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2012/10/23 17:48:16
Subject: making counts as cultists from scarabs?
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Rough Rider with Boomstick
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so I'm making a allied detachment for my pirate necrons of counts as CSM. one of the things that will be included is a bunch of counts as cultists, I just don't know how to make them. I was thinking having them be some kind of sea creatures with guns, but I just can't decide what to make and how to make them. what I have in abundance is Scarabs, much more than I need in fact, so I'm looking to make the scarabs into some kind of humanoid robotic sea creature with some GS and plasticard. as I've said before I'm stumped as to what to make them, so if anyone has any good fishy ideas I'd like to hear them.
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Admiral Chester W Nimitz wrote:The war with Japan had been re-enacted in the game rooms here by so many people and in so many different ways, that nothing that happened during the war was a surprise.
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2012/10/23 17:52:57
Subject: making counts as cultists from scarabs?
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Enigmatic Chaos Sorcerer
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Make them barnacle swarms on GS rocks
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2012/10/23 18:09:41
Subject: making counts as cultists from scarabs?
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Rough Rider with Boomstick
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I've already got a unit of warriors covered in barnacles to use as plague marines, so barnacles is taken.
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Admiral Chester W Nimitz wrote:The war with Japan had been re-enacted in the game rooms here by so many people and in so many different ways, that nothing that happened during the war was a surprise.
My Cold War NATO IG, love to know what you think |
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2012/10/23 18:16:55
Subject: making counts as cultists from scarabs?
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Enigmatic Chaos Sorcerer
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 yeri wrote:I've already got a unit of warriors covered in barnacles to use as plague marines, so barnacles is taken.
An excellent idea for a Nurgle counts as. Hmm, I'll keep brainstorming.
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BlaxicanX wrote:A young business man named Tom Kirby, who was a pupil of mine until he turned greedy, helped the capitalists hunt down and destroy the wargamers. He betrayed and murdered Games Workshop.
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2012/10/23 22:01:14
Subject: Re:making counts as cultists from scarabs?
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Maybe not a very menacing animal, but since you look like you can handle the green stuff pretty well, I though about Mantas Rays:
Scarabs already have that "tail" portion in the back, you could easly add the rest of the tail and you can create the fins for the sides ... only problem would be the scarab's claws. You would have to either remove them or cover them up with the green stuff 
If they are going to be humanoid creatures, maybe it would be a waste, but you could try to create a rough humanoid shape holding a weapon and glue scarabs all around, with a different colored scarab as the head. A bit like D&D's Larva Mage, but far less sick:
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"Fear is freedom! Subjugation is liberation! Contradiction is truth! These are the truths of this world! Surrender to these truths, you pigs in human clothing!" - Satsuki Kiryuin, Kill la Kill |
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2012/10/24 01:25:39
Subject: making counts as cultists from scarabs?
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Wicked Canoptek Wraith
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How about some kind of robo squid, jellyfish or crab?
Or perhaps paint up some cultists piratey and fashion on the scarabs as some kind of mechanical 'alien' facehugger/half-life headcrab that is controlling them.
You could remove some of the face and glue on the scarab then greenstuff or plasticard some legs wrapping around the head. Maybe even add a tube or something going from the scarab into thier brains?
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2012/10/24 01:47:59
Subject: making counts as cultists from scarabs?
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Rough Rider with Boomstick
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I've actually been looking at squid and crabs as inspiration. I'll look some more into this.
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Admiral Chester W Nimitz wrote:The war with Japan had been re-enacted in the game rooms here by so many people and in so many different ways, that nothing that happened during the war was a surprise.
My Cold War NATO IG, love to know what you think |
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2012/10/24 04:50:03
Subject: making counts as cultists from scarabs?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Since you want them to count-as cultists, use the scarabs as helmets for human figures. Sure they'll look bizarre, but makes perfect sense for cultists in a necron pirate army to wear 'silly hats', either to imitate their masters or to control the hapless cultists.
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2012/10/24 05:07:29
Subject: making counts as cultists from scarabs?
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Stone Bonkers Fabricator General
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2012/10/24 11:14:30
Subject: making counts as cultists from scarabs?
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Rough Rider with Boomstick
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Sorry bit of a syntax error, I'm working on a pirate necron army that I use as necrons, but I want to make some more specialized troops as counts as CSM. Hope that clears it up.
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Admiral Chester W Nimitz wrote:The war with Japan had been re-enacted in the game rooms here by so many people and in so many different ways, that nothing that happened during the war was a surprise.
My Cold War NATO IG, love to know what you think |
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2012/10/25 02:12:50
Subject: making counts as cultists from scarabs?
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Stone Bonkers Fabricator General
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yeri wrote:Sorry bit of a syntax error, I'm working on a pirate necron army that I use as necrons, but I want to make some more specialized troops as counts as CSM. Hope that clears it up.
Right, but why? CSM rules are extremely different than Necron rules, what possible sense does that counts as make? I might have to see the reasoning to "get" this concept.
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The Polito form is dead, insect. Are you afraid? What is it you fear? The end of your trivial existence?
When the history of my glory is written, your species shall only be a footnote to my magnificence. |
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2012/10/25 02:31:33
Subject: making counts as cultists from scarabs?
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Rough Rider with Boomstick
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My reasoning is simple: I'm a big believer in things happening for a reason and when I was thinking up themes for each of my four warrior units they just happened to match the theme for the cult troops. Unfortunatelly you can only make cult troops troops in a primary detachment, so I needed some actuall CSM troops to get some allied cult troops. It's not actual CSM in the fluff, just weird necrons using their rules. Like the keel haulers who are warriors covered in barnacles count as plague marines. But more to the point is that I made a connection and wanted to run with it. Kind of like how I read something about how DE are glass hammers and it made me think of avatar, now I feel the need to make fire bender DE. It's just my process.
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Admiral Chester W Nimitz wrote:The war with Japan had been re-enacted in the game rooms here by so many people and in so many different ways, that nothing that happened during the war was a surprise.
My Cold War NATO IG, love to know what you think |
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2012/10/25 02:34:46
Subject: making counts as cultists from scarabs?
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Otiose in a Niche
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The LOS issue would be a biggie for me, what about getting some Empire Militia (who look pretty priatey) with scarab heads? Some kind of robot-crab head men cultist things....
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2012/10/25 02:35:04
Subject: making counts as cultists from scarabs?
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Pyro Pilot of a Triach Stalker
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Necron mind control?
Model cultists with scarabs on them (so they'd be mindshackles) and presto!
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2012/10/25 02:38:06
Subject: making counts as cultists from scarabs?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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You try and go down the Headcrab route (or Headcron, in this case) a la Half-Life.
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2012/10/25 02:43:18
Subject: Re:making counts as cultists from scarabs?
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Death-Dealing Dark Angels Devastator
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u could trying doing something like seaweed with scarabs in it or try a octapus or squad type in sea creatures in google images you will see alot of funky things
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2012/10/25 02:44:23
Subject: making counts as cultists from scarabs?
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Otiose in a Niche
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Dr. What wrote:Necron mind control?
Model cultists with scarabs on them (so they'd be mindshackles) and presto!
That would work too, scarabs on their back with wires going into their heads, borg cyber zombie kind of thing. But not very piratey...
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