it is just funny how many, even chaos players, can't tell that the model is in fact not WYSIWYG).

 NurglesR0T wrote:

hvg3akaek wrote:

 BaconCatBug wrote:
Zero, because Indexes are still legal, for now.

I have five Necron Pariahs that would like to have a word with you

For all intents and purposes, Pariahs are now Lychguard and can still be used as such. Granted the fluff and rule mechanics are hugely different to their early iteration of being soul sucking dead zones of life

Whilst they can 'work' like that, Pariahs had their anti-psyker trick which is something Necron are not blessed with now. Bring that back (allow them to take a gloom prism each?), and I'd say we could play them again. But now? They are proxying a different model.

I have about 30 Chaos Space Marines built with Bolter, Bolt Pistol and various close combat weapons and I've lost track of how many times I've had to pull the arms off my Aspiring Champions because of subtle changes to the wording of wargear options...

For guardsmen I have Col. Schaeffer, Gaunt, Rough Riders, and a ton of sergeants with power mauls or power axes.

For my chaos I had a biker lord who earned his promotion up from just being a biker sgt when he tanked a dreadnought for two turns(mark of tzeentch and crazy luck) and the killed it with his power fist. I built him a custom model in honor.

Also, I know it's not really the same but I had a ton of converted chaos models for my thousand sons army (obliterators, chosen, warp talons) before thousand sons got their own book. I basically just said they were sorcerers whose powers manifested more physically like the wap talons would use the warp to materialize by there opponents and then buoyancy themselves to turn their hands to crackling sharp claws. The fact that all those options hot removed from the thousand sons and replaced with boatmen kinda makes me sad. I know I can just play them as an allied detachment of black legion or my own custom warband the thousand and one sons, and I do, but having to split up my factions is mildly annoying and anytime there is a mono book event it's back to guard for me.

fithos wrote:
For guardsmen I have Col. Schaeffer, Gaunt, Rough Riders, and a ton of sergeants with power mauls or power axes.

Power mauls and power axes are still valid options, they are in the Index.

My sergeants with Lasguns, not so much :( (they were valid in 3e!) - even officers could take a lasgun.