Sterbelicht - One Sacrifice At A Time Against The Galaxy (40K)

What should your focus for the rest of the Quest be?

  • Mercy (Diplomacy and Expansion)

    Votes: 201 74.7%

  • Ruthlessness (Kick the Duchy in the Balls)

    Votes: 65 24.2%

  • Thule (Yeeni Handholding and Piscarian Cuddling)

    Votes: 102 37.9%
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Alectai said:
Apparently we need a large wall of Crux-classes though if we're going to do this. 10 more... Cripes, that's going to be hard to put together with only 3 Frigates per action. They'll be good even afterwards, but that's still a tall order. I almost wonder if we should just crash build a full set of 6 this turn instead of the third Andromeda. Though we need that regardless. We can put off the Super Taurus at least.
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2 actions does get the Lamenters 5 Destroyers and a Light Cruiser, so that could be worthwhile as well.
 
BigBadBob7070 said:
Do we though? The End of the Line is right next to us and time isn't completely of the essence to us.
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... Technically, we don't. No. A single system assault when we have the initiative?

Hmm.

A double build of Cruxes gives us 6 hulls, bringing us to 8 total. Then we can do another one next turn and have 11 total (+9 from the original projections). Then we can attack.

Assuming our fleet remains otherwise the same, how much confidence do our folks have of winning the fight with 9x more Cruxes @HeroCooky? Or are there any ships they'd prefer more of in this context? Or is this mostly just a "Have the Cruxes push in and rotate out to ablate defenses while letting their shields cool, and we need 10 or so to reliably pull this off against the estimated opposition?"
 
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HeroCooky said:
Precedence for the breaking of their unofficial truce had been established with the destruction of the 'Tenth Mark of Honor' at the hands of one of the Xeno Battle Cruiser, the fact the upper echelons of its crew had revealed themselves to be Heretics and Traitors was unimportant for this case.
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Also, local admech leader went from logical bin to loony bin with their backwards ass logic as to how we broke the truce first. If the crew becoming heretics is unimportant, then the LC would be the responsible party for shooting first.
 
Consecrating the Chaos ships might also give us new designs/equipment to use for building new ships as well, which could be useful.
 
I'm not sure we should take the QM literally when they said that 10 Crux's is what we need to break End of Line.

From my PoV, the Crux is one of the shittiest ships we have. It's a solid block of metal, but a redesign would be 50% more efficient. I can't help but think there's a better solution than slavishly follow the QM's off-the-cuff suggestion.
 
Neablis said:
I'm not sure we should take the QM literally when they said that 10 Crux's is what we need to break End of Line.

From my PoV, the Crux is one of the shittiest ships we have. It's a solid block of metal, but a redesign would be 50% more efficient. I can't help but think there's a better solution than slavishly follow the QM's off-the-cuff suggestion.
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We could design a new Light Cruiser, the brawler we've been talking about. Something heavily armored, big and meaty, with some powerful guns and boarding shuttles.
 
In light of the very good point that our most immediate target is adjacent, and the requests of our IC experts...

[ ] Plan: What's that Hammerfor?
-[] [General] Develop The Federations'...
--[] Medical Services I
-[] [Construct] A Warp Ship X2
--[] 6x Crux

Gets us 6 more Crux classes, they're just really decent all around apparently, and that's evidently what we need more of for them to do their job well and keep the squishies intact. They'll still be handy even after this campaign, so even if we have too many, it's not like having a garrison somewhere is bad.

If we're lucky, with the newly taken systems being halfway integrated, we might get another production tick next turn, which'll let us hit the benchmark of needing 10 more.
 
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i just hope we can start the sanctification process of the fleet...is that going to be done automatically?

because getting the lamenators more ships sounds good, even if they have to be refitted to work with the chapters fleet.

also the crux will need a eventual refit i think, or a new line...they are our missile destroyers yeah?

edited: yeah want Armored Life-pods, Ship Shrines, and Alloy Armor for all our ships if we can manage it...those alone would be amazing to ensure we can get things rolling...and also we will need *allot* of faith if we want to smack chaos harder.
 
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RandomDwarf said:
i just hope we can start the sanctification process of the fleet...is that going to be done automatically?

because getting the lamenators more ships sounds good, even if they have to be refitted to work with the chapters fleet.

also the crux will need a eventual refit i think, or a new line...they are our missile destroyers yeah?
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Crux are intended to be bodyguard escorts. Chonky ships with excellent protection and a punch that can't be dismissed, ready to tackle things that might try to rush more vulnerable ships down.

The Super Crux is going to be rocking comparable protection to a very tanky Light Cruiser, with other adjustments pending our DP budget when we can shake actions loose.
 
[X] Plan: Pirate Prep!
-[X] [General] Develop The Federations'...
--[X] Medical Services I
-[X] [Military] [Construct] A Warp Ship - [3x Crux-Class Missile Frigate]
-[X] [General] Research:
--[X] Infantry-Grade Weapons and Armor Development

[X] Plan: I Desire Ships!
-[X] [General] Develop The Federations'...
--[X] Medical Services I
-[X] [Military] [Construct] A Warp Ship x2
--[X] 3x Crux-Class Missile Frigate and 6x Aries-Secundus-Class Corvette
 
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[X] Plan: What's that Hammerfor?
-[X] [General] Develop The Federations'...
--[X] Medical Services I
-[X] [Construct] A Warp Ship X2
--[X] 6x Crux
 
[X] Plan Faith of Arms
-[X] [Faith] Brotherhoods, Sisterhoods, Siblinghoods, And Orders of Faith
-[X] [General] Develop The Federations'...
--[X] Medical Services I
-[X] [Construct] A Warp Ship
--[X] 3x Crux

Let's not forget that the QM said one of our faith actions are a ticking time bomb, and I don't want to see what militant fanatics forming without our guidance will do.
 
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[X] Plan: I Desire Ships!
[X] Plan: What's that Hammerfor?
[X] Plan Faith of Arms


[X] Plan: technically 5 ships
-[X] [General] Develop The Federations'...
--[X] Medical Services I
-[X] [Chapter] Sanctify The Chaos Ships (0/2) x2

[X] Plan: Sanctify
-[X] Sanctified Chaos Investigations
-[X] [Chapter] Sanctify The Chaos Ships (0/2) x2
 
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