Warhammer 40K GRIMDARKNESS

[EleventhHour]

I saw the suggestion for a 40K version of the games that are running... WWs? I can never remember the name, but I was thinking, what the heck, I have a bit of time on my hands, I could try running this. So, without further adue, the list of characters.

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Forces of the Imperium (And Neutrals)

THE EMPEROR - What? You thought he'd sit this one out? Well good. Because he did.

Commisar - Holding the line at all costs against the Enemies of the Imperium.

Space Marine - Hero of the Imperium, and sons of the Emperor!

Farseer - One of the plotting minds that control strands of Fate in the Galaxy

Ethereal - A Tau leader, out for the 'Greater Good.'

Sister Of Battle - The Daughters and Wives of the Emperor, faithful to the extreme.

Tau Citizen - A citizen of the Tau Empire, you so happened to be on this Imperial world when everything went wacky with Grimdarkness.

Citizens - The average citizen of the Imperium, you've worked all your life in Manufactorums and prayed at the Temple.

Enemies of The Imperium

Hive Tyrant - A great, massive creature that leads the hordes of bugs into the Eastern Rim, larger than a house, and easily capable of destroying one.

Ork Warboss - Leader of the WAAAAAGH, tougher than dem humie gitz.

Necron Lord - One of the ancient masters of the galaxy, awakened from your slumber by the noisy young races. Teach them to respect thier elders.

Dark Eldar - Your rival most likely set you up. Needless to say, your torturing and cruelty won't go over well with the current crowd.

Chaos Space Marine - The evil side of the Heros of the Imperium, you mock the Corpse-Emperor and his flithy chair.

Heretic - You turned your back on the Imperium, but Chaos doesn't really treat you much better. In fact, they treat you worse. But it's this or the burning flames and lasguns of the Imperial Guard cutting you down. Tough choice.

Daemon - Pure evil in corpereal form. Spread the madness, Spread the Chaos!

One of the usual cheesy plothooks has drawn every faction to this planet, but as the purging flames of the Imperial Guard and other Loyalists cleanse the planet, each of you discover this sewer, ancient to the Dark Age of Technology, and lined with soft Glo-lamps, it lead down to a ringed pit beneath the city, and in the center, edged in bright neon blue and bearing an old symbol of Man, is an STC. A full one.

Around it are huddled terrified citizens of the hive city above, though the havoc and vicious turning of half that city leaves thier identities in question, and suddenly the lights snap out after millenium of continous function. In the dark even the advanced senses of the Space Marine cannot make out who is who, and a single flickering helmet lamp allows you to group together, and try to decide which of you is a heretic or worse, and which is a Emperor-fearing citizen.


*waits* >.>

[Fan]

In as Chaplain Codian. Ancient Space Marine that serves on the ship Gulliman's Wrath.

[Opeth_Freak]

Wait a minute... This is a WW? Then what role are each of those guys? You know, like seer, baner, etc.

[Oddity]

((Comparison to normal WW roles would be good))

In as 'Oddity' (shock)
A very crazy individual who, regardless of his actual role, will think he is a fire warrior.

"I serve the Sun!"

[toasty]

Assuming we get information about what each role does, I'll join.

I LOVE 40k. This sounds awesome.

[Oddity]

*brushes up on his 40k skills by playing Dawn of War*
*slightly temped to play his Playstation 2 'Firewarrior' game*
((you all be quiet (Man that game gets hard later on.)))

[Murska]

Eh, I'll join as an Ork provided two things happen:

1: I don't get lynched for being an Ork.
2: We get to know what the roles are.

[Irbis]

Amberley Vail to the rescue!

If I know what we are rescuing, first.

Anyway, 11th, sorry, get an experienced co-narrator first, currently this looks like a very basic draft of game, if that.

[The Bookworm]

In! As someone from Warhammer (Non 40K) thrown into the future!

[Kyouhen]

In as The Deceiver a normal uninteresting fleshy human being.

[EleventhHour]

I was thinking of running it more the old 'Mafia' style, as I hadn't realized there was a difference between them, and where I actually know how it works.

(And the powers/roles get to be more random (And more of a secret, appearntly) in...)

[Opeth_Freak]

I hope you know, what you are doing... In anyway

[Guancyto]

In, with cake.

Dark, grim cake whose candles purge the galaxy of impurities in righteous fire.

[Heroic]

I'm in! (insert random characters to exceed post limit here)

[Trixie]

In.

Or if you want, I can help as a co-narrator.

[Vwulf DeMarcus]

In.(Robot voice)Filler.

[Irbis]

Um, it seems you've used thread necromancy to reanimate a dead corpse

[Vwulf DeMarcus]

*eeps*

I was wondering about that!
Sorry, not in, then.

[Recaiden]

In for the greater good! Or as a 'nid.
Irbis, this isn't necromancy.
Offering to be co-narrator, but I'm not sure I know enough.

[Lord of Rapture]

Count me in.

[Dr. Bath]

How did I miss this?

Well if it is still happening, I am in as a snotling in a SAG.

[Andre Fairchilde]

I'll help, but I'm playing as a WHFB WE Waywatcher.

I'm familiar with 40K but gave it up for the far superior WHFB

[Trixie]

WE?

And this is a second Raise Dead after another two weeks of inactivity, huh. I wonder if this will be eventually be "the most popular" game in "never started" category?

[Dr. Bath]

WE?

Wood Elves. Wimpy tree hugging hippies to an elf.

And yeah well. Maybe this time it will work!

[Trixie]

And someone is calling them superior to WH40K?

Does not compute.

Well, if you discount the Eldar/Dark Eldar stupid duo of WH40K, that is.

[Selrahc]

WHFB is Warhammer Fantasy Battles, the precursor of 40k and its fantasy equivalent. As a wargame is a lot of stuff in it that I really wish was in 40K. It's a bit clunkier though. It is a lot more tactical for sure.

As a setting.. eh. 40K is more fun.

[Trixie]

Stuff you wish, like...?

I heard you can play armies of both against each other, so they can't be that different?

[Dr. Bath]

Stuff you wish, like...?

Flanking, positioning actually becomes more important, movement rates differ dramatically, charging is the whole of the movement for the turn. Stuff like that.

[Andre Fairchilde]

Warhammer Fantasy Battles (WHFB) is to 40K as Chess is to Checkers.

In 40K she who shoots first, often wins.

[Selrahc]

Flanking, positioning actually becomes more important, movement rates differ dramatically, charging is the whole of the movement for the turn. Stuff like that.

Yeah. Charge reactions in particular could lend a whole new aspect to 40k. Modifying armour saves seems like a generally better system than the 40K one. The formation rules are a lot of fun, but I'm not sure how well they'd fit 40Ks skirmish atmosphere. And obviously a lot of the other rules (Generals, army standards, challenges etc.) are built around fantasy.

It really is clunky in places though. The magic system for instance is weird. Although less weird than when it was a card game...

I heard you can play armies of both against each other, so they can't be that different?

You can't do that.

Or to be more precise, you probably could do that but it would be in terms of converting one army from one system to another by your own houserules. They've got similar looking character profiles, but the rules of the systems have some fundamental differences in approach, enough that you'd have to recost and rebalance every model. Or more realistically just do a counts as army.