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Hey everyone,

I am currently re-reading Frank Herberts Dune series and I want to make a themed army for it but im stuck on rules to proxy with

Now i have a few ideas of how to make them work which I will explain here shortly but what im asking is if you will all please review these simple ideas and point, let me know what you think about them and finally if you have any ideas or suggestions please share! Im excited to model, convert, and scratch work this project and i think it will be fun to get the community involved aswell!

I hope this is the right forum for this

Idea #1

Tyranids: A pretty obvious choice since they have the trygons, mawlocs, and ravengers. I would use those unites as my "worms" of coarse but for my troops i was thinking of using Converted up cultists and guardsmen as gaunts or genestealers. As for an HQ It would be a guy converted up and proxied as a Nid prime and then another model to take the place of a death leaper. Not the most competitive choice of units but proxy wise they fit the role.

Also with rumors of genestealer cult this could be gooooood

Idea #2

Chaos: This would be CSM possibly with CD mixed in, I would use DP or GD to be the worms, cultists will fill troop slot and id have access to transports. Here i can have more viable HQs since they are humanoid. (My meaning is a simple guy can be a sorc but its silly if he was a hive tyrant like in the nid idea ) I could also possible use maulerfiends to be worms aswell hmmmm

Hmmm if only I knew what Daemonkin Tzeentch will bring

Idea #3

Dark Eldar: Here is alot of easy models that have that Dune look already plus i enjoy DE very much, the only issue with them is what will possibly be the worms? They dont have anything resembling them too much not do they really have rules to fit I guess the WWP could be a worm coming out of the ground ( Worm Hole anyone? ) but what about my giant worms

Eldar sort of bring things of value like rangers but didnt seem like much else, I could be mistaken as I dont normally play CWE


Well thats the little bit I have so far and im excited to hear your thoughts and ideas aswell!

As a bonus what other sci fi inspired armies do you guys think would be cool?