Post by Nick P on Jul 10, 2015 8:55:43 GMT -6
After seeing Russell's beastmen on the table playing AoS the other day, I was once again reminded just how freaking cool those models are, and more over the whole range of beastmen. I've had 3 beastmen armies in my life, and ended up selling them all simply because they weren't getting used - not enough fantasy around these parts.
But we play plenty of 40k, so why the hell not repurpose some beastmen to use in 40k?
After thinking about each army in the universe and how beastmen might be incorporated, I basically came to 2 conclusions - I could create a Chaos army using beastmen in power armor, or I could create an all-beast Tau Auxiliary army. I don't love power armor, and want a chance to showcase plenty of conversions and use as much of the beastmen range as possible (rather than basically just head swaps), so Tau seems like the way to go.
Here are my thoughts so far, starting small and building up to maybe a 1000-1200 point list just for fun (read: maybe 1 riptide max, no cheese):
I figure either negotiations to bring them into the fold of the Greater Good worked so well that they can fight without direct oversight on the ground by tau command, and were given weaponry/drones/vehicles to use in the fight, or negotiations were super poor, and the beasts stole/scavenged their armor, weaponry, drone controllers, etc.
Either way, there is so much conversion opportunity here, I really want to make this a fun pet project for the 2nd half of the year now that my necrons are almost complete. I might pick up a box of gors this week (40% off at the dojo), and grab some tau bits from the internets to work some magic, see how I feel about the project.
Here's kinda what I'm going for for the basic troops:
But we play plenty of 40k, so why the hell not repurpose some beastmen to use in 40k?
After thinking about each army in the universe and how beastmen might be incorporated, I basically came to 2 conclusions - I could create a Chaos army using beastmen in power armor, or I could create an all-beast Tau Auxiliary army. I don't love power armor, and want a chance to showcase plenty of conversions and use as much of the beastmen range as possible (rather than basically just head swaps), so Tau seems like the way to go.
Here are my thoughts so far, starting small and building up to maybe a 1000-1200 point list just for fun (read: maybe 1 riptide max, no cheese):
- Gors/Bestigors + plasma rifles + backpacks + shoulder pad = firewarriors
- Gors + plasma carbines + backpacks = pathfinders
- Ungors + kroot rifle = kroot
- Minotaurs + armor plating + jetpacks + weapon systems = crisis suits
- Krootox + ungor gunner + weapon systems = broadsides
- Gorgon + armor plating + jetpack + weapon systems = riptide
- Bray Shaman = ethereal
- Bestigor champion = cadre fireblade
- Drones = drones
- Vehicles = vehicles
I figure either negotiations to bring them into the fold of the Greater Good worked so well that they can fight without direct oversight on the ground by tau command, and were given weaponry/drones/vehicles to use in the fight, or negotiations were super poor, and the beasts stole/scavenged their armor, weaponry, drone controllers, etc.
Either way, there is so much conversion opportunity here, I really want to make this a fun pet project for the 2nd half of the year now that my necrons are almost complete. I might pick up a box of gors this week (40% off at the dojo), and grab some tau bits from the internets to work some magic, see how I feel about the project.
Here's kinda what I'm going for for the basic troops: