When will the Skaven be truly adapted to 40k?

Three Months and a Week after the Comeback of the Squats.

This. Even tho the Metroid universe hasn't got the quantity of world ending weaponry, the 40k universe does, meaning every weird Alien mind control shite from Metroid can go rampant, because they have no connection to the warp.

To be honest, if they did show up, it would probably involve them being transported beneath EVERY Hive city in the Imperium, remaining undetected thanks to their advanced Tech, and deific assistance, often being mistaken for giant rodents if anyone actually went as far down the hive city as imaginable to even find them.

They'd also be the first to contact Genestealer cults in any record due to having the same sort of habitats as the nids do when in stealth mode.

That said, Skaven vs Felinid Guardsmen is a picture I want to see, Drawfags plz.

never, enjoy your stay in the age of sigmar

You're talking like 40k doesn't have that sort of shit running around already. Read shit like Xenology or some of the 40k RPG bestiary books. There's all sorts of Xenos bullshit running around the galaxy that the Imperium has to deal with on a regular basis.

I mean, Phazon? Humans canonically resist its effects in the Metroid universe; the Imperium would probably just treat it as a particularly dangerous, mutagenic power source. Looking over the wiki, it doesn't look like it's intelligent, just corrupting.

Never. Since Xenology Hrudd aren't Space Skaven any more.

My hope is that they become a tau client race, nominally supporting the greater good, but secretly trying to conquer the tau from within.

Like the mind control worms?

>Deep in Hive Cities Genestealer Cults and Space Skaven battle it out, entirely unknown to those above them
>This actually keeps the Hive City "safe" from either faction, as they are two pre-occupied with each other.

I forgot the name of that one, but one such planet does exist

why

tau are Japanese and the skaven are more like the soviets.

we don't talk about the Rangdan

Skaven (And Ogre Kingdoms) would fit pretty well in 40k actually, and were around long before age of smegmar ruined the setting and game they were designed for.

I'd love a full-fledged Hrud race but they don't really seem geared for full-scale war. Maybe in Kill-Team/SW

>Skaven
>warp tech out of their ass, reality gnawing fields and travelling through pocket dimensions

>Ogre Kingdoms
>original ogryns population left their homeworld and became xeno beasts tamers and space hulk surfers

1 human resisted its effect in metroid, and that was samus who was wearing a suit designed to vent it as much as possible. Phazon is some hardcore mixture of organic super uranium, a galactic cult, and an eldrich horror.

The x parasite on the otherhand might as well be litterally unstoppable in 40k as they have no metroids to eat it and it spreads and infects at a stupidly fast rate. There is no resistance or quarantine for these things

>people are already forgetting that Fantasy existed before Age of Smegma

Didn't we have a thread about this? People talking about porting Skaven to 40k, living in the webway, having 13 gods?

The more this thread is made the more refined we can make our homebrew of them.

Skaven live the the webway. The webway is FAR larger then what we've seen so far and the (craftworld) eldar have only been skimming the metaphorical surface of it because its a giant horde of ratmen. all the way down.

Skaven maintain a 13 member strong pantheon based on traits that skaven admire or exhibit. Their gods are mostly very young and weak (created in the last 20,000 years or so) however, the Great horned rat ((the skaven god of malice)) is as old as the skaven race itself (going back to the time of the old ones) and is an equivalent force to the emperor. He is the progenitor for each lesser skaven god. The younger skaven gods are their primarchs by comparison. Powered by their utterly IMMENSE population in the webway ( that may or may not be equivalent to everyone else (tyranids not counted) in the galaxy combined.) their ultimate game plan/victory condition is to allow their pantheon to grow in power, and for skavendom to eventually subsume the warp into the skaven's own image and take control.

Skaven lean toward ranged combat and warp abilities as a general theme. Their technological tends to lag behind the imperium ((Skaven being space WW1 to the imperium's space WW2)) but they make up for it by having a surprisingly strong connection to the warp.

Skaven lore puts great focus on them being a being the true dark mirror to humanity. Humans are mostly decent folk with morals and stuff while Skaven are all backstabbing hellcunts, humans like the light, skaven like shadows, human civilization is bleeding out and the skaven are accumulating power.

nah, they ain't

Cont.

Faction relations.

>Chaos.

Weakening the ruinous powers and subsuming them into the is ultimatly the end goalof the skaven race. The rampant slaughter of chaos worshippers is something that the skaven put a great deal of effort towards accomplishing.

>Imperium.

The average human is a realitivly good slave. Skaven observe human worlds from afar and swoop in at their moments of weakness to take everything useful back to the webway.

>Craftworld Eldar.

Can't be enslaved properly, much too psychic and bring slaanesh's attention, so they'll just cull them and move on. Frequently used as fall-guys to cover for Skaven politics ("Yes-yes, the Eldar scum-scum sabotaged the factory not me.") Skaven are constantly on the lookout for entries to the eldar craftworlds so they can overrun them to little success

>Orks

Easy to manipulate, but also have a nasty habit of killing Skaven. Poor slaves, as more than a few burrows have learned after being overrun by Orks. Will sometimes be used as an easy in. (Orks arrive somewhere and create a warzone, Skaven arrive at the war's conclusion and leave nothing)

>Tau

Excellent slaves. Skaven frequently played on the idea of joining them as a client race to steal technology, though the tau have since wised up to those deceptions and have declared their hostilities.

>Necrons

More than one Skaven has awoken a Tomb World to make a raid easier. Skaven tend to ignore necrons as they are to much trouble to take on in battle unless they are already weakened from fighting something else.

>Tyranids.

The arival of tyranids in the galaxy is something that utterly and completly horrifies the skaven. They fear the nids greatly and they fight the great devourer with everything in their power to do so by assaulting their fleets, wiping planets of life and providing other races with an excess of hardware and supplies to fight them with.

Cont.

Skaven pantheon.

>The Horned Rat: God of Malice, head of the Pantheon, He Who Hates all others.

>The Brood-mother: Goddess of Infestation, Daughter of and sole breeder slave of the Horned Rat. Partial mother to every skaven in the galaxy.
>Skyre: God of Schemes, Son of the Horned Rat, The King of Puppets
>Grutnik: God of Excess,The Opulent. Son of the horned rat.
>>Gritus: God of mindless fury, Son of the horned rat, The rage.

>Skrittlespike: God of Sneaking, Shadow-cloaked, The Snitch Spawn of Skyre.
>Mors: God of Domination, Conqueror of a Thousand Burrows, the enslaver. Spawn of Gritus.
>Skurvy: God of Conspiracy, Breaker of Clans, The traiter. Spawn of Skyre.
>Skab: God of Ego, Mirror-furred, The perfection. Spawn of Grutnik.
>Griskill: God of Envy, Hateful Runt, The spite. Spawn of Gritus
>Scruten: God of Paranoia, Mind of Thorns, Alert. Spawn of Skyre.
>Gristleback: God of Cowardice, Scarred-back, The fleeing. Spawn of Skyre.
>Ektrik: God of haste, Thoughtless initiative, The quick. Spawn of Gritus.

The Lower Eight skaven gods are all offspring of the upper Four who in turn are the children of the horned rat who stands alone as the supreme lord of skavendom able to smite his impudent offspring with ease should they dare to step out of line.

Yes.
We really do need to archive this stuff on 1d4chan because it's some high quality brew that deserves to be worked on long term. We already have a solid outline of their fluff that fits really damn well already.

TFW rat-men think they can manipulate the Tau but are literally just using fucking hammers and scrap metal to fight

HERR DERR KILL DA KAYYHOSS-THINGS

They already have been. Skaven in the Mortal Realms unwittingly contacted the Aeldari and it's only a matter of time before they find a way in.

>tfw you will never see a Squat vs Space Skaven vs Orks at Space Karak Eight Peaks

Like the what?

Tau have turned an Inquisitor. He's now got a symbiotic mind control worm in a tube attached to him. A bit like Stargate SG1

Amazing stuff
Do you think you could put that in a pastebin or something other for later reference ?

This thread really just reminds me of how much I want more of civilian militia style armies. Genestealer cults are great, if a bit lacking as an army ATM, but some sort of imperial militia, with hive world, agri world, forge world variants would add a shittonne to the setting. Cities of death is already the only real way to play 40K and has been for a long time, and a militia army would both add flavor to the setting as a whole (already trumping the bigger space marines) and could be purpose-built for 8th ed and really make use of ambush rules and strategically using command points to outmaneuver your opponent, true Gorilla warfare (no jokero though).
40K has enough high-tech shit in it already, we don't need more cutting edge primarines turning it into 30K. We need slimy rat men and impoverished hive worlders. And they'd be really easy for GW to port into a usable R&H army.

You forgot the dark eldar.

>Skaven and the eldar of commorragh are in a state of prolonged Cold War with neither side willing to make a move for fear of unacceptable losses and obliteration respectively. The dark city has a need to continue growing in size and and the skaven want to both stamp them out and take the dark city as the crowning jewel of their dominion.

How about this?

The skaven god Grutnik carries a keen intrest in taking control of the city from slaanesh and was responsible for a disastrous invasion attempt where after rallying his worshippers for jihad Grutnik's skaven army was slaughtered at the gates.

There used to be a bunch of necromunda and rogue trader era minis that expanded the range into the hive worlds and the lore outside of the primary armed forces.

A rogue trader revival with even some of the old models brought back would be awesome.

When squats comes back

A proper necromunda revival, even just as an expansion to SWAG would be the best. Genecult gangs would already be easy to port.

Nope, because I know nothing about how that stuff works.

I kind of like the idea of a secret empire of Skaven that run through the Webway & are burrowed deep in the warp.

They already are.

>TUUUUUUUUUUUBES is just replaced with WARPSTOOOOOOOOOOOOONE

The skaven aren't Chinese, anonymous. They actually invent things in the modern day.

I always figured skaven would work best if you just treated warpstone obsession as being radiation obsession. All of their weapons are high-rad, and it might be the case they NEED high radiation environments to be comfortable.

After all the marines become Primaris, the manlet marines will be renamed squats

I don't even think you really need to translate the warpstone thing very faithfully. That said the best explanation we have so far is that warpstone congregates at the lowest/unstable sections of the webway and that the skaven harvest it.

Just have them be good at using the warp iteslf.

Very nice.

Bump for intrest.

the problem is that skaven were arguably the most advanced race in WHFB, so them being techologically inept doesnt really fit

they were the race that never asks if they should do something before doing it, they have absolutely no morals or reservations on the research and experimentation they will conduct

they are the race that blew up the moon with a warp missile while the next most advanced race just knows how to make steam engines. although use of magic is pivotal to most of their technology

That is why they need tubes.

When squats come back.

They're gearing up for the AoS reboot of 40k where it's just Imperium vs Red and Black Imperium and all the other threats have been defeated.