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Post by Zidagar Dinoman on Feb 1, 2004 14:33:52 GMT -5
What are the current defenses of the Castellan subsector? With in impending Ork invasion, I would assume a large number of soldiers from all over the Sector would be in or en-route to Castellan.
-Dinoman
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Post by malika on Feb 1, 2004 15:44:08 GMT -5
how big is the ork threat? and how important is that sector? maybe warriors from all over the imperium are there?
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Post by zholud on Feb 1, 2004 15:53:50 GMT -5
From what I get the invasion doesn’t happen now because we aren’t in M41 yet... but yes there are a lot of troops on constant patrolling.
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Post by malika on Feb 1, 2004 16:09:03 GMT -5
when are we now then?
what about a regiment of Armageddon Ork Hunters who have been transported to the Castellan subsector to attack the orks?
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Post by Kage2020 on Feb 3, 2004 8:31:32 GMT -5
From what I get the invasion doesn’t happen now because we aren’t in M41 yet... but yes there are a lot of troops on constant patrolling. I have a personal preference to put the game into 41,002 at least (the last mention of a time that I'm familiar with). But at the very least it should be around two years before the end of the EoT campaign. I've never found anyoone to have a concrete date on that and I myself have not read any of the 'fluff' from that campaign... It was too 'wargame-y' at the time... Kage
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Post by zholud on Feb 5, 2004 15:29:38 GMT -5
I have a personal preference to put the game into 41,002 I still prefer to make the first set of action in wargame/RPG in M38 or so, or we will be trapped in the same deadlock GW is now – they cannot continue, so they got 50% of all history in last century and half of it in last decade!
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Post by Kage2020 on Feb 6, 2004 9:47:43 GMT -5
I have no interest in setting the ASP in the past... GW's deadlock is of their own creation, self-evidently, but that doesn't mean that 'we' cannot get around it. All it requires is actually taking a stance on much of the 'fluff'... What GW produce might ultimately clash, but that can be simply altered, or the background changed to integrate it as best as possible using a 'historical' method. Guess it all depends on whether you believe in GW revisionism or not. Kage
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Post by Minister on Feb 6, 2004 11:11:10 GMT -5
Personaly, I vote for mid-41st, with plenty of information dating back millennia. This lets us be fully involved in everything, and nicely reflects the Imperium's speed of update.
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Post by CELS on Feb 6, 2004 12:45:46 GMT -5
If we do set the sector in the present, then we follow GW's " deadlock". I will be very reluctant to go into M42 before GW does.
Mid M41 is fine by me, but I would like to see M38, like Zholud. Gives us more freedom, both to advance the timeline later, and to explore what's going on in the segmentum at this time.
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Post by Kage2020 on Feb 6, 2004 19:52:41 GMT -5
I would prefer to it being set in the immediate period after, or perhaps during, the EoT campaign. There should be scuttle-butt/rumours about it, but not absolute effects... Setting it in the past seems... lame. It's the get out clause for if GW does somethign different and the fear which is endemic through the majority of writers. Again, however, I can be persuaded if someone can actually give me a concrete reason other than "Well, we have to wait 'til GW get out of their deadlock." I need to see advantages that are something other than "oh there is this cool war", advantages that can affect me as an RPG'er. While that side isn't being developed since, surprisingly, wargamers are the primary demo here, I will still cater to that side of things as well. On this there will be no budging. But, again, I can be persuaded if someone can give me another reason than... well, I'm open minded, but not easily persuaded by the arguments I have thus seen. (Warhammer 38,000: Because we can't be bothered... ) Ork Waargh... Erm, this will be occurring in the 'very near future' in whatever time period is ended up on, for whatever strong reasons are suggested. They will have occurred in the past and, likely, will occur in the future. But we will not be saying that the Waargh occurs distinctly a millennia or two in the future. That is awful narrative... Kage
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Post by zholud on Feb 7, 2004 7:48:40 GMT -5
(Warhammer 38,000: Because we can't be bothered... ) Exactly! We agreed that there were Waaghs! In the past which affected our sector. We wish to link regiments to some war ( this is not wargamer’s POV, just idea appropriate for current thread) and if we one day decide to make a type of campaign we better setting it grandiose conflict with Orks and Chaos and epic struggle… at least IMHO. And if should conflicts allow to define the situation in the sector we better set up it before campaign. Ork Waargh... Erm, this will be occurring in the 'very near future' in whatever time period is ended up on, for whatever strong reasons are suggested. They will have occurred in the past and, likely, will occur in the future. But we will not be saying that the Waargh occurs distinctly a millennia or two in the future. That is awful narrative... You just mean “we know it will happen one day…”, yes?
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Post by Kage2020 on Feb 7, 2004 10:04:39 GMT -5
That suggestion could find merit in any point in Imperial history, almost. It doesn't offer a concrete argument of why to set it in the past rather than the present or even the future!? (Admittedly I don't want to go into the future of GW's universe... that's heading for problems in the first place.) At present, though, this discussion should be moved to the Meta board. Kage
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Post by Femerenden on Mar 4, 2004 13:34:03 GMT -5
Allright here comes the first written and renowned regiment of the Castellan sector :
96th Anargon Infantry a.k.a. Massil Infantry
The 96th has been created on Massil. Their first well known appereance is the first Ork Waagh! on the Castellan sub-sector. But their fame comes from the battles taken place under the heavy warpstorms. They are from the few who defended the world until the reinforcements from the sector and the Frostbringers comed to their aid. At that time Colonel Branxton is the commander of the regiment and under his command the regiment fought for months against the Ork invaders.
What has been left from the regiment whence the first squad of Frostbringers comed to their aid is horrible. From 350 man in the regiment only 35 of them alive and all of them are seriously wounded and the regiments motor pool consisted of 3 Leman Russes, 6 Chimeras, 3 Bassilisk and 1 Griffon(While all of this has been given to the aid of the 96th as the regiments over the planet are lost to the Orks) only one Leman Russes hull is remaining.
After the warpstorms and the Ork Waagh the 96th has been rebuilded and restrengtened. Now they are still serving in the sub-sector.
They have recently returned from an assault to an Ork force gathering with losing their high command.
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Post by Sojourner on Mar 4, 2004 13:43:25 GMT -5
I shall be raising perhaps half a dozen each of Tundra Ranger and Cavern Militia divisions from Trireme Apollo sometime soon.
Tundra Rangers are heavily armed and equipped, suitable for extreme cold-weather, radiation, toxic atmosphere and low-gravity operations. Cavern Militia are expert light infantry and are eminently capable in cave, tunnel and urban fighting without support and in absence of a higher command structure.
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Post by malika on Mar 9, 2004 17:26:11 GMT -5
Allright here comes the first written and renowned regiment of the Castellan sector : 96th Anargon Infantry a.k.a. Massil Infantry The 96th has been created on Massil. Their first well known appereance is the first Ork Waagh! on the Castellan sub-sector. But their fame comes from the battles taken place under the heavy warpstorms. They are from the few who defended the world until the reinforcements from the sector and the Frostbringers comed to their aid. At that time Colonel Branxton is the commander of the regiment and under his command the regiment fought for months against the Ork invaders.
What has been left from the regiment whence the first squad of Frostbringers comed to their aid is horrible. From 350 man in the regiment only 35 of them alive and all of them are seriously wounded and the regiments motor pool consisted of 3 Leman Russes, 6 Chimeras, 3 Bassilisk and 1 Griffon(While all of this has been given to the aid of the 96th as the regiments over the planet are lost to the Orks) only one Leman Russes hull is remaining.
After the warpstorms and the Ork Waagh the 96th has been rebuilded and restrengtened. Now they are still serving in the sub-sector.
They have recently returned from an assault to an Ork force gathering with losing their high command.This sounds cool, but maybe change the 350 men into 35000, and the 35 into 3500, or even 350... Regiments are quite large
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