Ultramarines vs Orks, but told like a battle report in the 90's... 

Many (mainly ork players, from my experience) still play like that. Which is why I love orks. Win or lose it needs to be fun.

Definitely a superior way to play.

This is how Middle Earth is still played at most levels. All about the cinematics.

That's how I personally like to play anything, regardless of game. Shame almost everyone is such a tryhard nowadays.

This! There is a reason the min-maxers got such a bad reputation at the local game stores. No one wanted to play against them, not because you would lose, but because of HOW they won.

I thought I was the only one. I prefer the old 90's aesthetic of warhammer it looks way more stylized from the artworks to the models.

I'm in a similar weird boat. Like I know metal models are on the whole worse than plastic but I for some illogical reason prefer them. This gets even stranger considering my preferred 40k army is admech. Which didn't exist as an army till like 7th edition.

Right? I plan on painting my next army (goffs) retro and hell I even want to play blood angels just so I can have that snappy red. Must’ve been a great time to play

​@@dickkickem4238you could definitely paint admech in a second ed style scheme. Lots of bright red. Lots of black and white checker board trim on clothing, black and bright yellow stripes on weapons etc. And those delicious goblin green and flock bases. As someone who was alive then, the new gritty aesthetic was something I messed with at the time through darker paint schemes, washes etc, sponge weathering etc. But I still loved the gloriously bright schemes!

I utterly agree, I was an early 2000s kid with a lot of older cousins and relics from the nineties, I think I got the best of both eras… it’s been incredible :)

It was a different age

@@wombatgirl997 when I was twelve my parents took me to Disneyland. We were all jet lagged and at 3am I was wide awake and reading the dawn raid battle report in the warhammer 40,000 battle book. I remember my dad asking what I was reading and when I tried telling him what the “imperial space marines” and “space Orks” where up to he looked at me like I was mad. I remember the face he pulled 26 years later 😆

For me it was the Rogue Trader era Space Wolves vs Orks battle report. Was impressed back in the day when they then added it to the Space Wolves Codex

It was so awesome! Remember as a kid i was so excited every time a new issue came in the mail 😊.

That’s the plan

I want that book!!

I have a long list of them

@@OldenDemon Then I look forward to seeing them on this channel! It's really fascinating to learn about this edition and White Dwarf from before my time.

The battle report writing back then tended to be great, too. It was usually written by the participants and was often funny.

you should feel pride for that. regardless of how you feel about modern warhammer, i think that was a wonderful time for warhammer.

Excellent, my first super fan

I think my fave battle report was the 4 player "Carnage" Battle Report which had Dark Angels vs Orks vs Tyranids vs Word Bearers

I remember this one ! As a guard player, I reread it a dozen times at least, even if the guard performed very badly in it ahah. The DW did like 80% of the kill at the very end of the battle.

Compared to more modern GW battle reports, I think the big difference is that nowadays GW emphasizes showing off the miniatures, whereas back then the focus was on narrating what’s happening. RU-vid battle reports tend to vocally narrate what’s happening, but the visuals tend to be a bit chaotic and similarly focused on showcasing the terrain and armies rather than explaining the sequence of events throughout the turn or game.

@@MasterShake9000 I always go the sense that the old battle reports were a bit slap-dash with the crew putting down what was in the studio army, rolling some dice, forgetting rules, doing something that might seem cool rather than what was tactically optimal. Over time this changed and it ended up feeling more like an advert for the latest army. They would almost always win their inaugural battle and I really started to dislike the fact that we'd have half a White Dwarf devoted to telling us how great the new army was followed by a battle report that always had them coming out on top.

Jervis and Jake actually posed for those pictures

It was a great book

Still figuring out music levels and stuff, it’s all a work in progress

Glad you enjoyed it!

Glad you enjoyed it, it takes a while to put one together so I have shorter videos coming in the meantime

Mostly the game being a "grimdark parody" instead of the "grimderp trying to be grimdark" it is since the start of the millenia.

@@wombatgirl997 Lion El'jonson was just a rip off of Lionel Jonson, who wrote a poem called "Dark Angel." The Primarch of the Night Lords is just Batman with the last name of the crazy guy from Apocalypse Now. The assassin sent to kill him was M'Shen (Martin Sheen, who was sent to kill Kurze in the movie). Sly Marbo is just Sylvester ('Sly') Stallone's Rambo. There was all sorts of silly shit. Also less funny stuff. The Imperial machine cult is taken from the Foundation Trilogy. The Tyrannids are a mashup of Starship Troopers' Bugs and Aliens movies from the late 80s. Eldar are just space elves, with the name taken from Tolkien. Chaos was straight ripped off from Michael Moorcock (and early Warhammer also included Order as their counterbalance). It goes on.

@@wombatgirl997 Ghazgull Mag Uruk Thraka. I actually only get that now thanks to you, *31 years on*

That's the plan

Much appreciated!

They are strongly considered

this is second edition, you cant charge from a moving vehicle and no red paint job, charges are declared before movement

Thanks, I have a lot of cool stuff planned

Glad you enjoy it!

Glad you enjoyed it

Thanks