im getting ready to crank up a campain that leans heavaly on tech-herasy and radiclism. looking around the internet for ideas i came upon this website

http://privateerpress.com/warmachine/gallery/cryx ... these seem to me the sort of things that a radical tech priest would come up with if he started dabaling in warp based tech. so any thoughts?

I think that I am not quiet sure what you want to hear

Campaigns about radicals and Tech-heresy is always nice.
The miniatures of the game you linked to is nice
Using these as basis for some heretical constructs is nice.

They look perfectly like tech-heresy constructs tained by the warp. Well done.

well it is always nice to have a second opinion

I have a NPC Explorator who is a Heretek based around the concept that he is a "free thinker" and finds the time to take things apart and quickly reverse engineer and build new weapons and items from them. I have borrowed info from the Rifts series of books which has a ton of power armors and robot battlesuits available as a basis. I went from Rifts stats and compared to 40k stats to come up with some 40k rules for Glitter Boy armor, Northern Gun Samson armor, and a Titan Combat Robot battlesuit. While two of these suits were used in the last session, they have not actually been tested in combat yet to see how they stand up (or overwhelm depending).

This Explorator also devised a cunning device used from part of a Lance to place on a tripod that the characters used in a Hit and Run attack on a Black Legion strike cruiser. Essentially, they bolted it down to the surface over the Void Generator and set it to fire before running. In this way they avoided the danger of entering a ship with chaos space marines onboard. He had also rigged a salvo of jovian missiles to banish a daemonic cruiser back to the Warp. In the next session when the players move to a new ship, he will have a new device that can transform the output of a lance into a disruption lance. And a host of other heretical devices that I slowly add to on my blackberry as I think of them.

The Explorator has been "executed" once already, but was saved by an unknown party and rebuilt with cybernetics. He goes by an assumed name and has bound all the tech-priests onboard to oaths of loyalty. Essentially, he is Mechanicum but hates them and if known to be alive would be hunted by them.

I would suggest also checking Creatures Anathema for Bronze Malifects (similar to the bonejacks in your link) and Obliviates (the close comparison to the Cryx troops) and maybe also the logi daemonis for some Shodan/HAL-style messing with your players.

Sigismund said:

i was thinking something similar statwise. the problem is my players insist on using minis for the game( quite a few are converets from 4ed d&d) so i was looking for something significly out there to use. and before it is is put out i know GW minis would work the best, but they are a getting a bit too expsensive, and do not not cover IMO a wide enough range.

htsmithium said:

You do know you don't have to use ACTUAL minis on a table-top. Justification of expense is more than good enough to excuse using properly sized dice (just make sure you use one of those large D20s for hulking+ creatures). Just get minis for the things you want your players to remember. Reliance on player imagination does wonders for filling holes in presentation.

htsmithium said:

Aren't warmachine figs a bigger scale than GW minis? I could have sworn they were. That's fine for the Jacks I guess, but it's going to be hell squeezing them into your 1 inch squares.