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In everyones valued opinion would it be a suitable proposition to use the dark angels nephilim jetfighters as a converted stormtalon gunships? I like the looks of both so wanted both in my army but I'm playing my own space marines chapter so wasn't sure if the nephilim would be classed as "legal". Any views?

If it's clear enough, why not, but you'd have to convert its weapons a bunch IIRC. Legal it wouldn't be, but I guess opponent could let it slide

Count as is between you and your opponent.

But if you are not playing any Dark Angels I couldn't see most having a problem with the model playing double duty.

I would absolutely have a problem if you had Space marines allied with DA though.

Make sure it has the correct weapons load outs, and i would be cool with it. It does look massively better then the stormtalon.

Warboss Dakka wrote:
In everyones valued opinion would it be a suitable proposition to use the dark angels nephilim jetfighters as a converted stormtalon gunships? I like the looks of both so wanted both in my army but I'm playing my own space marines chapter so wasn't sure if the nephilim would be classed as "legal". Any views?

Most of the players I know localy would be OK with it as long as the weapons are converted to be accurate in both model but also in description of how they are mounted and its made clear before the start of the game what kind of unit this model is supposed to be.

I'm accepting of it when it happens, but personally prefer 'counts as' vehicles to not only be equipped with the right weapons but also have a hull that the represents the armor values, BS and HP of the intended accurately. The Jetfighter's hull represents 3 HP while the talon is only supposed to have 2 HP. Not a big deal and I would'nt get upset playing against one but I'd like to see you make some kind of attempt to convert the jet fighter to some how feel lighter or smaller then a normal one.

Right when 6th edition came out I was playing a Inquisition heavy grey knights force. I wanted a flyer for my guys and was sad that the Valkyrie was not available as a henchman transport. So I bought a Valkyrie model and bit ordered the weapons for a stormraven as well as the tail of a storm raven. With a little work I had my "Inquisitorial Valkyrie" that looked more like a Valkyrie but counted as a stormraven. I chose to use the tail of the raven because the raven's profile had a larger rear armor then a Valkyrie. No one had any problems with this model (before I dropped it and broke it) because it had all the right weapons in all the right spots and from 15 feet away was clearly not a valkyrie.

Considering doing the opposite converting Storm talons to Dark talons, move the engine pods forward side by the cockpit, If i manage to magnetize it properly i can pick between 3 diffrent fliers.


Also detachable wings.

This is a stupid question but are they the same size?

Very similar. They share a basic hull design.