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Lords of Underearth http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/5199/the-lords-of-underearth is a 1980s era microgame featuring tectical level combat between armies of dwarves, men and orcs in a vast underground dwarf kingdom. By blowing up a nicely redone version of the map, http://boardgamegeek.com/image/243161/the-lords-of-underearth and replacing the counters with 40k minis, I have found it makes a marvelous system for gaming fights between orks and marines in an abandoned squat asteroid fortress (or you could use the squats themselves, if you have any).

Curious who uses other, non-GW rules systems to represent battles of some aspect of the 40K universe that, perhaps, the published rules do not deal with? 40K submarines, anyone? What about man-to-man level starship boarding actions? Not in the Space Hulk sense, but actually fighting on the exterior of ships and drilling in?

Just curious.

We've done GURPS for a squad level pnp rpg. The system works well with any setting you can come up with. We used it for Star Wars, Babylon 5, and L5R as well.

In The Emperor's Name (http://iten-game.org/) seems to be a quite popular choice for skirmish games with a narrative twist. Never tried it myself, though.

CrowSplat wrote:
We've done GURPS for a squad level pnp rpg. The system works well with any setting you can come up with. We used it for Star Wars, Babylon 5, and L5R as well.

I am a big fan of GURPS Space, and also the old GURPS Aliens and GURPS Space Bestiary.

 Agent_Tremolo wrote:
In The Emperor's Name (http://iten-game.org/) seems to be a quite popular choice for skirmish games with a narrative twist. Never tried it myself, though.

Thanks for that. Have downloaded it.

I also found another microgame for a planet with a really alien atmosphere. Don't know whether I will use it to play a 40k scenario, or just add pieces of it into the 40k rules for a hot spot scenario. http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3673/hot-spot