Would you like to see a dedicated 40k Badab War game setting?

[calgar101]

The IA Badab books were fantastic and take pride of place in my collection. It's such a shame the model support vanished. Unfortunately I don't think it's strong enough to warrant its own game.

If GW were to remake it, using 10th edition rules I wouldn't like that as I don't enjoy the new rules direction.

However they could think outside the box a little and have older campaigns using HH rule set as a nod to the past.

 

At the very least they should release the characters again and have some model support.

[Halandaar]

Badab doesn't need it's own game setting (and I don't think the support it has would sustain one), but it could very easily be written as an expansion of the Heresy ruleset - that makes the most sense because HH2 is a variant of 7th Edition, which in turn is the successor of the 5th Edition ruleset that the Forgeworld Badab Books were released into. The ruleset in general could even be rebranded as a kind of "40K historical" and then used as the basis for other stuff like the Scouring, War of the False Primarch and so on.

 

A HH-based Badab is not even that intensive in terms of required new products. You could do the whole thing with just:

• Badab War Campaign Book (Includes named characters and Chapter-Specific unit rules)
• Liber Badab Army List (includes all the generic SM unit rules as well as Chapter Tactics and Siege Assault Vanguard and Tyrant's Legion as Rites of War)
• MKVII Space Marine Captain
• MKVII Space Marines sprue
• MKVII Assault Marines sprue & Jump Pack sprue
• MKVII Special Weapon sprue
• MKVII Melee Weapon sprue
• MKVII Heavy Weapon sprues
• Resin Named Characters

(The point of having new MKVII kits in the style of the Heresy plastics, rather than just re-releasing the old Firstborn, would be to allow/encourage mixing and matching with MKIII, MKVI etc, because a lot of the "modern" Heresy designs produced by Forgeworld were first introduced alongside 40K Imperial Armour books and so the IA Badab books are packed full of art of Marines in older armour marks, as well as stuff like Contemptor Dreads and Tartaros Terminators). 

 

They can then re-release stuff like Sternguard, Vanguard, Bikers, Land Speeders, box Dreads, Mars Rhino-chassis vehicles etc much like Old World has given a new platform for old Fantasy kits, and they could even introduce chapter-specific units that actually encourage kitbashing, much like the units in the Heresy Exemplary Battles series, or those in the Old World Arcane Journals.

 

Honestly I think this (or some variation on it) is a given, it's just a matter of when. GW knows there is a market for MKVII/Firstborn and Badab allows them to scratch that itch without them having to affect the mainline 40K setting and range, and without having to introduce a whole new system to justify it.

[Iron Father Ferrum]

There's a Badab Facebook group that made a supplement to the HH2.0 ruleset, with ROWs and such for all the involved Chapters.

[Felix Antipodes]

I really like the “Warhammer 40,000 Historical” tag.  It fits something like the Badab War a lot better than trying to lump it under the HH label.  It also allows the future developers to cover any era from the War of the Beast to the Fall of Cadia in a series of campaign specials similar to the IA series of old.  (I left off The Scouring as I believe that period is where HH 2.0 will end up going).

 

New MK VII in line with the earlier marks being updated in HH 2.0 are a must.  Attempting to just rerelease older models (ala TOW) would mean a financial failure from GW’s point of view.  Most hobbyists attracted to this would just pick up the campaign book and use their existing models if no new models were released to support it.