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I would change adeptus mechanicus background. Given that we know about them, it makes no sense for them to be technologically completely stagnant. Given mechanicus novel, void dragon positive influence, their immense technological progress in early ears and their never ending thirst for knowledge it simply makes no sense to portray them as stagnant and ignorant as they are now.

I'd like the Tau to have a more competitive role and be more of a contender on the galactic scale. Right now, they feel just a little too small for the 40k universe. Hopefully, this can still happen in a new codex, if we ever get one.

I think both the newcron and oldcron story both had good parts to it. I like the oldcron's ragged and grim persona, despising all life. The newcrons are more interesting, especially how they killed their own gods. That seems alot more tragic then being enslaved by them and pretty dark that even their own gods were an enemy.

 Mr Nobody wrote:
I'd like the Tau to have a more competitive role and be more of a contender on the galactic scale. Right now, they feel just a little too small for the 40k universe. Hopefully, this can still happen in a new codex, if we ever get one.

That is the whole point of the Tau though. They are similar in power to dozens if not hundreds of other species' in the galaxy who just aren't powerful enough to serious threaten well, any major faction.

As for the old Necron background, it appeared superficially sinister yet the Deceiver had been wandering around for thousands of years if I recall correctly, do little of importance other than potentially helping Abaddon out. Really, the fact that they were faction who actually had their gods stomping round should've catapulted them into complete ascendency but instead they just didn't do much. Meh. I prefer the new background. Destroying their gods strikes me as much more interesting.

Personally, I'd change the Tyranids from having bio-titans and such amazing regenerative abilities and the like. Make them rely on numbers rather than paradoxically having vastly superior numbers, brilliant adaptibility to the point of rendering select weapons useless and titans capable of bring down Imperial Legios and yet still actually being defeated. In contrast, I'd remove the vast numbers of Daemons and instead make each one much more powerful but harder to summon. Not sure how it'd work with Khorne Daemons; for a Bloodthirster to really be a threat you'd expect it to have considerable magical powers.

aapch45 wrote:I would make Ferris manus turn to chaos.

I would make lorgar less of a pansy in the heresy era. Marduk would be dark apostle.
Leviathan would conquer ultramar
Ghazkull would have taken apocalypse permanently
the emperor would be DEAD
Horus would have ascended into daemonhood
Tau would make more sense, some how
Ciaphis would be an even bigger dodge the bullet lol character
Yarrick would kill ghazkull finally
Snikrot would be a more respektin ork
The grey knights would serve the emprah with undying allegience..... without annihilating whole innocent planets in the process
The cult mechanicus would have a second civil war
Eldrad wouldn't be slaaneshs whipping boy

And about 500 other things.

So you'd like to invent your own Futuristic setting nothing like 40k?