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I am planning on starting a Blood Angels army, and would like to include a unit of five honour guard with power weapons and jump packs. For this I'd like to use Sanguinary guard, replacing their "wing packs" with a blister of regular jump packs. However I don't know whether the jump packs will fit on the sanguinary guard's back, and unfortunately the independent retailer near me didn't know either.

 

So, my question would be whether a conversion like that would be possible, or if I need to find some other way of converting them. Finding power weapons in other boxes and putting them on a unit of vanguard seems like a valid approach, but I don't know if I'll have sufficient spares. I'm new at space marines, so I don't have an existing supply of power weapons. Buying the thunder hammers blister would work, but... then I'd have thunder hammers, not power claws :P.

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yes they fit. 

however the sanguinary guard jump packs can be put on without the wings and they look great so you wont necessarily have to swap,  wait till you see the model

Without the wings hey look pretty much exactly like the MK IV Jump Packs.

 

Why you would want nipples on a breastplate is beyond me though.

 

Why you would want nipples on a breastplate is beyond me though.

 

Mainly because practically every bell corselet or muscled cuirass found, or depicted in art or on monuments, whether early Italian/Etruscan, Greek or Roman all have the nipple clearly moulded on them. The ancient artizans went out of their way to portray the body as anatomicallly correct as possible, even on stylised armour.

 

It follows, therefore, that any attempt to emulate that form of aesthetic would incorporate such detail as well, hence the nipples on the Sanguinary Guard and other models with similar armour.

 

(And whose to say whether the nipples might incorporate miniature digital weapons or sensory equipment within them!?)

Digital weapons incorporated into the very nipples of the armour, you say? Hmm. Now this is a concept worth exploring...

Digital weapons are so called because they're mounted on your digits. Unless you have fingers for nipples, they'd be called something else.

 

Digital weapons incorporated into the very nipples of the armour, you say? Hmm. Now this is a concept worth exploring...

Digital weapons are so called because they're mounted on your digits. Unless you have fingers for nipples, they'd be called something else.

'Digital' is also used to explain miniaturised 'computerised/electronic' items, hence the C:SM states that they can be concealed in rings, knuckles, OR Bionic Implants - ergo, bionic nipples!!!

Digital weapons, while specifically referring to finger-mounted (i.e. digit) miniaturised weaponry, can also less specifically refer to extremely miniaturised weaponry. Unless, of course, you want to go and start using the term "Papillial weaponry".

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