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With all the technolgy in the 40k I wonder if they could make their ships, vehicles, "transform" like the transformer bots? That will sure give the tau quite a scare if they could.
a titan that can "transform" into a battle ship...

but titans are so huge... what could one possibly 'transform' into?

A city like Metroplex/Trypticon/Scorponok for example?

even emperor titans arent that big though...

Sweet a Baneblade Transforms into a Titan!!!!
lol

Lord of battles wrote:Sweet a Baneblade Transforms into a Titan!!!!
lol

Yeah. Or a titan transforming into a small space battle ship. If it did that they wouldn't have to worry about transporting it.

There's a guy on the WIP forums who's working on a transforming baneblade. its pretty involved though so its not yet super far along.

I've also seen an ork trukk modeled on the classic Optimus design.

Jack

I'm sorry but this is interesting...

A TITAN IS EPIC>TRANSFORMING TITAN

why would it need to be any more epic in the eyes of the imperium...

I love the concept of transformers in 40k
Eventually i plan to make a range of 40k transformers, one for each group if i can work out how to do them .

40k autobots
Land raider- Optimus prime
Rhino- Bumblebee
Leman russ- Ironhide
Exorcist- Wheeljack
Hammerhead- Windcharger
Fire prism- Skyfire

40k decepticons
Monolith- Megatron
Ork trukk, warbikes and buggies- Devastator
Ork FightaBomma- Starscream
Chaos defiler- Bonecrusher
Ravager- Skywarp
Some kind of tyranid but as they are all living creatures anyway i dont really know whether i should do it or not

The problem with anything that transforms (assuming we're going to inject even a tiny mote of common sense) is that it's going to be bigger and heavier than something that only did one of the jobs.

e.g. a titan that turns into a space ship is going to be heavier (and hence slower) than an equivalent spaceship that doesn't transform (because it's got legs, etc). Likewise, in titan mode it's going to have lots of space-ship parts that just add weight and bulk. Quite apart from the extra mechanical parts required to do the transforming.

Scott-S6 wrote:The problem with anything that transforms (assuming we're going to inject even a tiny mote of common sense) is that it's going to be bigger and heavier than something that only did one of the jobs.

e.g. a titan that turns into a space ship is going to be heavier (and hence slower) than an equivalent spaceship that doesn't transform (because it's got legs, etc). Likewise, in titan mode it's going to have lots of space-ship parts that just add weight and bulk. Quite apart from the extra mechanical parts required to do the transforming.

Your forgetting the rule of cool...

Macross could do it, why can't Tau?
Everything basically transforms in that show including the "huge make those robots that make humans look like ants look like ants" battleships.
It carries roughly the same amount of stuff as the Mantra except thing of it as Crisis Suits instead of infantry.
Ship mode


Robot mode


And some concept art to show scale.

Those little dots are buildings.

Or maybe it could be some power rangers thing. A land raider or two, a few preds, few rhinos and a couple of lands speeders could form up and make a megazord. and maybe it can use a thunderhawk as a jetpack.

MarineFist wrote:Or maybe it could be some power rangers thing. A land raider or two, a few preds, few rhinos and a couple of land speeders could form up and make a titan, maybe it can use a thunderhawk as a jetpack.

Fixed that for you

Or something like this??

Macross already does it and does it better. Nothing in 40k compares to either the SDF-1, the Macross Frontier, the Macross Galaxy, or even the Macross Quarter.

Nurglitch wrote:Macross already does it and does it better. Nothing in 40k compares to either the SDF-1, the Macross Frontier, the Macross Galaxy, or even the Macross Quarter.

All of which are far too delicate to be regular gaming pieces.

chaplaingrabthar wrote:

Nurglitch wrote:Macross already does it and does it better. Nothing in 40k compares to either the SDF-1, the Macross Frontier, the Macross Galaxy, or even the Macross Quarter.

All of which are far too delicate to be regular gaming pieces.

Nah, at least the first should be fine. From my above post the SDF-1.

n0t_u wrote:Ship mode


Robot mode


And some concept art to show scale.

Those little dots are buildings.

what if GW actually made the models for the transformer titan or bane blade. Knowing them they'll sell the parts seprately...

Back in the day, when Adeptus Titanicus was on the shelves, I thought that Titans were Macross-scaled robots. I think it was the box-art and something about them being referred to as having crews.

I demand a yo dawg for this.

yo dawg I heard you liked transforming robots so we put transforming robots in yo transforming robots so when yo transform and roll out yo can transform and roll out?