Official Imperial Recruitment Thread

Anonmare · Post by **Anonmare** » Fri Jan 06, 2017 11:43 pm #241544

Bottom post of the previous page:

The only thing really left to do is uniform styles. To be honest, I like the Cadian pattern styles. It's very utilitarian, the Catachan, Praetorians and Volstarik styles seem a bit too gimmick-y to me in all honesty. For comparison:

Cadian

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Praetorian

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Also I've already commited myself to being the sawbones An0n3. I'd do sergeant/commisar otherwise.

D&B · Post by **D&B** » Fri Jan 06, 2017 11:43 pm #241545

I'll be our sergeant/gunny

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Sat Jan 07, 2017 12:26 am #241551

Hmm, on second thought I'm actually pretty busy with commitments to some stuff right now and probably shouldn't.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Sat Jan 07, 2017 12:47 am #241552

Alright DnB you can be sarge as long as you promise not to abuse your authority

danno · Post by **danno** » Sat Jan 07, 2017 12:49 am #241553

cadian superior

Post by **Owegno** » Sat Jan 07, 2017 1:30 am #241555

I would definitely be down for playing a commissar if thats still on the table.

As far as uniforms go given that we are a siege regiment I think that something akin to late western front WW1 British uniforms would be neat, possibly replacing the tunic with a trench coat for max edge.

D&B · Post by **D&B** » Sat Jan 07, 2017 1:46 am #241557

Wyzack wrote:Alright DnB you can be sarge as long as you promise not to abuse your authority

Right-O

THE MIGHTY GALVATRON · Sat Jan 07, 2017 1:48 am

Think I'm going to be a Weapon Specialist with a shotgun so I can SHOTGUN things with my shotgun.

Here's what I have so far. Haven't spent any of the XP yet or added regiment equipment as well as other stuff.

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Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Sat Jan 07, 2017 3:43 am #241580

Looking good folks.

Owegno a commisar would be just fine, basically any squad that has a comissar has a regular Sargent too so you wont be stepping on any toes. It will be your job to keep disapline and squad morale while DnB's sarge is more concerned with unit tactics.

Gonna do a write up of our regiment's shit but it seems like it is coming together nicely

Sawrge what heavy weapon do you want?

Ausops and Danno what do you want for the regiment's favored basic weapon? (assuming galv doesnt care because >shotgun)

imblyings · Post by **imblyings** » Sat Jan 07, 2017 3:44 am #241581

Added XP purchases and equipment to my sheet. Die-hard and die-hards existing at the same time is confusing as fuck.

Grenade launchers being regimental favored basic weapons is fine by me, tbh I want one, but my weapon talents don't have launcher so I'll have to stick with a lasgun. My guy already has a bunch of grenades anyway.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Sat Jan 07, 2017 3:47 am #241582

I think sawrge switched to heavy weapons guy so he no longer has that as a preference unless he has since changed it. Also everyone who has joined the roll20 and also given me their character name now has a character sheet on the roll20, probably a bit easier to track everything there

imblyings · Post by **imblyings** » Sat Jan 07, 2017 3:58 am #241585

fug I missed that link, I'll join now

D&B · Post by **D&B** » Sat Jan 07, 2017 4:12 am #241586

Wait where's da linku

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Sat Jan 07, 2017 4:27 am #241591

last page. DB if you wanna hop in the roll20 or add me on discord i can help you make your character. How familiar are you with the 40k universe?

D&B · Post by **D&B** » Sat Jan 07, 2017 6:00 am #241601

Wyzack wrote:last page. DB if you wanna hop in the roll20 or add me on discord i can help you make your character. How familiar are you with the 40k universe?

Horus did nothing right.

Also I'll try adding you tomorrow but bear with me cus I just got accepted into a new workplace so I'll be a bit non responsive till Monday.

imblyings · Post by **imblyings** » Sat Jan 07, 2017 5:38 pm #241734

get online ree

I found some character art and cropped it, can you add https://imgur.com/a/xjJ5U this to torkes sheet wyzack for character art?

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Sat Jan 07, 2017 6:31 pm #241750

Looks like you figured out how to add it yourself, i reccomend everyone else grab a piece of charart even if it is just a placeholder, the rulebooks have lots of good art. It really helps to distinguish the textchat when everyone has a unique character

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Sat Jan 07, 2017 7:30 pm #241763

Alright so here is the deal

You shitters are "from" the planet Kiavus IV, a sort of strange Hive world on the coreward edge of the Calixis sector. Like most Hive worlds, it likely started as a manufatorum world but literal thousands of years of constant production and expansion has reduced what remains of the surface into a toxic polluted shithole and the rest of the plant is covered with massive anthill like supercities that scrap the tip of the atmosphere and extend down into the planet's crust.

What is interesting about Kiavus IV is that after some very ancient civil unrest and mild revolt a few thousands years ago, one of the hives was turned into a massive megaprison. All manner of criminal scum, both from the other hives on the planet and shipped in from nearby worlds on massive prison ships toil endlessly in massive slave-factories under the yoke of brutal and sadistic wardens. There is an easy alternative though for those with the mettle to take it. Join the Penal Legions! Repent for your sins and crimes against humanity and the Emperor by dying a glorious death in his service and defending the human race! Many volunteer to simply escape the endless toil and hardship, but masses are often drafted in order to meet planetary tithes, creating a deadly and unpredictable fighting force of the worst criminals to not get killed outright.

Your characters, by some measure of Imperial "justice" as it exists, were imprisoned on Kiavus and either volunteered or got drafted into the Penal Legion under the Kiavus 60th Penal Legion. Together you served on some world or another on the spinward front, battling Orks of Waaaaghhh Grimtoof and Imperial Separatists of the Severan Dominate. Penal Legionaires are considered expendable even by Imperial Guard standards and so your unit and units like you saw the absolute worst of the fighting. All said and done you had taken horrendous casualties and many of the other below strength units got rolled into the 60th to keep you at fighting strength before you all got shipped out to the next warzone.

Anonmare · Post by **Anonmare** » Sat Jan 07, 2017 7:41 pm #241769

It's fun to be in the 60 Minuters. See the Galaxy. Meet new and interesting people. Kill them. Beat the average life expectancy.

Shit's cash.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Sat Jan 07, 2017 8:49 pm #241786

This all came together a bit more quickly than i expected so i think we should start seeing about doing our first sesseion. I think there is an online utility that allows multiple people to input their availibilities, i will see if i can find it and we can use that. If you have questions you can post them here, i will also try to idle in the roll20 room whenever i can and post combat summary sheets and other useful shit in there as well

Anonmare · Post by **Anonmare** » Sat Jan 07, 2017 9:27 pm #241790

Wyzack will only be a while. Let's just sit here and wait...

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Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Sat Jan 07, 2017 10:11 pm #241810

top tier art dump, anyone looking for char art can probably crop some out of one of those pictures

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Sun Jan 08, 2017 5:39 am #241926

Alright so everone has a character in Roll20 now except D&B who will probably not be in until Monday, and everyone has filled out their actual character sheet except Danno. Also Galv you will need to give your character a name, you should be able to rename him from the same place you assign character art.

I made a poll thingy using a website called Doodle. Basically outlines my general availability over the next month or so to run this game. More or less, 4pm EST to 1am EST on weekdays, 4pm to 3am on weekends, and nothing on sundays and mondays. We obviously will not play for the whole ten hours or whatever, that is just when i can fit it in. Sessions will probably run about four hours, and i plan on three or four session for the whole thing but really i have no fucking clue

you should be able to vote from this link

http://doodle.com/poll/ua4x7sfgnhkhrvah

THE MIGHTY GALVATRON · Sun Jan 08, 2017 6:41 am

Can't tell you my whole schedule for January because my job likes to tell me the week before, but I'll fill in what I can currently.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Sun Jan 08, 2017 7:15 am #241936

No worries man we will figure it out.

Also while writing a sick as fuck brief character bio like Sawrge did is encouraged, it is not needed. Doubly so if your character does not care to talk about his past. Do however give some thought to his demeanor and mannerisms, there is a lovely d100 personality table if you want to leave it to fate/need some inspiration

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Sun Jan 08, 2017 7:28 am #241938

Also Danno and Ausops have you guys shook out what our regimental favored basic weapon is yet?

imblyings · Post by **imblyings** » Sun Jan 08, 2017 8:03 am #241946

gonna go with grenade launchers how about you danno

captain sawrge · Sun Jan 08, 2017 3:41 pm

i wake up most days pretty early so sessions going that late is kind of iffy. do we actually plan to go the full length or is that just like a window
that said to be hoenst i sleep like shit anyway so i could just bite the bullet a couple nights

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Sun Jan 08, 2017 3:45 pm #242029

That is just the range at which I am availible, we can play any time in that range. However doing It earlier might be hard for ausops and anyone else in strange timezones

captain sawrge · Sun Jan 08, 2017 3:58 pm

i can probably just stay up anyway

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Sun Jan 08, 2017 5:25 pm #242050

For regimental colors i was thinking something along the lines of the picture i have set for the roll20 game, very muted tones with plain grey flak befitting a penal legion. However that is kinda boring and fun/coolness>realisms so give me your ideas.

Hell, you can even map them out here

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/igpbeta2.php

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Sun Jan 08, 2017 5:28 pm #242051

Also i know there was some talk of wanting a more retro style armor, this guy here did some very armageddon steel legion esque conversions with long coats but also a slightly less angular Cadian style flak we could steal

http://onepainterscrusade.blogspot.ca/2 ... chive.html

Also cool ones with rucksacks and respirators here

https://piratevikingpainting.blogspot.c ... guard.html

danno · Post by **danno** » Sun Jan 08, 2017 6:21 pm #242065

imblyings wrote:gonna go with grenade launchers how about you danno

i'm down with that

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Sun Jan 08, 2017 6:32 pm #242071

Alright, 'nade launchers and multi lasers it is

Anonmare · Post by **Anonmare** » Sun Jan 08, 2017 6:50 pm #242072

I used the army painter to make 4 styles, I tried to keep a "convict" theme throughout. I don't like the fourth one personally, I tried to emulate the Steel Legion ut it doesn't look good on the standard armour.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Sun Jan 08, 2017 7:05 pm #242076

It seems it only is actually showing the first scheme, when i try to load the others they just show the default all grey

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Sun Jan 08, 2017 7:09 pm #242079

Also next saturday is looking promising, can my specially-abled timezone friends give a better idea about when they can be free, prefereably converted to EST

captain sawrge · Sun Jan 08, 2017 7:51 pm

next saturday works 4 me

Anonmare · Post by **Anonmare** » Sun Jan 08, 2017 8:42 pm #242096

1st scheme
2nd scheme
3rd scheme
4th scheme
This should do it

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Sun Jan 08, 2017 8:49 pm #242099

I like two and three the most

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Mon Jan 09, 2017 1:13 am #242140

After a small search i found a little program for making some nice easy battlemaps. They will not be super detailed but they are definitely good for what we need.

Also do not forget each of you (except Owegno) get a little NPC buddy known as a comrade. These guys are kind of like an extension of you, they do not get attacks or actions of their own but they act in tandem with you to give you various bonuses and can get shot and killed. On your specialization page there are two abilities for each specialization that give you extra orders or powers with your comrade and they can be really useful.

You do not need to flesh out your comrade as a full character, but you can use the name tables to get a name for them and the demeanor table to get a very vague idea of their personality. You can record the stuff for your comrade at the bottom of your character sheet and i will be keeping a running roster of the squad (and any casualties)

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Mon Jan 09, 2017 8:59 pm #242330

One more update, since it looks like doing actual battlemaps is going to be easier for keeping track of combat we have a couple options

We can used cropped versions of your character art to make tokens. Really easy to do, and makes identification easy at a glance

We also have some generic soldier looking dudes with various weapons that are from a top down view for immulsions. They are a little less distinct but we can add names below them to tell them apart. I will have examples of each in the roll20 room if you wanna take a look

captain sawrge · Mon Jan 09, 2017 10:10 pm

Character art tokens imo

Anonmare · Post by **Anonmare** » Mon Jan 09, 2017 11:54 pm #242394

Character art tokens would be preferred tbh

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Mon Jan 09, 2017 11:58 pm #242395

Okay, sounds good. Still need character art from Shadowdementio. Talking to D&G about his character now. Danno you need to fill in your character sheet, also i am curious what weapon you chose. Did you go better lasgun, grenade launcher, shotgun or flamethrower?

danno · Post by **danno** » Tue Jan 10, 2017 12:29 am #242407

I did fill it in, and I went with the lasgun

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Tue Jan 10, 2017 12:30 am #242408

Good choice, lasgun bestgun

danno · Post by **danno** » Tue Jan 10, 2017 12:31 am #242409

thanks >:)

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Tue Jan 10, 2017 2:14 am #242435

So i hate to be a fucking stick in the mud but everyone is okay to play this saturday and i don't think i can. I really hate to push it back a whole other week, is there any chance we could get even a short one in during the week? At the rate i am getting the mapping shit prepared I will probably be run ready in a day or two at the earliest.

captain sawrge · Tue Jan 10, 2017 2:26 am

imblyings · Post by **imblyings** » Tue Jan 10, 2017 3:09 am #242448