Chaos maybe....

If you go Chaos, go Thousand Sons. Blue and gold is an awesome color scheme, plus nobody ever plays Tzeentch. The Changer of Ways needs more love, not like that whore Slaanesh. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

Damnit. I want my Chaos army to be pink and green as to confuse its enemies.

I'm a Thousand Sons player (and have about 2,000 points of Tyranids as well). But I'm out in the frozen reaches of Montana, so I don't often get a game these days.

For a while, my son wanted an army of pink Marines. He's changed his mind and wants a Daemonhunters army now.

I dread to think the reaction he'd get to pink Grey Knights.

I'm pretty sure one of the Chaos Chapters, Slaanesh one, actually uses pink. My 40k books are still boxed up from the move (haven't found a local wargaming crew, so no need to open the boxes yet, I guess), but I think I remember a black-and-pink Chaos paint scheme...a fleshy, throbbing, pink, naturally, but I don't remember which Slaanesh-humping Chapter it was.

Emperor's Children I believe.

A quick trip to Google Images confirms it. You win!

I'm trying to understand a few meta aspects of the WH40k game. It's basically on it's 5th revision of the rules with the 5th codexes being current, yes?

Further, miniatures you may have bought during "1st edition" would still be usable in "5th edition"?

IIRC, as long as it's WYSIWYG, it's legal. That is, every upgrade noted in your army list must be represented visually on the appropriate model. If your veteran sergeant has krak grenades, the model had better have a grenade in one hand, or a bandolier of grenades, or some part to indicate that he's carrying krak grenades.

Just a note. If you're going to use an acronym to a new player. Generally it's a good idea to define the letters of it.

WYSIWYG = What You See Is What You Get

Basically, it is what was mentioned above, although not entirely as stringent (if there isn't a plastic or metal bit that represents a piece of gear, you do not have to model it, just mention it to your opponent). And WYSIWYG is usually only really important in the tournament scene. Among friends its not a big deal, as long as you mention what gear those models are supposed to have before the start of the game.

Fifth sounds about right for most of them, yes. For others -- Dark Eldar, let's say, since I know they haven't had five -- it's safest to just say "the most recent" codex is current.


In theory, yes.

As long as the model you want to use represents something that is still possible within the current edition's rules, yes, it's allowed. If a prior edition let you take a Space Marine Captain with a rocket launcher, and you can't equip them with that under the current codex, though, Lucy's got some 'splainin' to do if you want to use that model.

If your model is just something basic and tried-and-true and always likely to be legal, though, like an Imperial Guardsman with a basic rifle, or a Space Marine with a bolter? You're good to go, no matter how old the model is, how different it looks stylistically from the current stuff, etc, etc.

I dropped out after the 3rd edition. Played one game and decided that due to the oversimplification, it no longer held my interest.

I've got about 3/4 of a Tyranid army, and around 2/3 of a Space Marine Crimson Fists army painted, and sadly gathering dust in my basement. For me, the games end-up taking too much time and space for my current limitations. That and I never had the attention-span to paint an entire army (see above).

I even went to a Rogue Trader Tournament at Gen-Con with a half primer-colored army.




/Agree

The amount of WYSIWYG needed is dependent on how good of a friend your opponent is. I've played home games where we used cardboard boxes as Dark Eldar Raiding Skiffs, but if you're walking into a Tourny, you'll generally want to be as close as possible.

The big thing is if everything is represented on the models, your opponent doesn't need to keep asking you: "Where's the rocket-launcher guy again?"