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So, these are no longer stand-alone things in the Codex anymore, I notice. Is this just because we're in M42 instead of M41?

The 3e/4e Last Chancers were some of the most interesting models - you could kit them up individually almost any way you wanted!

M.

My prefered iteration of the Last Chancers was when they were 12 Independent Characters, each with their own special rules. No matter how big of a game you were playing, it was just them, and possibly an optional Chimera if you wanted it.

I've never seen 12 Imperial Guardsmen be so intimidating. I once witnessed an enraged Ox punch out the last wound on a Carnifex while a dead, yet still fighting, Hero held up a Genestealer mob. Now that was funny. And who didn't like Grease Monkey fixing a Destroyed Land Raider and riding around in it, blowing stuff up.

I actually still run the last chancers in my Penal Legion guard list (which is Catachan tactics for the prisoners, Valahallan tactics for the overseers manning the HWTs and some vet squads, so they can be ordered to fire into my own men who are in combat).

I run Ox as harker, Schaeffer and IH Straken, Shiv as a ministorum Priest, and all the rest sprinkled around as various sergeants/members of the squads.

When we start up a Shadow War campaign again where I play, my plan is to follow the Schaeffer method of playing a full game with my IG, then picking the survivors to form my Shadow War team.