- Location
- Alice Springs, Australia
or to turn into the first Daemon Prince that you get from one of your psykers, attempting working of that sort and scale in DANGEROUS and vulnerable to corruption
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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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[X] Spend more time bombarding inner city and walls. - Further weaken the inner walls at the expense of at least half of your remaining artillery shells. - Best taken with request resupply
[X] Request Resupply – Get access to more artillery shells but will have to either dispatch a powerful force to escort it though the badlands or lose a portion of your resupply, and cargo shuttles to AA fire.
@durin 1. How large is the DE expected AA cover?
With how many troops we have left it is not vaiable to set up a fortified passage through the badlands if the distance is longer than 3 to 5 km.
2. Where are the fighters that gave us coverage during landing? As I understand it they stayed with the army until it got to close to the city but where are they now?
[X] Request Resupply – Get access to more artillery shells but will have to either dispatch a powerful force to escort it though the badlands or lose a portion of your resupply, and cargo shuttles to AA fire.
@durin 1. How large is the DE expected AA cover?
With how many troops we have left it is not vaiable to set up a fortified passage through the badlands if the distance is longer than 3 to 5 km.
2. Where are the fighters that gave us coverage during landing? As I understand it they stayed with the army until it got to close to the city but where are they now?
- Location
- America
Oh, point.
- Location
- Alice Springs, Australia
1. A hundred kilometers, two hundred if you want to be certain, it would be best to escort a convoy rather then set u a series of fortifications
2. They are in orbit and will escort any landing craft down
Our Artillery will run dry.
To defend against the DE raids we had to travel at a speed that took us two days to cross the final 200 km.
We would need to sent out a force to guard the landing zone and escort the supply now and it will not be back before we run out of shells.
I have no ilusions that the DE will not be able to harass the convoy just because we have them pinned down.
I would be nice if we could do something about the soul after death. It is sad so if we could reincarnate with mind upload or clone transfer it would be great.
Even if we just made a thing that destroys the soul completely. Oblivion is objectively preferable to what happens.
- Location
- Alice Springs, Australia
The only epople who developed that tech are the Eldar, I severely doubt that you would be able to mimic them
Their ritual did require that the newly fused soul pass through the afterlife and reincarnation cycle before it could enter the materium. Which it did so as a baby human. Who then had to grow up to gain access to his psyker powers again.
So, kind of slow for a viable combat technique.
Can we use black jewel sword as an anchor for the soul?.
I would guess it is less about tech and more of a educated psyker that has the skill to do it.
So probably lot of time for our own psykeres to develop as a institution and individuals to get there.
At least we probably won't feel a lack of wraithbone for some time. Even if humans cannot make any it is still one of the strongest materials to exist and good psychic power conductor.
Imagine, Xavier with wraithbone weapon and power armour.
Can humans shape wraithbone? Because otherwise it is not good for anything beside trophies.
- Location
- Anchorage, Alaska
In that case, vote for the more aggresive configuration! Seizing large swaths of the Inner City will disable a large chunk of their AA capabilities, allowing us to bring the supplies down closer to us.
We've got the DE on the back foot right now, but any time we give them is time they can use to prepare. The moment to strike has arrived, and yet we hesitate! The time to strike is when the iron is hottest, not when we have a bigger hammer!
1309
At the moment they still have an unknown but large number of slave soldiers as well as more regular troops. That is reason enough for me to further thin their numbers.
@durin
1. How long is the inner wall of the city?
2. I am unnerved about the fact that the DE inner city defence is still 150. While bombarding the outer city its defence value as well as its homeground advantage shrunk. Did we not do enough damage to reduce the inner city defence or did we just not 'notice' it or was that just forgoten?
3. Will we get the option to kill/thin out through artillery fire slaves manning the walls beside the breaches to further reduce the casulities we will get while storming the breaches?
- Location
- Anchorage, Alaska
We're rapidly running out of artillery shells though, and unless we attack right now, we'll have to bring our attacks to a complete halt for several days, giving them time to reinforce key locations before we getanywhere near them. If we attack now, we can seriously reduce the down time It will take before we begin seizing the inner city.
Besides, if we delay too long, they may successfully evacuate all of their elites from the inner city, through the underground tunnel network. They can only move so much out at a time, but the more time we give them, the more they can get out. We have to make our glorious charge sometime, and it should be now, when it will have the most impact. If we wait any longer, then it will either be too dangerous (no artillery) or nigh pointless (all valuable enemy personnel, such as elite soldiers, will already be evacuated).
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Genestealers are tyranyd beastes that have nothing to do with the Warp.
Enslavers are the thing that killed the Old Ones after the War in Heaven. They are predatory Warp denizens do what their name suggest and enslave anything with a soul if given the chance
HanEmpire
Delicious
Genestealers are Tyranid scouts/infiltrators, who (forcibly) interbreed with the local population to produce hybrid-genestealers that look like the locals. These then blend into the local civilization and cause all sorts of disruptions so that the world cannot properly defend itself against the main Tyranid invasion, and then set up a warp beacon so that the Hive Fleet can home in on the world and eat it.
Enslavers are warp creatures that go around eating and enslaving things, as the name suggests. The last time that they came out into the matterium en-masse, they killed off the Old Ones. Evidently the Old Ones took umbrage to that, and designed the Avernite wildlife to eat any Enslaver it comes across. If you look at the planetary descriptions, you'll see that the Enslavers that crawl out of the warp are instantly destroyed by the polar animals.
ArchAIngel
Sorcerer Supreme.
- Location
- Right behind you.
With an apparent blind spot towards penguins.
dragon
Ancalagon the Black
- Location
- The Skies of Arda
[X] Begin an assault immediately. - Allows you to quickly take a section of the inner city while you still have artillery shells to provide fire support. - Best taken with do not request resupply
[X] Do not request re-supply – Wait until you have cleared a larger portion of the AA before requesting a resupply to the city. You will likely run out of artillery shells before having a good opportunity to resupply.
[X] Begin assault by deploying one battery of Deathstrikes.
[X] Do not request re-supply – Wait until you have cleared a larger portion of the AA before requesting a resupply to the city. You will likely run out of artillery shells before having a good opportunity to resupply.
[X] Begin assault by deploying one battery of Deathstrikes.
ArchAIngel
Sorcerer Supreme.
- Location
- Right behind you.
+hahahahno.
Valkur
The True Valkyria, Valkur!
- Location
- Fólkvangr
[X] Spend more time bombarding inner city and walls. - Further weaken the inner walls at the expense of at least half of your remaining artillery shells. - Best taken with request resupply
[X] Request Resupply – Get access to more artillery shells but will have to either dispatch a powerful force to escort it though the badlands or lose a portion of your resupply, and cargo shuttles to AA fire.
[X] Request Resupply – Get access to more artillery shells but will have to either dispatch a powerful force to escort it though the badlands or lose a portion of your resupply, and cargo shuttles to AA fire.
"Let me see if I understand your request correctly. You want to investigate the possibility of directed reincarnation of human souls...as a means to keep the training times down for the people of Avernus?"
"Yes! We lose a good number of our assault-janitors to neon mold just in the nursuries alone. If we can get toddlers that already know how to handle small arms-"
*Inquisitor takes a deep drink from something potent*
"Yes! We lose a good number of our assault-janitors to neon mold just in the nursuries alone. If we can get toddlers that already know how to handle small arms-"
*Inquisitor takes a deep drink from something potent*
[X] Begin an assault immediately. - Allows you to quickly take a section of the inner city while you still have artillery shells to provide fire support. - Best taken with do not request resupply
[X] Do not request re-supply – Wait until you have cleared a larger portion of the AA before requesting a resupply to the city. You will likely run out of artillery shells before having a good opportunity to resupply.
[X] Begin assault by deploying one battery of Deathstrikes.
[X] Do not request re-supply – Wait until you have cleared a larger portion of the AA before requesting a resupply to the city. You will likely run out of artillery shells before having a good opportunity to resupply.
[X] Begin assault by deploying one battery of Deathstrikes.