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**PrimarchX**

Yes!

A branching away from the Founding Chapters and an adventure with Dark Eldar.

Very awesome!

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And get this...

The Soul Reaver contains the Dark Eldar Kabalite Warrior Career Path.

**Kroothawk**

This is the third Xeno path we get, right? Kroot, Orks and now Dark Eldar, all Rogue trader only.

**H.B.M.C.**

Kroothawk wrote:This is the third Xeno path we get, right? Kroot, Orks and now Dark Eldar, all Rogue trader only.

Yes. It's the third xenos path. Personally I thought we'd get an Eldar Ranger or Eldar Corsair first, but some sort of Eldar career is still a welcome addition to the game.

**Iracundus**

H.B.M.C. wrote:
Kroothawk wrote:This is the third Xeno path we get, right? Kroot, Orks and now Dark Eldar, all Rogue trader only.

Yes. It's the third xenos path. Personally I thought we'd get an Eldar Ranger or Eldar Corsair first, but some sort of Eldar career is still a welcome addition to the game.

So much for all those people that kept saying "xenos are too fundamentally alien to ever be played". With BL publishing Eldar and Dark Eldar books, and now the RPGs getting more xenos characters, it looks like the old GW stance of "human POV only" from 3rd edition is defunct.

I agree that an Eldar Ranger or Corsair might have been the more obvious path. I don't know how they would explain a Rogue Trader and his group working with a Dark Eldar Kabalite Warrior given the latter needs to feed on pain to stay alive. If the Rogue Trader offered up one of his crew every so often, that is just asking for a mutiny. Alternatively I suppose offering up slaves is a method, but from the background it seems the Dark Eldar like excitement and playing with their food, so a weak and feeble slave might not be sufficient.

**Kroothawk**

Iracundus wrote:I don't know how they would explain a Rogue Trader and his group working with a Dark Eldar Kabalite Warrior given the latter needs to feed on pain to stay alive. If the Rogue Trader offered up one of his crew every so often, that is just asking for a mutiny. Alternatively I suppose offering up slaves is a method, but from the background it seems the Dark Eldar like excitement and playing with their food, so a weak and feeble slave might not be sufficient.

1.) The Rogue trader rules deal with lowered morale due to Xenos on board or the captain making servitors out of the injured.
2.) Don't ask what Kroot PCs are offered

**Iracundus**

Kroothawk wrote:
Iracundus wrote:I don't know how they would explain a Rogue Trader and his group working with a Dark Eldar Kabalite Warrior given the latter needs to feed on pain to stay alive. If the Rogue Trader offered up one of his crew every so often, that is just asking for a mutiny. Alternatively I suppose offering up slaves is a method, but from the background it seems the Dark Eldar like excitement and playing with their food, so a weak and feeble slave might not be sufficient.

1.) The Rogue trader rules deal with lowered morale due to Xenos on board or the captain making servitors out of the injured.
2.) Don't ask what Kroot PCs are offered

I would assume Kroot might be offered the opportunity to consume flesh from worthy kills (human or otherwise). A Dark Eldar would be even worse though as it is not just a matter of killing and consuming. A Dark Eldar is after pain, so would be torturing or otherwise tormenting victims, not merely just killing them. Also a Kroot can eat normal food to stay alive, with consumption of others not a strict necessity. A Dark Eldar has to eat normal food and must stave off the soul drain of Slaanesh by a regular diet of pain and suffering so the "overhead" is higher.

**Katie Drake**

Oh god yes. Honor the Chapter, you can't come soon enough!

**Kroothawk**

Iracundus wrote:Also a Kroot can eat normal food to stay alive, with consumption of others not a strict necessity.

Actually no. If a Kroot would eat only steaks and Hamburgers, he would aquire the intellect of a degenerated bovine. (not sure about humans

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**AJCarrington**

Not sure if it has been posted yet, but Jericho Reach is now available for download on DTRPG.

AJC

**Pyriel-**

Lay off the sarcasm Pyri, in such heavy amounts one could consider it rude...

**H.B.M.C.**

Pyriel- wrote:... have your oh so flawless product to defend.

Oh Pyriel... I never said it was flawless.

**BrookM**

I appreciate the sentiment Brook, but it was a bit harsh, edited to prevent further fighting - MT11

**Alpharius**

Too late!

(Mods do occasionally read threads for their own pleasure - shocking, I know!

)

Everyone should take a deep breath, think for a bit, and then post. Maybe!

Please feel free to debate the finer (and not so fine) points of FFG's RPG strategies in other threads.

Thanks!

**Chrysis**

AJCarrington wrote:Not sure if it has been posted yet, but Jericho Reach is now available for download on DTRPG.

AJC

It's probably also worth mentioning that DTRPG sent me an email saying that "The Black Sepulchre" had been updated to make sidebars and maps more visible. I haven't checked if that's true, but if it is I hope they go through and do it for all of them. Especially "The Emperor Protects."

**Manchu**

Does any one else feel BC needs more support?

**H.B.M.C.**

They just announced Tome of Fate, which according to the news release is the first in a four book series.

**Manchu**

You sound a bit like Kanluwen there, my firend. Didn't BC release at GenCon last year?

Not counting the GM screen, one follow up release in seven months seems a little sparse. Hand of corruption came out four months after it was announced. At that rate, we won't actually get the fourth book until the middle of 2013 (assuming they come out one right after another) and that's still only five non-core books in two years. That assumes, of course, that only Book of Fate and the rest of that tetralogy get published for BC ... which brings me back to my point about BC needing more support.

**H.B.M.C.**

I think it might be something to do with how long it took Hand of Corruption to come out (it sure felt like they were previewing it for months!).

And it could be worse. It could be Dark Heresy - when's the last time they got a product release announcement?

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H.B.M.C. wrote:I think it might be something to do with how long it took Hand of Corruption to come out (it sure felt like they were previewing it for months!).

And it could be worse. It could be Dark Heresy - when's the last time they got a product release announcement?

Um. Just over a month ago?. Granted, that's an adventure, rather than new rules... but it's still a DH book.

**Manchu**

What about the IG book for DH? Amazon has that coming out in July, which means it will actually be released long before then.

Although you can apparently buy a copy fro 1000USD right now ...

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H.B.M.C. wrote:(it sure felt like they were previewing it for months!)

It was actually four months!

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I wouldn't bet on it. Amazon had Only War due to come out last September at one point

**Manchu**

I know. That book has been on my WishList (TM) for a long, long time.

**H.B.M.C.**

Yeah. Don't trust Amazon's release date information. I remember getting an update for them saying Only War was due out in a week's time, which I felt was a little optimistic on their part given we were still writing it...

endtransmission wrote:Um. Just over a month ago?. Granted, that's an adventure, rather than new rules... but it's still a DH book.

True (but I read Chaos Commandment months before it came out, so I tend to forget these things). That and I really mean new announcements.

**BaronIveagh**

HBMC must be slipping or distracted.

FFG wrote: Brotherhood. Duty. Sacrifice.
Announcing Only War, a Warhammer 40,000 roleplaying game

“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!

What's really odd is that I actually have the woman on the cover with the flamer in my IG army...

(WIP of her (and a friend) in my gallery [really need to update my dakka gallery...])

I guess minis will NOT be a problem with this one... (considering I have... quite a few different IG regiments...)

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He's not slipping at all. There's a whole separate thread about it over there >>> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/441053.page

**BrookM**

He wanted this thread to DIE.

**H.B.M.C.**

BaronIveagh wrote:HBMC must be slipping or distracted.

Who's slipping?

**Alpharius**

Pretty much - everyone please go to that other one!

Thanks!