Eisenhorn

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@SomeChap

Yeah, but since when does GeeDubs care about the PDF making sense? They are meat bags to be thrown into the grinder, or used as the latest heretic enemies for our valiant protagonists of the story (Since they often times aren't heroes at all) to gleefully kick all over the place and look suitably badass without breaking the totem pole of power. Easier for Guard elite to kick around PDF/Guard traitors than it is daemons, even a Chaos Marine Warband could kick their shit in pretty good. Always thought the Gaunt's Ghosts stuff made a real good portrayal of elite Guard action without being too unbelievable. Barring a few moments, granted, but still.

8th Macarian Rangers

Name: 8th Macarian Rangers

Regimental Homeworld:
Fortress World (3)

Commander:
Choleric (2)

Regiment Type:
Light Infantry (2)

Doctrine:
Close Quarters Battle (5)

Equipment:
Forward Observation (4)

Regimental Drawbacks:
Doomed (-7)

Description: The 8th Macarian Rangers are a regiment with an incrediably troubled history, originating as a recon regiment during the Age of Apostasy, raised initially to fight back agains the regime of Goge Vandire. In the service of the rightous and pious, they would range out and find forces in service to the enemy and report their locations, withdrawing or monitoring foes rather than actively engaging. They would also routinely suffer over 75% effective force loss over the course of the Age of Apostasy due to incompetent command, unusually bad luck, or crippling errors in gauging hostile forces. It would be a series of unfortunate events that would trail the 8th through their history.

Each Macarian Ranger wears matte black carapace armor, concealed under chameleon cloaks that come with their Forward Observation equipment, operating more as skirmishers that spot for friendly forces. Their troubled history continues to trail them, and it is not uncommon for the 8th to be nearly wiped out, remenants being attached to other regiments permenatly or for the purposes of a given mission, only to be forgotten as the 8th is reformed out of the Macaria sector once again, leaving the shattered remains either dead and forgotten, or permenately attached to other regiments wherever the 8th Macarian was last seen operating.

Total Points: 19 – 17 = 2

And here is our psyker, feel free to remind me of crap I missed since sleep deprivation is kicking in. Expect the regiment to get more fluffed out when the muse hits again.
imgur.com/a/MCbaq

Warhammer 40,000 - Chasing Chaos

@Andromedai Never underestimate a psyker's capacity for being peculiar. And to be fair, psykers usually ARE the problem.

Grim Darkness, Only War, You Know The Drill.

@SomeChap

I can understand some variance in local skill and training since, well, for PDF it would vary a lot, but them all being too incompetent to defend themselves kind of begged the question as to WHY the existed then? And I can understand if some militia had issue, but the PDF were sometimes ex Guard, it didn't make sense for them to be shitty at their jobs. And you would think that they would be mighty, even at their PDF level, but GeeDubs disagrees in their infinite wisdom.

Stealth and the fact the cloaks impose a -30 BS penalty to anyone rolling to shoot them whenever they aren't moving? My Alpha Legionnaire in Black Crusade started with one and most cannon fodder enemies couldn't even hit him to watch their weapons not do jack against his power armor. It legit was stupid to watch the rolls just fail, over and over again.

And he can do psykering good, but not much else. The regiment was designed to be forward spotters in urban situations, and the equipment shows it, but doomed really shafts them and any PC coming from the regiment. No fate burning to avoid fatal wounds plus logistic penalties. So once I can get the PDF to save and upload, I'll share it. Or screenshot each page and upload it on imgur, whichever.

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@SomeChap

Yea, well, used to be is quite the thing. GeeDubs is hit or miss, at best, and at worst actively makes things more difficult. The PDF have always been the whipping boys of the Imperium, and the Guard seems to be criminally incompetent at times, which is rather depressing. Its good to see a halfway competent PDF force that can hold a defensive position without going batshit insane or just dying in impressive droves. But yea, experience does play into things.

He pretty much hid under a chameleon cloak all the time (Those things are broken, I'm sorry), and pretty much was clever enough to get away with anything in relation to the rest of the squad of SPESS MAHREENS and insane cultists. Being ex guard helped a lot.

And I kind of used my know how of the regiment building system to help cover my bases (Nothing extraordinarily broken or unfair, that isn't any fun), but its a useful set of equipment. Won't save him from Perils, though. And let's not acknowledge the Ultramarines omnibus and its shenanigans of the ULTRAMAHREENS.

EDIT: And I forgot to screencap the rolls. Granted, they mostly sucked, even the reroll didn't help.

Grim Darkness, Only War, You Know The Drill.

@SomeChap

That....would be either terrifying or self destruct before it made it half a dozen paces. And the finer points of the Imperium, making sense? A miracle indeed, thank the Emperor. And I tend to see GeeDub logic as sort of hit or miss. Sometimes it works well, other times, well, better off sticking to the Black Library and their authors approaches to things. Some of them, granted, and biases have to be taken into account. It's sometimes nice to see the PDF as more than heretics running around in lemming garb for once. And I don't mind if the Guard aren't 100% competent, especially if they are just some whiteshield regiment raised up to literally be cannon fodder, kind of makes sense they aren't the best soldiers. But some of it is far too grimderp to take seriously.

Ahh, you know it, then? The chaos SPESS MAHREENS quickly stopped laughing after they saw what it did to whatever unfortunate sodder that got tagged by the rifle and actually made it through any armor. He was also typically the only sane guy of the group, which is rather impressive for a chaos warband, at least that was until he would have jumped tracks to Khorne. I think average life span is until plot demands you're homeworld gets wrecked by the threat of the week. Or you're drafted to go deal with threat of the week. Or you are the threat of the week. Really no winning.

In other news, fleshed out the regiment as well as wrapped up my sanctioned psyker. I do not have high hopes for his odds of survival, but RNGesus be damned, I'm sticking with him.

Grim Darkness, Only War, You Know The Drill.

@SomeChap

Yea, I don't think it was the fact that all orks are latent psykers, or else they all could become weird boyz at random. I might be wrong, Orky lore ain't my strong suit. Always been a fan of the Guard first, and Imperial loyalist in general. That would be my strongest lore recollection, to be honest. So they might be, but it seems a bit odd to me, without going and reverifying all the gory details that our ever so loving overlords at GeeDubs are ever so consistent in. (Cue blatant sarcasm)

I don't think he would be apologizing, considering the guy was using some toxic needle rifle from the Black Crusade core rulebook. Trait set up let him make called shots at no penalty, but it took full round actions to do it properly, and having no compunctions about shooting anything that moved would have been fun. Strange stuff happens period with Chaos, the flavor just changes. And living in the 41st Millenium doesn't aid in the life span, let's be completely honest.

Grim Darkness, Only War, You Know The Drill.

@SomeChap

Oh yea, that whole latent Ork field of psyker energy tends to royally supercharge the wierd boyz, hence them hating being around other orks. Warbosses don't care, and drag em along since they are too useful to leave behind. And if memory serves, it isn't so much that orks are all latent psykers, rather, they generate this low level, ambient energy that fuels the fact that, if enough orks believe in something, it works. Hence, why the red ones indeed go faster, orks believe its true. But we can all agree that the cheating elf bastards don't explode nearly as often as they should.

I had plans, in Black Crusade, to run a Khornate sniper. Clarity of purpose mutation, if RNGesus was kind, would have given him hate: everything and enemy: everything. The idea of the sniper who sits back, watching everyone move forward, would be possessed with the urge to shoot anything that moved pleased me greatly. I steer well clear of anything that praises Slaanesh specifically, nothing good ever comes from them. Or any of the Chaos Gods, really, but steering clear works wonders in life expectancy.

@Moonman

Nice, pretty much blew my psyker's stats out of the water in most categories.

Grim Darkness, Only War, You Know The Drill.

@SomeChap

Hell, any psyker that isn't an Eldar (Ancient cheating space elves that they are), Librarian (They might go traitor, but I've not heard of them exploding overly often), and Chaos Sorcerers (Right proper ones, not the crazy witches and unsanctioned psykers that explode even faster than Sanctioned Psykers do) has this nasty habit of meeting a terrible fate. Blessed with suck, indeed. Ork wierdboyz? Literally will 'eadbang if too much latent build up happens. Already discussed the majority of Imperial psykers, chaos non Sorcerers tend to live short, daemon filled lives, if it wasn't for all the nifty powers, and being born with it, seriously doubt most folks would willingly go into that field.

Khorne is probably the safest of the four, since as long as you're killing for the Blood God, the mutations are relatively tame in comparison to the other three. Tzeentch is literally sorcery, mutation, scheming and all that, so good luck not becoming a mass of mutated flesh. Nurgle, well, we've beaten that horse enough to prevent even the plague from raising it from the dead. Slaanesh is, well, when talking about a god of excess, in all things, that tends to not end very well for any party even remotely involved. And somebody help those poor sods that still try to pull the whole Malice/Malik thing of chaos turned on chaos. Almost no one seems to remember him, and enjoy having pretty much everyone in the universe hate you.

Grim Darkness, Only War, You Know The Drill.

@SomeChap

Seriously, being a psyker pretty much promises that you are made of explodium, to some degree or another. Usually, you explode and do more damage to your squad than the enemy, but if you're lucky, the explosion might take some suckers that are actual enemies with you. And that sounds almost precisely what I expect to happen, but what's life without some risk, eh? But imagine, if there are entire squads dedicated to roving around to watch psykers, how many of them there would have to be?

Don't forget Nurgle spreading his love for all his minions. Through crippling, debilitating disease. But yea, apparently that is enough to tempt all those crazy warlords and sorcerers to plot, scheme, or just rage murder their way through the Imperium/Xenos/Other Chaos Warbands for the sole purpose of gaining favor with their god of choice. Or any of them, for those undivided fellows.

Grim Darkness, Only War, You Know The Drill.

@SomeChap

Or scythe down hundreds of things coming out of the walls while screaming on about it. Or explode. And if I don't roll the first perils I will be genuinely surprised. Like, seriously surprised, RNGesus loves me periling every single psyker power I use. And I fully support the idea of 'psyker control squads' running around adding extra drama to the psykers of the group being paranoid.

Oh yea, Chaos forces seemed to be obsessed with ascending to daemonprincedom because that is all that is always cracked up to be. And it never backfires on them, it never does. And sometimes killing the daemons just make things so much worse, because they can never leave well enough alone. Nurgle, I am looking at you and your damn zombie plagues/corpses exploding into giant spore clouds of flesh melting horror. Yea, you're showing your love real well.