- Location
- Alice Springs, Australia
that may be because they could not easily destroy the larger warships
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The Long Night Part One: Embers in the Dusk: A Planetary Governor Quest (43k) Complete Sequel Up
- Thread starter Durin
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- Location
- Australia
When the orks return for us there's going to be basically no navy...
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- Australia
Btw, you have not yet threadmarked the most recent post
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why we attacked sooner rather than later.
I'm drawing a complete blank on omakes to fight orbital defense platforms. I just can't think of any interesting story for that.
Hope other people have more ideas or we'll lose most of our army before even getting to the surface.
Hope other people have more ideas or we'll lose most of our army before even getting to the surface.
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I've got an idea for one. I'll have it out later today.
- Location
- Australia
My thoughts on how this is going to go all seem to revolve around everyone dying in a loud and grotesque manner, so I'm probably not the one who should be writing these
My thoughts on how this is going to go all seem to revolve around everyone dying in a loud and grotesque manner, so I'm probably not the one who should be writing these
I think we get bonuses regardless so I say go for it.
It's not like everyone dyeing is not an increasingly likely possibility at this point.
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Hiiii please be my friend!
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- Down under
By the way I'd like to inform you that the orbitals are armed with elder empire era archeotech weapons.
So panic and get to omake writing
So panic and get to omake writing
- Location
- Australia
Maybe we should just leave. We probably won't be able to land a big enough force on the ground to take the planet.
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That will just give us the worst of both worlds. The Dark Eldar will be able to cripple our economies by slaughtering our merchantmen now that all our escorts are dead.
No. The update says we'll make it. Losses will be incurred, but we'll make it:
Admiral Freyr believes he can make a hole to let us land. It's not as bad as you're thinking.
All our Escorts are dead? Then what about the 134 Escorts we still have that aren't dead?
Joy. Anyways, can you please let the doomsayers know that in spite of that we still do have a chance of landing even if it's gonna hurt? Or are you doing the standard GM thing and enjoying the panic while sipping cognac and laughing maniacally?
I do not think anyone is saying we do not have a chance just that it is increasingly likely that we will lose everything if the next set of rolls is bad enough.
This...
...is pretty much saying we don't stand a chance.
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- That light in the sky with a decaying orbit.
How about a ship losing power to its weapons, then ramming one and sallying forth for boarding action?
Like I said guys, I've got an idea for an omake. Give me a few hours to finish waking up and I'll get to it. You'll see what it is when I get it out. Trust me when I say you'll approve - I think it's one of my better ideas.
I to not think Rotbart has the authority to command a withdraw anyway so the point is moot.
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- Alice Springs, Australia
he doesn't nor does he have the Naval reputation to influence Freyr in this
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- Australia
You're right with that.
I do think it's important for us as a thread to kind of ... well, I hate to get into the macho jingoism, but we all need to gird our loins and sack up a bit.
We won't have orbital dominance as we are effectively carving a 1/3rd envelope in the defences to camp out in. We will we facing formidable defences. We have also lost 40 million infantry, not counting however many hundreds of thousands of naval personnel we have lost in orbit. We will certainly lose 40 million more before we are through.
But we have a clear and present danger to the safety of the Nine Worlds that we need to take out and, being the Imperium successor state that we are...
... We have Reserves!
Right now, the only way out is through.
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Fucking Freyr and Ridcully better not lose one of the battleships though, goddammit.
What I'm worried about is that the DE admiral is still hiding some of his fleet somewhere, to ambush the fleet once landings begin. There's no obvious flagship so far, which could just mean they only have cruisers, OR he's holding back for an opportunity to strike.
Dark Eldar don't have ships larger than Cruisers. Ships bigger than that don't really fit in larger portions of the Webway, and since until now the Dark Eldar have lived in the Webway they couldn't practically build such ships. Now, had we left the Dark Eldar alone for a few decades and given them time to build shipyards, they might have built some larger ships, but fortunately they haven't had time for that.