40k skaven

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**mrFickle**

Does anyone know if the gw ever considered a skavenish army in 40k. I always thought they were cool in WFB.

It would be nice for a chaos army to exist that isn’t CSM or deamons. I always felt like demons were developed enough just for 40k. If you want a sci fi element.

Does anyone have any example of the skaven units being converted to play as chaos cultist units?

**Sterling191**

Convert them to an entirely abhuman Guard regiment.

**Dudeface**

Look up the hrud, time warping rodent like 40k critters

**vipoid**

I saw someone a while back suggest using Skaven as Genestealer Cutls and I think that could work quite well.

Patriarch - Verminlord
Magus - Grey Seer/Plague Priest/Warlock
Primus - Clawlord
Kelermorph - Deathmaster
Biophagus - Master Moulder
etc.

**Alex Kolodotschko**

I suppose that I should mention Mantic Game's "Veer-myn" here for completion's sake.
Smash those models together with some skaven and some sci fi bits and you'll have a pretty cool proxy army.

**Babar_babar**

I have seen a lot of cool conversions making skavens a Dark Mechanicus

**mrFickle**

That’s cool are there any rules for dark mechanicus?

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There’s another thread about OPR which is new to me but they provide their own army books and one is for rat men clans which is helpfully coincidental

**Trimarius**

Not in 40k, but just run them using the admech rules if you wanted to go down that route. GSC would have more of the ambushing/tricks angle, while AdMech would get you some weird and wacky artillery that fits, too (and would be perfect for a Skyre themed army, obviously). Both have some pretty straightforward "counts-as", so you've got room to go nuts.

I've also seen some skaven-as-IG that looked good, but I'd run them as GSC/AdMech, unless you're really looking to convert a bunch of armor up.

**Lance845**

Gsc seem to make the most sense to me. Junker tech with ambush tactics. Rending claws and some poison/venom to boot. Sounds pretty ratty.

**Jimbobbyish**

It was along time ago but I saw a picture of a Skaven army used as Tyrinids, the most impressive conversion was a Hell Pit Abomination with skaven coming out of its guts used as a tervigon. I tried finding it but came up short.