On the Shoulder of Martyrs (Black Templars 40K Quest)
- Thread starter ManInACandyVan
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- Sci-Fi
Dezron
In the Omnissiah we trust !
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- Poland
Atleast with our las-eye we can fire accuratly , if we can see it we can hit it .
ChiefTurtle117
The Sigillite
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- Holy Terra
If fire support at the actual threat wasn't an actual option, why couldn't that have been mentioned?
Dezron
In the Omnissiah we trust !
- Location
- Poland
Black Templars prefer meele fight rather then range fight .
- Location
- Cagayan de Oro City, The Philippines
Honest answer: I didn't think the fight scene as thoroughly as I'd thought.
Meta answer: if you could have just killed the berserker with the heavy bolter and killed the cultists after, then it would have precluded the consequences of the vote - severe wounding and death.
In-universe answer: Gottfried and Nimrod couldn't get quite as clear a shot as Sigismund had planned, especially not with the cultists between them and the Chaos Marine.
Regardless, I realize that it was tactical error that Sigismund shouldn't have made, but chalk it up to negligence on my part and inexperience on Sigismund's.
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ChiefTurtle117
The Sigillite
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- Holy Terra
Except two freaking Brothers were just deployed away from the CQC range to give range support on non primary threats.
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- Germany
Look, in a mechanic-heavy game it can be fun to avoid negative consequences of decisions by just being good enough at the game, but this is not that kind of game.
We knew we'd loose people when doing this and it happened, the details don't matter that much.
We knew we'd loose people when doing this and it happened, the details don't matter that much.
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- alphen aan den rijn
[x] To spit on her alien technology.
ya, no sorry no xeno teck in the fanatic please
that would not end well for anyone.
ya, no sorry no xeno teck in the fanatic please
that would not end well for anyone.
ConfusedCanuck
Where did it all go wrong?
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- Neverland
[x] To spit on her alien technology.
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- Germany
[x] To spit on her alien technology.
Though the evil eye would be really damn cool, we are a creation of the Emperor and not to be mixed with Xeno-tech.
Though the evil eye would be really damn cool, we are a creation of the Emperor and not to be mixed with Xeno-tech.
ChiefTurtle117
The Sigillite
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- Holy Terra
So, i don't mean or want to be a whiny shite, because i did vote for this option. But, as is, owning that decision now is rather damn hard because the consequences, to me, were rather heavy handed in how they came about. Do we need to start worrying that all of our decisions would be made self sabotage because of Sigismund's idiocy, for starters?
I would've been fine if we died and whole squad accomplished nothing but our own deaths because it was what i knew could've happened. As is, the two of us couldn't accomplish the feat, then some old man came out of nowhere to distract the Traitor long enough for us to get grenade and kill him?
That seems like something to make us feel like a fuck up without actually dying as should've happened.
This might not make sense to you, but i have some genuinely bad feelings with this update, in ways that maybe i couldn't articulate.
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- Location
- United States
[X] A bionic arm.
- Location
- Romania
Lose people? Yes. An arm or an leg? Sure. Possibly the very prisoners we wanted to save? Why not. From failure you can only learn.
Getting ripped in half and having half of our face blown up, losing a brother and having the long-range support focus on the non-primary targets seems like a punishment for choosing the hardest option.
But then again, I don't want to bring the QM down or say anything bad about the direction they're taking the quest since I don't know what they have planned. It was a good update, regardless of my feelings as always @ManInACandyVan.
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- NY
It's 40k. Be happy we aren't playing Death Korps Quest.
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- NY
Point of information: is power armor compatible with all the capabilities of the bionic legs?
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- Cagayan de Oro City, The Philippines
I empathize with how you feel. I intended for that option to have such dire consequences, but I hadn't handled it as well as I could have, making you feel as if you'd made a wrong choice. I apologize for that.
Yes, all the choices listed are compatible with power armor, though they're pretty resilient even without it.
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- Romania
Except that Sigismund is our hero, who survived three minutes as a starved, dehydratated child against an Astartes willing to kill him. And he did it by playing it smart.
This isn't a chapter quest, a death korps quest. We're trying to build a hero whose legacy will echo throughout the Empire. So of course that it's frustrating that his first real hurdle leaves him as good as a cripple.
Feeling dismayed and angry because our hero was overconfident or stupid or both is understandable. And we'll get over it, given time. Letting the QM know these things will also help, since it allows us to discuss our voting options and how we perceive them, since it might not be how they will be written.
Either way, let's continue having a great quest everyone.
Because that's precisely what happened. We took a rookie commander on a near suicidal cause who promptly made a bad call because of inexperience. We SHOULD have been massacred for taking on a foe way out of our league but that would have ended the quest, so we got lucky instead turning a massacre into a very Pyrrhic victory. At the end of the day a degree of 'reality' is necessary for suspension of disbelief but ultimately 'reality' serves the plot not the other way around. It's the challenging bit of being a gamesmaster (of in this case questmaster) balancing fun with taking into account bad calls and rolls,
Role playing can be fun but sometimes you'll end up with very bittersweet moments because the roles we play aren't always particularly rational individuals.
- Location
- NY
I mean, he also killed a Khorne Berserker as a Scout, so not exactly a chump. Also, I'm pretty sure Yorrick is down an arm and an eye, and Gaunt spent most of a book blind.
ChiefTurtle117
The Sigillite
- Location
- Holy Terra
[x] To spit on her alien technology.
No deal on the Xenos tech. Would've been very temped if they were Imperial, but, as is, no deal. At least she's rebuilding us some pure technology.
No deal on the Xenos tech. Would've been very temped if they were Imperial, but, as is, no deal. At least she's rebuilding us some pure technology.
Night_stalker
Slava Ukraini!
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[x] To spit on her alien technology.