that is not a 7th edition codex but the 6th edition codex, it came out in january 2013 (i think), about a year and a half before 7th. 7th edition books didnt have full color art for unit entries, but photos of models. they removed the doom of malantai because doom in a pod was so broken and they also removed special characters which had no separate models to discourage players from buying proxies from recasters. now they released a mortrex model, hence he is back in the current codex. nids also did get a 7th edition codex in the form of shield of baal which had several new units introduced like maleceptor. toxicrene, tyrannocytes, sporocysts and mucolid spores
The 2nd edition Genestealers were from Hive Fleet Hydra based on colours and the rest were from Hive Fleet Behemoth. Personally I loved the Xenomorph queen look of the Hive Tyrant in 3rd edition. You could have flying Hive Tyrants since 3rd edition btw. Statagems are also a mess in 40k now. They turned a narrative war game into a e-sports style game.
I do want to get some of those. But I wanna use them in a chess board game.I am making I want to do an alien and predator one For either side of the chest board game I am doing
hey man - i rewrote about 3/4 of that rule book for 2nd edition. I like the tiles you made - too bad prodos timing was as bad as it was. Glad you are still enjoying the game this far in!
Maybe it’s because I was a kid but reading the 3rd edition Codex was so spooky. Also 3rd & 4th editions had so much customisation. I really felt like a hive mind cooking up the right bugs for the job!
01:17 where did you download the Predator unit cards? I only see the Unblooded card in the article and none in the PDF. I googled and searched their site. I must be missing the download somehow.
Im into warhammer 40k but this is cool to. Id like to even place some Alian or just 1 or 2 "lost" marines on the battle board lol mybie make a silly home rule for them or something
Those click bases that turn with the numbers / stats. Remind me of a table top game called Mage Knight. Was a cool game but I love warhammer 40k more. Just wayyy more money.
Maybe scale up the rusty tank. It's kinda small but the giga rusty tank is massive.. I haven't printed the spaceman yet. They seem about 32mm as a default
3rd and 2nd edition models were the best imagine spending thousands of dollars on a modern army to get beat by some goofy buck tooth army 😂 and big head hive tyrant
It's everyone hemorrhaging customers like crazy. Hasbro was declared a pure toxic stock and they have their guts on the floor and are trying to hold them in. GW just did 3 hikes, 1 of which was a super hostile shot across the bow against FLGS, just to hold their stock price steady. Hasbro pretty much went to the cheapest manufacture and fired every friendly likeable and competent employee.
GW's problem is they've forced themselves into a corner by pricing their minis as boutique products. It's their whole mythos - you pay more for the best quality minis on the market. It's how they justify 30% profit margins in a world where 5% profits is considered a good year for most businesses. Those profit margins is GW's main selling point when it comes to investors, and thus any more that undermines it is going to avoided at all cost. They view themselves as a niche company without the mass sales they'd need to make up for that loss in margins, and thus their only recourse is to go hunting them, there whales. Combine that with the existential threat of 3D printing, and GW realises it's days are limited when it comes to obscene profit margins, which is why we're seeing it diversify it's product range with things like JoyToy poseable figures, stuffed toys, and their agreement with Amazon to bring 40K to the small screen. They're basically draining the cash reserves of their customer base in order to survive long enough to be able to jettison the tabletop game and survive off the I.P. Guaranteed that in the next 5-10 years, GW will try and pull a Wizards of the Coast, and try and shift the game into a digital-only environment when it comes to actually playing the game.
The only two ways GW can survive mid term are: 1: enough people in charge remember that war hammer is a community which a company serves not the other way around, thus chose to make it accessible again to grow the community before it collapses. 2: things like One Page Rules manage to sustain a big enough community for GW to skim the richest members of away from with supper-premium quality models and rules at there current prices.
Yup you nailed it. Companies like GW focus on unsustainable growth. There is finite money, people and space. In reality any year where you make profits and can pay your bills is a good year, but expecting that to expand infinitely is a fantasy.
Or drop Warhammer 40K entirely and move to Grimdark Future, which has a rulebook costing $5, a miniature agnostic system, free army books and army builder and feels a bit like 5th Edition Warhammer.
I don't mind buying rules every so often, it's the cost that kills me. If it was just rules and not 90% lore and fluff to bump up the "value" of the book. They could easily release a lore book every edition and sell the rules separately for say £10. I'd be more inclined to buy books for other armies to try out. I've already ditched 40k and the way AoS is going I may end up ditching that entirely as well. I have however jumped to Marvel Crisis Protocol. It balanced and insane fun. If you haven't tried it I highly recommend it.
