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I bought a Storm Lord and started to convert it into a Sisters of Battle Super Heavy tank for my army!



I was planning on replacing the Sponson Lascannons with Immolator Sister's with Twin-Multi-Meltas. Keeping the Heavy Flamers on the bottom. I plan to add an exorcist cannon to the top hatch.

I would like some help with 2 things:
1) What should I use as a primary weapon? The Vulcan Mega-Bolter is my current favorite, but is there a better option? I wouldn't mind a giant flame-thrower on the front, but I'm not sure which would be the best to put there.
2) I want to keep the transport capacity, and I like the guns on the back. But what should I replace the heavy Stubbers with? As they aren't very Sister like.

Also, would it too over-powered if I wanted to allow the tank to transport Repentia Sisters? What if I made them roll a d6 every turn and on a 6 they abandon ship and charge the nearest? I'd just like to use my repentia sisters and not have them annihilated turn 1.

Thanks all!

For main weapon how about something like an inferno gun? This is a warhound titan arm so about the same chance of fitting on a baneblade chasis as a mega bolter or a volcano cannon. It also fits with the shole flame thing sisters love. No idea how to conver one though. You may need to lower the transport capacity to keep it fair. Here is a link to the warhound arm forgeworld does for reference: http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Titans/MARS-PATTERN-INFERNO-CANNON.html

As for the stubbers, you could easily change them for storm bolters or maybe heavy flamers. I would probably go with storm bolters as they fill a similar role and would have more use.

Not sure about repentia. I would have no problem with it but don't they have some kind of "cannot be transported" rule? Maybe if you modelled a big cage on the back or something, give the cage a seperate AV and a structure point or two and made them attack it every turn in a frenzy until they escaped. This could be a bit of a mad idea though.

The exorcist cannon seems a bit overkill though. If you add that you are going from modifying weapons it has to just sticking extra ones on, which some may see as unfair. Maybe change the main gun to a triple exorcist instead?

Good ideas though. Would be nice to see some WIP shots, i can just imagine it with censers hanging from the sides and braziers on the top.

Trickstick wrote:For main weapon how about something like an inferno gun? This is a warhound titan arm so about the same chance of fitting on a baneblade chasis as a mega bolter or a volcano cannon. It also fits with the shole flame thing sisters love. No idea how to conver one though. You may need to lower the transport capacity to keep it fair. Here is a link to the warhound arm forgeworld does for reference: http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Titans/MARS-PATTERN-INFERNO-CANNON.html

As for the stubbers, you could easily change them for storm bolters or maybe heavy flamers. I would probably go with storm bolters as they fill a similar role and would have more use.

Not sure about repentia. I would have no problem with it but don't they have some kind of "cannot be transported" rule? Maybe if you modelled a big cage on the back or something, give the cage a seperate AV and a structure point or two and made them attack it every turn in a frenzy until they escaped. This could be a bit of a mad idea though.

The exorcist cannon seems a bit overkill though. If you add that you are going from modifying weapons it has to just sticking extra ones on, which some may see as unfair. Maybe change the main gun to a triple exorcist instead?

Good ideas though. Would be nice to see some WIP shots, i can just imagine it with censers hanging from the sides and braziers on the top.

That's a really good idea with the Inferno Cannon, now I Just need to work on how to convert one, cause that is a really good idea!

The stubbers, yea, I realized about 10 minutes ago that I have stormbolters from the immolator kits I could use

The repentia do in fact have a 'no transport' rule, but I figured letting them into the ride in the super-tank in apoc games wouldn't be too bad, considering they are in the running for 'most useless units ever'. lol

As for the cage idea, that is pretty neat.

Here is what I would do for it.

The repentia squad is locked in a cage until released into combat. To represent them trying to escape they attack the cage. The cage is AV10 (or whatever av to where they need 6's to glance) and 3 glancing hits from the squad will break the cage open. for every model in the squad you hit the cage that many times. The cage cannot be targeted separately from the vehicle by your opponent. Resolve these attacks against the cage after the tank has moved.

Don't repentia have eviscerators? They would surely just carve through av10 in one turn no trouble.

I didn't know that! Then make it AV 12.

Lol, I'll definitely keep the mostly naked-crazy chainsaw wielding cage for another project. But the Repentia sister idea was just something I threw on, if it came to it, I'd rather just have bolter sisters transported!

lol And yea, they would carve out AV 10 on turn 1!

So does anyone have any clue what would be a good way of modeling an Inferno Cannon? I'm pretty much sold on that idea as the main weapon, lol

I really have no idea, i am more of a kitbasher than a scratchbuilder. I would imagine that it wouldn't need to be very long, in the same way that the megabolter is much shorter on a stormlord than a titan. Also a few exposed pipes would look good.

You may have more success starting a thread about it in the painting and modeling section.

Yeah, have a mod send it over there.

For the inferno cannon. try finding a plasticard or paper template onlien somwhere. You could use that as a basis and make it look liek it has been chopped down to fit on the tank, exposed piping woudl make this work well too.

I woudl guess that 1/2" or mayeb even 1/4" PVC pipe coudl work for the tubes goign int he front section of the cannon.

For an inferno blaster maybe it fires 2 hellstorm templates?

Inferno cannon:

To quote myself:

Began with a set of 3 aluminium tubes for the barrel of the inferno cannon. Used the old H-K missile pod as base for the weapon mount. 3 holes later and with added plastic tube halves the cannon may look a little "common" but this will change to a specific "flamer" design (warhound style).



Inserted smaller alu-tubes into the barrels to reduce the muzzle's diameter. Plasticcard fixed to the barrels to ensure it has a flamer design. ( needs some holes to be typical imperial). 3 underslung small alutubes represent the usual "injection" device of any imperial flamer.


Weapon mounted on tank before painting:


Part of this: http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Converting_plastic_baneblade#Firesword:

A few plastic bits, some tubes and youre closer to owning an Inferno cannon.

Wow , nice job!

Looks nice. I think a shorter version would fit well with the forward mounted gun style that the stormlord has. Maybe try to keep the end of the barrel in the same place, just level with the front tracks.

1hadhq wrote:Inferno cannon:

To quote myself:

Began with a set of 3 aluminium tubes for the barrel of the inferno cannon. Used the old H-K missile pod as base for the weapon mount. 3 holes later and with added plastic tube halves the cannon may look a little "common" but this will change to a specific "flamer" design (warhound style).



Inserted smaller alu-tubes into the barrels to reduce the muzzle's diameter. Plasticcard fixed to the barrels to ensure it has a flamer design. ( needs some holes to be typical imperial). 3 underslung small alutubes represent the usual "injection" device of any imperial flamer.


Weapon mounted on tank before painting:


Part of this: http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Converting_plastic_baneblade#Firesword:

A few plastic bits, some tubes and youre closer to owning an Inferno cannon.

Bad. Ass. Going to use that!