Perfect Organism's Warhammer 40,000 conversion thread.

[Azinctus]

40K is a direct port of the Warhammer rules to space. In a very real sense Power Armour is exactly as good as Medieval Plate Armour and a Bolter is a rapid fire crossbow.

To take that approach to a GURPS conversion would be silly. But the Imperium is meant to be medieval in philosophy and restricted in technology. Only the tech priests understand anything of how the gear works and they are very superstitious. just because the Boltgun uses an advanced explosive doesn't mean the tech priests would commit heresy and apply that recipe to an anti-tank missile.

Orks are meant to operate by brute force, Tyranids too. They might have armour divisors and cinematic strength (lots of striking strength for instance) due to high quality materials or handwavium biology but I wouldn't like to see magic powers handed out where none were before.