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In codex or forgeworld.

Pretty much all of them, since very few unit's on-board performance matches the fluff. So in that respect, none of the units are represented in the game.

Not from the codex or forgeworld, I want the gear from the 40k RPG's like Black Crusade to fill the ranks of tabletop, man portable ectoplasm launchers? Yes!

I'd be interested in seeing the Last Chancers back for guard. The current penal legion rules are a cruel joke compared to the old ones.

If they want to have a desperate throng of condemned men that you throw at the enemy, fine, but it should be a different kind of unit than what was once the ultra-kill-team bonkersness of the old Last Chancers.

I wouldn't field a unit full of deepstriking psykers with lascannons, but I want there to be the option...

Adeptus custodes and sisters of silence

Drop pods for CSM.
Mycetic Spores for 'nids.

I'd love to see the Tau XV46 battlesuits. They'd be a nice step between the Stealth Suits and Crisis Suits in terms of size and strength who specialize in closer ranged combat, for which they were designed. It would be nice to have them available as a Troops choice too, giving players the option to run an all-battlesuit army without having to purchase the Farsight Enclaves supplement. They would be less flexible and tanky than Crisis Suits, which would balance out having them be scoring.

Of course, this is all wish listing on my part.

If I could wish for the return of Battlefleet Gothic, I would. Failing that, bring back UM captain Invictus with his plasma blastgun.

Tyranid Dominatrix(es) would be really cool to see on the tabletop in my opinion. Probably bigger than a Hierophant though.

Sisters of Silence - they would go so well with my Sisters of Battle. Also Adeptus Custodes, Arbites and Squats. Oh, and High Lords of Terra.

I wish Penal Legion weren't a dirty dozen band of badasses like the rules have attempted to illustrate, but as a legion of desperate slave soldiers with bomb collars, dummy lasguns, and nothing but a cold cell or a shallow grave to look forward to. This artwork is what I'm looking at:


Granted they've apparently been taken out of the new codex, but it would've been nice to see them done right.

The Doom of Malan'tai.
Mycetic Spores (even if they are done as the original special rule)
Genestealer Cults
High Troupe Masters
High Shadowseers
Master Mimes
Mimes
Solitaires
Exodites
Slicing Orbs of Zandros
Iyanna Arienal (who GW should have included in the Iyanden supplement)
Nuadhu 'Fireheart'
and last but not least...
DOOMRIDER!!!

 tyrannosaurus wrote:
Sisters of Silence - they would go so well with my Sisters of Battle. Also Adeptus Custodes, Arbites and Squats. Oh, and High Lords of Terra.

Can you make up your own rules for them? What would be wrongwith converting a few models and what not.

Oh, and I forgot one : Brazen Knights! So many people have converted some of their own, and you can have a Khorne Lord on a Juggernaut, it just makes sense!

Mega gargant,snotlings,beamy deffgun lootas,rebel grots,madboyz,blood axe....stuff,and looted Russes.(Before you say looted wagon I can only respond with:How do extra metal plates,DECREASE the armour value?)

 Da krimson barun wrote:
Mega gargant,snotlings,beamy deffgun lootas,rebel grots,madboyz,blood axe....stuff,and looted Russes.(Before you say looted wagon I can only respond with:How do extra metal plates,DECREASE the armour value?)

Fortunately, you can ally in IG, using grots as IG (with some converting and scratchbuilding, obivously) and looted Leman Russes that way. That's the potential allies has for cool stuff instead of boring or abusive stuff like so many people use it for.

Problem is allies=extra codex.Extra codex that is going to be outdated or is going to cost 40 euro.And besides..orkz that can aim...it...just doant feel right.

 slowthar wrote:
Drop pods for CSM.
Mycetic Spores for 'nids.

Yes on both accounts.

More Characters! I want Eisenhorn, Ravenor, Annika Jarlsdottyr, all the members of their retinues, Ciaphas Cain and Jurgen (plus Inquisitor Vail), all the members of First Claw, Pyriel, and especially Hyperion! I would be THRILLED if they did an e-dex or a supplement which was nothing more than a huge index of characters.

I'd kill for Solitaires or Exodites.

 poppa G wrote:

 tyrannosaurus wrote:
Sisters of Silence - they would go so well with my Sisters of Battle. Also Adeptus Custodes, Arbites and Squats. Oh, and High Lords of Terra.

Can you make up your own rules for them? What would be wrongwith converting a few models and what not.

Not sure why you singled me out, but surely this could be said about all of the other posters?

Sly Marbo.

Arbites (at least as an option to the Inquisition), rules for Generic Living Saints, a massive Cathederal tank for Sisters (there's one in the old C:WH, but that'd basically be a TABLE in itself, so something a bit smaller than that), Cult Terminators.....I'm sure I can keep going if I really spend time thinking about it but that's all that comes to mind right now.

 Happygrunt wrote:
Sly Marbo.

Too soon?

 poppa G wrote:

 tyrannosaurus wrote:
Sisters of Silence - they would go so well with my Sisters of Battle. Also Adeptus Custodes, Arbites and Squats. Oh, and High Lords of Terra.

Can you make up your own rules for them? What would be wrongwith converting a few models and what not.

You can't, really. Some things can use "Counts as" but the Sisters of Silence's whole shtick is that they're all blanks. The only model that has rules representing blank powers is the Culexus Assassin, which is all wrong for SoS. It's an individual instead of a squad, has the wrong wargear, etc, etc. If you take the blank part away from Sisters of Silence, they're not Sisters of Silence anymore. It would be like saying, "Why don't you represent a psyker by using the rules for a model with no psychic powers?"

Edit: I thought you were talking about using Counts as. I guess you could just make up rules. That's what the whole Proposed Rules section is for. Of course, that's kind of missing the point of this thread. Also, custom units and SC's are at the top of the list of things people won't allow in their games. If they'll allow that, they'll allow anything.

 Brother SRM wrote:
I wish Penal Legion weren't a dirty dozen band of badasses like the rules have attempted to illustrate, but as a legion of desperate slave soldiers with bomb collars, dummy lasguns, and nothing but a cold cell or a shallow grave to look forward to. This artwork is what I'm looking at:


Granted they've apparently been taken out of the new codex, but it would've been nice to see them done right.

Yeah, the 5th ed rules for penal legionnaires didn't suit them; made them look more like a bunch of mercs from something like the expendables.

Then again, conscripts already sort of fill the niche of penal legionnaires; expendable soldiers sent en mass to die.

Frateris Militia, of course. They'd really fill a tactical niche in the army, and it'd just be damn fun to be able to field hordes of a mob of frenzied zealots going against whatever 40K has to offer.

Also, I'd love to see rules for the giant mobile cathedral that FW mentioned in the latest Imperial Army book. It'd be a super-heavily that's distinctly Ecclesiarchial in flavour and doesn't just steal from the IG.

Lastly, those Canoness special characters would be nice to have back.

 ClockworkZion wrote:
rules for Generic Living Saints

Don't think that those appear in the fluff. Not like Celestine, anyway. As far as codex fluff goes, she seems to be one of a kind.

 Ailaros wrote:

 Happygrunt wrote:
Sly Marbo.

Too soon?

He will return, because GW drew first blood.....

reference intended

The Emprah
The Void Dragon
Blood Raven heroes and chapter tactics.

 Da krimson barun wrote:
Problem is allies=extra codex.Extra codex that is going to be outdated or is going to cost 40 euro.And besides..orkz that can aim...it...just doant feel right.

Considering the codex comes out in a week, I don't think you'll need to worry about it being outdated. Grots have BS3, which is the same BS as Guardsmen, so it's actually pretty alright. I hear you on not wanting to buy a new codex, but it's the allies system at work.