Hey look terrorgaurd

>>3931610
The Terrorguard were about a single psyker, Chaos and Silent Hill

This is more about "What if there was a planet where psykers are common as hell?"

>large psyker population
>large witch population
>EXTERMINATUS

>>3931590
Kinda looks like an awesome version of Jesus on the cross. I'd pray to this guy.

fuck yeah, loves me some terror guard

The Medullan 24th "Mindtakers"

>>3931677
Yes well that DID cross my mind
Let's say it's a world somewhere in the Halo stars or near the Tau Empire so the Inquisition need not care.

Anyone know the new IG Psyker rules even roughly? I've never tried mass-psykers in 40k so I need some info before going at it.

>>3931711

>>3931677

This brings to mind a question. Could EXTERMINATUS be stopped with a large enough, concentrated effort?

A better theme would be zombie Nazis

>>3931769
Possibly, if the psykers could MACHINE CURSE the ships and/or torpedoes.
Although anyone short of the Empra doing that seems iffy.

>>3931796
If they somehow got on board and put up enough of a fight, maybe the Commissar would have a change of heart?

All we have right now is the stat page leak, bro.

Granted, if I recall correctly, there should be a Psyker HQ choice.

77th Hesparian Sappers. Drop Troops are mole troops. High psyker population due to a strange substance known referred to as 'warpstone' on the home planet. Gets in the water, in the air when you mine. You know how it is.

>>3931823

RATMEN ARE AN OLD WIVE'S TALE LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU

>>3931819
The Primaris Psyker, eh?
I read somewhere he would be some kind of anti-tank unit

A mass psyker army would kick ass.

Mostly because after playing long enough there will be THAT ONE GAME where all your psykers fall to the perils of the warp!!

It will be hilarious when your enemy takes to the field against a bunch of humans with the brains exploding everywhere like popcorn!

>>3931855

I forget what his stats were in 2nd edition but yeah, the general consensus is that sanctioned psykers can kill people, but the primaris can kill tanks. Should be awesome.

>>3931865
WITNESS YOUR DOOOO-FFFFUUUUUUUU*BOOM*

I just wish Perils of the Warp would spawn a daemon where the psyker used to be, like some spells/powers turn units into Spawn or Horrors.

>>3931865
and then there will be that other game where you roll godly for them and drop a billion pie plates on the enemy every turn

>>3931897
Aren't pie plates more Tank business?
...But I was going to bring like 5 Lemans anyway.

>>3932151
Psy-Lemans?

>>3932153
...
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Having every last guardsman as a psyker and counting their powers as lasguns light be a bit much...

>>3932233
The ordo Hereticus is going to get a heart attack from this...

>>3932233
This will unfold into the 1k Sons and the Witch Hunters killing eachother over who gets to destroy the planet

>>3931865
>humans with the brains exploding everywhere like popcorn!
I'm now visualizing Ahriman dancing around the battlefield to "Waltz of the Flowers" whilst popping heads left and right.

>>3932233

Just have a few psykers puppet-mastering the Guardsmen, Screaming Mantis-style.

I can just imagine an Imperial ship shooting off a Cyclonic Torpedo at this planet and then the torpedo suddenly sprouts wings and eyes and flies away without hitting anything.

Any kind of mass collection of psykers is going to be like a bonfire in the warp. Have you considered a large retinue of Grey Knights or other Ordo Malleus allies to keep an eye on them? Just from a fluff perspective of course.

You could probably take a Daemonhost and use a Guard model to represent some Alpha + + or something....

>>3932372

I can just imagine an Imperial ship shooting off a Cyclonic Torpedo at this planet and then the torpedo suddenly turns into Longcat and flies away.

>>3932347
Too Eclipsion IMO
>>3932407
I was thinking of either =][= overseers (GK to keep daemons down or WH because POTENTIAL HERESY) or then the psyker power uprising is such a recent event nobody has taken action yet.

And the planet is somewhere in the Halo Stars or some other galactic nowhere

In honour of the greatest psyker ever, I propose this regiment be called the Mantis Legion.

>>3932449 greatest psyker ever
what up?

I like the idea of a planet of weak psykers
The whole thought of half a guardsman regimetn suddenly leaping into levitation and snapping necks WITH THEIR MIND is awesome.
Atleast until someones head implodes into a deamon

>>3932468

This guy has to be the commanding officer.

>>3932468
hhhhhhhhk

Mantis:Superior.

The Sorrow: Inferior

hhhhhhhhk

>>3932497
"Sad... So sad... This world has become a host of sorrows... The sorrow of men condemned by yours...
But I assure you, Inquisitor...
My men will not die silent."

>>3932343
Damn you, this is contagious! D:

>>3932498
What about SCREAMING Mantis

a mind is a terrible thing to waste

>>3931590
Have you read Legion yet, theres a guard legion in it which has psychic commanders (all hot teenage women).
You could have a similar affair, just have lots of psykers instead of lieutenants (or junior officers as their calling them these days), using their psychic clairvoyance [sp?] to guide their troops, plus lots of normal psykers (the ususal 5 you can take, unless thet decide to ditch them in the new codex).

is op's pick real? if so where could i find more about it

>>3932584
But they were from terra and they were specially bred (the whole army).
Not to mention that was when psykers weren't banned yet.

>>3932584
I didn't really like Legion but that is a good plan.

I think the maximum psyker amount one can bring in would be
-Allied Inquisitor Lord HQ / Primaris (if it's a HQ)
-Command Platoon w/ psyker
-4 other Psykers
-3 Daemonhosts
-Allied Inquisitor
that's 10 psykers all in all

>>3932586
Found it on google, the guy also made a coatless and maskless version, as well as Sniper Wolf.

>>3932594
I mean they weren't regarded as witches and.. eh, you know what i mean.

>>3932584
>Have you read Legion yet, theres a guard legion in it which has psychic commanders (all hot teenage women).

What, is it written by Goto?

I'm fairly sure Legion is written by our old favorite, Dan.

>>3932632
Even more proof that he's a fluff-butchering hack, then.

Mantis, Sorrow and Yuri in one army?
MADNESS.

>>3932629
It's really not that bad. Compared to Goto i can even love this.

>>3932674
YES

>>3932646

Oh sweet fuck, Dan Abnett is the spawn of so much Mary Sue horseshit it's unbearable. The number of attractive, invincible, killing machine female women in his books is hilarious. I think he compensates for his own physical ugliness

>>3932744
W...wait. I haven't seen any of these heroines yet. Which novels?

>>3932868
Well, his Eisenhorn and Ravenor novels tend to feature generic "deadly assassin" chicks in tight fitting bodygloves among the Inquisitor's retinue. That's about all I can think of.

1. Paint army like jin-roh/helghast.
2. Insert LEDs into eyes
3. Take up sniping positions
4. ????
5. FEEL THE TERROR SCUM

>>3932886
Having read Eisenhorne I can agree that he's mostly alright in there. And they're very entertaining novels. But my main gripe is his de-mystifying of most technology. And the religious aspect doesn't really get played up, either.

>>3932886
Ah, haven't read those yet.
Well, we'll see.

>>3932896
Those are some fucksmall LEDs.

>>3932744

DEM PECS.

>>3932903
On the other hand, his Ravenor novels feature the only actually INTERESTING psychic battles in Black Library novels, because they're a little more involved than two people hurling bolts of light at each other, and instead have lots of mental landscapes and shapechanging and other stuff that I'm really not doing justice to.

Also, the Eisenhorn novels are more about Eisenhorn, while the Ravenor novels are more about his Acolytes, so the Ravenor novels actually work as very good examples of Dark Heresy campaigns.

>>3932886
Tonight, I fap in the hopes of seeing Kara Swole/Patience Kys 34.

>>3932921
This reminds me that I *really* fucking read to read Ravenor, despite my grievances with Abnett. Would you say it's better than the Eisenhorne trilogy?

psyker guard?

fuck! this is such a kick ass idea!!!

>>3932940
Personally, I prefer the Eisenhorn trilogy, because it has this nice character arc for Eisenhorn as he transforms from a Puritan inquisitor into a Radical one over the course of the trilogy, and it feels very naturally done, while Ravenor doesn't change much over the course of his trilogy.

Although I have to admit that in the Ravenor trilogy, the bad guys are excellently written. Particularly memorable is one scene where the main bad guy enjoys a meal in a restaurant and explains how he could make the entire subsector destroy itself by using this vial of poison in the right place right now.

>>3932598
I just thought from a fluff point of view you could have the commanders as very low level psykers linked to their troops, means they dont need voxes, they just use THEIR MIND!

Also Legion was a great spy novel, everyone trying to out spy everyone else, just a shame all the marines in it were hiding in the desert the whole time.

>>3932940
I used to think Eisenhorn was better, but after re-reading both back-to-back, I'm leaning towards Ravenor as the better series.

>>3932598
Voxes can be fluffed as telepaths, as can regimental banners (assuming they both still exist), and anything with the Gets Hot! rule even has a perils of the warp style rule built in. That's potentially a lot more psykers.

>>3933029
Hell yeah, I had a Latd army with "psyker" plasmaguns in each squad. "counts as" is a great rule.

since this about psykers , i wanna mention something :

A latent psyker Imperial Guardman managed to contact the Chaos gods , summon a huge host of chaos space marines , cultists and demons ,and Create a Warp Strom that surrounded an entire system.

Not even Chaos sorcerers can do that.

While it isn't official, since it's a night-world, I think you might want read up a White Dwarf issue. It contains information on Imperial Guard abhumans - including nightworlders.
So read up on that if you want.

>>3933140
This guy was probably a Beta Plus psyker (the psyker scale goes from Omega to Alpha - then you go Alpha Plus, Beta Plus, etc. As it descends, it becomes more powerful. Omega Plus warp entities are Chaos Gods).

>>3932343
Same thing here. I'm also imagining him dancing around and waving that staff while he's doing it.

He's waving it like a Magical Girl. While dancing.

I counter with my army of Untouchables.

>>3933176
>>Ahriman
>>Magical Girl
>>Dancing

>>3933212
We need a drawfag.
Yes, verily.

>>3933029
Personally, I think that's a cheap way out if that's all you're doing. Though I've got nothing better fluffwise that would be horribly broken if it was crunch.

>>3933227
Complete it with little girls trapped inside locked suits of armor that pass for rubric marines. You can see them through a transparent compartment and they will do all they can to break out, but when the armor is destroyed they turn to dust.

Kind of like a washing machine if washing machines were 10 feet tall and wielded bolters.

Anyone make some rules for this idea becides fluff?

>>3932153
I love you.

>LED eyes
>Telepatic Voxes
>Warp-peril Plasma Guns
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Regarding the Abhuman rules, cool idea but I don't think it's exactly what I'm looking for. Also I'm retaining traditional banners because I love making banner bearers.

Now the question of modelling.
The delicious OP pic of Manis is a big inspiration for this but then there is this idea about Delaques with head/arm swaps
And then there are the actual Psyker models...

A few key modelling questions
-Helmets/gasmasks. If any, what kind? Mantis-style? Krieg-style? Helghast style?
-Posing. What is the besdt pose for say, a psyker plasma gunner? A hadoken pose? A force choke pose?
-Colours. Being nightworlders it's probably black and grey (with glowing eyes) but is that too boring?

Also base list idea, made with LOTS of guessing on the new Guard codex

Daemonhunters Lord w/ Familliar, 3 plasma gun veterans
Command Platoon + standard + master vox + tank commander + primaris psyker + psyker + plasma gun

3 Daemonhosts
WH Inquisitor w/ Familliar, 3 plasma gun veterans

IG platoon
IG platoon
Stormies w/ valkyrie
Stormies w/ valkyrie

Leman variant
Leman variant
Leman variant
Leman variant
Leman variant

>>3933236
Well, this IS on top of the standard 10 that Script mentioned. There isn't really any way to do PSYKERS EVERYWHERE and have them actually be psykers now that the Last Chancers are gone.

>>3934246
>Last Chancer psykers
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Why must this idea only come AFTER THEY REMOVE THEM?
WHYYYYY?

Ofc I could still run a delicious Last Chancers list against friends anyway, bringing the total psyker count up to what 30?

>>3934234
Purple & Black for colors. Purple reminds me of Yuri.

>>3934289
Sounds a touch Dark Elfy
How would it work? Black coats & armour / purple details?

>>3934273
20 actual psykers from the Last Chancers, 1 counts-as psyker in the form of Kage, 5 Sanctionites, between 8 and 12 plasma-psykers and a couple of extra telepaths from hardened veteran squads (hooray Veterans doctrines).
I think that's around 900 points at most, so still plenty of room to add, say, a command platoon with potentially TEN MORE PLASMA-PSYKERS and a Daemonhunter Lord.

>>3934390
>Sounds a touch Dark Elfy
Ironically the dark space elves have no psykers.

>>3934392
Disregard that last part; I forgot that Special Weapons squads can't have plasma guns.

>>3934402
A fact I hope is rectified in the new edition.

>>3934392
and 3 daemonhosts

One of the few Imperial Guard regiments to come out of the dark fortress of Nemesis Tessera, the fighting force known as the Mantis Legion is the product of decades of research by the Scholastica Psykana and the Inquisition.

Headed by a masterful psyker credited in official documents as "The Primogen Sample", the Mantis Legion has made a name for itself as terrifying shock troops, often operating alongside Templaris Psykana and Inquisitorial strike forces to root out "special threats" to the Imperium.

Though the exact nature of the Mantis Legion is a well-kept secret, it is apparent that they field numbers of psykers far exceeding the norm for Imperial Guard regiments. When performing operations, the regiment is often accompanied by an attending Inquisitor, perhaps watching over the Ordos' radical project.

You should model the commander or Primaris Psyker to be levitating in the air. Stick one of the street lamps from the Cities of Death sets, model the Psyker/commander to look like he's floating, string him up on fishing wire, and tie it to the lamp.

Or maybe something better. It's just an idea.

>>3932233
I would say they should use real weapons such as lasguns and minor psychic powers.

Using phy powers for you primary weapon would be bad, as you would eventualy get fried by the warp. Also imagine hundreds of psykers using their powers constantly, and at the same time.

Are these psykers the horrible, mutated, twitching wrecks most psykers (non-spess mehreen that is) seem to be in 40k? Or are they just regular people with minor psychic abilities that aren't enchanced by implants? I think we're going to need a power scale to figure out how powerful they are.

>>3931590
by pic related does this mean that you are playing traitor guard and using a lot of possessions and daemons

>>3934648
I was thinking very minor powers for the average guy, with some blooming up sudden violent powers (plasma gunners) and others unlocking entirely new potential (actual psykers & voxmen) in themselves.
As it's a recent event the most of them wouldn't bee TOO horribly fucked up, but as the lot wears masks anyway it'd be hard to tell.

>>3934661
More pic related as in trenchcoats and gasmasks and hovering dudes

The Mantis Legion needs a suitably awesome leader

>>3934870

>>3934870

>>3934234

>>Helmets/gasmasks. If any, what kind? Mantis-style? Krieg-style? Helghast style?

Personal taste. What are you leaning towards? You might want to check out the Secrets of the Third Reich SHS (Separate Head System) for additional head options aside from Pig Iron's stuff: http://www.westwindproductions.co.uk/catalog/index.php?cPath=126_149

>>Posing. What is the besdt pose for say, a psyker plasma gunner? A hadoken pose? A force choke pose?

You know that one Sanctioned Psyker fig his his hand on his head? It would look awesome if you can somehow manage to light up the eyes. ...or if you can't, maybe you can use clear acrylic gel to build up some kind of lighting. That or rip some energy effects from a Hero Clix fig to transplant.

>>-Colours. Being nightworlders it's probably black and grey (with glowing eyes) but is that too boring?

If you have glowing eyes, just make sure it's mostly dark colors. It doesn't mean you have to have black or gray. Dark blue or dark red should work fine. Hell. Dark whatever.

...

Leman Variant, idea: See if you can find a clear sphere roughly the size of a Leman, or a base so people won't bitch as much. Put a psyker in the center of it, suspended on a clear post. Make it look like he's floating around. Counts as, etc. Now just imagine a psyker floating through the battlefield blasting people with templates and asplodin mind bullets.

The leader of the army should be a small child. Or possibly two small girls.....

What if the night world was saturated with a chaos-born material which began raining down on the world like cursed snow
Those who inhaled it soon began spouting psychic powers
This is why they all wear the masks. Nobody wants to overdose on that crap

>>3935077
A hideously warped deformed girl who's practically a vegetable with psychic abilities. She's incredibly ugly, bald in places, and has to use a wheelchair to get around. While the limits of her abilities have never been explored, documents list them as powerful enough to throw Ork roks heading for the planet off course with no noticeable strain.

>>3935077
For the fourth time this is not Eclipsion 2.0. I already DID Eclipsion.
>>3935069
Personaly I'm leaning to the Helghast look but I wonder how well that works with trenchcoats.
Human Zoanthrope is a rather cool idea, but I think I want actual tanks.

Does anyone know good ways to make the glowy eyes? I've seen pics of LEDs inside Necrons and 1k sons (how the hell did they get power to those?) but I doubt that'd work well with 2-part metal models with no cavities...

>>3935118

Metal is going to be a pain in the ass but it's not impossible. You'll need very small LEDs. Maybe even -very carefully- shave them down. Drill a hole in the back of the head. You can probably fill in the eyes with acrylic gel medium and color them. Depending on how everything's set up, you might need to do some heavy drilling to run the wire through the body and maybe down the inside of a tube to conceal the wires if the fig is floating or whatever.

Alternatively, maybe you can hide the wires in plain sight by a few embellishments, making them look like surgical implants.

>>3935263
And what stick a battery on it?
I'm no electrician but I don't think LEDs just magicaly glow for no reason.
...Do they?

Maybe I should just paint the eyes glowy...

>>3935307
The Thousand Sons marine you're referring to had an LED in the torso, with a watch battery tucked under the base and wire running up through the legs. It made it a little lopsided, but the effect is damn pretty.

>>3935367
I'm looking at a minimum 60 models here
That's gonna be a bit of a workload there...

I was thinkign of taking a forgeworld theme alongside the psyker one, to sort of explain why the regiment is still there rather than psyc-out goop and an airless rock.
The planet makes vehicles, and as it's a harsh night-world, suitable replacement crews are hard to find. So the Inquisiton just keeps an eye on things, but lets the planet live on to keep production up.

This also explains the large amounts of tanks and aircraft.

>>3935307
>>And what stick a battery on it?

A thin battery like the ones you use in certain laser pointers or watches.

>>I'm no electrician but I don't think LEDs just magicaly glow for no reason.
...Do they?

No. No they don't. But if you believe hard enough, they might glow for you. Unfortunately, I doubt anyone else would see it, and you'll be visiting the looney bin soon after you succeed.
Just use some metal tabs to make the contacts. If you need a switch and can't find a micro switch, use a small screw for the swivel and two or three metal contact plates. You need at least one contact on the battery but bridging the power can use either one or two plates. One is the simplest of course. You'll want those wires soldered onto the contacts for better reliability.

>>Maybe I should just paint the eyes glowy...

Maybe. It's entirely up to you of course.


>>I was thinkign of taking a forgeworld theme alongside the psyker one, to sort of explain why the regiment is still there rather than psyc-out goop and an airless rock.
The planet makes vehicles, and as it's a harsh night-world, suitable replacement crews are hard to find. So the Inquisiton just keeps an eye on things, but lets the planet live on to keep production up.


Brand them. Maybe not all of them visibly, but at least brand a few as a sign that they're sanctioned. Maybe a few with a different kind of brand and a collar to show that they were trying to hide their abilities and are now paying penance or serving sentence. Explosive collars, probably. Maybe.