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I wonder how a matchup between the Reapers from ME and some of the 40K races would fair.

In Mass Effect the Reapers primary soldiers were their corrupted/enslaved enemies. They used Protheans for an entire army, humans for husks, Asari for Banshees, and a hybrid of Turian and Krogan for brutes. So the base for a Reaper army could be an enslaved variant of a current 40K race, or several. Then actual Reapers could form the heavy support/titans.

It would be kind of cool to think up how a corrupted Hybrid between an Ork and Tyranid would rampage through a battlefield, or what sort of powers a corrupted Eldar warlock would bring to the fight.

 sing your life wrote:

 Co'tor Shas wrote:



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 Avatrass wrote:
The Combine from half-life 2. They are pretty much more advanced tau.

Hey, they can be taken down by a scientist with a crowbar, how strong can they be?

Dude, Freeman is not you traditional scientist

Freeman is the emperor before the psychic powers kick in, in episode 3 so not really fair.

 JoeRugby wrote:

 sing your life wrote:

 Co'tor Shas wrote:



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 Avatrass wrote:
The Combine from half-life 2. They are pretty much more advanced tau.

Hey, they can be taken down by a scientist with a crowbar, how strong can they be?

Dude, Freeman is not you traditional scientist

Freeman is the emperor before the psychic powers kick in, in episode 3 so not really fair.

There we go! You got that it was a joke!

Browncoats from Firefly/Serenity.

It would be fun to see some diversity in the human race, some that obviously don't agree with the concepts of the government and weren't eradicated to a man through war or Exterminatus. The current state of the 'humans' in 40k is hard to relate to and I feel would never come to fruition. We're far too individualistic.

 Co'tor Shas wrote:

 JoeRugby wrote:

 sing your life wrote:

 Co'tor Shas wrote:



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 Avatrass wrote:
The Combine from half-life 2. They are pretty much more advanced tau.

Hey, they can be taken down by a scientist with a crowbar, how strong can they be?

Dude, Freeman is not you traditional scientist

Freeman is the emperor before the psychic powers kick in, in episode 3 so not really fair.

There we go! You got that it was a joke!

I've never been more serious in my life!

weeping angels.

Imperial Guard getting wiped out by a single stone death machine. And it would be hilarious if the orks encountered it too.

The Ori from Stargate...oh wait...that's the Inquisition.

 Farseer Faenyin wrote:
Browncoats from Firefly/Serenity.

It would be fun to see some diversity in the human race, some that obviously don't agree with the concepts of the government and weren't eradicated to a man through war or Exterminatus. The current state of the 'humans' in 40k is hard to relate to and I feel would never come to fruition. We're far too individualistic.

I agree, but it is rather unfortunate that a commissar with a pistol tends to sstrip all sense of mercy for aliens from your mind.
And governments who disagree with the IOM tend to be murderized...

But at least we still have the Tau-Humans and the "heretics" to go with


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 Tappers wrote:
weeping angels.

Imperial Guard getting wiped out by a single stone death machine. And it would be hilarious if the orks encountered it too.

Heh, especially as okrs have poor eyesight

Wait... shiz.

Weeping Angels prefer to send you back in time, right?
And Orks are immortal, right?
And the longer an Ork lives, the more orkoid spores he makes....

Dayum that's going to be one big Ork horde there...

The Flood for me. Picture it:
a swarm of blob bugs that can turn killed enemy models into zombies.

TyCorny wrote:
The Flood for me. Picture it:
a swarm of blob bugs that can turn killed enemy models into zombies.

I just don't see these mind control/zombie enemies as working. Be it the Reapers, Flood, or Half Life aliens...I feel that throughout 40k most armies have an innate or psychological defense that is much too powerful to succumb to this.

You could count out Daemons, Eldar, GKs, Tyranids, Necrons, and possibly even Orks.

And then what? We've just recreated Chaos Space Marines? And maybe some offshoots like zombie tau...not scary...and zombie deldar...oh no...now they're uncoordinated ninjas.

I think the two/three armies that need to exist in 40k should be built from fantasy counterparts.

40k Beastmen (Wookies)
40k Wood Elves (Altoic could already be this?)
40k Dwarves

and Maybe 40k Chaos Dwarves?

 ductvader wrote:

I just don't see these mind control/zombie enemies as working. Be it the Reapers, Flood, or Half Life aliens...I feel that throughout 40k most armies have an innate or psychological defense that is much too powerful to succumb to this.

I didnt think of it as mind control, so much as corpse re-purposing. anything with nerves could potentially be overtaken after death. so basically just no Necrons

TyCorny wrote:

 ductvader wrote:

I just don't see these mind control/zombie enemies as working. Be it the Reapers, Flood, or Half Life aliens...I feel that throughout 40k most armies have an innate or psychological defense that is much too powerful to succumb to this.

I didnt think of it as mind control, so much as corpse re-purposing. anything with nerves could potentially be overtaken after death. so basically just no Necrons

And no Daemons. They don't have a "body" at all.

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 ductvader wrote:

I just don't see these mind control/zombie enemies as working. Be it the Reapers, Flood, or Half Life aliens...I feel that throughout 40k most armies have an innate or psychological defense that is much too powerful to succumb to this.

I didnt think of it as mind control, so much as corpse re-purposing. anything with nerves could potentially be overtaken after death. so basically just no Necrons

It just all feels very nurgle-y.

The Flood is already in-game. Nurgle Zombie Plague.

Most other sci-fi factions are, basically, already present in 40K with a different paint job.

I see the nurgle-ness a bit. but instead of rot, its, what, plant based? almost seems anti-nurgle to me. in fact that sounds like quite the matchup. extreme plant growth vs extreme death rot

edit: typo

Nurgle is a god of Life as well as of Death. Plants rot.

Zeon. Because hope for spacenoids is a good thing.

Either the Mars Attacks aliens or the Omicronians from futurama

 Wilytank wrote:

 TheRedWingArmada wrote:
No joke, my mothers name is Gretchin. I laughed my ass off when I figured out what Grot meant for the first time.


..and then I told her. XD

Who gives a crap?! Squats all the way! Laugh as I beat you into a carpet stain with Squats!!

Can they have miniature Leman Russ'?

But how are they supposed to win battles when they're busy squatting taking a dump? My Bloodthirster could slay a thousand of them with one swing of his axe.

Hey! That Bloodthirster may win with his ax, but let's just see what happens after a few beers and some arm wrestling! >D

Vogons. Their poetry is deadly.

 ductvader wrote:
The Ori from Stargate...oh wait...that's the Inquisition.

No. Just no.
The Ori have done enough damage to SciFi as it is.

 Farseer Faenyin wrote:
Browncoats from Firefly/Serenity.

It would be fun to see some diversity in the human race, some that obviously don't agree with the concepts of the government and weren't eradicated to a man through war or Exterminatus. The current state of the 'humans' in 40k is hard to relate to and I feel would never come to fruition. We're far too individualistic.

This. So much of this. Yes, I know, there are enough human armies already but what I wouldn't give to be able to play humans that aren't either cannon fodder for the machine or steroid super soldiers. An army that could be played as rebels, mercenaries, or pirates would be amazing and a niche completely unfulfilled. Surely there has to be some option on the spectrum between total authoritarian compliance and gibbering chaos worship?

Failing that, I will second beast men. Think guild war's Charr, but in space. They already look and act like they belong in 40K, in stark contrast to the glimmering pretty humans, token norse, tiny crystal peddlers and tree worshipping plant people.

I changed my mind (since no one else seems to play Unreal around here anymore. Forever alone... like the last dinosaur. ;__

The Plumbers. +__+ Brownie points if you know who they are.

In fact, I'm going to work on making that army now... Ben will be my Warlord. XD

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 ductvader wrote:
The Ori from Stargate...oh wait...that's the Inquisition.

No. Just no.
The Ori have done enough damage to SciFi as it is.

LOL Ori.

 ductvader wrote:
40k Beastmen (Wookies)
(SNIP)40k Wood Elves (Alaitoc could already be this?)(SNIP)

40k Wood Elves would be a solid representation of the Exodites as opposed to those following the Path of the Outcast. I've seen some AMAZING conversions of Wood Elf models into Exodites using a few different Codexes.

 TheRedWingArmada wrote:

 Wilytank wrote:

 TheRedWingArmada wrote:
No joke, my mothers name is Gretchin. I laughed my ass off when I figured out what Grot meant for the first time.


..and then I told her. XD

Who gives a crap?! Squats all the way! Laugh as I beat you into a carpet stain with Squats!!

Can they have miniature Leman Russ'?

But how are they supposed to win battles when they're busy squatting taking a dump? My Bloodthirster could slay a thousand of them with one swing of his axe.

Hey! That Bloodthirster may win with his ax, but let's just see what happens after a few beers and some arm wrestling! >D

The servants of Khorne only drink blood.

 Wilytank wrote:

 TheRedWingArmada wrote:

 Wilytank wrote:

 TheRedWingArmada wrote:
No joke, my mothers name is Gretchin. I laughed my ass off when I figured out what Grot meant for the first time.


..and then I told her. XD

Who gives a crap?! Squats all the way! Laugh as I beat you into a carpet stain with Squats!!

Can they have miniature Leman Russ'?

But how are they supposed to win battles when they're busy squatting taking a dump? My Bloodthirster could slay a thousand of them with one swing of his axe.

Hey! That Bloodthirster may win with his ax, but let's just see what happens after a few beers and some arm wrestling! >D

The servants of Khorne only drink bloody marys.

Fixed that for ya

Skaven. Actual Skaven.

Everywhere. Everywhere, rats.

Because they would have so much fun in the Imperium of Man, I'm going to offer up:

The Minmatar of Eve. Rebellious tribes of pirates, thieves and criminals flying around on ships made of rust and duct tape. They would be the only people who could salvage ork technology and make it work.

The Shrike from Hyperion. Just him. He's the faction.