Skitarii and HH Mechanicum, a FW reply

[Cynicus]

Hey everyone, I sent FW an email asking if they plan to release any rules to use some of their Mechanicum models with the new Skitarii, and I got this reply:

 

The Skitarii and the Horus Heresy Mechanicum represent similar forces but from two very different eras and so are not specifically designed to be used together in rules terms. However, if you want to have use them as Allies for each other, perhaps to represent different branches of the Adeptus Mechanicus/Mechanicum working together, and your gaming group are happy for you to do this then please fell free. You may need to come up with your own house rules to represent this though.

 

The new Adeptus Mechanicus models from Games Workshop represent the legacy left over from the old Mechanicum of Mars from the Horus Heresy era. Although some elements of each army are common between them, they are very much separate forces. But if you want to mix the models from each range together to represent units from the two types of army list then please do.

 

If there is anything further we can do to assist you, or if you have any queries about the information we have requested or provided, please telephone us.


Regards,

Forge World

 

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Not really what I was hoping for, though I doubt any casual gaming group would be opposed to running one as Battle Brother allies of the other in casual games.

 

[Ordo Machinum]

...but not entirely unexpected.

Time to covert some models as mechanicum that "count as" allied astartes. Hmm... may go back to one of my old ideas of making Automata-Astartes.

[Cynicus]

I've been considering building some Iron Hands SM and some Knights to go with the Skitarii to flesh them out a bit, myself. FW has some beautiful IH accessories that'd be good for tying it together visually.