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hey guys, basicly i joined dakka to get some advice. is it possible to make your own army? and i mean completely inventing a new race and converting all the models.

What are you interested in playing? There may be an army out there that fits what you'd like to do.

A completely new army is doubtful unless it a mod of a current army, like a new Space Marine chapter. Otherwise you'd better hope your opponent is willing to go with whatever house rules you wanna use.

hmm good idea, i was thinking something along the lines of space marines gone bad but without chaos. so should i just say its a heavy mod of CSM?

you can make up any army you want as long as you:

1) make the figures with mostly GW material or scratch built out of putty/bits
2) have a relatively coherent set of "counts as" rules, for example, someone on this board has an entire army made of sculpted samurai which he "counts as" eldar. So you can decipher which models "count as" each unit from the normal Codexs

thanks guys, ive set up another topic about the build/painting/designing etc

Corpses, check out the space marines known as the Soul Drinkers. they might just be what you had in mind.

they have seen how corrupted the imperium had become and have turned away from it, but the still recognise the evil of chaos and fight for the emperor against everyone :þ

i tried that once whhen i first started
the end result was an army of imperial-gaurd-costing, space-marine-powered super warriors
it didnt really fly with ne one i was playing with

sphynx wrote:Corpses, check out the space marines known as the Soul Drinkers. they might just be what you had in mind.

they have seen how corrupted the imperium had become and have turned away from it, but the still recognise the evil of chaos and fight for the emperor against everyone :þ

thanks for the tipoff but i was aiming for a more vampires in space approach

Klotz wrote:i tried that once whhen i first started
the end result was an army of imperial-gaurd-costing, space-marine-powered super warriors
it didnt really fly with ne one i was playing with

same thing happened to a friend of mine, put his heart and soul into this badass lizardmen 40k army (counts as eldar) but everyone at the local gaming shop thought converting a WHFB army into a 40k army was stupid :(

but anyway guys ive moved on from that idea, my current 3 are chaos orks, desert lizard nids and maybe a sensei army

blood angels ARE vampires in space!

and I've converted a fantasy (empire) army into Imperial Guard - looks quite good...

blood angels are vampyric i have to admit but arnt gothic enough for my tastes

im sure your empirial guard looks good, im a fan of WHFB and 40k fusion myself but nobody at my local gaming shop is