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I need some help. I'm Interested in creating several mass effect armies for wh40k maybe even custom rules.

I want to create a geth army that includes

Geth Destroyer
Geth Juggernaut
geth troopers
geth stalkers/hoppers
geth colossus
geth armatures
geth hunters
geth primes
geth dropships
geth rocket troops
geth shock troops
and geth husks (not geth technically but who cares)
special character legion ( possibly saren)

A turian army

turian troops
turian officers
turian rocket troops
turian tanks
turian dropships
turian shock troops
turian infiltrators
turian vets
turian weapons batteries
and special character Garrus ( possibly saren)

A Asari army

Asari commandos
Asari troops
Asari biotics
Asari tanks
Asari dropships
Asari matriarch
Asari snipers
Asari rocket troops
Asari vanguards
special characters liara and samara and benezia

A krogan army

krogan berserker
krogan troops
krogan battle truck
krogan thresher maw ( controlled by a battle master)
krogan battlemaster
krogan chief
krogan drop pods
krogan heavy biotics
krogan rachni war vets
special characters wrex and grunt

A collectors army

collectors Drone
collectors harbinger
collectors husks
collectors scions
collectors drop ships
collectors rocket troops
Collector Seeker Swarm
collector Assassin
Collector Guardian
Collector General
collector Abominations
collector Praetorians

A Quarian army

Quarian troops
Quarian rocketries
Quarian infiltrators
Quarian Sergent
Quarian medic
Quarian tank
Quarian armature
Quarian armed shuttles
Quarian emp batteries
Quarian admirals
Quarian tech specialists
special characters tali

A vorcha army a drell army a merc army (blue suns blood pact and Eclipse) a Cerberus army and a batarin army would all eventually be worked in if any one can help me as to how i should go about making the geth and quarians (geth first the quarians ) that would be great

maybe gw can make a mass effect specialist game or something

but if any on can help me please do

what is the nature of the help you require?

I've never heard of any of these names... what are they from?

what bitz to use and what tools would work best and any suggestions for armies or rules


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Thats the help i need


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obama27 wrote:what bitz to use and what tools would work best and any suggestions for armies or rules


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Thats the help i need

there from mass effect 1& 2

You'll get a lot better help with pics. The % of people that played ME/ME2 and remember all the visuals perfectly that will be able to help you find things is probably pretty small, and no one is going to go do 40 GIS so they can help you out.

Well - Necrons can be used to make Geth.

But I'll be surprised if you complete even ONE of those "armies". You need to walk before you can run.

Here we go

This might be setting the bar to high. Best of luck.

For geth, best bet is necrons and LOTS of green stuff I'd wager....

I hate to shoot down ideas, but I'm pretty positive you won't be able to pull this off unless you're extremely talented with green stuff.

For the Geth... I say Tau. The helmets are similar near the front. Suits work for all the larger stuff. In the news and rumor there's a great Tau walker similar to the geth walker things.

Krogans = orks, both in mentallity and size.

Quarians... Not many options.

Asari, all female and 'psykers' - maybe female models with IG rules for psykers and vets?

Taurians = Space Marines + lizardmen heads

Yikes!
Best of luck to you on that conversion!

I would suggest trying something a little less tricky; A BFG fleet, with Sovereign as the main ship. Bonus points if you can put some little speakers in it, to play his dialogue from the game. That voice is pure epic.

Bavius wrote:For the Geth... I say Tau. The helmets are similar near the front. Suits work for all the larger stuff. In the news and rumor there's a great Tau walker similar to the geth walker things.

Krogans = orks, both in mentallity and size.

Quarians... Not many options.

Asari, all female and 'psykers' - maybe female models with IG rules for psykers and vets?

Taurians = Space Marines + lizardmen heads

my thoughts exactly.......hey do you thing gw will try to make a mass effect specialist game if we can get it enough attention.....the krogan models would be great


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for the turian i was thinking kroot heads and green stuff so it looks different and space marine armor (green stuffed of course)
the geth i could use son wraithgaurd or wraithlord head pieces for hood and more green stuff
quarians would be something like elves and space marines helmets....with green stuff
the krogan batarin drell vorcha salarins and Asari could be more difficult


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thank god for hd graphics so much easier to model when you have the 3d image running on a 46 inch plasma tv....

obama27 wrote:
hey do you thing gw will try to make a mass effect specialist game if we can get it enough attention

In a word, no.


Don't get me wrong I loved Mass Effect 1 & 2, but there is not enough money in the franchise for GW to justfy optioning the rights for it. As for converting a 40K army into ME figures I wish you the best of luck but like others had said you have to be a master at green stuff work on a large scale just to pull off 500 points worth of infantry. If GW wanted to make a specialist game from a video game they would have a better chance with the Fallout Universe in 28mm skirmish games on a 4 x 4 board since the story line is more involved and less figures they would have to produce.

I don't think GW will, but that kinda depends. It's not impossible that some miniature company makes models. Considering Dragon Age has an RPG tabletop book out, I don't see why Mass Effect would be left alone. You might see some stand alone models for a pen and paper RPG if Dragon Age does well.

I would say, keep your eyes on converting one army.

Its a nice idea because both Mass Effect games are totally awesome. However I would tend to side with the depressing nay-sayers. The ME races are too different to anything in the GW lines to easily copy from. This is more than likely deliberate to create unique characters for the games but it makes dcopying them in miniature form difficult

Well as far as rules go Necron codex would be the best way to go! For the modelling aspect well... Lets just say that you'll have to build a mass relay or use the omega 4 relay? Defeat the reapers and geth find a secret top location and basically your screwed Unless you're a greenstuff master or you could commission someone to do this for you, Commander Shepard of the SS Normandy maybe?

Started making turian outta tau stuff will post pics soon