http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/31.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net 40K weapons, and I'm curious, are Ratmen still canon in 40K along with groups like Beastmen and Felinids? If so, is there any info about what they are like?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/767596/10251008.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/767596/10251008.page GMT 40K (again). They feature in the new Blackstone fortress game, but also as Tzaangors in Thousand Sons armies and Pestigors are part of Nurgle in background, but not in miniatures (yet).

Basically the Hrud are thought to be the equivalent of Skaven in 40K, but as far as I know they don't appear that often in the background.
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The real key is what army you base your ratmen off. Guard would be a popular choice, though you could use any army as a "base" for the rules and then equip and style your army how you want. You could even base them off orks or Tyranids. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/767596/10251146.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/767596/10251146.page GMT
Hrud? The one in Xenobiology definitely wasn't a ratman, but other artwork might be, so who knows?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/767596/10253721.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/767596/10253721.page GMT 40K was just Warhammer Fantasy in Space. GW already brought over humans, orks, elves, chaos and dwarves in the early days so the idea that skaven, undead and lizardmen would follow was pretty likely in those days.

However GW then started to branch out into new ideas and take 40K its own way. Squats were lost, ratmen became Tyranids; Necronds appeared as undead and far as I can tell lizardmen turned into fishmen (tau).

And those are only casual links, in general 40K went its own way after a while, heck Marines, besides being human, never had a fantasy equivalent until Stormcast Eternals came along.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/767596/10253744.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/767596/10253744.page GMT 40k came out, Slann ("lizardmen" used to be one of the slann slave races back then - the faction was redesigned in 5th edition WFB) were described as a major faction - they got the same sie wrte-up and miniatures range as Orks or Eldar.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/767596/10255361.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/767596/10255361.page GMT SM with skaven heads stuck on or similar, so i think theyd need a bit of work, but with all the new necromunda and GS cult models you could probably make some cool 40k versions. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/767596/10255499.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/767596/10255499.page GMT
https://veteransergeant.wordpress.com/2017/01/23/40k-skaven-conversions/

While I do want to use Skaven as cultists, I was also thinking of converting them and Beastmen for an Astra Militarum unit, as around the Horus Heresy period, they were Imperial Guard. I could have some lore where the Imperium decides to do this again as an experiment.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/767596/10263879.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/767596/10263879.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/767596/10266628.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/767596/10266628.page GMT