More Harkar + battle stuff.
We started with
Naval Battle: Shogi Forces: 880 vs Chaos Forces: 1980
but everything changed when Primordial Arrays attacked
Final Base Summary: Shogi Naval Forces: 1014 vs Chaos Naval Forces: 904
Harkar apparently has a 16% crit chance, 0% critfail chance, rolls best-of-2, and gets massively better results from crits.
And "the honored daemon is basically what gave you this win; it got nerfed into oblivion by the arrays yoinking the majority of its power and then warp shred just saying
nope you dont get to do a thing."
Looks like we shot down the fleet with minimal losses, due to good rolls and a massive commander disparity (their chief admiral is about as good as Atraxas I think, and he's effectively the
sidekick 2ic for this mission).
Still need to roll for killing their station and the ground combat. The ground will be more difficult I think, but Nameria will get all her bonuses and we
should have control of the orbitals, so we'll see.
Edit 1:
Command Layer: Chaos 57 vs Harkar 134 (3 levels of success)
Secondary Command Layer: Chaos 86 vs Harkar+Atraxas 232 (7 levels of success)
So Harkar counts as a primary commander
and a subcommander, at full stats for each. Plus of course Atraxas is a perfectly competent subcommander, so the results are "lol, you all die now."
Edit 2:
With Order, Atraxas' warp shred is increased 75%->90%. With distance to target in naval combat, his warp shred is decreased 90%->75%. Which is still enough to lolnope an Honored.
Edit 3:
Ground war's going well.
Atraxas hacks the comms for the whole station and lets Nameria preach over the intercomms.
5 enemy commanders. Their leader laughs at her message. Two underlings waver. One gets eaten by Chaos as he(?) starts to turn. The last converts to our side(?) and
barely survives.
Atraxas rolls an 11 and effectively ties with the secondary ground commanders (he got the better result - but by <20).
Nameria lolnopes the enemy ground commander.
We roll about on par with each other on the ground war and... we win!
...
And the last enemy commander dies from the strain.
Edit 4:
Leon: oh that secret riddle seems to have been activated
an Inquisition ship has just translated into the warp storm
and demanded to know your purpose
...
they try to demand your execution for interfering in their duties
...
well they are wearing a necron style power armor on the monitor
and are talking about their trade deals with the warband
so do the math
...
Nameria: "How the fuck is a c'tan worshipper working with Chaos? What the fuck is going on here? Also you are a psyker, what?"
...
well the good news is that your fleet vastly out numbers her single ship and Harkar would mince her in any fight
so everyone on Shogi's side is just sort of wondering what nonsense is going on
Atraxas is at this point convinced the universe hates him
...
the Inquisitor is not dumb enough to push the matter
and is swayed somewhat in the favor of Nameria
to be fair the inquisitor had a reason that
would have held up
IE: I was using them to recover relics of the golden age to ensure that they could not be tainted by the foul touch of Chaos
...
considering that they only use non corrupted stuff
it would actually have held up in the eyes of the ad mech
they were actually fairly smart about things
using necron gear to protect against chaos corruption
only using non corrupted archeotech
doing light research
basically if they got busted in any other way it would have been easy for them to wiggle out of any crimes
...
The Froggy Ninja: So I guess in the riddle the fool was the Inquisitor and the two people who thought they were playing him was the Necron/C'tan and Chaos? And we perfectly counter danced by having a living saint catch him about to engage in trade with Chaos Marines
Leon: yes
well to be fair the plan to get her was to use the tachyon computer
to post cog the ships heading in and out of the warpstorm
or to do the fight and find the records in the station
there were several ways to reveal the fool
Leon: Cegorach by retconning your origin story
he made it so that you are an Eldar plant
just so he could start playing with you a bit
Edit 5:
Null Bolter - bolter that destroys souls on hit and erases memory of those killed as well
Conversion Field - system that translate energy from one type to another with near to no loss
Adrathic Lance - standard adrathic weapon but can be broken down to understand principles unlike Araahal's current weapon
Hyper-deceleration Field - field that slows down kinetic motion in its range (shield in effect)
????? (No one has any clue what this massive machine is - it's clearly human tech, and beyond anything Atraxas has seen before - Atraxas thinks its a fragment of something much larger - while carrying it out, later, Atraxas notices it has similarities to some of his theories about Veil-tech)
True Adamantium Samples (5) - gives a chance to discover how to make DAoT level adamantium or at least a not so crappy version
Shipyard is possessed by a Daemon.
Harkar critted the "let's destroy it while leaving" roll, while Atraxas' Warp Shred was still having some effect.
Daemon is True Dead.
Atraxas attempts to banish the Warp Storm.
Fails but suffers no downsides.
So with the big DC actions out of the way, i want to do low dc Learning next turn, then ones need to help the Exatari build ships that are better then the empire ones
We're expecting a single Learning Action to produce ~2800 DC next turn, and any other to produce ~1800, thanks to the upgraded Calculation Hearts.
