Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

Anyone mind if I let templers rest on border patrol, and write odd chunk as imperial fists 3rd joining the big push.

Templers are trying to keep the stealers contained and such.

Still right but let then back burner a tad for the big push.

I'm all for it. It will be nice for the Fists to get some work in as well. My Histans will be happy to see someone else taking the brunt of the damage. Amy ideas where they will be deployed?

Also, I've got a Histan PoV of EvergreenArcher's deployment coming up.

So are we going to shoot the nobles in the face or what's going on here?

Captain Marko ramias of the red October too obvious lol

Il bring the fists in, they can support the main push, maybe join histetin, ultramarine task force?

Trust me when I say this WK, those nobles aren't going to be a problem much longer. The way I see it, we have several ways of killing the fethers.

1) Waltz in, maybe say some cliché phrase, and blow their heads off. (Lots of paperwork here)

2) Burn the palace down with them in it, saying rebels did it, it was purely an accident, or some orks got in there. (Less paperwork here)

3) Misplaced artillery fire blows the whole place to bits. Messy, but effective. (Probably lots of paperwork here)

4)Lead some orks into the place, and rush to a heroic defense only to find the nobles already slain. (We fought xenos, do we really need to do paperwork about that?)

 2BlackJack1 wrote:
Trust me when I say this WK, those nobles aren't going to be a problem much longer. The way I see it, we have several ways of killing the fethers.

1) Waltz in, maybe say some cliché phrase, and blow their heads off. (Lots of paperwork here)

2) Burn the palace down with them in it, saying rebels did it, it was purely an accident, or some orks got in there. (Less paperwork here)

3) Misplaced artillery fire blows the whole place to bits. Messy, but effective. (Probably lots of paperwork here)

4)Lead some orks into the place, and rush to a heroic defense only to find the nobles already slain. (We fought xenos, do we really need to do paperwork about that?)

1) "I came here to recite litanies and purge Heretics... and I am all out of litanies."

2) PRAY BURN KILL PRAY BURN KILL

3) What are you, the Marines Malevolent?

4) Just. As. Planned

Option 2 I would say

What if the Nobles come under attack and retreat to a bunker. Only a "rebel" inside rigged ventilation with a nerve gas etc?

Kill the orks, forget to save nobles as busy killing orks
Find out later they died,blame rebels. Purge rebels. Some paperwork.

Alright, since the latest damage they did was to you, I'll let you decide who will put them to the torch (quite literally).

Or we could do Jhe's plan. Whatever works.

Or you could stroll along like, "Oops, just miss fired a couple lance batteries into the capital"

That or Karak has the odd failed anti ork weapon that "got lost secretly to you"
It has bad habit of reducing people and any organic matter toa foul gooy puddle.

Bunker may needs cleaning. Just mop up the nobles, pour down drain and forget them lol

I kinda want to waltz in and bail the nobles now, but that'd be metagaming

Don't you dare Bob. They deserve it I think

But the dramaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa think of the drama

If they walk free, then I'll find them and ship them off to a Penal Legion. Let them see how much trouble a "measly ork" really is.

I've thought of the drama. And I don't care

 Bobthehero wrote:
But the dramaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa think of the drama

My side of this story is like a soap opera. We don't need more of it.

:O Those Orks better get here after I've started some meaningful work, because Fairfax has got literally no motivation to help Trisburg at the moment, especially after the recordings, and would just leave.

Honour be damned: He has 5-8 thousand civilians living on his ship, no way he and his crew are getting involved in any ship to ship combat and risking those colonists. He's essentially a pseudo politician and merchant, capable of fending off advances, not waging war.
If he's already working, he may feel obliged to assist. Maybe.

Couple of Qs: Is there an established physical sign or two of someone recently infected? A cut, bruising, etc?
I'm talking in terms of spot checks on my own men.

I mean, you can cut the guy open and pull out the embryo out of his chest. You can tell if you've known the guy for awhile, and notice something off. For example, they don't seem to remember something very well, and have some changes of thoughts/are acting very uncharacteristical of themselves. You could see claw marks on them as well, if the genestealer did a sloppy job of infecting him.

I could be forgetting some stuff, but that's what I remember off the top of my head.

I guess my Q was more, "if someone goes missing and turns back up, short of waiting for them to bite me and run away, can I check them physically?"

Being that I just sent my psykers off to buy mushrooms.

There's marks on the necks, if I remember well.

If I remember right they tend to have scrambled memories of fighting and somehow managing to escape. Also there is usually a mark on their neck somewhere where the emybro was implanted

Okay, I'll stick with the neck thing. I didn't think it was reversible, removable, etc?
I don't feel my guys would have the knowledge of that. But IG officers and commissars are trained to recognise signs of taint, disease, etc. so I will accept that with insight, they could recognise recent infection, and with blood testing they could find it.

I doubt there's a way to cure people of such infection, Cain straight up executed people who he found were infected, its ridiculously out of character for him to do that, unless there's no other way.

 Bobthehero wrote:
I doubt there's a way to cure people of such infection, Cain straight up executed people who he found were infected, its ridiculously out of character for him to do that, unless there's no other way.

Bruh... I literally just bought all the Ciaphus Cain novels and your here dropping spoilers...

I'd say if it's possible, it's Inquisition or Astartes level resource and tech. In fairer times, with enough time, a Rogue Trader could eventually find out how. But this is in the middle of a war.

To be fair to Cain, he's only a commissar, and by his own admission, not all-knowing. He's got more resources than most, but he's not going to know about everything out there.

 Tactical_Spam wrote:

 Bobthehero wrote:
I doubt there's a way to cure people of such infection, Cain straight up executed people who he found were infected, its ridiculously out of character for him to do that, unless there's no other way.

Bruh... I literally just bought all the Ciaphus Cain novels and your here dropping spoilers...

Cain is a commissar. Commissars shoot people. If they don't shoot people, commissars get shot.
It's like a food chain but there's no winner.

Plus those books are older than some forum members.

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
:O Those Orks better get here after I've started some meaningful work, because Fairfax has got literally no motivation to help Trisburg at the moment, especially after the recordings, and would just leave.

Honour be damned: He has 5-8 thousand civilians living on his ship, no way he and his crew are getting involved in any ship to ship combat and risking those colonists. He's essentially a pseudo politician and merchant, capable of fending off advances, not waging war.
If he's already working, he may feel obliged to assist. Maybe.

So does that mean I'm not allowed to come out of warp yet? 'Cause I really wanted to do it now... I guess maybe I'll just go sulk in the corner then...

 Tactical_Spam wrote:

 Bobthehero wrote:
I doubt there's a way to cure people of such infection, Cain straight up executed people who he found were infected, its ridiculously out of character for him to do that, unless there's no other way.

Bruh... I literally just bought all the Ciaphus Cain novels and your here dropping spoilers...

Noone major, first book only, that I remember, at least, but uh, sorry 'bout that

 Buttery Commissar wrote:

 Tactical_Spam wrote:

 Bobthehero wrote:
I doubt there's a way to cure people of such infection, Cain straight up executed people who he found were infected, its ridiculously out of character for him to do that, unless there's no other way.

Bruh... I literally just bought all the Ciaphus Cain novels and your here dropping spoilers...

Cain is a commissar. Commissars shoot people. If they don't shoot people, commissars get shot.
It's like a food chain but there's no winner.

Plus those books are older than some forum members.

I have material to read, like all my Caiphus Cain novels, a few omnibuses, a Space Marine Battles book and book II of Graham Mcneil's Ultramarine novels (which is not as good of fluff as Matt Ward's)