Some form of 40K RP- here and now

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2004-12-31 01:54am

Okay, must call it a night. Prius will be antsy, nervous, and annoyed so long as the ships are slugging it out. If it comes to boarding he'll cheer up immensely and lead the charge on attack or defense, as usual.

GeneralTacticus · Post by **GeneralTacticus** » 2004-12-31 02:57am

Imperial Overlord wrote:If you've got farseer level precog yes. If you're a poor human, not so much.

All that's really required is to see where the warhead will be in a small fraction of a second, if it's fired. Surely not much harder than seeing where somebody's next blow is going to be coming from.

Imperial Overlord · Post by **Imperial Overlord** » 2004-12-31 03:05am

Except Nova Cannons aren't accurate or reliable. This increases the number of undesirable possible outcomes and the difficulty of prediction. Increasing the likely hood of tagging it with the blast effect isn't too hard, but getting a direct hit is pretty damn hard. Precog will help, but even Eldar (who are good at this kind of stuff) need lots of training and practice to be good at it with Eldar weapons.

Of course, if you've got machine empathy, that also helps.

Bottom Line: If precog allowed you to wank the Nova Cannon, every gunnery crew would have a tarot reading precog and they would hit all the time. It'll help, but it isn't going to turn this into the climax of Footfall.

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2004-12-31 02:44pm

hope I did the precog correctly

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2004-12-31 03:16pm

BTW did you see what book Lillith's reading now?

yes the soulless one is reading Sun Tzu, Clauswitz, and a few others...

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2004-12-31 03:44pm

I caught the Sun Tzu reference.

Imperial Overlord · Post by **Imperial Overlord** » 2004-12-31 09:34pm

Tacitus, if you disagree by all means PM NecronLord and get his ruling.

GeneralTacticus · Post by **GeneralTacticus** » 2005-01-01 12:05am

No, I don't really disagree... if the Nova Cannon is truly so inaccurate (and a weapon which could go off anywhere within a radius of several thousand kilometres is pretty inaccurate), then you're right, precog won't do much more than help. I just wasn't aware of quite how unreliable a weapon the Nova Cannon was.

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2005-01-01 12:06am

Group hug, pass the bottle, and let's kill us some heretics.

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2005-01-01 12:38am

It has a range of between 50 and 120 thousand KM...assuming 1 cm=10,000km you guess and place the blast marker there.

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2005-01-01 12:40am

scary prt will be when Prius finds them...wait that also means shes found Kipling and Heller....oh boy will SHE learn a new phrase....

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2005-01-01 12:41am

I'm honestly too drunk to properly contemplate what Prius will think of Sun Tzu, Clauswitz and so on.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2005-01-01 05:09am

We've fought with many men acrost the seas,
An' some of 'em was brave an' some was not:
The Paythan an' the Zulu an' Burmese;
But the Fuzzy was the finest o' the lot.
We never got a ha'porth's change of 'im:
'E squatted in the scrub an' 'ocked our 'orses,
'E cut our sentries up at Suakim,
An' 'e played the cat an' banjo with our forces.
So 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your 'ome in the Soudan;
You're a pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fightin' man;
We gives you your certificate, an' if you want it signed
We'll come an' 'ave a romp with you whenever you're inclined.

We took our chanst among the Khyber 'ills,
The Boers knocked us silly at a mile,
The Burman give us Irriwaddy chills,
An' a Zulu impi dished us up in style:
But all we ever got from such as they
Was pop to what the Fuzzy made us swaller;
We 'eld our bloomin' own, the papers say,
But man for man the Fuzzy knocked us 'oller.
Then 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, an' the missis and the kid;
Our orders was to break you, an' of course we went an' did.
We sloshed you with Martinis, an' it wasn't 'ardly fair;
But for all the odds agin' you, Fuzzy-Wuz, you broke the square.

'E 'asn't got no papers of 'is own,
'E 'asn't got no medals nor rewards,
So we must certify the skill 'e's shown
In usin' of 'is long two-'anded swords:
When 'e's 'oppin' in an' out among the bush
With 'is coffin-'eaded shield an' shovel-spear,
An 'appy day with Fuzzy on the rush
Will last an 'ealthy Tommy for a year.
So 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, an' your friends which are no more,
If we 'adn't lost some messmates we would 'elp you to deplore.
But give an' take's the gospel, an' we'll call the bargain fair,
For if you 'ave lost more than us, you crumpled up the square!

'E rushes at the smoke when we let drive,
An', before we know, 'e's 'ackin' at our 'ead;
'E's all 'ot sand an' ginger when alive,
An' 'e's generally shammin' when 'e's dead.
'E's a daisy, 'e's a ducky, 'e's a lamb!
'E's a injia-rubber idiot on the spree,
'E's the on'y thing that doesn't give a damn
For a Regiment o' British Infantree!
So 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your 'ome in the Soudan;
You're a pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fightin' man;
An' 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, with your 'ayrick 'ead of 'air --
You big black boundin' beggar -- for you broke a British square

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2005-01-01 01:34pm

Yeah thats it poor Lillith may go a bit crazy trying to read poems like that.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2005-01-01 01:48pm

Fuzzy the Orkl

For God Emporoer!!

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2005-01-01 02:02pm

Corse Fuzzy Wuzzy may just be some weird alien race these Britsih Guardsmen are showing respect for. It isn`t heretical to respect your enemy ...*L*

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2005-01-01 02:05pm

true as he obviouis kicked thier arses before they pulled out the big guns

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2005-01-01 08:41pm

Bah. Respect for the enemy is a sign of failure to adhere to orthodoxy. The enemy must be despised for the subhuman scum they are.

But damn, that's some good Kipling, YB. Makes me want to dig through the boxes and get out my compendium.

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2005-01-01 09:10pm

Bah, who needs a collected works when you have the net.

The Song of the Dead

Hear now the Song of the Dead -- in the North by the torn berg-edges --
They that look still to the Pole, asleep by their hide-stripped sledges.
Song of the Dead in the South -- in the sun by their skeleton horses,
Where the warrigal whimpers and bays through the dust
of the sear river-courses.

Song of the Dead in the East -- in the heat-rotted jungle hollows,
Where the dog-ape barks in the kloof --
in the brake of the buffalo-wallows.
Song of the Dead in the West --
in the Barrens, the waste that betrayed them,
Where the wolverene tumbles their packs
from the camp and the grave-mound they made them;
Hear now the Song of the Dead!

I

We were dreamers, dreaming greatly, in the man-stifled town;
We yearned beyond the sky-line where the strange roads go down.
Came the Whisper, came the Vision, came the Power with the Need,
Till the Soul that is not man's soul was lent us to lead.
As the deer breaks -- as the steer breaks -- from the herd where they graze,
In the faith of little children we went on our ways.
Then the wood failed -- then the food failed -- then the last water dried --
In the faith of little children we lay down and died.
On the sand-drift -- on the veldt-side -- in the fern-scrub we lay,
That our sons might follow after by the bones on the way.
Follow after -- follow after! We have watered the root,
And the bud has come to blossom that ripens for fruit!
Follow after -- we are waiting, by the trails that we lost,
For the sounds of many footsteps, for the tread of a host.
Follow after -- follow after -- for the harvest is sown:
By the bones about the wayside ye shall come to your own!

When Drake went down to the Horn
And England was crowned thereby,
'Twixt seas unsailed and shores unhailed
Our Lodge -- our Lodge was born
(And England was crowned thereby!)

Which never shall close again
By day nor yet by night,
While man shall take his life to stake
At risk of shoal or main
(By day nor yet by night).

But standeth even so
As now we witness here,
While men depart, of joyful heart,
Adventure for to know
(As now bear witness here!)

II

We have fed our sea for a thousand years
And she calls us, still unfed,
Though there's never a wave of all her waves
But marks our English dead:
We have strawed our best to the weed's unrest,
To the shark and the sheering gull.
If blood be the price of admiralty,
Lord God, we ha' paid in full!

There's never a flood goes shoreward now
But lifts a keel we manned;
There's never an ebb goes seaward now
But drops our dead on the sand --
But slinks our dead on the sands forlore,
From the Ducies to the Swin.
If blood be the price of admiralty,
If blood be the price of admiralty,
Lord God, we ha' paid it in!

We must feed our sea for a thousand years,
For that is our doom and pride,
As it was when they sailed with the ~Golden Hind~,
Or the wreck that struck last tide --
Or the wreck that lies on the spouting reef
Where the ghastly blue-lights flare.
If blood be the price of admiralty,
If blood be the price of admiralty,
If blood be the price of admiralty,
Lord God, we ha' bought it fair!

-------------------------------

This is the part that always gets me.

In the faith of little children we went on our ways.
Then the wood failed -- then the food failed -- then the last water dried --
In the faith of little children we lay down and died.

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2005-01-02 12:17am

Hey IO, question. Did Prius' junior death squad commissar cadets also get sent along, or did they get distributed to units among the PDF and draftee Guard as planned?

Imperial Overlord · Post by **Imperial Overlord** » 2005-01-02 12:21am

How would Prius have handled it?

I would guess he sent a bunch of the promising ones out to due their sacred duty of fragging officers and kept a bunch near him a la Joachim Steuben making emergency night marches with the White Mice.

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2005-01-02 12:26am

Okay, I just didn't know if Lord Vonwhatizname's displeasure radiated down to his cadets or not.

Yeah, for the most part they go out to the regiments. He would keep a command squad of sorts of the most promising ones, in conjunction with the Sword, which is basically his equivalent of the White Mice.

Imperial Overlord · Post by **Imperial Overlord** » 2005-01-02 12:33am

The displeasure is just a rumour. I felt a military campaign without a rumour would defy suspension of disbelief.

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2005-01-02 12:39am

Ah, very clever.

Prius' cadets are going to have very ugly casualty rates. Besides the fact that they're going to be immensely unpopular with the men, they're also going to try to live up to his example. Lacking his pysker talents, luck, and character shield, well, they're going to be coming home in ziplock bags a lot.

GeneralTacticus · Post by **GeneralTacticus** » 2005-01-02 02:08am

Well, I'm sorry to say that, after my KotOR-induced absence (which I just finished, btw; fucking awesome. Unfortunately, I'd been half-spoiled on the big plot twist, so it didn't have as much impact as it should have, but there's not much to be done about that), I will now be spending the next five days on holiday without a computer. IO or Petrosjko can have Adivan et al for the time being; you've done a great job so far.

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Some form of 40K RP- here and now

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