The Saga of the 7th Gondahar Regiment (A WH40KRT Thread)

[BlackWidowPilot]

So. After circa 30 years away from the game, I find myself somewhat reluctantly, somewhat enthusiastically facing the very real prospect of returning to Warhammer 40,000. My FLGS predictably enough has a good following already, even including a private after school educational enrichment program that introduces children to tabletop wargaming as a vehicle for learning problem solving, etc. So all things being equal, last year I found myself being persuaded to jump into a start up league for Shadow Wars: Armageddon, and further due to a lack of players selecting them, running the Imperial Guard using my original WH40KRT Imperial Army figures.

Well, now I have come into possession of the new Imperial Guard (Astra Militarum) codex, and after mucking through it, I reviewed my assorted painted and unpainted GW Imperial Army/Imperial Guard figures to see if I could field a viable army without having to fork over my liver and kidneys for new models. As it turns out, I appear to have enough to get started, plus my old 1st generation Rhinos and Predator will do as proxies for Chimeras and a Lehman Russ with a minimum of updating and modification. I also have a kitbashed armoured Sentinel scout walker, and bashing together a few more would not be that big of a challenge for me...

So without further ado, this is my thread dedicated to reconstituting my old regiment, the 7th Gondahar, whose original purpose had been serving as the Imperial Army component of a Rogue Trader army I put together so many aeons ago using the original Chapter Approved: Book of the Astronomicon army list supplement.

The current state of affairs is that I have four squads, a platoon command section, and a small pool of Imperial personalities to draw from. I also have thanks to the generosity of some of the regulars at the FLGS some mortars in need of crew, and my aforementioned trio of 1st generation Imperial AFVs. With my propensity for kitbashing, I expect I can get away with a few proxies as needed to get the job done without committing to much heresy!

While the current host contains a small number of proxies, the overwhelming majority are official (and therefore sanctioned for use in official events). So for now, let this begin an ongoing thread of happy nostalgia and current mischief for the grim, dark future of the 41st millennium:

[tim in saskatoon]

Fantastic! I am looking forward to seeing how this comes together. I am in pretty much the same boat - haven't played in decades, just getting back into it. I don't have nearly so much of my original stuff (just a handful of my original Harlequins and a pile of older stuff I picked up off eBay over the years to use with other games).

[BlackWidowPilot]

Fantastic! I am looking forward to seeing how this comes together. I am in pretty much the same boat - haven't played in decades, just getting back into it. I don't have nearly so much of my original stuff (just a handful of my original Harlequins and a pile of older stuff I picked up off eBay over the years to use with other games).

One of the significant changes since WH40KRT is that IG heavy weapons are no longer one man items, but require a two-man crew and are on a large round base. I have a half dozen of the original Imperial Army heavy weapons figures armed with Lascannons from back in the day when Lascannons were mandatory in the platoon TO&E. So what to do with 'em? I hit on the idea inspired by WW1 German two-man flammenwerfer teams:



So I figured that if I cook up some battery carriers sporting big ass backpack power generators one for each Lascannon gunner, and mount them on a common base....

[Inso]

Looks fun.

Hopefully, when things start coming together, we'll get to see some bigger pix of the individuals/units too

[tim in saskatoon]

One of the significant changes since WH40KRT is that IG heavy weapons are no longer one man items, but require a two-man crew and are on a large round base. I have a half dozen of the original Imperial Army heavy weapons figures armed with Lascannons from back in the day when Lascannons were mandatory in the platoon TO&E. So what to do with 'em? I hit on the idea inspired by WW1 German two-man flammenwerfer teams...

So I figured that if I cook up some battery carriers sporting big ass backpack power generators one for each Lascannon gunner, and mount them on a common base....

That's exactly what I did with the few heavy weapons I still had. I was repainting and rebasing everything any way...



Some Rogue Trader era Imperial Army and Pirates I've repurposed as Catachan "Veterans"



Slightly more recent Tallarn Imperial Guard (the missile launcher and load were originally on individual bases.

I see no reason you couldn't just leave them on their individual bases, however, if that is what you prefer. Some people get really uptight about "basing requirements" but these assumptions are simply based on the bases that GW currently supplies with the figures - there is nothing I've seen anywhere in the actual rules about how anything is to be based! I've seem plenty of people with old guard armies that have their heavy weapon gunners still on individual bases.

[BlackWidowPilot]

Excellent brushwork on those figures! They definitely look the part of the meanest of the meanest of Catachan's Finest! 

And indeed, the GW basing issue is rather daft, so I plan to employ the old wargamer's trick of keeping the figures on their original individual bases, which in turn have neat round holes on the larger shared base the two figures socket into. If ya can't undo the lock, ya take off the hinge...

[Ultravanillasmurf]

I suspect the root issue with basing relates to area effect weapons. I suspect this might not be such an issue with the latest iteration (managed not to buy it so far so do not know for sure)

[tim in saskatoon]

I suspect the root issue with basing relates to area effect weapons. I suspect this might not be such an issue with the latest iteration (managed not to buy it so far so do not know for sure)

Ah! Yeah, not an issue in 8th - all the templates have gone away - you just shoot at a unit and you hit it or you don't - no wild scattering, no fussing over who is or isn't under the template...