Perfect Organism's Warhammer 40,000 conversion thread.

[Sam Baughn]

Originally Posted by Azinctus

My rough guess is that Flak armour is DR10-15, Power Armour is DR30-40, Terminator Armour DR100 and Heavy Tanks DR150-200.

However with a Lasgun as a Laser Carbine all that has to be increased....

Well I'm not too clear on how I would do it. Tell us more about how you are going to set up 40k. What are your ballpark figures for armour? Will Imperial Guard be able to kill Marines with concentrated Lasgun fire?

Armour seems to lag at least one TL behind weapons. I'd probably class normal marine armour as equivalent to TL 9 Powered Combat Armour (possibly with some ablative add-on plates for the extra armour on the shoulders, chest and shins), so a laser carbine firing hotshots and aiming at the chinks in armour could get through it fairly easily (DR 18/13 effectively) and even just blazing away they could well cause some damage to the limbs (effective DR 25, so a 22% chance of causing at least 1 HP injury per hit). However, this is almost never going to be enough to cripple a limb and space marines will have plenty of HP (about 20) and HT (at least 13) to soak up damage, so it will still take a lot of hits to bring one down.

Terminator Armour might be similar to a TL 9 combat walker or a TL 10 HEX suit. Either way it's pretty much immune to small arms and melta-guns and lascannon are far from a guaranteed kill with the stats I'm using at this point.

To some extent, I'd agree that 40k looks a lot more like TL6+1^ than TL9-10^, but there are a lot of sources which say their materials are significantly stronger than modern ones and they obviously handle fairly massive amounts of energy and mass on a regular basis (mile long spaceships aren't exactly the kind of thing you expect to see from a society which has barely got the hang of atomic power). It also loses the convenience of using lots of existing material, unless I just say that a lascannon counts as a TL6 anti-tank gun or something.

It will be difficult to make orks and tyranids effective against TL 9 armour, but I think that it's easier to give them Imbuements or something than it would be to bring the Imperium's technology level low enough that a large animal can tear apart their tanks. Even though I'm not a big fan of 'ork axes can cut thorugh power armour if the orks think they can', I'm not a huge fan of 'power armour is actually only as good as medieval plate' either.