Azdeus

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A while ago our group finished up our old Only War regiment and the characters associated with it in a glorious way by dropping a high security heretic prison into a magma chamber, so it was decided to start a new regiment. This newly formed regiment is a bit... experimental... in it's setup, a cavalry "stealth" drop troop company riding flying maaru-beasts is a novel idea if nothing else. 5 players were present, we had two Weapon Specialists with grenade launchers, one Heavy with a RPG, one medic and a ministorium priest. Since this was their first assignment they got shipped to a Severan Dominate controlled planet where they got settled in, one of the weapon specialists managed to get herself into trouble when her comrade lit up a fat one and she snatched it out of his hands, just in time for an officer to walk in on her. *Trollface* Once they got their feet on the ground and settled in they were summoned by the company clerk, Faris van Spankelvink, for mission assignment. Tasked with dropping onto a plateau they and their platoon were to take out three artillery pieces covering one of the big passes that led up there. After getting their mission assignment gear and discussing things back and forth it turned out the priest did'nt have a clue how to actually ride the maaru, so they had to use more conventional drop procedures. They dropped onto the plateau, there was quite alot of incoming AA fire that tore up their ride pretty badly but they chose to jump early so they were quite a bit off course according to the navigator so they had to doubletime it. The trek through the rocky terrain was hard on the group and they stumbled onto a small patrol from one of the nearby caves, a lightly equipped group of 4 "guardsmen" that nearly managed to kill the group through catastrophically bad rolls and decisions from the players. Who could've thunk supressing fire and grenades would be that handy? Eventually they managed to get to the ravine and decided to go to the side and rappel down the side and attack the first emplacement from above, they did'nt bother to look for mines and did'nt have an auspex so the pointman managed to quickly walk onto one. This alerted the camp that sent out a patrol, but for once the group had luck with their rolls and actually managed to keep themselves hidden from the enemy, wich decided it must've been an animal. Eventually they managed to creep through the minefield to the ledge above the emplacement and climbed down the rockface and started to clear it out, they lucked out and managed to take out the defenders without much noise using melee and a flamethrower only. They noticed an opening into the mountain and followed it only to find the ammunition depot and loading carts for the guns, and decided to load a couple of carts with rounds of ammunition and democharges and push them down their rails towards the guns, using them as either a distraction or maybe even take out the defenders. Shortly afterwards they had managed to push the carts to enough speed that they could carry themselves to the emplacements and lit the fuses and ran, since they debated the fusetime and runspeed and such between themselves well enough that they did'nt have to do any technical rolls they got close enough to blow up both the other encampments. After the shells were exploded they surveyed the massive damage and tried looking for intel and loot, finding neither from the two demolished emplacements, they looted some guns from the first one and pulled out. Back at base they stashed their loot and reported to the mildly impressed van Spinkelvink of their success, being massively crushed that he was'nt impressed that they had completed their main objective but also dissapointed in them not taking out any AA or finding intel. Bastard. Overall the players were entertained, but pissed at the dices, but despite all noone died, but the average wounds level after the session was done was -3 or so wounds, even though they had their medic present all the time. The only person in the group that has some tactical sense decided to play a ministorium priest wich showed on the overall performance of the group, no find 'em, fix 'em, flank 'em or any tactics at all used really. They never really spread out once they had contact, so the enemy did employ supressing fire and their grenades plenty, and noone took the hint. :/ The group was a fun bunch of characters though and I have high hopes for the group. I might be GM'ing another session tomorrow or so, but maybe the other GM(The ministorium priest) will host instead and let me play.

I tried looking for some lefthanded games for you to play, but they seemed to really need the right hand for... other activities. Playing football with a broken elbow can't be a good idea, you're one small step away from breaking it again. Just came home from my friends place, GM'd some WH40K Only War. I decided to ride my bike to town so that I would'nt have to walk all the way home in the middle of the night... I should've walked. It was warm enough outside that I don't cool off when I'm going fast and the blistering sun did'nt help. I must have lost litres of water after that, and it did take quite a while before my face stopped being just crazy red from the heat. The effort was'nt that bad, it's about 10km to town, though I was quite tender in my legs both when I got to town, and now that I'm home, but the lack of any easy way to cool off is the most annoying part. Oh, and I'm pretty certain my arse is bruised. Because, pain, lots and lots of pain!!

Damn, that sucks :/ How long are you going to have a cast?

No, don't think so, they could break glass windows and wooden fences I think, for certain they could destroy shrubbery - but not doors or such hard objects. Other explosives could though, like lockbreaker packs or you just demolished it with C4 or dynamite.

Maybe she's from the deep south?

The first screenshot actually shows a X and an A, so obviously they've upgraded the games mechanics.

It does look rough, but as you say it's very early footage. I'm with you on the PS2 bit, that would be a most delightful game to copy as it has all the right ingredients. They'd mesh well. I do like the faction choices they've presented, I wonder how they will represent the Tyranid hive mind...

Nice, I hope that the "You won't get the developer injected events" part does'nt mean you only get to fly around watching pretty systems but that you can still do some simple missions and such. On another note;

Well, I've always had a ****ty immunesystem, even when I was in my best shape. I heard an epidemiologist speak about those things, and she said that generally speaking the immunesystem is the last thing that is affected - the rest of the body be damned. But having good physique makes it easier to stand it. Thanks, and I have been, water and tea. With honey, 'cause damn that throat.

yes, this will be the perfect game to just enjoy the wastness of space and do nothing else. I just hope that there will be a singleplayer component to let you do that, I get enough of player-player interaction in WoW.

Meh, I've managed to attract one hell of a cold; sore throat, nasty cough, blocked nose - ****ing everything. Same with a friend of mine, but he got better by now, I've been ill since monday and I've getting worse. -.- I ****ing hate my immunesystem.

Well, I doubt that they have any special connection with the animals, but I know for certain that they have a connection with your wallet. Sort of like a leach.

Well, they have 800 employees according to that article that was posted, so I don't have any troubles seeing them having a hard time financially with those numbers.

Subtle, very subtle...

I did get to use that frown later at the night when people started to discuss their bedroom habits and fantasies. DAYMN... O.O It did end up being a good party, except that there was some "dropin" people that came by, so the party went from 9 to 15 people. I did get gloriously drunk though even after eating copious amounts of food and the weather was decent enough so that we could sit outside all day. My biggest complaint about the location was the really lame arse stereo system and that my "bed" was a leather sofa... Lots of talking and ofcourse fun and games, pool and beer pong amongst others.

No it was an AK with an integrated night vision sight. Or it was a made up thing. Could've been an AN-94 with a fixed scope or an VSS Vintorez rifle. Depending on the game and so on you could've found one with a NV upgrade.

The bulb might not have been seated properly in the fixture, the sound you heard might've just been the spark from electricity making a small jump in switch or the fixture. Easily mistaken sound in the middle of the night. One of the most common things I did suring my internship as an electrician was screwing in the lightbulbs properly. It could also be the switch itself that is giving up, though that is more rare. But since you said you had several lights it might be that, or there is something wrong with the fusebox I suppose. You might want to check the fixtures themselves aswell, they might be a bit worn down if they are old. Was it the ground fault interruptor that engaged or the fuse itself? Happy birthday!

I'm thinking about frowning disapprovingly. Think that might work? :D Well, yeah, as I said, it's going to be 4 couples there! 4 couples and alcohol, what can go wrong? My friends are awesome people, but two of the girls happen to be sisters, and they're not exactly happy about that crossover. Heh, it might aswell be since it's going to be held on midsummers eve 60 km away, so it's kind of hard to leave at that point. I'm not terribly worried about them being different people, since we have all met at the same time and such, just not with alcohol involved and I was'nt the... uhm... ninth wheel? I'm pretty certain that I will be sidelined though as you said.

Hmm.. Do you have any tips on how you can make a dog stop barking like crazy on new arrivals, dogs and strangers? My mothers dog is annoying as hell for this very reason.

I just got a phonecall from my friends inviting me to a midsummer party, borrowing my friends parents house for the occasion, and I can't decide if I want to go. I hate parties normally, since they tend to be 20 to 30 people going nuts and being loud as hell, but this time they've "taken that into consideration" so it'll just be the old gang... and their girlfriends. So four couples and me. Not tempted by that, but they are my mates. So torn.

Would you look at that, all fixed! Daymn I'm good, turned out all I had to do was to sleep on it. *Smugface*

Haha! MAGIX! IT WORKZ AGAINS!