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Hello, nerds!

I'm investing in a small contingent of Alpha Legion for my Daemons, and am trying to keep them as "Loyalist Alpha Legion" as possible.

If you were to play against my army, and I produce Primaris Aggressors (Terminator size, 40mm base) with some minor converting and tell you they were Obliterators (Terminator size, 40mm base) would you accept this?

This is like a weekly poll on Dakka. Most people are OK with it as long as it's consistent. Some people aren't. If you do a good conversion job no one will have a problem with it.

Primaris aggressors look clean, would need a lot of conversion imo.

 andysonic1 wrote:
This is like a weekly poll on Dakka. Most people are OK with it as long as it's consistent. Some people aren't. If you do a good conversion job no one will have a problem with it.

Sounds like it's a worthy discussion then if it happens so frequently!

Considering Aggressors are already bleeding weapons from almost every orifice, I wouldn't have a problem with it provided you give them even more weapons and inform me of the fact.

sossen wrote:
Primaris aggressors look clean, would need a lot of conversion imo.

Clean is kind of how I picture Alpha Legion, especially with their whole pretending to be loyalists, and infiltrating legions shtick.

I've got a squad of 3 highly converted centurions for obliterators, and no one has said anything but good things about them, so I think you'd be fine. I just explain what they are before each game:

Assuming you have it pretty obvious, like Kajakl's example, yeah, totally fine. I've considered converting them for centurions, myself, since I think they both fit the heavy weapons power suit look but don't look horribly ugly...

As long as they have an appropriately Chaos paint scheme (Alpha Legion), then I say go for it.

Yeah, Centurions could certainly work. Aggressors are oddly similar in size and have the "Bolters built in to their hands" look going on. Figure if I toss another underslung bolter or two it'll fit just fine.


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 Galef wrote:
As long as they have an appropriately Chaos paint scheme (Alpha Legion), then I say go for it.

Oh for sure. Metallic blue and silver for days.

 Cephalobeard wrote:
Yeah, Centurions could certainly work. Aggressors are oddly similar in size and have the "Bolters built in to their hands" look going on. Figure if I toss another underslung bolter or two it'll fit just fine.

I wouldn't use bolters but go with something bigger, it is after all a gun with stats that range from a sub standard autocannon (S7, AP-1 D1) to a Phoenix Pulse Laser (S9, AP-3, D3), it would definitely help if it looked the part.

 Imateria wrote:

 Cephalobeard wrote:
Yeah, Centurions could certainly work. Aggressors are oddly similar in size and have the "Bolters built in to their hands" look going on. Figure if I toss another underslung bolter or two it'll fit just fine.

I wouldn't use bolters but go with something bigger, it is after all a gun with stats that range from a sub standard autocannon (S7, AP-1 D1) to a Phoenix Pulse Laser (S9, AP-3, D3), it would definitely help if it looked the part.

Yeah. You're not wrong. I'll happily take anyone's bits suggestions.

Given the awful state of the current oblit models people tend to be very accepting of conversions and sensible proxies.

 Cephalobeard wrote:

 Imateria wrote:

 Cephalobeard wrote:
Yeah, Centurions could certainly work. Aggressors are oddly similar in size and have the "Bolters built in to their hands" look going on. Figure if I toss another underslung bolter or two it'll fit just fine.

I wouldn't use bolters but go with something bigger, it is after all a gun with stats that range from a sub standard autocannon (S7, AP-1 D1) to a Phoenix Pulse Laser (S9, AP-3, D3), it would definitely help if it looked the part.

Yeah. You're not wrong. I'll happily take anyone's bits suggestions.

Take the ordinary Aggressor wrist mounts, extend the barrel a bit, and then see if you can fit one of the dragon muzzles off the Chaos vehicle sprues on it?

 AnomanderRake wrote:

 Cephalobeard wrote:

 Imateria wrote:

 Cephalobeard wrote:
Yeah, Centurions could certainly work. Aggressors are oddly similar in size and have the "Bolters built in to their hands" look going on. Figure if I toss another underslung bolter or two it'll fit just fine.

I wouldn't use bolters but go with something bigger, it is after all a gun with stats that range from a sub standard autocannon (S7, AP-1 D1) to a Phoenix Pulse Laser (S9, AP-3, D3), it would definitely help if it looked the part.

Yeah. You're not wrong. I'll happily take anyone's bits suggestions.

Take the ordinary Aggressor wrist mounts, extend the barrel a bit, and then see if you can fit one of the dragon muzzles off the Chaos vehicle sprues on it?

Torsion Cannons from Kataphrons seem like they could very easily be placed on the hand mount. Just remove the gun bits and replace it with the cannon, suddenly you're twice as imposing.

CapriSun straws make good cheap barrel extensions

 Galef wrote:
CapriSun straws make good cheap barrel extensions

Haha, I don't think I have the stones to trust myself modelling with a straw.

 Cephalobeard wrote:

 Galef wrote:
CapriSun straws make good cheap barrel extensions

Haha, I don't think I have the stones to trust myself modelling with a straw.

Might as well try. They're cheap and probably super easy to remove if the end result is...less than satisfactory.

I like how when I googled "CapriSun", "CapriSun Straws" came up before "CapriSun Juice". Apparently the buggers are really good for everything...except getting into the damn juice pouches.

Nothing gets into CapriSun juice pouches. They an unmodifiable +2 Armour Save.

But yes, if a melting pile of flesh and metal isn;t your thing, they work well.

 Cephalobeard wrote:

 Galef wrote:
CapriSun straws make good cheap barrel extensions

Haha, I don't think I have the stones to trust myself modelling with a straw.

Cut straw to size.
Drill hole.
Put greenstuff at one end, insert that end into hole.
Smooth stray greenstuff with back of hobby knife.
Done

Voss wrote:

 Cephalobeard wrote:

 Galef wrote:
CapriSun straws make good cheap barrel extensions

Haha, I don't think I have the stones to trust myself modelling with a straw.

Cut straw to size.
Drill hole.
Put greenstuff at one end, insert that end into hole.
Smooth stray greenstuff with back of hobby knife.
Done

I'm not claiming it's difficult, I just don't want to put a plastic straw on a model for any of the myriad of reasons one might not want to use a straw as a weapon bit. Lol

Absolutely fine.

Who are the two clowns that voted "no"? And for what reason?

You'll never find 100%. Sometimes people will vote no just to have a contrary opinion. Overwhelmingly, people seem to agree on this point. Thanks, everyone!