Your favourite WHFB edition

[Karak Norn Clansman]

Which is your favourite edition of WFHB? Please vote in the poll and feel free to write down the reasons for your choice.

For me the current 8th ed. WHFB takes the throne, due to its emphasis on large-sized units and more vicious combat phases. I've had a lot of fun on the 8th edition tournaments which I've attended, and GW's model quality is generally very high. (Let's keep pricing complaints out of this, because otherwise I'd have some nasty things to write here.) The return of coloured art in the nowadays hardback armybooks is welcome, as is the improvement of background in the armybooks despite the lack of content in White Dwarf. Balance is also arriving between the current edition's armybooks for the first time ever, yet greater opportunities for themed armies have arised with the return of the percentage army system. Though the gameplay has geared itself more to level 4 wizards and monsters, I like its wacky random nature in terrain. The magic phase also seem better to me. And then we have Storm of Magic attached to 8th edition, not to forget.

All in all, 8th edition is my favourite so far, although I have only collected Warhammer since 6th edition.

In part this thread might be seen as a feedback source for GW if it swells large.

[Morkash]

I quite like the 8th edition as well. Fluid gameplay, solid AB's, happy Morkash. It's not perfect, but with Gentleman's agreement it is loads of fun and well playable!

I also voted for 3rd edition despite never having played it, simply because the books from that era (Rogue Trader as well) are ace. Just take a look at the two Realm of Chaos books.

[Karak Norn Clansman]

Yes, and the main 3rd edition rulebook is quite nice. Just look at the coloured illustrations. One understands the heavy nostalgia of veterans after looking at it and the Chaos books from that time. Linketilink: http://realmofchaos80s.blogspot.se/2...book-pdfs.html

[Malorian]

I started in 6th and my favorite was 7th.

I loved the cat and mouse of it.

[BigbyWolf]

4th is where I started, and I still play it every now and then for a bit of fun.

X% points in: Characters, Troops, War Machines, Monsters, Allies...

What's not to like?

Also, Frenzy doubled attacks, magic weapons were OTT and virtually unrestriced (no points limit, each character could take a certain number...), Wizards could kick the crap out of warriors...

My general used to be a Black Orc, with the Deathsword (S10), Armour Of Brilliance (Good save, and -2 to hit) and the Silver Seal (-1 to hit, plus a few other bits...there were no "ward saves" in those days). IIRC, the sword is now Crone Hellebron's, the armour belonged to Louen Leoncourt, and the seal is from Karl Franz.

Happy, if entirely too crazy, times.

Also, armies were cheaper, and not just because everyone put their points into characters.

Also: Flying high, magic cards, one Undead army, one Chaos Army, multi-wound infantry, fantastic White Dwarf battle reports (and the rest of the magazine was good too...)...I think I'd better stop now, I've got a tear in my eye...

[DaemonReign]

Out of 4th, 7th and 8th I voted 8th.

[TheDungen]

voted 5th for minatures and 6th for rules and armybooks.

5th had some of the best minature range (though i guess much of it was from earlier editions) the paint jobs sucked of course (red period) but the mins had way more humor than they currently do.

i also loved that 6th gave some realism by basing each army in a real world faction and tailoring its army structure after that.

Also the shift time between these editions gave us mordheim. which is possibly the best book Gw has ever made. (just look at it, the art in it looks way better than anything after it)

[Daniel36]

Probably played one 6th battle, might have played one 5th as well... Played a couple of 7th ed battles and I HATED it. So I can't really say anything about older editions except 7th... which I HATED.

So 8th for me.

[Gary wyper]

7th had the bedt rules but some of the worst written army books in gw history
8th thusfar seems to have the best army books with the exception of the brokeness that is ogres

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[IcedCrow]

6th edition right after the change from 5th. For a couple of years the game was less about heroes and the armies looked "right". then it started evolving into that MSU crap where armies stopped looking like armies and more like cav-lines, and the dance of the eighth of an inch became popular.

7th edition was a nightmare for me due to the prevalence of imbalanced army books, the MSU malarchy, and the eighth of an inch dance to the point where I gave up the hobby for about four years until a year or so into 8th.

[Karak Norn Clansman]

6th edition right after the change from 5th. For a couple of years the game was less about heroes and the armies looked "right". then it started evolving into that MSU crap where armies stopped looking like armies and more like cav-lines, and the dance of the eighth of an inch became popular.

7th edition was a nightmare for me due to the prevalence of imbalanced army books, the MSU malarchy, and the eighth of an inch dance to the point where I gave up the hobby for about four years until a year or so into 8th.

Interesting observations which I agree with. Did you play anything before 6th edition? If so, how were they, and how do you find 8th to be?

[The Low King]

8th. I Only just started playing when 6th was replaced by 7th and i never played much in 7th because i found it dull. 8th is the reason i play warhammer.

[Hawkwood]

Well i only played the 8th edition so i take that one. I will also think that the ogres brokeness is becuse that they nedded something to make them more popular when they was the latest army to be introduced. Just my personol oppinion though. Did not see many ogre players before the book release but many after

[tmarichards]

I'd have to say 8th, as much as the randomness winds me up every now and then it's the most fun I can remember ever having had playing Warhammer.

[The bearded one]

8th, I love infantry.

[Voss]

I started in 6th and my favorite was 7th.

I loved the cat and mouse of it.

I'm curious as to what you mean. I've never seen a 'cat and mouse' aspect of warhammer, from 3rd edition to the present.



Also, 3rd and 8th for me.
7th was the absolute nadir of despair, with bad army books and a basic ruleset that hadn't been improved in a decade, merely tweaked to new levels of badness.

[Crube]

3rd edition was the ultimate for me

More complex certainly, but for me a lot more fun

8th isn't bad by a long stretch, but for depth and detail, and fun.... 3rd all the way

[NecronBob]

I've only played 5th, 7th, and 8th.

My favorite is 8th.

At the time, I loved 7th; however, as others have said, looking back there was a lot of silliness: having a unit do nothing because it lost its front rank (not unique to 7th, I know), poorly balanced army books, massive amounts of power dice in some armies. I don't miss it. I'm loving 8th though (I'll probably be posting the same type of thing when 9th comes out though. I'll most likely say, "I loved 8th, but I don't miss horde formations.")

[Urgat]

I've started with 5th, but 8th is by far my favourite. The one I disliked most is 7th.

[whatever]

Loved 3rd and as a group played it for years well into 5th but I think for many its a nostalgia trip the one you start with always has a soft place in your heart. But I do like 8th best wfb ever written in my opinion; balanced, well written and lots of fun. Its brought me back after a long time away and I must say for all the gripes I hear about gw they have continued to make great figs and have pushed the envelope of fig design and game design time and time again. Even though I have not enjoyed or played every edition I put that down to me wanting something different.