Hi everyone!
As an Inquisitor player for many years, we have decided to play a campaign bases on the Iliad (ancient greek warstory) by Homerus.
There are a lot of heroes on both sides, and of course gods and lots of plots.
I think it would be great to play as Ajax or Odysseus, or maybe one of the smaller heroes.
We will miss the great dark gothic details, but we will give it a try.
If anyone has any advice or questions please let me know.
I will update from time to time.
Cheers,
I don't know about how other people see it, but i think you'd be hard pressed to find the intricacies that an Inquisitor campaign needs for it to be fulfilling. You might be better off doing a mix of both. You could use the 40k rules, but have duels, i.e. fights between your hero (using Inquisitor Character sheets) and a rival hero, which use the Inquisitor combat basis.
As for background, the Iliad is more like 40k than Inq. It's a massive epic war trying to "rescue" the "captive" Helen form the Trojans, Inquisitor is small groups of men and women trying to save the Emperors soul. I think you'd struggle to try and match it up.
I'm afraid that the Iliad isn't a very great source for basing a campaign on. There is very much divine influence and to be quite honest, certain heroes are that much better than others. Other than that the scope is actually quite limited, there are two clear sides and one theatre where most of the heroes are.
Other than that I fear that the close combat battles between great heroes would easily become boring dice-rolling affairs with two characters who both have high skills.
I see a lot of people who haven't read Homer's Illiad...
Some heroes are flat out better than others... The first Greek to die was invulnerable, he could not be harmed by blade or spear...etc in the same way as Achilles but he lacked that annoying heel issue...
Hector strangled him with his own helmet cords as I recall.
There are battles in the Illiad which would suit 40k but a lot of it is much smaller scale, the deeds of single greek heroes (and of course how those deeds offend one god or another).
Creating Philoctetes as a 40k character who actually needs to be on the field would either result in an intensely overpowered character - and not making him insanely overpowered would make the disadvantages outweigh the benefits meaning that the greek player will simply leave him behind (which is after all exactly what the greeks did...).
Still...
I'd need to see a much deeper and more detailed synopsys before I could say whether I thought it could work as a campaign or not.
Having read through a plot synopsis, if you stripped the story all the way down to the barest bones and rebuilt it in the 41st millennium's image, it could work, though it would take rather more work than I can put into it right before bed.
It is still a pretty significant issue that so much of it revolves directly around the ongoing siege/battle, so if you did manage to rebuild the plot it would be barely recognisable.
Stumbling across the ruins of Troy, and the battlefield graves of a dozen saints and their relic-weapons of the war against a foe not understood, might give you some avenues to explore it as legend/lore instead though.
Did anyone make any progress with this, or did it die a week ago?