New 40k RPG from FFG - Only War (IG centered) coming 3Q 2012

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**Ravenblade666**

Here's the new 40k roleplay from FFG

They are the thin line that protects the Imperium from complete and utter destruction. They are the Imperial Guard. Announcing Only War, a Warhammer 40,000 roleplaying game!

link here

http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=3185

EDIT, now with more info
(Kid Kyoto)

“The men and women of the Imperial Guard sacrifice more and gain less than perhaps any other arm of the Imperial Armed Forces.”
–Commissar Ibram Gaunt

Fantasy Flight Games is thrilled to announce the upcoming release of Only War! In this all-new standalone Warhammer 40,000 roleplaying game, players take on the roles of soldiers in the Imperial Guard, the galaxy-spanning armies of the God-Emperor. Fully compatible with FFG’s other Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay titles, this comprehensive game system explores a previously unseen side of life in the Imperium of Man.

In Only War, each player takes the role of a Guardsman, a member of the Imperial Guard and one of the countless billions of hardened conscripts constantly fighting on myriad fronts at the whim of the Adeptus Terra. In control of this martial alter ego, players go forth at the behest of their officers to fight the eternal and implacable foes of the Imperium – the foul xenos, the mutant, the heretic, and the dark forces of the Ruinous Powers.

Bound by Honour

As Guardsmen, you will be ordered to engage the enemy with a myriad of tactics. Your squad might be responsible for guiding an important dignitary through a perilous warzone, or instructed to infiltrate a besieged fort to deliver important intelligence. With missions as varied as the galaxy’s innumerable warfronts, you and your squadmates must often rely on nothing but your own grim determination and your faith in each other.

Take the role of a Guardsman with one of twelve distinct Specialties, offering unique skills to your squad to complement those of your comrades. Will you bring the light of the God-Emperor to the battlefield as a Ministorum Priest, or will you wield the Imperium’s most cutting-edge technology as a fearsome Storm Trooper? Perhaps you’ll tend to the machine spirits of the Guard’s many war machines as a Tech-Priest Enginseer, or lead the charge as your squad’s Sergeant. Whatever your function, you’ll be a vital part of the Imperium’s vast war machine.

Your Service Begins Soon

Throughout the course of their service, Guardsmen may fight on a thousand nameless worlds, often outnumbered and outgunned by their enemies and fighting in some of the worst conditions that history has ever known. And yet, despite immense opposition (or perhaps because of it), these fearless soldiers are bound to each other by a code of brotherhood and honour. They are the thin line that protects the Imperium from complete and utter destruction. They are the Imperial Guard.

Learn more on our Only War description page, and Check back in the coming weeks. Then, look for it on store shelves in the third quarter of 2012!

**Charax**

Another one? just seems like they're cashing in now

**Kanluwen**

Charax wrote:Another one? just seems like they're cashing in now

Really? That is the comment you choose to post in this thread?

Each of the RPGs, while able to be interlinked, do present themselves differently.

That said:
Hell yes. It's about time the Guard get some real love.

**Morathi's Darkest Sin**

Yeah I've been waiting for this one for a while, sorta paused my Dark Heresy game because I wanted it as we are focusing so much of it around a Guard regiment.

Aurelia is playing a SoB Hospitalier, attached to the Guard Regiment in my Sig.

Must buy for me.

**English Assassin**

Might be fun, particularly if played in the vein of Paranoia.

[BLAM!]

**Charax**

Kanluwen wrote:
Charax wrote:Another one? just seems like they're cashing in now

Really? That is the comment you choose to post in this thread?

Each of the RPGs, while able to be interlinked, do present themselves differently.

I'm sure they do, but the last RPG they released was, what? 6 months ago? It just seems like they're selling whole new RPGs when sourcebooks would do.

And yes, I am perfectly aware that this criticism is levelled whenever they release an RPG, I've been there since the beginning, but this is the point where I, personally, go "do we need this?". That's why I chose to post that comment.

but if that offends your delicate sensibilities, let's just fill the thread with mindless "ooh, shiny, can't wait" comments

**aka_mythos**

I'm kinda surprised, this one I heard was going to just be an in depth Dark Heresy expansion... I guess it grew too much for that.

**Brother SRM**

Neat! That cover art is miles ahead of the actual IG codex cover art too.

**Johnny-Crass**

Everyone starts out with 25 characters..... One of them is bound to make it through the first mission

**juraigamer**

Might be interested, will have to wait and see.

**Ravenblade666**

aka_mythos wrote:I'm kinda surprised, this one I heard was going to just be an in depth Dark Heresy expansion... I guess it grew too much for that.

Maybe it will cover all the canon IG regiments perhaps?, would be ace to find out more about the Death corps of Krieg.

**Death By Monkeys**

English Assassin wrote:Might be fun, particularly if played in the vein of Paranoia.

[BLAM!]

"The Emperor is your friend!" ?

**BrookM**

Holy feth yes I do want in on this action.

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Also, OP, edit the thread title to PROPERLY REFLECT what this is all about.

**Ahtman**

Johnny-Crass wrote:Everyone starts out with 25 characters..... One of them is bound to make it through the first mission

It is always nice to meet an optimist.

**aka_mythos**

Ravenblade666 wrote:
aka_mythos wrote:I'm kinda surprised, this one I heard was going to just be an in depth Dark Heresy expansion... I guess it grew too much for that.

Maybe it will cover all the canon IG regiments perhaps?, would be ace to find out more about the Death corps of Krieg.

When you look at Dark Heresy's breakdown of the types of worlds in the Imperium for establishing your origin, those seem just as applicable here. It strikes me that this game will need an even greater break down of background to distinguish characters.

I wonder if they'll include Ogryns, Ratlings, and other abhumans.

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Johnny-Crass wrote:Everyone starts out with 25 characters..... One of them is bound to make it through the first mission

Haha!

That'd actually be really funny and be a neat way to do a game that's the opposite of Deathwatch's one marine vs a horde... now you're a horde vs. a single marine.

**warboss**

I don't see why they didn't do this as a supplement for DH instead of a stand alone game but it works either way.. a core book just allows them to charge more for the book since they'll have to include the original rules necessitating a larger page count.

**BrookM**

Doing this as a separate range does allow for more fluff and that's something the Guard could use more of seeing as that piece of gak codex is hardly a proper information tome these days. I'd pay their prices for books on the big regiments, special formations and whatnot. Don't really need a vehicle book, I've got Forge World for that.

**ph34r**

Interesting. I hope this is at least in part compatible with Dark Heresy.

**Kroothawk**

Does every character class of Dark Heresy now gets its own RPG before we see playable Xeno races (except the three classes in RT)?

**Morathi's Darkest Sin**

Heh, sadly true. All I know is I'll be using the futurama 'shut up and take my money' image as soon as we have Orks and Eldar based books arriving.

**Noir**

Hell yeah, a RPG were dieing is the only real outcome. I'm on board.

**MajorWesJanson**

I thought Only War was going to be a DH splatbook, but I guess it grew. I get these mainly for the art and fluff, so this is a must buy for me.

**automatonsleuth**

An RPG where you just shoot things and quote B-movies? This would, I think, be much more suited to the level of subtlety and role-playing ability that my erstwhile DH group possesses...

**warboss**

BrookM wrote:Doing this as a separate range does allow for more fluff and that's something the Guard could use more of seeing as that piece of gak codex is hardly a proper information tome these days. I'd pay their prices for books on the big regiments, special formations and whatnot. Don't really need a vehicle book, I've got Forge World for that.

Even though it says that it's compatible, the usage of books from between the various "compatible" lines is a clunky and inelegant process at best. I see yet another "core" rpg in a world where 4 already exist as too many unless it addresses something that hasn't been covered in depth with the others (like a xenos specific or Heresy-era RPG core game). You can easily do IG with the DH and RT books already announced whereas separate regiments could be added to the lore with a future book. Constantly fragmenting the userbase isn't a good thing IMO and adding a 5th "core" rpg book to the mix is my personal tipping point.

**Morathi's Darkest Sin**

Not a WoD fan warboss?

**aka_mythos**

I think its too easy to just say this game is "just shoot things" but if that's how your games go its wholely the fault of the Gamemaster. Even if you only look at war and action movies, many of those create drama by having moments when the characters have to figure out when not to shoot. You're the IG and not the Inquisition, so immediately purging that Colony on LV-426 for playing with some xenos isn't your first response, otherwise you might be pulling a dead child from the airduct and choosing not to land but to just nuke the site from orbit on a whim.

To put it another way, when you work for an Inquisitor you know you're going somewhere dangerous. When you're a Guardsmen, you're the poor SOB (and I don't mean Sororitas) who found out it was dangerous just so the henchmen knew they were going into a dangerous situation.

The game can have drama... how does your group investigate when they think their Lt. has turned to Chaos? How do they react when ordered to fight alongside Xenos mercenaries? What ends are they willing to go when their supplies run out and their working alongside other IG from another planet that they find out are hording?

**ShatteredBlade**

Sadly, I was never impressed with the 40k RPG

**warboss**

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:Not a WoD fan warboss?

TBH, I never played them despite starting to play RPGs in their heyday. The WoD art style just turned me off to them completely.

**Morathi's Darkest Sin**

Fair dues, just raised it due to their own fragmented games, something as a fan of WoD I am used to.

If you never picked it up, I can see your point more clearly.

**George Spiggott**

I wonder if there'll be any women in it?

No. Seriously, some good I.G. fluff and artwork featuring a mix of the sexes could do with working its way back into the mainstream IG milieu.