For all of you who said 40k on the Ocean would be boring...

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**Big Mek Wurrzog**

http://24.media.tumblr.com/dc695e259b7d8018bb7de2fca9f6c1e8/tumblr_mfq0sgtG5V1rjzgm9o1_1280.jpg

Just thought I would point out those are orks on that sub! ARMAGEDDON!

**washout77**

...are those Orks wearing life vests? HAHAHAHAHAhAHAHAHAHAHAHA this is hilarious. Kinda funny, because the orks are one of the only races in 40k to actually have a submarine unit (it's Apoc only, and hardly anyone I have seen uses water terrain big enough to use it, but still).

The water looks amazing! I have to ask, how was it made?

**Dragonzord**

that looks damned amazing

**Lobokai**

Ok, that's awesome +1

**Novelist47**

Sweet mother jesus ... ITS BEAUTIFUL.

**cox.dan2**

That is awesome, I feel bad for those landspeeders.

**Fervor**

Oh wow, that looks so good!

**Somedude593**

not enough dakka and there aren't enough ugly welded rusting plates.. also no sea monster head? jk lol it's beautiful

**kinratha**

Really cool.

**Grey Templar**

If that Marine on the first speeder pulls the trigger on that MM though its down to Davy Jones's locker.

**Thorgrim Bloodcrow**

Really amazing! Until the Orks forget to close the hatch before submerging again....

**gaovinni**

And now someone should create a ruleset for sea battles in 40k.

**sudojoe**

Damn he must have gotten a 6 with the auto cannon on that speeder! I think it's definately losing some hullpoints there

**BluntmanDC**

gaovinni wrote:
And now someone should create a ruleset for sea battles in 40k.

The problem with creating the ruleset/gaming table is that sea battles don't just get fought on a single plane, you are gonna have to allow for under water fighting. Otherwise the game would just be standard 40k without troops.

**MetalOxide**

It would basically be like Battlefleet Gothic but underwater.

**NEWater**

Sweet mother of god.

**Tannhauser42**

That is, indeed, awesome.

**gaovinni**

BluntmanDC wrote:
gaovinni wrote:
And now someone should create a ruleset for sea battles in 40k.

The problem with creating the ruleset/gaming table is that sea battles don't just get fought on a single plane, you are gonna have to allow for under water fighting. Otherwise the game would just be standard 40k without troops.

Well actually... it could be done with scenario where the ships would be pretty much moving fortifications and there would be boarding actions and such. The troops could only move on the ships unless they can fly or something.

**Harriticus**

Water-based 40k would be a good idea indeed. We already have underwater Tau battlesuits in official fluff, just add some IG gunboats and Hovercraft, aquatic Tyranids, Ork subs, and we're set.

**Drake118**

Actually, Nids would do quite well in aquatic battles. The Oceans are often the Nids first targets in an invasion so they can absorb all the easy bio matter in the ocean to prepare for the land war.

**Bookwrack**

Thorgrim Bloodcrow wrote:
Really amazing! Until the Orks forget to close the hatch before submerging again....

Oi! Wot git put da screendoors on dis here submarine!?!

**MrMoustaffa**

IG can also use chimeras as landing boats, since they're amphibious.

It would make heavy use of fliers, skimmers, and perhaps amphibious transports (for example, you could make an ork "dingy" and give it roughly the same stats as a trukk)

Could be really fun if you did it right.

**ashfire**

Looks great but not my cup of tea to play!

**gaovinni**

MrMoustaffa wrote:
IG can also use chimeras as landing boats, since they're amphibious.

It would make heavy use of fliers, skimmers, and perhaps amphibious transports (for example, you could make an ork "dingy" and give it roughly the same stats as a trukk)

Could be really fun if you did it right.

If I was better at making rules I'd try to create somekind of a ruleset for sea battle scenarios even though I would propably never end up using them myself

**KingCracker**

Holy crap! That is one mighty diorama! Obviously, because Im using exclamation points at the ends of my sentences!!

**wfischer**

gaovinni wrote:
MrMoustaffa wrote:
IG can also use chimeras as landing boats, since they're amphibious.

It would make heavy use of fliers, skimmers, and perhaps amphibious transports (for example, you could make an ork "dingy" and give it roughly the same stats as a trukk)

Could be really fun if you did it right.

If I was better at making rules I'd try to create somekind of a ruleset for sea battle scenarios even though I would propably never end up using them myself

My friend and I were just discussing this the other day, before I noticed this thread. Imagine the size of the carrier you'd need to hold even a handful of Valkyries.

That said, the fluff says that IG's fliers are all part of the Imperial Navy, so it would stand to reason that they'd have boats as well.

**bibblles**

washout77 wrote:
...are those Orks wearing life vests? HAHAHAHAHAhAHAHAHAHAHAHA this is hilarious. Kinda funny, because the orks are one of the only races in 40k to actually have a submarine unit (it's Apoc only, and hardly anyone I have seen uses water terrain big enough to use it, but still).

Those aren't life vests, they're body armor. Hence the 5+ save.

**BluntmanDC**

gaovinni wrote:
BluntmanDC wrote:
gaovinni wrote:
And now someone should create a ruleset for sea battles in 40k.

The problem with creating the ruleset/gaming table is that sea battles don't just get fought on a single plane, you are gonna have to allow for under water fighting. Otherwise the game would just be standard 40k without troops.

Well actually... it could be done with scenario where the ships would be pretty much moving fortifications and there would be boarding actions and such. The troops could only move on the ships unless they can fly or something.

But then it would just a surface sea game with no super cool underwater tyranid models attacking submarines or ripping into boat hulls.

**kronk**

gaovinni wrote:
And now someone should create a ruleset for sea battles in 40k.

I thought either Imperial Armor Apocalypse 2 or Imperial Armor Apocalypse, 2nd edition had a scenario that involved a sub in the water. It wasn't the whole board, just a corner. Damn work and not letting me keep my books here!

http://24.media.tumblr.com/dc695e259b7d8018bb7de2fca9f6c1e8/tumblr_mfq0sgtG5V1rjzgm9o1_1280.jpg

Kick ass Diorama. Is this from Helsreach, where the Orcs attack the docs (guarded by the local PDF and Black Templars) with submarines they built on one of the arctic continents?

**Trondheim**

Well...now we are all dead. Orks at sea