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So what model if you could only get one made, would you ask for the Imperial guard, for GW to make, so it could be a plastic version of a FW model. If it is a completely new model what would rough stats be.

Mine would be Lord Solar Macharius made again, but actually looking good.
He would issue 4 orders, then a 3+ save as he effectively wore artificer armour, and a FNP of 6+ to represent the fact he survived a bolter to the chest, 75.cal at that, and it was the first bolter round ever to not explode. He would cost 150-200 PTS

Greatcoat IG in plastic like these guys.


Basically Vostroyans with helmets.

EDIT: didn't realize how huge the image was when I first posted it

A dropship of some sort - kinda like the used in Starship Troopers. So a big Valk with a container box large enough to hold a Leman Russ modelwise.

Medusa Siege guns, Griffon Mortars, and Colossus Bombard.

Also, the destroyer tank hunter.

Rough riders. More specifically I'd like to see them expanded into their own organization (similar to scions) with a couple units
Example:
- Lancers: armed with boom lances, hot-shot laspistols and chainswords (sarge can take power sword)
- Dragoons: armed with hotshot lasguns and laspistols (or something similar)
- Mounted commander and command squad: gives orders and has a sweet flag (all have power swords and hot shot laspistols)
- Mounted commissar

The rough rider regiments would essentially be elite regiments with BS 3+ and WS 3+.
Rules-wise they can fit into any guard detachment, but get a bonus if taken as their own detachment (like scions).

Dandelion wrote:
Rough riders. More specifically I'd like to see them expanded into their own organization (similar to scions) with a couple units
Example:
- Lancers: armed with boom lances, hot-shot laspistols and chainswords (sarge can take power sword)
- Dragoons: armed with hotshot lasguns and laspistols (or something similar)
- Mounted commander and command squad: gives orders and has a sweet flag (all have power swords and hot shot laspistols)
- Mounted commissar

The rough rider regiments would essentially be elite regiments with BS 3+ and WS 3+.
Rules-wise they can fit into any guard detachment, but get a bonus if taken as their own detachment (like scions).

I agree with Rough Riders but would be completely open to bikers now that the GSC have them.

Basically Storm troopers

I've never been a huge fan of the Militarum Tempestus aesthetic but I really like Kasrkin and the old Storm troopers. I would like to add them as an elite choice (also move veterans back to troops). These guys would be like scions with the <Regiment> keyword. They would be cheaper (6-7 ppm) but would NOT have deepstrike.

I would love for there the be storm trooper models for different regiments, even if they had the same datasheet.

 Chris521 wrote:
Basically Storm troopers

I've never been a huge fan of the Militarum Tempestus aesthetic but I really like Kasrkin and the old Storm troopers. I would like to add them as an elite choice (also move veterans back to troops). These guys would be like scions with the <Regiment> keyword. They would be cheaper (6-7 ppm) but would NOT have deepstrike.

I would love for there the be storm trooper models for different regiments, even if they had the same datasheet.

I second this, or at least a Cadian carapace veteran kit that could be easily converted to Kasrkin.

Where is my Catachan Choppa? Being waiting eons for this type of vehicle.

A pile of dead bodies made into a wall of dead. As a terrain piece. For Cadians or Valhallans.

Gives cover if you're behind it like a barricade, but much bigger/longer.

Sebastian 'The Old Man' Yarrick.

But in recent scale. Keep the aesthetics of the original though as it is a gem of a model.

A big nerf.

I would second ccs's idea of a dropship.

My personal favorite would be a version of the Cheyenne dropship from Aliens.
Done up in an appropriately Valkyrie-inspired style.

Rough riders on bikes, like the GSC bikers.

Or a pack master - a dog handler with a pack of Rottweilers, dobermans or some dog-dragon crossbreed.

Some sort of rifleman special character, ideally a Scion one

 Chris521 wrote:
Basically Storm troopers

I've never been a huge fan of the Militarum Tempestus aesthetic but I really like Kasrkin and the old Storm troopers. I would like to add them as an elite choice (also move veterans back to troops). These guys would be like scions with the <Regiment> keyword. They would be cheaper (6-7 ppm) but would NOT have deepstrike.

I would love for there the be storm trooper models for different regiments, even if they had the same datasheet.

Same here, don't like the way the scions armour looks more like a medieval knight than a soldier.


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 Carnikang wrote:
A pile of dead bodies made into a wall of dead. As a terrain piece. For Cadians or Valhallans.

Gives cover if you're behind it like a barricade, but much bigger/longer.

That would be beautiful.

A fast attack light tank with a longer ranged gun than a hellhound. Same armor profile as the hellhound, but give it twin assault cannons, twin lascannons, and twin multimelta options for weapons. Try to keep the pts cost for the tank to 100-120 pts as well.

Any kind of tank that can take down Knights / Titans, because the Shadowsword sucks at that job when they've all got 3+ invulnerable saves.

A Drop Pod or something to deploy Infantry from. I want a way to play veterans.

More plastic aircraft, maybe some anti-air fighters, or a vulture.

I'd honestly like to see the Russ hull reworked. It's a little bland now.

That or great coat plastics.

 Horst wrote:


Any kind of tank that can take down Knights / Titans, because the Shadowsword sucks at that job when they've all got 3+ invulnerable saves.

More plastic aircraft, maybe some anti-air fighters, or a vulture.

Agreed with the anti knight thing, but its because of the way GW made knight and shadow sword rules. The knight shields should make it immune to any damage to the hull, but once overloaded, it won't work at all, and the shadow sword being an anti- titan tank lore wise can 1 shot any knight, as it is so powerful, of a gun.

Basically nothing reliably beats knights except for a few deathstrikes 3d6 mortal wounds per shot, or one f**ktonne of phsycers with smite for mortal wounds, until they remember how knight shields actually work.

Any also agreed with the vulture. Its an amazing model, and with twin linkd punisher cannons, in the words of 1d4chan, IT WILL GET YOU OPENLY ASSAULTED ON THE STREET.

 Horst wrote:
A fast attack light tank with a longer ranged gun than a hellhound. Same armor profile as the hellhound, but give it twin assault cannons, twin lascannons, and twin multimelta options for weapons. Try to keep the pts cost for the tank to 100-120 pts as well.

Any kind of tank that can take down Knights / Titans, because the Shadowsword sucks at that job when they've all got 3+ invulnerable saves.

A Drop Pod or something to deploy Infantry from. I want a way to play veterans.

More plastic aircraft, maybe some anti-air fighters, or a vulture.

Not sure about the twin multi melta variant of the hellhound you're mentioning since you already have that basically with the devil dog. If anything it sounds you're more after the Tauros venator gun platform, only with assault cannons rather than multi lasers. I think it'd be better if they made the other two options in the hellhound kit more viable, with the chem cannon doing 2 damage base so that it solidifies itself as an anti elite weapon and maybe 2d3 shots rather than d6.

new Rough Riders.

I’d like to see them make a kit that let you make a Valkyrie, Vendetta, or Vulture. This making them all codex stuff, so I would never have to worry about no FW allowed.

As for a fully new thing, some kind of large amoured fighting vehicle, not a tank, but bigger than the MRAPs that’s Taurox Primes are based on. Something rather rectangular. This would be for Militarum Tempestus.

With this change, Taurox Primes would go back to being able to be taken as fast attacks as well, so they could be transport or fast attack.

The return of the greatest Imperial Guardsman ever.

Lord Solar Marcharius.

Gonna echo the call for plastic Rough Riders.

Would not be upset to see a new Solar Macharius model, along with a historical campaign book to refight the Macharian Crusade.

I think what the Guard needs most is new plastic basic infantry. The Cadians are pretty bad by modern standards and less is said about the Catachans the better. When you compare them to the newer human sized infantry such as GSC Neophytes, Necromunda gangers or the BSF Traitor Guard their proportions just do not hold up.

There where a few other that I've thought about

A lord General- Kind of like a generic Creed, 3 orders but with the full range of War gear. He would be a one per army deal. Though I'm not sure he would need his own kit.

Another one that I've wanted was an expansion of the Hellhound chassis. I think a few of the Russ weapons would be nice up there. They wouldn't have grinding advance, but they would have Assault profiles.

So
Punisher Cannon- Assault 20
Battle Cannon- Assault D6
Auto Cannon- Assault 4 (lets ignore that it really shouldn't be 4)

Of course I also wouldn't say no to new rough riders, be they horses or bikes.

Then there would be the small matter of having plastic Cadian Catachan, Mordian, Vostroyan, Valhallan, Tallarn, Steel Legion, DKoK, and Elysian versions of Infantry, HWS, Command Squads, Storm troopers, and Rough riders with both male and female versions.

A tank between the Baneblade and the Lemanruss in terms of size and firepower, a real MBT.

Rough riders all day long.

 Togusa wrote:
A tank between the Baneblade and the Lemanruss in terms of size and firepower, a real MBT.

Id be all over a plastic Macharius Battle Tank

A complete rewrite of the basic Infantry Squad, with a more organic light support weapon list and the loss of Heavy Weapon Teams in favor of bounding fireteams.

It'd need a new basic troop kit, it counts!
I'd use Cadians as the basis, with some techier/gothic bits to make some of the Regiments shown off in the book(Truskans, Vresh, etc) that look similar to the Cadians.