That would not really make sense since Fellowship is also the Intimidation characteristic. Low Fellowship means you're pretty damn bad at scaring people. Low Willpower would be more likely. As for preventing Talos' death, he's still a Traitor and we're still Loyalists. Unless he has a sudden change of heart, which I doubt will ever happen, we won't be friends.
It was just for fun. Ex. Rolling for how seriously you took that post. I just view fellowship as the diplomacy stat (empathy, persuasion, intimidation, charisma, etc...).
I would say Alphas probably have some of the best fellowship. They are the social infultrators and cult leaders after all.
5 in Perception and Agility, 3 in Willpower, a whopping 1 in fellowship (fellowship is intimidation only for speech checks) and 4 on the rest of stats.
Nowalijki get assigned to reserve companies, which you only have the tacticals for now, when you get the 8th and 9th running, they will also be assigned there.
Didn't we vote to do away with reserve companies?
You voted not to use the 10th as a traditional scout company, making it instead a specialist formation.
Oh my fucking God, our still-wet-behind-the-ears Mist Shrikes are overall better than the average Night Lord... holy fuck man, how did that Legion not just spontaneously combust? Sevatar must have had a fucking 11 in Strength for how hard he was carrying his team.
It's mostly the "5 in Perception in Agility, 4 in everything besides W and F" that gets me. We're literally about to crack 6 Agility this turn and Toughness will probably hit 5 in 2 turns tops with Myrok's training. Our Chapter has only 4 people with more than 20 years of combat experience and it's already beating out the VIIIth Legion, which would have been doing work for over 2 centuries by the time of the Heresy.
Regarding the "Mist Shrikes>Night Lords" thing there are a couple of reasons. First, law of averages. Mist Shrikes are barely 700 guys, while the Night Lords are tens of thousands. Secondly, you have a much more decent workplace culture and stringent recruiting standards. Thirdly, I'm starting to think I've gone a little overboard with the training rolls.
Most RPG systems go a little overboard with the progression speed of the PCs.
Because I am outside my house and can't start writing yet, so I see no harm in letting it open, even if the Silent night plan is winning by landslide.
Kinda, what happened halfway through, was that the training cycle for the chapter just got scrapped and instead got replaced with an EXP system for each of the 10 companies, with some stats changing between one per turn, with some rising high to 5 or 6 in one particular stat, before the losses of 2 dozen or more marines cutting down on that stat or another stat in its place.
Considering how shit his Fellowship is I wouldn't be so sure.
I can't speak for anyone but myself but I'd understand if you make it harder to raise states even if you did it retroactively.
I think it's just that we've been training up our lowest stats or stats which have a lot of "in-the-field" experience already built up, which makes progress seem faster than normal. Unless I'm mistaken, compared to most Chapters the Mist Shrikes are still noticeably lacking and playing catch-up.
That's not how the system is supposed to work. A 4 in a given stat is where a Space Marine is expected to be pretty much by default, before even adding in a gene-line's given bonuses. It's why I was so shocked at the Night Lords' stats: they are literally at the bare minimum for what you'd expect of them in most of their characteristics and absolute garbage in a couple others (W and F). Explicitly, 9 and 10 are meant to be rare but ultimately achievable for Space Marines.
Yeah, "skill decay" doesn't make sense because they are always training to keep themselves sharp even when they're not in battle. Hell, that's what Chapter fatalities are supposed to do anyway. Lose a lot of guys and you lose a lot of your collective abilities which then need to be built back up. It's one of the primary benefits of even having a Death World as a recruiting world in the first place: that you retain more experience points in the face of Astartes deaths. If you just automatically degrade over time, what's even the point?
It may not even cap at 6, it could cap at 5 for some. Mind you, part of why we're raising some of our characteristics so quickly is because they are (or were) incredibly low. Raising a characteristic from 5 to 6 will take almost as much experience as raising a characteristic from 2 to 4. Another aspect is that we've been doing a lot of deployments where those stats are used, which in turn provides additional experience. Our Agility was pretty much always in use, which is why it had 180 experience points built up even before we did a training action for it. Raising something like Perception or Intelligence will be much harder because they are used far less often and thus will rarely get experience from practical application.
I've seen that in the past, and it makes sense.
