your favourite 40k expansion

[orkblasta]

ok so Ive been adding to my various armies and what not for quite a while now but have really only played regular games of 40k and the occasional apocalypse game.

So my question is what is your fav 40k expansion and why?

cheers.

[WestRider]

The only one I've really gotten to play with much is Cities of Death. I really like it. Take smaller Armies and get stuck in for some vicious close quarters action.

[The New AIDS]

Apocalypse is fun if fun is the intended consequence.

Apart from cities of Death (which is incredible), the rest are pretty pants.

[robomummy]

Cities of death is the best, so much fun and easier to translate into a normal game than apocalypse or planetstrike. my second favorite would be planetary empires because it is a good way to begin a campaign.

[romorini]

I've mostly played the Apocalypse expansion, as that's good for everyone to play at once. It can lead to twisted things happening, and the balance is mean to come from the volume of models on the board. Does that come to pass? Not at the scale I've been playing, but the results tend to be hilarious. Flank marching a brood of carnifexen is a guilty thrill.

[Devil's Advocate]

I actually like them all - all for different reasons.
Apocalypse is fantastic for super-huge omg action.
Spearhead is great as an add-on to apocalypse and is interesting as a stand-alone. (Nids tend to have a kind of limited set of options, but then, who doesn't -- really.
Battle missions is superb for out-of-the-box thinking to missions and crazy rules.
Cities of Death is good - a little dated, but it does have its fun, if you can convince people to model their stratagems...
Planetstrike is fantastic for campaign starting missions, and just general madness.
Planetary Empires is ok... good foundation for a campaign.

I like 'em all.

[Koyori]

I will say Space Bruce Banner because its awesome to play as genestealers that eat terminators.

[Psychichobo]

Space Hulk is damn fun alright. I also have to cast a vote for Planetstrike since it completely changes up the efficiency level of entire armies.


Battle Missions is fairly terrible though. Just regular battles with an extra poorly thought out rule or two.

[albinoxeno]

ive only played apocalypse, and its just amazing, the most fun you can have on a gaming table, or two, or the living room floor (well with warhammer that is ).
if i had a good regular gaming group (and i really want one ) i would order a planetary empires right now, i love that kind of thing, so fluffy too.

[t⊗theark]

Apocalypse is fun but I like the whole idea that an army rallies around one big asset. My vote is for spearhead. It's not too out there but it's fun enough to play a baneblade or depstrike hammer heads or have 6 fleeting carnifexes or a bunch of orks with super grenades.

[Space is pretty big]

Apocalypse was fun for me when all the editions lined up, sadly I never really enjoyed the "it's not suppose to have rules" approach that Apocalypse games now require.
I really would of loved for a structured game of apocalypse, as the Calvin and Hobbs approach to 40k was never much fun for me, and it's easier to add made up things to structured game then it is to add structure to a mostly make-it-up-as-you-go game.

So as things stand Cities of Death. In fact my current Tyranid army is city fight themed.

[greatescape13]

Apr 30, 2012 23:11:18 GMT orkblasta said:

So my question is what is your fav 40k expansion and why?

Dark Millennium.

boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/18398/dark-millennium

It came out as an expansion to 2nd edition, and the strategy cards made the game even better--each side had their own mission back in those days, and Dark Millennium's cards were pretty cool. So maybe I had to escort my hero across the board to win, but you needed to occupy 4 objective points one in each quarter. Games were very interesting when you had to engage the opponent not entirely sure what he or she was up to.

Plus all the psyker stuff and wargear and templates? Just an amazing box set, and definitely the best expansion for 40k.

If you meant expansion ruleset for the current edition, however... then it's Apocalypse. Just sheer fun.

Cheers.

[orkblasta]

hmmm interesting,

thanks for the responses.

at this point I'm interested in Dark Millennium, (I'd never even considered it before) it sounds very interesting and I have to say that kind of game play has always intrigued me.

Apocalypse - yes it is fun and I already have that expansion but me and my friends always have trouble findning enough time to finish a game. we usually make it to turn 3 then we run out go time.

other than that I like the sounds of planet strike.

thanks for the opinions,

cheers.

[WestRider]

Unfortunately, Dark Millenium is almost entirely incompatible with Editions after 2nd. Too much of the Core Rules that it built on were changed in the switch to 3rd. Honestly, it really felt less like an expansion, and more just like the second half of the 2nd Ed Rules. I never saw a Tournament that didn't fully incorporate those Missions and the expanded Psychic Power Rules.

The Mission Cards from 2nd Ed (Including the Dark Millenium ones), are still usable with some tweaks, tho, and set up the possibility for Scenarios that are not only asymmetric, but where you don't actually know what your Opponent's Objective is. Makes for some pretty cool Games.