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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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I don't think we should commit our reserves yet.
- Location
- Alice Springs, Australia
currently the reserves are being earmarked for assisting the Timeless Army which seems to be facing both the most defensible position and the largest number of enemy
- Location
- Australia
Is the Trust Army making any progress at the moment?
Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
One thing I'm confused about is where the Avernite IG regiments are. Are they with us or with the rest of the IG?
- Location
- not telling
Then how about the Air Wings? We have 2,000 Bomber Wings we haven't used once yet. 300 or so doing a night time bombing run should keep the Dark Eldars on their toes while we prep for the next days assault. Has the Navy made any more progress clearing the orbitals yet?
- Location
- Alice Springs, Australia
they are with the rest of the IG
- Location
- Alice Springs, Australia
yes, they are making slow but steady progress and will soon be ready to lay siege to their target
- Location
- Alice Springs, Australia
The air wings are being kept in reserve for a time that they are really needed, they will be an option for the assault on the keep but until then are being kept in reserve
one thing you have to remember is that an intact city can inflict massive damage on a large scale bombing run while being tough enough to shrug off most the the bombs, air power is more effective against armies then it is against city and is not as effective in 40k as it is in real life, partially due to light speed AA weapons
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- not telling
Alright, make since to me. How's the Dark Eldar Air Force doing? There was 235 Razorwing Fighter Wings and 252 Voidraven Bomber Wings last we heard, has that changed? If I was the Dark Eldar general facing the Timeless Army I'd have made a run on Task Force Hammer after they had cost me my raiders as the largest threat on the field.
- Location
- Alice Springs, Australia
there has been no sign of the Dark Eldar air force, you believe that they are being held back for a good target such as task force hammer being deployed en mass
- Location
- not telling
durin, I have a few off the wall questions.
- The polar regions described here, can we colonize a new city here and what should their troop specialization be? Also I don't think we ever were told if all of our cites are on the same continent or spread across all four. If not can we start to spread out to them?
- In regards to the Inquisition from here, they have a shortage of troopers with a heavy leaning toward kill teams. Can we bribe them into supporting us on the Quartoks issue for us training up and giving them whole regiments up to their standards? Maybe even some help from our Arbites Assassins and the Scholastica Psykana to jointly train psyker assassins for them, preferable in the poles? I'm thinking of using the psykers penguins and giant bears to train expert level Daemon hunters.
- Speaking of Arbites Assassins and the Scholastica Psykana, I was wondering if we could rise Special Forces type regiments centered on them. Have each Company lead by a Primaris (we rise one or more every few years now and don't need 20+ regiments), Major Battle psykers platoons, and Minor Battle psykers head squads. Thou organized as regiments it's deployed as squads or platoons at the most. Each squad would have 13 members. 1 psyker, 3 assassins, 4 infiltration and sabotage experts, 1 expert diver (even if the vehicle isn't of human make he can get it going), 1 field medical expert, 1 expert interrogator, and a comms/covert equipment tech priest. This gives each squad a combo of psykers and experts to open holes for the army's following in their wake to exploit, whether it is killing enemy commanders, stealthily opening gates, kidnapping high ranking enemy for info or other cloak and dagger ops.
Technically yes, but considering that it is considered to be terra terriblus by deathworlders and the local wildlife considers denizens of the Warp to be part of this balanced breakfast...I would advise against it for the time being.
I believe they're all somewhat close together on one continent in the safest part of the planet. Considering this is the part of the planet where Titans are deployed on a regular basis in support of the PDF against local wildlife we probably have our hands full for the moment. (Other parts of the planet apparently have traits to the effect of 'space and time get really counterintuitive from here on out', for example)
My understanding is that what the Inquisition wants, it takes. The difference between our local Inquisitors and the Inquisition of the past is that here they have some oversight, not the ability to walk up to anyone and say "congratulations on joining the Inquisition, I have a job for you". That said, I suppose speaking to our Diplomacy advisor and seeing whether the local Inquisition has need of kill teams of some sort might be a prudent move.
The poles are, as far as we can tell anyway, the most dangerous biome on the planet.
That's correct.
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- madison
normally on a death world where the main threat is the wild life the poles would be a safe place, less energy means less active wildlife. however the unofficial avernus planetary motto is "this fucking planet" so it is as usual the exception. the semi stable warp rift at the poles spits out demons and enslavers with enough frequency to form a solid base for the polar food chain. This lets the wildlife at the poles flourish despite the lack of plant life. The implications that demons are much closer to the bottom of the polar food chain than the top are a rather convincing argument to stay the hell away from the poles.
- Location
- Australia
Which is a damned tragedy, because I like penguins.
- Location
- Leeds
Only because you've never looked one in the mouth.
Let me fix that.
jwolfe_beta
Semi Genre-Savvy Overlord
- Location
- Canada
Yes, truly they are the most vicious of all creatures.
Now imagine that, except the guy catches on fire or explodes. That's what you get on Avernus.
And lightning. So much lightning.
Also there's ten thousand of them and they're herding you towards a pair of fifty-ton thirty foot long bears.
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- Alice Springs, Australia
1. You could try to colonies them but the millions of major psykers who make their home here may disagree with you as may the near open warp rifts. All of your cities are on a single continent
2. The Inquisition feels no real need for larger forces then it currently has
3. It would be an option and you can propose forces like that in the military options under Specialist Grenadiers (Write In):
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- not telling
Well I'm up for seeing if we could start expanding to other continents to see what lives there and if we could find other DAoT stuff hidden on them. The fact that the poles are home to so many psykers and spit out daemons near constantly is why I want to put a training town there for our Arbites Assassins and the Scholastica Psykana. If you can survive here what can a Chaos Cult hope to do to you? Also want to have Magos Biologis Quintus Saren look into the penguins. With them all being psykers I want to find out if we can tame them with higher level psykers for a familiar like the Phase-Tigers. So long as we avoid the places with the weird time and space stuff we should do find, just treat each new continent as if we're invading a daemon world.
A shame. I would have though a formal school for Assassins training people for them would be to their liking as they keep poaching from the Scholastica Psykana for psykers as is anyway or are they recruiting from our assassination school to?
Well I know what my next vote is for after this mini game. We don't need super special Banblade Tank Grenadiers or the like with all the power armored troops we can make but the fact we only have 10 Grey Knights for all the Space Marines in our fold means we need a Squad based specialist units to do what they did. They will most definitely take more casualties than the Space Marines would but having Squad sized units going in ahead of the main forces wreaking havoc, spotting ambushes, killing leader and what not would be worth it. Maybe see if the Grey Knights would be willing to take command of the Company's and training? They're both psykers and Space Marines so who better to lead a psyker heavy Special Forces?
- Location
- Alice Springs, Australia
1. If they could survive up there they would be ready for anything but to be honest that would be a challenge for Space Marines, let alone humans. Also the Penguins are better, more powerful psykers then most of your psykers, there would be a lot of questions over who was the familiar in that relationship, the penguin may just be using the human for its opposable thumbsWell I'm up for seeing if we could start expanding to other continents to see what lives there and if we could find other DAoT stuff hidden on them. The fact that the poles are home to so many psykers and spit out daemons near constantly is why I want to put a training town there for our Arbites Assassins and the Scholastica Psykana. If you can survive here what can a Chaos Cult hope to do to you? Also want to have Magos Biologis Quintus Saren look into the penguins. With them all being psykers I want to find out if we can tame them with higher level psykers for a familiar like the Phase-Tigers. So long as we avoid the places with the weird time and space stuff we should do find, just treat each new continent as if we're invading a daemon world.
A shame. I would have though a formal school for Assassins training people for them would be to their liking as they keep poaching from the Scholastica Psykana for psykers as is anyway or are they recruiting from our assassination school to?
Well I know what my next vote is for after this mini game. We don't need super special Banblade Tank Grenadiers or the like with all the power armored troops we can make but the fact we only have 10 Grey Knights for all the Space Marines in our fold means we need a Squad based specialist units to do what they did. They will most definitely take more casualties than the Space Marines would but having Squad sized units going in ahead of the main forces wreaking havoc, spotting ambushes, killing leader and what not would be worth it. Maybe see if the Grey Knights would be willing to take command of the Company's and training? They're both psykers and Space Marines so who better to lead a psyker heavy Special Forces?
2. They have their own training facilities that they are keeping the details of secret
3. Possible