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[Glowcat]

Only War Campaign - Baneblade Edition

Starting this thread since pure IRC wasn't enough to sort out all the regiment planning stuff and people wanted it. Players are mostly set though I could take one more. The crunch of the regiment has already been decided and the team is rolling in a Baneblade over rebel/xenos/chaos-scum.

Time: 6PM PST Sundays

Regiment Info (Traits):

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Imperial World, Super-Heavy Armored Regiment (Shield), Choleric, Anti-Air (Emperor's Hammer), Well-Provisioned, The Few (Drawback - Emperor's Hammer)

Note: PCs are allowed to use the +3 Any characteristic as they choose, though regiment NPCs use +3 BS.

Regiment Info (Kit):

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2 pts Chrono
10 pts Best Q Baneblades!
10 pts Imperial Guard Flak
8 pts Merovech Assault Lasguns

Current Players (5/6):

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adwarf - Operator
Wrex - Commissar
Harb - Techpriest
Caellath - Heavy or Stormtrooper
GUIN - Priestpriest

[Caellath]

Reserving post for my stuff. I'll start to work on it when I have time.

Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

IRC Rolled Stats: WS 36, BS 37, ST 29, TO 28, AGI 31, INT 36, PER 32, WP 31, FEL 34, Wounds 1, Fate 1

Name: Monterran Dassault
Specialty: Storm Trooper
Handedness: Right
Wounds: 13/13
Fate Points: 1/1
Description: Short-cropped sandy hair, brown eyes, twenty-somethings. He doesn't look very imposing, with a build that indicates some physical training, but less than is expected from a soldier of his caliber.
Initiative: 1d10+3
Characteristics:
(33) Weapon Skill
(50) Ballistic Skill
(29) Strength
(31) Agility
(33) Toughness
(36) Intelligence
(32) Perception
(37) Willpower
(34) Fellowship

Skills:
•Awareness (Per);
•Common Lore: Imperial Creed (Int);
•Common Lore: Imperium (Int);
•Dodge (Ag);
•Linguistics: Low Gothic (Int);
•Operate: Surface (Ag);
•Security (Int);
•Scholastic Lore: Tactica Imperialis (Int);
•Stealth (Ag).

Talents:
•Anti-Air Training (Trait);
•Blessed Ignorance (Trait);
•Hatred (Mutants);
•Rapid Reaction;
•Rapid Reload;
•Storm of Iron;
•Takedown;
•Technical Knock;
•Weapon Training (Las, Low-Tech, Solid Projectile).

Movement: Half-Move: 3m / Full-Move: 6m / Charge: 9m / Run: 18m
Max Carrying/Lifting/Pushing Weight: 27 Kg | 54 Kg | 108 Kg
Aptitudes: Agility, Ballistic Skill, Fieldcraft, Finesse, General, Offense, Toughness, Willpower.
Experience: 150/700xp.
Experience Usage: Weapon Training (Solid Projectile), 200xp; Ballistic Skill Simple Advance, 100xp; Ballistic Skill Intermediate Advance, 250xp.
Planned: •Quick Draw;

Inventory:
•One uniform;
•One set of poor weather gear;
•One set of Common-Craftsmanship Storm Trooper Carapace Armor;
•One Good Craftsmanship Hot-shot Lasgun, and three charge packs;
•One Common Craftsmanship Merovech-Pattern Assault Lasgun (Information), and two charge packs;
 - Merovech Mono Bayonet;
•One Common Craftsmanship Laspistol, and four charge packs;
•One Common Craftsmanship Knife;
•One Anointed Maintenance Toolkit;
•One rucksack;
•One set of basic tools;
•One mess kit and one water canteen;
•One blanket and one sleep bag;
•One rechargeable lamp pack;
•One grooming kit;
•One set of cognomen tags;
•One Imperial Infantryman's Uplifting Primer;
•One Chrono;
•Combat sustenance rations, four weeks’ supply.

Background: Son of a couple composed of a Guard's lieutenant and a civilian, Mont, as he was nicknamed from an early age, was shipped off to the Schola Progenium for training after the death of his father during a campaign against marauding dark eldar raiders. Though not exactly the best candidate due to highly variable physical performance, he was deemed intelligent and good enough a shot to receive storm trooper training. After spending years being taught as a Progena and one of the Imperium's finest, he was finally shipped off back to his homeworld, Siranis IV, to join a super-heavy regiment and act as a commissar's bodyguard inside a Commissariat tank.

To be expanded upon later.

[Harbingerjm]

Sheet.

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Character: Merith Silens Veracit, S-MSV-1340-G9SHC
Player: Harbingerjm
Regiment: Siranian 9th Super-Heavy Cavalry Regiment "Rolling Thunder"
Speciality: Tech-Priest Enginseer
Description: Of medium height, and once possessed of a fairly scrawny build, Merith's body has been reshaped by the installation of the augmentations of the Mechanicus, the installed Cyber-Mantle a bulky, resilient cage of metal and ceramics built around a powerful Potentia Coil and a heavy duty Servo Arm. Much of the lower part of Merith's face was replaced by a powerful Vox-Grill, capable of being heard even over the rumble of a Baneblade in combat, and the addition of a mechanical eye and extensive cranial implants replaced a large part of the skull. With a pattern of elaborate Electoos spreading over much of Merith's remaining original skin, a number of data ports jutting from what little clear skin there is left, and a suit of full-body armour and red robes shaped to fit over this enhanced physique, Merith is barely recognisable as human any more, let alone the shy, scrawny, child that once gazed upon the adepts of the Machine God with such awe.
Background: Merith was born on Sirania IV, a member of one of the major families controlling the trade between Sirania IV and the Forge World of Sirania VII... albeit a very, very minor branch of the family, notable only for the fact that Merith's Great-Grandfather Halstrom had had quite a successful career in one of the more prestigious Siranian Imperial Guard Regiments before retiring. As a child, Merith was withdrawn and moody, but fascinated by the strange, aloof members of the Cult Mechanicus that sometimes visited the holdings of the main Veracit family when Merith was dragged there on one of the innumerable social occasions the main family hosted. After several years of pleading and much hard study, it was decided that Merith had shown enough talent and dedication to the idea to be nominated by the Veracits for training with the AdMech, something that was looked upon with a fair amount of favour in the family political circles, as it both removed one more potential scheming relative from the scene and might, with luck, extend the family's influence in the AdMech.
Training as a Techpriest, Merith was eventually selected for duty with the Imperial Guard, and was fortunate enough to be selected for the highly prestigious Super-Heavy 9th regiment, likely due to a combination of talent, being of Sirania IV origin, and familial influence (particularly that of Halstrom Silens Veracit).

CHARACTERISTICS

Characteristic	Base stat	CC Modifiers	Total	Characteristic Bonus
Weapon Skill	00 (+20)	-3	17	1
Ballistic Skill	20 (+20)	-	40	4 (+1)
Strength	06 (+20)	-	26/75	2/7 (+7)
Toughness	20 (+20	-	40	4
Agility	20 (+20)	-	40	4
Intelligence	20 (+20)	+5, +3	48	4 (+2)
Perception	00 (+20)	-	20 (0)	2
Willpower	14 (+20)	+3, +3	40	4
Fellowship	00 (+20)	-	20	2

SKILLS

Skill	Progression	Bonus
Common Lore (Adeptus Mechanicus)	Known	20
Common Lore (Imperial Creed)	Known	20
Common Lore (Imperial Guard)	Known	20
Common Lore (Imperium)	Known	20
Common Lore (Tech)	Known	20
Forbidden Lore (Adeptus Mechanicus)	Known	15
Linguistics (Low Gothic)	Known	0
Linguistics (Techna-Lingua)	Known	0
Logic	Known	20
Operate (Surface)	Known	0
Tech-Use	Known	0
Trade (Technomat)	Known	0

TALENTS
Cold Hearted
Hatred (Mutants)
Heightened Senses (Sight)
Mechadendrite Use (Weapon, Utility)
Rapid Reaction
Storm of Iron
Technical Knock
Weapon Training (Las)
Weapon Training (Power)

TRAITS
Blessed Ignorance
Anti-Aircraft
Well-Provisioned
Mechanicus Implants: Electro-graft, Electoo Inductors, Respirator Unit, Cyber-mantle, Potentia Coil, Cranial circuitry.
Good Cerebral Implants: Unnatural Intelligence (2)
Right handed

WOUNDS
Total: 9
Current: 9

INSANITY
Points: 1
Mental Disorders: -

CORRUPTION
Points: 0
Malignancies: -
Mutations: -

MOVEMENT
Structured
Half: 4 / Full: 8 / Charge: 12 / Run: 24
Narrative
Minute: 96m / Hour: 6km / Day: 60km

ENCUMBRANCE
Standard / (Mechadendrite)
Max carrying weight: 36kg / (1,350kg)
Max lifting weight: 72kg / (2,700kg)
Max pushing weight: 144kg / (5,400kg)
Gear weight: 24kg
Encumbered?: NOPE.

FATE POINTS
Total: 1
Current: 1

ARMOUR
All: 4 (5)

EXPERIENCE
To spend: 400xp
Total spent: 300xp

APTITUDES
Perception
Ballistic Skill
Intelligence
Knowledge
Strength
Tech
Toughness
Weapon Skill
Willpower

GEAR
REGIMENTAL
•One Common Craftsmanship Merovech-Pattern Assault Lasgun (Information), and two charge packs
 - Merovech Mono Bayonet
•One Common Craftsmanship Laspistol (Main Weapon), and four charge packs.
•One set of Imperial Guard Flak Armour
•One uniform
•One set of poor weather gear
•One Common Craftsmanship Knife
•One Flak Vest
•One rucksack or sling bag
•One set of basic tools
•One mess kit and one water canteen
•One blanket and one sleep bag
•One rechargeable lamp pack
•One grooming kit
•One set of cognomen tags or equivalent identification
•Imperial Infantryman’s Uplifting Primer
•Combat sustenance rations, four weeks’ supply
•One anointed maintenance toolkit
•One Chrono

SPECIALIST
•Sacred Unguents
•Dataslate
•Combi-tool

ACQUIRED
•Small Crystal(?) eye sphere thingy.

CYBERNETICS
•Mind Impulse Unit (Good)
•Ocular Sight (Good)
•Cerebral Implants (Good)
•Servo-arm (Good)

[Caellath]

Since I think no one is reserving any posts right now, it's probably about time I post the possible themes (and their working names) I came up for the regiment so far, none of them illustrated for your viewing pleasure because I'm lazy:

Spoiler: Sacred Band (click to show/hide)

Vague carthaginian/phoenician inspiration. Corinthian or/and iberian-styled helmets for soldiers, with the carapace breastplates of officers styled after the bronze breastplates of hoplites. Since large vertical crests are terrible for tank crews, special soldiers and officers have either humble side-affixed or "hanging/curtain" crests, ornaments attached to the sides and bottom edges of the helmets. Habits: attaching flak shields with the heraldry of the family of each of the crew members to the sides of the baneblade - the commander's heraldry gets a plaque at the battle cannon's mantlet; setting up striped tents behind the turrets of the larger tanks if they're ordered to remain stationary for longer periods of time, with "less important" crew members setting up tents that are connected to the sides of the turret or to armored skirts, occasionally attaching mono-bayonets (ax or traditionally-shaped) to the barrels of tanks, mostly for intimidation's sake (if you have an armored vehicle with a turret that traverses fast enough to use that blade as a weapon, the AdMech are abducting it). Leans more towards "pride" than "worry". Pool of common colors: gold, white, light gray, silver, purple, red, with heraldry displaying several others.

Spoiler: Heavy Duty (click to show/hide)

Former mining world. Helmets and armor of simple and sturdy construction.  Some helmets display retractable/detachable faceplates with smooth surfaces and a rectangular visor, much like a welder's mask. Most armored vehicles are even more square-tastic than usual. Past of mining and ties with the Mechanicus shown by way of some tanks having large mechadentrites behind their turrets. Habits: the smooth surfaces of the faceplates are occasionally painted and drawn on by the troopers; hazard stripes of various colors and witty warnings ("DO NOT LICK", "Obviously Explosive", icons of soldiers being executed by a Commissar, etc.) are the most common decorations; improvised utensils and contraptions to cook using the heat from the engine's block, and the production and installation of baneblade-sized dozer blades, sentinel saw blades, harpoon-and-tow, and "mine flail" attachments (that work very well in the role of destroying buildings without expending ammo), with the most venerable 'blades of the regiment having powered mine flails. Leans more towards "worry" than "pride". Pool of common colors: black, dark gray, gray, light gray, gunmetal gray, slade gray, cobalt, hazard stripes.

The factor common to them is that the regiment would hail from a homeworld with a deep-rooted tanking culture in the military, with super-heavy regiments being either proud of their heritage, constantly worried about the weight of their responsibility, or both. The lack of air support independent from the Navy causes even more worries due to the fact it's all fine and well when several thousands of guardsmen die, but no one wants to lose a baneblade or shadowsword. That means the world's regiments have large amounts of specialized, deadly accurate A-Air support and even troops assigned to ground-to-ground combat have AA training.

I think there are also others I forgot before posting, like the snow-world inuit/finnish-inspired regiment.

[Harbingerjm]

I suppose I should link the regiment stuff I sent to Glow.

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In the same system as a Forge World, and has relatively close ties due to exporting minerals (from its moons) and some food to the Forge World. The Forge World, of course, does not contribute its own soldiers to the tithes, though it keeps its own defence force, and given they occupy the same system and trade a fair amount of resources and goods there is a fair amount of cooperation between the two when it comes to system defence. The Imperial World trades with the Forge World for high quality equipment and vehicles for a couple of its regiments, since having successful, long-surviving regiments is a source of prestige, some increased latitude from the Departmento Munitorum (on other tithes, such as goods they would like to trade) and Adeptus Ministorom (useful when in such close contact with a Forge World), and increased priority when it comes to defense requests.
Plus, it also has the side effect of increased numbers of surviving guardsmen reaching higher ranks, which is useful in itself for all sorts of reasons.
Of course, this focus on keeping these few top regiments effective and prestigious is not without drawbacks; while they are well equipped and well trained, they have a relatively low recruitment flow, thanks to the majority of potential recruits being deemed unfit (whether of body, mind or soul) for service in the elite regiments and shuffled to the less prestigious and well equipped mass regiments. Not that that matters most of the time for the Baneblade regiment.

Glow came up with a name for it, though I forget what it was now.

[Parsely]

I pick Sacred Band!

[Glowcat]

Go far confirmed votes are 2 for Sacred Band (Wrex, GUIN) and 2 for Heavy Duty (Harb, adwarf) with me not being sure which way Caellath wanted to go. He is thus our tie breaker.

EDIT: And Wrex switched to Heavy Duty. Tie broken!

[Wrex]

Just a quick post to throw my sheet on the thread

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WS 24, BS 31, ST 27, TO 28, AGI 38, INT 25, PER 31, WP 44, FEL 45, Wounds 11, Fate 2
Talents: Air of Authority, Weapon Training (Bolt, Chain, Las), Unshakeable Faith
Skills: Command +10, Common lore (IG), Scholastic Lore (Tactica Imperialis), Operate (Surface),
Special gear: Good Craft Chainsword, Good Craft Bolt Pistol, Commissar Uniform
Aptitiudes: Ballistic Skill, Agility, Fellowship, Finesse, leadership, Perception, Weapon Skill, Willpower

Special Advance: Galvanising Presence (Can terrify PC's, has Fear (2))

[adwarf]

Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Mathos Caldabara
Gender: Male
Age: 63

Specialty: Operator

Wounds: 11
Fate Points: 1
Armor: 4 (All)

XP: 0

Characteristics:
Weapon Skill: 26
Ballistic Skill: 30
Strength: 32
Toughness: 30
Agility: 41 + 10 = 51
Intelligence: 30
Perception: 32
Willpower: 36
Fellowship: 35

Skills:
Common Lore (Imperium, Imperial Creed) {Int}
Navigate (Surface) {Int}
Operate (Surface) {Agi} +10
Tech-Use (Int) {Int} +10

Talents:
Technical Knock
Hatred (Mutant)
Storm of Iron
Rapid Reaction
Weapon Training

Traits:
Blessed Ignorance
Anti-Air Training

Characteristic Advances:
Intermediate Agility Advance

Cybernetics:
Common Craftsmanship Mind Impulse Unit

Inventory:
•One uniform
•One set of poor weather gear
•One Common Craftsmanship Merovech-Pattern Assault Lasgun (Information), and two charge packs;
 - Merovech Mono Bayonet;
•One Common Craftsmanship Laspistol, and four charge packs
•One Common Craftsmanship Knife
•One Common Craftsmanship Lascutter
•One set of Imperial Flak Armor
•One Common Craftsmanship Auspex
•One Combi-tool
•One Data Slate
•One Anointed Maintenance Toolkit
•One rucksack
•One set of basic tools
•One mess kit and one water canteen
•One blanket and one sleep bag
•One rechargeable lamp pack
•One grooming kit
•One set of cognomen tags
•One Imperial Infantryman's Uplifting Primer
•One Chrono
•Combat sustenance rations, four weeks’ supply.


XP Purchases:
Gunner Comrade Advance (-250 XP)
Simple Agility Advance (-100 XP)
Intermediate Agility Advance (-250 XP)
Tech-Use Trained (-200 XP)

[Parsely]

Spoiler: Hal Raven (click to show/hide)

Weapon Skill 31-3regmalus
Ballistic Skill 32+3regbonus
Strength 39
Toughness 34
Agility 35
Intelligence 30
Perception 39
Willpower 29+6homeworld
Fellowship 31+5charbonus

Handedness Right
Wounds 14
Fate 3

Aptitudes Fellowship, Leadership, Perception, Social, Strength, Weapon Skill, Willpower, Ballistic Skill
Skills Charm, Common Lore (Ecclesiarchy, Imperial Creed), Forbidden Lore (Heresy), Scholastic, Parry, Operate (surface)
Talents Hatred (Daemons), Unshakeable Faith, Weapon Training (Chain, Las, Flame, Low-Tech), Radiant Presence
Traits Blessed Ignorance, Anti-Air Training
Experience 0

Equipment
Guardsman Uniform
Poor weather gear
Ecclesiarchy Robes
Common Craftsmanship Flamer
Common Craftsmanship Chainsword
Book of Scripture
Chrono
Imperial Guard Flak
Merovech Assault Lasgun
Rucksack
Basic tools
Mess kit
Water canteen
Blanket
Sleep roll
Lamp pack
Grooming kit
Dog tags
Uplifting Primer
Combat sustenance rations, for two weeks

[Glowcat]

Backstory (repost from game)

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The 961st Mordian Line Infantry and 512th Mordian Mechanized Infantry are being deployed at the Talassan Front (as opposed to the Home Front to defend the mainland continent from the rebels) and need heavy armour support. To their fortune, the Departmento Munitorum didn't realize that the 334th Mordian Armoured Regiment was wiped out a decade ago and some scribe took up upon themselves to "fix" the mistake by sending another armour regiment that was nearby instead. They failed to realize that they were sending a Baneblade regiment.

The Siranian 9th Super-Heavy Cavalry Regiment accepted the call as was their duty, and under Colonel Jal Harack the regimental Baneblades were loaded into a Cruiser-class Voidship that prepared to take them and the combined arms of your army under the 961st's General Lilith Tarant through several months of warp travel in which even the officers of your regiment were kept in the dark about. Rumors circulated that your vessel traveled through a warp gate but such tales seemed fanciful.

Your squad is a crew for a Baneblade, a tank that embodies everything of the Imperium: Strength, Fortitude, and though the vehicle might be ponderous it would inevitably crush all underneath its treads. This Baneblade is also one of the two under the command of a Commissariat Officer, Commissar Holt. You've been entrusted with a great honor as well as a great responsibility, but with the Emperor at your side it is only a matter of time before the enemies on this undeveloped world within the Jericho Reach shall tremble with the ground as you approach, shudder under the hail of bolt fire from your heavy bolters, and fall to the might of your main cannon.

Luckily your position also grants you insight that most guardsmen would only dream of getting. For instance, you know that the world you approach is Lorgan Prime, the sister planet to a gas giant in the same system. It was once lost to the warp but about fourteen decades ago the warp storms abated and it was ripe for colonization once more. The Tau Empire, a xenos pestilence, attempted to occupy this territory but upon the arrival of Imperial forces decided that retreat was a far better option and as one left the world to humanity's rightful hand. At least for the most part. The Tau seemed to have left their pets, the Kroot, behind on the world. Efforts to exterminate the xenos on world are made difficult, as they seem to have adapted to the wilds and their raiders strike then vanish before any proper response can be formed.

As such it has largely been untouched by the scars of war due to many of the worlds within the Jericho Reach. Fertile fields of terran grass were planted in the century prior and with the planet's surprisingly abundant nutrient density entire fields of much needed foodstuff were being grown in agricenters across Lorgan Prime's two main continents. Despite these advances, much of the world remained in the grips of virulent native wild-life, and the oceans were dominated by what is called a "Lorgan Leviathan", a titan-sized beast that seems to immediately sense anything in contact with water, to the point that most sea travel is accomplished by skimmer craft rather than ship.

While such crafts are relatively rare in the Imperium, a large number of them were secured by the local Imperial Cult's Ministorum thanks to the recovery of a Pattern deep within ancient Terran tunnels found on this world by one 'Talassa'. Mars itself quickly snatched this pattern from the priesthood and in return provided them and the planet far more attention that an Agriworld typically deserves.

Unfortunately this deal is also the seed by which the current conflict sprang. Talassa was being elevated due to her heroics in the tunnels to the point that the locals began to call her "Saint Talassa" and began to follow her to the island where she first entered and the exited the ancient tunnels that led her to ancient knowledge. She built a stronghold citidel upon this point and began to preach a variant of the Imperial Creed that emphasized humanity's discovery of their ancient heritage for the greater good of all. Censur was out of the question early on, not without damaging the Ministorum's reputation on this fledgling world, and thus she was mostly left to her own... until the Habs of northern Capsia (one of the two continents) began to oppose the Planetary Governor's efforts to collect the Imperial Tithe.

When the Ministorum finally declared Talassa traitor and heretic it was too late. Her power and influence had grown to the point that, rather than weakening her, most of the people on Capsia rose up in arms against the Imperial Government. Calling themselves "Talassans", these farmers were joined by the northern City-Habs of Cessen and Port Lazarus at what would've been a moment of victory as the PDF had been sieging Talassa's Stronghold only to find themselves betrayed by Capsia's largest industrial sector... and traitor PDF now pointing basilisks and lemann russ cannons at their rear.

Imperial forces, at that point consisting of PDF and the 1st Lorgan Siege Infantry, were pushed back until the only foothold they had was Port Janus far to the south and near the Nost swamp. Even then, the loyal defenders are at the point where they are nearly overrun and the enemies bombard the gates as your vessel approaches the planet. The Capsian continent is firmly within an anti-air blanket of AA Sabre batteries and emplacements that have practically shut down offshore approaches. Attempts to approach the continent from the mainland across the eastern sea were deemed reckless due to any disturbance on the water creating a high probability that fauna-based hazards would cause crippling losses. Thus, General Tarant, Colonel Harack, and Colonel Thorrick came up with Operation Ironfall... Within the 'Gallant Blade's' drop bay you are given your mission by Commissar-Captain Ezra Carnada.

[Parsely]

How much XP did we each get? I forget.

[Glowcat]

400 each. Be sure to mark down which advances you take on your sheet.

[Parsely]

Woah geez instantaneous reply. And I shall! Tomorrow.

* GUNINANRUNIN goes ZZZ.

[Harbingerjm]

I may be late for the next session; up to an hour so, if I've worked out the times right. Unavoidable IRL shenanigans -.-