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Author Topic: Only War: Cleansing of Lokmar (Full!)  (Read 8189 times)

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Only War: Cleansing of Lokmar (Full!)
« on: October 17, 2013, 03:28:35 pm »

I will be starting an Only War campaign that will be hosted over IRC on Fridays 4:30 to 5:00 PM (GMT -5) and will generally run at least two and a half hours per session. We'll be using the Core Rulebook and the Hammer of the Emperor supplement (the only two books that currently have any effect on character and regiment creation) long with a handful of homebrewed rules which I'm still working on. If you need the rules for character creation send me a PM and I'll help you out there, I already have a few players interested (five in total if I remember correctly) and will be taking eight players in total.

The campaign we will be playing will be mostly combat oriented, but you can expect some level of intrigue, and politics to worm their way into the story as you all go along. To those interested please post, and PM (if you need the rules) so we can get this going as quickly as possible :)

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Re: Only War: Cleansing of Lokmar (Accepting Eight Players)
« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2013, 03:29:03 pm »

Reserved for player character sheets, regiment information (once that is done), and more.
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Re: Only War: Cleansing of Lokmar (Accepting Eight Players)
« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2013, 03:58:18 pm »

I shall most definitely join.
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Re: Only War: Cleansing of Lokmar (Accepting Eight Players)
« Reply #3 on: October 17, 2013, 04:26:05 pm »

Is the one where you're imperial guard? I really want to play, but I din't know how.
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Re: Only War: Cleansing of Lokmar (Accepting Eight Players)
« Reply #4 on: October 17, 2013, 05:19:37 pm »

I might want to play, but can you just give a basic description of what this is for new players(like me)?
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Re: Only War: Cleansing of Lokmar (Accepting Eight Players)
« Reply #5 on: October 17, 2013, 05:34:23 pm »

I might want to play, but can you just give a basic description of what this is for new players(like me)?

How much do you know about warhammer 40k?
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Re: Only War: Cleansing of Lokmar (Accepting Eight Players)
« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2013, 05:39:34 pm »

Almost nothing about lore and a little bit about mechanics :-[.
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Re: Only War: Cleansing of Lokmar (Accepting Eight Players)
« Reply #7 on: October 17, 2013, 05:39:43 pm »

Only War is a roleplaying game based in the Warhammer 40k universe where you play soldiers of the Imperial Guard, the God Emperor's nearly endless tide of soldiers conscripted and recruited from hundreds and thousands of worlds to combat the forces that wish to wipe out the Imperium of Man. In it you each assume the position of an Imperial Guardsmen or someone commonly found with the Imperial Guard (such choices including a Priest, Psyker, or Commissar) and go through a campaign aiming to follow orders and serve the God Emperor to the best of your ability.

The Cleansing of Lokmar on the other hand is the custom adventure/campaign that the game will be run in, the sector of Lokmar is a backwater place where the reach of the Imperium hasn't been strong in centuries. While a few forge worlds, and fortress worlds can be found the vast majority of the sector is agri-worlds (farming planets), feral worlds (primitive planets), or death worlds (self explanatory) with a sprinkling of Hive worlds (Planets with massive cities and high population) in there. The players are part of one of a handful of regiments sent to reclaim and pacify the lawless sector, this of course will mostly be done through force as an example must be made of those who shy from the realm of the Imperium.
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Re: Only War: Cleansing of Lokmar (Accepting Eight Players)
« Reply #8 on: October 17, 2013, 06:04:57 pm »

Well the standard intoduction to Warhammer things is:
It is the forty-first millenium.

For more than a hundred centuries, the Emperor has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Earth. He is the master of mankind by the will of the gods and master of a million worlds by the strength of his inexhaustable armies. He is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with power from the Dark Age of technology. He is the Carrion Lord of the Imperium for whom a thousand souls are acrificed every day, so he may never truly die.

Yet in his deathless state, the Emperor continues his eternal vigilance. Mighty battlefleets cross the Daemon-infested miasma of the Warp, the only route between distant stars, their way lit by the Astronomicon, the psychic manifestation of the Emperor's will. VAst armies give battle in his name on uncounted worlds. Greatest amongst his soldiers are the Adeptus Astartes, the Space MArines, bio-engineered super soldiers. Their comrades in arms are legion: the Imperial Guard and countless planetary defence forces, the ever-vigilant Inquisition and the Tech-Priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus, to name but a few. But for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ver present threat from aliens, heretics, mutants - and worse.

To be a man in such a time is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruellest and most bloody regime imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of technology and science, forso much has been forgotten, never to be relearned. Forget the promise of truth and understanding, for in the grim, dark future there is only war. There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods.


Warhammer is basically a huge melee of various cliches fighting it out. It used to be more fun and goofy, if that's the right word, but they turn it more towards grimdark with every revision. In this, you're an imperial guardsman, a disposable soldier that defeats the huge, monstrous enemies with a lasrifle (a pew pew lasergun) and sheer numbers.
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Re: Only War: Cleansing of Lokmar (Accepting Eight Players)
« Reply #9 on: October 17, 2013, 07:14:06 pm »

Haha, don't worry. I knew practically nothing about Warhammer 40k, and know I know... a little more than practically nothing about it.

But yeah. You know I'm in, Ad. :P Anyways, are you gonna post the IRC channel for the game?
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Re: Only War: Cleansing of Lokmar (Accepting Eight Players)
« Reply #10 on: October 17, 2013, 07:20:12 pm »

I'd play but I'm already in a Pathfinder game that makes me get up FUCKEARLY on Sundays and I need my weekend sleep.

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« Reply #11 on: October 17, 2013, 07:36:55 pm »

So I think I'd want a heavy gunner. Dibs on that now :L Do flamers count as a heavy weapon?
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« Reply #12 on: October 17, 2013, 07:42:43 pm »

So I think I'd want a heavy gunner. Dibs on that now :L Do flamers count as a heavy weapon?
There can be multiple heavy gunners, only restrictions are in the rules in the OP. Also no, a Heavy Flamer counts as a heavy weapon but a flamer does not.
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« Reply #13 on: October 17, 2013, 07:53:25 pm »

So I think I'd want a heavy gunner. Dibs on that now :L Do flamers count as a heavy weapon?
There can be multiple heavy gunners, only restrictions are in the rules in the OP. Also no, a Heavy Flamer counts as a heavy weapon but a flamer does not.

If you're making a regiment, please make Heavy Flamers one of the favoured weapons then.
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Re: Only War: Cleansing of Lokmar (Accepting Eight Players)
« Reply #14 on: October 17, 2013, 09:48:40 pm »

I'll join.
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