Honestly, this has sort of made this the more fun quest of the two chapter builders now, partly because of my love of Blood Ravens getting brought up, but also because I just realized that every planet we have as a chapter homeworld, now actively changes! I missed it the first time round, but that just sells a lot of detail that sets in whenever we make a new chapter after the succes of the last one, with the exception of the mission choices per turn, but this little add on about the worlds and the people within them changing, just feels all the more special in spite of how insignificant it kind of is. Also helps that we actually get to choose and learn about one or more characters that we would like to lead our chapter(s) and how they will change and lead them after we set the ground work to help set them on to do our work proud.
I say we should probably pick an option that deals with one of the chimera's next turn now, since we more then did our part to deal with the biggest of the 4, and dealt at least partly, with that whole thing about "ten thousand fires across the imperium" bit. I'm thinking Tzeentch to help deal with the fact that the alpha legion and the fallen are getting involved, and that is never something you want to leave unguarded by just anyone, especially those three groups of marines or chaos god worshippers.
At first I forgot that Battle Barges were still attainable in the modern day, then I decided that a Strike Cruiser fit the reference better anyways.
That and I like the idea that they value something that is tremendously reliable more then it's more impressive peers.
Honestly they're a bit like budget Ultrmarines. They don't have the numbers, or the amount of named characters, but the Fated Champions mean they can punch above their weight class.
To the best of my knowledge Thaddeus is never mentioned in DoW3 (and who knows about any books), so I left the details ambiguous.
...Honestly had forgotten about Brink...now I am very sad.
True, he doesn't get brought up, but so does not a lot of other characters like I think Tarkus or, as mentioned, Aramus and Thaddeus. But I always kinda pictured him making it to the end along with Hair gel commander, his optimism about being a space marine in a terrible galaxy always got to me, especially whenever their was a conversation between him and Avetis.
