we've been quiet as of late and i've just got back from a week in Corfu where i've finished a campaign i'd half written for Van Helsers visit and i've almost completed the Mahlau Affair, a spacemarine themed campaign
i doubt we'll get anything in this year but any thoughts on a campaign day? any preferances for location? Warhammer World or Dark Sphere or even at my local club at Radstock ;)
any months to avoid? lets get some gaming going :)
Yeah we need to get some gaming in. Probably too late to do anything before Christmas now, although it would be nice if we could squeeze something in even if it was just some sort of general game day with no overall campaign.
I've got an idea for a campaign day of my own brewing which I was thinking maybe of trying to run in the new year.
I'm fairly easy for location although Warhammer World is easiest, but I'm willing to stay overnight and can usually bunk with my Brother if it's in/near London.
I'm free for some games! Just let me know and I'll book the dates off.
Do you need anything for your game Gav? NPC etc?
if we're at WHW i could do with guardsmen / militia as most of mine are non GW :)
i could look at possibly November but i'd need to ask the missus / depends on the venue!
WHW is fine with me. I prefer driving to Notts than Driving or getting into London by Train. It also makes getting terrain/cases easier with the car!
I can do a squad (10) Guardsmen not a problem. I was going to ask Thantos to cast some stuff up for me but it may be of the rarer things like Stealers/Marines as Guardsmen I have moulds for. I have my 11 Cultists as well for more fodder if needed.
I'd be interested, but I would need good lead time on the date so I could figure out how to pull it off.
As long as it's not around the 16th/18th of November (roughly) I should be good (I hope).
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RE guard, there are currently some cheap 54mm Tehnolog Ice Worlder Guard looking models available on the cheap.
Don't know if those would be of any use.
i've got a load of Victrix and Technolog NPCs but am hesitant about using too many at WHW!
IIRC GW doesn't tend to mind as long as the model is 40k enough to pass muster.
I mean, the old rules regarding the GTs was that the model has to be above a certain % of GW'ness or whatever, and it would be fine.
So if you strap enough gubbins, aquilae, and whatever else to the model(s) you could probably get away with it.
I am unlikely to be available for any gaming for a good while. Expect the arrival of my firstborn in February will put the brakes on weekends away for a few months at least.
Ruaridh
They seemed to be fine with those cheap plastic napoleonic toy soldiers someone converted to an IG unit in the past. They asked about them but were fine when we explained that they were toy soldiers with a lot of greenstuff.
Congrats on the sprog Van Helser ^^.
Quote from: Cortez on October 08, 2016, 09:15:25 AM
They seemed to be fine with those cheap plastic napoleonic toy soldiers someone converted to an IG unit in the past.
I certainly had a conversation like that regarding my NPC guardsmen - I said they were army men* covered in a load of greenstuff and Cadian parts, and that staffer at least didn't seem to have a problem with it.
*This was a little conservative with the truth, as they were specifically Airfix 1:32 WWII British Paratroopers, but aside from being slightly higher quality, they even come in most of the standard poses as the 'pocket money at the local toy store' variety.The only time I can recall any problem at all was when an unpainted model (and thus clearly not a GW resin) had been left out in the middle of our "display" table, and even then they were very polite about it.
Anyway. Definitely interested, but it of course depends on dates (and, to an extent, location).
I'll put my lone vote in for Dark Sphere, mostly because everything else is unpleasantly impractical travel-wise.
The last couple of times I got up at 04:30 to get to Notts in time, I was in no state to game, really.
WHW is probably a better venue for table space, elbow room and terrain availability though, not to mention an interested audience.
As for the not-too-obvious non-GW bits, I can't imagine they've got .that. much more draconian in the last couple of years.
I'm pretty sure we had a couple of Gav's Liwets, among other things, studied in detail by a staffer, and only positive things said.
Whw works best for me, as mentioned above the more notice on the date the more likely my attendance.
Locations wise I'm good either way.
I live near london, but if it's WHW I can probably book a travelodge or maybe stay with parents (good excuse to grab more of my warhammer stuff, which I'm now slowly selling off in bits as I want to downsize my 40k footprint).
What are people thinking about date wise for this? Can we squeeze it in before Christmas? Or is better to wait until the new year?
I'd be surprised if we can squeeze it in before Christmas - I'm not sure about you guys but my Christmas is apparently booked up to the beginning of November!
In a related note, have you tried using http://doodle.com/ to organise such events? I use it all the time for my DH/RT campaigns, it's a really good way of sorting out times and dates without having to keep scrolling back through a forum thread.
Rob
My schedule is, if not entirely free, at least fairly malleable.
Anyway, when we do sort a date out, I may be cheeky and ask if I can borrow a game to run some more IRE testing.
I'd be up for that - depending on whether this is "official carthaxian" or semi-unrelated story, will shape which warband I bring to table.
Though I've got quite the list to work through I think.
All i need venue wise is for it to be reasonably accessible in the wheelchair since iv kind of got worse.
As for the model thing yeah that was my fault a combo 3D print and semi custom cast off a 3d print id left out whilst moving some stuff.
She will Br painted this time round and this easier to explain away as custom and my other stuff is either entirely GW and/or custom sculpted.
As for dates I'm relatively easy though the 25th Jan/around then is put unless its London coz I'm doing hospital stuff down at QCL and the third weekend in march is out coz of shooting Nerf guns and hitting people with foam swords
So whatever happens, would I be wise to keep prepping my space marine conversions (I read about a space marine campaign in the OP), or can that take a back seat.
Two of the three are ultramarines from the old Chaos Gate game (two tac troopers I always liked using), while one is a black project that I want to surprise everyone with.
If I could get three more I would do a full tac squad of Chas Gate ultras, just for fun.
The game is Gav's baby so I'll let him reply to that. Although I thought we were just using one Marine each? That way we can have multiple people playing in the game and prevent it from getting bogged down. Although a Tactical squad would awesome to see :D
Do we have a date set in stone yet? I'll need to give work notice is all.
Yeah, I'm only prepping one if I'm able to come along.
The tac squad is just for my personal amusement rather than gaming proper - incidentally, are you able to cast three full marines? Or should I keep trawling ebay for metal marines?
I have suggested the weekend of March the 12th in the events sticky, what do people think of that?
The 12th would work for me as sundays are reasonable for me to book early, given the lead time.
Do we have a location on this also?
As you can see from my thread, my efforts for this game have begun.
I'll post more pics up soon as I'm intending it be a progress thread of sorts.
if you book it, i will run it :)
My Marine is all ready to go :P Although I'm going to get casting some guardsmen/Genestealers for some fun times ;)
12th sounds good. I don't think there's anything going on around then. If everyone is OK with that date I'll make sure work leaves me alone (I don't work weekends usually)
Considering what I've got planned for my current marine, I'm wondering if I might need to build a second.
Or bring some form of ninja as an alternative.
In the other thread I think Warhammer world was going to be the venue? That's going to be best for me and will have the bonus of an attached bar :)
If it's WHW, Sundays effectively rule me out unless I come up the day before and stay overnight. Because the train services are much more limited, the earliest I can arrive at Nottingham station on Sunday is 11:49 (and even then I'd still be a mile and half from WHW).
That said, I'm still not entirely sure what I think about the idea about a Space Marine only day, so don't go jumping through hoops on my account.
I have no issues with Saturdays's if we need to change it. Speaking of time, what times was everyone thinking? 10-18?
The meet up isn't 'just' a Marine game. It's just there seems to be a lot of hype about this one game. I intend to bring all my warbands to get some other games in.
1 marine, 3 games, sat preferred :)
I might be able to wrangle Saturdays, but it might be doable, again with enough lead time.
Yep Saturday the 11th is fine for me, had the 12th as a Saturday in my head for some reason :-[
If everyone can potentially make that date shall we just go with it? It then gives everyone enough time to get it booked off? And enough notice to actually start getting models done :)
Is this just for Marines? Or are we having other games too?
Other games too. ;D The Marine game just a bit of fun and an excuse for me........ er, everyone to use their Marines.
So...... is the 11th OK for everyone then? 1000-1800?
i'd need a rework then; had planned three linked games :lol:
I'd be good for that at least.
Problem is I don't actually have a Marine character so if it's just Marines then there isn't much point in me coming :'(. If there are other games (and other people coming without marines) then it would be worth it.
p.s. thinking about it I do have a marine scout so I could potentially bring him although he'd probably get squished like a bug.
There will be other games by other GMs/players by the sound of it, so I think you'll be good for that.
If not, and I manage to complete more than one marine prior to the day, you're perfectly welcome to borrow one of mine if you like?
Gav, if it's 3 linked games then by all means do it. That sounds awesome and I'm totally up for that :D
Quote from: Cortez on January 13, 2017, 09:28:03 AM
Problem is I don't actually have a Marine character so if it's just Marines then there isn't much point in me coming :'(. If there are other games (and other people coming without marines) then it would be worth it.
p.s. thinking about it I do have a marine scout so I could potentially bring him although he'd probably get squished like a bug.
I have a spare Marine you can borrow. I might be able to post you a 'copy' of one in a few days if you want one of your own. Failing that the Marine always need something to fight so I'm assuming they'd be genestealers aplenty and maybe a Chaos Marine or two. Or even A Radical Inquisitor with hordes of minions and high level daemonhosts.
My wife is trying to shimmy something else in to that weekend so can we confirm it will be on Saturday 11th march?
11th is good for me.
So........ what's going on with this? A people up for it or not?
Myself, Radu, Horusispretty and a mate of mine are all heading up to WHW. Anyone else still going?
i'm game and can get the standard (non marine) campaign ready
I'll be there. Possibly with a marine, depending on how it goes.
I'm probably not going to try and rush a Marine character out*, but if there's room for characters of other stripes and we've got a confirmed booking, then I'm free for a trip to Nottingham on the 11th.
* I took my one Marine model apart years ago and still need to decide whether I'm putting it back together as an Astral Jackal Apothecary (the chapter I created with the 4th Edition codex) or as the Salamanders Veteran DLC armour (http://store.steampowered.com/app/55473/?snr=1_5_9__205) from Space Marine (the armour set I use when playing loyalist. Shame it's often hard to find players, as the Exterminatus mode remains my favourite "survival mode" from any game).
The other thing is that I'm finally getting on a bit of a roll again with writing IRE (possibly even enough of a roll that I could have something playtestable before the event, if anyone's willing to be a bit experimental), and I don't really want to distract myself from that with hectic modelling projects.
EDIT: Obviously, I can make the Rhino and Sentinel available if they're needed. (Although I might just bring them anyway, they're good for drawing in people's attention).
I'm still coming and you've all seen the progress on the dark angel.
So expect shenanigans.
d'we want marines or 54mm campaign day?
Can we try for both? Marines on one table fighting stuff with another set of games using "normal" warbands whose results affect the marine table?
That sounds cool. Although it's up to you Gav as it's a lot of leg work Game Master wise.
you've got about 4 games and suspect we'll not have the addendance for two side-by-side campaigns!
'Mortal' characters could still join into the Marine game though, right Gav? I'm not sure what you have planned but mortal characters could have their own missions, agendas etc and the Marines are simply there to make sure that character does his/her mission......... or doesn't?
Quote from: greenstuff_gav on February 20, 2017, 10:52:53 AM
you've got about 4 games and suspect we'll not have the addendance for two side-by-side campaigns!
Assuming no-one drops out, it sounds like we'll scrape eight people (Borak, Borak's mate, Radu, Horus, you, Cortez, Mcjomar and me) , and I could try kicking the various other players I've got friended on Facebook. We might be able to coax one or two more people out that way.
If we'd be good to go with some 28mm players too, I could also try inquiring of the Inquisitorum group on Facebook to see if enough people are available at short notice.
How many tables are we currently booked for?
We haven't booked any yet. We were finding out numbers before we booked them. If we want 3 tables I can call them/email them tomorrow.
EDIT: If anyone has their number/email it would save me the effort off finding it. :D
There is a form on the WHW website, or you can e-mail at whworldevents@gwplc.com but (despite finding telephone calls rather intimidating), I prefer to call them. It's harder for things to get lost in an inbox, and it can be dealt with far more quickly (no back and forth over days about which tables are already booked).
The events team phone number is 0115 900 4994, or at least it used to be. (Not the same as the store number, 0115 900 4151, but they'll take bookings too).
Any news? (For one thing, the earlier we can confirm this, the cheaper my train tickets will be).
If you'd prefer, I do the job of ringing up and asking if they can spare space for us.
Sorry for the late reply.
The 11th is completely reserved due to an event. However they said to call back on Monday once they know how many people are attending the event as they may have tables free.
However I have booked 3 tables for the 18th just in case. Can people make that in case it's all booked out on the 11th?
I can make the 18th.
I can probably make the 18th, but I'll have to check. I'll get back to you on saturday about this.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!
Oh dear
My attendance on the 11th was assured but any date after in march is a no due to holidays and my wife's training courses.
Let's hope they can squeeze us in
I'm free on the 18th.
As two asides:
- I've messaged RobSkib on Facebook, and he seems interested, although it depends on the date and whether he can move other things around. I could try appealing to other old players I have in my friends, but I'm not expecting much interest from others.
- Any (more) willing volunteers for some IRE playtesting for a game or two? It shouldn't need to disrupt the plot of the event.
Radu, Hopefully the 11th will clear up and we can squeeze some tables in. In fact, I might phone them again tomorrow and ask them to call me if any tables come up spare.
I can do 18th but prefer the 11th!
Will get the campaign finished and intro postedmonday.. 4 games about right?
Four games is doable (more so at a campaign event rather than the IGT, when the organiser doesn't need time to add up loads of scores in private), although they can still be left a bit pinched for time, particularly if there's delays at the start or lunch.
Ok, there have a(one) table free on the 11th so I have booked that. I have also 'booked' two more should any more come free. They will call and let me know. ;D
Radu? At least we can get some games in. One table sucks but hopefully more will come free.
Well I guess the 11th is back on? Sort of?
Because it doesn't look as if I'd be able to make the 18th.
Well, 1 table between about 8 people is obviously a teensy weensy issue. So what's the plan then - is there going to be just some people on the 11th and then push on with a bigger she-bang on the 18th too, or are we hanging on the hope we'll get another table or two for the 11th?
What was the plan for the space marine event? Would that require more than one table?
We could do with two tables really, not ideal, but doable for 8 people if we only use 2 chars each.
I don't think I can justify going to Nottingham two weekends in a row I'm afraid.
Was hoping for at least two tables but am sure fun can be had on one.
It might be a ball ache but maybe having two different campaigns ready to go dependent on table availability?
I'll be bringing my Inquisitor case, so I'll be good for just about anything, either way, including sitting around and jawing if that's what's needed.
i need to know what day; can't do both and if its the 18th i need to cancel some other plans
have the standard campagin finished, 7 games including the finale, just need tidyup and making into a PDF for printing
Just an idea. Why doesn't someone else try to book a table? They might limit them to each person calling. (they've done that to me before)
Quote from: Lord Borak on February 27, 2017, 11:18:27 PMWhy doesn't someone else try to book a table?
I'll give it a shot tomorrow, but I figure it is kind of optimistic to be trying to snag tables this late on a weekend they've got an event on.
EDIT: Of course, the risk then is that they put the tables at entirely different ends of the hall, which would be less than entirely convenient.
Are we still going for the 11th for this? How are we going to organise it if we can't steal another table ;) ?
We could use teams of two with each player controlling one character. We should be able to manage it although it'll end up being a bit friendly with 8 people round one table!
Still the 11th, the "friendliness" should be fun with some quicker turns if we only have one guy each to worry about
I'll admit to not yet having rung WHW, for the reasons mentioned before (it'd be easier if our tables were together), but if we're still short, I am prepared to ring up and beg.
(Otherwise, I'm kind of hoping that we might be able to beg an extra table on the day, because someone hasn't turned up or something).
We'll be fine. There's nearly always unused tables and people who haven't turned up.
Biggest problem will be snagging a table for lunch in Bugman's!
Just as a heads-up, it's possible I'll be slightly late. I've got a tight connection to make at Tamworth, so if my first train is running late, I may miss the change and have to take a later service.
If I'm on time, I'll get to Nottingham station at 0928 (if anyone wants to wait and walk together - or taxi, dependent on weather). If I'm late, it'll be 1003.
Lord borak, his mate, my brother in law and I are aiming to get there for 10, I am driving so bar any mad traffic we'll be on time
I'm using my car this time. Hopefully there won't be any major holdups.
I'm driving and staying at my parents up in north notts, so tomorrow's drive should be easier.
I should be there.
I have to say, despite having been a bit sceptical about a Marine heavy event with single characters, I very much enjoyed myself today.
I hadn't brought my NPC Guard (although they would have been more useful than the Rhino that I did bring), so we didn't really have enough bad guys to run two tables even after we begged a second one from the staff, so we eventually all ended up just playing the Marine campaign as a big group.
Though I didn't have a proper marine ready, my fake (namely Sister Rhian) managed to not be completely useless. (I was fairly happy with her tweaked faith points rules - while not enough to keep up with the Marines, she did still manage a few reasonable feats).
It also helped that it's probably the easiest journey I've yet had, so I'll probably be switching over to today's choice of trains wherever possible.
It turned out to be a very enjoyable day yesterday. Like Marco I was sceptical about an all Marine event (and I also lacked a marine, so used an upgraded Inquisitor Cortez), but it worked quite well, although the games had a very different feel to the normal Inquisitor games, more like a large scale version of kill team.
The scenario itself was interesting, although we did all feel that the environmental penalties (-30% to shooting and only 4 actions per turn) were far too strong, especially considering the large numbers of cultists we were facing. The cultists were also surprisingly hard to kill with 5 injury levels, (although that might have been our lacklustre dice rolling) I think a slight modification such as system shock tests for 2 or more levels from one injury would help, as did adding in being knocked prone and stunned results for more serious injuries.
We modified the 3rd scenario slightly to make it more of an endgame mission as we wouldn't have time for the 4th scenario, so decided to use a Chaos Marine as the cult leader. He looked impressive until he got ganked by Banus and Cypher.
Quote from: Cortez on March 12, 2017, 10:15:28 AMalthough the games had a very different feel to the normal Inquisitor games, more like a large scale version of kill team.
It was quite different. What I find particularly interesting is how games like that can end up with an invisible GM, where everyone and no-one is really in charge of it.
Quotealthough we did all feel that the environmental penalties (-30% to shooting and only 4 actions per turn) were far too strong, especially considering the large numbers of cultists we were facing.
The large numbers of cultists was because you rolled a 6 on the D6 every. dang. time. :P
But yes, as we discovered during the first game, the penalties were enough to make shooting fairly useless compared to just getting half a tonne of power armoured Marine into close combat, at which point the Marines were generally rolling things like 2D10+9 damage against opponents who had nothing better in response than trying to smack them with lasgun butts. (Although one did manage to smack Cypher in the head, his secondary heart meant he effectively ignored it).
Quite often, the Marines were capable of doing all five necessary injury levels with one hit in melee, something that was all but impossible with a bolter.
I think it worked better after we figured that the melee probably needed balancing more than shooting, dropped the BS penalty (which was largely putting Cortez and Rhian out of the game, with their lower BS and inability to resort to bone-shattering strength values in melee) and instead upgraded the soldiers/cultists to assume they actually had weapons with some chance of getting through power armour in melee.
QuoteHe looked impressive until he got ganked by Banus and Cypher.
He probably could have done with a rather meaner profile if he was expected to be able to take on several marines at once. Still, Banus caving his skull in with a power maul made for a fitting end for the day.
Quote from: MarcoSkoll on March 12, 2017, 12:38:55 PM
It was quite different. What I find particularly interesting is how games like that can end up with an invisible GM, where everyone and no-one is really in charge of it.
That's the advantage of having a written scenario to work from. I've observed this before when playing some of Gav's other campaigns such as the Lachesis affair. All you need is someone to take care of the turn order and everyone being willing to look after their own section of the tabletop (for such things as npc attacks etc.), which speeds things up considerably.
One thing that the event definitely inspired in me is a desire to create my own space marine character, something which hasn't really interested me before.
For my part I really enjoyed it although I do agree that it was a bit killteam-ey. In a good way though.
But after I'm done making new Cypher and the ultramarines I think I'm going to build some more appropriate marines maybe.
Certainly a little less quick than cypher although using pistols in combat felt as if it made cypher a little less lethal than a normal melee weapon which would have benefited from that strength bonus. But his speed certainly helped compensate for my curious ability to roll low numbers on my action dice. Although even when we bumped up to full speed I still managed to roll the occasional single action for a turn.
Aye, Bannus took the Marines skull! Super happy with that. Although, yeah, that Chaos Marine needed to be harder. He was Speed 6, WS84 and str150+ after armour......... He just got unlucky. Bannus Managing to smash apart both his Chainswords in short order didn't help Matters. :( Poor Arkus of the Black Legion has been killed in both his outings lol. I think I AM going to make his combat squad for next time. It will be challenge of epic proportions the next time we do an all marine game.
I did think the Marines were going to stop everything but the first game they were blunted by what can only be described as a crack unit of hardened veterans defending a building with TripleX lasguns and a Meltagun. I also don't think any of us had used Marines much before so were perhaps overly cautious of getting shot up. However when we did get into combat and ripped peoples heads off we all kinda got how to use Marines (run in, kill things).
On the way back we (Me, Gary and Jamie) were saying that perhaps we should have had one Marine issuing orders and mini-quests for each marine to accomplish. Yesterday everyone basically did what they wanted. If we actually had someone issuing orders it might have felt more like a kill team.
Regardless, Pictures.
1st game.......... apparently I only took 1 photo of the first game :(
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Second game...
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Third game...
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Poor Marine (I forget his name) is getting surrounded. Or is he bravely drawing the forces of the arch enemy to him in order for his brothers to accomplish their mission? More Cultists are on their way and they never seem to stop coming no matter how many he kills (STOP ROLLING 6's STEVE!!!)
.....He gave up and sacrificed himself by pulling the pins of two grenades and jumping into the midst of the Cultist and Guard horde.
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More pics to follow.
glad to hear the main aims of the campaign worked; the plan would have been for each marine to have their own mini missions inside sceanrios and the choose-your-own-adventure style scenario structure and penalties for winning / losing removing the need for a GM
of course, my ability to write narrative is always a hindrance but offset by you need something lighter at events to stop getting bogged down
with the absolute powerhouse marines are i struggled how to balance the NPCs; shame they were a bit harsh!
Quote from: Cortez on March 12, 2017, 04:59:43 PMI've observed this before when playing some of Gav's other campaigns such as the Lachesis affair.
The Lachesis Affair as it was run at Dark Sphere is a bit more complex than that, as I'd done some modifications to Gav's original notes.
(I condensed the original four rounds down to three, and tweaked things a bit so I had different variations of the scenarios for variety).
That said, I suppose the low dependence on a GM during games was effectively in there from the start (although I had gutted out the original plot read-outs and turned them into things like the evidence cards and such).
QuoteOne thing that the event definitely inspired in me is a desire to create my own space marine character, something which hasn't really interested me before.
It's got me considering hold of another Marine model so that rather than deciding whether my single model should become a Salamander or Astral Jackal, I could do both.
Quote from: mcjomar on March 12, 2017, 05:51:38 PMBut after I'm done making new Cypher and the ultramarines I think I'm going to build some more appropriate marines maybe.
Cypher didn't actually feel particularly overpowered as Marines go. Although I'm not really a fan of using canonical characters in Inquisitor, Cypher's mysterious good/bad guy nature is oddly suitable.
Quote from: Lord Borak on March 12, 2017, 08:21:40 PMHe gave up and sacrificed himself by pulling the pins of two grenades and jumping into the midst of the Cultist and Guard horde.
I wouldn't say "sacrificed himself", I'd say "slightly scuffed his armour".
The name was Lycus, by the way*.
* I'd like to pretend I remembered this myself, but I actually just looked it up on the left-over turn order cards.Quote from: greenstuff_gav on March 12, 2017, 10:03:49 PMwith the absolute powerhouse marines are i struggled how to balance the NPCs; shame they were a bit harsh!
I think we generally figured it out towards the end of the day - doing more damage, but taking less. Seeing as they're able to respawn pretty quickly anyway, it doesn't really matter too much if the Marines make short work of them, but they do need a chance to do some hurt.
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I too failed to take many photos, and some of them were total rubbish, so here's some of the ones I could vaguely rescue:
Game 1- Cypher leaps onto the roof:
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Cypher would later claim that the guardsman on the left committed suicide when he saw him coming. Sort of true - he rolled badly to dodge and fell off the roof:
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Back to back badassery:
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Game 2 - Arriving on the scene. (Although this was the only even half-salvageable photo from this game, it does nicely convey the size difference between an Astartes and a Sororitas):
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Game 3 will just be a montage I call "Arkus' bad day":
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Be interesting to hear what scenarios were ran and what people thought; ontop of mass npc murder, its hard to find obectives that provide a challenge for marines to deal with!
I've still got a pile of marines so maybe pursuaded to sell some on as im debating a cleardown of pretty mich everything :)
Quote from: MarcoSkoll on March 13, 2017, 01:51:47 AM
Quote from: mcjomar on March 12, 2017, 05:51:38 PMBut after I'm done making new Cypher and the ultramarines I think I'm going to build some more appropriate marines maybe.
Cypher didn't actually feel particularly overpowered as Marines go. Although I'm not really a fan of using canonical characters in Inquisitor, Cypher's mysterious good/bad guy nature is oddly suitable.
Agreed - his gun-fu reliance on pistols, rather than being able to buff a close combat weapon with marine strength means his ability to insta-mulch a target is somewhat reduced. Couple that with the fact that he's got lots of secrets, mysteries, and heresies connected to him, and the fact he successfully impersonated an Inquisitor that one time, means that he fits in wonderfully. I still think that from now on he should be relegated to being a GM controlled NPC due to being a very important named character.
Esepcially in the latest release.
In regards pictures, however:
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I'll probably consider writing it up later.
Quote from: greenstuff_gav on March 13, 2017, 10:15:26 AM
Be interesting to hear what scenarios were ran and what people thought; ontop of mass npc murder, its hard to find obectives that provide a challenge for marines to deal with!
I've still got a pile of marines so maybe pursuaded to sell some on as im debating a cleardown of pretty mich everything :)
I think we ended up running the Mahlau Affair tree - for my part the objective based objectives worked great for Cypher, while the "kill-em all" objectives were... difficult.
I think Cypher is better suited for subterfuge, shenanigans, and maybe the odd assassination.
Just a note but if, having completed the Mahlau affair on the 11th, the Golden Aegis affair is scheduled for the 18th, I will be unable to make it, as I have other events occurring that day.
As far as I know, only one of the dates was going forward. The 18th was an emergency booking because we'd failed to confirm any tables for the 11th at one point.
following up then, did it work enough for me to write another marine event?
especially with people looking to do more marines :D
Yeah, I think it did. I enjoyed it far more than I was expecting to (need my own Marine though, I'd be up for buying one of your spares, or a suspiciously light version from Lord Borak).
Well, I got everything ready to make you a light one Cortez ;)
I'm up for another Marine game. If we have enough notice we can pre-book one of the cool city fight boards or maybe the FW spacehulk board. I will try and get a squad of Chaos Marines done by then if you want. I just need to make 4 more, including a Heavy weapon trooper. They wont take too long as they wont be as Detailed as Arkus.
Arkus really REALLY needs to be tougher. I'm thinking daemonic chainswords.
Quote from: greenstuff_gav on March 13, 2017, 10:28:21 PMfollowing up then, did it work enough for me to write another marine event?
I'd say so. There's a bit of refinement needed here and there, but the Inquisitor rules do seem to be capable of holding up under those circumstances.
Quote from: Lord Borak on March 13, 2017, 11:30:11 PMWell, I got everything ready to make you a light one Cortez ;)
I could do with one as well - saves me deciding whether to do my Astral Jackals or the Salamanders Veteran from the Space Marine game*.
(I'm tempted to say two, so I could do a Traitor Marine as well, but then I do have a lot of unfinished projects already...).
* On which note, if anyone should ever be interested in sharing Steam usernames and meeting up for a round or two of Exterminatus, it is good fun mass murdering Orks in co-op.
Well, looks like I'm going to be busy ::)
I think I'll hold off ordering any more casts myself until I'm done with all the stuff I've already got.
I'll probably need to look up a suitable case for holding the marines though, as they seem too big to be held safely without damage in my standard citadel case.
i'll start mulling ideas over then, hopefully throw some notes down on the weekend!
Borak, i'm in the market for some miscast bits too as i guess i'll get the First Founding Project (http://buildyourimagination.co.uk/minis/gallery_first_founding.php) moving again!