swuk wrote:There's room for a dozen new themes without too much cross over. I would add 1 strong side at a time give a chance to bed in.
1 a pure Mech side
this could be split into two factions the royalists and the workers ( bit like the IG split NATO & RAMBO ) Now the Royalist are new plastic , small in number (low tooling cost) but with some Uber mechwarriors / dreadnoughts & HQ's . Design and artwork = Stunning Chrome and white ?
The workers , Humana Mechanica ( human grease monkey mechanics ) have a wide selection of mechs. They make their living servicing mechs of all the other sides. So they have a huge Mad Max style range to choose from...every mech in the 40k universe ( making use of plastic already in production) ...they are the dent and scratch brigade. Urban matt black or sandrust brown.
you need at least shiny new 1 HQ and 1 Royalist mech/dreadnought as a leader. The rest can be made from the mechanic. you could , if you want have a side of 100% royalist mechs. So there we have it , a new army and a totally new theme for minimum tooling costs. Fluff ? well they live on the outer arms of the galaxy , near a jump gate that allows them to receive incoming shipments of mech warriors for spares or repairs.
Doesn't fit within existing fluff and plagiarizes on at least 3 animes I saw just last week.
Also, nice "plagiarizing" of already existing themes, such as the Borgeoise/Proletariat of Marx. Go you, communista.
Now do you see how easy it is to pick "stolen" themes in an army?