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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2023/07/17 19:58:45
Subject: Sharpe's Bolt Rifles (or Las Rifles if you prefer the IG)
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Regular Dakkanaut
Columbus, Ohio
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Young Imperial marine/guardsman saves his commanding general's life and gets a battlefield commission. Who are the major characters and villains converted into the 40k universe? Which enemies? Where would you set it?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2023/07/17 20:00:32
Subject: Re:Sharpe's Bolt Rifles (or Las Rifles if you prefer the IG)
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[DCM]
Chief Deputy Sub Assistant Trainee Squig Handling Intern
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Would have to be a more or less direct transplant to the Imperial Guard I think. Background wise they’ve the most flexibility for such things.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2023/07/17 20:20:05
Subject: Re:Sharpe's Bolt Rifles (or Las Rifles if you prefer the IG)
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Regular Dakkanaut
Columbus, Ohio
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Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Would have to be a more or less direct transplant to the Imperial Guard I think. Background wise they’ve the most flexibility for such things.
Interesting, and maybe it points out that Sharpe and 40k wouldn't make a good cross, as in Sharpe the best troops are the unloved Cockneys and Paddys, while the well equipped elites are a bunch of snobs.
So who are the "space marines" in Sharpe? The snotty provosts with their horses and really cool helmets who spend most of their time hanging the fighting soldiers for stealing chickens?
Or are they Napoleon's troops? Are The Chosen Men really more like orks.
If memory (vaguely) serves, didn't some company do a line of miniatures and a game along that idea?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2023/07/17 20:44:40
Subject: Sharpe's Bolt Rifles (or Las Rifles if you prefer the IG)
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Mighty Vampire Count
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NapoleonInSpace wrote:Young Imperial marine/guardsman saves his commanding general's life and gets a battlefield commission. Who are the major characters and villains converted into the 40k universe? Which enemies? Where would you set it?
Gaunts Ghosts are pretty much Sharpe in space.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2023/07/17 20:53:03
Subject: Re:Sharpe's Bolt Rifles (or Las Rifles if you prefer the IG)
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[DCM]
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Well, not all Regiments are equal. Some are fairly egalitarian, with promotions being awarded on pure merit and competence. Others are very much like Napoleonic Britain, where Officers buy, or are bought, their commission and genuinely believe themselves to be better than the Mere Plebs they lead. With the latter, a man or squad being promoted by Central Command would cause snobbery.
Another way you could do it is to have Sharpe and his men picked by a Rogue Trader, Inquisitor or even a Commissar Lord in a pinch for a special forces type thing, with the Sharpe in particular becoming a trusted advisor, to the distaste of Command? Automatically Appended Next Post: We kind of see this in the established regiments.
Catachan’s may value physical prowess, but can still respect say, Cadian Discipline. Elysian Drop Troops are individually better equipped than say, a Valhallan (depending on your preferred source for Valhallan Regiments!).
So it’s perfectly possible for your army to be predominantly XVIIIth Poncington-Smythe Bluebloods, with an elite unit on attachment, raised from veterans of the MCMth Poofarty Smelly-Pleb regiments from Dungball, an obscure planet in the Sphincter System.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2023/07/17 21:22:07
Subject: Sharpe's Bolt Rifles (or Las Rifles if you prefer the IG)
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Preparing the Invasion of Terra
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As has been said, Gaunt's Ghosts is fully inspired by Sharpe.
The roguish blonde officer given command by a beloved hero general for acts of bravery. The disrespectful and resentful sharpshooter/scouts. The not-quite second in command who tries to kill the officer a few times before forming a strong friendship. Traditional officers looking down on the protagonists.
The only real difference is that Gaunt gets laid maybe twice in the whole series while Sharpe sleeps his way across Spain.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2023/07/18 01:01:15
Subject: Sharpe's Bolt Rifles (or Las Rifles if you prefer the IG)
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Gore-Soaked Lunatic Witchhunter
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Fundamentally difficult in 40k, given that "France" as both an enemy army and a nation with people in it that you might, e.g., talk to without immediately shooting doesn't easily map to the relationships between any two factions in the setting.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2023/07/18 13:19:21
Subject: Sharpe's Bolt Rifles (or Las Rifles if you prefer the IG)
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Regular Dakkanaut
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Mr Morden wrote: NapoleonInSpace wrote:Young Imperial marine/guardsman saves his commanding general's life and gets a battlefield commission. Who are the major characters and villains converted into the 40k universe? Which enemies? Where would you set it?
Gaunts Ghosts are pretty much Sharpe in space.
Ehhhhhh... I'll give you that to some extent, but really, only so far as they are a bunch of heroes, cut off from pretty much everybody but each other, and trying to survive a war.
But where is Ducos, or for that matter, even Simmerson? https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Sharpe_Villains
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AnomanderRake wrote:Fundamentally difficult in 40k, given that "France" as both an enemy army and a nation with people in it that you might, e.g., talk to without immediately shooting doesn't easily map to the relationships between any two factions in the setting.
Wouldn't be a perfect crossover, of course, but I'd think you could have some fun with, say, an over-stuffed ork warboss who was nonetheless a good commander and fighter https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/General_Calvet
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2023/07/18 18:07:51
Subject: Sharpe's Bolt Rifles (or Las Rifles if you prefer the IG)
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Preparing the Invasion of Terra
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You know that Dan Abnett has said on multiple occasions that Sharpe is the direct influence for the series right?
Also, in terms of villains, Hector Dravere/Noches Sturm/Lugo are every single officer who looks down on Sharpe and his Rifles. Lugo is even similar to Simmerson in that he gets punished but manages to crawl his way back into command.
But the idea that the Ghosts aren't Sharpe in Space just because not all the villains are there, doesn't take away the main idea of a scruffy Regiment of sharpshooters/scouts led by an officer promoted from a background officers don't come from. Gaunt is even described the same way as Sharpe is in appearance.
It's not an exact copy because that wouldn't work and would also be immensely boring/highly illegal.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2023/07/20 02:29:43
Subject: Sharpe's Bolt Rifles (or Las Rifles if you prefer the IG)
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Regular Dakkanaut
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Gert wrote:
You know that Dan Abnett has said on multiple occasions that Sharpe is the direct influence for the series right?
Also, in terms of villains, Hector Dravere/Noches Sturm/Lugo are every single officer who looks down on Sharpe and his Rifles. Lugo is even similar to Simmerson in that he gets punished but manages to crawl his way back into command.
But the idea that the Ghosts aren't Sharpe in Space just because not all the villains are there, doesn't take away the main idea of a scruffy Regiment of sharpshooters/scouts led by an officer promoted from a background officers don't come from. Gaunt is even described the same way as Sharpe is in appearance.
It's not an exact copy because that wouldn't work and would also be immensely boring/highly illegal.
As I said, I give you that!
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