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Hey guys,

It took me a long time to learn 5th edition, and I never really was seriously learning a new edition (even though I bought a few rulebooks, later). I just read another post where a poster said they only play 5E with their group.

How common is this? What do you guys think is the most common non-current edition (and why?)

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https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/789567.page

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I play 4e, but it is only subtly different from 5e. I consider most of the 5e changes to be side grades - a difference of what you consider fun, rather than outright worse or better
   
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your mind

Increasingly common.

   
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Depends on your community. If you can find the people willing to deviate from tournament standard, I feel it can be fairly common.
   
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Fixture of Dakka




NE Ohio, USA

Currently for 40k I play both 8e & 9e.
Mostly 9e as that's what our Crusades run on. But there's a few people in my circle that hate mixing 8e & 9e Codex books. They feel the 9e forces have an unfair advantage. So when playing with them it's 8e.

For Sigmar its similar, but the reason is some of the people just haven't picked up the 3e BRB yet.

And a few of us will occasionally play WHFB 3e.
   
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I don't really play older editions, but I've recently started probing for interesting among my local gaming community. I'd also gladly play an older edition if someone walked up and requested it so long as the game looked like it would be a fun matchup. I'm not in a hurry to play against a 5e parking lot or a 7e scatbike + wraith knight list, but I'd be willing to play either of those editions.


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1st edition with my wife (use grimdark future scenarios and i premake the lists, 20-30 dudes and couple vehicles per side, so i guess not 'pure' rogue trader but the designer would agree with my approach! keep it around 1990, no battle/vehicle manual nor later white dwarf army entries).

keep plotting to introduce my students to 2nd and even made a thread about it but just too busy lately, i need to 3d print proxies etc and in the end time might force me just to do grimdark future with them, which is fine.

in a dream world would love to have a 2nd playgroup or a 4th with 3rd codexes, but just a dream!

it seems 5th is the most common i see people say they play, judging solely by the internet posts i see.

ccs wrote:

And a few of us will occasionally play WHFB 3e.

this is what i am interested in trying out! but nobody to play with

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Rogue Trader and 3rd Edition.

I wanted to jump back in with 9th edition but still waiting on that Harlequin codex, so modern 40K is on hold.

Casual gaming, mostly solo-coop these days.

 
   
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 jeff white wrote:
Increasingly common.


For sure, what with the constant GW shenanigans. But not only that, nostalgia is one hell of a drug.
   
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Italy

3rd (my favorite), 4th and 5th are all good editions to play, especially now since lots of the stuff that was included in old codexes didn't have official models or easy access to bitz in order to kitbash the desired loadouts then, while now everything is super easy to get instead. At least that was a problem for old ork armies, 3rd edition codex in particular.

Playing 3rd and 5th became common in my area during 7th and I enjoyed a lot playing those old editions. Now 40k seems to be really popular as it is so players who want to keep older editions alive is something I don't see anywmore.

I'd still like to play those editions sometimes though.

 
   
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 jeff white wrote:
Increasingly common.


Not quite as common as not even playing but commenting on 40K threads non-stop anyway. That’s seen a meteoric rise around these parts!

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I just played a game of 3E for kicks, yesterday, with my brother. We had fun. I will say that my Squats (I was using a fan list) suffered a defeat because I neglected to bring any AT to deal with his Dreadnought!

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Honestly, I've not seen anyone play older editions. I wouldn't mind playing an older edition (2nd, 4th, or 5th preferably), but I have not found anyone interested.

No earth shattering, thought provoking quote. I'm just someone who was introduced to 40K in the late 80's and it's become a lifelong hobby. 
   
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 Ouze wrote:
Hey guys,

It took me a long time to learn 5th edition, and I never really was seriously learning a new edition (even though I bought a few rulebooks, later). I just read another post where a poster said they only play 5E with their group.

How common is this? What do you guys think is the most common non-current edition (and why?)


40k wise, I don't think anyone locally plays the older edition. We also have a lot of leagues always running, from crusade to escalation and comp leagues though, so there is plenty of ways to play and have fun with the current edition.

There are a few folks that play 9th age WHFB.

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For an oldhammer nostalgia evenings we play 2nd and then for the main system we first stayed with 7th spinoff akin to ProHammer for about two years into 8th reign and then we switched to a completely custom ruleset. But we are a tight group of narrative players who don’t like playing at FLGS, so we are basically free to play anything we have a taste for at any given time. Nobody in our group plays 8th or 9th.
   
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 JohnnyHell wrote:
 jeff white wrote:
Increasingly common.


Not quite as common as not even playing but commenting on 40K threads non-stop anyway. That’s seen a meteoric rise around these parts!

Truth. I am judging by what I read on forums. I personally have been unable to play after losing my job and moving into the mountains to save money. Plus COVID ridiculousness. I was able to get into the local gw store when in the Netherlands, and did experiment with 9th Ed.

That said, after that, I personally have zero interest in the current edition rules though am excited to rebuild my thirty year old eldars using the upcoming new box and finally building the metal chaos marines I have been carrying around the world for almost as long. If and when we can afford a more permanent place less than two hours drive on toll roads to a hobby store to try to get a game in a foreign language, then I will be hoping to find some like minded hobbyists and in fact I am enthused by the fact that I find increasing interest on forums from people around the world indicating that the potential to get out from under gw and its bs CCG plastic crack driven rules mentality and enjoy the setting with some Prohammer or second Ed is increasing.

So, again, interest in older editions is quite clearly increasing …

   
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Been playing since 4th, I have never played an edition other than the "current" one. Locally, each time a new edition is released everyone basically chucks the rulebook for the previous edition out and moves on never to look back.

Only exception to this has been WHFB which has recently seen a 10mm revival locally (i.e. people playing 6th/7th/8th edition using 10mm minis)

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Thats kinda a moving target, it really depends on person to person, and gaming group to gaming group.
Most people in my area always play the latest, if going to a store, odds are its going to be latest.
Generally though if setting up a game, not looking for a pick up game? 7th or HH(IE 7.5)
Most of my group is checked out on 9th.

To many unpainted models to count. 
   
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 JohnnyHell wrote:
 jeff white wrote:
Increasingly common.


Not quite as common as not even playing but commenting on 40K threads non-stop anyway. That’s seen a meteoric rise around these parts!


This was very much me up until around... a month ago? My nephew got into 40K in a big way and I've been playing with him, kind of a dumbed down version of 5th edition. Definitely no parking lots yet.

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I got back into 40K the beginning of 8th and liked it, after having not played since 4th (started with 2nd). Then things got messy after the 8th Space Marines 2.0 codex came out and I got off the current edition train, though I have kept up with what is going on with 9th and I feel I made the right move. I'm more into the collecting and hobbying aspects these days during COVID, but when I do play some homes games those games are split between the new Apocalypse ruleset (simple and fun with some tactical decision making) and the 4th edition rules. I prefer the way editions of the 3rd/4th/5th era utilized stats like initiative and leadership, vehicle facings mattered, simple USRs were kept to a minimum and easy to learn, a lot of codexes had some good rules, no real bloat, great fluff, and I actually liked blast plates and flamer templates (!).

 
   
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 Ouze wrote:
Hey guys,

It took me a long time to learn 5th edition, and I never really was seriously learning a new edition (even though I bought a few rulebooks, later). I just read another post where a poster said they only play 5E with their group.

How common is this? What do you guys think is the most common non-current edition (and why?)


I'd play different editions that have major revamps in them. I'd play 2nd Edition again. I'd play I forget which one 5th or 6th. I'm not sure I'd abandon 9th to play 8th.

My WHFB armies were Bretonians and Tomb Kings. 
   
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 Ouze wrote:
Hey guys,

It took me a long time to learn 5th edition, and I never really was seriously learning a new edition (even though I bought a few rulebooks, later). I just read another post where a poster said they only play 5E with their group.

How common is this? What do you guys think is the most common non-current edition (and why?)


I think it really depends on what kind of group you play with and where you play your games. If you play at a FLGS I would think that just like GW they would want you to play the most up to date rule set as your games are free advertising for the store.

If its a group of mates who are playing in someones basement or garage or rent a hall or something then it's whatever the group decides on.

I prefer 2nd, 5th before the 'ward era of crons/GK/etc' and HH for 40k. Fantasy would be 5th and 6th. Again 7th edition era Matt Ward books broke WHFB.... Daemons nuff said.

But honestly I haven't played a game of 40k in wow..umm...8 years or so. HH its been about 6 years. Infinity for the win baby such a good game and models.

   
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No one I'm aware of is playing any older edition here, not in clubs, not in stores, not privately.

The only legacy thing I'm aware of some sort of kill-teamish RPG thing for warhammer fantasy. I personally don't know it, but they regularly announce when they start a new campaign.

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 FabricatorGeneralMike wrote:
 Ouze wrote:
Hey guys,

It took me a long time to learn 5th edition, and I never really was seriously learning a new edition (even though I bought a few rulebooks, later). I just read another post where a poster said they only play 5E with their group.

How common is this? What do you guys think is the most common non-current edition (and why?)


I think it really depends on what kind of group you play with and where you play your games. If you play at a FLGS I would think that just like GW they would want you to play the most up to date rule set as your games are free advertising for the store.

If its a group of mates who are playing in someones basement or garage or rent a hall or something then it's whatever the group decides on.

I prefer 2nd, 5th before the 'ward era of crons/GK/etc' and HH for 40k. Fantasy would be 5th and 6th. Again 7th edition era Matt Ward books broke WHFB.... Daemons nuff said.

But honestly I haven't played a game of 40k in wow..umm...8 years or so. HH its been about 6 years. Infinity for the win baby such a good game and models.



My FLGS doesn't mind HH or 4th edition games - they sell plastic no matter what edition specifically for.
   
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Our group has almost entirely been playing older editions lately. After jumping around trying to house rule some combination of 4th and 5th and 6th together, we ended up making ProHammer (see link in signature). Been playing that a fair amount lately.

No one is much interested in 9th edition. Just not what we're looking for in terms of gameplay.

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