What's the interest here in creating all-new army lists from scratch?

For example, an army list catering to minis like these could be tres cool:

Anthropod Aliens

Talk me through it.  

Well I have lots of interest in seeing some army lists for DRM and EW at least...  

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I am occasionally thinking of producing E:A armylists for Starcraft but I consider that beyond my current capability.

Space slaan or zoanthropes anyone?

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I'm thinking it would have to be an existing and reasonably widely available miniatures set...so which of the 6mm mini producers has well and fully realised "armies" that are beggin' for E:A lists?  

I've found that arthropods one, but I know there have to be other "complete sets" out there that would be suitable.

Maybe there's a long-lost group of humans who started their own society after the fall of the old empire? Maybe they have superior technology, but not nearly as many troops as the Imperium, thereby making their tactics more conservative?

Maybe there's a race of worm-like aliens (I'm sure I've seen something like that around the 'net) that have only very short-range attacks (CC and FF only, even?), but can take a BUCKETLOAD of pain and still fight effectively?

Just thinking out loud, here...looking forward to reading your ideas, people.  

The worms are part of the command horizon range by Bacuss.

Nice one. Any reason those models couldn't be used for a new race in E:A?  

CS did start a list for the centaurs from the command horizon range. It hasn't received any attention that I know of for a while.

I guess the first thing to now is how complete all the ranges are before embarking on list creation. If a race is only half done creating a list could prove difficult.

The beginings of lists are here

those insect aliens could be used to represent the aliens from "Murder" which appear in one of the 1st 2 Horus heresy books starring Loken.  When I read it I thought they seemed a little like the aliens from starship troopers so tyranid esque but without the Hive mind.

I definitely think it would be great to play with alternate lists and races where the ranges are available.

Community input on list development is likely to be extremely limitted though because:
1) less people on the forum are likely to have miniatures to play test with; and
2) people don't have a familliar body of background information driving opinions about how the list should be developed.

I would certainly encourage someone to make and share their own lists if they have the miniatures and try not to be discouraged if you don't get much feedback.  I think a lot of lists get a lot more use than feedback might indicate.

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Epic- A version of the game with even smaller models that is often dominated by titans which are vehicles the size of a large building and have the ability to pwn...everything. There is also infantry, whose only function in Epic is to provide valuable traction to Titans walking across snowy paths.

I found out what the insect aliens were:

MegaArachnids:
insectoidal alien life forms, long organo metallic claws that cut through power armour like paper. Fought in large swarms.  Had large 'stone'(not really stone morelike the hard stuff termites build their mounds out of sometimes) trees that disrupted communications and caused aircraft to crash.  Had much larger constructs capable of damaging titans.  No ranged weapons seem to be apparent.  Flying versions of the basic creature.
Some ideas for the list:
All units fearless
spawn similar to tyranids but only to units near designated tunnels etc
Stone trees = AA (creates an electrical distrubance around itself that brings down aircraft) move 0
lots of infantry: workers = better than gaunts but not much   = worker beasts from DRM
                 soldiers = tougher workers (higher cc and +1 ea?) = vampire beasts from DRM
                 flying soldiers?                
                 grubs = weak expendable slow moving - Critters / Defenders from DRM
                 Mites =  faster version of grubs - leapers from DRM
Larger creatures: the mediem beasts from DRM?

That's what I'm talkin' about. Niccce!  

Historically, there hasn't been a lot of interest in totally alternative army lists for the reasons Mark Logue stated.

But that shouldn't stop you from taking on a project if you want.  Several have been attempted with various levels of success.

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I think u need some fluff basis for it to be generally accepted.  But there are a lot of options especially if u read the horus heresy stuff and xenology.  Lists for things like:
Diasporex
Interex + Kinebranch
Mega-arachnids
Dark Mechanicum
Vektates if Arkenath
The Nurthene
The Laer
THE Q'ORL SWARMHOOD
The Thyrrus
The Nicassar (Tau ally)
Vespid  (Tau ally)
Enslavers/krell
Barghesi
Galgs (Mecenaries)
Hrud
Jokaero
Jorgall
Loxatl
Nekulli
Saruthi
Scaephylyd (Khorne worshippers)
The Scythians (mercenaries)
Tarellian (mercanaries)