people who only want to play whatever is the newest and are constantly chasing the GW info/update dumps. people who are GW simps for various reasons-player base, miniature quality etc. people who never played before 8th ed and know nothing about how the game used to be (as i said it is literally a different game) Roughly how 'compatible' are the miniatures between different versions of the game, to give me a rough idea? Anyway, I think I could look past that as I guess they're not going to repeat that trick anytime soon. They really pulled a fast one by scaling up the size to 32mm, it's one thing that really annoys me not only because it obsoleted everyone's old miniatures, which was obviously the intent, but also takes up more space on a limited table (and takes longer to paint). It's not so much the rules that worry me, but all the time it goes into painting miniatures. I'd just be worried about investing in 9th only for all the miniatures that I painted to suddenly be 'obsolete' in two or three years.

I don't really know the history of it, but there is some suggestion that many previous editions were largely compatible. AD&D for the win!), however since I literally own nothing WH40K, I was considering just making 9th 'my version' and starting with the Indomitus box set. The suggestions to play an older version of it are solid (I actually do that with D&D. A lot of good information and advice there, I appreciate that. I see that at least this forum is most certainly still active.

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