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Hey guys do you all think you guys can help me name my Battalions? I am getting tired of calling them by numbers. Especially since I will be getting down to Company level in some of my posts.

As a Recap of what the battalions are:
1st and 2nd - Mechanized Calvary (Tauros (Including Venator Pattens), Sentienels (Including many many variations), Motorbikes (A few variants), and Command Salamanders)

Edit Ideas:
--The Hallow Herd
--The Venom Troops
--The Hellfire Horde
--The Ebon Enders
--The Ebon Eclipse
--The Hallowed Horde
--The Sanguine Sentienels
--The Shadow Division
--The Death Patrol
--The Sundry
--The Black Devils
--The Cataclysm Corp
--The Arcane Hounds
--The Small Fox
--The Silver Moon Kin
--The Risen Scar
--The Iron Cats
--The Red Blades

3rd - Rough Riders (Horses and Wyrms, Command Salamanders)

Edit Ideas:
--The Final Flight
--The Ebon Wings
--The Crimson Wings
--Strategic Pursuit Squadron

4th - Mechanized Infantry and Support (Medics, Techpriests, Beast Caretakers, Electronic Warefare packages) (Chimeras (including Mars and Gryponne IV Patterns), Samaritians, Tauroxes)

Edit Ideas:
--The Ebon Eyes
--The Velvet Vanquishers
--The Arcane Eye

All Battalions have Wyrms just not to the degree of 3rd. They are the elite of elite.

Actually, quick question - how big and tough are the Wyrms?

Horse sized, car sized, bigger?
Bearded dragon tough, crocodile tough, steel plating tough?

I was thinking most about Car size but Errmanno's a bit bigger. Older they are the bigger they get. And as for how tough it depends on where you hit. Scales like diamonds and claws and teeth like steel but the leathery pieces like crocodile skin. For flight and things.

Sound alright?

Yeah, that works - basically big crocodiles. With wings.

Banterous.

Yea, I am literally takimg them from the book Joust. They can be hurt but don't think they die with one shot.

I'm pretty sure plasma rounds make sure things die with one shot.

Also, how upset would your guardsmen be if I offered to buy the hides of some of your wyrms, or took them from fallen ones?

Edit: I stands for Kroot in that. I really should try thinking out what I say before I say it.

Yeah, one shot is rather vague.
I can understand it surviving las-bolts, and *maybe* bolter rounds, but plasma pistols? Lascannons? Meltaguns? That dragon's going down for sure, as far as I'd say.

The only thing I know about Minotaurs is that they exist, rival the strength of an ogryn and are bloodthirsty. Are they sentient?

If nothing else I'd say some sort of primal intelligence. Perhaps snotling level? Of course, some sort of more cunning beastman can guide them.

I was thinking lasgun bolts barely hurt its constitution, Bolt rounds hurt t but take many to bring it down. Imperial plasma bolts severely hurt i and a few will bring it down due to lack of penetration, heat would be defused and burn severely. Lascannon and melta yea definitely one shot if hit and close enough with melta.

Good idea, I like the idea of a beastman that stands out.

Good thing kroot don't only use Imperial tech then. They can use weaponry from pretty much any race. Seri has a splinter rifle from some Dark Eldar for example, but that wasn't a gift. She got that off of a dead one.

Also, would it be possible for Ta'lok to snag some hides from your wyrms? He's willing to trade for them.

 Sgt_Smudge wrote:
Yeah, that works - basically big crocodiles. With wings.

Banterous.

Think of a Wyvern ala Warhammer Fantasy

So probably be able to buy them but scavenging one is a no. Wyrms are near sacred to their riders. It is like robbing a best friend if someone else did that. The leathers they wear thou are Wyrm hide with bits of bone and scale worked into it. Its part of the reason the uniform looks so varied, each is done by the person.

Splinter I see like Las bolts to small to cause much harm but lance and eldar or tau plasma yea that will hurt. Think of them like a tough 6 FMC from tabletop.

Also they can act semi independent. Simple commands and defend their riders.

The question is, how many can fit in a Valkyrie? I have a sudden urge to drop mini dragons on my foes.

I don't play TT, never have, so I'm not quite sure how to equate that. In regards to Seri, that was just one example. I do have some plasma weaponry, flamers, etc throughout the war party. The kroot armory is almost as varied as the kroot themselves. They're not boasting any relic blades, but I'd be surprised if they didn't have some of the more common weaponry somewhere in there.

Think tank and really tough monster killer needed. Their armor isnt tank strong but they are big enough and durable enough to take a hit.

Well it depends on the wyrm WK. Lets talk PM on those ideas.

 Drakka77 wrote:
Think tank and really tough monster killer needed. Their armor isnt tank strong but they are big enough and durable enough to take a hit.

Well it depends on the wyrm WK. Lets talk PM on those ideas.

I just have a funny mental image of a cultist pointing at an approaching Valkyrie

"Incoming Imperial Drop Troops!"
*Wyvern leaps out of the troop bay and lands on top of a cultist*
"WTF!!!???"

 War Kitten wrote:

 Drakka77 wrote:
Think tank and really tough monster killer needed. Their armor isnt tank strong but they are big enough and durable enough to take a hit.

Well it depends on the wyrm WK. Lets talk PM on those ideas.

I just have a funny mental image of a cultist pointing at an approaching Valkyrie

"Incoming Imperial Drop Troops!"
*Wyvern leaps out of the troop bay and lands on top of a cultist*
"WTF!!!???"

I like this image. Here is for unexpected.

Welcome to the Crusade of Fury. Where the strange is normal, and where Battle Barges are used to decapitate Gargants.

"From its narrow, golden, large-eyed head, to its pointed emerald ears, to the magnificent blue wings which were spread to catch the sun, the dragon was a thing of multicolored, jeweled beauty, slim and supple and quite as large as the shed it perched on." - Joust

"Most of the current dragon literature treats dragons as on a par with humans insofar as intelligence goes. I decided to treat them instead as really big "birds" of prey—featherless raptors the size of small airplanes, if you will. Now, as a raptor rehabber, I know a fair bit about raptors, and I'm using that knowledge in handling the behavior, the bonding, and the training of the dragons in the Joust series." - Mercedes Lackey

"True desert-dragons, designed to cope with and even thrive in hot sands. Not fire-breathing; trying to work out things as big at that which fly and carry a rider was going to be difficult enough to set up logically. It would make them, more-or-less, the equivalent of WWI biplanes, with riders perhaps dropping pots of Greek Fire, or snatching up military leaders to drop them from a great height, and certainly spying and patrolling from above." - Mercedes Lackey

Kind of what I was going for.

 Drakka77 wrote:
So probably be able to buy them but scavenging one is a no. Wyrms are near sacred to their riders. It is like robbing a best friend if someone else did that. The leathers they wear thou are Wyrm hide with bits of bone and scale worked into it. Its part of the reason the uniform looks so varied, each is done by the person.

Splinter I see like Las bolts to small to cause much harm but lance and eldar or tau plasma yea that will hurt. Think of them like a tough 6 FMC from tabletop.

Also they can act semi independent. Simple commands and defend their riders.

Splinter weaponry doesn't do straight up kinetic or piercing damage, though - it's the fast-acting poison that kills. They're basically tailor-made for killing exceedingly tough biological creatures.

 Robin5t wrote:

 Drakka77 wrote:
So probably be able to buy them but scavenging one is a no. Wyrms are near sacred to their riders. It is like robbing a best friend if someone else did that. The leathers they wear thou are Wyrm hide with bits of bone and scale worked into it. Its part of the reason the uniform looks so varied, each is done by the person.

Splinter I see like Las bolts to small to cause much harm but lance and eldar or tau plasma yea that will hurt. Think of them like a tough 6 FMC from tabletop.

Also they can act semi independent. Simple commands and defend their riders.

Splinter weaponry doesn't do straight up kinetic or piercing damage, though - it's the fast-acting poison that kills. They're basically tailor-made for killing exceedingly tough biological creatures.

Hmmm I didn't think about that. That would do it.

chazz huggins wrote:

 Kharne the Befriender wrote:
Damn life is good.

I'm still waiting for Chazz to get back to me on some Cron rolls

Oh I'm sorry what rolls were those again. My inbox is growing larger by the day.

I think for my Crons it was somekind of scanning, and my Sharks were trying to set up stuff in the village

2BlackJack1 wrote:Kharne, did you plan on teleporting into the gargant and killing the crew of it, or did you have something else in mind?

Well, I was going to have my Assault Rams use their uber-meltas to punch a hole and, well, ram.

Perhaps it's good we're on the same team then, eh?

And thank you Kharne, I had just assumed you were going to teleport in an elite squad of termies to kill off the crew. Better to disable the gargant entirely than to break its insides. Orks tend to not care about all of the insides of the vehicle after all. Plus your way is more action-packed, I'll give you that.

Piece is up and now ye all know why Vanden is atop my gak list

Hehehe. It sounds great Irish, I wonder why those PDF did so well

I will be writing a piece on that soonish.

OH! NOW THAT BLACKJACK IS THE GM HE CAN ANSWER MY QUESTIONS KINDA!

Blacky, gimme a name for the PDF commander in the Space Port please, what the walls are made of, and where the PDF guys are going to go on the walls I am building.

Looks good, Irish, but there's one thing that stuck out for me - I couldn't see Nurgle's followers calling him 'Papa'. 'Grandfather' or 'Father', perhaps, but Papa seems a bit too... pop-culture, for lack of a better term, for Chaos Cultists.

Well they do actually call him papa Nurgle but i can see how it would appear out of place.

I can see a bunch of filthy Italians going;
"No Mario, Papa Nurgle tolda usa to goa thisa way"
"But Luigi-"
"No. Papa Nurgle blah blah blah"