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|  | A bit of nostalgia...
« Thread Started on Nov 29, 2007, 2:33am » | |
I've recently gotten a few people from my LGS interested in playing 40K "old school" once in awhile, meaning we're going to play some games using the 2nd edition rules (that's where I started, no offense to folks from the RT days). Anyway, I've sort of taken the position as the holder of all the materials (books, cards, templates) and this has gotten me in the mood to hunt down a complete collection of 2nd edition codices.
Problem is, I don't remember all of them. I used to have a site in my bookmarks that listed all the older stuff, but seem to have lost it, so I thought I might come here and see if anyone can drum up a list of all the codices that were released during 2nd edition. I'm looking for the proper codices, not ones released in WD, but the actual books. Thanks in advance.
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| | Re: A bit of nostalgia...
« Reply #1 on Nov 29, 2007, 11:50am » | |
Well I know there were:
Nid
Imperial guard
Sisters of battle
Eldar
Chaos
Orks
And think there were also
Blood angles
Dark Angles
Space Wolves
Ultramarines (or maybe this was a generic marine one)
Dont think that Necrons or dark eldar had one by then but Im not sure and Tau deffinetly didnt (though you could try and make one which would be cool).
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| | Re: A bit of nostalgia...
« Reply #2 on Nov 29, 2007, 2:03pm » | |
actually the dark eldar codex IS second edition, STILL!
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| | Re: A bit of nostalgia...
« Reply #3 on Nov 29, 2007, 4:01pm » | |
No, he means codices that were released during the second edition of 40K. All of the dark eldar codices were released in third edition.
Let's see now what were the codices of second edition?
Ultramarines (I have that one)
Angels of Death i.e. Blood Angels and Dark Angles (I think I still have this one)
Space Wolves (I have this one)
Chaos
Orks
Eldar (I have this one)
Imperial Guard
Sisters of Battle
Necrons
Tyranids (I can't find my copy and it's really starting to make me angry  )
I think that's about it. But you could always use the army book for most of the armies if you can't find a codex.
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| | Re: A bit of nostalgia...
« Reply #4 on Nov 29, 2007, 5:29pm » | |
I have the 100+ page ultramarines one, where each vehicle entry had its own damage chart. Is that the second edition one Yori? or some previous rogue trader version?
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| | Re: A bit of nostalgia...
« Reply #5 on Nov 29, 2007, 6:34pm » | |
@Yoritomo
Thanks a bunch. I had made a little list of my own, but had left out Sisters of Battle and Angels of Death, which is funny because I own the second one. I faintly recall Necrons being released in an issue of WD near the end of 2nd edition, but wasn't aware they ever recieved a proper codex. Granted, recalling the model range back then, I imagine they were probably even less varied than they are now as I only recall there being models for lords, warriors, destroyers and scarabs.
@lowlygaunt
I'm going to guess that's the second edition codex. Ultramarines didn't have their own seperate codex in RT and judging from the 3 RT books I do own, the vehicle datafax cards didn't come about until 2nd edition.
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| | Re: A bit of nostalgia...
« Reply #6 on Nov 30, 2007, 1:51am » | |
The second edition Ultramarine codex has 96 pages. The last 10 pages are all model kit contents.
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« Reply #7 on Dec 3, 2007, 1:23pm » | |
Yeah the old nid codex was amazing (for somew reason I seem to have two of it.... weird). Actually all of the codex's back then were great. Im annoyed I dont have the Imperial guard one as I have most of the others (No marines either actually.... swear I owned them).
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