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Hey folks, a while ago I saw someone's conversion for their SM captain or some such. He looked to be wearing stuff from the 'Ard Boyz Armour Pack on the GW site (shoulder pads, iron gob, etc). Damned if I didn't saved the picture and now I cant find it again, but anyways. I was quite taken aback by it and am wanting to do the same for my whole SOB army when they come out.

My only concern is the fluff (and my conversion skill). With the whole "all orks are psykers thus red things go faster" thing, my sob are wearing orky gear that would be heretical and totally against their purpose?. I'm looking for some story that may make sense. So far I've thought about running low on supplies and trapped on a planet with orks thus they have to use what they can to patch their armour. That or some bat crazy inquisitor is testing out if he can get the same "red go fast" principle to work with the Imperium.

Most importantly I saw someone else that was scared some folks wouldn't play with him if he used the new GK terminator torso for his CSM termies because CSM cant wear GK armour. And I'm a little worried about the same thing.




Edit: disregard, this thread should have gone into general methinks; Awaiting deletion

EDIT : SHAZAM ! Moved !

The mods generally just move threads to the appropriate forum, though this sort of thing seems to fit equally well in both general and background, or at least crops up in both, from what I've seen.


The defining style of Orks is just the ramshackle look. Converting power armor to look like it's been repaired with various scrap isn't too far fetched...

This thread is a duplicate: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/353651.page

Probably just an accidental post. I reckon a low heavy vehicle count, to explain that they are stranded on an ork infested world fighting a guerilla war against the occupiers, and use whatever they can find to repair their armour, maybe even throw in a few weapons?

You also have to remember that SOB are some of the most pious and ferverent believers in the Emp and Imperium as a whole.

I feel that they would go to any lengths to maintain and repair their own "blessed" wargear before they would adpot filthy xeno weaponry (especially weapons as crude as the stuff manufactured by Orks).

Thus you would probably see "repaired" looking weapons and armour rather than Sisters using Ork weapons.

Though obviously the two do overlap somewhat because Ork tech just looks like one big repair

SilverMK2 wrote:This thread is a duplicate: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/353651.page

we'll stick to that one then.