The Berserkers of Uran - a thread from the past

[bluntblade]

Might Horus reach that level in his Chaos-swollen state?

[Raktra]

Works for me, I'm writing it that Warp entities and those suffused with it affects the flesh-sight somewhat. Raktra can't even look at the Emperor directly without pain.

[Sigismund229]

More rules ideas:

 

Only the Strong

May reroll to wound rolls of 1?

 

Another idea:

 

Deamons, we are

Brute Force-When using this RoW, successful Invulnerable Saves and Feel No Pain saves against attacks from models with LA(BoU) must be rerolled.

 

Scions of Madness-Wretched and Desolater Class Contemptor Dreadnoughts become non compulsory troops choices

 

-Always get hit on a 3+

-Must always sweeping advance and may never volountarily fail a morale check or go to ground

-May never take allies or fortifications

[Talonair]

I think the forced re-roll of invulns should be kept VERY rare and should not be an army-wide rule under any circumstance

[Raktra]

Much as it's gonna affect future rules design, I'm not removing/changing the ignores FNP rule. To me, it's a huge part of the Legion's character rules-wise.

 

EDIT: Then again, Akarro's "Sire" rule could always grant it instead...

Edited February 25, 2017 by Raktra

[bluntblade]

OK, so what the Shepherds call the Somoptis, the people of Uran and later the Berserkers named the Cutter's Sight

[bluntblade]

Thoughts for the Blood Boilers - we should try and devise a rule for Vasgotox flesh-eater fluid, seeing as that's canon.

 

Do we just have a single Exemplary Battle for the Berserkers?

[Raktra]

I think just the destruction of the Hrud?

 

I'll work on the fluid.

[Grifftofer]

The DG Grave Wardens' rules might make for a good starting point, as they apparently make use of it.

[bluntblade]

And then submit it to FW, aye?

 

Remembered we have the one where Raktra goes behind Koschei's back. So how about one where they actually work successfully with another Legion?

[bluntblade]

Also, Exemplary Battles blurb:

 

The Berserkers’ campaign records testify to a Legion reborn as a force for absolute destruction, one that while unpalatable to the propagandists and citizenry, was nonetheless a key part of the Great Crusade. They were a double-edged sword - guaranteed to eradicate even the vilest xenos empire, but liable to crush human civilisations which merely required pacification. Raktra’s murderous spirit led to confrontation with several of his brothers, and many took this as a signal that he saw the Emperor as his only true master. Time would make a cruel mockery of those beliefs, and the tally of conquest a mere prelude to the atrocities the Berserkers would wreak.

[Raktra]

Everything ends. That is the motto of the Blood Boilers, a brotherhood that exemplifies the very darkest aspects of the Imperial war machine. Formed of the Destroyer cadres of the Berserkers of Uran, the Blood Boilers were often seen as the Emperor’s final solution to a non-compliant world, mixing the disturbing effects of rad and phosphex weaponry with the even more disturbing battlefield habits of the White Devil’s sons.

 

In most Legions, the deployment of Destroyer cadres is a carefully considered and rarely-employed tactic. The destruction they wreak upon the environment, the toll it takes on the bodies of the Marines in their ranks, and not least of all the psychological effect on the lost cultures of man the Crusade attempts to bring back into its fold, are all incredible costs to consider. Mankind needs the soil to thrive, the Legions need their fighters well, and the Imperium needs its citizens to believe that they are better off back under its rule, for if they do not, what then is the Crusade for?
None of this matters to the Berserkers of Uran, for they only truly care about one thing - survival of the fittest. To them, the sheer ruination brought by a Destroyer assault is something almost perversely satisfying, for it proves their strength above all else around them. The land is too soft to contain them, other Astartes are too weak to emulate them, and the lesser mortals are too cowardly to stand before them.

 

Dominator of the Blood Boilers was Riktus Innorvak, the hand of the Devil, a hulking monster of a man encased in specialised terminator plate and wielding an arsenal of weapons that both exemplifies his Legion and his order.

[bluntblade]

We could have the Berserkers collaborate with the Void Eagles or Predators. Gonna try and come up with some ideas at work today.

[Raktra]

Any edit ideas for that bit above? Made it for the wiki.

[bluntblade]

I thought it was for the Books - it ought to go in there. For the wiki, I reckon it'd work best as a quote, and can't think of any edits I'd make Edited April 21, 2017 by bluntblade

[Fenbain]

Any edit ideas for that bit above? Made it for the wiki.

It reads well, though I can't decide whether it'd suit a book or wiki better. Anymore progress on your Riktus conversion? :-)

[bluntblade]

Anyone want to call dibs on having their Legion successfully work with the Berserkers? Wondering about the Lightning Bearers, just to sell the idea that Icarion could exercie some degree of influence over Raktra.

[Talonair]

Not a legion, but the Abyssii work quite closely with them until the Insurrection, at which point they only work with the Shepherds (what's left of them)

[Raktra]

Anyone want to call dibs on having their Legion successfully work with the Berserkers? Wondering about the Lightning Bearers, just to sell the idea that Icarion could exercie some degree of influence over Raktra.

Raktra turns to Icarion out of desperation after the Battle of Carrion Hill to understand what's going on with his Legion (Old Blood starts doing the real :cuss then), prior to then he's relatively uninterested in him as he views him as pompous. Morrow seems the best option, he's a similarly morose bastard, plus their warfare would work well together - the Drowned pin the enemy in place from all angles, the 'serkers close the kill.

[bluntblade]

Carrion Hill?

[Raktra]

Something Blind and I are working on :)

[bluntblade]

So going through the Prosecution stuff I see no difference between the... what did we have Berserkers calling the Somoptis? Anyway, the spiel for the Prosecution makes it sound like that's what Raktra wants, but it's the thing they,ve already got.

[Raktra]

Cutter's Sight.
 

We could play it as the 'serkers keep it a secret at first to avoid being prosecuted for being mutants, so the Prosecution results could help determine if they go public.

Or just a typical "build better manz" deal. Wanting to make all Marines as Custodes or something.

[bluntblade]

i think that would have been identified before the VII even took a name.

[Raktra]

Yeah, I was reaching there. Build better manz it is.