You are tasked by GW with creating a new WH40K faction - one

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>>50187876
I'll give you 3 (three)
Eldar exodites: dinosaurs edition
Rogue traders: the confederation
Slann remnants: dinosaurs bogaloo

>>50187876
I'd just re-release the sisters of battle, GW clearly forgot they existed so I could pass them off as a new faction.

>>50187876

Squats or 30k Interex

>>50187876
Khemri.
The reason they left fantasy was so they could guard footballs in space.

Some sort of evil version of space marines. Perhaps they were once space marines and then betrayed their friends the space marines in order to be evil. Ill call them bad guy space marines

>You are tasked by GW with creating a new WH40K faction - one that will sell well.
>>50187876
Either not!Egyptians or not!ImperialRussians.
There would be a schism in the Imperium of Man, and this faction would be a direct result of it.
The schism would be whether to consider Emperor a God among Men, or an avatar of Mankind.

>>50187876
Make beastmen an important faction and wait for furries to pour their disposable income into my waiting pockets.

>>50188100
>not!Egyptians
We already have the necrons

Dark Mechanicus.
Rak'gol
Abominable Intelligence.

>>50188167
That is a vile, contemptible, and perverse corruption of the already jumbled, inconsistent, and fucked up lore of 40k and a betrayal to it's abused fans for the sake of appealing to bottom feeders with loose pockets.

And it would actually work

You should apply to Games Workshop, you'd fit right in.

>>50187876

I spin off a faction of Guev'esa space marines using hijacked tech. Combining Astartes and Tau will lead to tremendous sales, even if it is absurd.

Insectoid race with an actual intelligence, that isn't as dull as the Tyranids. They create a colossal trade-empire with ever replacable workforce.

You're all fools. The new faction I'd create would be some kind of Space Marine faction, and it'd sell billions!

Space vampires, space sylvanets.

>>50187876
>Warhammer 40,000
>Return of the Squats

>>50187876

Space marines that look slightly different, are slightly larger, cost 10X as much per fig, and have a hella OP codex,

RAK'GOL

A complete faction available for $20 pre-assembled and another complete faction set-up the same way for the same price.

Get both for $40 with terrain and shit too.

The problem with 40k is the price for entry is fucktarded. Releasing a fleshed out sub-GW standard complete army on the cheap will actually get people into the hobby.

People aren't afraid of getting into minis at a fair price.

>>50187876
Space marine legions. For loyalists.

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>>50188240
>Abominable Intelligence

would be cool

>>50187876
Something 30k or prior. Men of Iron, Interex, the Squats who held back the Great Crusade, etc

>>50188018
Wouldn't 1st and 2nd be too similar?

>>50189901
WARHAMMER 20K

>>50188172
And thousand sons

>>50189909

Why should GW bother with a product for such an unrealistically cheap price when none of the other companies do?

>>50187876
They still haven't done a spacefaring underwateraquatic race
>trillarians from MoO2
underwater illithyds do it now

>>50189747
Blood angels and exodites(ish)

>>50190213
>OP Eldar
>No Slaanesh or Tau

Tau who used stolen space marine gene seed on some of their "allies" but it makes them loyal to the imperium of man, also make them waifu bait somehow.

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>>50187876
Space Lolis

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>>50187876
House Atreides from the Dune Universe.

>HQ
-Paul Muad Dib riding a sandworm
-Paul Muad Dib on foot with wyrding device and/or personal sheild
-Gurney Halleck
-Thufir hawat

>Elites
-Bene Gesserit witches
-Fremen in stillsuits with wyrding devices
-Sardukar Loyalists
-Engineers

>Troops
-Thumper infantry
-Harkonen Conscripts
-Troopers
-Light Infantry

>Fast Attack
-Ornithopter
-Carry All
-Quad
-Trike

>Heavy Support
-Sandworm
-Siege Tank
-Frigate
-Rocket Tank

I'm sure people would lap it up

>>50190250
>Blood angels
Well I mean Space Vampires undead.
>and exodites(ish)
It's Space Wanderers, I mean space tree folk.

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>>50187876
>spess muhreens - chaos SM
>eldar - dark eldar
>IG - the lost and the damned
>Tau

Evil tauranids in dark armor.
Probably gonna have to scrap the GIANT ROBUTS gimmick for something else tho?

>>50188018
All of these are good.

>>50188093
I can't imagine a worse idea

>>50188321
>>50188167

I was going to suggest diminutive equines under a Matriarchal government, but that works too.

>>50187876

Squats and Giantesses - a secret abhuman civilisation that's been chilling in what was a single extra large space hulk whose members are made up of female giantesses and male squats who boarded the so called "mother hulk" back during the early part of the dark age of technology when their ancestors were still entirely human and loyal to the imperium, so their units are a mix of big, powerarmored ladies and squats with weird dark age of technology artillery and other heavy weapons.

Introduced into the current 41st millenium when the "mother hulk" breaks up and its various parts pop back into the matterium, so millions of imperial and otherwise planets basically having death stars appearing in their skies and hordes and chaos tainted and warped giantesses and squats flood out and conquer them so they can get supplies and begin travelling around the galaxy linking up the hulkfolk who ended up vaguely near enough to each other to form instant pocket faux-empires bent on plunder and expansion, especially against the "false 'irium" they see, basically not being fully chaos in outlook, but a warped version of the imperium itself molded after its batshit elements and ideals have been passed and corrupted through generation after 1000 generations of isolation and reinterpretation.

Throw in the ork looting rules as well for vehicles.

>>50190579

No, hear me out, we can make them have like their own evil bad guy gangs, like West Side Story. Then, when everyone gets real upset about all the bad guys, we can just remove those and have all the bad marines be from just the one same gang. I'm sure the bad guy players will also appreciate the sense of unity this will create.

>>50190406

Sauce on pic?

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>>50190846
>the sense of unity

Somebody post Gav's "vanilla's the best flavour" fauxpology for gutting the CSM dex where he throws Cacciatore under the bus and rants like a moron. That thing's a veritable clinic on how NOT to write an army book.

>>50187876
Rogue AI

>>50190224
To redeem themselves for 30€per model.

>>50192248
>>50189933
>>50188240

Surviving Men of Iron come again to wreck shit would be pretty awesome. And it would give Admech a designated Fluff enemy which would be pretty sweet as well.

Order/Emperor Demons? Given that order as a force of the universe has been mentioned in the warhammer settings, I think I'd be a pretty interesting idea, if one requiring an expansion of the lore. I'm not talking about Hallmark card style angels either, but horrifying and strange ones that draw inspiration from scripture and abstract art. Burning concentric wheels and multiple heads/sets of eyes and suchlike. Maybe slip a little Evangelion into the designs. Point is, as per the setting, you shouldn't be too sure these creatures are better than their counterparts.

It's just a thought that's been stuck in the back of my mind. Maybe their origins should be kept mysterious?

>>50192643
>Order/Emperor Demons?
So you mean wrote seraphons codex?

>>50192700
Similar base concept, but with a different aesthetics (more fitting for the religious themes of the Imperium), and crunch not entirely dissimilar to the Demons army in their strengths.

Still room for grimdark, on the account of angels pulling some exterminatus tier acts if provoked/commanded. Something awe-inspiring and horrible in it's sheer, overwhelming righteousness. Like atom bombs of light and order, violently cleansing darkness regardless of where it lies or who ends up as nothing more than a person-shaped smudge on the concrete

>>50190406
>wyrding device
>he's referring to the dune movie, not the book
Triggered

Something to cater to bronies.

>>50192884
So the Tau are now moderately successful after getting all turned into horses for some reason?

Anime girls.

Non-imperium, non-Christian humans

>>50192940
Non-chaos not non-Christian

>>50192884
Let's make it strong independent black womyn wiccan ponies who don't need no Emperor. They have an Empress, though. She's secretly the wife of the Emperor. She's stronger than him but always held back because she didn't want to hurt his feelings.
They're all psykers, but the good kind, like the next step in human evolution.

>>50192897
No.
The Ultramarines.
Because it's not an mho, it's a horseshoe.

>>50190473
>Tau - Orks

>>50187876
I would make the Men of Iron in. They would function and build with almost a spray of nanobots, sort of like the builder units in planetary annihilation.

>>50192964
>>50192884
That's the imperium.

We have the worthless mud-people - IG
The 200% cooler space people - SM
The space wizards- Admech
The pointless species not even Tumblr cares about - SoB

>>50194407
>OUR GOOD IS THE GREATEST BOIZ

>>50194495
Where the tau subsume their personal desire for the greater good, the common motive or orks is literally just their common desire to wrwck shit.

>>50188100
>not!ImperialRussians
What about Vostroyans?

>>50187876
Spin-off the lizardmen from WFB

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>>50187876
Self replicating robots built by the Orks.
The first few were powered by the psychic gestalt as everyone thought they were just Orks that had everything replaced with metal over time... and possibly that's exactly what they were.
But the first few began building more, these capable of independant action and able to replicate further.
They eat metal, have primitive intelligence, and fall apart a few days after being built.

They can eat your tanks to build more bots, but at the start of each turn a few of them might randomly fall apart.
Some leave grease trails that make them hard to pursue, others are capable of laying dormant for years at a time looking like a pile of scrap until they reactivate to attack.
Their vehicles are just larger ramshackle robots, that barely look like they'll hold together (they won't) but are able to consume enemies to make repairs.
They would have weird infantry, tough to kill walkers (unless they broke down on their own accord), and crazy artilery... like one that acts as a psuedotransport that uses a deepstrike like rule to launch dudes around.

Their aestetic would resemble... there was a terrible cartoon called robotomy. After the Orks set them loose, they sort of did their own thing.
They would not be battle brothers with Orks though, as they recognise that the Orks love smashing them (they just keep coming back), which makes the Orks a primary threat.

>TL;DR
Half asleep ramblings bring dumb idea for greasy robot faction.

>>50194518
Sorry, I thought you were saying there could be a faction of Tau allied Orks. Somehow tricked into support the Greater Good.

>>50188018
This, either Exodites, or have lizardmen in space with gravity and weird psychic flame weapons

>>50188019
Except theyre releasing plastic sisters soon...

>>50195369
January is not soon
is January

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>>50195364
>and weird psychic flame weapons
>magic space pepes kill you by cutting your body's link to your soul with wesponized bongs; not killed targets experience temporal psychic null.

>>50187876
Make a microfaction that can be taken as allies, needs only a few new kits, and is powerful

like Deathwatch and GSC, both of which sold really well, especially GSC.

Alternatively, expend Militarum Tempestus as Scions are one of the better selling kits due to how tacticool they are.

Or release a new formation that makes tactical squads more desirable. I've heard a third of all kit sales are tactical squads, so boosting tac squad sales would have a huge impact.

>>50187876
Abominable Intelligence faction.

Or a human cyborg faction all about Dark Age tech.

Pirate/rogue human forces. They use xenos and human tech side by side, all of it scavenged and patched up. They have ramshackle tanks with storm bolters/shuriken catapults/railguns/whatever they've come across.

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>>50194518

that's just blueberry gretchin

>>50187876
I would come up with a new game. Age of strife. The major Terran factions fighting over earth. You could even have a unification wars expansion that adds the emperors faction with thunder warriors and solar system factions like the admech or saturnine enclaves or the guys on Luna etc.

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>>50197381
That would actually be cool.

Tau auxileraries
Interex 30k
Dark mechanicus
Men of iron
Cyborg tyrannids?
Hrud
Another extragalactic race?

>>50197611
How did it take this many posts to get to Hrud. I'm disappointed guys, space skaven a best.

>>50190845
I don't think any idea in this thread can even come close to matching this level of shit.

>>50187876

Oh, wow! A 2% drop in a stock price by lunch time! GW must sure be in a lot of trouble, what with normal market fluctuations and all.

Lying-with-statistics-pickiness aside, I'm all for the return of the Men of Iron. Maybe give them some of the mining gear those Genestealer Cults got and throw in some line about them growing their robo-race underground for ten thousand years.

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Kinda a bioshock ratmen thing?>>50198277

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What about a mercenaries faction,

>>50187876
Non-chaos renegades.

Free companies and xenos mercenaries. Decouple Tau auxiliaries from the main Tau body and make them a separate, Xenos Minoris-centric faction. Add humies in some units.

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Space Hindus

pic related

>>50203097

Fucking Elephantstealers.

>>50192884
are we catering to /mlp/ style ponyfags or the auctual bronys.

>>50203549
You know instead of thinking there's a difference between the different bronies, an alternative you could consider is downing a cup of battery acid.

>>50187876
just another faction of space marines, 40k players are retarded enough to buy it.

>>50203588
the only similarity is they both go to cons (which is cringy as fuck)

>>50187876
Motherfucking Rak'Gol

>>50187876
Faction of Xenos mercenaries and trade confederacies on the fringe of the Halo Stars. Can work with other factions/bump up other factions, or fight among themselves. Maybe have the Slann in charge of them, play it up like a Mayan reconquista situation where there was an upheaval and their presence needs to be re-established.

Really just an excuse to throw in monsters and xenos to change up scenario types and how other armies work, while working on their own. Maybe have them hate the Tau on principle for being commies. Maybe have Enslavers involved.

>>50203610

Or, you know, they both like a children's cartoon designed for little girls.

>B-but it's so mature!

Off yourself

Anyway if GW released rules for Exodites, even if there were no models, I would dumb money into it and build my own shitty conversions. Fuck you GW where are my laser dinos?

Maybe, I dunno, ask players what they want?

>>50205078
>B-but it's so mature!
/mlp/ never fucking claims this
hell they have more (but still minuscule) right to claim that then most given the episode titles

>>50187876
Diasporex.
Humans who are embracing of xenos.
Can form alliance with Tau and Imperium.
And eldar

>>50205232
>Humans who are embracing of xenos.
alright
>Can form alliance with Tau
maybe a little op but ok
>and Imperium.
*BLAM*

>>50189909
>The problem with 40k is the price for entry is fucktarded.

Pretty much.

I mean I'm not super poor but it's hard for me to justify spending a couple hundred dollars in models/paints/supplies just to get started.

No idea whether I'll like the game or not or which faction I'd like, it's just a huge investment.

At least MtG is cheap unless you're buying tournament decks but just to play casually isn't expensive.

>>50187876
A race of crystaline silicoids that eat rocks and minerals. Can survive in any climate and atmosphere. They can shoot shards of themselves that suck the minerals from your body and form into a clone of themselves.

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>>50187876
I know what I'd make, but it's the last thing either the company or the fans would want to do.

Make a human faction centered around survival in space, that isn't just a rehash of a fantasy concept. You can give them a scavenger and backyarder feel without making them too "orky". Story-wise they can come from all the planets the imperium lost or fucked up. Some people just refuse to die and stare down chaos sorcerors or punch hive tyrants with excavators.
Backyarder ships would try to stay under the radar and roam the galaxy in search of loot or resources. Some would follow imperium fleets like sharks under an aircraft carrier, waiting for all the resources and useful data that slips between the bigger fleet's fingers.
Visually they'd have a lot of off road wheels and industrial equipment and everything would be made from containers and standard parts. Also every kit would come with a set of magnets so you can switch parts and weapon systems however you want or attach the whole thing under a dropship.

>>50187876
Space lizards come back, the ones that went luddite on purpose and who still no one fucks with.

Or the Hrud.

>>50187876
Legio Cybernetica

I want the Imperium to drop trow and herald the chorus of the Vultarax once more

>>50203613
Motherfucking this

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>>50187876
Make some simple non imperial human that:
Don't know/give a shit about the emperor.
Are not affected by the warp.
Don't have some uber tech of doom.
Simply run around with kinetic weapons and explosives.
With pretty munch nothing special except a lack of good infantry armour, and a fuckton of specialised soldiers(AM rifles, mortar, grenade machine gun...)

Visualise a group of those guys firing two of pic related at a charge of nids and tell me that it wouldn't be a good advertising.

>>50187876
Make super golden armored not spess marines with better stats all around and let the magic happen.

Forgeworld knows whats up.

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Redemption Cults.

>>50187876
>What do you do?
Female orks.

>>50205193
>/mlp/ never fucking claims this

Yes they do. Every time I see them shitpost on other boards about it, they include something like "and here's a link to an episode that is clearly about how communists/SJWs are bad. That proves this show is for adults. Please like me now, at least I'm not a commie!" Or some other similar retarded shit about how it's got adult jokes in it occasionally so it's okay for 30 year old neckbeards to watch it.

There is no excuse for a grown man to watch MLP alone AND post on /mlp/ about it. The only excuse for watching the show, at all, would be if you watch it with your children.

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>>50205357

Rather than making new factions, I would rather GW updated a bunch of old kits, and added a few new options in general.

As an example, Orks are still using Warbuggies from Gorkamorka-era. There are no real "dune-buggy" equivalents otherwise for standard 40k; yes, you can do the Forgeworld Tauros/Venator, but that's about it really.

Other than updating Warbuggies for Orks, you could do patrol buggies or so for Imperial Guard, or allow "war rig" variants (acting like Chariots) for stuff like Genestealer Cultists or Chaos Cultists.

That said, splitting Chaos Cultists into their own "Codex: Chaos Cults" would probably sell well, if it was done with the general attention to detail Genestealer Cults got. It could either be a conversion army, or it could also come alongside new plastic Chaos Mutants (customizable mutants!) or "Big Mutants" (The Ogryn/Bullgryn kits modified some), and maybe "light" Daemon Engines for those that want to do Stalk Tanks/Blood Pact.

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>>50187876
well, given that it's prepubescent preteens just learning about the setting who actually pay MONEY, edge-tastic space-vampire-counts. Then to appease what few fans of the existing/old fluff are still around, I include some backstory about a lost colony of humans who were turned into oldcron pariahs by an intact Ctan Shard who still directs the actions of the few sapient one by implanting a fragment of themselves inside the host body (ergo space vampires for the space undead.) You include some bit about the space-vampires being able to send out a weaker but universal control signal to necrons, being able to control the truly mindless ones as long as their lords died in hypersleep, then just include 'Cron Warriors, 'Cron Immortals, Destroyers, and Scarabs in their book (but no other more modern Necron units.) Then include a super-formation that's on par with Craftworld, Necrons, GSC, and War Convoation

For the teeny-boppers, they are space-vampires wooooh

For the grognards, they are oldcrons woooooh

For the tourney-tards is's a new power-list woooooh

Final assessment: profit.

>>50207924
/mlp/ here, we hate those faggots as much as you do.

>>50203097

You can't hindu in space! Erryone knows the beef don't travel!

An orc faction that somehow came across a fragment of the Emperor. With a combination of the Waagh and a bit of the extracted wisdom of the Emperor.. Its still a jumbled mess for everyone involved. Even Space Marines will consider it the Waagh just being the Waagh, but a little bit more restricted.

The smart ones have understood what they have and exploit both the Waagh and the knowledge to create things that should not be.

Orcs can put together guns and vehicles that should not work but do with the Waagh. That's common. Now what about use the Waagh to make a captured plasma gun work because they somehow know how exactly to fix it but, worse of all, slap on a coat of paint and it better than all imperial technology out there?

Squigs become less of a joke after goblins understand the benefits of discipline beyond poking them with a stick. Exact maneuvers with this new calvary to wipe out things without having the squigs become mental.

Shaman magic doesn't just make things stronger or faster, it also grants intelligence and dex to dumb grunts.