Interesting concept. As long as you can somehow make up for the inability for enemy units to charge you while you're in water, you should be good.

>>1332964


... and their chapter master was eaten by the Jaguar Carnifex, which may or may not exist

Marines that actually have something to do with the marine? Shock.

remember to do at leas ONE "landing craft" conversion, and give helmetless marines a woolen skullcap. also powerfish

>>1333031

hadn't thought about that... that's kinda tough

>>1333039
Marines are technically just soldiers who fight from ships. The USMC are a specialized force that only keeps the title "Marines" out of tradition.

make their chapter master have two large powerfists which are like claws and a stylized cloak that resembles a lobster tail

I thought I'd use Blood Angels icons painted blue for the symbol

>>1332964

Already a chapter of marine assault specialists. But anything that takes the piss out of the smurfs is good.

If you are good enough at modeling, perhaps you could add barnacles or dried seaweed onto the tanks and whatnot.

Also, would an army like this use Drop-pods at all?

>>1333136
Then he'd need some kind of silly name...

Like Lo'bestar the Green, of the Aquamarines, from the planet Aquar.

Or possibly call him Homarus, from the latin name for the european/american lobster genus.

>>1333177

Drop pods, that burst out from under water!

I like the idea of them deepstriking from under the sea - you could give them slightly bigger backpacks to represent scuba gear. Possibly give them harpoon attatchments on their bolters... dunno how you'd do the rules for that though.

>>1333177
"Part of the ship! Part of the crew!"

>>1333179
Also, their Chaplin needs to look like the old British naval commanders.

Meanwhile the Librarian can look like R. Lee Ermey.

"WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR MALFUNCTION, PRIVATE?"
"SQUAD BROKEN!"
"LISTEN UP YOU LITTLE DIPSHITS, I'LL SHOVE MY BOOT SO FAR UP YOUR ASS ILL BE KICKING IT FROM THE INSIDE"
"SQUAD MORALE RESTORED!"

This is not really a silly idea at all.
If you need to conquer a planet which consist mostly of large oceans then It would make sense to use some sort of aqutic specialized space marine chapter.

>>1333221

great, now I'm gonna picture all marines shouting SQUAD BROKEN and SQUAD MORALE RESTORED in monotone unison while fleeing/turning round.

Make them slightly mutated like Space Wolves... except less wolfy... and more Crabby.

Crab into the Crab Pods, and Crab the Chaos Marines with your Chaincrab and your Crab Pistols. Then, we'll get our Venerable Crabnaught to Crab us from behind. Crab.

I think >>1333036 has better fluff potential. They're endlessly searching for the Jaguar Carnifex so they can exact revenge for their lost chapter master

They need some sort of underwater-capable drop pod which can be launched from orbit and later be used as landing crafts or submarines.

From the depths we strike.

>>1333179

I would call him "Marinus Clackgar" and his lobster claws would obviously be the "Gauntlets of Aquamar"

Or if you didn't like the idea of a lobster, just make the chapter master Aquaman?

>>1333253

Brilliant.

>>1333248

>>1333246

I now picture them riding around on a tiny drop-pod boat, after a legendary white aqua-fex, being led by Commander Ahab.

>>1333248
So they can use something similar to the rules for the orky submarine?

SWEET

>>1333253

Marineus Crabclaw.

>>1333228
The Inquisition would like them no doubt, since a group of submarine can easily wipe out a continent.

I suppose they would also need to work closely with the Adeptus Mechanicus to make the needed changes to their vehicles.

It does raise the question of what they would fight if underwater. Sharksquigs would be one.

Okay, so if you want to convert but are willing to have a few tourney-illegal models, you could come up with some decent amphibious vehicles.

"Patrol boat"-like Landspeeders which are mildly cheaper (say 45-50 pts with heavy bolter) but just as papery, and can only move on water.

Amphibious assault allows assault the turn they disembark if from water...

Rhino-like troop transport, haven't thought of anything yet.

Their heavy transport is the Sea Raider, with a special hero version called the Nautilus (fuck yes Captain Nemo).

>>1333286

They can fight Kroot who have eaten a lot of fish.

>>1333286

There'd more than likely be a lot of previously un-thought of underwater 'nid varients that would appear on aquatic worlds. Plus I'm pretty sure I can imagine orks in really badly cobbled together bubble helmets being as amusing as hell. Necron could just wander round on the bottom without thinking about it. As for Tau/Eldar, I haven't a clue.

>>1333286

Tyranid bio-titans. Imagine the HUEG such creatures could achieve with reduced gravity.

>>1333286
holy shit. The shit they fight above ground is scary. Just think of the fucked up shit they'll be fighting under da waves. nb4 orks drowning.

>>1333298

Can you also imagine the FRAIL such creatures would achieve with reduced gravity?

>>1333296
tau battle suits can handle some underwater action and crush.

>>1333311
The marines them selves could be even more loaded out for under water attacks. torpedo bolts FUCK YEAH!

>>1333311

Tyranids certainly aren't frail in space, chief.

Big flaw with true underwater combat is that Bolters would suddenly not work - they're horribly unhydrodynamic, plus the rocket propellants would need serious reworking to be able to fire underwater.

Not to mention nids would face a similar problem with their living ammunition... although I can see them replacing it with something akin to tadpoles.

Can you imagine something that looked like a huge school of fish, but is actually hundreds of thousands of living ammunition pellets, weaving its way towards you? And that's only the first volley.

Even worse if they turned out to be rippers. Or gaunts. Or worse.

>>1333317
orks underwater would just be lol. Nids would be the real threat in under water attacks. Necrons not so much but still there. Chaos? shit I don't know what kind of swimming demons those fucks have.

>>1333317

That's because there aren't too many tyranids in space. They all dissolve back to biomass when on the ships. They're created again when needed.

>>1333327

I could see nurgle (being organic) handling it pretty well. Soul Drinkers omnibus basically has a nurgle chaos spawn attacking space marines aboard ship.

>>1333324
underwater titans? super subs. I mean like fucking huge super subs. Battle barges that fucking drop from orbit only to sink underwater.

>>1333329

The hive fleet ships are Tyranids too. Everything that the Tyranids make use of is a living organism in some way.

>>1333324
Man at least they get to go underwater.

Sisters would be FUCKING USELESS. They'd cook their whole squad if they tried to meltagun underwater.

>>1332964
so we have Fire, Water. we need heart, earth and wind to make Capitan Planet.

>>1333345
We'll boil the enemies of the Emperor. As well as some eggs.

>>1333349
Miner Marines, Raven Guard successor with all jump packs, and Blood Angels offshoot.

They never said you had to be the one embodying heart.

>>1333363
Fuck What do they form? Capitan Emperor?

>>1333363
Actually no, fuck that, Raven guard with HANG GLIDERS.

>>1333365
Fuck if I know. Rainbow Warriors?

OP here. here's a shop of how I'd make their backpacks

>>1333376
The only acceptable color scheme for Aquamarines.

I think their super heavy should be a littoral combat ship. 30 troop capacity, LR counts as 20, Rhino counts as 15

Actually, I just thought of all sorts of bizarre Tyranid coral formations - after all, it's underwater, their structures would be different to the land structures - especially if they're at the rock bottom of the ocean.

So yeah. Prepare for all sorts of crazy Tyranid plantlife underneath the ocean.

>>1333371
needs more fans

>>1333376
I'd possibly do the Aquilae or shoulder pad edges in gold. Not sure how it'd look though. It just heightens the parody of the smurfs, and would probably look better.

octogaunt

>>1333386

FUCK YES, TYRANID TRYGON SQUID

Nids would be awesome underwater. Theyd be more snakey and like, flippery, in a good way.

Tau would just use modded suits.

Orks would be fuckwin, like green Big Daddys from Bioshock

>>1333371
Not bad, it would have to be modified to a degree to work underwater. If anyone gives you slack, say "The Emperor designed under-water combat armor too, you just never see it used as they tend to fight on land"

>>1333327
Orks would attach hairsquigs onto their head, legs, and groin, then shave them so they go faster.

Other than that they just need a speedo, a looted fishbowel for a helmet, and a stormboy rocketpack.

Necron Gauss Weaponry would be effected easily, seeing as whenever they try shooting their weapons they just vaporize water.

Underwater Necrons would probably be made up of specially altered Wraiths.

>>1333431

There are already modified backpacks that the Astartes use for underwater operations. Most chapters would practice some form of underwater combat as part of their hazardous environment training.

>>1333431
>Necron Gauss Weaponry would be effected easily, seeing as whenever they try shooting their weapons they just vaporize water.

Not gonna stop them from slowly walking up to you and ripping you to bits.

Tyranids are space Dinosaurs. Thusly, we need some under-water space Dinosaurs.

>>1333431
IMO assault marines would be fairly easy to turn into nice underwater marines, but that's expensive.

Just a bit of modeling to turn the air intakes into water intakes and add a few propeller screws.

There is a planet in the Calixis sector, the Dark Heresy place that is, that is a water world with really ravenous wildlife. I imagine a fun campaign about Tyranid cultists trying to absorb the data for the Hive Fleet.

Also, we need to do up rules for Aquatic Nids and Aquamarines now. I can see Tau with aquatic battle suits and hover boats too. Imperial Guard have a start with things like the Chimera and their freaking higgans boats on the land, so yeah.

>>1333431
SUDDENLY! seven million orks from under da wata. Moving like a giant green inland or orkyness.

>>1333444
Well yeah, but I never imagined the warriors to be good swimmers.

But somehow the image of some form of Necron bobsled team being launched at the Aquamarine submarines sounds like it would work in 40k.

>>1333458

Kill yourself.

Signed,
#DOOC

>>1333472

Necron submarine. Doesn't shoot torpedo's, just warriors.

God-damn underwater Necrons Wraiths.

Plus, in this landscape, Necron lords with lightning fields pwn.

>>1332964
Blitz assaults from underneath the waves=Awesome

>>1333482
and scarabs yo. Dun forget the scarabs.

>>1333444
The thought of that makes me shit bricks...

Think of the undersea horror that would be Tomb Spiders, Scarab Swarms (school of fish swarm status), and Wraiths.

So what we've learned is that Necrons suddenly become interesting under water.

I motion that all Necrons become aquatic to counter the mindnumbing dullness that infests them otherwise.

They retconned enough stuff to get Necrons into plot in the first place - it doesn't take much to retcon them to all actually only live underwater.

>>1333495
>>Scarab Swarms (school of fish swarm status)

AWESOME.

>>1333502

I'd still be more scared of swarms of living ammunition coming at me... because I'd know it'd only be the first shot.

>>1333495

And flayed ones wearing shark skins.

>>1333501
holy shit yeah. With their warp tech transporting 700 billions gallons of water to flood a planet should not be hard at all.

>>1333506
Living ammo that dies over time or Tiny metal bugs that only die when killed?
I'm going with da metal.

>>1333515

>>1333510
Sharkskin Flayed Ones would be fucking bad-ass. Of all the things to shed in their claws, they choose the most efficient fuckin' predator in th sea.

Going with undersea themes, a skeletal, coral-covered Nightbringer comes to mind.

>>1333501

Retcon it so Necrons originally lived on aquatic worlds, but in the millions of years of sleep something went horribly wrong and they woke up to dead worlds. Then just have all future Necrons on water worlds.

>>1333532
or flooding the shit outta other worlds.

>>1332964
I want to see some titans rising up out of the water and raining death onto cites and then just disappearing underneath the waves.

>>1333522

Sorry Charlie, but I'd still go with the Tyranids being scarier for two reasons... firstly because Necrons are so fucking boring... and second, because Necrons are limited in number, Tyranids are not. Die they may, but they will just keep on being made, even after they're dead. You either have to kill Every Single One, or wipe the biomass off the planet. Necrons stay dead once you've killed them, until eventually you've killed enough that they run away.

Also, I now have a cunning and devious plan involving Orks inside looted sea creatures.

>>1333540
Or maybe the Deciever was bored.

I mean that is how Pariahs were made.

Possible underwater scenarios include:
- Necron machinery beneath the ocean working to dry the planet up and reduce it to a tomb world.
- Tyranid spores has descended from the sky and landed in the water. Only a few days later have people actually gathered the courage to explore underwater.
- Everyone thinks that they're safe when the Ork Rok crashes into the water instead of land. However, a few of the leading people shit bricks when they get readings of thousands of objects moving towards them from underwater.
- Chaos have landed on the planet and are excavating the sunken ruins of a Chaos Temple.

>>1333551

There are so many things wrong with that that I'm just going to hope you contract penis cancer.

>>1333551
ork attack whales? orks riding sharks? orks attaching ther bodies to robot squids?

>>1333554

Tau: Underwater research facility. What are the researching? Who cares, it's underwater and probably important by virtue of the fact IT'S UNDERWATER.

Eldar: Underwater webway gate is underwater underwater. Underwater.

>>1333558

Mutant amphibious squigs. WW1 era battleships. "Waterworld" style attack craft - jetskis, improvised airboats.

>>1333558

I was thinking more they get something like a blue whale, gut it, replace its bones with metal ones, stick armour plates on it and an engine, slap some red paint on it, and then poke guns out the eye holes.

I wonder what colour airtight is.

>>1333562
I like you logic.

Eldar. Shit was above ground 3000 years ago. Then fucking fault movements and shit sunk the continent. They want retrieve some old ass magic voodoo eldar gadgets and shit nuff said.

>>1333566

There was that flying minelayer in the Apocalypse book, why can't they just have an underwater version...

>>1333558
orks riding sharks would be so fucking awesome.

Warhammer: Terror from the deep.

>>1333557

I'll tell you one thing he didn't get wrong... the whole bit about Necrons being boring!

Every line tonight is golden... I'm here all week.

>>1333562

The guard are just pissed that this had to happen ON THEIR ONE WEEK OF LEAVE when all they wanted to do was take a swim at the beach. Fucking xenos.

>>1333566

>>1333579

I just picture a Guardsman style D-Day landing, with the accompanying massacre. While they're all wearing shorts.

>>1333580

(raises an eyebrow)

>>1332964

My friend is actually making this chapter (yes, they are called the Aquamarines - for both 40K and BFG). I wish I had some pics, some of the stuff he's done is great...

Just think about aqua-colored Marines with starfish hanging off, and Land Raiders encrusted with barnacles.

Necrons are meant to be boring lifeless assholes.
variety and diversity kind represent life n shit. necrons aren't down with life you know what I sayin

> However, a few of the leading people shit bricks when they get readings of thousands of objects moving towards them from underwater.

Orks should just be orks even underwater- they don't need any special fucking gear or so, they've got their waagh and they think they have no problems being underwater. Thous no problems with being under water.

Necrons however might be abit overpowered, since it's in their fluff that their weapons needs ridiculous amount of power and since it's underwater they can just turn it into electric and fuck things over.

>>1333581

Shorts being about as effective on tabletop as flak vests.

>>1333591

boring lifeless assholes does not a fun army make.

>>1333580
this has got to be an ork battleship. Look at those fucking guns man. Thats a lotta dakka

>>1333607

Yep. Ork Battleship from the Deff Skwadron comic.

>>1333591

Please, do us all a favour and stop with the niggerspeak, it makes you and your points laughable.

That said, you're right, necrons ARE supposed to be lifeless, that doesn't mean they're supposed to be boring. >>1333600 is right, boring lifeless assholes are for boring lifeless players; they're not fun to paint, they're not fun to look at, they're not fun to play, they're not even fun to play against. Necrons need some serious work to be enjoyable. I'm not even 100% sure if this is subjective, because I've heard so many people complain about it; and so many people try very very hard to try and make an enjoyable Necron list for their opponents.

>>1333596

Nah, I have to disagree, Orks still need the silly gear. However, I imagined more along the lines of them having just a fishbowl over their head, yet somehow they don't run out of air due to Waagh, and somehow it isn't completley shattered by a stray bolter shot (or no more so than their armour would be). I even imagine a warboss in one smoking a cigar, without any ill effect whatsoever.

>>1333616
guns dun need to turn on an ork ship. theres on pointing in every direction.

>>1333163
Nice scheme... Who are they?

>>1333631

Space Sharks

>>1333626
there flamers would work too. Just because they think they will.

>>1333607
dakka dakka dakka dakka dakka dakka dakka dakka dakka dakka dakka dakka dakka dakka dakka dakka dakka dakka dakka dakka dakka

>>1333637

I'd also go with the marines somehow managing to get flamers and meltas to work in a similar way to how you get UW welding torches... presumably with a second tank of oxygen/nitrous oxide.

This'd let you get underwater Sisters too.

In bikinis.

>>1333643

>>1333644

HRMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMm

>>1333644
sisters in bikinis? kinda want.

>>1333629
Except behind.

Seriously. Other than Battleships, in BFG at least no Ork ship has a gun that's not facing forward or to the sides. And the battleships can only shoot behind them because of turrets.

>>1333472
Some people say you know they can't believe-- Tomb World we have a bobsled team....

Feel the rhythm! Feel the rhyme! Get on up, it's Necron Time!

>>1333658

Kinda? Whats wrong with you?! WANT!

>>1333695
I have this feeling that battle sisters will be unbelievably ripped and don't got a thing for a women who can snap my back in half.

Awesome idea is awesome.

>>1333702

Meh. Still hot.

>>1333706

Correction.

>>1333720
Way to answer the question, "What would Chaos do underwater", Sorcerer.

counts as slaneeshi daemonette

>>1333803

More liek SEAmonette, amirite?

>>1333803
she brought the protagonist fish when he was floating in a shitty dinghy in the ocean so he wouldn't starve to death

he couldn't take a hint and she had to leave without any hot warm-blooded land creature dickings

>>1333805
i see what you did there.

>>1333819
>I sea what you did there.

Fixed.

>>1333826

I lol'd hard.

>>1333805

It's better than the traditional semenettes.

>>1333826

Christ, I'm so tempted to switch that to "icy", and that makes me want to make polar enviroment props.

If someone could point me towards instructions for such things, that would be great.

>>1333852

I'm sure terragenesis had some articles...

>>1333811
She was even nude for him. There was an intense rage when I watched that while a little b&.

>>1333862

I'm looking, but I can't seem to find any.

>>1333244

To me, Crab Brothers! We will crab this day!

Assume pincer formation and move out!

(Walking sideways, obviously.)

>>1333880

http://us.games-workshop.com/games/warhammer/terrain/snowbases/default.htm

May well be of interest.

>>1333891

Assault the weak spot in their formation for MASSIVE DAMAGE!

>>1333900

Not especially, what I'd like is instructions for building polar scenery.

>>1333950

Isn't that just the same as normal scenery, except painted white, or with a cap of snow on it? And surely you can extrapolate the polar basing techniques to larger scale props.

Orks are waaaaay ahead of you on this one.

>>1333980
I now want an Ork in a foam lobster costume.

>>1333980

Also this: http://www.the-waaagh.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=27791&st=80

>>1333983
We wuz at da beech
Ev'rybody had matchin' flash
Sumbody went to da doc'
'n dere dey saw a ork
It weren't an ork,
It were an ork lobstaaaa!

>>1333989

Needs more Ork Lobsta Boyz.

>>1333989
i love you

WAAAAAAAGH!
. . .
FLOP FLOP FLOP FLOP FLOP FLOP FLOP

The Terminators need to be modelled after Big Daddies.

Have the jaws theme in your head for this Kommando.

Can I have my fish-squig krump'd?

There's at least one mercenary Warjack that looks like a big angry diving suit. Counts as Aquamarine Dreadnought?

You may have thought the previous stuff was a bit naff, but this is absolute genius.

>>1334041
I didn't think the previous stuff was naff... but.... you're right. You're so right.

>>1334041
Emperor preserve us, I lol'd

>>1334041
So.

Goddamn.

Orky.

I just want to say that this thread is awesome beyond the telling of it.

/tg/, you have truly delivered, and made me a happy fa/tg/uy.

Between the Aquamarines and the Eclipsion Terrorguard, /tg/ has seriously rocked some faces off this week.

So, the chapter master is Aquarius and has lots of aquamarines embeded in his aquamarine armour?

>>1334076

Nah, it's Marinius Crabclaw.

"For the Tides of Aquamar!!!"

"REND THE OCEANS RED WITH THE BLOOD OF HERETICS!

"We are the tempest of the god emperor wrath! We strike without mercy!"

"Warrior of Aquamar, heed my words, the emperor desires us to fight the untold terrors of the sea, for we do battle with grave creatures that break the will of ordinary men.." 4th Chapter Chaplin Poesidonis Adino

More to come hopefully

>>1334073
Allow me to note that i'v seen atleast 3 different times there was a water-based sort of tealish/aquamarine armoured chapter called the Aquamarines outside /tg/.

And no, I didn't save the links. Didn't think i'd need them.

On eclipsion though, where is the latest thread?

I thought more a shadowy, enigmatic chapter master known only as "The Kraken".

>>1334088

"BLUB BLUB BLUBBBLE BLUB BLUB BLUB"
+++Translation: Ok, who's the bastard who cut holes in my air hose+++

"Time, tide and retribution!"

Tyranids already have huge-ass underwater organisms.
See: Kraken of Fenris.

>>1334091

Well, the Aquamarine pun isn't exactly a massive jump to get... it's not particularly original.

>>1334088
"Strike with the savagery of the seas!"

"FOR THE EMPEROR AND THE KRACKEN!"

"Domniatus Tempresta!"

>>1334108
How are the Ultramariners?

>>1334111

I was thinking they could have a convent of water-based, extreme beach-volleyball trained SoBs on the planet too ...

"WE'RE GETTING WET FOR THE EMPEROR!"

SPLISH SPLASH, TIME TO SMASH

>>1334123

I now have an image of SoB in swimsuits, who operate in pairs, trained in launching Melta Bombs using Volleyball moves. Not to mention trained in extreme CQC.

>>1333246
You've not seen the Life Aquatic?

>>1333803
I'd fish that.

>>1334131

Dead or Alive Volleyball: Grim and Dark edition.

Oh dear god, I need to start a to do list.

i certainly hope rock lobster is the Aquamarine's themesong

oh gods, first epic Final fantasy threads, now epic 40K thread...is this the birth of a good /TG/?!

>>1334145

You shut your whore mouth.

>>1334148
Hahahaha. No

>>1334145
/tg/ was always good.

>>1334203

>>1334145
there were 3 epic 40k threads in the lest 2 days.
Eclipsion Terrorguard.

>>1333131

Um, the USMC deploys from ships >.>

>>1334143

Under the sea
Under the sea
Each little 'nid here
Looks like a squid here
That's why it's hotter
Under the water
Ya we in luck here
Down in the muck here
Under the sea

I was reading the Wikipedia list of Space Marine Chapters, apparently there's a "Kraken Legion" who have teal armour and some sort of a Sea Serpent emblem. That's all the information there is about them.

>>1333039

They're SPACE marines, duh! Everyone knows space is the new sea. That's why space ships are SHIPS, etc.

>>1334257

do merchant ships keep the USMC aboard to fight off pirates in case of a boarding?