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So I've been throwing around the idea of doing a Dark Mechanicus army for a while now, and I think the Tau rules would be best for "counts as" purposes. They would have all kinds of awesome pre-heresy tech mixed with warp tech so it's feasible they would have advanced stuff.

I have some ideas, but I'd like some more.

I wish I could find the GW "counts as" article on the web with the Adeptus Mechanicus army. Hard to find with the new site layout. Does anyone remember what WD it was in?

So...

Tech-guard will be troops.

Servitors/Servo Skulls, will be drones.

Gun-Servitors for suits.

My biggest problem of course, is how to do the skimmers. I need to keep the tau weapons for WYSIWYG purposes. But how can I either convert a grav-tank type model, or convert the tau-tank to look more like an Adeptus Mechanicus vehicle?

Need some ideas.

floating islands - steampunky it

go dark age with steam engines and warp crystals etc to keep them afloat. Sort of like ork rocks and hulks, but a little more planned?