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The Long Night Part One: Embers in the Dusk: A Planetary Governor Quest (43k) Complete Sequel Up

Investigate the Sea?

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Doomed Wombat said:
Well what would be better?

The Conference Call? Shooty mc shooter, Trust Pattern Shot Gun MK1?

Give me something which sounds good and I'll change the name otherwise I'm sticking with that, cause if we can get away with calling an entire line of armaments the Impalers I don't see how this is such a big shift.
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Trust Pattern Shot Impaler
 
Andres110 said:
It's not supposed to be "fun". A lasgun from Ryza is called a Ryza Pattern Lasgun, not a "Ryza Pleasa". This weapon of yours is a shotgun impaler developed by the Trust, so Trust Pattern Shot Impaler. Leave the "fun" names as nicknames for guardsmen/armsmen to give.
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Yeah, but ryzan weapons were made by Grey emotionless tech priests for cannon fodder, this was made by much more interesting and inventive people than the Ryazan tech priests who might have a touch more humanity in them than a clanking pile of ciliginous junk.
Andres110 said:
@Doomed Wombat, a compromise. Call it a Trust Pattern "Hello Goodbye" Shot Impaler. This kind of naming scheme is not unprecedented.
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Sure it's non canon anyway.
 
Doomed Wombat said:
I'm just going by what we know which is against the norm the navy is one of the main centres for conservatism on Vanaheim.

Ironic seeing how the Navy was usually more accepting of change than the Guard in the Imperium by my experience.


Yeah, but it hasn't proved itself as working :p.


Thought that would be obvious, though its not that it doesn't go through point defence it never gets near em at all under most circumstances.


Not a one (most of the time), good thing we're not the Imperium and have a much better sense of humour.


And Avernites are also very hard to get drunk.

Part of the adaptation remember, its possible, but it needs a lot more booze than a regular human.

+I'd imagine Avernite drunkeness is actually fairly uncommon. Among burnouts yes, among the suicidal yes, recreational drinking absolutely, but proper drunk? On Avernus that seems like a death sentence or at least a way of increasing the chance of death by at least 3x.


Yes, but the Sky Clearers haven't been put forward and are still being perfected, the pedoes have. And its mostly because they're a bunch of things slapped together that they have a chance of getting through.

@Durin
Non canon, but can I get an indicator why? Too early for Freyr to do this, not in his personality, not enough Tranth love?
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The torpedoes basically, the idea of cheap small weapons that can match an escort lance even once does not fit. Remember that a reusable lance is around 1k long and consumes most of an escort, if you could have cheaper then normal torpedoes that even came close they would replace normal weapons instantly
 
Durin said:
The torpedoes basically, the idea of cheap small weapons that can match an escort lance even once does not fit. Remember that a reusable lance is around 1k long and consumes most of an escort, if you could have cheaper then normal torpedoes that even came close they would replace normal weapons instantly
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So las torp doesn't, but do the other two?

The Sky clearer especially I can see as being something the Trusts arsenal needs seeing how we're almost always outnumbered in terms of fighters.
 
So, spent a bit of time thinking about what the Abomination general would be most likely to do.

My ultimate conclusion is at this point he'd probably go with the desperation moves that do not involve summoning the First Circle.

From his perspective right now Rotbart has made an absolute fool out of him. Just straight-up out maneuvered and outplayed him. What we haven't done, though, is knock out the majority of his conventional forces. So while at this point he might think he's unlikely to win without summoning the First Circle, he probably does not think that it is impossible. Between his ego and the potential reward on the line for success, that would make a very convincing reason to not try to pull out the First Circle (as to his mind that would mean almost assured success but minimal reward).

Another reason to put off summoning the First Circle is his probable belief that even if he takes even major losses he'll still be able to summon it later. For good or ill, we really haven't been cutting down on his number of available sorcerers, and unless our naval rolls are absolutely insane we're not going to be cutting off the spigot of incoming potential sacrifices in the foreseeable future. Add in the ability of a sufficiently talented sorcerer to count their own fallen as sacrifices and they have a damn good reason to think that even if we absolutely crush another round of engagement they'll still have the summoning as a fall-back option.
 
So at what point is the Governor so successful that he has to fight off a heretical cult that worships him as the next Emperor cometh?
 
Doomed Wombat said:
No it was part of a very early update.

Don't worry about missing it.
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I think the early stages were really cool. Felt like an actual planetary governor in the imperium.

Now we're the best human general since Macharius and our name isn't even imposing enough to name a tank after!

(Not dissing Frederick, or the increase in power levels over the quest but you can hardly say the name's really battle tank material).
 
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