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Typically, I'd ask if someone is interested in playing a casual game against some custom units. I have written up rules for my mechanicum stuff in 8th ed 40k, and I also often use my Idoneth Deepkin in 40k games as Exodites. Usually, there are a few people who are interested in that kind of a game when I'm in the mood for it, but it is a bit frustrating that there are plenty of people who accept that the game is hyper imbalanced...but they're only willing to play officially corporate-endorsed imbalance.

Basically any advice anyone gives you is going to be based on their own local group.

I use some pretty wild n crazy proxies, as do many members of our group, and it's totally normal here to do so. Homebrew rules are rarer, but we do have some people doing stuff like converting the old 3rd ed catachan book to 9th.

 Jidmah wrote:
You want to forbid people from naming their miniatures?

It's fine, jeffwhite has ascended to the stage of ultrabeard, where he likes placing Thats Not Casual Enough restrictions on other peoples games but he's too far out of the loop to know what's actually a problem now. My favorite example of this phenomenon was when I went to a local game club that was advertised as a super chill, super laid back ultra narrative casual group that met in a bar. This was back in 7th ed when Guard was one of the worst armies around, so I took my all metal vostroyan collection to the club. A guy there was super mad that I was "spamming" identical leman russ tanks...because I was using three of the old 3rd ed plastic kit from before there were sponsons or guns that weren't Battlecannons.

IIRC he was also peeved that there were so many heavy bolters. Like dawg its vostroyans you get one in every box, I've converted half of mine to be lascannons instead lol.