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 FeindusMaximus wrote:
Yes, its called HH aka 7th Ed

Agreed

I always fancied the idea of an event where you used the same army (or at least the same miniatures) each round, but each round used a different edition of the rules. Marines, Orks and Eldar would be OK, I think. Tau and Necrons would be out if you used 1st or 2nd edition, Guard would have problems in 2nd - 4th editions (one man short in the command squads; the addition of a Bodyguard regimental advisor soles the issue in 5th and 6th).

OK, so I only played like a demo game for 7th Edition, but man do I miss Formations.

I know Formations were the bane of 7th Edition for probably most of the players, but they made it so much easier for hobbyists like me. Just by keeping my ears and eyes open for what were considered the best Formations, I didn't have to be concerned about understanding the synergy between units that only comes with playing many games.

I knew exactly what models were needed to put together the best army for the point limit. It made my life so much easier.

So, yeah, I think I'd be willing to attend a 7th Edition tournament even with the tiny amount of gameplay experience I have.

SG

 ServiceGames wrote:
OK, so I only played like a demo game for 7th Edition, but man do I miss Formations.

I know Formations were the bane of 7th Edition for probably most of the players, but they made it so much easier for hobbyists like me. Just by keeping my ears and eyes open for what were considered the best Formations, I didn't have to be concerned about understanding the synergy between units that only comes with playing many games.

That's exactly what they were intended to do and part of what made them such a problem. They were used to push web sales bundles of stuff, so GW would release formation rules giving powerful abilities and free stuff, tying it (and often access to the rules) directly to a GW webstore sales package, allowing people to basically buy their way to victory without having to learn the game.

I knew exactly what models were needed to put together the best army for the point limit. It made my life so much easier.

The problem unfortunately came when it made that point limit a fiction and one side had a 2000pt army on the table and the other effectively was a 2600+pt army that got an extra 400pts in models and wargear and a couple hundred extra points worth of special rules and abilities to boot.

 Wolflord Patrick wrote:
So, I don’t log in to the forums very often anymore. However when I do, I always see a thread asking what your favorite edition is and why? It gets me wondering why more people just don’t stick with the edition they enjoy? So, if there was an event hosted that featured your favorite older edition of 40k, would you go play?

This leads to my next question of: How hard would it be to organize a day to play and enjoy that edition? Personally, I’d much rather play 3rd through 5th, and within reason I wouldn’t mind traveling to play in an event that featured one of those editions.

There are still a few people like me who still play 2nd 40K and a mix of 3rd-6th 40K. But I don´t attend tournaments. Though the majority of 40K players have a herd mentality and will stick religiously to the newest iteration of the game for no other reason than GW´s demand for them to do so.

3rd Edition was always my favourite - but that was because I could run literally 15 Multilaser Sentinels (6 from the 2 HQ's) and use them solely to force my opponent to footslog on the outset of the second turn purely by virtue of destroying all their transports with 45 Multilaser shots.

Definitely - but as others have said, on condition that it's a narrative event/similar. I'm not huge on competitive meta in any edition.

I'm lucky, I get to play 3rd almost once a month as is. However, if they did a regional event for 3rd with players from other states? I'd hit that so hard...

People always suggest this and then no one ever leads the charge or else no one ever responds etc... At the end of the day there isnt enough leadership in most groups to make it happen. But sure. I'd probably play in one.

In order to seriously consider a previous edition tournament, you’d have to be able to prove that you had correct and accurate versions of all of the FAQs and various books. Look at 8th edition 40k and imagine trying to sort out five to ten years from now an argument over Index-permitted wargear. Or v1 vs. v2 CSM codex.

I think that’s pretty much the reason for “only for a narrative event” answers. Play a game using some bizarre antique rules edition where someone else did all of the restoration work and it’s “just for fun”? Sure. Anything beyond that? I’d rather hang out with steam threshers.

With 3rd, it's actually pretty easy to get all the printed material, and they were really good about slapping the FAQs into Chapter Approved at the time, so we had collections of gaming material that nabbed the best of the WD stuff all at once. The only thing I really didn't like them omitting was the better LOD rules from the WD that premiered 3rd Ed. Eldar.

3rd edition had thos stupid "trial assault rules" though.

The beauty of organising your own event is that you can include or exclude whatever you want.

Even if I wanted to, I can't see it happening. The reason being: numbers and splintered interest groups.

Take a community of 20 active players - plenty for a tournament. Now ask everybody for their preference in terms of older editions. I would bet money on no edition getting more than a third of votes, if at all. Suddenly you are left with eight players at most. You could do an event with them, but it would be small, and you would leave 2/3 of the group out.

So yeah, not gonna happen.

 Jancoran wrote:
3rd edition had thos stupid "trial assault rules" though.

They were trial rules, permission only, and not fully integrated. C'mon, man...



EDIT for autocorrect needing corrected.

Nah. Don't want to have to refresh myself on older rules and then afterwards refresh myself on newer rules. Besides most of the previous editions were crap in comparison.

As much as I love 3rd edition, the biggest issue for me would be that my main armies (Chaos and Nids) would lose 2/3 of their units going back to that edition, and one big chunk of them (GSC) would have no rules at all!

 TonyH122 wrote:
As much as I love 3rd edition, the biggest issue for me would be that my main armies (Chaos and Nids) would lose 2/3 of their units going back to that edition, and one big chunk of them (GSC) would have no rules at all!

For some reason I remember a VDR rule set for Nidz. but can't recall what it was called.


I think 4th ed was the one I like the most way better that 5th any way. I'd love to play 2nd, 3rd and 4th again. Just for fun and non competitive.
I almost miss 3rd edition Blood Angels and their 24" first turn assaults and Kroot Merks first turn assaults. I really miss my choppas and everything else in the old 3rd edition Ork codex.
2nd edition would have been amazing (more fun anyway.) with better close combat mechanics.

Someone in our local group (college student no doubt) suggest doing an event using 4th Ed rules, supplied by him. As a Guard player who never experienced the whole Platoon system, I'd be interested in trying it out. I started with Space Wolves in 5th, so the main ruleset is not too unfamiliar.

If it was not a tournament or similar competitive type thing, I wouldn't mind seeing what 5th or any older edition of Warhammer 40k was like. I am pretty sure I have enough older CSM units to field a simple army to try it out. I wouldn't monetarily invest much in said event though.

Additionally, if I like the group of players enough, I could easily see me playing any of the older editions with or without house rules on a regular basis.

Yes, 5th, but only if its combat patrol.

TonyH122 wrote:As much as I love 3rd edition, the biggest issue for me would be that my main armies (Chaos and Nids) would lose 2/3 of their units going back to that edition, and one big chunk of them (GSC) would have no rules at all!

GSC had 3rd Ed rules thanks to Citadel Journal, so there's that?

warhead01 wrote:

 TonyH122 wrote:
As much as I love 3rd edition, the biggest issue for me would be that my main armies (Chaos and Nids) would lose 2/3 of their units going back to that edition, and one big chunk of them (GSC) would have no rules at all!

For some reason I remember a VDR rule set for Nidz. but can't recall what it was called.

They were unimaginatively called Tyranid Design Rules.

 Platuan4th wrote:

TonyH122 wrote:As much as I love 3rd edition, the biggest issue for me would be that my main armies (Chaos and Nids) would lose 2/3 of their units going back to that edition, and one big chunk of them (GSC) would have no rules at all!

GSC had 3rd Ed rules thanks to Citadel Journal, so there's that?

warhead01 wrote:

 TonyH122 wrote:
As much as I love 3rd edition, the biggest issue for me would be that my main armies (Chaos and Nids) would lose 2/3 of their units going back to that edition, and one big chunk of them (GSC) would have no rules at all!

For some reason I remember a VDR rule set for Nidz. but can't recall what it was called.

They were unimaginatively called Tyranid Design Rules.

Those were the ones that basically allowed people to run Malefactors, correct?

I would so long as there were some sensible house rules in place. By my definition of sensible.
Example, 6th with single FOC, no flyers or Lords of war. Or 7th with single FOC, no flyers, Lords of war, invisibility, formations or summoning.

However, I'd rather just get a bunch of people involved in play testing my own ruleset.