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I'd like to combine my eisenkern and necrons so I was thinking about a necron lord who in his quest to become mortal again advanced his dynasty by recreating his warriors with a cloned skin Ala terminator movie style. Basic eisenkern would be warriors and I was thinking I would replace a limb here or a head there with the proper necron component to show what they truly were.
I'd use the same idea for immortals who would just be the bigger eisenkern valkir.
Silly or feasible idea?

Sounds fun. Are you gonna run them all as the Necron codex?

I think rule of cool is the biggest issue here. If you do it right, your conversions will look kick ass. But if you do it poorly, your army will look silly.

yeah, necron dex for the rules.
one of the things im hung up on is the necrons traditionally have an Egyptian theme to them while the eisenkern have a german theme going. im not sure how to close the gap between the two.
maybe the necron lord modeled his clones after a conquered imperial world with a german tilt to it?

 usernamesareannoying wrote:
yeah, necron dex for the rules.
one of the things im hung up on is the necrons traditionally have an Egyptian theme to them while the eisenkern have a german theme going. im not sure how to close the gap between the two.
maybe the necron lord modeled his clones after a conquered imperial world with a german tilt to it?

Sure. That could be a good way to go. Also, not sure on the eisenkern, but do they have a lot of german markings? I wouldn't get to hung up on the feel of the models, as when you paint them a uniform pattern, shave and cut some bits, they'll all start to blend right.

This really depends. If your plan is just to use IG models and use the necron rules id say it's a bad idea and I wouldn't be too excited about playing it. If you are planning on making every guy in your army beautifully converted to be half man half machine with battle damage aka, looking like Arnold at the end of terminator 2...sounds awesome.

But before you consider such an ambitious project, you should ask yourself two very important questions.

1. Do you have the time?
2. Do you have the skills?

My biggest complaint about people that do convertion projects is that they never finish, or just didn't have the skills to do what they wanted.

I'm in no hurry so time isn't an issue but skill is always a question.
I think I'm going to start laying out pieces this weekend.
Hopefully I'll shoot for an update this weekend too.
I just need to focus which is a challenge for me