When
I pre-ordered the Skitarii box set I was sort of planning on using
them for conversions, make up some Dark Mechanicus for my Renegades &
Heretics army. The thing is, though, that this is an opportunity that
comes up very rarely in this hobby: the chance to collect a genuinely
new faction.
Yes,
we've had Harlequins and Khorne Daemonkin already this year but both
those factions existed in some form before now: Harlequins as a unit
option and Daemonkin is basically a bunch of special rules for
existing Chaos Marine/Chaos Daemon allied armies. Mechanicus have not
been a playable faction since the first edition which was so long ago
and such a different gaming environment that it doesn't really count
as the same thing. They're only the second new faction since I
started playing these games (the other was Ogre Kingdoms in 2005) and
I missed the boat on that one.
So
instead of converting them I'm tempted to just make an Adeptus
Mechanicus army. It'll be interesting because I'll be at no more of a
disadvantage than anyone else buying the army since its brand new; I
don't have any old models or ideas for the army so I can come to the
background fresh; and every model is new to me so they're fresh and
interesting by default.
All
that said I don't know if I'll use Sicarian Infiltrators since they
look like... well...
... yeah,
him. I'd be tempted and I can't bring myself to paint something like
that. The Ruststalker variant looks cool, though.
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