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 Buttery Commissar wrote:
WK, that's possibly because you aren't on the receiving end of having your ideas criticised..?

I'm not saying Kharne's taucron is canon, or credible, but I can understand him feeling hurt that fluff he created is shot down pretty much daily at this point. I'm guilty of teasing him too, I won't pretend I'm not.

And in my case, I just felt myself having to justify how I write. .. I dunno, it made me feel sad. I don't have big words at this time of night. I was a peripheral writer for CoF due to my approach and limited 40K knowledge (I had fun, but I was very aware that I was basically not in anyone else's league), and starting out CoF2 by feeling I'm not fitting in has made me sad and uncomfortable. I don't want to get in the way of people by being offbeat. That wasn't my goal at all.

My RT piece aside, I think it's respectful to at least wait for Blackjack, as waiting for 3/4 of the end pieces but saying "enough now" doesn't sit comfortably with me.

Agreed, thank you BC. I don't mind teasing every now and then, I'm fine with that. I'm just irritated that I can't do anything without being dogged and barked at by TS every time.
My TauCrons may not be probable but I have my own written fluff to support it and I've explained this to TS before but here we are again that I have to explain it to them. It's just really exhausting

You have no reason to feel down. This is a community thread, and tbh, you can post whatever the feth you like here, (with GM's permission of course).

Your writing is mint, and I feel as if a little bit of criticism shouldt be doin this to ya. If you want Peacefull RT's why can't you have them? It all up to you friend. And I am writing this drunk and sleep deprived, so if im rambling on dont sas.


P.S Kharn, TauCrons seem a bit Goto, but if you can make it work, I will Paint my monolith pink. Promise. I'll post it.

We're gonna hold you to that Vanden. You promised.

Um.. How's this for an idea... As CoF is drawing to a close, and we should celebrate it... what were you guys' favourite CoF moment(s)?

I think mine was on the ending Pt1 when the bombardment began, tied with the final end of Pavus.

 Sgt. Vanden wrote:
You have no reason to feel down. This is a community thread, and tbh, you can post whatever the feth you like here, (with GM's permission of course).

Your writing is mint, and I feel as if a little bit of criticism shouldt be doin this to ya. If you want Peacefull RT's why can't you have them? It all up to you friend. And I am writing this drunk and sleep deprived, so if im rambling on dont sas.


P.S Kharn, TauCrons seem a bit Goto, but if you can make it work, I will Paint my monolith pink. Promise. I'll post it.

I'll PM you the spiel

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
Um.. How's this for an idea... As CoF is drawing to a close, and we should celebrate it... what were you guys' favourite CoF moment(s)?

I think mine was on the ending Pt1 when the bombardment began, tied with the final end of Pavus.

Hmm.

I think the battle with Archarus in the end game was my favorite. Fighting the Hybrids initially was a close second for me

Oh i can see the pink monolith already...What have i done...

1) Beheading a gargant, that was magnificent.

2)Blowing those nobles sky high. 10/10 would creatively kill gakbags again.

An honorable mention would be Evergreen's gargant being built, but absolutely stationary, and could only shoot in one specific direction, at one angle.

Also, my Histan outro is done and posted, and I don't think I'll do the Vorhees outro. I'll use that time to get something for my orks done and also work on the commisar cadet squad.

Sgt. Vanden wrote:Oh i can see the pink monolith already...What have i done...

I won't hold you to it

Buttery Commissar wrote:Um.. How's this for an idea... As CoF is drawing to a close, and we should celebrate it... what were you guys' favourite CoF moment(s)?

I think mine was on the ending Pt1 when the bombardment began, tied with the final end of Pavus.

I like when Kageros dispatched hundreds of Dirges to do feth all on the Imperial fleet for Gak's and Giggles.

Blasting the Manta out of the sky

The Gallus vs Voidspider duel

A promise is a promise, and i never go bakc on promises

 Sgt. Vanden wrote:
A promise is a promise, and i never go bakc on promises

Lol, paint "Kageros" on it instead

Pink and Kageros? Sounds good.

Speaking of mini's, Riley has a grenade launcher, I just need something for a trigger and I'll be good to take pics of him.

I should be able to put up a picture of Exitar in a few weeks

I have no pictures, since I don't actually play Eldar, or own a Knight for that matter. I suppose I could try to get up a picture of Julius at some point.

 War Kitten wrote:
I have no pictures, since I don't actually play Eldar, or own a Knight for that matter. I suppose I could try to get up a picture of Julius at some point.

That'd be cool

 War Kitten wrote:

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
Um.. How's this for an idea... As CoF is drawing to a close, and we should celebrate it... what were you guys' favourite CoF moment(s)?

I think mine was on the ending Pt1 when the bombardment began, tied with the final end of Pavus.

Hmm.

I think the battle with Archarus in the end game was my favorite. Fighting the Hybrids initially was a close second for me

My favourite part is where Ryus inadvertently killed Korvel right after he boned over the Eldar.

Beheading a gargant was pretty epic.

And gl?

Cut the top off a bolter and use barrel minus magazine as a grenade launcher.

Well, if we're talking parts we wrote ourselves, then from reaction alone it has to be the naked video call with Marcus.

But from enjoyment of writing, either Edward's minor mental breakdown and Garth trying to calm him down, or Fairfax revealing that nobody was out of reach in terms of threat.
The former felt like an apology and wrap up for the stress that ship went through, and the latter was the first time Reynard really opened his hand to show anything.

If we're talking about things we wrote, then I really liked killing off the brood mother on Fahren, being able to show the madness Oracheis was definitely something I enjoyed, plus it showed that if you gave a tech-marine IW enough time, you will have a very hard time getting to him.

Perhaps the most fun I had was writing the scene of Keb'hal killing some hybrids in a cave, but from the perspective of a runaway slave who was the sole survivor of his group.

Writing up the intro to Archarus' final slash and burn into the crusade was rather fun as well, because it was solely atmospheric, and that's what I like writing.

Out of what I wrote, my favourite part was the second raid on the tau complex, when the rough riders got decimated and had to be bailed out by the scions. It just wouldn't be right to have a cavalry regiment without making at least one suicidal charge.

Out of the whole crusade, my favourite part is either Archarus' ascension, or the final showdown with Archarus, both of those were pretty epic.

 jhe90 wrote:
Beheading a gargant was pretty epic.

And gl?

Cut the top off a bolter and use barrel minus magazine as a grenade launcher.

Don't have a bolter to spare

Gallor Prime was my personal favorite as for an individual entry I really liked Smudge's Deathwatch interrogation that scene stuck with me.

Actually has everyone posted the last of their outros were Bob and jack the last ones

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
Um.. How's this for an idea... As CoF is drawing to a close, and we should celebrate it... what were you guys' favourite CoF moment(s)?

I think mine was on the ending Pt1 when the bombardment began, tied with the final end of Pavus.

I have no idea what my favourite part to write myself was, but my favourite things I read were either the Gallor Prime battle (which I enjoyed reading again as I worked on the final battle ), seeing Selka and Edward's relationship grow, Archarus' ascension, the catastrophe that was the Mogrok Incident, beheading a gargant, or the relationship between Aurelius and the Sorcerer happen. Seriously, none of that was scripted or planned, and I love how it turned into a real thing by the end.

I liked a lot of the Crusade, is what I'm saying.

Special mentions go to the Acting-Captain meme (which spread very much out of control), or the abundance of mushrooms that occurred on Echison VII.

Got two and a half weeks off this Wednesday so anytime around there would be a ideal time for CoF 2 to start for me. I think it was Buttery Commissar which said he could write his outro up around that time ? So no rush again guys. As to my favourite moment in CoF I absolutely adored the sorceror so all of his appearances.

My favourite moments are pretty much the same as Smudge's, the Mogrok Incident in particular bringing a gak-eating grin to my face every time I'm reminded of it

The unscripted nature of it all was one of the most enjoyable things in the Crusade in my opinion, especially when people started taking over concepts or ideas brought forward by other players or by the loose story threads hanging around (like the visions popping up in everyone's stories, the backlash from the Hybrid's psychic assault, etc.)

I hope the second Crusade will be equally fun to write for


...which brings me to my next point; the whole faction.. 'debacle', if we can call it that.

I personally have nothing against everyone bringing their own interpretation of factions or characters to the Crusade; hell, I myself have brought a questionably-Chaos Space Marine army into this, whose nature and behaviour could just as well have raised some questions in terms of it fitting in the established fluff of the universe we're writing in.

But that last bit is important; the established fluff of the universe. It is the foundation of everything we write for this Crusade, whether we agree with parts of it or not. The further we diverge from what we know of the 40k universe and its inhabitants, the more we risk our stories becoming things existing outside of the universe we're trying to be a part of. That isn't a bad thing, but it is a crucial difference to make.

To me, it boils down to one question; are our stories taking place in the established 40k universe, with semi-strict relationships between factions, or in a 'parallel universe', which practically is the same as the 40k universe, except that the established rules are more flexible than they normally are?

I need to do a big sleep (spent Friday to today on the road) but my outtro is 3/4 done. I also need to finish reading the CoF posts since WK's, to fit in around everyone else.
So hopefully tomorrow morning (uk) or lunch.

 Ezra Tyrius wrote:
I personally have nothing against everyone bringing their own interpretation of factions or characters to the Crusade; hell, I myself have brought a questionably-Chaos Space Marine army into this, whose nature and behaviour could just as well have raised some questions in terms of it fitting in the established fluff of the universe we're writing in.

But that last bit is important; the established fluff of the universe. It is the foundation of everything we write for this Crusade, whether we agree with parts of it or not. The further we diverge from what we know of the 40k universe and its inhabitants, the more we risk our stories becoming things existing outside of the universe we're trying to be a part of. That isn't a bad thing, but it is a crucial difference to make.

To me, it boils down to one question; are our stories taking place in the established 40k universe, with semi-strict relationships between factions, or in a 'parallel universe', which practically is the same as the 40k universe, except that the established rules are more flexible than they normally are?

Agreed.

When I ran CoF 1, I intended for it to easily have taken place within Canon 40k. Hence, barring the exceptions of the Ultramarines forces (which could easily have worked), most of the events were canon-friendly. I prefer canon-friendly, but there is a certain amount of leeway in writing it.
For example, captured Tau vassals working in tandem with Necrons. Not heard of, but it's just as feasible as an Inquisitor having a menagerie of xeno specimens in their employ.

If it can be justified well, I wouldn't ever object.
As an IRL GM, some of the best times I've had with my players are the times where it's completely outlandish and insane, but they tried to justify it. (For example, managing to find a find a metal bar in a gaol cell, faking a fit, and then breaking the armoured guard's neck with a critical hit with a metal rod, or managing to re-attach one's arm, only backwards facing, or killing a kraken by shooting a dead not-gay* sailor from one of the ballistae and killing it)

*It was also the worst case of GM/player miscommunications I've ever had, but it was fun.

 Sgt_Smudge wrote:
Not heard of, but it's just as feasible as an Inquisitor having a menagerie of xeno specimens in their employ.

I see what you did there.