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In the vast universe of the 41st millennium, there are many species, factions, and planets, and many of them are known to man. But what else could there be?

Gaseous, plasma-based lifeforms, omnipotent beings, races living in alternate dimensions... Watch Star Trek, every once in a while they came up with a non-humanoid life form.

Probably life where humans can't go, and there's plenty of places like that.

Superintelligent shades of the colour blue are always a favourite. It's an infinite universe... what do you fancy?

 Flinty wrote:
Superintelligent shades of the colour blue are always a favourite. It's an infinite universe... what do you fancy?

Incredibly dull and sophomoric shades of green

Well I want to work on a Codex, so I need some... specific... ideas or inspiration. (I am not going to steal anyone's concepts or intellectual property)

Why do you want to work on a codex?

Brightly coloured, sentient, equine mammals who have discovered the use of power armour and bolter technology and fight to unite the other races against chaos

love the idea of plasma beings or even cristal beings and it kinda pains me that GW never really made an army like that :/


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 SoloFalcon1138 wrote:
Why do you want to work on a codex?

why don't you?

Space Merchants, can buy units as the game goes on, can salvage units and turn them into profit and buy more units.

what about ethereal units that are virtually invisible to the humanoid eye, thus are constantly obscured, comprised of subatomic particles that can pierce any known armour or flesh, granting AP2 on every attack...

 Makutsu wrote:
Space Merchants, can buy units as the game goes on, can salvage units and turn them into profit and buy more units.

now thats a pretty cool idea, or maybe techno zombies where once you kill a tank or walker you can replace it with something like 2D6 scrap thralls.

 SoloFalcon1138 wrote:
what about ethereal units that are virtually invisible to the humanoid eye, thus are constantly obscured, comprised of subatomic particles that can pierce any known armour or flesh, granting AP2 on every attack...

Nice idea, it would be like playing Screamer based daemons but you'd save a ton of money because you'd only need the bases. New "counts as" army here I come...

 Nerobellum wrote:

Incredibly dull and sophomoric shades of green

I see what you did there.....

Or what about a fandex for a race of giants (monstrous creatures) who are preternaturally fast (fleet and permanent cover save) and have the ability to generate energy blasts from their bodies?

You mean Skaven in space?

Not in space, no. On Ice!

So cryogenic sleep Skaven awaiting their awakening?

Or at least the missing chapters going Dishonored and spewing giant rats every where

Codex: A world where Japanese cartoons and cartoon Ponies are objects of worship by adult men.

Well, while I am personally a 'bottom up' design guy (meaning I start with the mechanics and build up from there while top-down means that you start with a fluffy concept and make rules that fit), and I'm noticing that there are a few niches that need to be filled out more in 40k. These niches are:

An army that is more 'horde' than guard or IG. I'm thinking troops choices that are as cheap as 2 points per model (or less) with an extremely low stat line.

An army of big things. Think sorta like what Ogres are for fantasy. Every model is on a terminator sized base, probably has T5, possibly even multiple wounds, and a decent to low save (4+ or worse)

A 'Vampire Counts' style army with a focus on Necromancy raising cheap filler units.

An army with 4+ saves (as a serious note, the 4+ armor niche is the one in need of the most filling. The only codices that occupy it are sorta IG (nobody takes carapace armor), sorta Tau (just Fire Warriors and Pathfinders), sorta crons (Warriors and scarabs?) and sorta SM (very few people take scouts in large numbers).

These are just sorta a few directions you could go with your army. Just don't make another 3+ save army. The game is bloated with those (all SM variants, Sisters, Necrons, and kinda Tau (I've seen Tau armies with more Crisis Suits than fire warriors)).

Well The Doctor could somehow get entangled up in the 40k Universe and we could be seeing beings like Cantarens a Ork like race with Eldar Intelligence and their entire race is made of Clones and clone planets.

Or Daleks another Machine race but with a squishy mutent inside or maybe Cybermen whom are basically necrons but try to fuse with other beings and make them cybermen instead of just killing them or we could get the giant eyeball ship monsters known as the atraksi

 TheCaptain wrote:
Codex: A world where Japanese cartoons and cartoon Ponies are objects of worship by adult men.

quiet you, earth allready has enough codexs

 DPBellathrom wrote:

 Makutsu wrote:
Space Merchants, can buy units as the game goes on, can salvage units and turn them into profit and buy more units.

now thats a pretty cool idea, or maybe techno zombies where once you kill a tank or walker you can replace it with something like 2D6 scrap thralls.

This is an actually good idea. It could be a horde style army of servitors with tech priest elites and hqs, and then converter squads to take downed vehicles and fix them into more troops. Like cheap tervigons that rely on broken vehicles

Hegemonizing Swarms of smart matter! Go grey goo!

Void whales

Sabreguy wrote:
Void whales

They already exist and the imperium knows they do?

This race of semi-sentient mammal that has discovered ancient weapons capable of firing metal projectiles through use of a chemical compound. Their natural fur covered skin protects them from most environments and weather conditions. Capable of staying awake for days on end they need very little in terms of nutrition to survive able to make do with foods like 2 minute noodles and canned spaghetti-o's.

 DemetriDominov wrote:
You mean Skaven in space?

That's the Hrud

 Tyranid Horde wrote:

Sabreguy wrote:
Void whales

They already exist and the imperium knows they do?

No, its just someone who doesn't get the message that a creature the size of California in scale doesn't work out as a table top mini...

Tribbles, those damn things are everywhere!