Some form of 40K RP- here and now

Imperial Overlord · Post by **Imperial Overlord** » 2004-11-27 04:39am

On rereading Captain Tycho's post I confirmed that we didn't see any weapons that would take out a land raider. Only heavy bolters and anti air launchers. Of course, it could have been a servitor with a BFG.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2004-11-27 04:52am

Pcm979 wrote:
Typhonis 1 wrote:*chuckle* so the Omnisiah uses M<icrosoft Direct Opeerating Sytem???Thats good to know
Any other system is Heretical and not blessed by the Machine God.

Of course, since the rest of the Imperium uses the equivilant of abacuses, it's still a step up.

remember the three fingured exorcism to expell demons from the machine spirit.

with the mark of <ctrl><alt><delete>

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2004-11-27 04:56am

Okay, ready to rock and roll, and with that I depart for the night. If needed while I'm out, I again leave Prius in IO's capable hands, and if he's not around, PCM, and ultimately NecronLord. I might be busy tomorrow, so don't hesitate to post for me if needed.

*wonders if he'll still have a regiment by tomorrow evening...*

GeneralTacticus · Post by **GeneralTacticus** » 2004-11-27 04:58am

Imperial Overlord wrote:On rereading Captain Tycho's post I confirmed that we didn't see any weapons that would take out a land raider. Only heavy bolters and anti air launchers. Of course, it could have been a servitor with a BFG.

Or a few squads of Necrons. Was what remained of the Land Raider actually described at any point? I don't recall.

Imperial Overlord · Post by **Imperial Overlord** » 2004-11-27 05:05am

A few squads of Necrons? You think it takes more than one squad of Necrons to wipe out a land raider?

Bahahahahahahahahhahahaha!

Keep your delusions as long as you can. The universe will dispel them quickly enough.

GeneralTacticus · Post by **GeneralTacticus** » 2004-11-27 05:18am

Is that because Necron squads get heavy weapons (I have no idea if they do or not), or simply because they were weakened for the game? Going by game mechanics, an individual shot from a Necron gauss flayer has 'only' a 1 in 54* chance of hitting, penmetrating, and destroying a Land Raider (or any heavily armoured vehicle), so it would take a single squad several turns of shooting to destroy it unless they are lucky.

* Note: this is based on the idea (from memory) that Gauss flayers will cause a glancing hit to any vehicle on a six, which may or may not be accurate.

Imperial Overlord · Post by **Imperial Overlord** » 2004-11-27 05:37am

As far as I know you are correct about the game mechanics. But that is the math for a one shot kill. When you include stunning the crew, blowing off weapons, and disabling parts of the vehicle, the math favors something bad happening with a single volley. And then there is the second volley. But the Necrons have heavier weapons than the lowly (it is merely heinous) gauss flayer. A single heavy destroyer (and wouldn't anyone with more brains than a Borg send a heavy weapon dude to kill a tank) and . . . . . well you get the picture.

GeneralTacticus · Post by **GeneralTacticus** » 2004-11-27 05:41am

Anyway, as I said, was what remained of the Land Raider ever described?

Imperial Overlord · Post by **Imperial Overlord** » 2004-11-27 05:46am

No, but there was analysis on the remains of the heretic's gun servitor. So there is no reason for our characters to be worried about Necrons. For us it is background information and a warning from an enigmatic xeno.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2004-11-27 05:46am

No.

Incidentally, I've just given Gyllia Xyng a huge hammer, since
A) Large axe-things seem common for Techpriests and
B) Heroines having huge hammers is a well-established tradition. Think White Mage.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2004-11-27 06:27am

Hrm. Once again I wonder whether my guys aren't a bit underpowered.

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2004-11-27 07:29am

Bad time to go to sleep... *curses holiday*

Anyone have a ship hanging around? My squad is going to need to get down there.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2004-11-27 07:33am

Just take a shuttle. It doesn't really matter.

GeneralTacticus · Post by **GeneralTacticus** » 2004-11-27 08:16am

Well, I'm off to bed now, and I'll be spending most of tommorrow GMing an entirely different RPG, so NecronLord can have my character in the meantime. Just bear in mind that, while he has a fairly tolerant attitude towards people employing Xenos, etc, in their retinues anything which is verifiably daemon-related is a big no-no, and he would consider anyone knowingly using such a thing to be a heretic.

GeneralTacticus · Post by **GeneralTacticus** » 2004-11-27 08:18am

btw, would it be okay to retcon my character slightly to give him a small amont of TK?

(by small, I mean flip switches/choke people level, with break necks being the limit he tries really hard)

EDIT: Clarified the wording slightly.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2004-11-27 08:30am

I think so; I'm constantly retconning my characters as I flesh them out more.

Post by **NecronLord** » 2004-11-27 08:47am

The Land Raider was destroyed by a shoulder launched vortex grenade. All the marines were sucked directly into the Warp.

It's brown trouser time children!

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2004-11-27 08:48am

Soo, does this mean you're back? Because I was about to turn in for the night.

Post by **NecronLord** » 2004-11-27 08:50am

And if you guys have been having a walkover attacking the AdMech shrine, I'm going to throw an entire regiment of Tech Guard at you.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2004-11-27 08:51am

Actually, we haven't started yet. *Taps foot* Slowpokes.

Post by **NecronLord** » 2004-11-27 08:54am

And yes. I'm back. I didn't know I'd really been away...

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2004-11-27 08:55am

Over 12 hours counts as gone to me.

Post by **NecronLord** » 2004-11-27 08:58am

Pcm979 wrote:Over 12 hours counts as gone to me.

It counts as sleep and shopping to me.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2004-11-27 08:59am

Well, it just so happens to be the 12 hours I'm awake. Where are you, anyway?

Post by **NecronLord** » 2004-11-27 09:05am

England.

StarDestroyer.Net BBS

Some form of 40K RP- here and now

STGOD or Single Character RP?