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Hey everyone
Last year i made a big decision to sell and trade my Cadian guardsmen and Vostroyan Guardsmen to buy a DKOK guard army, now with a size able force of DKOK, I no longer own the vostroyan army but holy cow i still have have 300+ Cadians that I have no idea what to do with... so i have had some ideas i want to know what you think or if you have some ideas??...
Ideas:
1 Keep them as Cadian 8th ...
2 order enough conversion bits (secret weapon miniatures) to make them similar to DKOK ( great coat legs and gas mask with rolled helmets)
3 Turn them into a separate siege regiment ( not DKOK) by converting them into a WW1 British common wealth style , swapping their heads out for gas mask heads with brodie helmets ( also secret weapons minatures) , Putting backpacks on most of them, etc.
4 Continue to try and sell them .... and use the money to buy more DKOK models ( infantry)
5 if you can think of something cool, that would be great!
Let me know
Tony A

Run your DKOK as your main, and ally in some cadian meatshield platoons.

Unless you need more DKOK, in which case if you have not use them for them, sell them.

I have enough DKOK for standard games, i would mostly only use them for APOC, which i play quite often...
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Tony A

Honestly make a cadian detachment for your DKoK army. Or just sell them.

Sell them, the models can't compare to DKoK even with secret weapon conversion bits.

Chaos Cultists? They'd be a huge start to a chaos army in terms of fluff. Chaos likes it's cannon fodder to be plentiful...

You could also model/paint them all as Nurgle zombies, again a chaos space marine unit.

Failing that, just sell them for more Death Korps!

Yeah, don't try that converting thing. Converting Cadians to Death Korps will be a ton of work, they won't look right or mesh with the DKoK models, and it'll cost you an arm and a leg.

The idea of turning them into Chaos Guard would be cool though. even if you just had them as regular IG, it'd be cool to have them as an ally for Chaos Daemons or Chaos Space Marines.

hmmm well then whats the going rate for used guardsmen...??? I might try both, ill sell alot of the guardsmen and ill turn the rest that dont sell into zombies and renegades!




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Here is what i have right now
Imperial Guard Siege Army
Recon
x3 Sentinals
Tank company
x10 leman russ
Tank comapny
x10 leman russ
tank support company
x6 thunderers, x3 destroyers
Artillery Company
x6 towed Basilisks
Close support Artillery
X3 Basilisk in carriage
Heavy artillery ( Line breakers)
X3 Manticore
X1 Death strike missile launcher
heavy tank company
x3 Macharius
super heavy tank company
x3 shadow swords
Titan Support
Reaver Titan
Navy
x2 thunderbolts

Death Korps of Krieg
DKOK HQ + centuar
DKOK Quarter Master x3 retinue
DKOK infantry Platoon
DKOK PCS
x3 DKOK squads
DKOK infantry platoon
DKOK PCS
x3 DKOK squads
DKOK infantry Platoon
DKOK PCS
x3 DKOK squads
x10 DKOK Grenadiers + storm chimera
x10 DKOK Grenadiers + storm chimera
x10 DKOK Grenadiers + storm chimera
x10 DKOK Engineers + mole luachers + x2 centuar
x10 DKOK Engineers + mole luancher + hades Breaching drill
X10 DKOK Engineers + mole luancher + hades breaching drill
x10 DKOK Death Riders
X10 DKOK Death Riders
x10 DKOK Death Riders
X6 DKOK Heavy bolter teams
X3 DKOK Auto cannon teams
X3 DKOK Lascannon teams
X3 DKOK Heavy Mortars

100 + Sci Fi Great Coat trooper ( support for my DKOK)

Imperial Guard Recon Force
I am going to use the few Catachans I have and some of the Cadian above to make a USMC based Force recon unit.
( like three vet squads )

Siege Army Forward Commander + Command squad

Grand Command and Campaign Council
Creed and Kell w/ command and two body guard
Inquisitor Advisor
Commisar
Astropath
Psyker
Reaver titan Princep, crew and tech priest
( these guys wont actually do anything, they sit in a diorama off the board and look cool)


Inquisitor support
Inquisitor lord Hector Rex
Inquistor lord ( standard) x3
X 9 crusaders ( custom)
x3 Priest
death cult Assassin

Marine Support
I have about 50 standard marines... Idk what exactly to do with them yet... probably pick out a cool color scheme and make them into some kind of veterans...

The 300+ cadians will be sold to buy more DKOK or converted to zombies or renegade chaos!

what do you guys think??

Repaint the vehicles to match Dkok.

As for the infantry well it's rather simple.

Step one: purchase a wall of martyrs

Step two: place all of your cadians on the wall as casualties

Step three: ????

Step four: profit

I ordered a trench system from pegasus hobbies in southern california, "muddy bloody trenches" is the specific name, i ordered about 8 square feet of it
Tony A

I suggest swap shop here, or bartertown (www.bartertown.com).

On a long enough timeline, i've always been able to trade what i was looking to part with.

-- Haight