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I'm not sure if anyone will see this, and I don't want to get anyone's hopes up if they see a post, but I just wanted to say thanks. I really enjoyed this game short though it was. The concept was really good, made brilliant by the roleplaying everyone went for. I hope the RL problems that took people's time away are all good ones and wish you many happy games in the future.
Still here, although I was getting a little hit and miss when we stopped.
Travelling to Greece tomorrow to see the In-laws. Will be able to post from there, but probably not until Sunday or Monday.
As Vaylund returns Cato's chainsword he thanks him briefly and returns to inspecting the wounded Raven Guard. Inwardly cursing his lost Exsanguinator, he mutters a prayer to the Emperor and tries to help, but the time and circumstances defeat his abilities to identify all the injuries.
Dragging the body to the dubious safety of the centre of the group, he places him in a position of recovery. Turning to the other Raven Guard he explains, " I will do all I can for your brother, but without my Exsanguinator I can do little. First we must defend ourselves and him so that no others join him." before readying his chainsword to defend the circle.
Cato speaks out as he tries to dig out the wounded Raven Guard to see what can be done. "Brothers, my chainsword was lost in the beast's initial attack, it should be around here somewhere, if someone can find it. I will try and aid our wounded brother here, is anyone else hurt?"
Cato tries to throw himself clear, convinced he hasn't made it far enough, the worm begins to roll back from him at the last moment. Rising to his feet, he realises that his blade is probably now lost to the sand and moves to the fallen marine, starting to pull him back from the worm's reach.
Distracted by seeing the Raven Guard swallowed whole, Cato is battered by the first worm. Having been thrown by the blow, Cato has to shake his head clear of stars before he can react. The comfortable presence of the chainsword missing from his hand, he rises and moves to gather up his weapon.
simple fail Immersed in gathering information from the Raven Guard, Cato doesn't see the movements in the sand until they are pointed out by the others. Disengaging from the staged fight he readies his blade and moves to stand at Tiamat's 2 o'clock position, close enough to intercept a charging attacker without blocking his field of fire.
Merry Christmas to all as well. Vorenthar, I hope the eventful part is over and everything is on the up from here on.
The Raven Guard attacking Cato reacts quickly to Cato's defence and strikes out with a heavy looking blow. Playing along Cato takes the heavy parry and the pair spring into a rapid series of attacks, parries and counter attacks. " Brother, have you seen any weaknesses in the xenos derence, any chance to turn the tables?"
Stopping his run, Cato raises his sword in both hands and adopts a balanced, defensive stace. Cato tries to assess the marine attacking him, before using the full force of his personality to persuade the marine to listen. simple success 1dof
If Cato believes them to be Imperial marines:
"Brother, stop! Our shared father's father would not approve this. I am Brother Cato, priest of the Blood Angels. My job is to lead you forward in the fighting and killing of the xenos. Side with us, we will destroy them all and fight our way back to our chapters together. For the glory of the Emperor!" If Cato suspects they are Chaos marines:
"Foul traitor, I will make you pay before we crush the foul xenos"
Nodding his head at the order, Cato revs his chainsword and takes position in the running formation.
It is crazy to run forward like this into the unknown, but Brother Vorenthar does the right thing to keep Knutr alive, he leads well.
It is a big step from Sanguinary Priest to renegade, but I can imagine the small steps. I don't have Black Crusade, but that can always be changed! I'm happy to play it however and although returning to our chapters would be important, it would be unlikely that space marines would leave a greater threat behind even without direct orders. I think there is a story in the horus heresy series involving a thousand son (pre turning to tzeentch), an honour guard of Ultramarines and a Space Wolf blood claw squad led by a Wolf guard, meeting at a way station and working together to combat the Emperor's Children. I guess what i mean is that there is plenty of precedent.
Completely ditto Tiamat's comments to both Gathrix and Bayou.
Still interested. As long as I can keep posting levels up, this was always fast and furious
Glad you are on the mend, keep at it hard though it is. Addictive stuff as well which doesn't help.Get well soon.
If all within melee are dead:
Seeing the xenos creatures, ripped to shreds, Cato places himself to cover the backs of his brothers and scans about for the next threat and then searches the floor for any ranged weaponry or ammunition. 3dof
Hahaha 8 dof If either of the hellions still stands: Cato rushes forward to finish these last foes.
1dos 21R pen 3
Sorry guys, since the wedding I have been really busy. Back now, I hope!
As the tactic had worked previously, Cato tries it against the leader with another short burst, but he struggles to keep the agile xenos in his sights, as his magazine clicks empty. 1dos
Stowing his empty bolter he readies his chainsword.
"Sound advice brother, let us see if they can dodge this! With that, Cato fires a short burst at the hellion designated by Tiamat."
"Brothers, this is good, let them waste themselves against the armour that has been returned to us. However if we pull even tighter, so that our back is always against that of a brother we will protect our weaker armour and they cannot outnumber us. They may land more shots, but only against our thicker armour. When they get careless and get too close, we can swarm one. If on Vorenthar's command, you throw that grenade Knutr. At the same time you throw that dust storm at the others Vaylund and this of us with combat weapons can swarm the doomed xenos. One by one they will fall."
As he says this Cato will move to cover the back of Tiamat, scanning the ground as he goes for a ranged weapon to add to his blade.
I was thinking it had a bit of a Bebop from TMNT look, bit who doesn't love a plume!
As the Archon speaks and Knutr shouts back, Cato opens a vox link to the others.
As they enter the arena, Cato stands ready, briefly glancing around for a weapon. Seeing Tiamat pick up a Lascannon, he runs tactics in his head. "Might I suggest we form a defensive ring around Tiamat, we can keep the beasts off him so that he can punish them with his heavy weapon, whilst it's ammo lasts and then I am sure he will be only too happy to join us in crushing skulls."
4 dof (or 3?)
Ok so here are all my catch up bits in one post!
Feliks was a great shout on the MVP, I think I would have picked him too. XP spend=
Wow, Mark 1, love it. So I assume that is also the 0 bonus to autosenses, isn't sealed as well. Does that include the +15 bonus to cohesion damage tests for the leader? or is that only if you have a full set? After what I said earlier, I will actually stick with None shall escape the Emperor’s Wrath +5 BS -10 to dodge in melee, for a bit of variety, wouldn't want to copy Vorenthar after all, plus I just got a Mk 1 helmet!
Same as Vorenthar, if we do get the +-1 I would go down to the command bonus, but otherwise I'm sure I can make it work.
3dof
Noticing the lack of armour on the xenos' head, Cato strikes for the beast's face.
6dos
Teeth whirring, the blade plunges towards the foul creature's face, likely to cause horrific damage if it connects.
The sight of Ork xenos drives Cato into yet another frenzy. His angelic face distorted with fury he throws himself forward charging the beast with his chainsword lunging forward. Stabbing the spinning teeth forward Cato, catches the Ork in the body the teeth bite into it.
1dof
3dos A higher power guides Cato's blade to parry the blow at which point even through the fury, he sees the need to isolate the larger weapon. Stepping forward he tries to wrap his arms around his opponent and drag him down to the floor, knowing that the Chrono warrior would be vulnerable to Vaylund and the oncoming wolves.
Gonna try and grapple next round to open up an opportunity for you to get in Vaylund. If I can manage a hit!!
As the ball whistles towards his head, Cato manages to just deflect it up into the ceiling. The close call with death throws Cato off balance and his next thrust is very wide.
As Cato stores his maul to search the body, he replies to Brother Vaylund. "We may disagree on the importance of blood and flesh as part of our connection to our Primarchs and the Emperor himself, but I will fix that if we ..." Surprise round Group 1
4dos R pen 2
2dof
As the wall slams up between Cato and Vorenthar, Cato jumps out of the way. Assessing the new situation he struggles with the layout. Looking around he spots one of the battered corpses, moving quickly to it he says a short prayer, before searching it for anything useful in the tight corridors. "Vaylund would you keep a look out and see if you can figure out a way to reunite with our brothers? I will see what this poor soul carried and if it may be of any use to us."
I went for one of each, purely to fit with my character, the power maul is just there as I had spare request and wasn't sure what these guys would be packing! But fully intend to use the chainsword unless it proves inadequate.
Yeah I was conscious that we don't have much Cohesion left and would probably only get one pattern out of what was left.
My thinking was that I can switch the target within Strong point as long as I stay stationary. Focus on one, bring him down. Then we outnumber them 2 to 1 (except Chrono 1, but he is a turn or so away). If we then swap to another and focus all those not holding up the other 2(maybe next most hurt), we could hopefully bring him down before Chrono 1 arrives. Rinse and repeat as we wear them down. What do you all think? (Probably should have asked this before initiating squad mode!)
Round 3 1dos Rising to his feet, Cato drops his pistol and draws his power maul. Gesturing with his melee weapons Cato speaks out in a voice that carries easily. "Message received Brother Tiamat, everyone watch your flanks. Centre yourselves on me and let our Iron Fist become a Wall of Steel for our enemies to be smashed against 1 by 1"
"Concentrate your fire on the one blooded by Knutr, for Sanguinius and his brothers!" Strong point: Full action, cost 3, Sustained= yes. Nominated centre (me) must remain stationary. Centre can Call Targets as free action or reaction. Brothers in support range get +20 to BS and WS against a called target, may reroll damage against it and may use their Reactions to make standard attacks against it. A target remains marked in this way until either the Centre moves or the Centre marks a new target.
Keeping up with Vorenthar, Cato sees the wall slice deeply into his leg. Cursing the xenos for his lack of equipment, Cato drops next to Vorenthar tearing strips to bind the leg. 1dos
Breaking into a run, but slowing just a fraction to match pace with Vorenthar.
Indeed we do brother, and we should take all with us, destroying this xenos travesty at the same time. Let us reduce the threat and then we may have time to talk whilst we stall with the last enemy or two. I suggest we keep pace as best we can, only dropping enough to form a crescent around our enemies, pinning them against a wall. Our Techmarine is resourceful and will come up with something further I am sure"
Indeed it is I Einar.
Won't the tactics consist of one going charge, charge, charge and the other leading in a pure and normal way before forgetting everything and turning into a ravening monster. Yeah agreed, the squad patterns was my line of thinking too.
Don't worry, I'm normally a SW by choice (and am actually playing a Wolf Scout in another game. Unfortunately in that one I am having to chat more than is quite right, but trying to keep it terse at least.
Not truly harm, for they cannot damage the steel of a marine's mind, however they can inconvenience him and that is where I come in! I now have visions of the Black Knight from Monty Python, your armour would even match!
As the commissar was torn apart, the smallest of blood droplets landed on Cato's lip and without conscious thought he licked it. For the briefest of seconds Cato feels the Red Thirst nag at his brain, before his strong will reasserts itself. Distracted by this, Cato misses the significance of the walls.
Gesturing with his revving chainsword, Cato advances at a run, snapping out orders as they move.
As Cato see the door begin to move and realises what is about to happen, his hand itches to give this loyal soldier the Emperor's Mercy and he speaks out in a strong clear voice. "Loyal Commissar, know that the Emperor walks with you even through the pain and you go now to stand by his side. Your sacrifice does not serve these foul xenos, only us Astartes your brothers in arms. For it will fuel our hatred and inspire us to even greater feats for the Emperor. You will be avenged!" Requisition:
Wow that was quick, was going to try and post an in between action using my Charm (which was admittedly going to be an attempt to get us an Oath and leader). Ah well, there is always next time.
Ok was thinking swim after this last little challenge, but couldn't quite afford it.
Well as my vote is largely irrelevant now, I will just mention those I thought were in the running. Tiamat obviously and I think why is very well covered, Vaylund for complete portrayal of hate over tactics, his chapter would be proud, and finally Vorenthar for backing up a brother. Xp increases I will do tonight.
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