Robots for IG SM orAM

[Pendragon38]

So I haven't been on in a while, and I was thinking about making my army a bit more mech with Robots and I like the fluff of having squads of them like IG troops. so is there any cool looking robots that would work.
any thuoghts or CC

[Brosef Stalin]

From any of the fluff I've read, it doesn't seem like robots of that nature even exist. I could be wrong, but as long as you check with your opponent before you play, I can't see there being much of a problem.

Of course, there's always Necrons if you're into the whole robots thing...

[Venris]

there is the Legio Cybernetica a division of the Adeptus Mechanicus, Link http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Legio_Cybernetica

[scadugenga]

Robots unfortunately got retconned after Rogue Trader days. Then, they were in use (with some pretty complex rules sets) and then GW went all "Dune" on their universe.

[Lane]

Not sure how to work robots into a space marine army but they would make good replacements for IG heavy weapons teams and Ogryn.

[wkz]

Technically, robots with an AI are banned in the Imperium (something about them running amok. AI is a crapshot (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AIIsACrapshoot) explains it perfectly).

BUT there are ways around this restriction:
- Be part of the Adaptus Mechanicus and modify yourself into an almost wholly mechanical beast.
- Use the "much weaker than true Artificial Intellegence" Machine Spirit on a non-humanoid "body". Think Servo Skulls, LandRaiders,Cyber Hawks, etc. (personally, I think "Machine Spirits" are fuzzy logic programs... but I digress)
- Use a brain. Quite literally. Servitors, Mechanical Cherubs, etc are all "built" by getting (a) a human, (b) lobotomizing it, (c) add mechanical parts, and (d) "programming" it to do tasks. Sometimes they even forgo the lobotomize step: just pump the poor fellow full of drugs, and he's a close combat "machine"

[JamesP]

Not sure how to work robots into a space marine army but they would make good replacements for IG heavy weapons teams and Ogryn.

Exactly. Replace heavy weapon teams with gun-heavy robots or Mechanicus Praetorian Combat Servitors, and Ogryns are replaced by close-combat robots or servitors.

Servitors have a (heavily technologically- augmented) human or Ogryn brain and body at the core, while Imperial robots are all mechanical and have a very crude artificial brain that lets them take simple, everyday non-combat actions and have more complex, but still limited, programs loaded into them for battle.

In case you haven't seen them, pictures of the Rogue Trader-era Imperial Robots can be found at http://www.zachary.org/games/gw/robots.jpg and there are some rather nice Jes Goodwin concept sketches at http://fromthewarp.blogspot.com/2010/05/rogue-trader-fridays-imperial-robots.html.

I also rather like this scratchbuild: http://sanguinesons.blogspot.com/2011/01/imperial-robot.html