40k First Edition Hits Different - PancreasNoWork Reaction
Added 2025-11-26 13:11:46 +0000 UTC
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As a card carrying unc who predates Pancreas by a decade, I can attest that the game has changed a lot over the last two decades. From Rogue Trader onwards the game slowly lost its goofier elements, all the way up until 5th edition where most armies found their groove and some of the more defining kits were initially released. This is the time where the Blood Angels went full BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD, the Space Wolves went WOLF WOLF WOLF WOLF, the Necrons went from space Terminators to Egyptian space Terminators, and the Grey Knights had the last update that mattered. Some conventions did stick around. "Dreadnought Close Combat Weapon" was a weapon that most bipedal non-titans had for melee, even the Wraithlord and its ilk. They were a lot goofier proportioned back then, a convention that stuck in Dawn of War 1. And of course the Tyranids, my beloved: there's quite a few phallic items emerging from crotches in the old art, and while it wasn't as blatant as the modern Tervigon's combat womb there was a degree of dentata as well. There's also some goofy that stuck around in Fantasy: even as recent as 8th Edition (the last before the End Times), for firing a cannon you'd have to guess the distance from the target in inches, roll to see how much farther the cannonball went (rolled with the Artillery Die: numbers 1-5 were doubled and the 6 replaced with a misfire, causing your cannon to explode), then roll the Artillery Die again to see how far it bounced from the impact site. Cannons were quite potent back then (one of the few sources capable of dealing more than 1 wound per shot), but they were fiddly as hell. This was likely carried over by the historic wargames of yore that Warhammer descended from. As for that Titanicus box set, it is where the Horus Heresy was invented because... GW didn't want to make models for two different armies, so Space Marines VS Space Marines it was. Everything that went wrong in 40k went wrong because of GW's lack of funding, a trauma they are coping with to this day with the ever-inflating prices. Box prices went up from 25 euros to well over 50 since.
Beriorn
2025-11-26 16:06:56 +0000 UTC
