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>>54032039
hitting hard with best axe

>>54032039
Fighting styles.

Specialization shoehorns characters into doing one thing over and over, using one tool only.

Fighting styles may as well, but at least there's a chance there for a more versatile character.

...

Although, you could totally design a specialization as a style, and a style as a specialization, so unless you make up more strict definitions for both it's a moot point.

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>>54032048
I see you are a man of combat aswell

>>54031967
As a DA player I find them bland as fuck. As all this edition, but I will wait with full judge until GW update, just like they did with stormcasts. For now - meh. Dayum shame

>>54031967
Only game I've lost so far was against dark angels bikers and land speeders, but for reasons not specific to dark angels. I just struggle against highly mobile shooty armies. Have crushed everyone else so far.

>>54031967
IMO with the lack of codex they are very meh. Your option are green wing, so any other space marine chapter. Or Ravenwing fast attack army shananagins which is kinda your standard MO. Once again deathwing are not very viable in low point games as there is pretty much no way to run them sub 1.5k points.

With the only detachment you can really being the vanguard you are forced with 1 HQ and 3 elites so if you run 3 terminator squads your at 4 units and about 800 points. So to get the most you gotta take belial and run a champion and apoth but the problem is you can't deep strike them all so your forced to foot slog them which is aweful but then you can just run a LR but even still you don't have enough models on the field vs in reserves.

They are very underwhelming and bland for being one of the most diverse chapter in terms of combat styles.

>>54031793
Without formations, they aren't doing as great as before. They do have their pieces to fill in the soon-to-become ubiquitous "Imperial" army.

What is the better loadout for destroyers, grav or plasma

>>54031747
there's definately nothing Dune specific, but FATE really does work well as a catch-all. Though, which catch-all/refluff would work really depends in the FEEL you want to give the game. Tell us more than just the genre or setting.

>>54032496
OP here. The idea is to put them against the situation of the Empire at the end of the Golden Path - heavy on politics and schemes, between Tleilax powermoves and the resurgence of a splinter branch of Harkonnens, but with some combat somewhere. They will be "manchurian candidates" for the Bene Gesserit, descendant of centuries of specific breeding to achieve their goal (thus justifying their above-the-average stats).

But the theme of the God-Emperor's reign was exactly that... nothing happens. Ever. Enforced peace. Utter boredom. Leto streamlined and simplified everything. As the wikipedia article on God-Emperor of Dune says:" the entirety of human society has become an audience for him".
Any sign of unrest? Leto send his fish speakers and the whole comotion is over after "an days", not even "an months".

>>54029177
oh and pic unrelated

>>54029177
It seems interesting. I've been wanting to try something similar for Mutants and Masterminds.

>>54029208
We mainly play Burning Wheel, which is a very character and story focused game, so maybe thats why I have so much success with it. But its a blast every time, and my players love the 'prologue' chapters. Honestly a lot of time they're more fun than the actual group sessions. Thus me wanting to try a solo campaign.

>>54028837
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlUk42GiU2guNzWBzxn7hs8MaV7ELLCP_

I've been binging his videos for the past few days, about halfway through. He offers some good advice, although I do disagree with him at times, mostly over styles of GMing. He also has some serious SJW leanings but it doesn't affect the videos and he mostly doesn't talk about it.

His advice is also applicable to more games than just D&D. There's not much D&D-specific advice he gives. I wish he'd talk about other games more (so far he's only brought up other tabletop games once), but I suppose that's inevitable when your audience comes from Critical Roll.

What sort of game do you/your players want to run? What got them interested?

>>54028974
I'm not really sure where the idea of playing came from, but I'd imagine they'd want a more light-hearted game. I'm gonna start watching these now, thank you so much!

>>54029063
If they're jokey and light-hearted about it, put them in a pretty simple fight that might challenge them, give them a simple puzzle, and some good loot after a trap.
This applies to most games and systems, whether the trap starts the fight or the loot is a plot hook, the formula stays pretty much the same.

>>54028421
Necromancer.

The answer is always Necromancer.

Wizard/ Sorcerer/ Ultimate Magus

>>54028421
Will your GM allow stuff from Dragon mag and Psionics? if so then:
Psion/Sorc - 3
Cerebremancer - 7
Mind Mage - 10

Alternate between Psion and Sorc each level. You'll end up being like a 60th level caster at 20th level.

>>54028265

I liked the campaing we were playing. System was garbage. Dexterity is God-stat. you one shot enemies because you bypass mech's armor with any roll that is 10+higher that your enemy defense roll.

>>54031195

Also having multiple locations with 2 different health bars is a hassle. Humanoid mechs have 6 locations. Taking care of only one mech as a player doesn't seem a problem at a start. At the end of the campaign we had a battle where we as a players had around 10 allies with enemies having equal fighting force.

It took us 24 hours to finish that battle over 2 sessions. 2nd session was 18 hours long before we refused to once again make photos of battlemap and keep all sheets with heath, dmg etc.

My suggestion is to try some other system if you want to play mech campaign. As i said if the campaign wasn't really good we would probably quit half-way through.

>>54028265
Active shields automatically party once a turn, and that's it.

Anyone who claims the system is slow and/or clunky just doesn't know the system well enough and is doing it wrong. The game gives you the tools to speed things up, but they refuse to use them for some reason that eludes me.

>>54028114

Start a new campaign, and do fun times and happy banter for the first few sessions, but slowly drop hints that not all is at seems, having a sudden and terrible realization, all too late, and the rest of the campaign is based around trying to undo what they could've prevented.

>>54028149

I don't really want to restart this campaign since we haven't hit the year mark of this one and we already restarted after shit happened. Plus someone is currently away for the summer and I don't want her to come back and me go "sorry the old game is dead bye"

Kys

To sum up:

1. Blood Ravens are strongly hinted to be loyalist versions of Thousand Sons.
B. Cawl has access to Tsons geneseed and has admittedly made "test versions" of various traitor lines.
3. Cawl obviously can't collect everything he needs on his own and could certainly use an elite strike force that has no compunction about stripping the target site bare.

>>54027109
>>54027094
Fun headcanon. I like it.

Dumbest thing I've read all day. Thanks Op.

>>54026461

Only War comes to mind. The difference between mercenaries and Guardsmen on extended attachment to the Inquisition is a slim one.

>>54026497
I'd say there's quite a huge difference between the two. Mainly a lengthy enjoyable epic that is unique to /tg/

Next Shoggy when?

>>54026461
>>54026497

GURPS can do it, but not as well as Rogue Trader or Only War. Use the former if your characters are officers, and the latter if they're grunts.

Can you tell us some more?

Depending on what you want to do, you might be happier with a wargame like warmaster, epic, dirtside, or DBA. And then tack on the RPG rules of your choice

>>54025188
Because of the way economies of scale works. It only makes sense for GW to produce a single range of multi part plastic kits per faction. Other flavors of the various factions, if they're present at all, are usually in the form of alternate color schemes or the like rather than entirely different models. GW's decision to drop metal meant that these smaller lines fell by the wayside.

If you want alternate miniatures, Warlord Games produces multi-part plastic kits for various WW2 and other historical periods in 40k's scale. You can make Soviets into Valhallans and their Boer War era Brits into Praetorians with basically no effort. You can say their lasguns are locally produced and look like historical rifles, or give them 40k lasguns. Not sure what would work for Steel Legion

>>54025188
can't get it up for anything less

>>54025188
it's their feti--
>>54025686
oh

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>>54024721
So you're an idiot who makes bad decisions?

and you're making a character based on yourself?