Adeptus Mechanicus to 30k Unit ports

[Mr Farson]

Hello

 

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I've finally dusted off a project I started working on in 7th ed 40k which was porting various 40k mechanicus units into 30k.

 

This if the first batch and working wip for the cult mechanicus side of things, I will be doing the Skitarii units as well. Currently the idea is these units simply add to the existing Mechanicum list but I've also drafted a separate detachment that will solely focus on the 40k units representing the more militaristic and regular mechanicum fighting force. There's a few special rules which don't have rules currently as they tie into the detatchtment I'm working on along with a few missing units.

 

The power level of this is probably a bit higher than the standard Mechanicum list but its also a bit more glass hammery. Pts have been roughly mathed out using a fairly unintuitive formula of comparing 7th ed 30k and 40k pts and 30k 2.0pts

 

Anyway please see the pdf below and let me know your thoughts

Cult Mechanicus v1.1.pdf

[Petitioner's City]

You might also want to check out two other documents 

 

One is the Pano team's Liber Ingenium

 

Rhe other is @Grifftofer's  Mech rewrite, Liber Taghmatae 

 

I am very very partial to the latter, which I think is a stunning work.

 

I look forward to reading your own!

 

Edit: the link hasnt been working @Mr Farson - do you have a drive location for it?

Edited September 6 by Petitioner's City

[Mr Farson]

 

You might also want to check out two other documents 

 

One is the Pano team's Liber Ingenium

 

Rhe other is @Grifftofer's  Mech rewrite, Liber Taghmatae 

 

I am very very partial to the latter, which I think is a stunning work.

 

I look forward to reading your own!

 

Edit: the link hasnt been working @Mr Farson - do you have a drive location for it?

 Sorry about that!

 

The link is below

 

https://apricot-jehanna-32.tiiny.site

 

I've yet to see taghmata rewrite so I'll have a look at that.

 

I've seen the panopticon version previously but felt it altered too much in the way of wargear and rules.

 

Mine is more of a tune up of the 7e rules with a few alterations to bits to make them make sense in 30k, inclusion of breaching etc

 

 

[Petitioner's City]

Thank you, lovely to read and see. Going back to the (bizarrely released) 7th edition rules is an interesting approach. 

 

You might enjoy this interview with James Hewitt, who co-wrote those books, and then went to work for Specialist Games studio. 

 

 

 

The Skitarii and Cult Mechanicus [back in 7th] which should have one combined set of rules, they got two sets of special rules, because otherwise you don’t sell two books of special rules, you sell one.

Lupe: And interestingly they got combined back together in 8th.

James: And they should have been, they always should have been. The reason they were split was because of a logistics thing. It was when White Dwarf was weekly and they could only show one week’s releases at a time, and if you put out an army book in week one then you’ll show off the releases for the next one, and “secrecy is paramount” , you can’t show off the future releases. If you put it out in week two, it looks like the releases in week one were coming out without an army book, and that doesn’t make sense. And it was this whole ridiculous… the tail has often wagged the dog in Games Workshop in different ways, and this was a fantastic example of that.

Lupe: OK, sorry, can I just clarify: the reason that in 7th edition they were two separate armies was publishing requirements of White Dwarf?

 

James: There you go. It was like the Skitarii didn’t have any characters. I had to write that codex. There were no HQ choices, so how do we do it? We had to make up a new detachment for them. Similarly things like the Skitarii didn’t have any transport options.

 

[...]
 

James: The rules team worked on everything, 40k was just ubiquitous. It was always just there in the background. It was probably the least exciting part to me – churning out codexes that are 80% the same as the previous edition of the codex, with a few new bits. The Skitarii book was a rare exception, a chance to do a whole new army from scratch. But yeah, the transports thing. We’d had to come up with this whole thing because they didn’t have any transports. And this comes back to the thing I was saying earlier and how it goes miniatures, then background and then rules. The miniatures stuff is so closed off, we didn’t get to know what was happening in the future. So when the background was written for them, the background stuff was emphasising how they’d walk everywhere. And we wrote rules around the idea of them not having transports. So when I saw the transports come out a couple of years later I went “Oh come on!”, that’s just rewritten a huge chunk of stuff. But hey.

 

Lupe: Wow that is just bizarre.

 

Edited September 12 by Petitioner's City