"Which Rules Do You Use With Your 40K Figures?" Topic

When gaming with your genuine Games Workshop Warhammer 40,000 figures, which rulesets do you use? Just the official 40K rules, or do you try non-GW rulesets too?

Forge of War.

Thanks,

John

All of my various armies went in the closet for 3rd edition:
the shift in scale/perspective was too drastic…

I pulled 'em all back out for 5150…

Haven't gamed 40K in a while, but I'm still fond of Rogue Trader rules out of all later versions.

:?)
Wolf

Like many I love the minis but hate the rules. With 5150 and some fan-made conversions you have all you need for a good 40K experience.

I mostly use 40K for them. Some of them pull double duty as big stompy monsters in big stompy monster games and some of them are used with Infinity now and again. Particularly the nids as I don't like the Gakis models.

The official 40K rules, although I have played using Stargrunt II as well.

Fast and Dirty 4
Stargrunt 2
Forge of War

Rogue Trader
FAD4
Stargrunt 2

Its kind of on and off what I use

Rogue Trader
Stargrunt2
Chain Reaction/5150
Necromunda
That Ganesha PA game
various roleplaying games

Chain Reaction/5150, and also some Beaky Space Marines were converted to Ant Space Men (replaced their former beaky head with Ant Head and gave them Ant Abdomens) to bedevil wy WW2 figures in 'NUTS' -- it turned out that Nazi rocket fuel was an Ant Man intoxicant, so they landed their saucer and ambushed a truck…

Wh40k figs (and a few other random GW minis, I guess) have certainly cropped up in all our scifi games as well as in WARMACHINE. I've done or modified specific Wh40k conversions for Defiance: Vital Ground, VOID and Vor.

Space Hulk
FAD
experimenting with TSATF
want to try Forge of War

5150
link

Shock Force

5150.
CR3.0 would do, but I prefer 5150 which is dedicated for SciFi gaming.

Warzone (SF) and Shockforce (Dark Future)

40K & FWC Skirmish

Rogue Trader
Space Hulk
Advanced Space Crusade

Previously 40k 2nd and (briefly) 3rd edition, but I don't think I'll ever be going back to either of them.

So only with GW rules so far, but I've recently been thinking about running some very small-level scenarios in the 40k universe using one of Rattrap's sets (probably Fantastic Worlds).

Rogue Trader/Warhammer cross
5150
Combat Zone
Space Hulk

AS

Have used Stargrunt, will mainly use my own rules when I get round to finishing them.

Ambush Alley

Battleground WWII

Brian

Use 5150 and my homemade stats – which can be found here link

Home rules, 5150, going to try SGII soon.

HMGS-E Flea market rules. No credit cards,no professional displays….

Rogue Trader, Space Hulk, Space Crusade, 5150, and Fantastic Worlds

In the order of most played to least used (in the defence of the last 2, that's because I've only just acquired them):

Stargrunt 2
Killzone (old set from Grenadier-UK)
Space Hulk
Kryomek
Forge of War
FAD4

To put it in perspective, I have never owned a set of 40K rules myself, and have never played a game of 40K (only played Warhammer Fantasy twice), but I have/had Imperial Guard, Space Marines, Terminators and Tau for various different game concepts, campaigns and battles. For example, the latter of those (the Tau) are currently serving as my elite Zhodani Consular Guard jump-troops, a suitably difficult enemy force for the players' units to avoid or defeat….

So far, just Necromunda.

Wartopia (my own SF rules)

We also use AT-43 and Infinity figures with Wartopia.

The WarEngine

andy

No Limits, VOR, and very rarely WH40K 4th Ed.

So far, only 40K

There is a homemade set from one of the guys I am thinking of using as well

5150
Star Wars Miniatures Battles
Mutants and Death Ray Guns

5150 – gives a game that's closer to the fluff (ie. the way the battles in the short stories go). Less emphasis on army design and more focus on in-game tactics.

ShockForce – for a more 'convention' feel. Army design and initial placement is more important to victory than in-game problem solving.

Rogue Trader (for detail)
Shockforce/WarEngine (for fast play)

HAVE not played 40K since version ! NO PLANS ON GOING BACK EITHER!

instead i play:

5150

ATZ

CR2.0/CR3.0

DAWGIE

Rogue Trader, Shockforce, and looking seriously at 5150.

Shockforce would be a great option for people who don't like 5150's reaction mechanism. IMHO Shockforce (or WarEngine as it's now called) is the game 40k wishes it could be.

I prefer 5150 of course. 5150 plays like books and movies flow, and from what I've seen can get way closer to GW's fluff than their own game can in terms of what happens on the battle field.

5150 works me.

LLC aka ROn

I'm another one who prefers 5150 for Sci-Fi games.

Are you kidding? All of you are heretics!
GW 40K FIGURES CAN ONLY BE USED WITH GW 40K RULES THEY WERE MADE FOR!!
EVEN USING AN EARLY EDITION FIGURE WITH LATER EDITION RULES IS WRONG! JUST WRONG!

In reality I've used them for Monopoly before.

5150 here.

You ever tried to get someone to play with their 40K figs in a NON 40K game? Most of the players I know won't do it because the rules don't let them do what the can in the 40K rules. Makes for some difficult conversions!

I've never had anyone complain about me using GW figs in a non-40k game. People really overplay those stereotypes.

You ever tried to get someone to play with their 40K figs in a NON 40K game? Most of the players I know won't do it because the rules don't let them do what the can in the 40K rules. Makes for some difficult conversions!

link

Ambush Alley
5150
Chain Reaction 3
Space Hulk
Lost Patrol
Mutants & Death Ray Guns (Ganesha)

but never 40k!

Mutants and Death Ray Guns
Song of Blades and Heros
Combat Zone

Robert

Forge of War
FAD4
5150