Inquisitor log 25876-98a
869.71 M41
Believed to be the one time acolyte of the infamous Inquisitor Thelios,Kronus has carried on her masters work,after her master was declared excommunicated,she was forced to hide,so as to not suffer the same fate as her master.
Thelios had always been a hardline Horisian,whereas kronus had never been so hardlined,she is believed to be following the path of the Xanthites,which in its self is punishable by death,she is believed to still have ties within the damned mechanicus,providing funds and allies for her treacherous works.
Gathered inteligence suggests she is on the world of Angripnaa,where she has a plethora of test subjects,as the world still belongs to the dead,she is believed to be working on a cure for these damned creatures,this has taken her to search the feotid swamps,sewers,abandoned tech labs as well as other less than savoury places,it is safe to assume she has information that should not be in the hands of an agent of of the mechanicus.
She has to this day always pronounced her faith in the emperor,and although persued by multiple inquisitors,she has thus far not come into conflict with them.
Therefore,it is you job to hunt this woman down and bring her back to us preferably alive so we can retrieve the information she has,its less of a consequence if she is dead,as we have means and ways to extract it from her dead mind.
Rest assured this woman is deemed dangerous,but if she can be brought into the folds of our ordo,she would be a major asset.
Inquisitor lord Kavayne
Ordo sepulturum
Ws BS S T I Wp Sg Nv Ld
Kronus Vect 59 56 62 73 66 69 91 85 63
Ambidextrous,Rite of pure thought
Alpheon Mk IV storm bolter,2 reloads,5 storm frag shells,MIU Plasma pistol,shock hammer(counts as a shock maul),haemonculyte,techno-mat,Autosanguination
2 blind grenades
Flak armour on all locations except head
Average bionic arms,average bionic lungs,2 advanced bionic eyes incoporating a motion tracker and and bio scanner.
med skull
Filtration plugs
While it's a nice model, a storm bolter and plasma pistol on the same character is a hell of a lot of firepower compared to most.
Given that's then combined with a shooting skill level that could make a lowly stubber unpleasant, I'd recommend trimming back her BS by 15-20 points - and dropping her to a high Speed 4 wouldn't exactly go amiss either. There are a few too many 70s and 80s stats there and while those stats are justifiable for a techpriest's Wp or Sg, a techpriest's primary specialisation is not "puncturing fools".
It'd still leave her pretty nasty to face, but not quite so nasty.
Quoteshe is believed to be following the path of the Xanthites,which in its self is punishable by death
Not really. There are plenty of respected openly Xanthites within the Inquisition - although they are often treading a fine line with some of their peers. However, as she's AdMech rather than Inquisition, I suggest you have her following a Mechanicus philosophy rather than an Inquisitorial one - maybe make her a Khamrian or Omnissiad. Also, she's an adept of the Mechanicus, and presumably a fairly high ranking one given all her implants, but you speak of her worshipping the Emperor rather than the Omnissiah?
I'd be tempted to say that a hammer of that size would get the additional knockback as well as it being a shock weapon.
Her toughness is already very high - with the bonus to BIV for autosanguination she's going to be extremely hard to put down.
I'm curious about how you plan to model her techno-mat and haemoncolyte?
Otherwise I like the character - a shady character who would nevertheless be of use to the Inquisition, so they seek her out as much to utilise her talents as to prevent her heresies. Sounds good to me. What about her warband? The remnants of her former master's retinue or her contacts in the AdMech?
I knew the mechanicus has its own philosophies,but wasnt sure what they were,any idea where i can find them,or are they in the explorator article??
The rest of the warband has been built,got a praetorian droid built-basically its the top of an old pp ironclad,with an imperial knights head,on a epic land raider(old style), with a assault cannon(probably gonna be a heavy bolter equivalent or the like) and some form of plasma gun,and the electro priest(i think)is what was vannon,basically lopped his hammers head off and replaced it with the dreadknights hammer head,both have started to been painted,but not finished yet,but pics will be on shortly.
I also want the krash model!
Cheers
matt
The Explorator article will give some details, the 40k Lexicanum is a reasonable source of canon information:
http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Category:Adeptus_Mechanicus (http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Category:Adeptus_Mechanicus)
Otherwise, a trawl round the background and fluff sections of Warseer, Heresey Online and Dakka can produce quite a bit of flavour, but obviously not all of it will be 'correct'...
Don't forget Mr Knowles Dark Magenta article - 'More Machine Than Man' - which can help add some interesting flavour to your Ad Mech characters.
You may find that as Marco has mentioned, it might be worth toning down the armaments a bit - your Praetorian with a bolter and a plasma gun is going to be a table clearer, perhaps give him some form of autogun or heavy stubber instead?
There's a Fanatic Online article on various Mechanicus factions - it's available in the usual place.
Instead of having a plasma pistol why not use it as a plasma cutter, a short range weapon (maybe 4-8 inches) which if used is very dangerous for a short period of time (maybe 3-4 actions) abit like Kaleds Plasma Sword his tech preistest uses.
It means you don't have to change that fetching model and it's very inkeeping with the Ad Mech to have a tool (that can be used and an impromtu weapon) fitted instead of a weapon (something that grates just a little bit)
hmm it's a shame Gav doesn't have any more of these fine fine minis I wanna do a explorator now with a las cutter and lots of tools instead of weapons
Bolters and plasma weapons should be a scarce thing on the Inquisitor table.
Characters can easily put each other out of the game with stubbers and shotguns, let alone Storm bolters and Plasma guns. For that reason, I tend to limit myself to maybe one powerful weapon (such as a bolt, plasma, power or force weapon - even heavy stubbers are nasty) per warband, else it just makes any shooting matches rather bloody and one sided.
I could understand two in a Mechanicus warband, because they tend to rely on fancy equipment more than their own skill, but you may find more will make you less than entirely popular with the GM and other players.
Because I like the model I've made,I want to keep it as it is,but I am more than willing to tone down the
Weaponary,I like the idea for the plasma cutter on the praetorian,but what to use the assault cannon as-maybe a form of chain stubber or something,I think the plasma pistol on vext will be getting changed to
A plasma cutter,for getting through bulkheads and such!
Quote from: mattausten86 on April 15, 2011, 02:22:52 PMbut what to use the assault cannon as-maybe a form of chain stubber or something
I'm going to be a bit pedantic to start off with - chaingun is not a synonym for Gatling gun, contrary to what many video games believe. Modern gatling guns do often share features with chainguns, but a true chaingun only ever has a single barrel.
Semantics aside, I would recommend either treating it as a heavy stubber or beefy autogun. (Although without seeing the model, I can't know for sure.)
Im using a cut down assault cannon to make the Morose assault gun, its essentially an autogun with 8 shots on FA and 4 on semi weight of 40
I was planning on putting the pictures of them up
Today,but my wife had our son earlier today,so haven't really had the chance I'm afraid
Congratulations
a big yellow welcome of sorts :)
May the Emperor smile upon him!
Well done!
If you think you're going to have time to post pictures on any forum for the forseeable future...
(By the way, the first wierd black sticky poo's are not a sign of taint)