ironhandstraken wrote:Here a complete a random idea; space dwarfs.

Codex: Junkers Guild

A race of short one-eyed aliens who are obsessed with collecting scrap and disecting space hulks. Though largely ignored they have suddenly become more numerous.
They are slowly becoming the AdMechs greatest enemy as the Junkers seem to destroy any dockyard, mining colony and in one rare case a forge world.

Special Rules:

They Don't Pay Me Enough For This: Junkers are cowards. Whenever a unit of Junkers or Scrapers are assulted they will immediatly move 2d6 inches away form the assulting unit after the attacking players models have been moved.

The Price Of Loyalty: All units friendly units within 12" of the Paymaster may use the Paymasters Leadership.

Razorbeam: All Razorbeam weapons switch their Strength and AP values at half range. Example: Razorpike Range 12" S3 AP5 would become S5 AP3 within 6".


HQ:
Paymaster

Cheif Hulk Warden

Elite:
Hulk Wardens

Prospecters

Bounty Hunters

Tau Fire Warriors

Troops:
Junkers

Scrapers

Kroot Mercenaries

Fast Attack:
Cargo Skimmer

Hulk Beasts

Heavy Support:
Razorcannon Team

Hulk Drill Team

Cargo Barge

The idea of the army would be quick little guys with semi-powerful weapons who aren't actually a standing fighting force. The utilize armour and weaponry that allows them to survive attacks by genestealers aboard space hulks. Weapons would mostly be "Razorbeams" of varying ranges and strengths with meltaguns being the common squad assult weapon.

Armour would be a 3+/6++ on the Wardens with a few options like rending shotguns and heavy flammers.

The vehicles would be very fast and able to embark and disembark troops while moving (due to grav harnesses).

I could go into further detail... including some old drawings from back in the day but I'm tired.

shakey787 wrote:megarachnids
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+1 on mechanicum

English Assassin wrote:

English Assassin only last week wrote:Warhammer 40,000 is not a very granular system; the real difficulty to introducing a new army would lie not in dreaming up fluff, but in designing something sufficiently distinct on the tabletop from what already exists.

Moreover, Games Workshop have always drawn their ideas from classic sci-fi tropes (or put classic fantasy tropes into space); I can't really think of anything which could easily be made to fit the setting that they haven't already used.

Aerethan wrote:

Norn King wrote:Thanks for the input Aerethan.

if you want input, try using the right forum for topics. And are you really one to point fingers at people not giving good input? don't make me start linking all your one liner spam posts.

Bongfu wrote:I would love to see an Ad Mech codex, but we already have some good ways to represent them on the field. I would much rather see something new entirely.

Maybe a supplemental book called Mercenaries that lets you pick some of the lesser known races/factions for other codexes. Hire Ork Freebooterz or Eldar Corsairs for your Imperial Guard. Dark Eldar hiring Blood Pact or something. Something along the lines of the old Lost and the Damned.

n0t_u wrote:Their one thing needs to be that their only fault is that they're so successful that every other chapter strives to be like them.