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If you could create a new army what would it be called, what would it look like, what weapons would it have , etc

Pan Fo

Ad Mech

I used to have an idea for doing futuristic vampires (probably counts as CSM or guard if I wanted to do hordes of undead)

Then Twilight came along. Now, I would rather die than mention vampires in any context.

Hmm For me it would be a race of sort of Victorianesque aliens. Airships and mechanical suits. Also has most of H.G. Wells imaginings in it such as tripods and other odd things. Would be very elegent models but with a terrifying feel to them. I would suggest them to all move as beasts. The line soldiers watch as the .... walk gracefully towards them and then as soon as they come in range they vanish and are suddenly in amongst the soldiers.
That sort of thing

So a Steampunk army. That would be visualy awsome, but I'm not sure if they'd provide any new dimension of play rule-wise. It seems like you'd end up with some kind of IG-Tau cross.

I'm having a hard time coming with an army that would have a different feal and style of play then is already covered.

little people about the size of snotlings that have big suits and able to bring back dead
like armored migget necromancers


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but the like robot zombies

I think a more elemental race is required. Something that doesn't rely on guns or suits of armor, but instead straight magic and element manipulation. Sort of like what Chaos can already do only, well, not Chaos.

Damnit I guess I didn't think this one through...

Space Dwarfs!

No, that sux.

Um, Space Mimes and Dancers!

No, sounds stupid.

Oh! Oh! Alien/human hybrids!

Durn, dumb and dumber.

I know! Chaos-ish I Guard with Daemons.

Nah, who wold play that?

OK, I was gonna say Arbites, but I wont go there.

Whatever it is, it needs to be less humanoid.

Mostly everything has 2 arms and 2 legs.

I want to see a race of creatures with 4 armes and 4 legs, like a dryder. Why does everything in 40k have to have 2 arms and 2 legs? No more diversity left in the galaxy?

Space Skaven.

I win this thread.

a C'tan army

I'd honestly just make a Dogs of War book for the all non-imperial armies and then all the imperial stuff allowed to ally with itself.


It would just be cool to see a Dogs of War with Different Alien Species etc.. Just call it Xenos.

Release the Hrud already...

FIRST, The game desperately needs a lost and the damned or chaos cultist based army. This is one of the primary villains in the fluff, but is hard to represent on the tabletop. Counts as IG or counts as Orks or something sort of work but this really needs it's own army list.

SECOND, I would update all the current armies that need it, giving plenty of attention to the non-MEQ, non-imperial armies.

THIRD, I would do an ad mech army.

FOURTH, I would look at a non-humanoid army, because I agree that the game needs some less human-like alien races in it. Kroot as a full army, Hrud, etc.

A general Mercenary codex. Almost all races included (everything except 'Nids and the nastier Chaos stuff). A great way to show some alternative unit types (or RT unit types not seen anymore) for various races.

It'd be a great to bring back Squats on trikes. Some Blood Axe boyz, Humans in Space Marine and IG looted gear (or a full blown "lost" SM Chapter from several millennia ago) with varying degrees of competence. Ratlings, Eldar, competent Grot units, Chaos reformers, lost and/or broken Commissars, looted Necron troops with modified and reprogrammed parts (basically just Necron shells), Kroot, Tau that have broken away (possibly Chaos influenced), Baddruk and his Flash Git boyz. Freebooters from all the races with interesting heroes to boot...

Callum Raddick - Escaped IG convict that has built a tough human force using looted SM armor (SM Scout equivalent) with a bonus in CC.

Kruber Garsnik - Unconventional Ork with his band of Shoota boyz that have sacrificed CC for better BS and kustom shootas.

Grim Odenthorn - Squat triker with a furious charge and a burning hatred for all things of the Imperium.

Fath Cathsinger - Eldar scientist with her unit of Necron/hybrid battle androids.

Gavick Nullson - Reformed Chaos soldier and his boys.

Dembo Dookins - Ratling leader that uses his infiltration unit as true skirmishers in CC. Not great at dealing out wounds but fantastic at avoiding wounds.

Fesrick Noffer - Fallen IG Commissar that is now a very competent general and inspires units without assassination.

Ok, I got carried away.

I think some sort of Space Based ship fairing alien race of some description. Heavy prevalence of Psykers and Beasts. But now I'm just rambling...

The OC-D

@GoFenris
I like that idea, but the inevitable spamming of the codex's best units will take away the variety that would make the list great

Space Marine wrote:If you could create a new army what would it be called, what would it look like, what weapons would it have , etc

Looks like some fishing going on here........Give up your golden ideas for free people! (Is this GW posting for ideas here?)

Something with lots of low BS, gets hot shots, say:

Unknown Creature: WS2 BS2 S3 T3 W1 I3 Ld5, 4pt
Routlette Gun: 18" S4 AP5 Assault2, Gets Hot!

Just think it could be a fun unit to play.

There is an Imperial Guard regiment based on every historical army in existance; so why not ones modeled after Union Civil War troops? Mayby make their heavy bolters resemble civil war era gatlings. The blue trenchcoats are a must though. The lasguns would look similar to Mordian lasguns most likely.
Tau that fit the warhammer art style more would be nice; mayby explain them as being Farsights troops.
Hellokittyhammer?

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/236952.page

They actually have quite a list of races already in the 40 mythos that have never been fully explored. The ancient Slann, the Jokaero, Zoats (a tyranid bio/mind slave), the Ambull.

Personally, I wish that they would flesh out the Necrons as well as the Tau empire more.

As far as new races go, well, I think that the current rules for psycic powers are rather weak, and that they fail to give a truly psychic feel to the eldar, so maybe a new race that has NO guns at all, just psychic powers, would be interesting, and would help make the witch hunters army more viable.


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There are many great ideas out there about interesting aliens in 40k. The main problem is how to create a new/revive an old race that looks good as an army of table top minitures. An army of sentient gas would be cool, but how would you model it? How many more different types of humans do we really need. Rock people, while entirely new, would make for poor models (everyone would just go out and glue some gravel together). We already have the necrons, to take the place as both "undead" and robots.

CT GAMER wrote:Release the Hrud already...

I second this one.

This race is by far the most talked about race in the 40k books/background/fluff that does not have any pictures or anything else for us to associate with them, other than they are considered by the imperium as one of the 'significant enough' threats to them.

oh wait, here is a pic I think provided by our good friend google.

Humanoid bug things, kind of like the Vespid. I like the idea of a mix between the Tau and Nids. "Hive" cities like Imperial Hive cities, but large honeycombed temples built to their queens. The variety of units would represent different aspects of an ant or bee colony (workers, warriors, queen, etc...). I know that nids function like to this to some extent (with the hivemind that is), but I'm thinking of a more unified structure. Since they have evolved technology into their lives the creatures would be more dependant on technology.

The fluff could kind of follow a quasi-Tau history that they have evolved relatively quickly, but at some point they felt that their society is in danger. The bugs could then start attacking local systems and spread their empire.

The creatures themselves could be based on earth insects (6 limbs, small thorax, feelers, whatever) and would have weapons that act like the Tyranids living weapons. The larger, more dangerous species could be based on bigger bugs.

Now that I think of this their basically like the ones off of Starship Troopers. Ok un-original, but different at least.

Some sort of purely flying based army would be awesome, very alien but not just Tyranids revamped

I wouldn't, people tend to hate it when you release new armies into a static universe, especially when they aren't wearing power armor.

See: Necrons, Tau, and to a lesser extent Chaos Daemons but that's mostly because people are pissed about the huge retconning of 20 years of Chaos fluff and splitting them from CSMs.

If done well, Space Dwarves would be awesome. Either as the new Demi-urge not-really-Squats, or as Squat refugees that escaped the Tyranids and are now trying to find a new homeworld. You could have a sort of Battlestar galactica feel, as they know they can't travel through space forever like the Eldar, but they need to avoid Nids, Orks, and even the Imperium (who clearly let them be destroyed rather than save them). Perhaps even selling them as tenous allies/competitors with the Tau on the eastern fringe would be neat.

As for game play, I see them as a mixture between sisters and Orks. Relatively high model count, T4, great wargear, solid leadership, better in shooting but solid in HtH. I like the idea of them using mostly imperial tech (the solid, well built stuff) that they've improved. No new real tech like the tau, but making improvements to STC stuff. No skimmers, but a heavy use of bikers for flanking and scouting. A good mix of mechanized infantry, artillery, and Hearthguard in exo-suits.

I'd really like a "building army" low model count with mediocre stats.

But each unit would have building capabilities, able to improve cover saves, create trenches, and specialist buildings, such as turrets medical bunkers(provide we'll be back to units within 12 inches of it?) Command bunkers etc.

they'd also have static buildings in the heavy support section that they could deep strike on the first turn, such as anti tank gun emplacements, Artillary emplacement etc.


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actually I think that'd be a really nice style play list for the Demiurg. maybe have a 3 3 3 4 2 1 7 4+ stats.

GOO!!! little blobs rolling arroung the battlefield in all the colors of the rainbow. What do they do? Take possesion of opposing warriors and later consume the ramain for sustenance. Benefits...no new figures needed...just take 10 years to figure out what to put in the codez and another 10 year for it to make it to printing...

Secondary Chapter - Booger Boyz and the Snot Seers

I want to try a Tau army, because i love Mech's and i always thought bug alien's were cool and Tau Uniform's are cool on top of that i could camo them out.