I've created several fully converted armies over the last 8 years most of which have been successful and have proven popular at tournaments, but there have been the odd failure such as my Zanatorian Machine Cult that used Tzzentch Daemon rules than the outdated Necron rules at the time which resulted in it being a confusing mess in the end.
Anyway I've decided to resist the temptation to start any new army projects and instead focus on just my two existing armies, both projects still have a great many options for expansion due to their greenskin nature or fluff.
This is mainly due to the constant Price rises and decisions made my GW in the last year.
So I created this log to share my ideas and conversions for both armies rather than 2, but first a quick run through of the armies themselves...
PRE-HERESY THOUSAND SONS
My last project was inspired by the Thousand Sons'artwork in the visions book then after reading their Horus Heresy novel I practically lept into creating an Pre-heresy Thousand Sons army. What also helped was that Grey Knight and Tomb Kings were released soon after which gave me everything I needed.
I choose Grey Knights at the time for it's psychic marines and henchmen which would allow me to field the Prospero Spire Guard (since this was before allies were a thing.) I had also just finished a project with 65 infantry and 14 tanks so wanted something a little smaller.
With the terminators from the original army being banned from GW venues due to their components I began focus on the Spire Guard henchmen squads.
A year later the pre-heresy terminators were released so I converted them to match Magnus' Scarab Occult.
Since one of the Thousand Sons Fellowships used automata units I created some Legio Cybernetica units for the army to act as Dreadnought proxies.
My last creation for this army was the Dreadknight conversion modelled as a powerful Thousand Sons sorcerer and his Tutlary (a familiar) since in the novel they can tear through hold squads with a flick of the wrist.
Planned Expansions & Ideas
- A 2nd Dreadknight: I'm eager to create a 2nd Dreadknight but with a completely different appearance to the 1st.
- Allied Space Marine & Forgeworld units: I haven't fielded a full Astartes army since the terminators were made useless both due to the increase in AP weapons and the majority of them having 'illegal bitz'.
- Lotus Fighters: I have a conversion idea in my head for the Prospero attack flyer just need to find a suitable unit (not a storm raven) for it to represent possibly an allied Vendetta.
- Allied Spire Guard: Expand the spire guard from henchmen squads to a full allied guard attachment.
- Legio Cybernetica Cohort: A recent idea I'm tempted by is turning my conqueror robots into Broadsides and fielding them as a Fire Support Attachment with a large robot for the Riptide.