http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/8.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net 40k with the release of 8th edition, but little plastic men have gotten way more expensive than I remembered, so if I'm going to field a decent army I am needing to get creative. I lucked upon an Age of Sigmar starter box for dirt cheap, and scored a bucket of cultists & a chimera for even less, so I've been looking at building a combined Chaos army - towards that end I also picked up the Start Collecting Khorne Daemons boxed set.

I had the notion of using the Reavers from the AoS box as really powerful melee-oriented cultists, but then I read the Heretics & Renegades list and discovered Renegade Marauders, the scum & villainy-ish mercenaries of the 40k universe. Every squad of 5 allows the inclusion of 2 Brutes, who are tougher and much better at melee than their regular cultist buddies, so now I'm thinking I could use the chaos cultists as the regular marauders, and use the Reavers as brutes. All they would arguably need to fit into 40k would be a pistol-swap out for one of their melee weapons.

I'm going to have quite a few regular cultists left over after using up all the Reavers though, and the Marauders to have a potentially problematic morale rule (roll 1d6, entire squad quits the field on a 1) so I thought I could use the remainder as regular cultists to offset and shield them somewhat, as long as I made sure I used like models with like & didn't mix them between the two different unit types.

The AoS Gorechosen are dead ringers for Khorne Berserkers, and again would probably only need weapon swaps, and if I were being a real stickler about it, the addition of Space Marine pauldrons.

I know that "counts as" models are a mighty grey area as far as gaming is concerned though, so I would appreciate feedback on my proposed conversions and your opinions on whether I'm even crafting a legal army here.

Thanks lots,
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If these apply to your models, do it.
Use similar bases and model sizes to the official models and you shouldn't have much trouble with "counts-as".
It isn't as though a lot of the units listed in the indexes and codexes have official models anyway. IG veterans, and so on.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/732391/9485975.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/732391/9485975.page GMT WYSIWYG.
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