You are tasked by GW with creating a new WH40K faction - one that will sell well

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.

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.

>Warhammer 40,000
>Return of the Squats

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.

Space marine legions. For loyalists.

>Abominable Intelligence

would be cool

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

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

WARHAMMER 20K

And thousand sons

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

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

Blood angels and exodites(ish)

>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.

Space Lolis

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

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

>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?

All of these are good.

I can't imagine a worse idea

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

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.

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.

Sauce on pic?

>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.

Rogue AI

To redeem themselves for 30€per model.

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?

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

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

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

Something to cater to bronies.

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

Anime girls.

Non-imperium, non-Christian humans

Non-chaos not non-Christian

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.

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

>Tau - Orks

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.

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

>OUR GOOD IS THE GREATEST BOIZ

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.

>not!ImperialRussians
What about Vostroyans?

Spin-off the lizardmen from WFB

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.

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

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

Except theyre releasing plastic sisters soon...

January is not soon
is January

>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.

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.

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.

that's just blueberry gretchin

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.

That would actually be cool.

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

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

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

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.

Kinda a bioshock ratmen thing?

What about a mercenaries faction,

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.

Space Hindus

pic related

Fucking Elephantstealers.

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

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.

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

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

Motherfucking Rak'Gol

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.

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?

>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

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

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

>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.

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.

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.

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

Or the Hrud.

Legio Cybernetica

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

Motherfucking this