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Unconfirmed Rosters for Crusade of Fury: Second Sun
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User/Army/Deployment
Imperium of Man: Jhe90- Space Wolves, and Auxiliary forces- Moon #1, Kikkari Desert
BobtheHero- Tempestus Scions- Crion, Tarragon
Buttery Commissar- Rogue Trader House/Adeptus Mechanicus
Tactical_Spam-The Arbiters of Truth- Moon #1, Kikkari Desert
irishpeacockz- Emperor's Hounds- Moon #1, Zeverin's Landing
chazz huggins- Inquisition/Grey Knights- Crion, Eynov
Kharne the Befriender- Charcarodons Astra- Crion, Clerth
[inactive]Sgt. Vanden- Stone Wardens- Moon #1, Namrex Dunes
War Kitten- 5th Salvar Chem Dogs- Moon #1, Isles of Pratt
Sgt. Vanden- 2nd Helsreach Gorgons- Crion, North Vow
Chaos Super Friends: [Inactive]Tainted- Red Corsairs- Moon #2, Gaffrehon
[inactive]TheEyeOfNight- Flayed Legion- Moon #2, Dierdra
Ezra Tyrius- The Remnants- Crion, Site Delta
Buttery Commissar- Emperor's Children- ???
Tactical_Spam- Daemons of Ewryht'eikl- Moon #2, Zike
Ezra Tyrius- Black Legion- Moon #2
irishpeacockz- Nurgle duders- I don't even know. Crion maybe?
Xenos: [inactive]2BlackJack1- Kroot Mercenaries- Crion, Governor's Mansion
Kharne the Befriender- Necron Dynasties- Moon #2, Yankor
Sgt_Smudge- Tau- Crion, Kalhoon
[inactive]EvergreenArcher- Tyranids- Crion, Pike-Ard
War Kitten- Craftworld Iybraesil under Farseer Lilliana and Warlock Raela- Crion, Frov
[inactive]2BlackJack1- WAAAAGH BadToof- Moon #1, Koncerd
[inactive]VladimirUhl- Flayed Ones- Crion, Spiri
Robin5t- Eldar Harlequins- Crion, Jorgon
[inactive]The_Grey_Knight- Eldar Harlequins- Crion, Hotch
[inactive]Palleus- Orks- Crion, Grim
Map for the Crusade of Fury: Second Sun (courtesy of Chazz Huggins)
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Key
Map
Moon Map #1
Moon Map #2
Orbital Elevator Installation
FAQs for CoF: SS, NotLBM (EB)
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Q: Where can I deploy?
A: You can deploy in any sector that is not occupied by an enemy.
Q: How many armies can fit into a single sector
A: As many allies as you want, but no enemies. Enemies must roll to attack the sector if they wish to enter it. If the enemy wins, you must withdraw into another sector and the enemy moves into your sector. You cannot use this to attack the sector an enemy is in or move into the sector your enemy attacked from.
Q: Who is my Ally?
A: All Imperium armies are considered allies within themselves and all Chaos armies are allies within themselves. All Xenos are considered to be enemies to any other Imperium, Chaos or Xenos army. There may be exceptions to these rules.
Q: Is the Governor's Mansion a sector?
A: Yes.
Grading scale courtesy of Sgt Smudge. Use the experimental one below for now.
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This is my best way of recreating it, and I think for streamlining purposes, neutral/draw can be removed.
Major Victory: 0 < 5
Victory: 6 < 10
Minor Victory: 11 < 25
Minor Defeat: 26 < 35
Defeat: 36 < 45
Major Defeat: 46 < 50
Looking at this now, there really is a huge chance of getting over 50, but there needs to be a risk of getting Major Defeats even when playing 50s. Not a perfect system by any means, and I wouldn't object to a fairer method.
Experimental Grading list:
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0-5 Major Victory
6-15 Victory
16-30 Minor Victory
31-45 Minor Defeat
46-55 Defeat
56+ Major Defeat
Rules so far:
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Chazz will be in charge of all rolls pertaining to Crion while I am in charge of the moons.
Kharne the Befriender wrote: Bob, If your scions ever fall out of favor with the marines my Necrons would be more than happy to accept you into the coalition
Good thing there's not only Marines on the Imperium side
Kharne the Befriender wrote: Bob, If your scions ever fall out of favor with the marines my Necrons would be more than happy to accept you into the coalition
Good thing there's not only Marines on the Imperium side
Not for long . I wont hesitate to start crashing Jackals
So, what all, goes here as opposed to on the actual thread? Anything that isn't a story? What about a simple comment on someone else's story, would that still go here?
War Kitten wrote: Kharne, if you're still looking for an ally I could segue in my Dark Eldar as well, they would love to receive some slaves for the arenas.
Yeah, sounds good, I'll have to think of some stuff and how that will fit into my plans.
Oh and as for couples, Riley has a wife (who's also a red head, incidentally) aboard the Swift Guardian
He's far more developped than Gallus, mostly because I came up with him outside of 40k some years ago. Figured it'd be nice to 40k him a bit and add him to my battalion.
War Kitten wrote: Kharne, if you're still looking for an ally I could segue in my Dark Eldar as well, they would love to receive some slaves for the arenas.
Yeah, sounds good, I'll have to think of some stuff and how that will fit into my plans.
I'd have to ask Smudge to make sure he's fine with it. Got my Craftworld Eldar and Marines already, just want to ensure that that would be ok, and to ensure that I can take writing for 3 armies.
War Kitten wrote: Kharne, if you're still looking for an ally I could segue in my Dark Eldar as well, they would love to receive some slaves for the arenas.
You know that Necrons are "Come the Apocalypse" allies with everyone for a reason. Necrons are literally the worst race in terms of charisma
Basically, in response to 2BlackJack1, this should be used for basically anything NOT story. So discussions about events in the campaign, or just posting additional fluff resources about your faction should go here.
It's just a little bit distracting when the actual thread is clogged up by spoiler tags for discussion.
Fixed my 2nd in-game post a bit, it didn't make too much sense
And I am just switching post for fluff.
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Keen eyes will notice this symbol popped up on the last sector map
the 85th Battalion ''Reforged'', a Tempestus Scions reconnaissance battalion.
They're called so because of their means of recruitement, which involve picking up Scions/IG veterans that survived large scale engagements and ''Reforging'' them as members of the 85th. Since their specialty involves reconnaissance, they generally keep to a small number, right now they have 1500 members under the leadership of Tempestor Prime Gallus Tauron. Himself a veteran of the original 85th Battalion, he leads his battalion with the typical steel hand of a Tempestor Prime. He expects an extremely high level of discipline from the recon specialists, as the job they're doing is extremely demanding. Unlike many organisation within the Imperium, the men of 85th actually have a lot of different uniforms that they'll use depending on the planet they're deployed. Since being stealthy is one of their main skills, the men of the 85th are also well qualified regarding anything linked to stealth, like ambushed and sabotage, generally making the lives of allied forces easier when they show up. They're not the best when it comes to direct fighting as most of their training goes to reconnaissance training, but, they're still Scions of the Imperium, and are a cut above even the most hardened Imperial Guard veteran, as shown on the few occasions that they had to engage an enemy directly and in large numbers.
There is one exception to this however. During the battle of Praigia V, the Imperium lost communications rather aprubtly with the force sent there. The 85th was sent to investigate, their skills in stealth speaking for themselves. What they found were a nearly destroyed army, rapidly losing ground. The few survivors they could evacuate were half a company of airborne assault stormtroopers, dubbed ''Riley's Fist' and lead by Tempestor Secundus Riley Enoch . Instead of re-training them as reconnaissance specialists, they were kept as an emergency response unit sent to quickly secure the recon specialists when the mission goes sour. They're the heavy punch of the 85th, with attached navy aircrafts and the heaviest man-portable weapons the battalion can issue . The men that fail the recon course but succed in meeting the Scions grueling combat standards will be given further training as airborne assault troops. Furthermore, certain troopers that have shown exceptionnal combat skills are transfered there, where their skills can be used more often. These men have kept their original uniforms, but they've adopted the 85th iconography.
As for those that fail both qualifications or simply fail to meet the standards of the battalion, they're used as decoy, when such a thing is needed to allow the reconnaissance specialists to do their missions. Lucky men that survive a certain amount of such missions are sometimes allowed as support crew or crewmen on the valkyries and vulture loaned by the Imperial Navy.
The battalion has good support from the Navy, who granted them quick stealth ships (a light cruiser and escorts) to carry them around as well as numerous valkyries and a few vultures. One particularity of the light cruiser, the Swift Guardian, is the pods bay dotted around its hull. These fire special pods similar to the Space Marines pods, except that they break out in pieces high in the sky, allowing the Scions to drop quickly and stealthly using grav-chutes. This is only used when landing via more conventional means would be too risky for the success of the mission.
For the number parts.
1500 Scions or so.
20 Taurox Primes, used when Valkyries cannot transport the reconnaissance elements.
60 Valkyries
6 Vultures
Riley's Fist (Included in the numbers above)
125 Scions
13 Valkyries
6 Vultures
4 Space Ships
Light Cruiser: Swift Guardian 3 Escorts: Wind Eternal, Redemption Blade and The Thunderbolt
So yeah, basically I don't really intend to take part in large battles and eliminate other people (tho I might steal a few Kasrkins and Grenadiers ). My goal would be more of a support one, but bascially, I am hoping to help other Imperial forces accomplish their objectives, not sure how you determine success, but the point would be to skewer the odds in favor of the Imperium via having allies knowing what they'll walk into and whatnot, possibly sabotaging something critical and hell, maybe punch someone in the face with Riley's Fist once or twice.
Here you go, this was my first time writting serious fluff, I think it well, let me know if something's missing.
1. Are other people fine with me having 2 kinds of elves sneaking around the sector? One good and one neutral/evil
2. (this is directed to Smudge)- Are you ok with me having that 3rd force present? I've always kind of wanted to write up things from an "evil" perspective.
The fluff is pretty good Bob, you may encounter my Eldar at some point, and they're going to want to be friends with you.
1. Are other people fine with me having 2 kinds of elves sneaking around the sector? One good and one neutral/evil
I'm thinking on having my Tau come in eventually(Don't worry TS, no more little spammy posts),so I'm fine with it. I'm not sure how everyone else feels though.
1. Are other people fine with me having 2 kinds of elves sneaking around the sector? One good and one neutral/evil
2. (this is directed to Smudge)- Are you ok with me having that 3rd force present? I've always kind of wanted to write up things from an "evil" perspective.
The fluff is pretty good Bob, you may encounter my Eldar at some point, and they're going to want to be friends with you.
I'm fine with it. If you can bear to run it, I'm happy with you running it!
Alright. PM has been sent off to Smudge detailing my DE a little bit and their goals in the sector. Is it also fine to post character/squad names for our forces here? Or does that go in the main thread?
Don't feel bad. We all get kicked in the teeth on occasion by the whims of Sgt_Smudge and his number generator. Just ask my Ultramarines.... anyway, keep at it!
Haha yeah no worries, there's still hope as long as at least one stealer lives... And in any case, the writing is enjoyable, even if I'm getting minced!
Sorry for both your losses. I got so many fails with Archarus at the start that my options were
1) Kill him off, and find a better leader
2)Make a pact with a Dark God of my choice
And so, liking Archarus too much, I made him make a pact with Khorne. My point being, I'm sure you guys will get out of this bad streak. Archarus went from a few ships to his own planet and several races trying to set up arms deals with him.
Also, I've got some stuff coming up, mostly on anti Eldar stuff. Tragedy and success, and some Histans are thrown into the mix.
War Kitten wrote: I just hope you realize that ALL of my Eldar are currently fleet based. You need to find the ships before you can do much else to them
I call Bull gak. You explicitly said "How did you know my forces were in the system. They were using webway portals" when I attacked after you attacked my fleet. That is a huge inconsistency
War Kitten wrote: I just hope you realize that ALL of my Eldar are currently fleet based. You need to find the ships before you can do much else to them
I call Bull gak. You explicitly said "How did you know my forces were in the system. They were using webway portals" when I attacked after you attacked my fleet. That is a huge inconsistency
They where, but they met up with fleet after the battle in our cold war, when the eldar force unified.
War Kitten wrote: I just hope you realize that ALL of my Eldar are currently fleet based. You need to find the ships before you can do much else to them
I call Bull gak. You explicitly said "How did you know my forces were in the system. They were using webway portals" when I attacked after you attacked my fleet. That is a huge inconsistency
They were. But did you miss the part where I couldn't get to a portal to 2BJ1 so I then stated that they (my Eldar) were pulling back into orbit to the ships that I've had there? Sorry if that was confusing, I'm not very good at keeping track of stuff
War Kitten wrote: I just hope you realize that ALL of my Eldar are currently fleet based. You need to find the ships before you can do much else to them
I call Bull gak. You explicitly said "How did you know my forces were in the system. They were using webway portals" when I attacked after you attacked my fleet. That is a huge inconsistency
They were. But did you miss the part where I couldn't get to a portal to 2BJ1 so I then stated that they (my Eldar) were pulling back into orbit to the ships that I've had there? Sorry if that was confusing, I'm not very good at keeping track of stuff
I'll take that as a compliment TS, I'm getting into character as an Eldar, misdirection and guile are how we roll. Again, I apologize if I hadn't made it clear that they had all gone fleet-based, I should have made It clearer for you guys.
War Kitten wrote: I'll take that as a compliment TS, I'm getting into character as an Eldar, misdirection and guile are how we roll. Again, I apologize if I hadn't made it clear that they had all gone fleet-based, I should have made It clearer for you guys.
I am still slipperier. So slippery you haven't figured out what I've done yet
War Kitten wrote: I'll take that as a compliment TS, I'm getting into character as an Eldar, misdirection and guile are how we roll. Again, I apologize if I hadn't made it clear that they had all gone fleet-based, I should have made It clearer for you guys.
I am still slipperier. So slippery you haven't figured out what I've done yet
Of course, you are the king of mind-fething. We've established this already when you mind fethed the collective mind of the Imperial forces. Stop showing off
War Kitten wrote: I'll take that as a compliment TS, I'm getting into character as an Eldar, misdirection and guile are how we roll. Again, I apologize if I hadn't made it clear that they had all gone fleet-based, I should have made It clearer for you guys.
I am still slipperier. So slippery you haven't figured out what I've done yet
Of course, you are the king of mind-fething. We've established this already when you mind fethed the collective mind of the Imperial forces. Stop showing off
I really want to point out what I did, but it would ruin my plans
I'm going to assume your plans involve fething over my Eldar (thank goodness my DE haven't shown up yet), not looking forward to what's going to happen to them. And to think, I just got rolling in my fight against 2BJ1
They don't make themselves very apparent. Eldar are always smoke and mirror and the New Order has a lot of operatives. Genestealers never do anything openly
IMHO, the guys who were here since the beginning, say Ezra, write some fantastic work, but they dont have a lot of time to spend writing it. When we have now 10ish writers, his contributions get thrown under the bus.
Probably yes. So, change of subject, anyone have any suggestions for character development for Lilliana (the Farseer)? I'm working on ideas for the leader of my DE, and I wanted to see if anyone had suggestions for my Farseer.
jhe90 wrote: Page 1, i could not keep up the Passive agressive marines so they chilled out quickly.
Now i Have the not even sure where i place in the crusade....
Honestly, with my roles I doubt that even the Genestealers are below me. I'm just that random guy sitting in the corner of the map crashing dirges for no apparent reason.
jhe90 wrote: Page 1, i could not keep up the Passive agressive marines so they chilled out quickly.
Now i Have the not even sure where i place in the crusade....
Honestly, with my roles I doubt that even the Genestealers are below me. I'm just that random guy sitting in the corner of the map crashing dirges for no apparent reason.
Well mine are not sure where to go, i had mostly a detachment fighting fog monsters, defending my fungus world, and such.
My force never has been the one guiding the crusade unlike some. i just go hunt orks, blow up too many planets and write derailing Petra shepard chunks.
jhe90 wrote: Page 1, i could not keep up the Passive agressive marines so they chilled out quickly.
Now i Have the not even sure where i place in the crusade....
Honestly, with my roles I doubt that even the Genestealers are below me. I'm just that random guy sitting in the corner of the map crashing dirges for no apparent reason.
Well mine are not sure where to go, i had mostly a detachment fighting fog monsters, defending my fungus world, and such.
My force never has been the one guiding the crusade unlike some. i just go hunt orks, blow up too many planets and write derailing Petra shepard chunks.
Well as always, I'm willing to accept anyone into the Coalition Against Kageros Enemies.
Hi, Im new and am trying to catch up, is there a summary of some kind or should I just keep trudging? Also, Despite only being 10 pages in this is amazing keep up the good work !
And what's the matter, TS? Are you worried of someone usurping your place on the throne of trolls? I say your welcome. It seems Chaos might overwhelm the Imperium at this point. Good thing I finally found something for the Histans to do.
I am just waiting for whoever's playing as Crusade HQ to send me orders and then I can start doing stuff (or simply have Smudge give me a mission and I can fluff the orders on my own, I can do that, too)
And what's the matter, TS? Are you worried of someone usurping your place on the throne of trolls? I say your welcome. It seems Chaos might overwhelm the Imperium at this point. Good thing I finally found something for the Histans to do.
Im not done with you BlackJack...
No I am concerned Ezra will disappear after all the story with Aurelius and the Remnants
Yes, just to put here, it would be wrong to deny entry to anyone. I can bear to deal with your PMs, just make sure it all hits my desk first.
I am well aware that my choice of events for major defeats are very harsh, but it serves to make the victory all the sweeter. If you're always winning, there's no sense of danger or loss, which is a little contrived in my opinion. But I'm glad you've not taken them too personally
I'll try to post some kind of updated event guide here for anyone looking, just for easy reference.
Imperium has pushed into a previously lost sector of space, the Charadon sector. They were initially met along the way by Chaos, daemons, Orks and multiple other threats in the area. A Chaos related relic was discovered on a planet called Mogrok, which caused a clash between Deathwatch and Iron Warrior forces. The relic was a decoy, with the original stolen by a Chaos warband called the Remnants. The Deathwatch, bloodied and beaten, ridded the world of taint by Exterminatus.
All forces were made aware that the relic itself allowed a mythical vault on the world of Gallor Prime to be opened. The Imperium, Waaagh! Grinbad, the Remnants and Iron Warriors, and the newly arrived Eldar forces all conquered their way to Gallor Prime, and a brutal land war was waged. This conflict was culminated by the forces discovering the location of the vault in the southern pole of the planet, and racing to stop the others getting it. In the end, it came down to the Imperials against the Orks. The Imperial effort was in vain, as Grinbad opened up the vault, and plunged Gallor Prime into the warp briefly.
Grinbad's forces moved on to the Cadian sector, using their newly-gained power to krump 'eads.
However, for those not in the Waaagh!, the event lasted for days, months, even years.
The Imperial forces commanders managed to escape the nightmarish hell of Gallor Prime, all bar Commissar Gavor, who had seen enough of the long war and vanished to be with his wife, and Acting-Captain Aurelius, who was critically injured after being stranded in a tide of daemon spawn. He was saved at the last minute by the Remnants, who showed great interest in the Ultramarine, and returned him to Imperial lines.
After the battle, Gallor Prime was left desolate and the crusade moves on.
- A massive xenos Tyranid/Hybrid fleet has invaded from the north-east, claiming many worlds with ease.
- One of the generals is not content with his position, and wishes to usurp the Lord General's place, hiring assassins to kill him off, a plot foiled by Aurelius, raised from the jaws of death.
- Ultramarine and Black Templar forces have been heavily depleted by a campaign on the mysterious world of Kagrenz. Following the arrival of a massive Hybrid Fleet, the world has been abandoned and Exterminatus'd out of spite.
- Imperial forces are massing for a counter-attack against the enemies on all fronts.
- New Order forces are currently prosecuting a war against Tau on the heavily fortified world of Julla.
- A new Waaagh! is rising in the East, led by a biker boy who rides a warbike infused with the warp itself.
- The Iron Warriors were scattered to a world located in a nearby Warp Rift, which they fortified and recently solidified their hold by killing the largest prey on the world, a sea leviathan. They are masterminding an Eldar slave trade business.
- The Eldar swore to hunt down the Iron Warriors leader, and are currently trying to find a way to reach them through the unstable warp rift.
- Necron forces have awoken in the Western front, and seem intent on suicide-bombing aircraft into other armies. They are also embroiled in the cut-throat slave trade business.
- The Remnants remain as elusive as ever.
- Dark Eldar have been sighted raiding undefended vessels in the system.
- And genestealers have slipped into the underhive on Echison VII, now in jeopardy after a Death Korps raid.
Thank You sarge! I will read the last few pages to get a more exact veiw, then will begin writing the entrance of the Daw Striders, remnants of two chapters that barely survived because orks tampered with DE tech and almist destroyed both sets of geneseed, and only a massive psychic communion (and the death of 95% of the psykers present) saved them!
Swampmist wrote: Thank You sarge! I will read the last few pages to get a more exact veiw, then will begin writing the entrance of the Daw Striders, remnants of two chapters that barely survived because orks tampered with DE tech and almist destroyed both sets of geneseed, and only a massive psychic communion (and the death of 95% of the psykers present) saved them!
Are you allying with the Imperium? Looking forward to your intro
Welcome to the Crusade Brother! Smudge and TS put up summaries of who's who and what armies they're running over in the main thread I believe, so you can tell who's running what. I'm running Eldar, DEldar, and Marines (sorely depleted though, so they're going on the backburner for a bit)
Also, because feth my ability to type on my Iphone is bad, the chapter is named the Dawn Striders. Also, bringing some gaurd to help shore up the flanks, and hopefully a baneblade varient or two if I can finally figure out which is which .
I'm the slave-trading, dirge-bombing, Necrons of the Kageros Dynasty. I also have a Tau sept I might bring in at a later time, but thats another story for another time.
In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only introductions.
Since when did I become to go-to guy for fluff and advice? First Kharne now you?
Anyway. I would probably say UM (and not because I'm a UM player myself). From what I've seen of the New Order they like to be adaptable, which I believe is represented decently by UM tactics. RG tactics aren't bad mind you, I just believe that UM would be more conducive to how they appear to operate (at least in my eyes)
War Kitten wrote: Since when did I become to go-to guy for fluff and advice? First Kharne now you?
Anyway. I would probably say UM (and not because I'm a UM player myself). From what I've seen of the New Order they like to be adaptable, which I believe is represented decently by UM tactics. RG tactics aren't bad mind you, I just believe that UM would be more conducive to how they appear to operate (at least in my eyes)
Just a second opinion
I say UM because of adaptability and RG because of the Hassassins and the general sneakiness
I'll say UM again. Adaptability seems to be the modus operandi of the New Order, only do RG if you're going for a Hassassin themed force. (I.e. 10th company detachment)
I really do want to get involved, but I'm a bit at a loss with what - I'm a huge fan of forum RP'ing and the like (been doing it for the past 3 or so years now), but it seems that AL are out of the picture and more IW wouldn't really make sense considering there's already a whole bunch of 'em. Any ideas?
Death Guard? I'd like some Nurgle around here, if you want CSM. Traitor Guard would work too. There is a Slaneeshi infested planet, so you could get some Emperor's Children here too. Not sure, but those are some suggestions for Chaos.
We could use some more Chaos players. We have Ashiraya's Glaciar Serpents (but they haven't shown up for a while). We have Ezra's Remnants (also haven't shown up for a while), and we have 2BJ1's Iron Warriors (who are now gearing up for a slap fest with my Eldar). I say if you want to play Chaos (whether CSM or Traitor Guard, or even both) then go for it!
Sgt_Smudge wrote: Speaking of which, and seeing as we're off topic, your characters in the Crusade. If you use them in game, what do you use them as?
Gallus as a Tempestor Prime with a Power fist and plasma pistol, but that would be seriously crippling myself point wise on a faction that's already rather bad on the TT, whereas Riley would be a Tempestor Prime with a mastercrafted hellgun+auxiliary grenade launcher, if such a thing was possible.
Ok, that was waaaay harder than it needed to be thanks to phone typing and the wi-fi giving out, but here it is! This is everything the Dawn Striders have, so hopefully they get something done!
Don't worry about it. I just have a single company of UM (plus 1st and 10th company support) and I do alright. I'm just waiting for Smudge to send reinforcements to bring my company back up to full strength.
Hi, just popping in to let you all know I'm still alive... somewhat at least
Good to see some new blood coming into the thread, although I'm having trouble keeping track of everyone, I'll have some catching up to do once I get real life sorted a bit
Anyways, for those new bloods who have no idea who I'm writing in this Crusade, here's the brief summary of both my forces:
- Death Ravens: loyalist Space Marines, descendants from the Raven Guard. Haven't gotten much screentime yet, but I'm hoping to change that in the near future. Have spent most of the time they've been in the system failing to apprehend the Remnants, getting their scouts lost on the FIRST PLANET THEY LANDED ON, and capturing the grand total of one planet.
So yeah, these guys are going to need a LOT more screentime to fix their reputation
- the Remnants: once the grandest trolls in this part of the galaxy, but have now conceded said place to the New Order. A Chaos warband with strange motives and an unusual habit of visiting people's heads, responsible for numerous incidents across the system, they are a force to be reckoned with, more because they tend to pop in unannounced to confuse everyone rather than as actual physical threat.
Currently, both forces are taking their sweet time twiddling their thumbs around in space, but for what it's worth, I do have an idea of how their plot is going to continue. I'm very busy at the moment with real life stuff, but I hope to return soon to keep this great crusade alive and kicking!
War Kitten wrote: Don't worry about it. I just have a single company of UM (plus 1st and 10th company support) and I do alright. I'm just waiting for Smudge to send reinforcements to bring my company back up to full strength.
Yeah, but this is my ENTIRE CHAPTER. Getting blown up by Ork-Weilded DE tech isnt fun, especially when it blows up your recruiting world and the other possible world to recruit from gets raided by spiteful DE while your recovering
War Kitten wrote: Don't worry about it. I just have a single company of UM (plus 1st and 10th company support) and I do alright. I'm just waiting for Smudge to send reinforcements to bring my company back up to full strength.
Yeah, but this is my ENTIRE CHAPTER. Getting blown up by Ork-Weilded DE tech isnt fun, especially when it blows up your are crush ing world and the other possible world to recruit from gets raided by spiteful DE while your recovering
I suppose this is a bad time to mention that I'm running DE in this Crusade? I sense an opportunity for vengeance for your chapter.... (or you can try at least )
War Kitten wrote: Don't worry about it. I just have a single company of UM (plus 1st and 10th company support) and I do alright. I'm just waiting for Smudge to send reinforcements to bring my company back up to full strength.
Yeah, but this is my ENTIRE CHAPTER. Getting blown up by Ork-Weilded DE tech isnt fun, especially when it blows up your are crush ing world and the other possible world to recruit from gets raided by spiteful DE while your recovering
Dude, I feel you, my planet got screwed up to, although it was about 60,000,000 years ago.
So I just got my sections up, and I need your opinons. Should I stick with the style I just tried, where I cover each of my faction's activities, but in smaller blocks, or should I devote an individual post to each, making each one longer, but maybe a day between each one? I need advice. Oh, and Swampmist, your marines scored some kills saving my Battle Barge from some Xenos vessels. Smudge PM"d me with my numbers and told me to pick an ally to help me out. I chose your fleet, hope you're fine with that, they got to kill some xenos vessels.
Got in just before you - your post was damn good though! I am curious to see how your marine reacts to this - maybe it's just having watched Star Wars ep 3 that's doing it, but do I sense a fall to the dark side coming on ?
Got in just before you - your post was damn good though! I am curious to see how your marine reacts to this - maybe it's just having watched Star Wars ep 3 that's doing it, but do I sense a fall to the dark side coming on ?
Im cool with the kills, probably one of the vanguard teams to be honest. Ill write up responses soon, and just for ease Ill pick the number for my next action here: 35
Swampmist wrote: Im cool with the kills, probably one of the vanguard teams to be honest. Ill write up responses soon, and just for ease Ill pick the number for my next action here: 35
I said it was some of your strike cruisers. Pick a few of them to maybe write about it from their POV
Swampmist wrote: Im cool with the kills, probably one of the vanguard teams to be honest. Ill write up responses soon, and just for ease Ill pick the number for my next action here: 35
Usually you'll want to PM Smudge so we don't know what you got
Got in just before you - your post was damn good though! I am curious to see how your marine reacts to this - maybe it's just having watched Star Wars ep 3 that's doing it, but do I sense a fall to the dark side coming on ?
Sylus was already cleared for being pure
Shame, I do enjoy a good "fall" plotline! Still interested to see where this goes.
Got in just before you - your post was damn good though! I am curious to see how your marine reacts to this - maybe it's just having watched Star Wars ep 3 that's doing it, but do I sense a fall to the dark side coming on ?
Sylus was already cleared for being pure
Shame, I do enjoy a good "fall" plotline! Still interested to see where this goes.
Did you not read the part about one of my guys turning into a Daemon Prince?
Oh TS? My Dark Eldar launched a raid on the planet the New Order is on. If you want you can write up a bit about them noticing the brief engagement my DE had with the Tau. My DE weren't there that long before the Tau's defense lines began firing on us, knocking out a Raider (curse you Tidewall!), but then they escaped. Might be an interesting tidbit for them?
War Kitten wrote: Oh TS? My Dark Eldar launched a raid on the planet the New Order is on. If you want you can write up a bit about them noticing the brief engagement my DE had with the Tau. My DE weren't there that long before the Tau's defense lines began firing on us, knocking out a Raider (curse you Tidewall!), but then they escaped. Might be an interesting tidbit for them?
Got in just before you - your post was damn good though! I am curious to see how your marine reacts to this - maybe it's just having watched Star Wars ep 3 that's doing it, but do I sense a fall to the dark side coming on ?
Sylus was already cleared for being pure
Shame, I do enjoy a good "fall" plotline! Still interested to see where this goes.
Did you not read the part about one of my guys turning into a Daemon Prince?
I admit I've not read particularly far back in the thread - just don't have time. Whenabouts was this?
Got in just before you - your post was damn good though! I am curious to see how your marine reacts to this - maybe it's just having watched Star Wars ep 3 that's doing it, but do I sense a fall to the dark side coming on ?
Sylus was already cleared for being pure
Shame, I do enjoy a good "fall" plotline! Still interested to see where this goes.
Did you not read the part about one of my guys turning into a Daemon Prince?
I admit I've not read particularly far back in the thread - just don't have time. Whenabouts was this?
I'm sorry for my lack of writing. I've got three (two and a half, more like) stories I need to write up, but I haven't found enough time to work on them, yet.
I can't wait to try and take on your scions with my Dark Eldar, super fast army vs. super fast army (at least I assume your scions can be really fast with their flyers/transports)
Well my first roll on Julia went just swimmingly. Tau and their friggin' Tidewall defense walls killed one of my Raiders... now I need to go mess them up, and the New Order, and your Scions. A Dark Eldar's work is never done.
War Kitten wrote: Well my first roll on Julia went just swimmingly. Tau and their friggin' Tidewall defense walls killed one of my Raiders... now I need to go mess them up, and the New Order, and your Scions. A Dark Eldar's work is never done.
As a hint, my troops have names that correspond to their fellows, so for example the scouts all have names from the same series, although they are edited to make it less easy
War Kitten wrote: Well my first roll on Julia went just swimmingly. Tau and their friggin' Tidewall defense walls killed one of my Raiders... now I need to go mess them up, and the New Order, and your Scions. A Dark Eldar's work is never done.
1: Its Julla dude. Fix your Autocorrect
2: Didn't you talk about this before?
Sorry. My auto-correct does suck. Never even noticed that. . And I did repeat myself, but I added that I needed to go fight the Scions too.
War Kitten wrote: Well my first roll on Julia went just swimmingly. Tau and their friggin' Tidewall defense walls killed one of my Raiders... now I need to go mess them up, and the New Order, and your Scions. A Dark Eldar's work is never done.
1: Its Julla dude. Fix your Autocorrect
2: Didn't you talk about this before?
Sorry. My auto-correct does suck. Never even noticed that. . And I did repeat myself, but I added that I needed to go fight the Scions too.
Now that you repeated yourself, I will too. I should do a Xenos faction....
You damaged one of my ships you git! I knew Smudge was right when he said that EMP pulse might lead to my ships being attacked, at least the ship was able to limp away... I'm nervous at what 2BJ1 "likes".
However, just a pointer: adding more races and factions will only complicate things more, and make wins a lot harder. If all PC factions oppose other PC factions, then you will never really be able to wipe out an enemy. The reason NPC factions are present is so that you can kill them instead.
Again, I'm not sure how beneficial splitting effort into three different factions really is, so if we kinda just tone down the additional faction adding? If at all possible that is?
If anyone has any objections to this, please let me know.
However, just a pointer: adding more races and factions will only complicate things more, and make wins a lot harder. If all PC factions oppose other PC factions, then you will never really be able to wipe out an enemy. The reason NPC factions are present is so that you can kill them instead.
Again, I'm not sure how beneficial splitting effort into three different factions really is, so if we kinda just tone down the additional faction adding? If at all possible that is?
If anyone has any objections to this, please let me know.
Warhammer in a nutshell...
Plus did you add the "Sylus come to crusade command" thing after you saw mine or before?
War Kitten wrote:I probably should have held off adding the Dark Eldar shouldn't I have?
Not at all, I'll be fine with them. I only said this after they were added, and they didn't affect my decision to make this call. So please, leave the psychos be.
However, just a pointer: adding more races and factions will only complicate things more, and make wins a lot harder. If all PC factions oppose other PC factions, then you will never really be able to wipe out an enemy. The reason NPC factions are present is so that you can kill them instead.
Again, I'm not sure how beneficial splitting effort into three different factions really is, so if we kinda just tone down the additional faction adding? If at all possible that is?
If anyone has any objections to this, please let me know.
Warhammer in a nutshell...
Plus did you add the "Sylus come to crusade command" thing after you saw mine or before?
After, I added it after I saw your post beforehand. Continuity and whatnot.
Swampmist wrote:Should I have the guard get stuck in the warp for a bit then?
Nope, that's not needed at all. I haven't a problem with new people joining. Just excessive armies.
So I was able to get a major victory for my Marines, a victory for my Eldar (and I need to decide whether or not the ship 2BJ1 sent after me will die or not), and a draw for my Dark Eldar. The Dark Eldar raided Bob's Scions and killed some, and took plenty of prisoners, but it turns out Scions are also really deadly, who woulda thunk it?
I got shreked by dust storms. Solid defeat. Apparently, sending guerrilla warfare specialists with a thing for rocket packs to fortify a storm-ridden death world to was a BAD idea.
Despite what your rolls may suggest, TS, I don't hate your New Order. In fact, I'm not allowed to favour or dislike a faction, given the position I'm in. I just make sure that everyone is given a fair chance, and a challenge to work against. For the record, what part of my analysis gave you impression I have a vendetta against the New Order?
Bobthehero and War Kitten: To my knowldge, WK rolled after Bob, so whilst Bob evaded the Tau on world, they were detected by the Dark Eldar raiders. Sorry if that caused a problem at all.
medikant, I'm always open for a PM if you're interested in signing up.
2BJ1, just for the sake of continuity I wanted to tell you that my Eldar fleet rolled a major victory against you, and while I won't say the exact specifics (as I still need to write up my chunk) should I assume that my victory was before or after your assault on my fleet?
At this point the best strategy is just to avoid TS. It's what my Eldar have been doing for a little while now, it's just not worth it to irritate him. Much easier to just go after Bob and 2BJ1
War Kitten wrote: At this point the best strategy is just to avoid TS. It's what my Eldar have been doing for a little while now, it's just not worth it to irritate him. Much easier to just go after Bob and 2BJ1
That's always been my downfall though, I like to go after the biggest presence in the area. Oh my C'tan I am an Ork But in all seriousness we will see how our craftiness styles collide.
That wont be a problem after I can another squad of Deathmarks to take out your Primary weapons battery.
I don't think you understand how hard that would be
I've done it before.
You've boarded an Abyss class vessel with deathmarks, destroyed all of its primary weapon batteries (which are multiple km apart) without reinforcements? The amount of points that Smudge would weigh against you would be insane. I doubt you'd get past the first gun you found. Control would isolate you before any damage was done.
I can see you just editted that. There were no deathmarks
Oh but there was, I just needed to fix my grammatical errors that may have cause any disillusion on to what was happening.
Deathmarks don't even have the weapons to kill 2 Novacannons. Dude, it never happened because there is no way deathmarks could reasonable infiltrate A FLAGSHIP AND DESTROY BOTH OF ITS NOVA CANNONS when they are miles apart and you have to get through a New Order security force (Ie, Hassassins and Dreadnaughts and Servitors everywhere).
I can see you just editted that. There were no deathmarks
Oh but there was, I just needed to fix my grammatical errors that may have cause any disillusion on to what was happening.
Deathmarks don't even have the weapons to kill 2 Novacannons. Dude, it never happened because there is no way deathmarks could reasonable infiltrate A FLAGSHIP AND DESTROY BOTH OF ITS NOVA CANNONS when they are miles apart and you have to get through a New Order security force (Ie, Hassassins and Dreadnaughts and Servitors everywhere).
Lol
Sgt_Smudge wrote:
Kharne the Befriender wrote:Ok, that makes a lot of sense.
I'll roll for destroying his main weapons battery.------74
If your ok with this
62, a victory. The primary weapons battery is destroyed, and will require a retreat to crusade command to fix it. The Deathmarks escape, but the New Order are on the lookout.
I doubt that is Smudge that wrote that. Smudge always goes "victory!" not "victory." and he would've taken his time to capitalize "Crusade Command" and "Primary Weapons Battery"
Tactical_Spam wrote: I doubt that is Smudge that wrote that. Smudge always goes "victory!" not "victory." and he would've taken his time to capitalize "Crusade Command" and "Primary Weapons Battery"
Bobthehero wrote: Not bad, but my Scions would've had their weapons on them and there's no vehicles.
Sorry, I thought there might have been a Taurox or two. As for their weapons I figured they had them nearby, but maybe were relaxing for a moment. I did my best to do them justice, but I'm not that great of a writer, I just mostly enjoy being in the Crusade. I'll go edit a bit. Thanks!
Deathmarks have anti personal sniper rifles
-True, but whats to say they cant have some explosive charge? There is nothing that states they can only have a sniper. On the tabletop yes, but in all actuality there is nothing preventing them from such.
Both novacannons are miles apart
-Necron ships are capable of teleporting troops onto enemy vessels
You have to go through Hassassins, who are trained to kill all xenos and dreadnaughts
-Deathmarks are able to "Phase out" to a pocket dimension and reappear thanks to their Dimensional Oubliettes
There is no realistic way that could happen
-I beg to differ
Bobthehero wrote: Not bad, but my Scions would've had their weapons on them and there's no vehicles.
Sorry, I thought there might have been a Taurox or two. As for their weapons I figured they had them nearby, but maybe were relaxing for a moment. I did my best to do them justice, but I'm not that great of a writer, I just mostly enjoy being in the Crusade. I'll go edit a bit. Thanks!
First thing we're taught in the army is to always have your weapon on you, I am guessing it goes double in combat zone and triple in spec forces operations like that.
Rest was fine. You can say the men with hellshots brought down the Raiders instead, they got the firepower for that.
Bobthehero wrote: Not bad, but my Scions would've had their weapons on them and there's no vehicles.
Sorry, I thought there might have been a Taurox or two. As for their weapons I figured they had them nearby, but maybe were relaxing for a moment. I did my best to do them justice, but I'm not that great of a writer, I just mostly enjoy being in the Crusade. I'll go edit a bit. Thanks!
First thing we're taught in the army is to always have your weapon on you, I am guessing it goes double in combat zone and triple in spec forces operations like that.
Rest was fine.
Fair enough. I don't know that much about that kind of thing. I'll go make a few changes. Thanks for the heads up
I will say, just to resolve this, that I did send that PM. That is actually unaltered from what I sent. Yes, the weapon batteries are down. However, the Warpath Furnace isn't currently doing much above Julla, so a journey back to HQ wouldn't be a huge problem? Besides, what with the accurate teleportation Necron Deathmarks possess, it was only fair to allow the victory.
Apologies if this has affected anything drastic, but rolls are rolls.
Sgt_Smudge wrote: I will say, just to resolve this, that I did send that PM. That is actually unaltered from what I sent. Yes, the weapon batteries are down. However, the Warpath Furnace isn't currently doing much above Julla, so a journey back to HQ wouldn't be a huge problem? Besides, what with the accurate teleportation Necron Deathmarks possess, it was only fair to allow the victory.
Apologies if this has affected anything drastic, but rolls are rolls.
Sorry for the delay, WK. I'm not sure what you're going for, but you may stage your attack whenever. I just hope this doesn't ruin what I was planning on writing, but I can always adapt.
Oh, I return to see BobtheHero has joined in the fun.
I can't wait for my CSM to face his Scions.
On second thought, maybe it's best for all our sanity to never have that happen...
Anyway, hello. Been off doing other things for a time, while the Serpents have mostly been watching and waiting anyway. Due to the confusion earlier about who decides if what succeeds we'll probably never know what happened in the data archives, but it's not important.
Deathmarks have anti personal sniper rifles
-True, but whats to say they cant have some explosive charge? There is nothing that states they can only have a sniper. On the tabletop yes, but in all actuality there is nothing preventing them from such.
Necrons don't mix and match roles. A Necron lord would have sent Destroyers, because they fill the role of general tank/armour destroyer. Deathmarks are snipers and always snipers.
Both novacannons are miles apart
-Necron ships are capable of teleporting troops onto enemy vessels
Assuming you could get close enough to the fleet, which is impossible unless you sent your entire fleet
You have to go through Hassassins, who are trained to kill all xenos and dreadnaughts
-Deathmarks are able to "Phase out" to a pocket dimension and reappear thanks to their Dimensional Oubliettes
Hassassins are trained to emulate the target they are trying to kill. They would certainly kill you before you phased out.
There is no realistic way that could happen
-I beg to differ
New order are one of our most powerful factions...
His ship is well a fluff stretch but a monster above a Gloriana, battle barges are escorts for this thing.....
It's safe to say, that ship if it gets into a void war, is very dangerous...
Death marks may sneak aboard, but due to mad nature of Impirium tech, it can be repaired, and we can send a ship to do that. .
Redundancy and durability are design objectives
I strongly doubt that. If there'd been a ship stronger than the Gloriana, the Primarchs would've had it, so it does stretch plausibility. There's that one Ark Mechanicus, but it was unique and held by the Mechanicus, and that kind of thing is their shtick. That said, I will of course roll along.
We should name it after Titus because I think he and Sheppard had a good healthy relationship, you know he gives Sheppard a penance crusade, Sheppard calls him an ass in front of a bunch of people, good times. Good times
Freya
Talia
Joan
Moira
Cassandra
Mira
Jack (like her father)
Doriana (Like her probably dead non biological uncle Dorian Gavor)
Josephine
Tasha
I think the child’s name should have a cool back story like being named after the first women knight of Petra’s order, or something to that affect.
I'm awful at choosing names. Tend to go for a random generator .
Gonna try and write up my next piece - jhe, I might make mention to my stealers slipping through your net if that's alright? Nothing else that I rolled should really affect my posting before you.
Speaking of confusing marines... Remember back when I came into the crusade and we had tasks and one of you picked up "lets find the heretic," but never found him?
First ~half of mine is up! As the Sgt told me, the landing went well, but a combination of constany sandstorms, my chapter almost entirely lacking heavy weapons and armies of giant worms has made life for the Dawm Striders less than ideal!
Till next time!
Swampmist wrote: First ~half of mine is up! As the Sgt told me, the landing went well, but a combination of constany sandstorms, my chapter almost entirely lacking heavy weapons and armies of giant worms has made life for the Dawm Striders less than ideal!
Till next time!
You did good. I'm glad to see another writer who adds a bit of comedy into the mix.
Swampmist wrote: First ~half of mine is up! As the Sgt told me, the landing went well, but a combination of constany sandstorms, my chapter almost entirely lacking heavy weapons and armies of giant worms has made life for the Dawm Striders less than ideal!
Till next time!
You did good. I'm glad to see another writer who adds a bit of comedy into the mix.
You mean the only writer who adds a bit of comedy?
I'm not much of a writer. I struggle enough to make my writing even the slightest bit interesting. Adding in comedy is beyond me. But I DID have a DOW reference in my last one
I have plenty of referances Speaking of, time for a hint: High Librarian Benkee is based off of an ancient Eastern Hero, known for his weapon collection.
Swampmist wrote: First ~half of mine is up! As the Sgt told me, the landing went well, but a combination of constany sandstorms, my chapter almost entirely lacking heavy weapons and armies of giant worms has made life for the Dawm Striders less than ideal! Till next time!
You did good. I'm glad to see another writer who adds a bit of comedy into the mix.
You mean the only writer who adds a bit of comedy?
That, that was funny
Oh, yeah. Ezra and Ashiraya, what say you guys about the shifty alliance thing? If your interested let me know.
Swampmist wrote: First ~half of mine is up! As the Sgt told me, the landing went well, but a combination of constany sandstorms, my chapter almost entirely lacking heavy weapons and armies of giant worms has made life for the Dawm Striders less than ideal!
Till next time!
You did good. I'm glad to see another writer who adds a bit of comedy into the mix.
You mean the only writer who adds a bit of comedy?
I'm not sure if it would help any, but should we solidify what exactly our fleet strengths are?
It might help get rid of some confusion and clear things up a bit. Just an idea, but is it a good one?
My fleet is like 2-3 strike cruisers, an emperor class, and two broken emperor-class sized ships fused together to make my flagship. I am shreked in void combat.
I have my fleet, split into two sub fleets most of the time(but nearly all of my ships are gathered together at the moment barring a few that are out and about)
Flame of Isha-Flagship, where the High Captain and Lilliana are at
Bow of Kurnous
Wrath of Vaul
Wrath of Asuryan
Hand of Khaine
Out and about ships:
Fury of Asuryan
Spear of Khaine
Faustian
The Wrath of Faust (Cruiser Gothic class)
The Imperial Mariner (Cruiser Gothic Class)
The Jericho (Frigate Firestorm Class)
The Korra (Battlecruiser Mars Class)
The Batorax (Battleship Retribution Class)
WAAAGH! Warprida
1 looted Emperor class battle ship (still unnamed and stuck in Wuldgrund's orbit)
1 Slave Transport Ship no armaments
Yes, yes. Minus the two tankers. I'm not going to keep a full count of those, because A) that'd be tedious, and B) WK would make it his goal to kill that many, just so I don't have any anymore.
By the way, since apparently no-one wants to actually guess, I'll be giving a gift (from my Masters of the Forge ofc) to whoever guesses the most of who my marines ate named after. To go with this, since it has been guessed already: Scout Sergeant Jenkin Leeray is named after LEEEEEROY JEEEEENKINS!!!
. I wont hesitate to start crashing Jackals 
Ya missin' da point.
Sylus was already cleared for being pure
