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Tallarns all the way, them and mordians. I'd love to make bloodpack army using plastic mordians.

But really tallarns.

DEATH KORPS OF KRIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEG!

Meh, I don't really like any of the armies besides those, I'll be opening up a painting blog soon for my "Beastguard", which is basically cadians with beastmen heads, horns, banners, etc.

Definitely Vostroyans

Elysians. I love the concept of drop troops. Now drop troops in the 40k world? Plain awesome.

I like Elysians and Tanith first and only. I included some of both in my army but the metals are pricey.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:These guys.

Now.

Dammit, KK, now you're making me want those too

I don't like the idea of Death Korps in plastic. As good as GW's plastics are right now, they wouldn't match the detail present in the existing DKoK models. Also, that would be stealing a hell of a lot of Forgeworld's thunder. Didn't they have to open a whole new factory just to accommodate Death Korps? I seem to recall hearing something similar.

PS: A combined Mordian/Praetorian kit would have a special reserved place in my heart and credit card bill.

Kanluwen wrote:
Tallarn and Tanith. The bodies and kit would be VERY similar to start with. Light fatigue pants, puttees for ensuring the pants don't snag or let material seep into the boots(sand for Tallarn and various debris for the Tanith). Light body armored chest(simple flak vest, ala the old metal Cadian models), a lighter helmet like the Elysian pattern helmets or the current ones you see on Special Forces operators today. Heck, you could even throw the Catachans into this mix if you do it correctly.

From the books the Tanith don't Really use helmets except for the Scouts who have a special cap for their parade uniform, they stay light. They come issue with camo cloaks and are light infintry. They are a single Regiment and have absolutely no vehicles of their own.

You could easily use slightly altered Catachans *add the camo cloaks from the Command Squad box and also some green stuffs*. And you could easily pull out the 3rd/4th ed. Codex for the Light Infantry doctrine and for the Rules for Colonel-Commissar Gaunt.

GW also sells the Command Squad (including Gaunt) for 30 bucks in their Imperial Guard Collectors models.

Cambak wrote:

Kanluwen wrote:
Tallarn and Tanith. The bodies and kit would be VERY similar to start with. Light fatigue pants, puttees for ensuring the pants don't snag or let material seep into the boots(sand for Tallarn and various debris for the Tanith). Light body armored chest(simple flak vest, ala the old metal Cadian models), a lighter helmet like the Elysian pattern helmets or the current ones you see on Special Forces operators today. Heck, you could even throw the Catachans into this mix if you do it correctly.

From the books the Tanith don't Really use helmets except for the Scouts who have a special cap for their parade uniform, they stay light. They come issue with camo cloaks and are light infintry. They are a single Regiment and have absolutely no vehicles of their own.

You could easily use slightly altered Catachans *add the camo cloaks from the Command Squad box and also some green stuffs*. And you could easily pull out the 3rd/4th ed. Codex for the Light Infantry doctrine and for the Rules for Colonel-Commissar Gaunt.

GW also sells the Command Squad (including Gaunt) for 30 bucks in their Imperial Guard Collectors models.

The Tanith don't really use their helmets...unless it's needed. The Belladons most recently brought a new pattern helmet with them for the Tanith, so we'll see how that goes.

But either way, the Tanith and Tallarn need a redesign to be made into plastic. "Light" and SpecOps styled infantry would go over well.

I second the Tanith First and Only! I like the current minis, but metal and lack of variety is annoying. Plus tracking down OOP models on ebay is more trouble than it's worth...

The problem with the Tanith is that there's only one regiment of them (the first and only). Making special models for a group of only a couple thousand would be almost as absurd as releasing a full model range for a single space marine chapter.

Definitely Vostroyans, their hats are too awesome.

Vostroyans are some of the best-looking models I've seen in any game ever... can't think of a single reason why GW limit the plastic sprues to Cadians and Catachans because the IG range is fantastic

Raxmei wrote:The problem with the Tanith is that there's only one regiment of them (the first and only). Making special models for a group of only a couple thousand would be almost as absurd as releasing a full model range for a single space marine chapter.

Actually...the Tanith can be moved ahead quite a bit.
The Sabbat Worlds Crusade was a long(relatively) time ago. By now, the Tanith may have won their prize world and moved on from there.

Problem is we won't know till Abnett finishes the story arcs

Elysians and Steel Legion

Edit- OT, but the needle in the hand of the Vostroyan medic model is HUGE! I think he got it from Fabius.

The Harkoni Warhawks from the 4th Edition codex, bulked up airdrop troopers or the Steel legion, awsome models all the way. infact any of the regiments featured in the 4th ed gaurd codex.



FM

Mordians.
Ilove the idea that i fill the entire deployment zone with guardsmen and has 3 times as much in reserve.
using combined squads and first rank fire, second rank fire make me dance with joy evry time i think about it.

Tallarn!
I'd love to make a Guard army that comes from the planet Filastin, that has been taken over by people from another planet that claim a bogus religious reason for doing so and thus have the support of the Imperium. Plus painting lots of kuffiyehs!

Other, Traitor legions. Im a chaos collector, what did you expect.

Vostroyans gotta go with the big hats and red uniforms
big moustaches