Trokair

So old style Storm Troopers? I don’t know if modern lore still has it but in older lore there were lots of regional variants of STC produced stuff like vehicles and weapons depending on local resources and needs. So their own variant of standard chassis tanks is well within the realm of possibility I would say. As long as I have time at the time then I am game.

Lys, I can see nothing major (or minor) has happend here while I was away, but could we get a little update as to expected timeframe and or some such??

Define unusual. The 40k galaxy is a big big place and what might be standard on say, Cadia, or Fenris, will be worlds away from what things are like somewhere else. One guardsmen normal is exotic to another and visa versa. I can’t remember which Codex/White Dwarf it was in but there was a quote that the Adeptus Munitorum had to ask the Adeptus Mechanicum to make a Lasgun that make a conventional bullet shooting noise when the fired as regiments raised on less advance world needed the sound reassurance that their weapons worked compared to the normal laser sounds.

Not wishing to delay further the Officer directed his unit to continue their sweep. “Somewhere between starboard gunnery deck compartment delta and epsilon. Don’t know the specifics. There was a gellerfield issue just before the emergency translation back into the real. Captain Colerum and Lady Inga jor Shiam took a large contingent straight there while the rest of us have been sweeping different approaches. We are heading for the upper deck entry lift above delta.” As you moved along several armsmen peeled off to clear a series of side rooms. The sweep was quick and efficient, with no hostiles encountered, though in one room four injured crew had taken shelter. Ok, I am back and normal game progress will resume.

I am slightly confused by the preview and these two stats pages in particular, as some stats a are now out of 100, but others seem to still be normal GW table top range (S and T for example). The skills section however appears to have stats out of 100 again, even when refereeing back to stats that on the stats line are single digits.

The Officer frowns, then his expression shifts, unreadable. “Your Duty is to stay alive, for whatever your pressing mission is. If any of you Sirs come to harm then the entire reason for putting the ship at risk by pulling her out of dock before repairs were complete would have been for naught. I will give you the grace in the assumption that you did not stay in your secure location as ordered during an emergency because it was not as save as one would have liked, but that is no reason to be reckless.” “Our Duty is to protect the ship, are you going to hinder that effort?” The Armsmen subtly repositioned themselves. “ Or will you fall in as we sweep for wrap spawn on our way to meet up with other contingents at the breach site?” As he spoke you hear a vox crackle. The Officer reached up to his earpeace, then replied in some form of cant none of you knew. He then turned to his men with Orders in the same before turning to look back at you for your reply. Command fails, he has his orders and as far as he is concerned you do not outrank the ships Command Staff.

Between those areas of the ship sealed of due to the incomplete repairs of the gunnery deck, and those marked as hazardous by the current emergency the route you extract from the cogitator is a convoluted mess, but a route it is. Setting out with caution, Darius and his shield in front, Taw-Samek brining up the rear, you encounter no one for a good fifteen minutes, the corridors and stairwells empty of crew. Aside from the occasional scaring from weapon impacts, some of which may well have been old, you could think that you where alone, for not only did you not encounter any of the crew, it had gone eerily silent, the general emergency klaxon aside. After the first few minutes of this you pick up the pace, hast winning out. While the Nostalgia for Infinity was not a large ship it would still take time to get where you were going, and with a suspect breach time was perhaps not a currency anybody aboard had much to spend. You had covered about a third of the way when the crack of weapons fire rings out. It is only as you hear the shout of “Hold” that it become apparent that the Secutarii had braced, his shield having taken the impact. Ahead of you, emerging from a side corridor a squad of Armsmen men emerged, the two in the lead looking slightly sheepishly as the Ships Officer spoke to them. Turning to your little group the Officer called you over. “ You should have stayed in a secure locations Sirs, but as you are here fall in and we will not speak of the breach of protocol, on either side.” I am about to be away for two weeks(ish) so feel free to narrate your responses as you see fit. If you join up then you will be in the company of about 30 armsmen and an Officer, and if you do it is up to you where they were heading, in the same direction or elsewhere and whether the combine group now does. You could also try other course of action then joining up, and make your own way, or bunker down somewhere, or whatever, narrative is open ended as long as you go no further then the last sealed bulkhead door before the area that you believe contains the breach.

Tion While you never attain certainty the more you and Taw-Samek coax the cogitator the the more a picture of recent events suggest themselves. A momentary gellerfiled failure near one of the gutted gun emplacements moment before the ship exited the immaterium appears to have trapped a bubble of wrap energy in the empty space within the hull structure when the gellerfield re-established. Whether this was the source or merely a symptom was a different question, and one impossible to answer given the pressure of time and danger. To determine the fasted rout will require an Exceptionally Hard (- 40) Tech-Use. DoS will also provide information as to the safety of the route. Alternatively you can try to plot the safest route from the information as a challenging (+0) Tech-Use test. These figures already represents Taw-Samek assistance.

As Rygel spoke the Devil shrieked. Perhaps to drown out words of faith and devotion, perhaps in pain, or simply for it’s own delight that a squishier prey had present itself. Who knew what thoughts dwelt inside the apparitions head. Making a lunge for Princeps however was a mistake, as Darius saw the shift in tension just in time to bulldoze shield first into the leaping devil, knocking it off target, into the wall. Lashing out with one hand to try and stead itself the Devil instead tore into the wall, four long rends followed the creature downwards as it collapsed. Rygel spun on the spot, no longer covering the door, whether by instinct and a glimpse out of to the corner of his eye, or by training and discipline the theun neatly moved the Princeps out of harms way. The Legion autopistol centred on and tracking the devil as it feel, the rat tat tat of a short burst echoed loud. For good measure the Secutarii, form his awkward position on the floor, followed up with a trust of the lance. On contact he then channelled all the build up electrical charge into the devil, and this time it seem to stick. For a moment. The Devil shrieked, the sound cut and were there had been an otherworldly fiend now there was electro-scaring and ricochet scrapes. As everybody seems to be busy (and or struggling with the currents B& C loading error phases) I have moved us on a little. We are back in full narrative time, so post as you see fit.

Gerbrand Speeches, why was it always speeches. He remembered how the Officials, Governors, Ministers and other Persons of Importance would waist half a day or more of each Hunt just giving speeches. Why travel all the way to the Imperial Forest to then not go out into the forest? If they wanted to waste hours of everybody’s time with words they could do that back in their Cities. With a start he realised that his mind had wondered and he had not paid attention. Nothing new in that by itself, but tuning them out then was one thing; not listing now could be lethal.

Thanks for letting me know, I should have thought of that. Let’s hope they update the FAQ or the Core rules pdf to incorporate the changes soon, I have been experimenting with a Land Raider list and having Terminators hop out and charge is part of the plan.

In the Universal rule update it has this: Where do I see 18.06 and 18.07 as it is in neither the phisical book or in the core rule PDF?

Judging the angle of the swing just right the Secutarii adjusted his stance, feet planted to support the braced shield. Stepping forward to deflect and push the blade aside, the energy field whines on contact. For the slightest of moments it is as if the blade would cut right through, the bulk of the shield immaterial to the apparition’s strike, but only for a moment. Robed of its momentum and brushed aside the Secutarii saw an opportunity and struck with the lance. An awkward blow direct at the blade, enough however to wrench it from the apparitions hand. As it fell it cut into the floor, spark erupting from some power line beneath the deck plate that had been pierced. So disarmed the devil howled, and from somewhere there was an answer. Round Two.

Gerbrand is ready??... I Think.

The electric discharge crackled along the apparitions left arm before earthing itself into the metal walls. The creature appeared no worse for wear; though perhaps a little more transparent where the lances charge had passed through it. Another swing with its blade, fast despite the apparent heaviness of the blade. Darius can attempt to Parry or to Dodge. At the consul in the mean time Tion had called up a schematic of the Nostalgia for Infinity and was trying to filter the alerts, alarms and damage report into a coherent, or at least comprehensible, form that could be parse onto the schematics to reveal the root of the troubles. Taw-Samek stepped up and made some suggestion on how to filter out unnecessary information from the general flow of the ships networks. Once implemented it helped a lot, but revealed a new issue, the most crucial information was security encoded and locked from common access, the cogitator would not yield its secrets so easily. I think Machine God was working on a post for Hastus, so I am going to wait on starting round two a few days (and I do mean a few, not two and a bit weeks, hopefully), also gives Lord Ikka time for that Dodge or Parry.