Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
- Location
- Dancing on wires!
+ Everyone's likely gotten a boost from the food STCs reducing the need for their food again.
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The Long Night Part One: Embers in the Dusk: A Planetary Governor Quest (43k) Complete Sequel Up
- Thread starter Durin
- Start date
- Location
- Back in Cali
They have been shifting away from food production for a while now. Half of a continent is nothing but admech facilities and manufacturing. And the rest of their world has been building up their industry.
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
- Location
- Dancing on wires!
Indeed hence why its just another thing adding to why their economy seems to have gone through the floor.
- Location
- Asia
One way to prepare for conflict in Vanaheim would be to make it a major base for the Imperial Guard and station troops from more progressive planets there.
- Location
- Africa
So I spent (some) time researching ways to make elite grenadiers work, and with the level of BS that is our army its
1) Hard to find a role that our Helgaurd/Thunder Warriors/Last Hunters don't already cover
2) Difficult to justify a rank up from champion to heroic by simply using 'Elite Grenadier' training
3) Challenging to make a personalized training regime for the upgrade
The only way I can see it working is if we make it a Psyker/Thunder Warrior only structure so that it actually makes sense for our troops to be able to outperform space marines.
1) Hard to find a role that our Helgaurd/Thunder Warriors/Last Hunters don't already cover
2) Difficult to justify a rank up from champion to heroic by simply using 'Elite Grenadier' training
3) Challenging to make a personalized training regime for the upgrade
The only way I can see it working is if we make it a Psyker/Thunder Warrior only structure so that it actually makes sense for our troops to be able to outperform space marines.
- Location
- England
Tbf that's something I really want from the skinks- some kind of mass deployable close combat gribbly.
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
- Location
- Dancing on wires!
You know that's both ominous and surprisingly a good thing.
Don't give up hope yet, there's still plans for it, and the possibility that the primarch's will recover one's corpse.
Hope remains strong, the planners in Discord seem not opposed to warm with the idea.
- Location
- United states
I'm surprised that the rest of the Trust aren't saying hell no at the idea of introducing some of the deadliest creatures in the galaxies DNA to Avernus unless there is a really good reason for it.
- Location
- Australia
@Durin, now that we know about this polity and its tech IC, do we as players have justification to bring up the idea of contacting the polity at the High Council meeting?
I'm unsure if they've taken a position on it, it's just an idea that's been moderately discussed on discord.
Spitballing here but maybe we can learn to harvest living metal off our kills and use it for armor, weapons, vehicles and maybe even ships? That would be invaluable for the Trust.
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
- Location
- Dancing on wires!
Well we would be doing it to aid humanity and the primarchs so, whoot self sacrifice hoo.
But, IC I don't think we know Avernus extracted the T3 Nid DNA...or at least we probably suspect, but we don't know what its going to do with it.
I mean...we don't contact people like the blood angels and they're likely bigger ATM with tech secrets they've got hidden away.
- Location
- madison
what, you mean infantry scale? cause there are a few melee gribbles already.
I had thought the PM's bioweapons research so far along that a Tyranid Norn queen wouldn't really be a windfall for the PM. That kind of makes me wonder if Avernus was holding back against us less than I had thought. (Hitting us with like 10% instead of the 0.1% I was thinking.)
@Durin a couple questions regarding the recent idea of replacing destroyers with light cruisers.
1. Do the fast escorts for our harassment forces need the speed 6 of normal destroyers, or would speed 5 do? (Since most of our fast harassment forces are speed 5.)
2a. How much extra armor could we expect to get out of a redesign of light cruisers for slightly lower speed (speed 6 instead of 7)?
2b. What about with speed 5?
Though of course the side consideration is that the Trust has a ton of single slip docks that only work for escorts, so we're never going to stop producing them anyways and so it might not be worthwhile to do this from that perspective.
@Durin a couple questions regarding the recent idea of replacing destroyers with light cruisers.
1. Do the fast escorts for our harassment forces need the speed 6 of normal destroyers, or would speed 5 do? (Since most of our fast harassment forces are speed 5.)
2a. How much extra armor could we expect to get out of a redesign of light cruisers for slightly lower speed (speed 6 instead of 7)?
2b. What about with speed 5?
Though of course the side consideration is that the Trust has a ton of single slip docks that only work for escorts, so we're never going to stop producing them anyways and so it might not be worthwhile to do this from that perspective.
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- Location
- Alice Springs, Australia
You do but will need good justification to contact them. Especially given that they never worshiped the emperor and that there is a good chance that your plasma tech is better then theirs despite their specialty
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
- Location
- Dancing on wires!
I think he means something to tarpit enemies. You know get up in their faces and nom nom nom.
Like gaunts.
It seems to have specialised heavily into the psycic side of things, so while it can pull off psycic feats like you wouldn't believe its not focused as much on the physical side comparatively.
Of course that being said there's still things like the Bunyips and Therondy Dragons, but this just lets it skip work effectively to focus on other things.
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- Location
- Alice Springs, Australia
1. 5 would do but the faster the better
2. around 50% more
2b. Almost double
Or those bladed multiplying centipedes, if they make canon and make the trade.
- Location
- Africa
let me guess its the norn queen withoutborders got right ?
- Location
- Back in Cali
@Durin since it seems like you missed these question posting them again.
- Location
- madison
Killipedes
an arthropod warbeast, Killipedes are 1.5 meter long armored millipede like insects bread for war. Each insects carapace is studied with envenomed spines, and the insets posses both strong mandibles and a retractable stinger. While not individually massively dangerous, they are capable of deadly instinctive teamwork, and naturally form a battle choire. To what degree the choir is responsible for their teamwork is unclear, but it is used for a powerful form of sel telekinesis. A Killipede swarm is able to manipulate members of the swarm with incredible finess and significant force. allowing members to maneuver in 3 dimensions or simply battering foes with the armored and spiked carapace of their fellows. At any given time approximately a third of the swarm can be under telekinetic manipulation. It is worth noting that recently slain Killipedes can also be manipulated, albeit somewhat less finley. Most often they are simply hurled at the foe with great speed. While not the most deadly warbest the skins employ, they both breed and grow rapidly, allowing them to be deployed in large numbers. While the venom is by local standards, only moderately deadly, needing multiple doses and minutes to slay a healthy saurin warrior, Killipedes are surprisingly durable, and are often used as an ablative front line to pin enemy units in place.
@Durin a cheap tarpit unit. only its giant poisons telekinetic bugs because that about sounds right for the level of deadly a low end swarm unit would have on this ludicrous planet.
an arthropod warbeast, Killipedes are 1.5 meter long armored millipede like insects bread for war. Each insects carapace is studied with envenomed spines, and the insets posses both strong mandibles and a retractable stinger. While not individually massively dangerous, they are capable of deadly instinctive teamwork, and naturally form a battle choire. To what degree the choir is responsible for their teamwork is unclear, but it is used for a powerful form of sel telekinesis. A Killipede swarm is able to manipulate members of the swarm with incredible finess and significant force. allowing members to maneuver in 3 dimensions or simply battering foes with the armored and spiked carapace of their fellows. At any given time approximately a third of the swarm can be under telekinetic manipulation. It is worth noting that recently slain Killipedes can also be manipulated, albeit somewhat less finley. Most often they are simply hurled at the foe with great speed. While not the most deadly warbest the skins employ, they both breed and grow rapidly, allowing them to be deployed in large numbers. While the venom is by local standards, only moderately deadly, needing multiple doses and minutes to slay a healthy saurin warrior, Killipedes are surprisingly durable, and are often used as an ablative front line to pin enemy units in place.
@Durin a cheap tarpit unit. only its giant poisons telekinetic bugs because that about sounds right for the level of deadly a low end swarm unit would have on this ludicrous planet.
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