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Oh man. Don't get me started on the fuss placing the Immolator flametank's templates.

On the plus side, then end looked like boobies, and I was like 11 at the time.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
But you shall go into exacting detail of such template placement.

Also.....boobies....fnarr.

Okay so if I recall correctly...

... you had to place the template so that the edges were touching (think of two cones [the flamer templates] sharing the same vertex). They could nether be split apart nor overlap. But, of course, you wanted to cover as many models in the target unit as you could with each template - and at the time, the printout/copied templates caused all kinds of issues, between warping, resizing for printers, etc. AND GOOD LUCK IF YOU DIDN'T HAVE TWO TEMPLATES YOU NINCOMPOOP.

There was even a diagram in the 2nd edition SOB codex (were Canonesses were WS7 and T5) that I still remember vaguely.

2nd Edition had superheavies. I still have Inquisitor 16, with the rules for Baneblades, and the Armourcast Baneblade that went with.

 Strg Alt wrote:

 Unit1126PLL wrote:
2nd Edition had superheavies. I still have Inquisitor 16, with the rules for Baneblades, and the Armourcast Baneblade that went with.

Spoiler:

Never saw a Baneblade for sale in 2nd. Is the shown model a scratchbuild?

Nope! Armorcast produced them under license for GW for a long time. You can still get the old Armorcast Baneblades on Ebay sometimes. (e.g. here's one that comes with the parts to make it a Armorcast Shadowsword as well!)

Yeah, superheavies have been in "28mm" 40k from the get-go.

It's why I find all the hate surrounding them so staggering; people act like they are "intrusions into the game" as if they've never been, aha.

tneva82 wrote:
Yeah. But rulewise not that special. Couple leman russ would be providing about same in less eggs in one bucket that's not THAT much more survivable than russ. 2nd ed super heavies were basically just tanks with more guns. More akin step up from leman russ like land raider was step up from predator.

I have blown one several times already.

Yes, Baneblades have always had roughly the firepower of 3 tanks and durability of 3 tanks, while costing considerably more. They've never been very good until now - and now, it's almost exclusively due to the Steel Behemoth rule more than anything.

Yeah, in 3rd Forge World (as an internal company of Games Workshop) began to produce the models and rules for Baneblades (I still have my floppy Imperial Armour Volume 1 from that era!).

They have always been as legal as anything else, which is to say "ask nicely first."