@Durin If present trends continue, how long should it be until the conservative faction of the Adeptus Mechanicus has lost all influence and we can develop technologies like the Very Advanced Reactors without triggering any unrest or loss of morale? What are the wider cultural perceptions of the struggle of progressives vs. conservatives across the Imperial Trust? Is it an issue which people are aware of, or that they have an opinion on?
Over 1000 years, which is how long it will take for all the conservatives in major positions to die of old age like the stubborn fuckers they are.
Don't exaggerate. The gap between an assassin and an elite isn't anything close to that large.
Thousands of chaff? If unsupported sure. Except that is still a win because those thousands of chaff were cheaper, in time and resources, than the assassin.
Elites, particularly if lead by low grade heroes like a magos, will be trading in dozens at worst.
Assassins are effective because they strike unexpectedly. Because they hit weak point. If you have even a vague idea of their location and identity than the vast majority of their threat is already neutralized.
So make a dedicated tracker organism. Or some sensors and tracking devises that your existing forces can use.
So we have gone from an autonomous agent to a remote-controlled drone. If it is dumb enough to need help from its handler it is too dumb to be used against elite assassins. Particularly ones that will have come in knowing these things would be after them.
In terms of combat capability? Exactly as dangerous with or without prep-time. In terms of infiltration? Significantly better. However the Kynigos as you have described them are worthless for finding assassins. They can't guard people or locations. They cannot investigate or search. They just kill things you have already identified for them. A job that conventional elites can do just as well.
reading this over, I kinda agree that these things as written do not sound like good assassin counters. They would have a role certainly, having something particularly fast and blood houndy to sic on an inlftartor once an alarm is tripped is useful. but I don't see them being an effective counter to assassin by themselves, since the main thing is making sure that the alarm gets tripped.
they seem very well suited for battlefield search and destroy missions however. they are not smart enough to do deep infiltration work, but seem clever enough to eliminate key targets on a chaotic battlefields.
honestly, I think you should just make them sapient and drop the smart animal part of them. "smart dog" and "high end counter espionage" do not go together that well.
Oy vey.
First Angelform for the love of god Spaghetti!
Please, it makes it incredibly irritating to respond to you.
Second as it is currently apocrypha I find continuing this argument kinda pointless, however I will respond one more time.
1. Callamus is currently sandwiched between the no 1 abomination polity in the galaxy, which is likely in command of a vast section of Segmentum Tempestus and seemingly the only active necron dynasty in the galaxy, to say shut about all the other random fucks like level 2-3 waaarghs, they keep up by virtue of their industry do you really think they have any elite troops to spare to garrison everything with enough elites to counter all the assassins without suffering hellish levels of attrition to again say nothing of damage to the one thing that's keeping them in the ****ing war?
2. I admit the whole smart animal thing was in part because I thought it was cool and because I felt it would be easier for them to secure their loyalty, and because I'm sick and tired of depressing assassins. I wanted to something DIFFERENT for a fucking change eh? Is that too much to ask, given all the other stupider shit out there. Evidently it is.
3. This is my fault I didn't communicate what they were good for ****ing castrate me.
I fucking sorry I did it, happy now!
I mean, I don't really have a skin in that argument, but let's look at it:
Callamus has 117 sectors.
Looking at polities in our region, a sector on average is about 100 worlds.
With 1 trillion Battle Congregations, I would be pretty comfortable deploying 117 billion BCs just as reserves, before thinking about general garrison needs dictated by Chaos speed superiority. That would give me around 10 million BCs per world, which, to me, looks like enough of a force to deal with several super elite assassins.
Bullshit they have that many.
- Military knowledge. Observations and understanding of what we've learned about the local threats that may not be common for other polities. New strategies and tactics.
Local threats are good for our little corner of Segmentum Pacifius fucking useless for anyone else and I can't think of anything useful or unique about this area of space.
Info on things like the Necrons, Tyranids, Dragon and Dark Eldar should be shared for free.
