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Smudge doesn't often say how many casualties we took. He leaves it up to us to determine that. He might just say that we take "heavy" casualties in a fight. "Heavy" Casualties for Marines might just mean 10 guys (which, in my case is pretty bad, since I only have like 120 guy total). But fo a Guard army it might mean like 100 or something worse. I like that he leaves it up to us, else I would've completely run out of men by now

 War Kitten wrote:
Smudge doesn't often say how many casualties we took. He leaves it up to us to determine that. He might just say that we take "heavy" casualties in a fight. "Heavy" Casualties for Marines might just mean 10 guys (which, in my case is pretty bad, since I only have like 120 guy total). But fo a Guard army it might mean like 100 or something worse. I like that he leaves it up to us, else I would've completely run out of men by now

Precisely. I trust you all to make a judgement and be honest about how much you should lose in a fight, according to your victory level.
Otherwise, I'd run it as percentages, so 10% of a ten man squad is only 1 man, but 10% of a Chapter level strike is 100 men. It all depends on what you deployed. Of course, under-deploying nets you negative modifiers, so...

Well, as you said,. my ships got cut off and destroyed. I only have three ships, and one is an emperor class. The math KINDA does itself

Well. I'm trying to figure out how many I lost in the Necron attack. If they hit the Strike Cruisers that are with the Barge then the losses are probably on the crew of those ships, and any Marines there. If it was on the Barge I'm not sure how many I should lose. I JUST got reinforced, so losing a bunch of guys already is mildly irritating

 War Kitten wrote:
Well. I'm trying to figure out how many I lost in the Necron attack. If they hit the Strike Cruisers that are with the Barge then the losses are probably on the crew of those ships, and any Marines there. If it was on the Barge I'm not sure how many I should lose. I JUST got reinforced, so losing a bunch of guys already is mildly irritating

Could be just the escort ships that got hit?

Shall we instate a min protection level?
To prevent decimation
A few assets or such are roll protected from dropping below x level but have to back out to reinforce?

So can I say the casualties were amongst the serfs that are crewing the vessel? Or the Marine Squads that might have been there (but not necessarily a part of the 3rd)? Sorry for the questions, but I'm legitimately curious

 War Kitten wrote:
So can I say the casualties were amongst the serfs that are crewing the vessel? Or the Marine Squads that might have been there (but not necessarily a part of the 3rd)? Sorry for the questions, but I'm legitimately curious

Yes. In the case of forces that lose things in fleet combat, and can't afford to lose lots of men normally, there are faceless NPC serfs on the escort ships to be killed. However, this is only a case if you are in void combat, and cannot afford (ie. War Kitten) to lose many more men.
I would also suggest that the Ultramarine 3rd pull out of patrol duty, to save them actually being eradicated by a bad roll!

Alright then. Thanks for that Smudge, I'll get my chunk written up at some point. Pardon all the dumb questions

So, join the fungus campaign

Anyone else think WH40K would be more enjoyable if it were less Grimderp? This campaign certainly isn't Grimdark (we are bordering on Noblebright).

As of now I'm officially in the campaign as the Tallarn 97th rough riders. You'll be seeing me at the delegation.

Well, I'd say a genestealer cult spreading everywhere isn't exactly Noblebright. I do; however, wish there was a bit more happiness in 40k. Kinda like Sheppard and Petra having a child, Lilliana and Korvel meeting again (maybe getting back together).Just happy things, 40k needs a little more of that.

 Tactical_Spam wrote:
Anyone else think WH40K would be more enjoyable if it were less Grimderp? This campaign certainly isn't Grimdark (we are bordering on Noblebright).

My deathkorps where rare grim far but yeah, pretty bright.

 War Kitten wrote:
Well, I'd say a genestealer cult spreading everywhere isn't exactly Noblebright. I do; however, wish there was a bit more happiness in 40k. Kinda like Sheppard and Petra having a child, Lilliana and Korvel meeting again (maybe getting back together).Just happy things, 40k needs a little more of that.

The possibility of a half-Astartes

Edit: I would jump to conclusions that Korvel and Lilliana are getting back together

I'd actually say this campaign is fairly NobleDark, but that's just my call?

Karak sent Pavus a message, safe to say such events require a reply.....

hard to hide on a ship, such events get seen.

So much action going on with the Templars, my Ultras seem boring in comparison.

my jailers may make them not enjoy the stay in the brig of my ship

They have a honour code....
yeah, though your fleet has seen far more combat than mine lately.

Just posted a rather lengthy section on the Remnants' response to the Hybrid attack.

In short, everyone got fethed.

BADLY.

Also, the Remnants lost one of their two ships, and a bunch of Marines.

It's a bad day to be a Chaos Marine...

 War Kitten wrote:
So much action going on with the Templars, my Ultras seem boring in comparison.

Hello, I am the New Order. Do you wish to be assimilated

 Ezra Tyrius wrote:
Just posted a rather lengthy section on the Remnants' response to the Hybrid attack.

In short, everyone got fethed.

BADLY.

Also, the Remnants lost one of their two ships, and a bunch of Marines.

It's a bad day to be a Chaos Marine...

That's nice, that at the end. Very poetic. Did you write that yourself?

 Tactical_Spam wrote:

 War Kitten wrote:
So much action going on with the Templars, my Ultras seem boring in comparison.

Hello, I am the New Order. Do you wish to be assimilated

You wouldn't mind borrowing the Remnants some marines, would you? They're kind of running low at the moment...

 Sgt_Smudge wrote:

 Ezra Tyrius wrote:
Just posted a rather lengthy section on the Remnants' response to the Hybrid attack.

In short, everyone got fethed.

BADLY.

Also, the Remnants lost one of their two ships, and a bunch of Marines.

It's a bad day to be a Chaos Marine...

That's nice, that at the end. Very poetic. Did you write that yourself?

I did, actually! It's a small poem I wrote back in the starting days of the Remnants plog, but never posted it as I didn't have an appropriate use for it

 Ezra Tyrius wrote:

 Tactical_Spam wrote:

 War Kitten wrote:
So much action going on with the Templars, my Ultras seem boring in comparison.

Hello, I am the New Order. Do you wish to be assimilated

You wouldn't mind borrowing the Remnants some marines, would you? They're kind of running low at the moment...

Surprise, at the end of the Crusade all of my Ultramarines fall to Chaos and join the Remnants. Sound fine with you?

 War Kitten wrote:

 Ezra Tyrius wrote:

 Tactical_Spam wrote:

 War Kitten wrote:
So much action going on with the Templars, my Ultras seem boring in comparison.

Hello, I am the New Order. Do you wish to be assimilated

You wouldn't mind borrowing the Remnants some marines, would you? They're kind of running low at the moment...

Surprise, at the end of the Crusade all of my Ultramarines fall to Chaos and join the Remnants. Sound fine with you?

Templers where in fact alpha legion being loyalists for lols

I have to say, that was a really nice piece you wrote Ezra. I wish I could come up with poetry like that, I could really use a good mantra for my Histans. (Archarus doesn't really need something like that. Maybe something for Voorhees to say if he stabs the Warsmith in the back, but I don't see that happening)

It's easy to come up with mantras for Marines. For [insert home planet/primarch/emperor here]!

 War Kitten wrote:
It's easy to come up with mantras for Marines. For [insert home planet/primarch/emperor here]!

Not: "Order to the Chaos?"

 Tactical_Spam wrote:

 War Kitten wrote:
It's easy to come up with mantras for Marines. For [insert home planet/primarch/emperor here]!

Not: "Order to the Chaos?"

Nope. Worst Mantra ever 2015