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Now I know that this will not happen for a very long time, if ever.
What could be a new race/army for 40k? It can't be related to any army already released. I for one can't think of one.
Anyone got any ideas?

Fish people from another demention/ galaxy/ Planet.

They be fish! Hopefully less derp than tau, as in, they want to kill everyone or something.

Short miner dudes with beards who have a bone to pick with green skins......oh wait

I would like to see a race that is not that technical sort of steampunk feel but relies on constructs to assist them.

So imagine a xenos champion leading a squad of brass steam punkish robots, they then could have a sort of mega armour meets crisis suit type elite and heavy robots for tanks and stuffs.

This belongs in 40k discussion, not in general discussion.

There are marines, so make them evil...
Chaos Marines! Oh wait.
hmm
Eldar...Chaos Eldar!
Oh wait..we already have dark eldar.
Tau..Chaos Tau!

I got it! Chaos Tau!

Broadside obliterators with railguns/plasmacannon/fusion

Dreadnoughts with move/shoot/move.

Firewarriors with pulse rifle, pulse pistol close combat weapons.

......
Ok, so it wasn't the greatest of ideas.

Chaos Sisters of Battle? Lash of slaanesh + AP 1 flamers!

Thanks for the input Aerethan.

scuddman wrote:

I got it! Chaos Tau!

Broadside obliterators with railguns/plasmacannon/fusion

I think that is ACTUALLY not a horrible idea...
Not chaos tau, just the Taubliterators...

Here a complete a random idea; space dwarfs.

Norn King wrote:Thanks for the input Aerethan.

if you want input, try using the right forum for topics. And are you really one to point fingers at people not giving good input? don't make me start linking all your one liner spam posts.

Years ago, towards the beginning of 3rd edition, I created a race called the Sorul. They had human torsos with snake tails, and were heavily influenced by my love of the naga race from Legend of the Five Rings. I envisioned them as sort of anti-orks, a semi-tribal, semi-technological race, but more of a "good" race who could actually get along with other races. Their leaders were the shamanic Dream Warriors, and their primary racial weapon was the spear.

Their stats were similar to a kroot carnivore (4 str, 3 t, the opposite of an ork). Their ranged weapons were pulse pistols and rifles. Their vehicles were non-fast, non-open-topped skimmers. The weird part: this was before Codex: Tau was released.

Maybe 40 k lizardmen or skaven. Maybe exodite eldar.

I'm not sure if you mean "race" or "army/faction".

Adeptus Mechanicus.

It's absurd that they haven't been given at least some models and unit stats already whereas Blue Marines, Unplayable-Cloaked Marines, Wolf Marines, Black Marines, Red Marines, Silver Supermarines have their own codecies.

Absolutionis wrote:I'm not sure if you mean "race" or "army/faction".

Adeptus Mechanicus.

It's absurd that they haven't been given at least some models and unit stats already whereas Blue Marines, Unplayable-Cloaked Marines, Wolf Marines, Black Marines, Red Marines, Silver Supermarines have their own codecies.

Who are the 'unplayable-cloaked marines?

I'm Sorry Aerethan, i shouldn't be rude.

Pardon me. I keep forgetting that Dark Angels got their Codex errata'd to be relevant.

Marinehammer Ho!

TheRobotLol wrote:

Absolutionis wrote:I'm not sure if you mean "race" or "army/faction".

Adeptus Mechanicus.

It's absurd that they haven't been given at least some models and unit stats already whereas Blue Marines, Unplayable-Cloaked Marines, Wolf Marines, Black Marines, Red Marines, Silver Supermarines have their own codecies.

Who are the 'unplayable-cloaked marines?

Dark Angels


I think a Cool army that is not one described that I know of.

Would be an army of Small People (Not Dwarfs) Pixie sized (Tinkerbell)
They would Control Vehicles that would be the Units and have short Weaponry and shielding example

Shockers (The Standard Soldiers, Fairy in Mech Suits Maybe Dwarf Sized Models but walker styled (Almost like playing Warhammer Epic)
WS: 3 BS: 3 S: 2 T: 2 I: 3 W: 1 A: 1 Ld: 7 SV: 5+/6+
Wargear: Reflectors, Stunner, CCW

Stunner: Range 16" S: 3 AP: - Rapidfire
Twinlinked, when rolling to wound any roll of a 6 that causes a wound forces a Leadership Check (-1 Modifier per wound from 6's) If failed the enemy unit goes to ground

Reflectors: Provides a 6+ Cover Save, any Unit attempting to charge a unit with Reflectors must move as if moving through Difficult Terrain, The Unit with Reflectors may move before the Charge is moved up to 3"

Hit and Run Special Rule

Adeptus Mechanicus. Leaving aside AdMech units in exsiting Codices (such as Enginseers) there are plenty of ideas for units they could use right there in the fluff. How about the many different types of Skitarii for a start?

timofeo wrote:
I think a Cool army that is not one described that I know of.

Would be an army of Small People (Not Dwarfs) Pixie sized (Tinkerbell)
They would Control Vehicles that would be the Units and have short Weaponry and shielding example

Shockers (The Standard Soldiers, Fairy in Mech Suits Maybe Dwarf Sized Models but walker styled (Almost like playing Warhammer Epic)

Ever read the book Old Man's War? There is a similar race, only a couple of inches tall, that goes to war with humanity. Thing is, they are so small that even their vehicle-mounted weapons don't do much to an armored human. While their foot soldiers are susceptible to stomping.

English Assassin only last week wrote:Warhammer 40,000 is not a very granular system; the real difficulty to introducing a new army would lie not in dreaming up fluff, but in designing something sufficiently distinct on the tabletop from what already exists.

Moreover, Games Workshop have always drawn their ideas from classic sci-fi tropes (or put classic fantasy tropes into space); I can't really think of anything which could easily be made to fit the setting that they haven't already used.

+1 for admech

Or take one of the armies that was shoved into a codex with another and split them up again( Catachans is a good example of this but not the only one).

Give me Admech, or give me death!

Mechanicum of man. Its about time.

^ this seem to be the most popular. Has anyone told informed GW of this? Do they know?

AdMech... +those knights from the HH books (so much cooler than the MiniMe dreadknights).

What about making an "Old Ones" army?
I mean I know GW hates advancing plots, but it'd be pretty cool right?

Warboss Gideon wrote:What about making an "Old Ones" army?
I mean I know GW hates advancing plots, but it'd be pretty cool right?

No it wouldn't.

1. All the "real" old ones are dead

2. Technically, the Eldar already fit that niche as they are their closest creations.

3.

Adeptus Mechanicus. It'd be great to field an army of cogboys. Mechadendrites. Mechadendrites everywhere.

But for my own input:


*looks around*
*ducks*

Is that a dead cat at the bottom left of that pic?

+3 for Admech. Sooooo much promise.

Otherwise, 40k has all bases covered. I wouldnt mind seeing a race that has no ranged weapons what so ever but is an absolute beast in melee.



I always wanted them to add a zombie game mode too.

Fezman wrote:Adeptus Mechanicus. Leaving aside AdMech units in exsiting Codices (such as Enginseers) there are plenty of ideas for units they could use right there in the fluff. How about the many different types of Skitarii for a start?

*picturing half an army going into mindlock*