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Hello everyone, while thinking about what to put into a Tournament List for my Elysian Drop troops I came up with a pretty cool idea to help keep the "image" of my army but at the same time be as WYSIWYG as possible. The following are ideas that I have come up with to utilize Tau units as IG models, just let me know if you think these conversions would be acceptable on the table top and if not how come? Also any ideas for you guys (that support the idea) that could work to help make this work? Thanks!

-Elysian Drop Troops with Snipers as "Fire Warriors": basically the idea here would be that these guys are my "Pathfinders" who are issued a "Long-Las" and given better armor, basically the outriders of my army sent ahead to prepare a position and call in the cavalry.

-Drop Sentinels with Missile Launchers as "Missile-Sides": Using the standard missile launcher from a base Sentinel kit in combination with a rocket pod mounted to one side (much like the Forgeworld one) to represent the different missile systems found on a "Missile-Side" Suit. The Missile "drones" will be inspired by the ones that many modern armies use.

Using plasticard and a Hellstrike missile from the Valkyrie kit in combination with some hunter killer missiles I will give the Hellstrike Missile wings and attatch the hunter killers to them (creating a wider base under the missile if I have to).

-A Dreadknight conversion to represent the Riptide. Will replace the Marine with the top of a Sentinel (seen it already done, looks amazing!) and using some extra Tau bits rigging up a look alike Heavy Burst Cannon. Now some people say the Dreadknight is a little smaller then the riptide, I will use a scenic base to give my Dreadnight more height to counter this issue.