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I’ve got stuff in the RT boxes, 2nd, etc. The nice styrofoam trays, good sizes. Love em.

I use the plastic from blister packs all the time for sorting minis while building, palettes, etc. Great hobby resource.

Also the old polystyrene box inserts were fantastic for making ruined buildings...

 insaniak wrote:
Also the old polystyrene box inserts were fantastic for making ruined buildings...

Indeed, and GW even recommended you do so with them in their "How to make wargames terrain" book

 A Town Called Malus wrote:

 insaniak wrote:
Also the old polystyrene box inserts were fantastic for making ruined buildings...

Indeed, and GW even recommended you do so with them in their "How to make wargames terrain" book

A GW from another time and reality

I've still got a NM RT era Squats (Space Dwarves, Mercenaries of the 41st Millenium) box - the one that came with 36 figures.

They weren't glued together, rather held by tabs. Because on the inside of the end panels are blank (non-colored) copies of the banners on the exterior.
I keep it folded up in a manilla folder in the end of one of the book shelves - so that I can make new banners.

Of course now days I've long had a PDF file of the banners.... But I still have that box

The inquisition (demon hunters/death watch) brought the light of the emperor to the black legion.

Sadly the deathwatch totally failed and got taken out early, failing to wound with most of their shots(so man 1s and 2s)

My assassins did a much better job and were a collective annoyance to chaos. in the end we had to go to tie breakers, he had first blood, i had slay the warlord, so it came down to linebreaker and i had my blackstar in his deployment zone.

 aphyon wrote:
My assassins did a much better job and were a collective annoyance to chaos

What are your thoughts on the 3e vs 5e assassins?

I could never really get value out of the pre-GK vindicare but always tried to find a spot for a Calidus or Eversor in casual inquisition/stormtrooper lists.

The assassins do pretty much the same things with only slight variations. i still prefer the demon hunters codexs over Wards 5th ed codex because it changed GK generally as the chamber militant of the greater ordo and made them a stand alone space marine chapter. it really breaks the flavor and it also removed most of the anti-demon/chaos wargear and abilities. the demon hunters book is a good counter to the 3.5 chaos marine book that everybody plays at my FLGS.

As for the vindicare specifically. he is a bit more durable and a bit less lethal in 3.5 but i still like the original-in 3.5 you have to roll night fight to even see him to shoot at him (firing unit gets a 2d6 X3 roll for range). on the down side his spy mask only reduces cover by 1 instead of fully ignoring it. and the turbo penetrator round only does 3d6 instead of 4d6 but given we are using core 5th ed rules it is a sniper rifle so S3 AP2 (the AP specifically for his rifle) with 3d6+rending it is usually more than enough to get the job done. it killed the chaos land raider this game. and did some no-good to other units.

 aphyon wrote:
As for the vindicare specifically. he is a bit more durable and a bit less lethal in 3.5 / it killed the chaos land raider this game

The odds were never really in the old Vindicares favour though. One reliable 2+ to wound shot per game and then coin-flipping, and the turbo-penetrator had to roll above average just to get through a rhinos hull.

While the 5e one was far more powerful it did also continue the GK codex trend of being better against everything except daemons...