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God be willing, I'll have a functional computer by Monday... And THIS time, keep those machine spirits happy! I am NOT to be held responsible if you forget your Litanies of Maintenance or Cants of Smooth Operation!
Arkady's grenade, though unseen by him, flies though the air before impacting against the front plating of the chimera. The armoured transport presses on unhindered, with barely a scorch mark marring the plating. Goonter gets out of the doorway, running over to one of the pillars. Geoffrey, breathing heavily, follows and flattens against the side away from the door.
The squad lunges over their barricades and planters, charging after Sergeant Balten. As he barrels past Dominic’s position, the swarthy Stormtrooper slips in behind him, legs pumping like a rail engine. Raska makes it out onto the street and brings up the rear while the rest of the squad charges the enemy’s foyer, weapons blazing. The crack of lascarbines rings out through the room, supported by roaring bolts and the chatter of Goonter’s stubber.
The rumble of an engine mixed with the clacking of tracks against pavement suddenly grows over the background din of distant battle. Bursting out of an alley ahead, a Guard chimera horribly desecrated with Chaos imagery makes a swerving turn and rushes towards you. A Chaos guardsman in the pintle-mounted heavy stubber swings the gun around your way, while the turret's autocannon lines up a shot.
Goonter shifts his aim to the two troopers in the doorway, forcing them back behind cover. Raska is trying to get a bead on the enemy stubber gunner when the entire
The stubber is pretty far away, so it is sort of facing the entire squad. It doesn't need to traverse much to hit anyone in particular, so it could theoretically shoot any of you.
Dominic continues his forward charge, closing another 16 meters before slipping back behind a planter. One of the Chaos troopers sees the advancing stormtrooper and, taking careful aim, sends a burst of las rounds his way. The first two spend their energy against the planter Dominic is hiding behind, but the last one manages to catch Dominic’s left arm. The energy burns through Dominic’s armour, roasting the flesh underneath. Through the pain, Dominic feels his arm go limp.
The other Chaos trooper, emboldened by his hit on Goonter, fires again on the squad’s heavy gunner. His shot misses Goonter, instead striking Geoffrey. Geoffrey grunts in pain as he takes the shot in the right shoulder. He reaches his left hand up to the wound, and it comes away bloody.
Thomas runs for the door of the apartment where Balten is, ready to help. Petyr fires a spray of suppressing fire at the doorway, trying to cover his allies’ movements. The two troopers still standing in the doorway both flinch away from the incoming fire.
Balten hops inside the door he just broke, then turns and shoots ineffectively at the heavy stubber. "Watch out for that stubber! Take cover!” Arkady’s bolts stitch their way up from underneath the window where the stubber is. The first two blow away chunks of the wall, possibly injuring the trooper behind them. His third round flies through the window, exploding against the trooper’s arm. Raska and Ivan climb to the third floor, and are presented with a series of apartment doors. You figure that the ones marked 306, 308, or 310 will provide good vantage points of the battle. They are all locked, and seem to be made out of wood. Easy (+30) Perception:
At the end of the hall, one door (321) seems ajar. Judging from the layout, this room faces differently, and you might not be able to see all the enemies from there. Punctuating Balten’s order, the heavy stubber on the sixth floor opens up, sending a spray of bullets whistling downwards toward the squad. There are still two enemy troopers in the apartment’s entrance, and the heavy stubber has begun firing. From both sides, you can hear the crump of bolt rounds detonating as other squads of your platoon engage their own enemies. A loud crash sounds in the distance to your left, but it is out of your line of sight. Dominic is 32 meters from your starting location, at the 8th of the planters spaced every 4 meters. Goonter is at the third, 12 meters up, and Petyr is at the first, 4 meters from Arkady’s position in the intersection.
They have their own action count. It's a free action for you to give your comrade an order, but it takes them a certain amount of time to do it. The order will explicitly say what kind of action it takes.
Arkady's shout alerts the rest of the squad to the whereabouts of the enemy.
You are on the corner of an intersection of two city streets that are roughly 10 meters wide. The building with the chaos troops is to your right, on the opposite side of the street, 150 meters distant. There are planters along the edge of the street that could provide half cover for one man each - the nearest is 4 meters ahead of your position. The next is 8 meters away, and there are some in identical locations on the other side of the street. The buildings are primarily apartments, multiple stories tall.
The next five days blur together as training continues. On the morning of the sixth day, you have just arrived at the former warehouse that has been repurposed to 4th Company’s mess. Dominic has just made it to the front of the line for food when Commissar Zalenka, Captain Vasiliyev, and the five lieutenants of 4th Company burst through the doors. Commissar Zalenka, the Commissariat member attached to 4th Company, is dressed in his greatcoat and cap. His bolt pistol is displayed prominently on his hip. Captain Vasilyev, the commander of 4th Company, commands your attention. ”We have just received word that the forces of the Severan Dominate have launched an assault on the forward positions we were going to reinforce in a week’s time. Reports from the front are grim. For all intents and purposes, the Bakersfield 4th no longer exists. Chaos forces are crossing the countryside at a furious rate. We expect them to reach the city in a matter of hours.” ”We are being deployed immediately. Return to your barracks and prepare to move out. We are going to repel the Chaos scum before they get anywhere near the cathedral. Orders will be distributed shortly.” As the captain strides out of the mess, Commissar Zelenka glares over the assembled troopers. ”Move it! Now! The foes of the Emperor aren’t going to wait for you to finish eating!” He rests his hand ominously on his bolt pistol, watching as the troopers of 4th Company scramble up from their tables and out the doors. ”Right, it’s a good thing we were about to do marksmanship drills, eh boys?” Sergeant Balten grins widely as he pats Corporal Destriyov on the shoulder. The Corporal shifts uncomfortably away from the Sergeant, who once again doesn’t appear to notice. You return to your shipping container and pack up your kit bags. From there, Sergeant Balten proceeds to lead you through the Warehouse of the Adeptus Munitorium, where you are hurriedly equipped to full war gear. You then are transported to the eastern perimeter of Koennigsburg, where troops are hurriedly preparing to face the approaching Chaos forces. The Vantanian 16th has been tasked with protecting the eastern flank, beside the Arnhold Fusiliers. Your platoon is assigned to protect a residential area consisting mostly of large apartment buildings. After an hour of waiting in an intersection that gives clear lines of sight down three different streets, the sound of gunfire to the west snaps you to attention. Looking to each side, you can see the adjacent squads of troops waiting to repel any assault, should the Chaos forces progress this far. Sergeant Balten crouches beside Corporal Destriyov, who is listening on the squad’s vox-caster. The corporal lifts one side of his headset and whispers something to Sergeant Balten, who straightens and addresses the rest of the squad. ”We’ve got hostile contact along the center of the city. Some armour, no artillery yet. Mostly light assault troops. I’ll wager they were trying to catch us off guard with a quick assault, but we’re having none of that! Reports from recon suggests the Chaos troops are widening their assault and swinging some troops our way. Get set for action, folks. Things are going to heat up.” As if to punctuate the Sergeant's statement, a burst of lasfire splatters against the street in front of you.
Success:
There are three people firing at you from the front doors of a hab-complex down the road. The building is one of the taller buildings on the street at ten stories tall and is 150 meters from the intersection. You can see that the building is named (As are many of the buildings in this area of town), but you cannot read the High Gothic script. Success, 3+ Degrees: In addition to the three people on the bottom floor of this building, your sharp eyes can detect a pair of enemy troopers setting up a heavy stubber in one of the sixth floor windows.
Gameplay thread added.
Your descent to the planet Arnhold is silent and efficient under the stern gaze of the Commissariat. The whole operation reads just like the standard entry listed in the Tactica Imperialis, despite being the regiment’s first deployment - or perhaps because of that fact. The closest thing to danger that you could feel was some minor turbulence as your Pegasus Heavy Lander entered the atmosphere. As the Pegasus’s doors open, you and the rest of Battalion Alpha Company 4 debark. Looking around you, you can see two dozen other companies doing the same. Forming up, all six thousand troopers of the Vantanian 16th Saboteur Corps are arrayed in parade-ground formation on the landing pad. The spaceport you landed in is a large sprawling affair, dotted with many hangers and outbuildings. To the north you can see the spires of the towers of Koennigsburg’s city center, poking into the sky. To the north-east, you can just make out an ornate cathedral, glimmering in the midday sun. To the south and west you can see a series of hab-towers and houses, tapering off to jagged hills in the distance. As you march through the city to your assigned barracks, you can see young children following you through the streets. Citizens stop to stare, some waving to you and cheering. However, there are far too many people here for a city this size. It feels… bloated. There are more people here than you would expect, thousands more. They flock to you, packing the street from shoulder to shoulder. Some reach out and touch your shoulders reverently, making the sign of the aquila. As you march along a bridge, you can look along either side and see bustling crowds of people stretching out for hundreds of meters in either direction. Everything here looks worn down, burdened by the sheer weight of the populace inhabiting the city. Makeshift shelters fill the alleyways between buildings, cover side streets, and intrude upon open squares. They are mostly empty, their ragged inhabitants watching your regiment march through the streets. Your barracks are in the warehouse district, where the Vantanian 16th has taken over an entire hab block worth of warehouses. The floors are simple ferrocrete, and there is a distinct lack of privacy among the enlisted. “Rooms” have been constructed out of shipping containers, with one squad to a container. A set of large boards have been set up at the entrance, with names listed on them. These boards tell you what squad you have been assigned to, and where it is. When you find your name, you see that you have been assigned to Alpha Battalion, 4th Company, Epsilon Platoon, 2nd Squad. On the sheet it is simply abbreviated as A4E2, and it seems your bunks are in the middle of the second warehouse. You have to push through a sea of bustling guardsmen hurrying this way and that. It seems that someone didn’t take the time to think the whole deployment through - the barracks are a mess. You can hear one man yelling something about there being no bunks in his squad’s room. Another problem for the Adeptus Munitorium, no doubt. When you arrive at you container-room, you note that it has five bunk beds in it, some of them already occupied. It is dimly lit, and there are small spots of rust along the bottom edges of the containers-as if from water damage. Everything in it feels tired and worn, from the battered two-men bunks to the fragile-looking camp stools that serve as chairs. There is a faint scent of mildew here, from many years tired soldiers billeting here. Two men sit in the back corner, playing some sort of card game. You can see their packs laying on the beds they have claimed.
Excellent rolls! You will make a fine servant of the Emperor. Final preparations are being made. We will be coming out of the Warp shortly. Ready yourselves for planetfall.
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Go ahead and roll your stats first. 2d10 + 20, 9 times.
I forget how many characteristics there are so I'm going to roll 9. Just cut the rest off at the end. Whoops. Sorry. You were exactly right. There are 9 characteristics, and you even rolled them in the correct order.
Greetings, all! Go ahead and roll stats here. 2d10 + 20 for each characteristic. You may choose one characteristic to reroll, but you must take the second result. After that, roll 1d10 for fate points.
1-7: 1 fate point
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