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Suggestions for a Dark Mechanicus List? |
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Mortimer
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Post subject: Suggestions for a Dark Mechanicus List?  Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:43 am |
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There seems to be very little flesh in the Dark Mechanicus's background ... mostly what I know is that they are the Adeptus Mechanicus equivalent to Traitor Marines and Lost and the Damned forces.
So what would they possibly include?
Daemon Knights other than Slaanesh types?
Obliterators or some equivalent?
Chaos Emperor Titans (Abominatus?)
Theres not much to go on, any ideas folks?
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vanvlak
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Post subject: Suggestions for a Dark Mechanicus List? Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 10:27 am |
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Well...
From Aeronautica Imperialis we get the name of a planet they are stationed on, and I can't remember which (Xania II?) so I'll have to check once home.
And they build the Chaos fliers here.
They have also built the Planet Killer, so they would be certain to construct smaller, groundbased large calibre weapons.
The trouble would be compiling a list which is based on existing machines.
I would include knights and war engines and fliers from the LATD list, and any other fliers from any other list. And then titans. A dark CI or a dark Leviathan or Cyclops (from the squat lists) would be nice. I'd limit demons: as these blokes entrap them in their machines, I'd stay clear of them if I were a demon!
For infantry, some form of technologically enhanced but slow troops should do, or perhaps slaves.
Careful, though, too easy to overpower this list!
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ragnarok
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Post subject: Suggestions for a Dark Mechanicus List? Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:02 pm |
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I would have a limited number of traitor titans in the list. I don't see the tratior legios having close ties with the fallen forgeworlds. morealong the lines of them turning up and demanding they get reapired and rearmed or they will use their plasma weapons (ie ammoless) ones on the aforementioned forgeword.
They will have lots of different typpes of daemon engines. Though modelling them all wll be an arse. I would keep away from the known marked engines from pervious editions, they have a home in LatD. If you take them the list will look like it is just a beefed up LatD lst.
I would go for defilers, and other leggy creatures such as brass scorpians and err, you will need to invent some.
Infantry wise I would use either steel legion or barran stated troopers to represent the slave fodder that they would herd into the enemy guns, posible have a limted number of chaos marine formations to oversee the operations.
Aircraftwise, they three FW chaos planes should be in the list. Pssible changing the harbinger from a bomkber to a support craft. It is so frigging huge it deserves to stay on the table.
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Mortimer
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Post subject: Suggestions for a Dark Mechanicus List? Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:10 pm |
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Hmmm, so a half Defiler half Knight sort of dealy sounds like a good fit (I'll call them Daddy Defilers until I can think of a proper ... less cutsy title).
There used to be a few chaos robots didn't there? (Blood Slaughterer is the only one that I can recall).
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ragnarok
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Post subject: Suggestions for a Dark Mechanicus List? Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:21 pm |
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Hell knight?
I think the best approach would be to bastardise existing imperial vehicles as a starting point. So imperial knights with tails and a bonus to their initiative on engages (I don?t see the dark ad mech having a good initiative rating).
So you could have
Hell knight with a chain blade, some cannon and a tail giving extra attacks, or something
Hell baron, same as above, but with commander and a few other ?character? special rules
Hell stalker, a two gun knight, maybe with a heavy bolter or reaper auto cannon in the tail
Defilers
Brass scorpions
Hell cannons
Hell blades
Hell talons
Harbingers
Chaosy SHTs such as shadowswords that hit on 4+ but cause D3+1 points of damage
Infantry
Fire support squads
And so on
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