Catachans: Should they Stay - Or Go?

[Rissan4ever]

I think the Catachans should stay around, though they should be revamped to look more like the current command squad set and less like 80's action figures. I also think GW should do the other Guardsmen flavors in new plastic sets (Steel Legion, Mordians, Tallarn, Vostroyans, etc.) It would add a lot of variety and spice to the infantry, and it would play up the fact that the Imperial Guard come from a diversity of planets all over the vast Imperium.

[igazzkikr]

Keep them. My IG regiment uses a mix of Cadian, Catachan, and Tallarn painted in a unified desert scheme. The mix of types doesn't look at all out of place. The more variety the better.

[spiralingcadaver]

Cadians, Tallarns, Mordians, Valhallans, Catachans, and Attilans (the Rough Rider guys) all came out at about the same time in 2nd edition. If I'm remembering right.

Yeah, wasn't writing attilans since he kinda' shoehorned them in with "specialists"... BTW, does anyone know if that crazy Rough Rider army (the one that allowed any infantry to be upgraded to horsies) that existed in the 3rd edition release's mini-dex for Guard was from earlier editions, or something that briefly existed and never made it to a codex?

[GrauGeist]

Catachans should have rules as a Supplement, but not drive model sales.

Besides, we really want plastic Greatcoat Guard.

[White Tiger88]

A simple community poll today.

With IG coming up soon, people are starting to look at the range.

IG have always been odd with dual plastic ranges for both Cadians and Catachans - but the public opinion is wavering.

So shuld the Catachans stay and continue to fill out their range for variety's sake, or should they get the axe in favor of more Cadian units?

Give us Tanith........AND vostryians!

[Rissan4ever]

Tanith would be nice. There are 17 different flavors of Space Marine, all with their own kits. How come the Guard don't get that kind of love?

[John Bower]

Tanith would be nice. There are 17 different flavors of Space Marine, all with their own kits. How come the Guard don't get that kind of love?

Because they aren't Spess Mehreens. Only they get the blue eyed boy treatment from GW

[Rissan4ever]

Space Marines... bah! Half of them are traitors. And of the other half, two thirds are either mutants or heretics. We suffer them because we must, not because we like it.

[Ezaviel]

They are awful.
Suppliment at best. Since when did an entire SUB faction of an army get an entire line of minis? It is a failed leftover from their codex, there are much more interesting subfactions that do NOT have minis, bits, nadda. Each guard dex has a new faction this one should be the same.

Since Catachans were the FIRST IG to get a plastic line? Of course, back then there were like, 5 metal lines of IG.

[Jerry Toppins]

Just Make Imperial Guard all Death Korps of Krieg.