Interesting, might have a read of it at some point. I've stalled a little at the moment as sometimes I do on Honor- I have a brother that tells me War of Honor is just terrible- but hopefully he's wrong!<br/><br/>I once heard it describe that 40k is in a lot of ways sort of political satire- as in, this is the situation you would have to be in- if you ever want to justify a stance that the imperium has on things. I suspect that's overthinking the setting a little but it's an amusing thought to think.<br/><br/>I suppose the question at the end of the day is- does your story being steampunk add anything to it. Arcanum is one of the key points of the setting emerging technologies and magick conflicting, Warmachine taking the other view, magic and technology augmenting each other in a developing world. I was in a LARP once that sort of did the same thing and it was interesting starting off as a fantasy society and as players moved through the tech tree we started to see more weird stuff emerge. (It was a new world colonial style setting, magic was something new that was only brought about when people made the crossing.)<br/><br/>That does sound amusing, water and gunpowder getting along so well and all. You might have a point could just be bad steampunk burned me.