Klomster

Grim Darkness, Only War, You Know The Drill.

Ok, so it'll take some time for me to get into the drift with the system and the rules.

And for this post, i will be using my old analog dice i bought to play dark heresy a long time ago. If people think my rolls are cheated the gm can opt to roll the dice instead.
The dices are red, which makes them faster.

Also, i noticed the initiative is only rolled once per combat, is this something you have changed to keep the rounds mixed up?
Regardless, i'll roll initiative.
Roll of 8.
8+2. Initiative 10. Speeeed.....
(Edit:I claim i do not get any squad bonuses here.)

Metallus will ready his weapon (laspistol) and make a half move. So 2 metres forward :P
The servitor keeps to his left slightly behind him.
That should be a turn. I don't really know if i was in danger of the flames, so here's the dodge if need be.
54 vs 12. Nope.
Done.
So when do i put in a flavor text?

Flavor draft.

As the maniacal laughter of an ork was heard followed by the unmistakeable sound of men being burned alive Metallus Magnus Ohmnati notices that his right flank of the trench was being assaulted.
With heavy footsteps he closes in on the fighting, leaving the misaligned vox caster he had been working on behind. As he drew his pistol he stepped on a slight patch of burning goo left by the burnas attack, the flames briefly engulfed his foot before subsiding as he rolled the fingers of his large left fist.

He took another step and crushed the wrist of a charred guardsman with his right boot and witnessed the scene in front of him, a nasty sight, orks attacking in melee, burning men and an unmistakeable burna boy on the trenches summit revelling in the misery he caused the poor men of the guard.
Small patches of fire licked his long red coat, but could not find hold of the flame retardant cloth.

The form of the techpriest was an imposing one. His somewhat broad shoulders enlarged by the steel coloured armour he wears, with some of the classical forms of the power suits given to higher ranking enginseers, although not near one in its complexity.
Worn over it was the classic red combat robe of the secutors, more like a very long open vest than a classic set of robes, making it easier to move in during a fight than a robe. Decorating it close to its edges is a white line with cog teeths.
Under the similarly designed hood beneath short locks of grey hair was a pale face with two ice blue eyes with that classic thousand yard stare, his nose and mouth was covered by a metal rebreather seemingly designed to bolt on something else on the face, with two tubes sticking out from the rebreathers sides going over the shoulders to his backpack.

His left arm is covered in an although sleek but still unmistakable power fist adorned with silver skulls on its knuckles.
Over his right shoulder, a manipulator mechandrite opened and closed its mechanical jaws like some animal baring its teeth before a fight, moving like a mix of machine and biological giving it a strange sense of fluidity from such a crude looking device.
His footsteps slow, the weight of the equipment resulted in his footfalls making clear thuds even in the muddy trenches and leaving footprints with clear lines and a skull with every step.

On his chest, the Opus machina of the adeptus mechanicus, that half machine skull symbol of the mechanicum. With a single red light within its eyes.
Flanking him on his left is a pale servitor lacking a shirt wearing black pants and heavy boots. His eyes milky white and his mouth and nose covered with a similar metal rebreather albeit bolted to the flesh itself here.
His right arm bearing a multitude of inbuilt tools like drills and mini saws and a welding torch that briefly spit white blue sparks.

The duo approaches the battleground with an unerring determination.

Deify

Oh snap, this is sounding better and better.

Also! More people!
Hype hype!

Deify

Interesting with an rp that will be advanced casual.
Many long paragraphs, and short ones...

I'm not complaining, but this is a more fun way to bump this one :P

Grim Darkness, Only War, You Know The Drill.

Sheet.
scribd.com/doc/309724797/Metallus-Magn..

Visual description

The form of the techpriest was an imposing one. His somewhat broad shoulders enlarged by the steel coloured armour he wears, with some of the classical forms of the power suits given to higher ranking enginseers, although not near one in its complexity.
Worn over it was the classic red combat robe of the secutors, more like a very long open vest than a classic set of robes, making it easier to move in during a fight than a robe. Decorating it near its edges is a white line with cog teeths.
Under the similarly designed hood beneath short locks of grey hair was a pale face with two ice blue eyes with that classic thousand yard stare, his nose and mouth was covered by a metal rebreather seemingly designed to bolt on something else on the face, with two tubes sticking out from the rebreathers sides going over the shoulders to his backpack.

His left arm is covered in an although sleek but still unmistakable power fist adorned with silver skulls on its knuckles.
Over his right shoulder, a manipulator mechandrite opened and closed its mechanical jaws like some animal baring its teeth before a fight, moving like a mix of machine and biological giving it a strange sense of fluidity from such a crude looking device.
His footsteps slow, the weight of the equipment resulted in his footfalls making clear thuds even in the muddy trenches and leaving footprints with clear lines and a skull with every step.

On his chest, the Opus machina of the adeptus mechanicus, that half machine skull symbol of the mechanicum. With a single red light within its eyes.
Flanking him on his left is a pale servitor lacking a shirt wearing black pants and heavy boots. His eyes milky white and his mouth and nose covered with a similar metal rebreather as Metallus, albeit bolted to the flesh itself here.
His right arm bearing a multitude of inbuilt tools like drills and mini saws and a welding torch that briefly spit white blue sparks.

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Metallus Magnus Ohmnati, techpriest of the adeptus mechanicus, secutor and enginseer.
He is a no nonsense type of character and was a rising star within the Korutine skitarii cohort epsilon serving as an enginseer supporting their massive Gorgon troop transports.
Somewhere though, an influential party of unknown origin caught interest of Metallus, and with little explanation he was given a new assignment on some backwater agri-world who knows where.
Metallus was almost outraged, which spoke a lot since techpriests are not known to be overly emotional sorts but managed to contain his ire and took the assignment without much trouble.

After a year or so, Metallus had found the backwater agri-world not so bad after all, sure, the locals were inept meatbags more akin to grox when it came to matters of the mind, but someone needed to take care of the harvest machines and the machines of the PDF.

Another thing that happened after a year or so was the arrival of a massive ork kroozer which stopped above the planet and its numerous warriors made planetfall.
Metallus had heard little of the orks, he knew they were brutal and dangerous, but he had also heard of forge worlds halting the advance of entire waaaghs and as such he believes that this world will hold well against a single vessel as long as support arrives fast enough.

Lately Metallus has found himself on a frontline tending to chimeras and the odd leman russ, and fending off a few orks here and there.
However metallus tries to focus on his holy work over the task of purging xeno. Something the imperial guard does very well without his aid. The imperial guard does however not repair war machines well without his knowledge and proper procedures and as such his priorities are to him obvious.

With him he has a servitor. And not an overly useful one, and this is the third one he has been issued on this front.

Grim Darkness, Only War, You Know The Drill.

Alright, here is a link.
scribd.com/doc/309724797/Metallus-Magn..

The only war sheets didn't work, so i used a dark heresy sheet.
It's basically the same so it shouldn't be too confusing i hope.

Also, i need some background.
Question, is there a reason no one has their character in the character tab?

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Metallus Magnus Ohmnati, techpriest of the adeptus mechanicus, secutor and enginseer.
He is a no nonsense type of character and was a rising star within the Korutine skitarii cohort epsilon serving as an enginseer supporting their massive Gorgon troop transports.
Somewhere though, an influential party of unknown origin caught interest of Metallus, and with little explanation he was given a new assignment on some backwater agri-world who knows where.
Metallus was almost outraged, which spoke a lot since techpriests are not known to be overly emotional sorts but managed to contain his ire and took the assignment without much trouble.

After a year or so, Metallus had found the backwater agri-world not so bad after all, sure, the locals were inept meatbags more akin to grox when it came to matters of the mind, but someone needed to take care of the harvest machines and the machines of the PDF.

Another thing that happened after a year or so was the arrival of a massive ork kroozer which stopped above the planet and its numerous soldiers made planetfall.
Metallus had heard little of the orks, he knew they were brutal and dangerous, but he had also heard of forge worlds halting the advance of entire waaaghs and as such he believes that this world will hold well against a single vessel as long as support arrives fast enough.

Lately Metallus has found himself on a frontline tending to chimeras and the odd leman russ, and fending off a few orks here and there.
However metallus tries to focus on his holy work over the task of purging xeno. Something the imperial guard does very well without his aid. The imperial guard does however not repair war machines well without his knowledge and proper procedures and as such his priorities are to him obvious.

With him he has a servitor. And not an overly useful one, and this is the third one he has been issued on this front.

Grim Darkness, Only War, You Know The Drill.

Well, they are still better than the dark heresy techpriest :P

I suppose i'll give him one of the power weapons, just to get away from the -20 on attacks from not having the weapon talent.
Feel free to use the skitarii i made up, story wise that will be the regiment my character was stationed in to begin with.

Power fist. 20.
Laspistol. 5.
Good Armour. 5.
Fire retardant coat. 3.
And 2 weeks of extra food. 3.

There, final regiment. So should i send the Pdf via mail or something?
Btw, i opted for point buy since i wanted to avoid dice rolls as much as possible, since i don't have the fortitude to make small images all the time that don't really prove anything.
So i did point buy, and went with average rolls for wounds and fate.

So in the future i'll either opt for GM to roll for me or ask that people trust my rolls. I think the first option is better though.
I simply state in OOC, i want to do this, give the modifiers and then the one rolling can simply tell the result.
Then i can give a bit of a dramatic flair to the action.

Also, tech priest with power fist. ZooomG!

Grim Darkness, Only War, You Know The Drill.

Then re-flavour / re-skin a weapon to look like a halberd but still (stat wise) be a normal power weapon or such.

@SomeChap

But i will still know in my heart that all i ever was is a lie.

But yeah, that's the reasonable thing to do.
Still bugs me the techpriest can't use his starting weapon.

Grim Darkness, Only War, You Know The Drill.

You should with your left over regiment points be able to get some special gear and shit for your guy such as potentially a power weapon if I'm understanding how that works. That's how I worked out getting a power sword for my Commisar.

@MaxxRocker

Well i got 3 of the regiment points over, which gives me 6 extra regiment equipment points, however i actually made a working regiment with hot-shot lasguns with bayonets and light carapace armour. That's 33, so i made up some clothes for 3 points since i couldn't be bothered choosing something else for 3.

I could make a regiment armed with the halberd, or with actual power weapons, but that seems strange to me, but if that's how you want to do starting gear i can try to make it work.

Edit:I'm changing some of the gear now.
*Sigh* I can give an entire regiment power weapons, and light carapace armour, but i can't give my techpriest an Ohmnissian axe?
Or how about everyone armed with earthshakers? Kinda interesting.
It's very easy to break this system :P

Ok, remove light carapace and hellgun, otherwise it's the same regiment.
Great weapon, scarce. 10
Mono, scarce. 10
Laspistol. 5.
Good Armour. 5.
Same coat. 3.
And 2 weeks of extra food. 3. (:P People gonna envy me.)

So i have a good weapon... still can't use it though....

So, tryna fix that.
Close order to Close quarter doctrine. This is a big one.
Forge world. 4
Phlegmatic commander. 1
Close quarter doctrine. 5
2 left....
Gah, this is too troublesome. I lose so many skills and stats are changed around.

Oh wait, everyone gets a laspistol? Then why can you buy an extra? Akimbo regiments? *Sigh*
Oh wait, spoke too soon. It gets exchanged when one buys a regiment type.

Heh, i found a few other silly options. Whole regiment with power fists? No probs.
Or a regiment armed with eviscerators... which is what i'm gonna go for.

Why can techpriests not use regular melee? Or have i just missed something and everyone can use regular weapons?
So if one gets melee wep training... normal? Like, being able to use the knife. I'll go for the Halberd.

Otherwise, i'll exchange the mono greatweapon 20, for an eviscerator 20.
Since i'm still gonna get -20 penalty for wielding any of them, so i might as well go for a good weapon.
I can describe the eviscerator as a massive chain halberd.

Ah, if i don't get the cool talent i wanted, i can start with a weapon talent. So i can downgrade to a basic melee training, or get chain and rock an eviscerator at the same cost.
Seems balanced.
Fun thing the Ohmnissian halberd is much worse than the eviscerator. Half damage, no tearing, 3 less pen, unless one gets 3 degrees of success, then the eviscerator has pen 18. Cool. Tanks? Meh, vrooom. No more tank.

I guess i'm just a bit bitter. I just want the techpriests who are always modelled with melee weapons to be able to use melee weapons.
And you might say 'Just get a power weapon / axe, i could do that, and be good. But i want the halberd look :/'

Grim Darkness, Only War, You Know The Drill.

Well, i remember when i played dark heresy and rocked a heavy flak vest and a mono-greatweapon. Cleft a hardy mutant in twain with a single strike.

I tossed together a regiment, or more like a skitarii cohort.

Regiment.

Skitarii cohort epsilon. Forge world Korutine. cost 4.
Commander. Phelgmatic. 1.
Siege infantry. 2.
Close order drill. 2
(3 unused points adding 6 to equipment.)

Special weapons.
Flamer, meltagun.

Light carapace standard issue armour. 15.
Hot-shot lasgun (Hellgun). 15.
Melee attachments mounted on Hellguns. 3.
Flame retardant long coats of plentiful rarity. 3. (Couldn't find any costs for it, so i just made it up, they don't help much.)

The regiment answers to the adeptus mechanicus and by its extension the Magi of forge world Korutine.
The troops are given excellent equipment and used as a super heavy siege infantry when the Magi find it suitable. Otherwise they focus on defending Korutine itself.
While the regiment seldom leave Korutine, specialists and or enginseers sometimes are dispatched to assist imperial forces.

The regiment is supported by the full industrial might of Korutine, and have a ready supply of vehicles and support from the adeptus mechanicus.
The troops are usually brainwashed with or without drugs to resist fear, at times sections of the cohort have been fitted with neural inhibitor chips to basically remove fear, at the cost of having troopers more akin to servitors than men.

The regiment itself is not stationed on the current planet, but might assist if the imperium call for their aid.

Thoughts?

Also, i've been putting together a character sheet.
Question, is it just me that find it silly that the techpriest starts with a staff but not with the melee weapon training talent, but he starts with the power weapon talent but can't reasonably get a power weapon at start?...

Also, i don't know how to get my weapon i want. Since a scarce thing is at -20 ish on this front.... That is i have to roll less than -20 on a D100 to get it.
Also, the ohmnissian axe just for fun is about -70 on logistics on this front.
Could i downgrade my shooting weapon to a pistol and toss the beginning staff to get a Mono great weapon?

I just find it odd that the techpriest has exactly the same gear as a guardsman, he isn't a guardsman, not even by a long shot.

Grim Darkness, Only War, You Know The Drill.

Although something tells me i can't have the gear i'd like.

Sollex pattern Ohmnissian power axe. And a dragon scale armour :P