warhammer 40k - MBT?

[Wiking]

I've long thought that Steel Panthers would be well suited to at the very least representation of the Imperial Guard, and perhaps small squads of Space Marines. But it would be an awful lot of sprite work at a minimum, and of course all the LBM's and OOB edits you'd need to do.

All that said, I think the best thing you can do is advocate that the Space Marine player set his infantry toughness to either 150 to 200%, and that will have to suffice. Any other option is not going to be very believable (swarms of light tanks representing marines I think would lead to a host of undesirable behaviors).

[cj95]

I thought I had come to a good compromise with making each individual 'vehicle' represent an element of 3 marines. Give them two bolters and maybe a flamer and call it done.

Unfortunately after some more thinking I realized that the Marines as vehicles has another problem.

Namely occupation of buildings....you cant.



Sprites and such are not a huge issue since I have found several premade on the internet. Apparently several other people came up with the same idea as I did, but for some reason never finished the project.


Maybe they ran into the power armor issue as well.


The only problem with messing around with infantry toughness is that it applies to the whole side. It negates any Imperial Guard supported by Marines scenarios.


Oh well Im going to keep thinking....

[Wiking]

It does prevent allied scenarios but I'm just not sure that its avoidable with this engine. And yeah, what you mentioned is exactly what I was talking about, undesirable behaviors.

I imagine most people abandoned the project when they realized the amount of work required; even just tweaking the German order of battle for me is a fairly intensive hobby.