"Adding to 40K?" Topic

When you play in the 40K universe, do you add armies or forces from other game settings or universes?

Do your Orks battle Hammer's Slammers?
Do your Eldar face off against the Grymn?
etc.

I had Orcs battle Canadians.
But that wasn't in the 40K universe. I used TSATF.

I thought if you did that someone from games workshop would come round your house and beat you over the head with a copy of White Dwarf issue 1 till you stopped moving!

No not at all. I have used other company's models that closely resemble the forces I am using but not completely different armies from other systems.

I've added all manner of stuff in, especially with the 30K stuff (if that counts for this.)

I've been using my World Eaters for pre-Heresy stuff and they have fought against all manner of opponents. I don't have huge armies of many things for them to fight against so most of it has been skirmish but there was one game we played that was bigger.

In that a small human empire, or actually confederacy, that contained some aliens, took on my World Eaters. I used Infinity figures for the human confederacy along with some Kroot mercenaries.

For sure

I use my 40K figs in a very wide range of settings

I do have a sizable collection of Starship Trooper bugs, but I try to stick to Games Workshop figs.

For me, it's a restriction I use for practical and whimsical reasons.

The practical side is that, should I ever want to go to a tournament, I have full use of my collection.

The whimsical side is that, while Games Workshop strongly promotes the idea (years of talking about conversions), I think the limit to GW products adds a challenge to the collector to be creative.

I shall certainly be tempted to stray from this limit in limited ways. I really love Wargame Exclusive's Imperial cars, for example. Might succumb to temptation.

Hey, it's a hobby. I'm 98% 40K "pure" because it amuses me.

No for 40K in 28mm. Yes for 40K in 6mm.

No. When I play in an SF "franchise" setting, it is because I like that setting specifically. So no Space Marines vs Starship Troopers. No Star Trek vs Star Wars, and no battlemechs vs Gundams.

Damon.

Back when we were into Vor, we played space marines vs Bauhaus from Warzone :)

Way back when I worked for SimTac we made some conversion rules to use adapt the Kryomek range to 40k. Essentially they became a sub-species of Tyranids.

Not exactly, not from another scifi universe. But I did have space marines put down a disturbance on one of the planets under their protection that had only advanced to Victorian era technology. So basically 5 space marines against 40 Rorke's Drift defenders. Did not go well for the 40, but one of the space marine's shoelaces may have come undone during the fighting.

Weasel: I created a very complete Bauhaus conversion list for Vor. Any chance that was the one you used?

Coyote – I think we had made them up ourselves and they only covered the figures we owned at the time, though I do remember seeing warzone/vor conversions floating around at the time.

Supposedly there had been talks of a set of official books providing Vor stats for Warzone figures and vice versa but FASA and Target Games both folded :(

Not being bound by official corporate rulesz, I use whatever miniatures I want and whatever rules I want…. But as mentioned by others, not so much "universe vs universe"…. 40k/space opera is such a vast and permissive concept: almost any scenario and/or miniatures can worked into the mix.
Personally, my only gripe with mixing manufacturers is mixing sculpt styles that vary widely…. However, a LOT of sculpts follow the GW/Citadel style…

Yes but only for Rogue Trader games because of the point builder system.

Fitting 40k lore into Stargrunt rules provides some rather fun games …

"but FASA and Target Games both folded"

FASA merely rebranded and reset. Target, on the other hand, exploded.

When gaming in the 40k universe, I often use rules other than 40k, and I often use figures other than GW. Still, I pretty much run them as 40k units or factions.

For example I recently played "40k" with my buddy, but we used Shockforce/Warengine for the rules and there were alot of Pig Iron figs in our IG and Chaos cultist armies.
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About once a year we also will play a big "40k" Apocalypse battle using the Warpath 1.0 rules (Kings of War in space). Those battles usually mostly use 40k figures though.

Yes, I follow more of a Rogue Trader route and also advance the story line into the 40th millennium ( official is closer to the 38th) I treat all GW officialdom as mostly rumor, propaganda, mis-information and out right lies in the game setting

A few years back I ran a fun Stargrunt II scenario concerning the pacification of the hyper-technology world of Adrantis V by the Adeptus Mechanicus. GW minis vs GZG vehicles and VOR Union miniatures!

I tend to build armies using whatever miniatures I like but counting them as certain 40K races using their codex.

For example, I have a Squat army that has been put together using Astra Militarum and Adeptus Astartes codexes.