>>97091069
GM said we're playing in Calixis sector precisely so he doesn't have to care about the big canon events and characters and just use the cool stuff.

>>97091297
cool and based of him

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Do Necron's worship a god? I can't remember reading anything about their religion, if they even have one. Maybe something surviving from before they got their metal bodies?

>>97092041
There is nothing about pre-interstellar necrontyr culture and the only'gods' they ever 'worshiped' were the star gods.

>>97092041
They used to worship the C'tan until they killed them. Now their ancient codes don't talk about gods, but do engramatically enforce loyalty to their higher-ups and the Silent King.

Do traitor guardsmen or astartes usually keep their anti-alien mindset or do they not care? I'm trying to make a home brew Chaos war band that allows cast offs from the Tau but I'm curious about how "cannon" such a thing would be.

>>97091297
He sounds cool and C’tan-like.

>>97092387
Yes, they're still humans after all, despite all the corruption. The galaxy will burn, but THEY will rule the ashes, not the alien

>>97092387
I've never heard of any traitors giving up their human supremacy. Except so far as you count the chaos gods as alien, which obviously they don't.

>>97092041
Originally, the Necrontyr had religion revolving around a few death gods I believe, given their entire culture revolved around their enormously short lifespans. This left them kind of vulnerable to C'tan influence in their early days, because the first one they encountered (the Nightbringer) essentially WAS a death god. As a result, once they gave the C'tan necrodermis bodies they formed cults around them over their older, false religions given that they were now following proven to be real "gods". There's little to nothing left of pre-C'tan Necrontyr culture left, making it one of Trazyn's prime obsessions - which a certain asshole uses against him.

>>97092041
As others said, they used to. Absolutely zero reason they would now, or ever. The c'tan tricked them into becoming soulless machines, and they killed and enslaved said c'tan gods.

>>97091297
Your gm sounds like he can be turned into a battery

>>97092387
The galaxy is a big place. It's not a big stretch that out of untold billions, one group doesn't care too much about adopting corrupted xenos. A lot of traitors use xenos tech at the very least, just look at their warships.

From a lore perspective, don't titans kind of make primarchs a non-issue on the battlefield? I would probably rather fight beside an upper-class titan than fight beside a primarch that could be vaporized by them in a millisecond, but so much of the lore revolves around how important primarchs are

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>>97095221
>fight beside a primarch that could be vaporized by them in a millisecond
...he doesn't know, does he?

>>97095255
Even if you tell him, he'll probably disregard it because canon hurts people's feelings here.

>>97095221
Primarchs aren't even real.

>>97095255
>>97095297
I don't know, please tell me

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>>97096179
The case you mentioned literally happened in Betrayer. Lorgar takes a Warhound Titan plasma blastgun to the face. But since Lorgar is a Primarch, his primarchness nuh-uhs the shot and then he psychically tosses a rock, crushing its head. This causes the nearby world eaters to have a giggle before returning to slaughter. The warhound then almost falls on Angron but he catches it and tosses it because he's a Primarch. Long story short, Primarchs, as main characters of 40k, can basically nuh-uh anything except another Primarch / main character.

Putting together an extended Deathwatch mission in and around a Cadian kasr. Did GW ever release any official maps/street plans to show how Cadian settlements are designed to fuck with invaders? I'm having trouble coming up with battle maps that don't feel like tedious dungeon-crawl mazes for the defenders (the PCs and their allies).

>>97096250
Wow that is kind of fucking bullshit in my opinion considering that Konrad was killed by a fucking blade and since Fulgrim was almost killed by a carbine. Aren't titan weapons basically almost nukes? Sometimes the power scaling and plot armour in 40k pisses me off

>>97096787
In the words of a certain prince of all Saiyans, power levels are bullshit. IIRC, in Betrayer (the very same book), Lorgar in full armor loses a hand or a chunk of his arm to regular Astartes bolter fire.

Hive worlds and such are fun and all, but have any of you run a Dark Heresy investigation set on a planet where the technology is 21st century?

I know they exist just due to the massive amount of planetary variety, but I was wondering how interesting it would be based on contrast and familiarity.

>>97096856
This sounds like a really shitty book

>>97096892
that describes every HH book

>>97096884
It be a bit weird given how much you have to first distance yourself from reality to get into the mindset of 40k and then get back to something with today's tech but a coat of 40k paint. The world is too varied to really give a solid feel so you'd need to go more regional at the country, state, or even city level.

>>97096900
I've only read 40k books so I believe you

>>97096900
I've only read the first one but I believe you

>>97096884
It was a cross between the HRE and modern british bureaucracy, with the religious attitudes of the medieval period mixed with that of the modern time. Ironically it wasn't actually that different from a hive world. It's been a bit, so forgive me if this isn't 100% acccurate. But basically what mattered was the divide between upper and lower society. Upper society was ritualistic - Adepts, the very wealthy, whatever. Lower society had a lot of variance.

Everyone was very faithful, it's part of every action.. but it's also something that's just in the background. People speak prayers but it's mostly performative. Empty ritual - faith and ritual and fear are maybe the three of four primary parts of the early human experience, and people pick faith or ritual and that wards off the fear. Fear of others, fear of the ecclesiarchy, whatever. There's an aquila right underneath the bureaucratic health code rating on the window, that sort of thing. And there's no way to know who is following ritual and who is following faith, but everyone does it. But because life wasn't as awful as a hive world it wasn't foregrounded except in the distinct religious areas - you know how you might see people you'd never expect going in and out of a cathedral for a morning mass or something? Like that. Genuine faith is rarer but burns brighter.

Bureaucratically, everyone claims authority over everything, but in reality has only authority over a very small thing and they'll duel through constant forms and paperwork and legal challenges through what passes for the planetary government, themselves (One might issue a decree requisitioning the planet's greatest whore, who is the mother of the local Administratum bureau, the administratum issues one declaring the other guy's name to be stupidface forever more, and then it gets dragged out over five generations, whatever).

>>97097070
>>97096884
And like the english it's done in the most byzantine way possible, with incredible attention to, again, ritual - every aspect of life among the bureaucracy has different clothes for different tasks (bureaucratic sacristies are big business), piles of different dialectics of low gothic that are used to sing in a choir that accompanies a process server, that sort of thing. While the butler says in plain high gothic that the fourth son of the holder of the rod has delivered his summons, nobody but the in group knows what it means or why there's some random confused hobo standing outside accompanied by an honour guard wearing more gold than an indian fresh immigrant who hasn't met a basketball american yet. Or why everyone is waiting for a response - the hobo isn't allowed to know, either.

The lower classes basically mix in ritual and faith to assuage their own fears - think of how you might live your day to day life if you had to stop and perform a small dance twice a day and pray precisely four and a half times over a 49.8 hour period. Imagine if your average fentanyl zombie was actually performing a religious or bureaucratic ritual and would randomly snap up to being normal, calmly announce it's seven bong, fill out a form and walk off. Think of how muslim countries sometimes structure their days around prayer times, or how very hot nations sometimes start early and end around 1 or 2 pm. If you're a millenial, remember how in the 90s with dial up you had some incredible access to information, but still regularly consulted books because sometimes it was just easier, as well as all the jokes about magic blue smoke. Now mix it all together.

>>97097075
>>97096884


You basically end up on a world where life is broken up by bizarre rituals that only certain people understand, but each are always respected. The ritual, not the person. Life's pretty good, if dirty. People get up, go to work, information stacks up in the data crypts, go home, sleep. People complain about their jobs, their boss, the local ecclesiarch who turned out to be worshipping the funny bird man in the small hat. The cults slip in through small banalities and cruelties, people who are seeking something more than that stifling atmosphere of ritual and continuity.

Anyway, sperg aside, that's where the evil comes in. You know how today everyone is a bit lost? Some turn to religion, some turn to youtube influencers, some turn to the past. That's where the cults come in - they offer a little pocket in that stifling blanket of continuity and ritual. The world has gone on the way it has for millenia and won't stop. Nothing matters. Banality.

For us, it was a standard doctor cult. Nurglite industrial magnate who couldn't stop the pain with modern medical science but found something that did. He started sponsoring doctors, found people at the lowest rungs of society who couldn't stand the spiritual pain of just living down there anymore despite being relatively well fed and clean and safe. The only reason he got caught was because the smoke from his factories got dirtier. 99% was just navigating the bureaucratic wank and going from office to office arguing with people in increasingly stupid hats.

Dumb scout car vehicle profiles if your party every wanted to cosplay the French Foreign Legion in the desert
https://ferrus-manus dot itch dot io/chicks-dig-stc-fragments-hardpan-series

>>97097083
NTA, but thanks for the story, anon.

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The fandom likes to joke about Tau woman preferring human men and Roboute Guilliman having an Eldar girlfriend but is there any proof in the lore of human and Xeno interbreeding?

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>>97098090
picrel

>>97098215
He got retconned into a pure eldar aide to Guilliman.

>>97098090
I feel like there was something about half eldar from dark eldar fucking humans.

>>97098090
The entire gene stealer faction are mixing genes and making offspring, though it might not be the interbreeding you had in mind.

>>97096179

Phrased less memetically than Shas.

Lorgar does indeed crush a loyalist warhound titan's head with a massive piece of masonry. Another warhound blasts him several times with their plasma weapon until Lorgar's kine shield runs out and he ends up extra crispy. With their reactor venting plasma and no megabolter rounds they go to stomp Lorgar to death only for the leg to get jammed in mid air and leading to one of my favourite cuts in POV of any 40k novel:

the moderati looks out the window and says "My princeps the World Eaters in the plaza are cheering". Smash Cut to Angron (having previously ended up lost underground and being mind linked with every World Eaters Librarian) pops out of the ground beside Lorgar only to see the Titan's foot coming down and using his strength to keep the foot in the air like Atlas until a Legio Audax Titan shows up and arseholes the loyalist warhound with an ursus claw.

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>>97098090
i fucking hate this guy's stuff. It's always the same shitty sex jokes. He's been doing it for years now and his art never gets better

>>97098977
Yes, he's very contemptible.

>>97096787
>>97096892
To give the moment some credit, he didn't just brush it off, he used warp sorcery to make a protective forcefield and then almost lost consciousness from tanking just this one shot from the titan. So yeah, sure, primarchs absolutely have bullshit plot armour and I hate the fact that they didn't stay contained to 30k, but anon wasn't really presenting this moment faithfully.
Also, while most HH are easily either bad or very mediocre books, I'd say Betrayer was genuinely a pretty decenty written novel.

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While Battlefleet Solaris celebrated the launch of the brand new battlecruiser that would become the core of its fleet, they received a grim reminder that they weren't the only ones out there creating new kinds of ships...

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>>97103045
The Crusader started out as a cruiser, but then I realized that cruisers with a dorsal mount were designated battlecruisers, so it shifted a bit. It still worked out in the end. As for the Syndicate-class, it will likely go through quite a few passes and checks, as players of the next game will get to have one as their flagship.

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Questions about forge worlds:
1. How many forge worlds are able to make Titans?
2. How many ship yards can build a battle barge? How long does it take to build one approximately?
3. What are examples of things that can't be built anymore because the Imperium has lost the tech? I'm looking for ships or other large things that are irreplaceable if they are destroyed in battle.

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I was playing Space Marine 2 and as I was leveling up my flame thrower I started to wonder why they were useful against Space Marines. Isn't their armor sealed so the person wearing it can survive in vacuum and survive being shot with lasers? How would a flame thrower work against that?

You know what i'm just gonna say it.

Necrons enslaving the C'tan is fucking gay

>>97105507
Prometheum is space napalm and thus magical. In fact, flamers are the most dangerous weapon you could employ on a terminator, RAW. It doesn't matter if you don't deal damage, it's an automatic point of fatigue every turn and with -20 agility (and no dodging) and fatigue penalties, extinguishing yourself is effectively impossible

>>97105516
They thought so too, which is why the C'tan live in pokeballs now.
>>97103077
Fun fact, AdMech aren't allowed to operate battlecruisers due to politics, but as compensation all of their cruisers and light cruisers mount a single dorsal max-range lance.

>>97105516
Unfathomably ancient army of awoken soulless automatons working to cleanse the galaxy of all life in service of incomprehensible eldritch deities is infinitely cooler than wacky space tomb kings and I will never be convinced otherwise. Fuck this retconn with a chainfist
>>97105559
I guess this could be interpreted as the armour (and Astartes within) gradually overheating from it being on fire, but yeah, it does feel wrong. Flamers shouldn't be very effective weapons against targets in full power armour. Now meltas on the other hand...

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>>97107173
sigmarshit but looks very nice

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>>97106059
>AdMech aren't allowed to operate battlecruisers due to politics, but as compensation all of their cruisers and light cruisers mount a single dorsal max-range lance.
That's actually a good reminder. I checked my BFG files and found that passage (it's only cruisers that get the lance, not light cruisers), so if an actual mechanicus cruiser or galleass ever gets sharted out of the Demesne, I'll be sure to account for that.

>>97092387
The real thing we need to ask is does coexisting and compromising with Xenos lead to chaos corruption and the worship of the dark gods? Is that why the emperor was so obsessed with human purity and alien eradication?

>>97107173
If it actually is AOS, fuck it, but hey, there's a lot of great 40k art out there and that works for the warp anyway. 40k.gallery is great.
>>97109112
The emperor had not only fastened himself to humanity (either out of love or a chosen pawn depending on your views), he recognised that an in-group preference was a natural part of being alive. One aliens would share. Add in that most major aliens generally didn't treat mankind well, and that those aliens had even less reason to do so than they would their own people.

So it *can* lead to betrayal and chaos worship, and generally is a bad idea, but he was working on such a huge scale that he just turned around and said "fuck it, edge cases aren't worth it, KILL THE XENO".

TONIGHTS TOPWATCH

THE CARACHODON (AND EVERYONE ELSE) BREATHS UNDERWATER

THE EMPEROR DOESN'T ANSWER HIS VOICEMAIL

AND I SEND A HERETIC TO A DIMENSION IN WHICH NO ONE HAS ANY KNEES

>>97109112
Many xenos did actively (or ignorantly) worship chaos. Many others were just enormous fucking predatory sleazebags doing their best to grind humanity (and any other weaker species) into the ground, because there wasn't a gigantic supreme human polity around to cow them anymore, and while the cat's away...

Hello, Callidianon’s GM here. I just want to say that I am now running Deathwatch concurrent with that game in the same setting (Calixis) happening at the same time, intersecting slightly even. This might sound weird, but has anyone done something similar before? As in, two different tables in the same game/area so to speak, with events bleeding into each other? Is there a term/shorthand for that if any?

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>>97110013
It's just a shared universe / linked series. I think I tried a linked episode once to a main series, but I never really put much thought into it after one team got really mad about it, it, claiming that having another team on the side devalued their accomplishments. A friendship was broken over it. Sequential series with different teams in the same continuity, all the time. But simultaneous series? I never really tried it again.

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>>97110013
Hello, Callidianon here. The gm shared me a tidbit about the deathwatch party finding the 'enviromental storytelling audiolog' from an NPC the crackolytes met a year ago irl and 2 months ago in game.
>npc admits to lying to them in this audiolog
>npc lied to callidia
>npc fucking died, probably
pic related remains evergreen

>>97110277
Did they find the audiolog where callidia was impregnated yet

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>>97110492
They only want you when you're seventeen.
When you're twenty-one,
you're no fun.

They take a polaroid and let you go,
say they'll let you know,
so come on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6jaYJx7yeI

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What is the significance behind the X and the numbered skulls in the Imperial Cult? I see them repeated through a lot of art and models, but I've never seen an actual explanation behind them. You can see both in pic related, the X appears on banners, cloaks, and as face paint. Also, what are some other symbols of the Cult beyond the Aquila, the Ministorum symbol, and skulls?

>>97111518
Skulls in christian imagery were a symbol of death. Monks wore tiny skulls on their belts as a memento mori ("remember that you will die"). Considering a how shallow Warhammer actually is with their imagery, I think they just lifted ossuaries and memento mori from real life.
No clue about the X

>>97111518
The ][ is an Imperial standard symbol with a ton of different variations. As an example, the =][= is the Inquisition variant of it.

>>97111518
Maybe it's just one of those visual quirks "that looks warhammer" like the checkered pattern or the hazard stripes

>>97111518
X marks the spot

>>97111518
Numbering skulls was and still is an easy way to label and store the vast piles of skulls one has and might need to reference or organize at a later date. It was a much more common practice for massive collections of bones until paper became cheap and eventually digital storage replaced everything.

The X can be seen in a dozen ways. The most common is the Roman numeral 10, denoting that particular thing is the tenth of it's kind. It can also be a target for goading an opponent. It might also just be a simple branding that any can tattoo or scar upon themselves to designate any infinite number of cultural norms.

>>97091069
The Gork and Mork one always makes me laugh

>>97111985
Every skull has a treasure inside, pop them like a pinata to find it!

>>97096884
It's hard for me to imagine one unless it has not yet been contacted by the Imperium, has only been acquired recently, or the Imperium can only reach it very rarely and for only a few days like Logan's World. Otherwise, why hasn't the Imperium intervened to make it into something more useful? Like sure there are feudal and feral worlds, but the former is said to just be pet projects from powerful people, and the latter to is farm Space Marine recruits. What does the 21st century offer?

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>>97091069
Hope one of you enjoys this. Merry Christmas.

>>97098090
Is Guilliman really burying his face in eldar cake?

>>97115538
No, but he'd be based if he were.

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>>97115538
They don't even like or trust each other and don't really interact that much in lore
Out of all the shitty forced memes 40k community is full of, this one is by far the worst

>>97115581
I think the Ork gestalt is the worse. "Hahaha orks can like kill people with finger guns and they can like get on each other's shoulder to make a tank"

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>>97117337
It's one thing to fill a gas tank, or to breathe in space with only a bucket with glasses connected to a leather bag, but killing with pointing fingers and forming tanks with their bodies is simply stupid.

Another meme forced upon; Commissars are only good for shooting Guardsmen for anything and everything. It is another shit I'm tired of seeing. The Tithe had Guardsmen (Guardswoman and Guardsblackwoman actually) talking back to the Commissar like he was a second rate clown. Yet again it wasn't the best of script, but still.

>>97106261
Same reason why molotovs worked on tanks, the burning liquid attacked seals and flowed into gaps to hit fuel lines and shit. Uneven thermal expansion + power systems moving plates = deformation and damage to couplings, etc.

>>97114395
The Imperium doesn't have any coordinated policy about "improving" planets or making them more useful. Feral worlds aren't specific to marine recruitment.

>>97117559
They do have a policy of telling those worlds to become useful. Otherwise when an Ork warband comes knocking, they'll let the planet be wiped out since an indiscriminate orbital bombardment campaign is easier than protecting lives and useless infrastructure.

>>97118083
How do you think those are remotely the same thing?
Planets are obliged to pay their tithes, and the Imperium is obliged to defend them.
The planetary governor gets to govern how they like. Though of course some things will make them more friends than others.

>>97103045
The smoothness of those ships make me feel weird.

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God Emperor's marketable merchandise

>>97110013
Was the reason humanity had such free rein to expand and explore into the galaxy during the dark age of technology that the Eldar empire at the time being at the height of there power and authority was always stomping down on and suppressing any other xenos wannabe empires that acted to much like the Orks?

Like if you and your kind would act like to much of shitheads and go around genociding other races the Pax Eldar would come into play and your homeworlds sun would suddenly be snuffed out with a thought by the Eldars phoenix king knockoff. And because at the time humanity was more peaceful and understanding the Eldar empire let us do what we wanted and settle as many worlds as we cared to as long as we followed intergalactic legal norms and did not leave a mess of things like a bunch of savages.

Afterall we know that during the dark age of technology it was the Eldar empire that ruled the galaxy not humanity. So do you guys think they were the ones that set the rules that everyone had to live by or else big daddy Eldar was going to get the belt and whip some disobedient asses? And humanity at the time was just good at playing the good little boys and girls act.

>>97110170
You mean that one time you had your space dwarf players travel back in time to a planet that your space ork players were going to raid and loot in later? So you made it so that if any of your space dwarf players tried to loot anything in the past there would burn to death with the power of the time paradox they were making even just being in the past or messing with the ork players in any way.

Its been years since i read that story so i may have gotten it wrong so sorry about that in advance.

>>97113002
Says the daemon of chaos about the human souls it wants to eat.

>>97114395
The downgrading and loss of technology in the setting means that the Imperium can not improve new worlds it finds even if it wants to or not. At this point in time what the Imperium finds is what it gets and can use and that is pretty much all it can do anymore.

They can not replace any advanced technology that breaks down anymore much less build new advanced tech that they can ship around and set up on any new worlds that they find. It is why they are trying to replace advanced technology with mass human labor as much as they can now a days.

>>97110532
Noooo, I share the excellent music taste with a tripfag.

>>97119617
"Does the suffering and humiliation never end?" screams the god on his golden throne.

>>97119839
>Afterall we know that during the dark age of technology it was the Eldar empire that ruled the galaxy not humanity. So do you guys think they were the ones that set the rules that everyone had to live by or else big daddy Eldar was going to get the belt and whip some disobedient asses? And humanity at the time was just good at playing the good little boys and girls act.
Humans and Eldar of that time could probably coexist without bumping into each other too much. The Eldar had an established empire concentrated in one region and mostly used the Webway to get around, so encountering them at all would be rare. Humans spread across the galaxy with primitive warp tech (and sleeper/genetation ships earlier) and mostly moved into places the Eldar didn't care about because that was easier than fighting, and both had tech to either live in inhospitable places or teraform them, so competition was limited. Also, Eldar were already well into the decadence spiral that led to the Fall by the time Humans became a major power. The Eldar probably weren't expanding anymore aside from the tiny weirdo apocalypse cults who would become Craftworlders and Exodites. Fights over Maiden Worlds probably weren't a priority because they were more abundant than either side needed and both could terraform more if they really cared. Think of it less as the Eldar exerting hegemonic dominance and more as them being too strong and too decadent to care what Humans were up to, and Humans being too naive about the Warp and too new on the galactic scene to recognize the significance of the Eldar and their bad behavior.

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>>97091069
The shipbuilder has been updated. New features:

You can now add and remove upgrades for your ship. Anything that affects ship stats directly should be taken into account; Otherwise, the rule is displayed in the app and in the PDF for reference.
You can now add, modify, and remove torpedoes from your ship. The app doesn't track how many torpedoes you are permitted to have based on your torpedo launcher's magazine, so you can add as many or as few torpedoes as you want. Also, if you add multiple torpedoes of the same type, it will list them separately. This is for readability and convenience.
The PDF generated by the app has been slightly modified, both to add Upgrade and Torpedo sections but also to make the layout of the components a little easier to read.

I need a Deathwatch one-shot scenario idea on short notice. Something that could be reliably played through in 3-4 hours and would have some opportunities for exploration, roleplay and social interaction other than just fights (it will be the very first session for one of the players, so I want it to present a fairly wide variety of different types of scenes rather than just being combat combat combat).
If anyone has any cool concepts, I'd be much obliged. I'll probably come up with something of my own sooner or later, but more ideas is always good

>>97121224
Old ship came back out of the Warp. Token force went on board to investigate, didn't come back. Deathwatch sent in to find out what happened and what's going on.

>>97120195
Just letting you know, something seems wrong with the program as it seems to be failing to load in any ship/component data and the like.
In fact it looks like the only data working is the history related stuff and the names since it at least generates a name.

>>97121224
A certain feral death world is being argued over by two chapters of rival space marines to be used as a new recruiting world. Both chapters bought the rights to this world off of a rouge trader house that scammed them both by selling the world two both chapters at the same time so both have equal claim to the world. And they are both rivals that have a deep hatred for each other and see the other as fuck heads that need a good beating. So the rouge trader knew he could pull off the scam without a hitch as he knew there hatred for each other would force them to focus on each other and not hunt him down and kill him for his bullshit.

The Imperium does not want two powerful and storied chapters of its space marines killing each other for such stupid reasons so the have asked the local Deathwatch to try to intervene and keep the bloodshed to a minimum. Your party's job is to somehow keep two insane asylums full of superhuman killing machines from destroying each other. And there best hope seems to be convincing them to settle this farce with a honor duel two first blood rather than a chapter war to the last marine.

I think people who can't spell rogue should be drawn and quartered.

>>97121279
Classic set up, but should work nicely, I can cook up something solid with that. Thank you anon!
>>97121672
That's a really neat idea for something a bit less typical. I don't think I will use it right now, but I'm definitely saving it up for later use. Thank you anon!
>>97121699
That's nothing compared to people who aren't that good with English and keep pronouncing it in like 5 different incorrect ways. One of my regular players kept pronouncing it like "roach trader"

>>97121822
>roach trader
I'd play it

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Made in honor of the last man standing in a deathwatch engagement

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>>97119903
That's a conflation of multiple stories.

>orks and squats
The Command Brotherhood (squats) went back in time to a point in time AFTER the Kill Team (orks) had looted everything, so there was nothing left to loot, and the only thing there was the Lifeguards, who were also late to the party.
>time paradox
The Command Brotherhood (squats) and the Republican Commandos (marines) ended up helping each other through a space hulk. For the Command Brotherhood, it was the present, For the Commandos, they traveled to the in-game past, even though the series itself was a few real-life years later. Because of comms interference it was limited to them opening doors for each other and one-way messages, and they never met each other directly.
>the incident
What happened was I ran a DH2 one-shot during Squat Crusade where some acolytes found a dataslate of info on the Old Slann for the Inquisition, and during an episode of Squat Crusade the Inquisitor was willing to bargain with the Squats for the dataslate. It was basically a setup of "life still happens when the players aren't looking". When one player found out, he got upset, saying that the fact that THEY couldn't find the info devalued their role and made them redundant. I replied that the Inquisitors here may be lazy fools, but they do keep up on things happening with their own investigations. Things went downhill after that. I don't think they shared the info in the end, relations with the Inquisition became icy, and some of my other players lamented how one person's outburst could ruin everything.

Interactions between series worked great. Interactions within series went poorly.

>>97122362
this most nostalgic part of this image is the suspiciously not-official portal turret. it's like from one of those model packs they made for gmod 9 before you could mount portal in gmod

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Is there meaning behind non-marines having forehead studs? It pops up in art every now then, but I don't think they're supposed to be service studs.

>>97119967
I guess I'm saying less that I imagine them improving it, more that to meet the tithes the world would have to be restructured so much as to not resemble the 21st century as it is on Earth. It would need to be turned into a proto-hive world as there would suddenly be placed upon it a massive resource strain.

>>97122624
usually they are an easy and siple way to depict a brain augment

>>97121429
Are any of the CSVs open when you open the program? That will cause them not to load properly.

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>>97121224
An astropathic relay on the frontier has gone silent. Inquisitor Whatsisname wants it brought back online because it's part of an early warning network created by the Ordo Xenos against the outer dark. The Inquisitor sent fireteams of Guardsmen and acolytes to investigate but they've failed to report in. Gather the boys, relight the relay, and rescue any Imperial assets that are still alive.

This scenario works with just about any opfor, but I used genestealer cultists hidden in the latest wave of colonist immigrants to foreshadow the coming of a hive fleet.

>>97114395
It seems to be a common mistake for noobs to read the "cruelest and most bloody regime possible" bit of the intro text and assume the Imperium is this all powerful authoritarian government that deliberately makes worlds shitty for recruiting Guard and Marines and such, when really it is a crumbling shit heap that has very limited technological resources in comparison to its overall population, so it is always prioritizing some worlds and ignoring others

>>97118083
Governors are expected to be able to defend their worlds to the best of their ability given the resources they have available to them, but if local tech is only at 21st century levels, then it is not like they are going to spontaneously learn how to make hive cities and shield generators

>>97122653
The Imperium isn't consistent with how it collects tithes. If you are a short warp jump from a resource hungry hive world or a major war front, then the Imperium could very easily strip a 21st century Earth type planet of most useful resources, and work most of the planet to death, within a few centuries. But if you aren't near anything important, then they may only show up occasionally to collect elite soldiers and rare resources. In some cases they may almost completely ignore a world, causing it to revert to feral or feudal status if it can't sustain a higher tech level on its own

>>97122767
Not that I could tell, I had literally just downloaded it and ran it to look at it real quick and encountered the issue.

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Cannon wise how are Space Marien chapters made? I know that you can paint your own chapters but is there someone in charge or making them? If a bunch of recruits who failed/got kicked out came together could they make their own chapter?

>>97122310
Good shit Anon. Very cool drawing

>>97123649
I'm not able to replicate this issue. All I can say is try downloading the RAR again.

>>97123861
Every now and then the High Lords of Terra initiate a new "founding" of SM chapters, usually after a number of chapters got completely wiped or a bunch of new ones is needed for some specific reason. Some Astartes with enough experience and merits are then picked as the new chapter masters and they get assigned a bunch of marines as the first members. I imagine usually those are selected from chapters which are overly numerous at the time. The first chapter master gets to pick the name, colour scheme, heraldry etc. of the newly created chapter.
Vast majority of chapters got created during those foundings, but there are some exceptions, for example there were a few which came to exist as a splinter group of some other chapter

>>97122310
>Pencils
Based beyond belief.
That tech-marine hit that xenos so badly I can't tell what it was. Good shit, anon.

>>97121699
What if my Trader is Rouge because it’s his favorite color?

>>97124056
Thank you :)
>>97124918
Thank you, It's an unidentified warp creature/apparition. By the time I blocked in the marine there wasn't really enough space to give him justice, but he's just shadow and shit anyway.

>>97126381
Is his flagship called the "Crimson Mutual Assurance"?

>>97103077
Bastard, I see exactly what you did there with the tau ship

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What happens if you try to mix and match gene seed? Could the Blood Angles cure/prevent the Black Rage by using some Ultra Marines' gene seed?

>>97128612
Chimeric geneseed isn't canon.
More pertinently, if you tried it, you'd probably get an extremely dead marine or possibly a chaos spawwwwAUGHDRJSGHNRFGLSDRNIOUHGLIUR- *BLAM*

>>97128687
This person is suffering from canon that hurt his feelings and can be ignored.

>>97128612
Chimeric geneseed does not mean that two geneseeds mixed into one blob. They don't combine. It means that you have one chapter with multiple lineages.

>Such fragmentary records that now remain show the Chapter's geneseed branded as 'Chimeric'. This, as blasphemous as it may now seem, may have indicated that its sources were either from a prohibited source, mixed, adulterated or somehow tampered with genetically during its creation. Secret experimentation of this kind is known to have been carried out on a number of the scions of the 21st Founding, and such annotations show that the Minotaurs were likely among those tampered with in some way.

Remind the faggot that this fluff is written by BASED BLIGH and watch him short-circuit.

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>>97128859
Forgive me anon, my sin was ignorance, not malice. The term 'chimeric' is indeed canon for geneseed.
It seems to be a generic label of 'somebody, somewhere fucked with it' rather than 'to show you the power of flex tape, I glued the genes in half', so I do stand by the belief that throwing two different legion's demigod juice into a blender would do bad things to a guy. Most of them have very interesting gene-curses, after all.

>>97128612
I doubt it would cure a gene-curse. Nobody gets off that easy in 40k. Chimeric gene-seed is a thing but its side effects are not explored in detail. Blackshield warbands like the Gerasene Host were chimeric and tended to act very weird. The Ashen Claws think the Carcharodons are "mongrels", indicating a suspicion of chimeric/tainted gene seed, but the Carcharodons seem to be doing just fine.

If you shoved a Salamander progenoid and a Raven Guard progenoid into a guy, would you end up with a net 0 in skin tone change?

>>97129276
>they turn grey
>white with black spots like a cow or dalmatian
>zebra stripes
>half black half white split down a middle
>patterns on the body that might indicate prophecy or just be something like a permanent hard farmer's tan
>mix any of the above

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>>97129295
>Chapter colors: picrel

>>97117427
To be fair, I would expect there are a lot of incompetent commissars- just only at roughly the same rate are there are incompetent officers, bureaucrats, nobles... probably lower given the stringent selection of the Schola. They shouldn't all be incompetent gung-ho morons.

>>97129754
The issue, as always, comes with it being a civilian officer position that both has to maintain discipline and oversee competence in a military force. It earns you no friends amongst the people you're overseeing, and the line between job and state dogma gets really blurry, particularly since you're raised by the Schola as a fanatic Nazi zealot with no concept of grey areas. It means that the people who have what you could describe as common sense are rare because they're filtered out early as "unsuitable" for a role that has to naturally be extremely uncompromising. Of course, once in a while you get a Cain or a Gaunt.