Valkur
The True Valkyria, Valkur!
- Location
- Fólkvangr
An the name is all edgy like too. I think geedubs always made those kind of narrative decisios with how many super specialized levels of things the Imperium has.
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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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An the name is all edgy like too. I think geedubs always made those kind of narrative decisios with how many super specialized levels of things the Imperium has.
Shard
One and Many
- Location
- Malaysia
I suppose if we were trying to abuse Rule of Cool, well..
Hmm.
Everyone gets names and titles (I am the Witch of Nothing.) from the Illiad or something (Achilles! Hector!) and suchlike, we make sure to promote ancestral weapon usage as much as possible (This Lespen was your father's.. This Force Staff was wielded by an Elite Primaris Psyker, may it serve you well..), and do weird things like having last stands all the time (We must hold Gate 87! - 23 minutes later - Gate 88 shall never fall!) or just restating facts (For every Avernite, three more have already been reaped by Avernus. And the survivors are battle-hardened..)
- Location
- madison
the Imperium was super decentralized, less a unified empire and more a mesh of allied states and intermingled power bases. If you wanted a force that got shit done on a wide scale you needed a focused department with lots of political clout. It's also easier to make something like that than get rid of it, so they probably built up over the centuries.
- Location
- Poland
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Something tells me it would cause a spike in Abomination cults.
We could just make sure our weapons are way cooler. Simple, practical staff? Hah! Let's add some neon lights and chainsaw guns on top of it.
Shard
One and Many
- Location
- Malaysia
The deadpan look will be enforced. Always look utterly stately when pressing the button. Always specify things in a maximally cool manner.
Don't forget things like always have several last resorts you use all the time.
Valkur
The True Valkyria, Valkur!
- Location
- Fólkvangr
I'm, our tech is not omnipowerful. Those It is fucking mauled us so bad that Mar Sara lost 3/4 of its population and sports a war torn wound all over.
Even our Avernite had issues with a remaining force of elites and lost billions or something like that.
We need better tactics imo. But for that we need fights to get that experience.
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
- Location
- Dancing on wires!
Less we need better tactics, as far as I can tell the orks have done something even worse, which makes adapting to them even harder.
True hugs.
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
- Location
- Dancing on wires!
That and they do everything faster.
For someone with experience fighting them that's going to throw everything off, as they react the same way, but everything is faster and longer ranged.
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
- Location
- Dancing on wires!
Soooooon Titans...SOOOON.
If it turns out that Titans are tech heresy then that's going to be such a win for the progressives.
- Location
- Leicester UK
Wont be finished this turn sadly, we have 4 years left to finish the titan and this is only a 3 year turn.
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
- Location
- Dancing on wires!
I'd say you're a very strong contender for most omakes and most threadmarks in general.
OBJECTION
Scott's rebuilding finishes next turn, but Tranth's examination finishes in year 1!
- Location
- Leicester UK
That's the appetizer to the stompy death god of war, it just makes my hunger for the stompy death god of war even more intense!
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
- Location
- Dancing on wires!
Ah, but that appetiser is in fact the most important part of the meal as it lets us learn how to make more stompy death god of wars!
One uberstompy death god of wars is great, but loads of new ones is also great
- Location
- Leeds
Clearly you are terrible at cleansing heresy.
This is how you push buttons..
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
- Location
- Dancing on wires!
In your dreams.
I'm kind of joking, we might be able to equip em with fire giant armour, but the Tranth Terminator armour...not any time soon.
We might be able to build up suits over time, but definitely not now.
Not with maintenance working like it is.
In canon tech had pretty epic Ragnarök Proofing. Build a suit of terminator armour and, short of battle damage, it would keep working with only basic cleaning for centuries if not millennia.
Our stuff? Not so much. Our tech seems to need all the parts replacing every few decades.
ArchAIngel
Sorcerer Supreme.
- Location
- Right behind you.
I would imagine a fair part of that is Avernus meaning battle damage is pretty damn common.
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
- Location
- Dancing on wires!
As ArchAlngel said for us its probably Avernus that causes most of the maintenance.
I remember someone complaining about our maintenance costs in regards to things like the education chairs, but the fact of Avernus is these things are seeing constant use with thing that can do real damage to them.
Its not to say the Imperium didn't put their stuff through constant usage, its just that typically for things like terminator armour the damage either destroyed it outright or was minor enough that fixing it was relatively easy + terminator armour back then wasn't in use as much.
- Location
- Australia
I'd hope so. A core characteristic of human tech is that it's robust and reliable (when the tech is understood at least) and it wouldn't be right if it was as maintenance- and logistics-heavy as tau tech.
- Location
- madison
imperial tech is super robust and logistically light. This is because that's the STC templates they used and propagated almost exclusively. I read in some 40k book that there are some locally produced bits of technology that are better than the imperial standard, but due to not being as easy to supply and maintain are not widely used. Some DAoT stuff is designed for high performance, and some of it is designed to allow illiterate colonists to run a tractor on freeze dried baboon corpses and maintain it with crudely shaped rocks if they have to. Given the imperium's main limits was logistics they almost exclusively went for the second option wherever they could.