Ig Auxillairies Codex Modifications.

I was thinking about having a gue'vesa army. it would be a standard imperial guard army with a few exeptions. to use an army like this you need both codexes
HQ
1+ ethereal. must lead the men and keep them with the tau
1+ command platoon removed
no psykers
no commisars

Elites
2 XV8 squads allowed
no hardened veterans
no ogryns
no ratlings
storm troopers now have pulse rifles instead of hell guns
techpriest enginseer are renamed earth cast members. pulse pistol and pw. drone with power fist.

Troops
only conscripts allowed + 2 points for a pulse carbine each unit must have an overseer/flag drone. this drone is a shield drone with Ld 8. if destroyed the unit takes a morale check at standard ld.

for every 2 conscripts a squad of fws must be bought. if 3 conscripts get 2 fws.

fast attack
no rough riders.
sentinals can buy a burst cannon or missile pod
pathfinders allowed

haevy support
up to 1 hammerhead or skray can be taken
otherwise normal options.



This post has been edited by roryevans on Mar 4 2007, 04:10 PM

I have thought about dosing something like this, but I was going to just replace some of the IG units with Tau models.

Ethereals = commisars
Crisis suits = sentinels
sniper drones = ratlings

That way, it remains a legal standard army, just modeled differently. It depends on what your goal with the army is I suppose.

Yeah, but what would the sentinals be?

What do you mean?

Modify some crisis suits to be open topped and you can see a human operator, arm it with IG weapons with tau bits attached, and you have a gue'vesa sentinel.

On the other hand, if his goal is more to expand the Tau army fluff wise and come up with a (I hate using this word) realistic extrapolation of what humans in the tau empire would fight like, then heck yeah, modify and combine the army lists to high heaven.

Like I said, it all depends on what your goal is.

I must not have been thinking...

Yeah, Nevermore is right, it depends on what your goal is.