More Ramblings on Dual Use

I had another idea that I had to put up here. A friend of mine was investigating putting together a Thousand Son army. In conversation about how to create the army we came up with idea of painting up alot of sorcerers and using them as special and heavy weapon troopers. I just think that's a great idea from a fluff perspective, but from a modeling perspective it would make all your troopers a kind of internal dual use. You wouldn't need to worry about modeling missile launchers, lascannons, and meltaguns and swapping them out if you want to change out weapons. Just give them different sets of posses so that you can distinguish them on the battlefield and you can write as many different lists with them as you want.

Dual Use Armies

I am often very interested in creating an army that can be "Dual Use." The idea is that you create an army that can be used for two different codices. Often my ideas have centered around adding an imperial guard contingent to space marine forces. In a perfect world I would have enough money to create a steel legion army.


They look great. They are darkly Gothic. Organized enough to work as regular gaurdsman but menacing enough to look like they could be chaos. I would play them as auxiliary units to both my Wolves and Alpha Legionaries. But then I realize that forgeworld is ass-expensive and I would probably pay more in shiping than a normal army costs.

A friend of mine beat me to the punch on this though, he used warhammer zombies to create A LOT of "counts as" lesser demons (like 70 of them). After creating so many he decided to try them out as plaguebearers in a codex demon army. I haven't played against it yet, I will be interested to play against it.

Some other interesting ideas have been popping into my head, though, about how to get more out of some of my units. I recently purchased a renegade militia conversion pack to make a squad of cultists.



I used them as "counts as" for lesser demons. Works great with the fluff as Alpha Legion are alot more likely to utilize cultists than demons (I gotta give credit, though, it was a random guy at a tournament that gave me the idea). While doing it I wondered if I couldn't expand the force and create a renegade guard army and supped them as cultists for my larger Alpha Legion force. I might have to do more investigation to see what that army would like.

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