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The_Savior wrote:In my group's most recent Deathwatch mission... we killed some mutant Tyranid called the "Stalker" and well... after we killed it. Our leader decided it should be made into a trophy. Needless to say, I removed it's claw/hand and carried it around. Once we got back to Home Base I guess. We were all issued corruption points, because no one objected to a Tyranid trophy being an act of Chaos.

I also believe that is a bit harsh. Though, it could be argued that the object itself is unclean as it came from a tainted body and should have therefore been destroyed...I still would not have done this myself. But, to each their own.

H.B.M.C. wrote:Corruption for taking a trophy?

Harsh...

Yes

The_Savior wrote:

H.B.M.C. wrote:Corruption for taking a trophy?

Harsh...

Yes

Odd because in the back of core book it describes taking the head of one of them as a trophy as a part of a tertiary objective, that there is OTT there.

I was dming a game and had a group of players attempt to steal a manta, they ran up cut off one of the crews heads starting eating brains and trying to pilot the ship off the planet... Unfortunately they also alerted an entire tau base, as well as left a whole bunch of the crew outside standing around trying to stop them.

About 30 rounds later the entire kill team was booking it through a jungle the manta more or less destroyed being chased by hundreds of tau.

I don't agree with the corruption thing either, I've got a new model venerated dread, the fether has an entire nid corpse chained onto the chapter banner!

Indeed.

In fact Rites of Battle talks about chambers in Watch House Erioch ( sp ?) which are filled with nothing but taken trophies, skeletons and the like. So many in fact that on occasion they put out edicts forbidding them from taking them for a while.

I guess though there are chapters who would disaprove and censure their marines, so it's not impossible.

I think it's harsh seeing as it wasn't chaos artifacts or similar.

I'm not to sure... I mean it was just one point.

So it's not bad.

I would not want to be the guy that told a Space Wolf he cannot have a trophy, that might end up bad, that or try to seperate him with his 50 gallon drum of ale.

I think it was the third or so session of the Deathwatch game I'm running that we had the funniest thing happen. The squad was trying to infiltrate a Chaos stronghold and were blocked by a moat of lava that i declared was about 25+ish meters wide.
So, they get the brilliant idea to try and throw each other across. You know, the grab the hands and legs then 1,2,3 toss kinda throw. Best part is, they had called in a distraction party to help distract any guards from the stronghold.
So they get it all ready and are about to proceed tossing each other, when one of them comments "Let's hope no one sees the 'Emperor's Finest' tossing each other like kegs of ale."
Half the group facepalms as they realize as space marines they can jump the distance. Me, in my gm silence having known this all along, burst out laughing.

Good times, good times.

Only funny thing I have is an ultramarine who thinks he can carry every weapon listed in the book, that whines a lot because he cannot do some other things that the other chapters do. Somewhere, Robute Gulliman is crying in his stasis field, wondering why one of his chosen warriors is such a pansy.

We had a custom campaign where our party had boarded a Space Hulk to find a previous Deathwatch Captain that had been on a Deathwatch Cruiser that was now a part of hulk.

So, let's see, funny stuff:

We had an assault marine that for some reason we decided to throw into the air to give him an 'extra boost'. I, being a Techmarine, had sensed some power signatures on the outside of the crater we were in, and I knew them to be heavy bolter turrets. To make a long story short, he failed his test to make it over the top of the crater, and his assault pack goes nuts for a turn. While the turrets power up and open fire on him. Heh.

A while later, we had found the Captain (he had put himself into stasis thanks to one of his organs). The Space Hulk was coming close to entering the Warp again. We're high-tailing it out of there, deamons are pouring out of the walls, I'm carrying Captain Sleepyhead in my servo arm. We enter a room with a huge, locked door. A Deamon Prince starts to enter the room through a tear in time and space. We can't get through the door, until my friend yells, "Melta Bomb, Hooooo!". He blows a hole in the wall as the rest of the group is pouring fire into the Deamon Prince, who finally gets out as we're falling back through the hole.

Well, the bastard rears back and throws his axe through the hole in the wall (which he can't get through himself). The axe takes of both of my techmarine's legs (I only had 2 HP left before the hit). Luckily, my team caught both the Captain and I, and the axe tears a hole into space. We all grab onto the Assault Marines, and he flies us back to our Destroyer as the Space Hulk goes into the Warp.

My Ultramarine tried to scold a Commissar for Summarily executing a fleeing Guardsman.

Our Tech-Marine, who was packing a Multi-Melta, managed to roll a 100 twice in a row. He worked it into his character though - he'll be taking a Signature Multi-Melta soon to represent him dealing with the Multi-Melta's wayward Machine Spirit and the various improvements he's going to make to it.

the most funny thing in my campaign at the moment, was the terrible ending of a Shas'O.

My players got to Meniscus and were trying to stop an assault to the main city, made by the Tau forces who were successful thanks to the betrayal of the Lord Governor and Lord Commander of the planet.

Luckily they organized the remaining guards gaining control of a motor pool and attacking enemy forces growing in strength and numbers.

When they approached to the Governor's Palace, the Tau engaged in a hard fight against the Deathwatch's Guards and the Shas'O arrived to engage the Marines miscalculating badly their strenght.

Once arrived, he almost killed with a burst Brother Lucius (Ultramarine), but he did not see Brother Zorahel... Blood Angel Assault Marine that literally opened the armor in pieces... dammit I've never seen so many RIGHTEOUS FURY. I've calculated the amount of damage sustained.... 200 points + I can't remember well.

I just know that I was shocked, the Ultramarine was shocked and the Blood Angel was in a real Blood Frenzy! We had a real , real GREAT TIME. We still laugh thinking about the poor Shas'O being reduced to scrap metal by a chainsword.

well it was in Dh rather than DW, and our group was chasing down some cultist leaders, and (we thought at the time) a Tzeenchian marine, when we cam across a room that they had set on fire to get rid of the evidence. As we came into the room we saw the elevator doors close. As the only person who had more sense of duty than sense, my character stripped himself of anything that might explode from the extreme heat, doused himself in water (over his carapace armour) took the power axe from the tech-priest and chased them down.
by the time i'd caught up with them the clothes i'd been wearing over top of my armour was barely hanging on, i was duel wielding axes (1 chain, 1 power) and i'd 'stunted it' well enough that i got to make an intimidate check. they failed. 1 botched, having an immediate heart attack. after taking care of the passengers in the ship they were about to take off in a went back to the guy who'd had the heart attack and jump started his heart with my stun gauntlets.
And the funniest thing about this? Once again no one who saw how cool I was being lived stupid 'loyalty' implants >:

Our Battle Brother made a goof...

I threw a stun grenade to suspend our Eldar target.
He then goes to the Eldar, and instead of apprehending our target, decide to make a normal melee attack like a punch.
Then decides to shoot the Eldar in the leg with a plasma gun, the Eldar died from shock. Mission failed. Needless to say, we all dislike our battle brother to this day.