It is a vivid memory of mine that when two squads charged each other me and my friends would collectively sigh, roll our eyes and reach for the Fantasy rulebook because the combat resolution was much easier. We would generally only bother with the 40k close combat for single combats between characters.

Looking at the pics from the 2nd minutes onwards, there was a lot GW staff members sporting pony tails. Like, all of them, the exception being ofcourse, Andy Chambers and his fearsome Mane (which i have no doubt  had its own rules set and always won regardless).
This is how 90s 40k should be remembered. Big tables. Big armies. Big Hair.

Chaos dreadnought. "Only a powerfist you say, hold my Mk 1 plasma cannon".
I miss when thunder hammers were not just to heavy for normal marines but the force unleashed on striking would have sent the marine and hammer flying.
The line in the chaos codex about how it is only thanks to the march of Imperial technology that they have got them down to terminator size from dreadnought size was rather amusing to.

I remember a legendary combat between endless swarms of Hormagaunts and Genestealers vs an Eldar Avatar and Exodite Lord (Dark elf on a cold one) that went on for what felt like eternity.

Considering this is episode 3 of a ~4704 part series, I gotta say that your editing style and overall general video flow is amazing. I really appreciate you moving forward with the things that work and dropping some of the things that didn’t in the earlier videos. Awesome work as always.

I have fond memories at the mall GW with my dad during 2nd edition marveling at the starter box, and him buying me a Dark Angels Dreadnought to put together, starting an eternal addiction. The best part is, I went Blood Angels and just converted the thing into a Furioso in 3rd Ed.

Re the Evesor assassin bit:

We always played it that while the stats were assigned on a scale between 1 to 10, modifiers could take them above and below. Given that the page displayed at 11:42 ends with a section on zero level characteristics, we assumed the quoted sentence was open to exceptions.

broken game mechanics were perfectly ok back before we were able to instantly access this knowledge via the internet. You could almost say OP/broken combos were almost balanced as it would take a lot of time and testing to figure this out by yourself, and as you could only mostly interact with those within proximate distance it wasn't as easy to just assemble a curb stomping army and find innocent, casual strangers to abuse every weekend.

One of my fondest game memories is taking out Jain Zar with an Attack bike Multi Melta shot that also wasted a hovering Fire Prism. Her last wound lost when it detonated in her face. Glorious!

1:32 - This means that any model with an Attack characteristic of 1 can never get a critical hit because the +1 is added only for every '6' after the first.   I house-ruled it for the games I run that ANY '6' rolled equals a Critical Hit.  Thus, even a modest model with an A1 can still manage a critical hit.

On the topic of Primaris veterans, they come from two places, the first being formerly firstborn veterans that have drank the Cawl brand Kool Aid and crossed the rubicon primaris, the second being primaris that have been in stasis and basically trained on combat sims. Especially for the ultima founding (primaris only) chapters, veteran is much more a combat role than necessarily a reflection of a length of service. Also going off of the new rules it seems the jump pack intercessors don't need power swords since they're more than fine dealing damage by just body-checking whatever they get into combat with, reflected by them doing mortal wounds on the charge, zoomer marines are built different fr fr no cap.

Also the combat system for 2nd edition is very cool, and it gets me excited for legions imperialis since they use a very similar system.

I hope you do an episode dedicated to field saves. Nothing more satisfying than your character being mobbed in combat, killing most of the attackers, and then displacing away before being beaten down because you chose to parry a weak opponent's roll of a 1.

2:53 OW! CRAMP!

The lack of vertical engagement range in 8th edition made it possible to ignore enemies if you brought a trusts 1.5 inch box
Now we have 5" vertical in 10th edition so the ork dreadnought can pull people through the ceiling of the building it is under

We used to use the rule that say all 6 gretchen would instanty die against a space marine captain but then add all the extra dice and +1s to the goff or warboss for the combat to happen. sped the combat up alot and was realistic

Reminds me of when I worked in a Hotel. There was a massive table in one of the cellars and my friend and I had a 6500 point game that lasted an entire week around work. Chaos allied with the Orks and were fighting Space Marines allied with lots of Imperial Guard. So many dice.

A big problem with the Talisman-style melee rules of 3nd edition was that the law of averages made having an Attack stat pf10 actually sort of bad. I found that the Avatar or a Bloodthirster rarely got critical hits because they kept getting cancelled out by fumbles. God forbid it was fighting against an IG commissar with a chainsword since that sword somehow could parry an Axe of Khorne larger than the Commissar himself.

The Bjorn/Abba reference though 😂😂😂

Bro, just seeing your new video in my feed made me smile so hard. Keep up the good work 👍🏻 🇦🇺

I"m really convinced interpretations of 2e rules was a regional thing or we just didn't read the rules close enough.
I really forgot all the oddities and exploit-ability of it, maybe because we didn't power game it that much back then.
Almost like we wanted to have fun or something