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    Melcavuk

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    13 hours ago, Melcavuk said:

    I tried to avoid using Skitarii specifically as the base models (I do really want their rifles though) as they are entirely too metal for my tastes. The crude prosethetics on the Cawdor, the bandaged and patched clothing, the occasional shoe missing etc to means far more of a labourers life than a smooth coated Skitarii Vanguard. For the officers weirdly Eisenhorn makes the best base model (turn that coat mustard, change the head to something more Sigmaresque) and I have forgeworld heads from the Nuln Ironsider kit to replace his head with.

    For the confusion around the marines the harness (thrice the height of a man), and the prosthetics (literally a more industrial version of the modern equivalent) are the two enhancements I had angled for, the first is literally a mechanical version of a monster with a butchered noble piloting it (Here I can see comparisons to the Knights but smaller, less armoured, less advanced, exposed pilot and a big ass sword) and the second is... a replacement limb. No steroid induced, indoctrinated, 8 foot marines walking around (unless you count stormcast and thats a whole other debate)

    The reasoning behind using 40k kits is simple, they have human kits that were made this century. Unless you're looking for barrel chested chaos dudes Sigmar is currently light on base models for a human conversion, as much as the Empire troopers were good in their day they really havent ages well (to my mind) and whislt I do love the forgeworld variant even I cant afford to run full forgeworld on every conversion project (yet, one day...)

    I understand how Factory Cities might lend to the concept of Forge World Equivalents, but since their outposts are Cog Fort, I tried to scale upwards and simply changed the name from "Factory Complex" in the lore to "Factory City" to make it self governing as a faction. On the plus side rereading the malignportents story has informed me they have "Cog Haulers" about the same size as alarilles beetle, whether this is a new name for the old steam tanks or something entirely new any lore tidbit that can lend ideas is always a most welcome concept.

    so we have no problem then I like to read and maybe help the ironweld battle tome if you want by the way nice work in explaining to me the fluff you are looking as I am a bit of noob in army building thus any think I said to offend you I am sorry.

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    Melcavuk

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    what I mean from space marine was dudes in bigger armor then most skitari/ ironweld units like veterans of battles to injured to work with regular prosthetics or guys specializing much heavier combat frame and use heavier weapons than regular ironweld utilize as the comment for how you can have sword-wielding ironweld skitari basically have their own swords thus only new paint scheme needed to add them. and I am sorry for the previous post I just extrapolated from what you wrote this. I just mention the similarities between the ironweld and skitari in the text and I do believe skitari models can be a substitute as ironweld arsenal troops with a bit of background excuse by changing forge world to forge cities.

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    Melcavuk

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    are we talking ironweld arsenal or age of waagmar edition of Adeptus mechanicus with a dash of Astartes thrown in as side flavoring as most of your army generally contains skitari troops converted to the age of Sigmar with occasional space marine thrown in as a heavy hitter with devastator marines and imperial knights acting as siege/ behemoth units.

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