etherial Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 So here's a question I've had for a while. I bought some 40k figures in a brown paper bag from a friend back in high school. That was 20 years ago. Are they still good for anything? Is my Wraithlord, which seems to be about half the size of the current Wraithlord figure, usable in the new regime? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izzylobo Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 2 minutes ago, etherial said: So here's a question I've had for a while. I bought some 40k figures in a brown paper bag from a friend back in high school. That was 20 years ago. Are they still good for anything? Is my Wraithlord, which seems to be about half the size of the current Wraithlord figure, usable in the new regime? No. They are worthless, and you should send them to me for proper disposal. (NOT TRUE!) Those minis are probably still fine, in terms of "can you deploy them on a battlefield" - they may look a little weird if you use a mixed force of new and old (depending on exactly what - most infantry will be about the same scale, but some of the other stuff has gotten significantly larger), but nobody should say anything along the lines of "you can't use those!" - they should still be legal, as long as the weapon loadout still is. You're more likely to get "Awww, he got the <strikethrough>Velcros</strikethrough> Old Schools" than anything else - there's a lot of players who have played through since Rogue Trader, and are still using stuff like old peanut Dreadnoughts, and the like. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crowley Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 3 minutes ago, izzylobo said: You're more likely to get "Awww, he got the <strikethrough>Velcros</strikethrough> Old Schools" than anything else - there's a lot of players who have played through since Rogue Trader, and are still using stuff like old peanut Dreadnoughts, and the like. I love my old school chaos dreadnought! Except when it goes crazy and drops a plasma cannon shot directly on my HQ.... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petrov27 Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 (edited) 1 hour ago, etherial said: So here's a question I've had for a while. I bought some 40k figures in a brown paper bag from a friend back in high school. That was 20 years ago. Are they still good for anything? Is my Wraithlord, which seems to be about half the size of the current Wraithlord figure, usable in the new regime? I think probably OK - maybe need to upgrade to a larger base to match the current state (not through the 8th edition rules yet so unsure if they are a stickler about base sizes....) Though if your mini seems dramatically smaller than the current Wraithlord, I am wondering if maybe what you have is the smaller Wraithguard instead? Edited June 22, 2017 by petrov27 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reaperbryan Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 Any GW made model is a legal to use in official events version of itself. When I entered the contest last month, one guy had his entire board was 3rd edition era sculpts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crowley Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 12 minutes ago, Reaperbryan said: Any GW made model is a legal to use in official events version of itself. When I entered the contest last month, one guy had his entire board was 3rd edition era sculpts. Does this include Squats? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werkrobotwerk Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 2 minutes ago, David Brawley said: Does this include Squats? you'd need to proxy them as something that has rules, but yes. I've seen them used as guard or marines Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dilvish the Deliverer Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 5 minutes ago, David Brawley said: Does this include Squats? I think I saw some new version of squats at a store. Can't remember what they were called but they sure looked like space dwarves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crowley Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 1 minute ago, Dilvish the Deliverer said: I think I saw some new version of squats at a store. Can't remember what they were called but they sure looked like space dwarves. I think those are the Age of Sigmar dwarves... But they are very squat like. Very steam punk squat like! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petrov27 Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 Yeah - I think Guard can field squats - like they are from an imperial planet with extremely high G or something to sorta explain it? Halflings as well - they may even still have a troop type (ratlings? Not a guard player so unsure on that) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reaperbryan Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 23 minutes ago, Dilvish the Deliverer said: I think I saw some new version of squats at a store. Can't remember what they were called but they sure looked like space dwarves. Squats are indicate in the current fluff, but are not supported by the rules. I am led to believe there is an issue with ownership of the IP, and that GW's legal ownership of the squats as we know them is murky at best and nonexistent at worse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lars Porsenna Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 There was a legal issue with GW's ownership of the Chaos god Malal, so they cannot use that particular character. The old story about squats is that when 2e rolled around, they got their own army list, but when it came around to updating the army & giving them new stuff & a fleshed out list, no one knew or wanted to do anything with them, so they were dropped. I'm personally not bothered about it, since I never liked the models or the "feel" that was developed around them, so I don't miss them at all... Damon. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGP Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 6 hours ago, Reaperbryan said: Some of the reasons for that is because 40k has complexity not present in fantasy - mostly transports and Flyers. Or possibly some different reasons [?] fantasy has always had flyers. And the new rendition of it has introduced transports: Whatever else ^ this crate ^ is; it can dump out a squad of bearded-things. Note the door on the side. (Photograph taken at a store equally far from you or me.) 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Chaoswolf Posted June 22, 2017 Author Moderator Share Posted June 22, 2017 4 hours ago, Dilvish the Deliverer said: I think I saw some new version of squats at a store. Can't remember what they were called but they sure looked like space dwarves. Could they have been Mantic's space dwarves for their Warpath game? I think they're called 'Forge Fathers'... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petrov27 Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 wow - that dwarf airship thing is something else... I am not totally on board with the aesthetics of the GW AoS line, but I have to give credit that is a really amazing model there; spendy, but it looks like you could put many, many hours of good fun painting time into it and result out a masterpiece.... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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