I don't understand how your premise can be "the first edition is the
best" and then conclude with "I prefer SM/TL" ----> it's Space Marine
2nd ed.
I don't know anyone who still plays 1st ed regularly, and I
prefer either 2nd or E40K to it by far, but my answer over all would
be :
1) play SM/TL with someone who already has it. If you can still
find the pieces & rules, and you like it, go for it!
2) Otherwise, try E40K. You really don't have much choice
in my neck of the woods, as no stores carry the old stuff, and our
best stores for carrying used stuff closed up about a year and 1 half
ago. Used book stores are our only decent source now. (And this
is Dallas-Ft Worth - we ain't exactly small)
I'd just like to point out, how do you call E40K 'third edition'. Part if
the problem with
E40K is that it is NOT another edition of Space Marine, it is an entirely
diffrent game.
The only thing left from SM/TL is the names of units/weapons. Personally, I
think many people would have been happier with a edition that just fixed
broken unts/rules like you said. It's just that the E40K rules bear no
resemblence other than nomenclater to the previous editon.(I've never
played first ed, so I don't know much about it, but I hear it was more like
SM/TL than E40K. It's one of those things I'd like to play, just for the
heck of it.
Kinda like a small first ed 40K game is fun.)
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"Your incorrect assumptions are threefold."
"You assume law still reigns in the Five Galaxies"
"You assume that we would be bound by precedents and precepts from the last
10 million years."
"But your most incorrect assumption of all is to assume that we care."
-David Brin, Infinity's Shore
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