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[Elfeater]

Its how the game works. Leave it be! Its like saying a suit of plate mail isnt full body!  It is! It just has leather straps to it allows you to move!

[Caellath]

IIRC, Imperial Flak Armor is the combination of several plates of thicker armor plates over the chest, legs, arms, shins etc. with a backing of a bulletproof cloth, much like the Plate + Chain Mail of medieval knights (you have may have seen it before). The difference between it and the separated flak vest/flak helmet/flak gauntlet pieces shown in the armor table is that the former seems to be thicker and doled out to Guardsmen while the latter tends to be cheaper and issued to either lighter infantry within the Guardsmen or Conscripts.

And Carapace is described as being much easier to repair than flak since you just replace the damaged plates in carapace armor. Flak armor apparently cracks and rips a bit too badly.

[Alexandria]

Yeah thats what I found on the Lexicanum as well.

Imperial guard flak armor is the same as normal flak armor, it comes in pieces. It's just made of higher quality materials making it stronger and the same material is used for each piece of it so it always offers the same protection.

So I could use individual pieces to replace my own in the field until I have time to get new platers to repair it.

[Bdthemag]

Sure, fine then. I'll just make up a fitting armor value for any individual pieces you decide to put on. I forgot how much players like to focus on things that are only marginally important.

Also, can everyone please link/post the most update version of their character sheet for me? I'd rather not have to crawl through the thread looking for them all. Because once we get all finished character sheets, we can actually start.

[Alexandria]

Spoiler: Character. (click to show/hide)

Name : Marra Serafina
Gender : Female
Appearance : Shoulder length bright red hair, a full and well muscled figure. Bright yellow eyes and scars crossing her limbs, and torso in unbelievable numbers.
Handedness : Left
Height and Weight : 1.8 metres, 75 kilograms.
Nature.
Demeanour : Heroic, Loose Cannon, Loyal, Mentor ( GWG Our Medic. ), Optomist.  ( Trust me once you see how my characters behavethis will make sense. )
Willing to sacrifice : Anything but comrades. She thinks nothing of killing billions of strangers to protect 1 comrade or to get the mission done.
Ambition : To be selected to join the elite Kasrkin forces.
Hatred : Cowardice.
Stats.
WS : 34+2 ( Hardened fighter. )
BS : 39
Str : 32
Toughness : 37+5+3 ( Stormtrooper, Forgeworld. )
Agility : 36+3 ( Drop trooper. )
Intelligence : 27
Perception : 32+3 ( Forgeworld. )
Willpower : 34
Fellowship : 34-3 ( Drop trooper. )
Starting aptitudes : Agility, Ballistic skill, Fieldcraft, Finesse. Offense, Toughness.
Starting skills : Awareness, Dodge, Intimidate, Scohlastic Lore, Stealth ( Trained ), Lightning Reflexes, Operate ( Aeronautica. )
Starting talents : Quick Draw, Takedown. Weapon training Las, Catfall, Rapid Reaction, Blind fighting. Deadeye shot, Street fighter, Common Lore (Adeptus Mechanicus), Common Lore (Tech), Linguistics (Low Gothic), Linguistics (Techna Lingua), Logic, Peer (Adeptus Mechanicus), Technical Knock.
Hated enemy :
Specialist equipment :Good Quality Hotshot lasgun, 6 cells,Good Quality Storm trooper Carapace armor.
Starting equipment : Good quality Las Carbine, Common Sword, 4 cells, 3 smoke grenade, 3 frag grenade, one respirator, one modified grav-chute one synskin, 1 preysense goggles. 3 weeks rations. Grapnel. Best quality imperial guard flak armor. Micro-Beads, Chrono.
Wounds : 15
Fate points : 2 ( 8 )
Experience : 0 ( Brought Stealth rank 2 and Lightning Reflexes. )
Sanity damage : 7

Spoiler: Backstory. (click to show/hide)

Back story : Marra has no memory of her family, she never knew a mother or a father and her first memory is of an orphanage and a name she did not understand, Schola Progenium.
Her life was spent being taught and trained everything she would need to know to become one of the finest soldiers in the imperial guard, a Storm Trooper.
Once she was given her first posting she set out and took part in a couple of minor battles with Ork forces, it was in one of these that for the first time she began to define herself as a person and not just the soldier she was raised to be.
She had disobeyed orders and gone back to try and save a wounded member of her squad in the face of multiple orks, after a short and bloody battle in which she killed or wounded several of them she was badly wounded and about to be killed herself when the rest of her squad along with fresh forces arrived to drive the orks away and save  her.
It was only in seeing her brother trooper down and knowing that what she had done had likely saved his life that she began to feel like an individual and not simply a faceless drone and since then she has slowly developed into a human being and not simply a soldier..

First thing to buy, rapid reload.

[Caellath]

On the matter of the whisper-bolt discharger, remember that it is a good tool but at the same time it would pretty much beg us to play nice and slow, or at least move stealthily most of time to actually make use of the advantage it provides. Charging in guns blazing wouldn't be very optimal, and though there's the possibility of beginning the game with it already installed, it isn't that easy to uninstall the system, meaning that in open firefights you'll have a -1 to damage, though that could be compensated by overcharging the weapon.

It is a matter of playstyle, really.

[Elfeater]

I prefer damage to silence honestly. They are going to know we are there. haha

[Alexandria]

Not if we do it properly Elf.

We don't have the numbers for a straight fight, if we did that to often we'd be cut to pieces. So if you prefer damage then put it on your secondary weapon so your primary keeps it's damage.

I've put it on my hotshot las rifle, with it's high penetration and +1 damage over the carbine it'll still be more effective then most of your guns, I'll probably be playing vanguard anyway since with the stealth suit and my rank 2 in stealth I'm about the best sneaker in the squad, so I'm best suited to hopefully keeping us out of direct fights.

If we have to do one then we use them guns first to try and avoid detection, the longer we go undetected the more we can kill before they come for us.

Besides we're built as a stealth regiment, silence is our friend.

[Remuthra]

Reading through the combat details, this game shares a whole lot with XCOM. Sheet won't upload properly, so I'll transcribe the vital information in a moment.

[Alexandria]

Hey Bd, will it be possible in this to get NPC engineers to do weapon mods for me? They're best suited to it anyway.

[Elfeater]

Alex, you seem to think we will be on our own. We will have supporting units. Unless the shit hits the fan, then I don't know if we will even have each other to rely on.

[Alexandria]

I know we're not on our own, it was mentioned a few times before.

I'm just not certain if NPC can do that kind of thing for us or if it has to be done by a player.

[Elfeater]

I was talking about our numbers.
Your post before that one.

[Alexandria]

Oh, I meant because our numbers are limited, we've got low reinforcements so we need to avoid direct confrontation as often as we can to limit our losses.

[Elfeater]

If we are going to fire, I would rather fire with more damage. We can get into position, then open up and kill them. A hiss vs a crack, when there are hundreds of troopers attacking the same area.
The few doesnt mean its just a handful. But we will probably have a few thousand.