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I was going to have a poll, but there is only one real option:

Columbo. Or possibly murder she wrote. It would be the slowest inquisitorial investigations ever.

Transformers.

BFG could cross-over with Star Trek or Star Wars.

But let's face it: the biggest crossover event would be with WHFB/Old World.

Warhammer and LotR

40K and aliens

BorderCountess wrote:Transformers.

I actually wrote (or at least began writing; not sure I ever finished) a fan 'dex for fielding big, shape-shifting machine people made up of swarms of basically nanites. Basically Codex: Transformers. That was like, 15 years ago though. I doubt I could find my old notes or files.

The_Real_Chris wrote:
40K and aliens

They'd have so much to talk about with the genestealers!

EDIT: I actually think it would be neat to have a "mutant uprising" in 40k that draws the attentions of some marines or what have you only to reveal to the audience that the leaders of this uprising are basically the X-men. 40k is full of creatures that are basically comic book characters, but it's kind of rare that you get a whole group of individuals in one place who pack abilities that are on par with 40k super soldiers or high-tier psykers, yet also so specific that they have clear weaknesses and limitations.

Like, space marines are familiar enough with psykers to recognize when Professor X is mind-controlling their brothers or to adapt when Magneto starts pulling thunderhawks out of the sky and stopping bolter rounds mid-air, but they're not very accustomed to psykers that can do those things on the same scale as those characters, nor are they accustomed to having a bunch of threats like that in one place. But at the same time, these are still mostly just human bodies that are prone to failing horribly when you do get a bolter round through. I feel like it would be an interesting challenge for both sides. Plus, we might get to see Wolverine clawing through power armor while a chainsword eviscerates his already-regenerating guts.

Alright so we start with an Inquisitor - Ordo Malleus, top of her game, reacts to greater daemons with a raised eyebrow and "Is that the best you can do?" and has a string of victories to her name to back up the attitude. Goes wherever she wants, investigates whatever she wants, treats heretical manuscripts as hunting guides. Takes an interest in a string of rumours her colleagues haven't had any success tracing, and winds up in possession of an uncatalogued treatise which, curiously, refers to the chaos gods as 'configurations' - and a puzzle box. Boom, Hellraiser 40k.

Battletech might be fun. Similar tech levels/scale on the battlefield.

OGRE would be interesting. How does 40k deal with a force where even the basic grunts are tossing out tac nukes, and the armor is strong enough to take those kind of hits? And the big boys are AI tanks that could probably go toe to treads with titans.

I would actually go with Dune. You could pin that at about M20
Renegade Legion at M6

Star Wars is an easy fit... Sith are just wanna be Chaos Undivided sorcerers

 Nevelon wrote:
Battletech might be fun. Similar tech levels/scale on the battlefield.

OGRE would be interesting. How does 40k deal with a force where even the basic grunts are tossing out tac nukes, and the armor is strong enough to take those kind of hits? And the big boys are AI tanks that could probably go toe to treads with titans.

40k is Battletech +37,000 years
40k is Event Horizon +38,000 years

-STS

We need more Xenos so I'm saying Worms.

Nothing frightens Space Marines as much as an army of worms, each with a bazooka as their basic weapon.

Sgt. Cortez wrote:
We need more Xenos so I'm saying Worms.

Nothing frightens Space Marines as much as an army of worms, each with a bazooka as their basic weapon.

We can even model that using only GW parts!
A whole bunch of Slythe + assorted weapons.

 Daia T'Nara wrote:
Alright so we start with an Inquisitor - Ordo Malleus, top of her game, reacts to greater daemons with a raised eyebrow and "Is that the best you can do?" and has a string of victories to her name to back up the attitude. Goes wherever she wants, investigates whatever she wants, treats heretical manuscripts as hunting guides. Takes an interest in a string of rumours her colleagues haven't had any success tracing, and winds up in possession of an uncatalogued treatise which, curiously, refers to the chaos gods as 'configurations' - and a puzzle box. Boom, Hellraiser 40k.

Are the Cenobites not just as near as damn-it dark eldar anyway?

ccs wrote:

Sgt. Cortez wrote:
We need more Xenos so I'm saying Worms.

Nothing frightens Space Marines as much as an army of worms, each with a bazooka as their basic weapon.

We can even model that using only GW parts!
A whole bunch of Slythe + assorted weapons.

Drop in Earthworm Jim as a force commander, and we have a solid Twofer

Crispy78 wrote:

 Daia T'Nara wrote:
Alright so we start with an Inquisitor - Ordo Malleus, top of her game, reacts to greater daemons with a raised eyebrow and "Is that the best you can do?" and has a string of victories to her name to back up the attitude. Goes wherever she wants, investigates whatever she wants, treats heretical manuscripts as hunting guides. Takes an interest in a string of rumours her colleagues haven't had any success tracing, and winds up in possession of an uncatalogued treatise which, curiously, refers to the chaos gods as 'configurations' - and a puzzle box. Boom, Hellraiser 40k.

Are the Cenobites not just as near as damn-it dark eldar anyway?

Was going to say. Between drukhari and slaaneshi armies, cenobites are pretty thoroughly included in 40k as-is. To the point that a bunch of haemonculus and grotesque sculpts over the years have been direct cenobite references. Check out the 3rd edition grotesque models or the 5th edition haemonculus pose. Haemis were even able to carry around a puzzle box as a weapon for a while.

I wouldn't cross 40k over with anything too serious. The many fan crossovers that already exist usually work best when they riff on 40k's parodic self-seriousness. Also, given the vastness of the 40k universe, it's probably best for the crossover to focus on just one faction or element of 40k... either one that already has a silly side to begin with, or one that could badly use an injection of silliness.

E.g., a Vanripper-style game where the revenge-driven Jaghatai Khan navigates the Webway for thousands of years while accidentally gathering an entourage of eccentric Drukhari and Harlequin hangers-on (while he himself stays all grim and serious).

But let's face it, the 40k universe is already a giant crossover of sci-fi and fantasy media.

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 Nevelon wrote:
Battletech might be fun. Similar tech levels/scale on the battlefield.

OGRE would be interesting. How does 40k deal with a force where even the basic grunts are tossing out tac nukes, and the armor is strong enough to take those kind of hits? And the big boys are AI tanks that could probably go toe to treads with titans.

Surely Ogre is just break seal on anti dark age of technology countermeasures?

Most crossovers of course fail on the premise very few universes really consider the implications of their tech and use combined arms. 40k handwaves that stuff away saying misunderstood tech (or forgotten - a solution that wins all the wars can be used on one planet and then conveniently forgotten by the Ad mech or declared heresy etc.), and that everyone really desires to fighter over planets rather than solve all problems with the fleet. So when you start comparing the in universe implications of their tech a lot of the crossover is all about using that universe in ways their own media doesn't (or does once - ramming speed! I mean lightspeed ramming speed!).

The_Real_Chris wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:
Battletech might be fun. Similar tech levels/scale on the battlefield.

OGRE would be interesting. How does 40k deal with a force where even the basic grunts are tossing out tac nukes, and the armor is strong enough to take those kind of hits? And the big boys are AI tanks that could probably go toe to treads with titans.

Surely Ogre is just break seal on anti dark age of technology countermeasures?

Most crossovers of course fail on the premise very few universes really consider the implications of their tech and use combined arms. 40k handwaves that stuff away saying misunderstood tech (or forgotten - a solution that wins all the wars can be used on one planet and then conveniently forgotten by the Ad mech or declared heresy etc.), and that everyone really desires to fighter over planets rather than solve all problems with the fleet. So when you start comparing the in universe implications of their tech a lot of the crossover is all about using that universe in ways their own media doesn't (or does once - ramming speed! I mean lightspeed ramming speed!).

I think the fun is less in seeing how things would ultimately end and more in thinking about what each side would try along the way. Like, in my X-men example, our planet of off-brand legally distinct mutants *probably* doesn't have a way to counter a dedicated attempt at exterminatus unless they bring out the top shelf "mutations are basically genie wishes" type powers. But thinking about the earlier stages of the conflict, how characters from one setting would interact with and adapt to characters from the other setting, that's where the juice is.

Crossovers are wildly overdone these days and I can't think of anything that 40k would benefit from mixing with. A big charm of the setting is that it already IS essentially a big pop culture crossover universe, just with each element being reshaped to fit into the setting. Like Space Marines vs Xenomorphs or Skynet? Most of the cool stuff already exists, just wearing a legally distinct coat of Citadel Paint.

 LunarSol wrote:
Crossovers are wildly overdone these days and I can't think of anything that 40k would benefit from mixing with. A big charm of the setting is that it already IS essentially a big pop culture crossover universe, just with each element being reshaped to fit into the setting. Like Space Marines vs Xenomorphs or Skynet? Most of the cool stuff already exists, just wearing a legally distinct coat of Citadel Paint.

I can think of something....

Bolos.... think how hard the AdMech would try to get their hands on an operational Bolo, only to get curbstomped repeatedly by it.

Eventually, they would have to get Titan Legions or an Exporator Fleet to take it down... i

And as a final act of defiance, the bolo self destructs...

LOL.

A Mk XXX would wreck face on AdMech stuff. It has orbital denial missiles...

-STS

Crispy78 wrote:
Are the Cenobites not just as near as damn-it dark eldar anyway?

The Dark Eldar think they are, but I feel like it's mostly just cosmetics - like when they put Pinhead into Dead By Daylight, it's not that it's bad, or unwelcome as a Hellraiser fan, but it's not telling a Hellraiser story. I love 'em (most of them... some of them), but they're We've Got Cenobites At Home.

(I do like to daydream about Asdrubael Vect facing off against Priest - but only because Vect has been at the top of my 'desperately needs an ignominious death' list since 3rd edition.)

 Daia T'Nara wrote:

Crispy78 wrote:
Are the Cenobites not just as near as damn-it dark eldar anyway?

The Dark Eldar think they are, but I feel like it's mostly just cosmetics - like when they put Pinhead into Dead By Daylight, it's not that it's bad, or unwelcome as a Hellraiser fan, but it's not telling a Hellraiser story. I love 'em (most of them... some of them), but they're We've Got Cenobites At Home.

(I do like to daydream about Asdrubael Vect facing off against Priest - but only because Vect has been at the top of my 'desperately needs an ignominious death' list since 3rd edition.)

Vect is a tool and people glaze him soooooo much.

-STS

SSSSSSHHHH! He can hear you!

I think Vect is GREAT! An excellent leader, maybe the best in the history of Commorragh!

slade the sniper wrote:

 Daia T'Nara wrote:

Crispy78 wrote:
Are the Cenobites not just as near as damn-it dark eldar anyway?

The Dark Eldar think they are, but I feel like it's mostly just cosmetics - like when they put Pinhead into Dead By Daylight, it's not that it's bad, or unwelcome as a Hellraiser fan, but it's not telling a Hellraiser story. I love 'em (most of them... some of them), but they're We've Got Cenobites At Home.

(I do like to daydream about Asdrubael Vect facing off against Priest - but only because Vect has been at the top of my 'desperately needs an ignominious death' list since 3rd edition.)

Vect is a tool and people glaze him soooooo much.

-STS

As a Malys fan, I'm forever in the camp that Malys is the cooler version of what Vect wishes he was.

Vect is allegedly quite the schemer and manipulator, but there's a lot of tell-don't-show to his intelligence. A lot of his appearances in stories have him just cudgeling problems away by smacking them with an absurdly disproportionate doomsday weapon in order to deter others from challenging him. He's basically using ork tactics to remain the warboss of the drukhari, except instead of a power klaw, he uses doomsday weapons and spends a bunch of money hyping up his spy network to keep people paranoid.

To his credit, he *does* occassionally do something clever (his trick with the Salamanders when he first rose to power, his funeral thing, some of the stuff in Queen of Knives), but half of those still kind of boil down to him just throwing piles of money at people to pull off flashy ambushes or intimidate people into behaving via his reputation.

Meanwhile, pretty much every scene we get with Malys has her scheming and setting up plans within contingency plans, frequently indulging in a bit of wordplay, all while being the relative underdog compared to Vect.

Vect was clever once 6 millennia ago, and he's been bashing people over the head with his checkbook ever since. Malys basically threw away her holdings at least once, reclaimed them because she knew she was talented enough to do so, and frequently makes cleverness her main weapon. To the point of it manifesting as an invuln save because she's Sherlock'ing her way through fights.

EDIT: Vect launched a propaganda campaign to declare himself a dark muse and to try to force people to believe it. Malys is probably some sort of demigod in her own right, and she seems perfectly happy keeping it on the down-low.

 Wyldhunt wrote:

slade the sniper wrote:

 Daia T'Nara wrote:

Crispy78 wrote:
Are the Cenobites not just as near as damn-it dark eldar anyway?

The Dark Eldar think they are, but I feel like it's mostly just cosmetics - like when they put Pinhead into Dead By Daylight, it's not that it's bad, or unwelcome as a Hellraiser fan, but it's not telling a Hellraiser story. I love 'em (most of them... some of them), but they're We've Got Cenobites At Home.

(I do like to daydream about Asdrubael Vect facing off against Priest - but only because Vect has been at the top of my 'desperately needs an ignominious death' list since 3rd edition.)

Vect is a tool and people glaze him soooooo much.

-STS

As a Malys fan, I'm forever in the camp that Malys is the cooler version of what Vect wishes he was.

Vect is allegedly quite the schemer and manipulator, but there's a lot of tell-don't-show to his intelligence. A lot of his appearances in stories have him just cudgeling problems away by smacking them with an absurdly disproportionate doomsday weapon in order to deter others from challenging him. He's basically using ork tactics to remain the warboss of the drukhari, except instead of a power klaw, he uses doomsday weapons and spends a bunch of money hyping up his spy network to keep people paranoid.

To his credit, he *does* occassionally do something clever (his trick with the Salamanders when he first rose to power, his funeral thing, some of the stuff in Queen of Knives), but half of those still kind of boil down to him just throwing piles of money at people to pull off flashy ambushes or intimidate people into behaving via his reputation.

Meanwhile, pretty much every scene we get with Malys has her scheming and setting up plans within contingency plans, frequently indulging in a bit of wordplay, all while being the relative underdog compared to Vect.

Vect was clever once 6 millennia ago, and he's been bashing people over the head with his checkbook ever since. Malys basically threw away her holdings at least once, reclaimed them because she knew she was talented enough to do so, and frequently makes cleverness her main weapon. To the point of it manifesting as an invuln save because she's Sherlock'ing her way through fights.

EDIT: Vect launched a propaganda campaign to declare himself a dark muse and to try to force people to believe it. Malys is probably some sort of demigod in her own right, and she seems perfectly happy keeping it on the down-low.

Yeah, pretty much. Vect is like the Ahsoka of 40k.... someone we are continually told how awesome they are.

-STS

That's easy. In my heart of hearts, I've always wished 40K would re-connect with the 2000 A.D. people somehow. I still lament the loss of that symbiosis which was lost by 2nd edition..

So, bring Nemesis the Warlock and the ABC Warriors into 40K, and vice versa.

If AI ever gets "good enough" to generate legit feeling 2000 AD / 40K crossover material for me, I'll be in a happy place

Nemesis the warlock could well already be in 40k

Universe Beyond flashback

I've made some DnD and Heroscape models converted for WH along other model lines.

For a versus crossover, I would go with Starcraft/Warcraft, they were inspired by each other so seeing them fight each other would be interesting, especially seeing the blizzard universes seeing the horrors of warhammer.

For a PvEish crossover, Deep Rock Galactic and Helldivers vs a Warhammer army would be cool.

For the memes, a dating visual novel where you can date the primarchs.

 NivNeos wrote:
I've made some DnD and Heroscape models converted for WH along other model lines.

I'll do you one better: I introduce an actual Space Marine into my campaign. This makes more sense when one understands that the veil of reality was more than a little broken as a result of the previous campaign.

When I saw Mortal Engines, Adeptus Titanicus came to mind.

 tauist wrote:
That's easy. In my heart of hearts, I've always wished 40K would re-connect with the 2000 A.D. people somehow. I still lament the loss of that symbiosis which was lost by 2nd edition..

So, bring Nemesis the Warlock and the ABC Warriors into 40K, and vice versa.

If AI ever gets "good enough" to generate legit feeling 2000 AD / 40K crossover material for me, I'll be in a happy place

Tell me more of this ancient time.

-STS