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ChapterAquila92 said:
Not without a lot of reworking, unless we're talking glorified D&D miniatures here.

At best, the aelf models I use are Wood Elves, but I don't care enough for that faction in Old World to just rebase everything.

Similarly, I can't just transpose the human component of that army to Old World as Renegade Crowns or Empire, as I built the army with a Celtic/Sylvan fantasy theme in particular and thus sourced the minis from the likes of Victrix Limited among others or heavily converted them. Outside of the Steelhelms being straight-up Armoured Gallic Warriors, the collection itself leans too heavily on the high fantasy side of things to slot into historical gaming, and the "cavaliers" in particular are too custom-made to really fit into the overwhelming majority of fantasy settings, Old World included.

I don't even think I could field a legal standard-sized army with the collection using OPR or Warlords of Erehwon. At best, I'd sooner be adapting the game system I've been writing for the last year to be able to play with them instead.


That may be so, but, as someone who's been collecting miniatures for tabletop wargames for more than 20 years by this point, there is nothing more discouraging for the enjoyment of a passion project than to be informed that a significant portion of those gaming pieces (because surely you got them to be used as gaming pieces) are no longer playable, or that you need to undo a lot of your hard work just to make them playable.

Quite frankly, if the response I get is "sucks to suck, just get the new stuff", then I will not have any sympathy for that person when they start complaining about half of their shit getting invalidated.
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Dude, I ran Dogs of War in 5th and 6th edition, they were gone by 7th. :sorry:
I had a Lost and the Damned army during the Eye of Terror campaign, had to keep updating it through the Imperial Armor: Siege of Vraks Chaos Renegades list and then to that stupid Index list that couldn't win anything because "Objective Secured" is a thing that happened to other armies. I have 70+ custom converted Skaven-Guard minis that I CANNOT USE because the weapon loadouts I gave them aren't in the Astra Militarum army, and I can't use the tanks and Sentinels with a Chaos Cultist faction. :bored:

In other words...
Welcome to the club. :meh:
 
J.Logan said:
Ciaphus Cain is an entertaining character. He's basically Blackadder but in 40k. With all the common sense that everybody else in the setting utterly lacks.

One of the very first things we learn about him in the first book... he does NOT want to die. And with that detail in mind, he is aware that over-eager commissars are very prone to dying heroically... usually a strangely long distance from the front line. So, he does the unspeakable... he does NOT be over-enthusiastic, and he actually tries to be a good leader to the men of the Valhallans. Purely for self-serving interests, you see.

Dude is utterly convinced that he is the greatest of cowards. Ignoring that he earned respect from a Dark Angel for his ability to hold his own in a duel... nay, ignoring that he once one-vs-one'd a KHORNATE CHAOS MARINE IN MELEE and was NOT utterly demolished. Granted, he only defended, long enough for his loyal companion to line up a melta gun and blow away the berserker. But he spent the entire fight aura farming. AURA FARMING. Because, in his head, he NEEDS to maintain the heroic reputation, or else he will be, I don't know, forcibly assigned to a suicide mission and that means striking heroic poses and making one-liners, all to hide that he was basically bricking himself in terror.

Never mind that that same HERO OF THE IMPERIUM reputation keeps getting him sent to the same suicide missions he is really desperately trying to avoiud.

Also, even after his death of old age (something that is very rare for anybody in 40K, never mind an active duty commissar), the paper pushers won't change his status to deceased, because of how many times he has seemingly come back from the dead.

Ciaphus Cain is just that entertaining a character. His series of novels are easily among the best of 40k's collection. Must read recommendation from me.

As an aside, one of the Ciaphus Cain novels actually had the distinction of showing what the Orks are like to the ordinary humans of the setting. The ones who don't get to experience the funny meme green machines with their funny accent. And to ordinary humans, Orks are genuinely scary. So kudos to Sandy Mitchell for managing to depict that properly.

And as another, less related aside... AAAAGH! Typing when you have a great hobby knife-inflicted cut on the pad of your finger SUUUUCKS!
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Tk'ya'pyk said:
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Dude, I ran Dogs of War in 5th and 6th edition, they were gone by 7th. :sorry:
I had a Lost and the Damned army during the Eye of Terror campaign, had to keep updating it through the Imperial Armor: Siege of Vraks Chaos Renegades list and then to that stupid Index list that couldn't win anything because "Objective Secured" is a thing that happened to other armies. I have 70+ custom converted Skaven-Guard minis that I CANNOT USE because the weapon loadouts I gave them aren't in the Astra Militarum army, and I can't use the tanks and Sentinels with a Chaos Cultist faction. :bored:

In other words...
Welcome to the club. :meh:
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At this point, I'm really just fortunate that I collect a fair number of other armies for multiple games, AoS not least of which. Losing the ability to play my Cities of Sigmar the way I wanted to hurts all the same, but between a Soulblight army I brought with me to Warhammer World this past April and the all-melusai Daughters of Khaine army I discovered soon after to be a good elite army now for instance, I'm not exactly hurting for alternatives.

And like I mentioned earlier, I've been exposed to so many other games by this point that Warhammer in general is far from my go-to brand of games anymore.
 
Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl said:
If it's any consolation, I'm one of the few people who couldn't give a monkey's about him :p

To me, he is just another puny Imperial life-form to be devoured by my Tyranids or stripped to his component atoms by my Necrons :coolest:
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CIAPHAS CAIN already survived a clash with both of them, gaining a portion of his (not-exactly-deserved) fame as HERO OF THE IMPERIUM
 
Necrons were one of the earliest foes that he clashed with, if mine memory serves. If not the first. Dangit, been long enough my memories of the order of events are getting skewed.

One of my favourite moments in the series was actually a background event. Ciaphas was on the vox to a local arbites, and he heard over the channel a Khornate fanatic screaming "Blood for the blood god!" followed by a thunk.

"Well he's not getting mine... Sorry commissar, where were we?"

Proof that arbites are rather wasted in law enforcement, really.

But, just to prove that Commissar Cain really is just Edmund Blackadder in 40k, with all the sarcasm included, the following is a quote from "Duty Calls":

That was all we needed, a bunch of psalm-singing fanatics in power armour getting in the way of a properly co-ordinated military response. I hadn’t had much personal contact with the Ecclesiarchy’s orders militant in the past, but on the few occasions I had done, I’d found their undeniable martial prowess so closely allied with the worst kind of Emperor-bothering tunnel vision that deploying them effectively in anything resembling a coherent battle plan was all but impossible. The best you could hope for was to point them in the vague direction of something important to the enemy, shout ‘heretic!’ and leave them to it. If you were lucky they’d put a useful dent in the opposing forces, and even if they didn’t, at least you’d got them out of the way before they started preaching at you.
 
J.Logan said:
Necrons were one of the earliest foes that he clashed with, if mine memory serves. If not the first. Dangit, been long enough my memories of the order of events are getting skewed.
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The very first enemy faced by Cain were nids (the short story "fight or flight"... cain was planning the flight, but ended feigning the fight)
 
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