Interest Check - Warhammer 40k: 14th Black Crusade

[TheGrandAdmiral]

A General then? Or a Cannoness?

[Primarch]

A General then? Or a Cannoness?

Either would be ideal, yes!

[TheGrandAdmiral]

Since someone before me mentioned a General, I might go with a Cannoness. Will work on a CS, hopefully during the weekend.

[Ollumhammersong]

Alright. So again, a question about scale. I notice your character is leading the entirety of the dread host, which is the largest shield host. That's alot of custodians. What's the scale we're shooting for here?

Space marine companies or entire chapters?

[Primarch]

Alright. So again, a question about scale. I notice your character is leading the entirety of the dread host, which is the largest shield host. That's alot of custodians. What's the scale we're shooting for here?

Space marine companies or entire chapters?

Entire Chapters are certainly viable. Off hand I think only the Space Wolves sent their full force to the 13th Black Crusade, the other Space Marine contributions were in various numbers of companies.
So you can take on a Chapter Master & bring the entire Chapter, or take on the role of the Captain chosen to lead several companies.

I might just ask the canon Chapter Masters remain canon. Well certainly for the larger/more prominent Chapters like the above mentioned Space Wolves (maybe especially the Space Wolves, my experience with OC Space Wolf Chapter Masters has been....something special). I know we've leaned away from the idea of basing the RP around a specific OC Chapter, but if someone wants to do an OC Chapter I have no issue with it. Just maybe not "secret first founding Chapter."   

[FoxgirlJay]

Currently working on a Fabricator-Locum of Ryza, Domina sort. Gunna go with an Ark Mechanicus and a small fleet of assorted goons coming along. I plan on leaving the Legio Titanicus alone incase someone wants to grab up that stuff. If not, Arks are big enough to house legions.

[Primarch]

Currently working on a Fabricator-Locum of Ryza, Domina sort. Gunna go with an Ark Mechanicus and a small fleet of assorted goons coming along. I plan on leaving the Legio Titanicus alone incase someone wants to grab up that stuff. If not, Arks are big enough to house legions.

Sounds like a plan!

[Ollumhammersong]

i guess i'm just starting to feel like we need to go huge or get left behind. Admech war cohorts with titan support, several hundred custodes, entire SM chapters. I was thinking of an inquisitor with an entire regiment of scions at their back, and now i'm not sure if i'd be even keeping pace

[FoxgirlJay]

Well, theoretically, any Inquisitor can requisition the service of nearly any imperial at a whim. Though it requires political pull to boss Astartes around, if they're chapters on the more rebellious end of things like Dark Angels and Space Wolves. On the other hand, Minotaurs are very eager to help out Inquisitors from what I can remember.

But, unlike others, the strength of the Inquisition is not in the numbers they can field.

[Primarch]

Well, theoretically, any Inquisitor can requisition the service of nearly any imperial at a whim. Though it requires political pull to boss Astartes around, if they're chapters on the more rebellious end of things like Dark Angels and Space Wolves. On the other hand, Minotaurs are very eager to help out Inquisitors from what I can remember.

Technically. Realistically Inquisitors can't boss around Space Marines. A Chapter Master may choose to to assist an Inquisitor but the vast, vast majority of Inquisitors need to be the height of cautious even investigating a Chapter for suspected heresy. Nevermind outright obligating them service. Not counting dedicated wings of the Inquisition like the Deathwatch or Grey Knights.

i guess i'm just starting to feel like we need to go huge or get left behind. Admech war cohorts with titan support, several hundred custodes, entire SM chapters. I was thinking of an inquisitor with an entire regiment of scions at their back, and now i'm not sure if i'd be even keeping pace

Well Greyfax & her scions had a pivotal role in the 13th Black Crusade. If you want to play an Inquisitor with a regiment of Scions go for it. Could have been investigating something that might be related to Abaddon's target this time (which we'll invent later) and so in possession of valuable intel related to the war effort?

[Ollumhammersong]

inquisitors actually don't have power over a lot of people. They are expressly not allowed to boss around space marines. Chapter masters are firmly outside of anyone's authority but the high lords while Deathwatch and GK are notable exceptions, and ya a few chapters choose to work closely with the ordos but it's their choice. But SM can, and often do tell inquisitors to get fucked. Plus the admech is out of their reach among a handful of other groups. The only group in the Imperium that has true carte blanche authority over anyone and everything is the custodes, they just rarely choose to exercise it.

as for figuring out why the inquisitor is there is not at all what my stated problem was. It's simply that Even as powerful as my original idea is, it really doesn't seem enough unless I dial it way up to 11. I guess I was just thinking the rp would be a little more grounded and less crazy apocalypse size character and army lists.

[HairyHeretic]

Yeah, the scale seems rather more than I was first thinking about as well. I'm not sure I've played armies this size under my control even with the old Epic 40k game :)

Might go with a Titan Legion then - The Legio Metalica, the Iron Skulls. They've been around since the Unification Wars

[FoxgirlJay]

First draft, open to toning up/down, adding more detail if needed, and so on.

++ Fabricator-Locum [Domina] ++ Designation -- Atzina Plethatas
Player: Foxgirl Jay
Character: Atzina Plethatas
Faction: Ryza
Warlord Trait: Arithmetic of Annihilation - Life is mathematical. War is the application of mathematics, all can be calculated

Wargear - On Mainline use body

• Mechadendrite Hive
• Cog-tooth Axe
• Refractor Field
• Conversion Field
• Flechette Blaster
• Archeotech Plasma gun
• Skitarii Maniple Honor Guard - Five Alpha Skitarii
• Servo-Skulls: Scanners, scouters, manipulators and incense bearer models.

Maintains several other bodies for more specialized uses and tasks

++ ASSETS IN USE ON BEHALF OF THE ASCENDANT OMNISSIAH ++
Spear of Ryza: Ark Mechanicus. Discovered and reclaimed by Atzina, earning the rank of Fabricator-Locum and command of the vessel.
Adeptus Mechanicus Class Cruiser: Two Cruiser-class vehicles, unique design to the Mechanicus. Elgathian and Binary Storm
Escorts: 6 Escort-class vessels of varying class. two assigned each Cruiser, and two to the Spear of Ryza

Skitarii Macroclades: Four Skitarii Macroclades. One each stationed with the Elgathian and Binary Storm, two within the Spear of Ryza. Battle Maniples split up between the escorts.
Each Macroclade is commanded by a Magos Dominus. Each Macroclade contains four Cohorts, commanded by a Skitarii Master. Each Cohort contains three Battle Maniples, commanded by a Skitarii Marshall. Each Battle Maniple is made up of thirty Skitarii Rangers or Vanguard, four Dragoons, Ten Ruststalkers/Infiltrators, one Dunecrawler, three Duneriders, one archeocopter.
Total disposition of the Legion Skitariius: 1440 Rangers/Vanguard | 480 Ruststalkers/Infiltrators | 192 Dragoons | 96 Duneriders | 48 Dunecrawlers | 48 Archaeocopters | 48 Marshalls | 12 Skitarii Masters | 4 Magos Dominus
Legio Cybernetica: One Dominus commands the Cohort. Twelve Cybernetica Battle Maniples, each with a Datasmith watching over four Battle Automata. Total, 48 Battle Automata.
Others: Hosts of Tech-priests of varying talents and skills. Legions of Servitors, many capable of combat even if not designed for it. Factorium workers and menials.

Personality

• Machine Logic: Separate the emotion from what is necessary. Emotion is another tool to be used, only at the right times.
• Optimist: Building towards a better future. Power is worthless without another generation to take up the mantle in the name of the Omnissiah

History

• “Born” on Ryza from an artificial womb, joining the ranks of the Mechanicus and taking her first augmetics at a young age, the path of a priest began early.
• Her first journey off Ryza was as junior Domina, learning to command the science of war in practical, real applications, serving under a Magos Dominus. Exemplary results in war and mastery over the machine saw her ranks rising relatively quickly through the dogmatic and politically hostile ranks of the Mechanicus.
• Atzina’s rank rose rapidly, once a lost Ark Mechanicus was found, and the ancient machine spirit was roused, it’s body repaired, and set upon the stars once again. Granted the rank of Fabricator-Locum and command of the vessel.
  Atzina’s Warhost was ‘nearby’ when the call to thwart the Black Crusade, and thus volunteered the forces under their command.

Relationships/Connections

• ++ PENDING HISTORICAL DOCUMENTA RELEASE++

[Primarch]

Yeah, the scale seems rather more than I was first thinking about as well. I'm not sure I've played armies this size under my control even with the old Epic 40k game :)

I wouldn't be too concerned with all the troops under your command. This being a 'collaborative narrative' more so than 'cooperative wargame' we can apply as much or as little attention to any given battle as we like. That can take the form of anything from playing out the fine details of troop movements to just getting a report saying "heavy causalities at X, Regiment Y has been completely obliterated."

[Ollumhammersong]

Player Ollum
Character: Silas Malden
Faction: Inquisition/Tempestus scions
Rank: Ordo Hereticus Inquisitor

Warlord Trait: Psychic Mastery – The power of the warp bows to the indomitable will of this warlord

Wargear:

• Refractor field
• Custom fitted Carapace armour
• Artificer Bolt pistol
• Blade of the Ordo Hereticus - Many Inquisitors have commissioned or acquired masterwork power blades. No two such weapons are ever exactly alike, but all are potent martial tools.

Army/Assets:

• The Inquisition has enourmous breadth of authority to requisition and compel resources and military assets as they see fit. As well as a stockpile of assets aquired by the ordo over the millenia:
• Vengeance Class Grand Cruiser
• 6 flachion class escorts
• 10,000 tempestus scions (One entire regiment, 110th Iotan Centaurs)
• scores of Taurox primes
• scores of Chimera APCs
• 180~Ogryn auxilia
• Valkyrie & Skytalon dropships
• Vulture & vendetta gunships
• 12 Primaris & wyrdvane psykers

Personality:

• Unquestionable wisdom: The secrets of the inquisition are many and terrible. The Ordo Hereticus in particular know much about the strengths and weaknesses of chaos, and their members are never obligated to explain themselves or the sources of this knowledge to anyone.
• Puritan: This inquisitor is a staunch puritan in the eyes of his peers. A title he wears proudly despite it sometimes being spoken as an insult. The ends may justify the means, but there is never an excuse for consorting with daemons and copying the enemy's profane rituals.
• Formidable resolve: The unshakeable will of this warlord is enough to steel the hearts of Humanity’s warriors. Bolstering the convictions of those around him

History:

• Silas was raised in a schola whose name he doesn't bother to remember. When his psychic powers began to manifest he was handed over to the black fleet for training or sacrifice on Terra. But during that fell selection process was instead marked by the inquisition as a potential acolyte.
• Silas survived that grueling physical and psychic training regime and was eventually apprenticed to an inquisitor Mordecai Thraxx for several decades.
• Once elevated to a full fledged inquisitor, Silas joins the ranks of the Ordo Hereticus. Like his former master he firmly believes the greatest threat to the Imperium is the 'Enemy Within', and his talents and effort are best spent combating the traitor, the rebel and the heretic.
• After 173 years of Service to the Emperor Silas now sails forth to combat this new black crusade. Bringing with him an entire regiment of the Ordo Tempestus he had recalled for just this purpose. The scions have become his preferred means of applying both rapid overwhelming force or precise surgical strikes

Relationships/Connections:

• Incoming after plotting
• Incoming after plotting
• Incoming after plotting

Additional Details:

[Primarch]

Looks good. can you fix the image into the CS?

[Ollumhammersong]

i tried but it didn't work

[Ollumhammersong]

There we go, figured it out

[Primarch]

Excellent. We'll give the others that have expressed interest a little more time, then get the ball rolling. If anyone else gets involved afterwards we should be able to work them in easily enough.

[GloomCookie]

I had initially expressed interest but with the holidays and such I need to back out. Sorry.

[TheGrandAdmiral]

I am still interested, but I caught a nasty cold and it is hard to focus (especially while also trying to study for midterms). I hope during the week to be able to make the CS.

[Primarch]

I had initially expressed interest but with the holidays and such I need to back out. Sorry.

Cheers for the heads up, best of luck with the holidays!

I am still interested, but I caught a nasty cold and it is hard to focus (especially while also trying to study for midterms). I hope during the week to be able to make the CS.

No rush, take your time!

[HairyHeretic]

It'll probably be close to the weekend before I get a chance to put things together.

[Primarch]

It'll probably be close to the weekend before I get a chance to put things together.

Take your time. GrandAdmiral might need a little time too.

On an unrelated note I might swap my Custodes for a Black Templar Marshall.

[TheGrandAdmiral]

Player: TheGrandAdmiral
Character: Carolina Magna
Faction: Adepta Sororitas
Rank: Canoness Preceptor of the Order of Burning Lily

Personality:

• Zealous: The absence of faith is the mark of the weak. The absence of faith is the mark of the heretic. The absence of faith is the mark of damnation. - extract from "The Stern Codex"
• Devoted: By bolter shell, flamer burst and melta blast, the mutant, the heretic and the traitor alike are cleansed of their sin of existence. So has it been for five millennia, so shall it be unto the end of time. - Words of Devotion, Verses IV-V, Chapter X, Volume LII

History:

• One of the countless orphans left at the care of the Ecclesiarchy, she does not remember, nor knew her parents, nor she cares. Her entire life is devoted in service to the Imperium and fighting and purging its enemies.
• Her skills and devotion helped her climb the ladder of the Order until she was appointed a Canoness Perceptor of the Order of the Burning Lily.
• Helped pacify several worlds that were swerving towards Chaos. Took part in a campaign against an ork horde. When she heard the call to stop the Black Crusade she knew that it was her fate to face down the mortal enemies of the Imperium! So the whole preceptory embarked on the mission without any doubt or hesitation

Relationships/Connections:

• TBD
• TBD
• TBD

Warlord Trait: SELFLESS HEROISM Rather than allow harm to come to her followers, sher will bravely take the fight to any foe.

Wargear:

• Carapace Armor
• Bolt Pistol
• Power Sword
• Frag Grenades
• Rod of Office
• Krak Grenades

Army/Assets:

• 1 Retribution Class Battleship "Immolator"
• 1000 Sisters divided into squads of Battle Sisters, Seraphims, Zephyrim, Dominions, Retributors, Celestians, Sisters Repentia, Dogmata, Palatines, Sisters Superior
• Scores of Mortifier and Penitent Engines, Rhinos, Repressors, Exorcists, Castigators and Immolators
• Scores of Thunderhawks and Lightning Strike Fighters