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The Heralds of Ruin<\/a> Kill Team Expansion is great fun. Alongside a more detailed campaign and skirmish ruleset for the core armies\u00a0of Warhammer 40k, it also provides rules for some\u00a0lesser factions.<\/p>\n My favourite is\u00a0the Rogue Trader faction.<\/p>\n Explorers, merchants, and scoundrels, Rogue Traders are the namesake of the original iteration of Warhammer 40,000, and represent those daring men and women who\u00a0push the boundaries of the Imperium in search of fame and fortune.<\/p>\n +++++<\/p>\n The Rogue Trader ruleset is a flexible but fragile list, meant to represent the Rogue Trader’s crew and retainers. It includes interesting units such as rogue Astartes, xenos accomplices, and untrained voidsmen clad in\u00a0coveralls. It is a great opportunity for conversions, as nearly every unit is unique in some way.<\/p>\n Since Games Workshop’s\u00a0release of the Genestealer Cult Hybrids, I’ve been looking for a way to adapt them for\u00a0my Rogue Trader’s forces. I finally decided to turn them into the ship’s armsmen – those brazen companies of men who defend the ship from boarding actions. The aesthetic\u00a0of the\u00a0Genestealer Hybrids reminded me of the\u00a0rugged, industrial\u00a0equipment seen in the Alien franchise<\/a>,\u00a0Outland<\/a>, or the more recent\u00a0Dead Space\u00a0<\/a>game. They struck me as perfect voidsuits\u00a0for the ship’s crew, seemingly very reminiscent of the old Jes Goodwin<\/a> sketches<\/a>.<\/p>\n I decided to make two squads. The first would be armed with shields and naval\u00a0shotguns, and the second with only shotguns. The most difficult part would be to ensure that they retained the rugged sci-fi look, and\u00a0none\u00a0of the genestealer look. Few\u00a0of Games Workshops stock heads and helmets for the Imperial Guard seemed to work, so I looked farther afield to Victoria Miniatures<\/a>, who provide a large range of 28mm scale\u00a0weapons, arms and heads.<\/p>\n Once everything\u00a0arrived, I filed down all the gene\u00a0cult\u00a0symbols and got to work. The final product includes\u00a0third party parts (mostly from Vicotria), as well as bitz from the old Games Workshop Empire Militia, various Imperial Guard parts, some old Necromunda pieces, and a fair bit of green stuff.<\/p>\n I’m pretty happy with how they turned out.<\/p>\n I was worried that a few head and arm swaps wouldn’t be enough, but I was quite pleased with the result. I didn’t realize how much the Gene Cult heads and the posture of the hybrids drew the eye, and by giving the armsmen hair and having them stand up straighter, they managed to look quite a bit different.<\/p>\n I especially like the shotguns that come with the Genestealer Cult box. Though the arms with more ‘genestealer-y’ pieces didn’t quite work out, I had a few extra shotguns\u00a0from Victoria Miniatures and Necromunda.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “A ship ain’t just a man’s job. It’s his home. His city. His place of worship. There be twenty thousand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,52,11],"tags":[7,14,6,15],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hobby","category-house-hippu-tippalus","category-work-in-progress","tag-domilcus-station","tag-kill-team","tag-rogue-trader","tag-work-in-progress","type-4hobby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"http:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/16106764_10209927199151394_1912364000_o-1024x576.jpg\")
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