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What’s a unit you’d really like to see added to your army? For example, something that you like the idea of, would fill a hole in your range, or just necessiate a really cool model. Realism or sensibility is not necessary, this is for fun conceptual wishlisting.

My entry -
Mechanicus Autovenatorae-
Equipped with high-capacity sensor arrays and grafted with biomechanical winged antigravity units, Autovenatorae serve as airborne reserves and advance scouts for Explorator forces.
They’d have to have highly augmented wings, with artificial claws, and likely some sort of phosphor sniper weapon for marking enemy positions.

Tyranid Norn Queen.
If the Swarm Lord is a chapter Master the Norn Queen is a Primarch. A plastic, LoW choice for nids. Melee and Gun options synapse and psychic powers.Some Aura buffs that really enhance the swarm another notch.

I wish they had a grenade launcher firing melta bombs for Salamanders

or magnum flamers w 12" range overwatch on 5's

Tinkering with Ad Mech at the moment.

Not very original but I would like to see the Macrocarid Explorator porting to 8th - fingers crossed for Fires of Cyraxis.

Also, I like the look of the new 'baby' knight which has been announced for the Ad Mech - so that is covered.

Beyond the "I want all the 30k stuff ported forward!" for both AdMech and the Talons? Possibly a less lazy set of Sisters of Silence models; I can't be the only one immensely disappointed by the fact that the Pursuer Cadre turned out to be a half-a**ed Beastmaster unit rather than a jetbike squad or the like.

for custodes I'd like veneralbe crusader and redempter land raiders.

BrianDavion wrote:
for custodes I'd like veneralbe crusader and redempter land raiders.

Please no. Put the Land Raiders spraypainted gold away and give us the skimmers.

Sisters of battle bike unit, more ducati, less chopper.

Move 14 T4 2W 3+ 6++ 3A each bike has a flamer and the riders have repentia eviscerators. No idea on pts, would have to playtest.

It'd be nice to have people run in fear of SoB CQC.

 AnomanderRake wrote:

BrianDavion wrote:
for custodes I'd like veneralbe crusader and redempter land raiders.

Please no. Put the Land Raiders spraypainted gold away and give us the skimmers.

custodes land raiders date back to at LEAST the inital heresy visions book.

Dark Eldar Sslyth warriors.
Can either be armed with two guns to make an elite shooting unit or two blades for an elite melee unit. Or even four blades. Or two blades and a gun. Or four pistols... So much possibilities!
Additionally, there should be a sslyth vehicle that provides a bit more staying power than the usual DE stuff.
Would make for cool new models I think.

I'd love to see most armies get their gaps filled 1st

SM, DA, BA & SW - a Lord of war (that isn't a Primarch or FW) Custodes, Harlequins - a Flyer
Daemons, GD - LoW & Flyer
Admech - transports and Flyer

(anyone I've missed?)

I’d like GSC to get fleshed out with some more hybrid variants and some more mining equipment:

Some sort of genestealer morph in the fast attack slot (maybe no invuln and one less attack, but cheaper, or maybe a hound-stealer hybrid like the one from alien 3)

A lord of war for the cult - a baneblade-sized vehicle with mining lasers and a giant drill on the front. 40+ transport capacity would be nice too

Flying bomb squigs for orks.
Or any kind of squig unit

ERJAK wrote:
Sisters of battle bike unit, more ducati, less chopper.

Move 14 T4 2W 3+ 6++ 3A each bike has a flamer and the riders have repentia eviscerators. No idea on pts, would have to playtest.

It'd be nice to have people run in fear of SoB CQC.

This, totally this!

I was just talking to a friend about making sisters bikers, but not knowing what army to make them in.

Orks: a battle tank with no transport capacity, something similar to a leman russ, vindicator or predator.

Space Wolves: another wolfy unit to make SW less SM dependant. I'd like some sort of T3 cheap little werewolves, like cultists/guardsmen with wolfy look

Drukhari: biker HQs and maybe a huge coven monster. For huge I mean something like the mawloc, not the garg squiggoth.

Sisters with jump packs, spears, and hit and run.

Celestians with access to storm shields and power mauls.

Inquisitors with access to options.

Daemonhosts that have a datasheet closer to a mini Daemon Prince.

Imperial Guard vets with actual specialized roles like camo gear, demolition gear, and carapace armor, as well as more wargear options. We lack an actual unit that represents normal guardsmen specializing like that now and it killed a lot of conversions many players had. Would help make up for vets being elites when Stormtroopers are troops too.

Ideally abilities would be less focused around shooting and more about making the vets skilled at filling weird little commando type roles. Heck maybe even give them an option to outflank or something if appropriately priced.

Other than that, I always felt that we needed just a good old generic truck, be it FW or GW. Basically just a 40k deuce and a half, whatever the Ork trukk is based on. Doesn't even have to be made for combat or anything, it would just be awesome for conversions, dioramas, and making a cheap deathrap transport that could be used to shuttle guys up the board if you feel risky. No real weapons aside from a heavy stubber/storm bolter mounted over the cab and keep it simple. Just seems odd that even FW never capitalized on that yet we got an arvus lighter which is the same thing but for space.

Heck more civilian anything for 40k would be nice. Makes great terrain and material for IG, chaos, orks, and genestealer cults to loot/press into service. Little technical trucks that each of those could steal and mount with faction appropriate weapons would be really cool. Make them made of paper but dirt cheap and Bing bam boom.

DG: a chemical weapon DG unit, either based on normal PM or terminators. Just so I could load a unit down with all the new guns from the codex.

Admech: some sort of flyer, probably a transport.

CSM: I'd like to see some small type of daemon engine, the size of a normal SM, as an infantry option. It'd be basically all I need to get pseudo dark mechanicus army going.

For Mechanicus? I'd like to see something in the vein of the Thanatar size-wise.
Have the thing set up as a slow moving gun platform armed with a mortar or other indirect fire weaponry and has the ability to deploy 'spider-mines' that act like Spore Mines but can't fly.

Skitarii Cohort Commander--HQ option
Enhanced Broad-Spectrum Data Tether: It's a Broad-Spectrum Data Tether that counts instead as an Enhanced Data-Tether for units within 3". Would make it so that Skitarii units within 3" when you activate Doctrina Stratagems? You get +2BS on your stuff.

Weapon-wise? I'd say it would depend on the size of the model.
If he's going to be the size of Cawl or a Kastelan, give him Cognis Autocannons or Lascannons grafted in lieu of an arm. Hell, we could get fancy and have him with Radium Jezzails for arms.

For the GSC:

ELITES: Would love to see some cheap support characters added here. A Demolition Specialist in particular would be nice, someone that buffs Demolition Charges and Blasting Charges in some fashion. The old codex also mentioned one Cult that had taken over a medical world so maybe some sort of hybrid medic/alchemist would be neat too. Also would love to see an Aberrant variant to capitalize on their need for a kit and maybe the old Ymgarl Genestealers could come back as a "character" GSC unit (seeing as their fluff fits in perfectly with GSC mechanics).

FAST: I'd love to see a variant of the Arvus Lighter added to the Cults since it seems perfect for them in almost every regard (civilian vehicle, transport of 6 for carrying small assault or demolition squads). Also Acolyte and Neophytes on civilian bikes would be neat as a fast ground unit, with Neophytes perhaps with attack-bike style sidecars carrying a Heavy Stubber or Flamer while Acolyte bikers get access to Demolition Charges. Also possibly move the Goliath Rockgrinder here if a heavier mining vehicle were added to Heavy Support, with it being faster and lighter.

HEAVY: Mainly would like to see a mobile drilling platform to act as pseudo-artillery support with massively scaled up versions of the Seismic Cannon and Mining Laser. Also would love to see a large mining bulldozer or similar vehicle added as a "heavy tank/transport" sort of unit to supplement Russes and Rockgrinders. Also perhaps have an alternate build for Aberrants acting as a Devastator-equivalent with multiple mining heavy weapons as a Heavy Support option too.

Chaos : Possessed who are actually good. Like the 30k Gal Vorbak.

An open topped land raider stripped of its weaponry in which you can stuff 20+ angry dudes.

Non-FW traitor guard rules. I've been waiting for that since I started 40k.

IG : More Ogryn. Ogryn heavy weapon guys wielding twin-linked autocannons like in the RPG. Drugged up powers word wielding ogryn shock troops.

The old camp cloak or carapace armored vets.

More rough rider love.

An Admec transport, just something that can carry 10 Skitarii or 3 Kataphrons in relative protection, I have in mind an Onager with 6 legs and a troop compartment.Hell, even if GW said "put some Admec decals on a Rhino" I'd be happy with that.

We build all the Imperium's transports, how come we don't get any?

The only Eldar thing I believe needs rectifying is a proper Avatar of Khaine. The current one is stuck with the old model, which I love. However because of its size, the rules for the Avatar have just become progressively worse over editions as the Greater Daemons have become giant plastic kits.

In 2nd ed., etc. when they were all the same scale they were all equally tough and scary. As the Avatar has been out-scaled, GW have seen fit to continually minimize the rules, making it less and less impressive. In reality the Avatar should be one of the most fearsome units in the game.

Even if the points cost went up, the Avatar should be far grander than it is now, and I just think that's a result of GW's failure to produce a plastic kit for it after 24 years.

Even when I field one, my opponents ask "Okay, so how good is the Avatar?" and my answer is "He's not...he's expensive and he dies easily".

More Harlequins - a bike HQ, Mimes and some true Heavy support options, either in a form of a heavier skimmer or a sentinel.

For Craftworlders I second a proper Avatar of Khaine, as it is not really a model option at this point... I do have a lead one from my old days, but he is hilariously small compared to other monstrous creatures out there. It is also so outdated, that even GW official photosets utilise FW one.

Right now I'd say

Tyranids - a Plastic Titan class unit. It's basically the only thing that Tyranids currently lack in their roster, otherwise they are pretty much a complete army as far as I can see these days.

Chaos Demons - stuff for Slannesh - anything! Although I've always felt that they'd be ideal to add a basic troop type with ranged weapons.

Most armies (esp xenos) - now that GW has formally introduced the concept of subfactions within all primary armies as a mechanic I see it as a means toward new models. As armies get more fleshed out they reach a point where it becomes hard to add viable units without invalidating earlier units or without just bloating the unit roster.
So I'd say add units that are restricted to specific niche groups within factions. This way new units can be added, without bloating the army roster and without unbalancing the army structure. It also lends a way to give greater power to mono-sub-faction armies.

Bikes for the Imperial Guard. If we have no more horses, give us motorbikes!

Primaris bikers too.

And Slaaneshi models, Slaanesh needs love.

Hmmm, let's see...

Ravenwing....tough because we just got a new character in the Talonmaster, so maybe a lancer bike sqd.
Eldar Iyanden.... a Wraithlord character (that is not a FW wraithseer) with some type of D-scythe/cannon weapon.
Harlequins...as mentioned, a flyer
Iron Warriors....siege weapon

Shooting units for Daemons. Like, a decent amount of quality shooting for every god.

Harlequins:
Warlock
High Avatar (Basically to a Troupe Master what a Captain is to a Sergeant)
High Warlock (Farseer equivalent)
The Master Mime (Leader of stealthy guys)
Mimes (Stealthy guys)

-Kroot HQ: not sure what the name would be.
-Krootox rider with multiple weapon options
-Kasrkin rules and models (not as scions)