"What do you think it looks like?"
This question arose amongst my circle the other day due to my love of fielding Unaligned Units - Spindel Drones, Bore Wurms, Ambulls, The Archivist Zoat.....
Mostly I just like using stuff that's rarely seen/considered. Though I DO make good use of them.
This led others to look into the "Unaligned" category to see
what else I might one day bring against them. Or that they might bring. And they noticed that most of the Imperial Fortifications are actually Unaligned - despite clearly being Imperial models with Imperial names.
Defence lines, bunkers, Vengeance weapons batteries, Macro-cannon bastions, Vortex Missile Aquila Strongpoints.... Anybody can take these things if their willing to pay the pts/
PL,
CP detachment costs & either $$$ or time scratch-building.
So, Fortifications wise, you're scratch building & theming this stuff to fit the look of your non-Imperial force.
A few assumptions:
1) You can use it. You're playing with people who aren't hung up something being Legends, out of
CA 2019, non-meta, etc.
2) The rules are as written.
3) You're willing to pay its pts/
CP costs, run a Fortifications detachment, etc - just not the crazy $$$ some of these kits go for.
4) You're making it reasonably close to whatever size the existing model is. Afterall, all you've got to go on without spending crazy $$$ is a picture....
5) You can place it on the table. It will fit.
So what do you think some of this Fortifications stuff would look like if made by ______ instead of the Imperium?
Pick a non-Imperial faction + a Fortification & share your vision.
I'll start;
Eldar/Drukari Vortex Missile Aquila Strongpoint.
I don't imagine this being a missile silo at all. I see a portal opening up in the sky & missiles being launched out of the Webways at the battlefield.
But in keeping with #4 I'd probably model it as a # of Eldarish styled focusing arrays pointed at a larger skyward aiming array with an old arty template painted up & mounted on a rod above it all as a warp opening - with some partial Eldar looking missile emerging.
The template warp opening is just for show. The actual thing you'd target would be the arrays (made to the heights of whatever the Imperial version is, taking up the same general footprint).
The energy beam coming from the large array will serve to disguise the brass rod the warp opening template is attached to.