When White Dwarfs were cool

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>>44186879

the Deathworld Veterans codex was a fucking blast, especially if someone was playing tyranids or kroot mercenaries.

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>>44186892
>Kroot Mercenaries
I miss those. Kroots always were cool. It's a shame they disappeared in the Tau Codex.

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>>44186950
This is the last one

>>44186950

All of these look pretty cool except this one.

This looks like green poops.

>>44187075
>evolved styrofoam ball cacti
>green spiky poops
>not cool

Anyone else remember that Nick guy who used to do loads of cool terrain articles? What was his damn surname?

Good thread! Does anyone have more?

>>44187341
Not from white dwarf, though I do have something relevant. Maybe I'll go through my pdfs and upload more when I have more time.

>http://www.mediafire.com/download/lw6ylgz0f88exxd/Games+Workshop+-+How+To+Make+Wargames+Terrain+%281996%29.pdf

>>44187315
Nick Davis?

>>44187341
http://writers.alt-world.com/scenery/40K_spacehulkp1-6.pdf

>>44187423
Bingo, thank you. I remember reading an article.from him about using plaster wedding cake pillars for terrain. Always remembered that one. Was it a good period for WD, or is this just rose tinted spectacles? I do remember picking up a WD for the first time in fucking years at GWs 30th anniversary or issue 300 or something and being fucking shocked by the shitty battle reports in particular.

>>44187494
You can look him up to try and find some of his old ass articles.

I agree though. The last white dwarf I got was the massive multi board 8+ army 10k+ whatever points armageddon battle report which was amazing and I felt nothing could live up to that.

I should try to scan my old WDs or something.

>>44187450
>all those necromunda bulkheads
jesus

http://writers.alt-world.com/scenery/making_treesp1-2.pdf

http://writers.alt-world.com/feature_articles/whfb_collectinglizardsp1-8.pdf

Original DE article
http://writers.alt-world.com/feature_articles/garymorleyDKintep1-4.pdf

>>44187530
Ain't it great? I still have a dozen left over from the old days.

http://writers.alt-world.com/feature_articles/devastorsinterviewp1-3.pdf

You guys remember when they used to come out with mini-games for you to play? And they released all the bits you'd need WITH the magazine?

Like Brewhouse Bash? Remember that?

>>44187579
Mordheim started out as one of those in Chapter Approved.

>>44187592
Aww shit yeah. And when the game proper launched you got a free Aenur Sword of Twilight with the magazine.

>>44187592

Battlefleet Gothic too, IIRC.

Shit, what was the one where you played as Dark Eldar gladiators?

>>44187608
Arena of Blood.

>>44187616

Fuck, that was a good one.

They kept that going for a while didn't they? I mean, the release a Gandalf v. Saruman minigame.

>>44187607
Those were the days.

>>44187634
Probably. They started shying away from giving you paper tokens and what not to have a little complete game on its own though.

>>44187553
Uck, I remember that devastator kit. Ammo feeds were so fiddly.

>>44187648
You had to weigh all the bases down a ton and hope to god your pins were enough.

I do not miss metal/plastic hybrids.

>>44187648
I like that they at least take the time to explain some of the design decisions though.
>Why do all the guys except ML pack metal backpacks? So we can balance your minis for you!
Always liked that. Also the DE article is awesome just to get a designers perspective.

>>44187667
Actually, that particular kit wasn't as bad. The metal backpack counterbalanced with the gun pretty well.

>>44187710
Until you moved them onto some kind of rough terrain, or someone shook the table.

Not as bad as some, but still.

White Dwarf, in its glory days, was seriously my favorite thing ever.

Its really a testament to how times have changed. Back then they would show you how to make a grav-tank out of a used deodorant bottle.

NOW YOU MUST BUY EVERYTHING!!

>>44187791
Same here anon getting my monthly White Dwarf was my favourite thing to do every week when I was a kid and just starting out playing 40k

>>44187822

When I was a kid, my Nan brought me a White Dwarf subscription every year for my birthday. It was great. Monthly presents from her.

She passed away two years ago from Cancer. Had known for a while it was coming. I still get White Dwarfs sent to me. She'd paid out something like a five year subscription.

I don't read them anymore. But I can't bear to cancel it.

>>44187341
I have a lot of old WD on hand - except in french.

From 2005 era

>>44187842
Your nan sounds cool it sounds like she really knew you anon
Do old WD subscriptions become weekly WD subscriptions or monthly WV subscriptions?

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We were experimenting with Warp Portals for some Chaos invasion scenarios.

Warp Portals are easy to make, help CSM as they have very little choices in transportation and they totally fit the Chaos theme.

They are basically Drop Pod, but without the storm bolter and can't transport troops.
They have some special rules.

- When a unit arrives from reserve, the controlling player may choose to make them coming out from a Warp Portal. If you have more than one on the table, you can choose which one.
- A Warp Portal can only materialize one unit each turn, and count as having a transport capacity of 10
- CSM units with the Daemons special rules (essentially the units that suck, like Possessed, Warp Talons and Mutilators) count as disembarking from an Assault Vehicle.
They also count as coming from the reserve in the turn the Warp Portal arrived to determine if they may assault (so they may not charge in the turn the Warp Portal arrived, but they can from the next turn).

Not sure how much it should cost and how it would work with Chaos Daemons.

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>>44186865
I miss when this hobby wasn't utter shit.

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How to lose at Warhammer (Analysing the cause of your defeats).

>>44188051
See that guy's articles I remember as being actually quite witty.

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>>44186904
A real abstract kinda feel.

>>44188103
kek

>>44186865

I personally miss the Battle Reports. I miss them a lot.

The new ones are fucking shit.

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>>44188100
His articles were absolutely great for the scrub I was.

Lichemeister's return campaign for brets/wood elves and vampire counts, there was a whole army list inside it to represent the undead, scenariis, a lot of special characters and conversion guides.

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>>44188144
I agree.
I read those old WD mostly for that.
It's like a mirror into a better 40k.

The best things is to see photos of those armies, that now are considered tiny but for the time were good enough.

You see a photo of an army made of Chaptain, two small Tactical squad, a rhino and a dread or termi/assault/bike squad, and read how this is the squad of chaptain Caius or whatever, and the owner that say how fun it was to make and use it, with all the conversions and kitbashing.

A complete army, enough to play in the weekends with friends.

Now that's barely a starting kit, and if you don't have at least a Super Heavy you are the last of the shits.
So sad.

>>44188144
I remember when I was younger reading a White Dwarf with a battle report that was just this fuck-off crazy huge tank battle, I think the Demolisher had just come out and I remember thinking that it'd be neat to have a tank to go with my couple of Mordian Iron Guard squads.

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>>44188325
>tfw reading report of a Khorne/Slannesh battle of the french studio
>minis are nearly all converted

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>>44188351
Speaking of Slaaneshi conversion in old WDs

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Last photo

>>44188307

Some of the old battle reports are really funny. I recall when the new Tyranids came out: The match pitted them against an Imperial Guard army with a small Deathwatch (About 6 models) contingent. By the end of the battle, the ENTIRE Guard Army was dead except for one Leman Russ and the Deathwatch, who were hard as nails.

Another one had a Black Templar battle report where the entire army died except for Grimaldus, the Emperor's Champion and the Chaplain, who gleefully murdered the Chaos army.

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Went to a tournament and met this guy. Awesome army. Guy was kind of a shithead. I'm still more pissed off at the dude that sprayed his necrons with car paint and got maximum points for painting.

>>44188535
The one in a fortress against a motley crew of heretics and dark eldars right ?

>>44188548
I was something similar with Iron Warriors.
He just spay and dip them, two days for an entire army.
Win the price for painting.

But at least he apologize to us and admit the judges were incompetent.

>>44188611
saw*

>>44188572

Yeah, that one. It was a series of three matches.

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This was the designer notes from the release of the 3.5 CSM codex. The same issue had a basic painting guide for Black Legion and a much more complicated one by 'Eavy Metal for Abbadon and Ahriman, an Index Malleus article about demons of all shapes and sizes, and an essay by Pete Haines (the co-writer of the Codex) about his time playing the Iron Warriors and some of the behind the scenes descisions that led to fluff developments.

I've also got the issue with the Dev notes for the 4th edition codex here. As soon as I can get the scanner working I'll post it so you can compare and contrast.

>>44188051
Aw shit son.

One of the first WDs I read, he wrote about a series of battles he had where he tries to kill a bloodthirster

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Special rules for empire knights, circa 2005

It was literally my teen-hood. Being the awful nerd I am, I bought it every month from ages 10 to 18 somewhere mid-'00s. I mean, you could argue i learned english from the damn thing. Which led to some rather interesting vocab come to think of it.

>>44188535
was that the one where the Emperor's Champion single handedly took down a Defiler? The picture they used for that was sick.

Does anyone remember when (this was UK WD) there was this sort of Mordheim-esque game for Chaos only? That was sick.

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>>44190734
Today all Legion are the same, and double cultists/no marines is the standard.

Goddamit GW.

Notice how many pages packed the old WD's were as well.

New one's are a joke

>>44186865
I remember on the site they had articles on how to make creatures which would act like these plants. There was a big crab thing that looked like an aardman production, weird hounds that looked like a sheep with a crocodiles head and a tentacled spore thing made from a lotus pod and other bits.

There were modelling, painting, gaming articles. One that always stood out to me was a terrain article and it was a whirlwind that was bashed up then put on a belt sander at an angle. Then it was place on an MDF base and a big wire/putty tree was placed in it like it had grown out the ruined whirlwind. Hell I even remember the create your own tyranid game

When Necromunda came out they gave you a free figure, I think that was my first issue

>>44196002
Well, i'll be the devil's advocate and say that they did the same recently with a pretty cool Sigmarite.

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Merry Christmas you beautiful disasters.

#1-400 in pdf format. Follow the journey from black and white generic role-playing periodical to glossy toy soldier catalog and marinate in the nostalgia.

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/tx4hcy4u487pv/WD

>>44196361
Not entirely. I'm still missing issues:
>#391
>#376
>#339
>#336
>#298
>#295
>#292
>#285
>#284
>#282
>#281
>#271
>#270
>#253
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>#246
>#242
>#212
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>#206
>#205

UK numbers. Noticed OP's issue is a missing #242. How about a scan, bro? Can't let this shit go silently into the night.

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>>44188051
Damn it was in one of my first WD. Remember reading it over and over when I was, like, 13 or something.

>>44188351
this battle report was just glorious

>>44194547

Path of Glory. All about Chaos Warbands. Shit was tight.

>>44196937
Imo the new one is pretty badass too.

Some house ruling is needed to stop people taking all the Heldrakes though.

Fuck, does anyone remember Inquisitor Lichtenstein?

>>44197135
Lichmeister you mean.

I still have the WD of the campaign, like, here.

But the best were the Pirate Zombies of the Vampire Coast

>>44197243
>Lichmeister

What?

No, Inquisitor Lichtenstein. Got his start as a character for one of the WD regulars INQUISITOR warbands. Made his way into the permanent fluff.

>Pirate Zombies of the Vampire Coast

Fuck yeah, Luthor Harkon for the win.

>>44186950
>dat cacti

Although I understand why GW would stop putting this into WD. It costs money to print this and you'd use products that they don't sell, you know?

This is fucking cool though, 10/5 would bring back any day

>>44197907
That's what used to be cool about the hobby, trough.

In the Bugman campaign there was instructions on how to build a steamboat.

>>44197135
Yea man, with Cherubeal going ape shit all over the place? And his one armed servitor converted with the ghazkull claw?

Who could forget that.

>>44196361
Don't mean to be rude but would it be possible for someone to upload these to MEGA instead? Its a massive pain to download 400 files separately

>>44197907
If the hobby grows, they grow.
That was their golden age, because they cared, and so did we.
We know they tried.

Now they are making money, yes, but it's all about the hype, constant marketing and powercreeping.
But that's a short term solution, people eventually would like to play seriously, and for that you need a tight and balanced rule system OR a game people care about.

Right now they have none.