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by Konrad » Thu Jun 27, 2013 1:40 am
me_in_japan wrote:I would very much like to include a small Exodite contingent in my Corsair army, as it would serve the twin purpose of fulfilling my dream of actually using exodites, (snip)
In order to keep rules jiggery pokery to an absolute minimum I was strongly inclined to go with the following:
1 Exodite lord on a big chompy lizard. Best Codex Eldar analogue: Wraithlord with wraith sword. It's a monstrous creature. It's a CC nasty, and it can breathe fire. Badabing. Perfect match. The high T can be easily explained away by a bit of wiffle about force fields n stuff, plus a bit of natural Cold One endurance. The force fields can be modeled on, if it bothers people
The only change needed would be to change from Heavy Support to HQ.
5 Exodite warriors. Best Codex Eldar analogue: Shining Spear aspect warriors. The only change needed would be to change unit type from Jetbike to Beast, and slot from Elite to Troop (to maintain strict allies rules). Other than that, it's all good. Spears, reasonable stats for a highly trained warrior on a honking great lizard, reasonable armour, too.
Points values for both the above unit would come straight out of codex eldar. No changes or imagination required.
Would folks be ok with me running a small Exodite contingent of this nature? I haven't built em yet, but I have all the parts ready to go...
I wouldn't have a problem either. There are tons and tons of armies in 40K. With the allies rules it's not always hard to find a unit to match your imagination. There was a guy on a Space Dwarf forum, who used the Chaos Marine Codex, cut and pasted and re-labled the bits he used and called it a "Squat" Codex. I think he took it down, as it was literally cut and pasted from a scanned pdf if I remember. I think it's easier (and more economical) to find rules to match your miniatures, rather than buy new miniatures for the new rules.
Big robot=big lizard, easy. The Jetbikes into Beasts Elite to Troop I wouldn't have a problem with either. If your opponent insisted on straight-unmodified Codex rules, you could put wings on them and make them part of your "regular" Eldar. Everything would be battle-brothers anyways. You wouldn't even have to make them "allied" Exodites. Just Exodite looking models in your "main" force, right?
...and now his Head was full of nothing but Inchantments, Quarrels, Battles, Challenges, Wounds, Complaints, Amours, and abundance of Stuff and Impossibilities.....
Cervantes, Don Quixote
Can't wait to see it. I love dinosaurs 
