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Has anyone considered making custom war scrolls for Warhammer 40k units? I'd love to have the option of playing my Tau Empire against my buddy's Ogres.

I'm thinking something like the below. I'm not interested in a 'straight translation'. I'm more interested in making something that fits the fluff and spirit of the Tau/whatever 40k race and works in the Age of Sigmar core rules.

Thoughts? I'd really like feedback. My intent is to make war scrolls for all the various models and if successful start working my way through the other armies I own. Ultimately, I'd love to see all the 40k models playable in Age of Sigmar.

War Scroll - Fire Warrior Team
M 5"; Sv 5+; W 1; B 6

Missile Weapons
Pulse Rifle; R 20"; 1; 4+; 3+; -; 1
Pulse Carbine; R 12"; 2; 4+; 3+; -; 1
Melee Weapons
Bonding Knives; R 1"; 1; 5+; 5+; -; 1

Description
Fire Warrior Teams are composed of 6-12 models. Most Fire Warrior Teams go into battle carrying Pulse Rifles, but some choose instead to fight with Pulse Carbines. All Fire Warriors can fight with their mostly ceremonial Bonding Knives should the need arise.

Shas'ui
The Leader of a Fire Warrior Team is called a Shas'ui. The Shas'ui can take either a Markerlight or a Drone Controller.

Abilities
Bonding Knife Ritual
This unit's Bravery is considered to be 2 higher whenever there is no enemy unit within 3".

Drone Controller
During the Hero phase, a model with a Drone Controller can nominate one Tau Empire Drone unit within line of sight. That unit can immediately move up to 2D6" OR make an out of sequence shooting attack with all shots directed at a single enemy unit.

Markerlight
During the Hero Phase, a model with a Markerlight can choose to 'light up' an enemy unit. Nominate an enemy unit within 16" and line of sight, roll a D6 and on a 4+ place a Markerlight Counter next to it. Immediately before making a shooting attack, any other Tau Empire unit can choose to remove a Markerlight Counter from an enemy unit to gain +1 to hit rolls when making shooting attacks at that unit.

War Scroll - Drone Team
M 10"; Sv 5+; W 1; B 6

Missile Weapons
Pulse Carbine; R 12"; 2; 4+; 3+; -; 1
Melee Weapons
Drone Head Butt; R 1"; 1; 5+; 5+; -; 1

Description
Drone Teams are composed of 4-12 models. Drone Teams are equipped with Pulse Carbines. When necessary, Drones can ram their enemies in close combat.

Shield Drones
Models in this unit can be Shield Drones. Shield Drones don't make shooting attacks as their Pulse Carbines have been replaced with a Shield Generator. Units containing a Shield Drone ignore mortal wounds on a D6 roll of 4 or more.

Marker Drones
Up to 4 models in this unit can be Marker Drones. Marker Drones don't make shooting attacks as their Pulse Carbines have been replaced with a Markerlight.

Abilities
Markerlight
During the Hero Phase, a model with a Markerlight can choose to 'light up' an enemy unit. Nominate an enemy unit within 16" and line of sight, roll a D6 and on a 4+ place a Markerlight Counter next to it. Immediately before making a shooting attack, any other Tau Empire unit can choose to remove a Markerlight Counter from an enemy unit to gain +1 to hit rolls when making shooting attacks at that unit.

Networked Targeting Array
Drone Teams re-roll to hit rolls of 1 in the shooting phase.


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And I totally meant to put this in Proposed Rules! Sorry!

Very neat! I wish 40k worked like this TBH.

AOS-ing 40k would get me into it.

Neat rules, well thought out

I plan on working my way through some starter scrolls and playing a test game with a friend. I'm anticipating no real issues.

I have to decide how I'm going to treat Transports. The tanks are easy. They'll just be War Machines. The Riptide will be a Monster. Independent Characters will have buffed wound counts to be more surviveable outside units, etc, etc.

When you playtest, what do you play your Tau against? Can you post the warscrolls for that faction as well?

 Manchu wrote:
When you playtest, what do you play your Tau against? Can you post the warscrolls for that faction as well?

Sure. It looks like we'll be play testing on Thursday. Chance are pretty good it'll be Tau against standard Age of Sigmar units. Knowing my opponent's collection, it'll likely be either Khorne Bloodbound or Nurgle Rotkin.

I'm a little torn on how to handle Crisis Suits. They have such a wide variety of equipment that I'm going to have to simplify. I'll be posting more in this thread between now and Thursday.

For now...

Warscroll - Devilfish
M10"; Sv 5+; W 10; B 6

Missile Weapons
Burst Cannon; D6; R 16"; 5+; 3+; 1
Attached Drone; 2; R12"; 4+; 3+; 1

Description
A Devilfish is a single model. It has minimal armaments, equipped only with a Burst Cannon and two Attached Drones. Devilfish are primarily intended to carry followers of the Greater Good to where they need to go. Some Devilfish are equipped with Disruption Pods while others are equipped with Automated Repair Systems.

Abilities
Drone Deployment
A Devilfish may detach its Attached Drones during the Hero Phase. If it does so, it loses access to it's Attached Drones attacks for the remainder of the game. Setup a two model Drone Team unit within 9" of the Devilfish. These models may not be Marker or Shield Drones.

Self Repair Protocols
A Devilfish with an Automated Repair System heals 1 wound each Hero Phase.

Stealth Field
A Devilfish with a Disruption Pod adds 1 to all save rolls made against shooting attacks.

Transport
During your movement phase, one Tau Fire Warrior or Tau Pathfinder unit numbering 12 or fewer models can embark onto the Devilfish. To do so, nominate a unit fully within 6" of the Devilfish and remove them from the table, setting them aside. Only one unit may be embarked on a Devilfish at a time. Any unit starting a Movement phase embarked on a Devilfish may choose to disembark. To do so, place the unit on the table, fully within 6" of the Devilfish. They may not move further this turn. If a Devilfish is destroyed, deal d3 mortal wounds to any embarked unit and then place any remaining models fully within 6" before removing the Devilfish from play.

Keywords: Greater Good; Devilfish; Transport

Oh I thought you were playing against another AoSified 40k faction LOL.

 Manchu wrote:
Oh I thought you were playing against another AoSified 40k faction LOL.

The real end goal is to allow a gaming community to come together and play with the models they prefer. I would imagine that I'll be playing Tau against Space Marines as often as I play Tau against Stormcast Eternals. 30 seconds of creativity can create fluff reasons. Ummm... because the warp? Boom, fluff reasoned.

My friend plays Orks, so we'll likely be making Tau Empire and Ork war scrolls first.

This is pretty awesome Good job!

I like what you're doing here. Nice work

Brilliant idea! I'll definitely be keeping an eye on this.

 Kriswall wrote:
Ummm... because the warp? Boom, fluff reasoned.

This made me giggle.

I should have most of the Tau Empire units completed by the end of this weekend. The goal is to put up a PDF and then start work on other army lists.

I would do all vehicles with a damage chart.
The diminishing effects are a great way to represent the damage chart of 40K.
In AoS, anything with 8 or less wounds tend to just take wounds, things with more than 8 has charts.

I'd go no chart for 2 hull points, and charts on 3 hulls or more.

I'd love to see Nagash vs Stompa.


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Just one more comment,
Generally every unit has a slightly different weapon.
Reavers, archers and Seaguard all have different stats on their bows.
I'd do the same from Drone carbines vs Firewarrior carbines.

 HawaiiMatt wrote:
I would do all vehicles with a damage chart.
The diminishing effects are a great way to represent the damage chart of 40K.
In AoS, anything with 8 or less wounds tend to just take wounds, things with more than 8 has charts.

I'd go no chart for 2 hull points, and charts on 3 hulls or more.

I'd love to see Nagash vs Stompa.


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Just one more comment,
Generally every unit has a slightly different weapon.
Reavers, archers and Seaguard all have different stats on their bows.
I'd do the same from Drone carbines vs Firewarrior carbines.

Good feedback. I'll take this into consideration.

Looks great - One of the joys of AOS for me is the ease of making units and armies from any universe

Look forward to more - If I get the time might write up my Sisters for it

What do you guys think...

I think the shooting might be too good out of the kroot.
2 shots at 16 on a 4+/4+ is pretty good, and it's the worst shooting unit in Tau. It might set the baseline too high.

Maybe make it 1 shot, and the sniper rounds: reroll to wound if you did not move in the previous movement phase.

 HawaiiMatt wrote:
I think the shooting might be too good out of the kroot.
2 shots at 16 on a 4+/4+ is pretty good, and it's the worst shooting unit in Tau. It might set the baseline too high.

Maybe make it 1 shot, and the sniper rounds: reroll to wound if you did not move in the previous movement phase.

Ah. yeah. It was supposed to be 1. Typo.

 Kriswall wrote:
What do you guys think...

Love it- Any chance I could use the template

the mutations is very cool - the shooting is a bit too much maybe?

When I'm done I'll put up a PDF with my homebrew warscrolls and I'll also put up a blank template. I'm just using Word with basic tables added and one of the blue design styles.

My ifrst attempt at Battle Sisters

 Mr Morden wrote:
My ifrst attempt at Battle Sisters

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War Scroll - Battle Sister Squad
M 5"; Sv 4+; W 1; B 7

Missile Weapons
Boltgun; R 18"; 1; 4+; 4+; -; 1 (maybe 2 shots at any enemy within 9"?)
Flamer, R 6", D6, 4+, 4+, - 1
Meltagun, R 8", 1, 4+, 2+, -3, 1

Melee Weapons
Bolt Pistols and Fists; R 1"; 1; 5+; 4+; -; 1
Power Weapon; R 1", 5+, 4+, -2, 1

Description
Battle Sister Squads are composed of 5-20 models. Most Battle Sisters go into battle carrying Boltguns and they are all well trained to fight in close combat with their Bolt pistols and Ceremaite enclosed Fists. Two Sisters in the squad may be armed with either a melta gun or a flamer instead of their Boltgun.

Sister Superior
The Leader of a Battle Sister Squad is called a Sister Superior. The Sister Superior can take a Power Weapon.

Simulacrum Imperialis
A Model in this unit may carry a Simularcum Imperialis in to battle, if the unit inlcudes any Similacrum Imperialis, add 1 to the bravery of its models. Add 2 to their bravery instead if the unit is within 8" of any ADEPTA SORORITAS HERO from your army.

Shield of Faith
All FAITHFUL models in this unit have a 6+ save against Mortal Wounds.

Act of Faith
Once per game, During the Hero Phase, this unit attempt to use its Act of Faith, Roll 1D6, on a 2+ it is successful, for the rest of the turn the unit may re-roll to hit rolls of 1.

Keywords: Order, Faithful, Adepta Sororitas, Imperium of Man,

Very cool, but I would let Act of Faith re-roll all hit rolls. It's only once per game and many, many units can already re-roll 1's all the time.

If you're still trying how to do Crisis Teams I would recommend making different units for certain combinations that are common, otherwise you could make them sort of like the Skaven Stormfiends.

This thread is 10 months old - please be sure to check the fate of the last post before adding anything - thanks!