Death company through the ages

[Jorre]

I was thinking the other day about how much I miss using death company with jump packs. When I noticed a trend. In 2nd ed I used to use a fully tooled up death company with jump packs. I didn't play 3rd edition but I'm gathering everyone took there jump packs off for the ba rhino rush. 4th edition you could go either way but death company only had basic bolter and chain sword combo. Now 5th edition is out and jump packs are out special weapons are in and everybody is making new models yet again.

 

I am sure this has more to do with gw wanting us to recreate/repurchase our death companies. Which is kinda annoying but at least with the next edition of the game we can be assured of getting our jump packs back

[Crynn]

Not everyone in third ed rhino rushed them, the packs were free so in a ten man squad you got better bang for your buck just having them with jump packs although I see your point.

 

but by that token as now rhino special weapon DC players are more previlent they are really just reusing their 3red ed setup as it was the exact same. Rhino and some fist and power weapons.

 

GW didn't have to flunk on the rules to get us to buy new DC, the amazing new models would have done that by themselves, hell, I've used them to practically remake my entire army.

 

Regards

 

Crynn

[Drudge Dreadnought]

I doubt this is why. Old players who have been around since previous editions are not the largest base of customers for GW, and BA didn't exactly have a huge player base before what with their pdf codex. The BA population has really exploded because we're getting all the people seduced by a better codex, those by new models, and the flavor of the month powergaming crowd.

[Leonaides]

and despite what you read on the interweb, not everyone chops and changes to be 'optimal' every edition. My dc are still armed virtually the same as in 2nd ed. I took a few pfists off in 3rd, and some pweapons got turned into basic cc weapons, but they haven't changed very much. Tho i do have 30-odd dc so swapping in models with the weapons i want isn't a problem.

[Israfel]

I had kept the PF and pwp wih my DC during the last edition since they had rending, no one really cared what they had in hand, not even in the GT. But now I have to make some DC models without JP as I need a rhino to restrain them.