# Skitarii for 5th class **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [November 29, 2022, 6:39pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/skitarii-for-5th-class/62643 "2022-11-29T18:39:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SlenderBarracuda](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/slenderbarracuda/32/35536_2.png) [@SlenderBarracuda](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/SlenderBarracuda)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2022, 6:39pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/skitarii-for-5th-class/62643/1 "2022-11-29T18:39:35Z")
Since the game is offline for a day, and I’m already in withdrawal for my lasgun, even with the awful overcocking, I have time to come to the forums and talk about things I want. I want a Skitarii for fifth class. Skitarii were featured a bit in the top down tactical game Mechanius. Now, the biggest objection to it is that it would be weird for a skitarii reject to not be recycled in house by the machine cult, but I imagine there could be some sort of explanation written in. You know you want to wear this robe. Admit it. ![Skitarii2](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/fatshark/original/3X/5/c/5ca021b5f21b7c57db94ea3c5de0aabc8b9a3ff5.jpeg) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/kTOx8IYzNXs/maxresdefault.jpg "LEGIONES SKITARII - Tech Guard of Mars - #Shorts | Warhammer 40k Lore") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTOx8IYzNXs) ---
**Author:** ![Aquagrunt](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/aquagrunt/32/35167_2.png) [@Aquagrunt](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Aquagrunt)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2022, 7:03pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/skitarii-for-5th-class/62643/2 "2022-11-29T19:03:54Z")
I want this and a ratling ---
**Author:** ![SlenderBarracuda](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/slenderbarracuda/32/35536_2.png) [@SlenderBarracuda](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/SlenderBarracuda)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2022, 7:11pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/skitarii-for-5th-class/62643/3 "2022-11-29T19:11:38Z")
No ratlings. I hate ratlings now. I never heard of them before but I hate them now. I hate them because way…way too much banter about them. Seriously, Everyone in game needs to shut up about ratlings. I can’t so much as shoot a pox walker without hearing about drunken ratling snipers stealing and sniping. ---
**Author:** ![Bankrotas](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/bankrotas/32/22467_2.png) [@Bankrotas](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Bankrotas)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2022, 7:13pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/skitarii-for-5th-class/62643/4 "2022-11-29T19:13:15Z")
To vent, you can go kill some ratlings in Vermintide. ---
**Author:** ![SlenderBarracuda](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/slenderbarracuda/32/35536_2.png) [@SlenderBarracuda](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/SlenderBarracuda)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2022, 7:18pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/skitarii-for-5th-class/62643/5 "2022-11-29T19:18:54Z")
I keep getting flame rats instead. ☹ That said, back on track, Skitarii have radium carbines. I imagine they must have one that’s shielded enough for use near the unaugmented. > **[Radium Weapons](https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Radium_Weapons#Radium_Carbine)** > > Radium Weapons, also known as Rad Weapons, are deadly and highly dangerous personal weapons that are used exclusively by the forces of the Skitarii Legions of the Adeptus Mechanicus. Many weapons wielded by the Skitarii are so deadly to the wielder... ---
**Author:** ![Jon](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/jon/32/37655_2.png) [@Jon](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Jon)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2022, 7:42pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/skitarii-for-5th-class/62643/6 "2022-11-29T19:42:50Z")
I’d like to see unconventional characters in season 2 but they’d need new intros. Skitarii wouldn’t be on an Imperial prison ship. If they step out of line they’re made into servitors. ---
**Author:** ![Licious-D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Licious-D](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Licious-D)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2022, 7:46pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/skitarii-for-5th-class/62643/7 "2022-11-29T19:46:02Z")
I think we can all agree that the only abhuman this game truly needs is a Navigator 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mayson](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/mayson/32/84187_2.png) [@Mayson](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Mayson)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2022, 7:50pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/skitarii-for-5th-class/62643/8 "2022-11-29T19:50:14Z")
In terms of lore, they’d need special treatment. Maybe not prisoners, but sent in by the Adeptus Mechanicus as support. Hardest part - Explaining why the Adeptus Mechanicus would send in some of their highly prized infantry into combat with throwaway units (you, the player). Yes, we see Hardon helping the team, but that’s from the backline where she won’t be endangered senselessly. While the Machine Cult is kind of rough and most of it’s leadership has traded in it’s humanity, we can see in the game Warhammer 40k: Mechanicus that even then they are still very protective of their own forces, servitors included even if they are expendable. They view themselves and their creations as better than humanity and mingling with as well as supporting humanity is seen as necessary evil. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/WyK7lX4sk0c/maxresdefault.jpg "Warhammer 40k: Mechanicus - Opening Scene") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyK7lX4sk0c) > _"From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh,… it DISGUSTED ME!_ > _I craved the strength and certainty of steel._ > _I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine!_ > > _Your kind cling to your flesh, as if it will not decay and fail you!_ > _One day the crude biomass that you call the Temple will wither and you will beg my kind to save you!_ > _But I am already saved, for the machine is immortal!_ > > _Even in death I serve the Omnissiah!"_ ---
**Author:** ![Taytonius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Taytonius](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Taytonius)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2022, 8:56pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/skitarii-for-5th-class/62643/9 "2022-11-29T20:56:52Z")
If my main is a 6’2" guardsman veteran, and I can barely see past the dumb Ogryn, how the hell’s a Ratling supposed to see ANYTHING? And what’s he doing to contribute to the melee? ---
**Author:** ![SlenderBarracuda](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/slenderbarracuda/32/35536_2.png) [@SlenderBarracuda](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/SlenderBarracuda)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2022, 9:02pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/skitarii-for-5th-class/62643/10 "2022-11-29T21:02:38Z")
Don’t care. Let the ogryn eat them with onions in a stew. But a Skitarii could use his implants to scan the battlefield and calculate indirect fire over the ogryn’s head. Skitarii \> rats in every way. ![Skitarii_Cohort1](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/fatshark/original/3X/d/a/da9e32915abae9a22c61d00ef87983d69d7fd9b7.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![SlenderBarracuda](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/slenderbarracuda/32/35536_2.png) [@SlenderBarracuda](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/SlenderBarracuda)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2022, 9:04pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/skitarii-for-5th-class/62643/11 "2022-11-29T21:04:20Z")
Also, cog shaped power axes. ![Sollex_Pattern_Omnissian_Power_Axe](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/fatshark/original/3X/3/5/35aec99f7c6e8377399f9a39527e9a1d26bd9fac.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Aquamarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Aquamarine](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Aquamarine)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2022, 9:59pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/skitarii-for-5th-class/62643/12 "2022-11-29T21:59:02Z")
Gotta agree, while I do think Skitarii look cool a humble mindwiped combat servitor would be more appropriate. They would fit in with the criminal backgrounds theme more since criminals are major source of servitors, they have a variety of configurations and modifications (arms replaced with powerful weapons like heavy bolters or piledrivers) and are known to be readily supplied to the other branches of the imperium including the inquisition. Youd think they wouldn’t have a lot to say in missions, but then you wouldn’t think the medicae station would ask you to keep it company either. ---
**Author:** ![Orchal](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/orchal/32/34503_2.png) [@Orchal](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Orchal)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2022, 10:22pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/skitarii-for-5th-class/62643/13 "2022-11-29T22:22:46Z")
I predict: Catachan Jungle Fighter ---
**Author:** ![Mayson](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/mayson/32/84187_2.png) [@Mayson](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Mayson)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2022, 11:14pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/skitarii-for-5th-class/62643/14 "2022-11-29T23:14:05Z")
> [@Aquamarine](#): > > Gotta agree, while I do think Skitarii look cool a humble mindwiped combat servitor would be more appropriate. > > They would fit in with the criminal backgrounds theme more since criminals are major source of servitors, they have a variety of configurations and modifications (arms replaced with powerful weapons like heavy bolters or piledrivers) and are known to be readily supplied to the other branches of the imperium including the inquisition. > > Youd think they wouldn’t have a lot to say in missions, but then you wouldn’t think the medicae station would ask you to keep it company either. That’s a good point. A servitor would be also fun to play. Yeah that medicae station has really given food for thought. Why was it programmed that way? Or is it even still slightly human? Some if it’s dialogue is eerily haunting. ---
**Author:** ![SlenderBarracuda](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/slenderbarracuda/32/35536_2.png) [@SlenderBarracuda](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/SlenderBarracuda)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2022, 11:46pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/skitarii-for-5th-class/62643/15 "2022-11-29T23:46:34Z")
I grant the machine cult likely wouldn’t let it’s rejects loose. They’d be recycled in house. But we have Dan Abbott working on this game as a writer, one of the top w40k novelists. I’m sure he can write around the problem. We don’t really need that solution ourselves to say we’d like a Skitarii class though. Maybe a shipment of mostly dead Skitarii are passing by, and the inquisitor decides they are needed. Maybe anything. Long as we can come up with an excuse and hint loud enough, we might just get to wear red robes and be radioactive. ---
**Author:** ![kaidergame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kaidergame](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/kaidergame)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2022, 12:08am UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/skitarii-for-5th-class/62643/16 "2022-11-30T00:08:47Z")
I don’t know too much about W40k as I’m just getting into the lore and some books now. Right now I’m reading the Grey Knights Omnibus. And one of the Inquistors had Death Cultist to command. So could Death Cultist character be within this game? Melee blades / Throwing Knives? ---
**Author:** ![scythid](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/scythid/32/43691_2.png) [@scythid](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/scythid)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2022, 12:27am UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/skitarii-for-5th-class/62643/17 "2022-11-30T00:27:40Z")
New classes could just have different story cinematics, they’ve been assigned to support a last ditch effort, hence fighting alongside prisoners Give me anything cult mechanicus to play as pls ---
**Author:** ![SlenderBarracuda](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/slenderbarracuda/32/35536_2.png) [@SlenderBarracuda](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/SlenderBarracuda)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2022, 2:12am UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/skitarii-for-5th-class/62643/18 "2022-11-30T02:12:14Z")
> [@kaidergame](#): > > And one of the Inquistors had Death Cultist to command. Long story short, Inquisitors can get pretty much anything they want, and the only have to answer to their own. That’s not to say there isn’t _anyone_ with enough pull to slap them down, but there’s not many and none who would do it casually. But Fat Shark has invested in the storyline “Rejects will rise.” “Suicide squad of convicts” idea, so if we convince Fat Shark to add something in particular, it either needs to fit or have a way to write it in without too much difficulty. Everything is potentially on the menu by special arrangement, but a lot of things would require too much arrangement. I’m hoping hoping a 'shipment of semi-dead Skitarii being shipped home for parts + getting seized by the inquisition" might fit the ‘rejects will rise’ theme, or any cover-story that gets me my radium rifle. ---
**Author:** ![finniescotting](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dfb087/32.png) [@finniescotting](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/finniescotting)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2023, 12:20am UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/skitarii-for-5th-class/62643/19 "2023-07-21T00:20:34Z")
I would pay SO MUCH for any sort of admech class, no matter how ‘balanced’ it ends up being I will play it endlessly ---
**Author:** ![SlenderBarracuda](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/slenderbarracuda/32/35536_2.png) [@SlenderBarracuda](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/SlenderBarracuda)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2026, 9:03am UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/skitarii-for-5th-class/62643/20 "2026-05-30T09:03:41Z")
Looks like you are going to get your chance!