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[GentlemanRaptor]

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What is Chapter Master?

Chapter Master is a Space Marine chapter simulation game where you, yes you, take on the role of the Chapter Master of either a preexisting or custom Space Marine chapter and lead them to glory!*

^{*Glory may involve being brutally murdered by the Inquisition/Orks/Tau/Eldar/Tyranids/Chaos}

Chapter Master had a history that can best be described as "troubled". The project was all but abandoned by 2013, but one user named Duke brought the game back on August 9th of this year, Emperor be praised. The detailed story is below, as ripped from 1d4chan:

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It was writ that one day, Chapter Master might actually be in such a state that it may be called... "a game". Prior efforts enabled anons to craft their own chapter and chart a whole sector for them to play around in, but little else aside from that.

ASCII? Pah! The hopers of old transcended such nonsense: they were in the age of 100% fully 3D graphics comprising of not one, but TWO full dimensions of dimensionfulness. Let's just say that your corneas would have hexagons burned into them permanently after a couple of hours and leave it at that. Your ears would have been delighted by over SEVEN discrete, different, and unique sound effects ranging from beeps, to slightly different beeps. (Note that this is all sarcasm. Especially in wake of the current alpha, which has far more than this.)

However, all was not perfect: The attentions of /tg/ were, as they always have been, fickle. For the most part, people departed at almost the same instant that they claimed "oh yeah, sure I can help do <helpful task>". The old forum had 234 registered users - few of them who actually contributed, and far fewer who had any notable commitment to the whole thing. At the moment, for example, it can be relied upon that there will be 2 or 3 people to be around at some point, ready to contribute.

Every now and then, the good old storythread raised the awareness of the game, and some Anons vowed to Get Shit Done. However, sadly, most will find out that they have no idea to code worth a damn and can't be bothered to learn how to do so.

After multiple broken promises from people claiming to work on it with no actual results for years, /tg/ became resigned to the fact that it may never be created, and the people foolish enough to say that they will succeed when literally everyone else has failed are met with suspicion and doubt at best.

However, recently, an anon started a thread inquiring about it, and lo! he was met with screenshots and after much questioning,it appears that Chapter Master may be soon entering open alpha.

It was the 21st century, August 9 2014, 12:00AM. For years the denizens of /tg/ had languished on the Golden Throne of 4chan.

But no more.

Chapter Master is among us.

The time is nigh, and the Alpha has been released. Although promising, it has much to learn. But I believe, Chapter Master can save /tg/

But to do that, all anons must do one thing:

ALWAYS BET ON DUKE

The 1d4chan page can be found here. The situation has changed with regards to the downloads - to avoid the perils of GWs lawyers, the game is now tagged as Interstellar Army Simulator. There is a Chapter Master mod for it, however. The IAS download is here and the CM mod is here. Just put the mod zip in the IAS mods folder and you're good to go! That is, if it works. Which it might not, as of this writing. Check the latest posts in the thread to see what the situation is.



Manual here, FAQ here.

In order to fix any placeholder icon issues/general display issues, try this fix from Guardsman111:

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Okay, so I got the files together.

The new data.win works with both the GMS and the IAS Versions of the game.

Please Backup first. Especially your diplomacy images, as I'm pretty sure the next game update will have the reverse effect this fix does.

Download your chosen data.win file and the diplomacyreplace.zip. This data file update jumbled the diplomacy adviser screens for some reason I don't understand and until I figure it, this is an easy fix. Shaded Sprites is a data.win that contains the new shaded sprites I have created. The Not Shaded Sprites doesn't. Both include 4 new weapon sprites.

Copy and paste the data.win into your main chapter master directory, and paste the png's in diplomacyreplace into the diplomacy image file. full instructions can be downloaded with the data.win files.

Shaded Sprites:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/2k96i5gejbwabcu/data.win

Not Shaded Sprites:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/di5c5l6xj5ay1zl/data.win

Instructions:

http://www.mediafire.com/view/2c91yl88zdsvcwk/Instructions.txt

Diplomacy Replace:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/6fwubq3evbrxiq2/diplomacyreplace.zip

I know I said I would make the shaded sprites a full mod, but I haven't quite figured it and I'd rather get it out there for you guys to use than sit here scratching my head.

Edit: Enjoy everyone! If you have any trouble relating to the updated file, please let me know, and if the game is updated revert the diplomacy images to how they were.

A Horus Heresy mod/retexture (also by Guardsman111, he deserves a medal or something) exists here.

IN THE EMPEROR'S NAME, LET NONE SURVIVE!

[Knave]

Hey, that's pretty cool news! I remember following this before and then getting sad when the development went ghost town. Is this new alpha completely independent from their previous attempts?

[bluwolfie]

I can't seem to move my ships or.. DO anything really, except talk to "Advisers" talking about warhammer jargon I don't understand. Woo!

[nenjin]

*fapping intensifies*

I'll have to check this out soon.

[Sinistar]

This looks very interesting.

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I'm not sure how much of this is actual gameplay and how much is it just wet-dreams of what-may-this-game-be-in-the-future, but it sure sounds veeeeeeery interesting.

[GentlemanRaptor]

This looks very interesting.

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I'm not sure how much of this is actual gameplay and how much is it just wet-dreams of what-may-this-game-be-in-the-future, but it sure sounds veeeeeeery interesting.

It's a mix. The Inquisition will come to fuck up your shit if you have chaos artifacts hanging around, but I don't know if you can get tech upgrades from xenos civs. There are WAAAGHS. That post was awfully prescient for something from 2011, though.

[GentlemanRaptor]

I can't seem to move my ships or.. DO anything really, except talk to "Advisers" talking about warhammer jargon I don't understand. Woo!

There's a manual linked on the 1d4chan page. I'll add it to the OP.

[bluwolfie]

I can't seem to move my ships or.. DO anything really, except talk to "Advisers" talking about warhammer jargon I don't understand. Woo!

There's a manual linked on the 1d4chan page. I'll add it to the OP.

Yeah thanks, I'll see if I can get anything out of this game. It looks pretty interesting, even for me being an outsider to the warhammer universe.

[GentlemanRaptor]

Hey, that's pretty cool news! I remember following this before and then getting sad when the development went ghost town. Is this new alpha completely independent from their previous attempts?

Sorta? It's one guy, Duke, instead of a team. Seeing as how there wasn't really gameplay in the last version, it's hard to tell how much code was borrowed and how much is new. There are sounds and music added, as well. One of the songs is Vode An, or Brothers All. It's a bit weird to hear Mandalorian in a 40k game, but the sentiment is about right.

[qazcake]

Played it and liked it some. Learned never to go after a plannet that has an extreme infestation of orks. I wish the pdf and the imperial guard units would help you fight in battle or other allies help you if there on plannet

[Draxis]

They do - whenever the enemies don't attack you on their combat turn, it's because they are tied up with fighting your allies.

[GentlemanRaptor]

Played it and liked it some. Learned never to go after a plannet that has an extreme infestation of orks. I wish the pdf and the imperial guard units would help you fight in battle or other allies help you if there on plannet

Bombardment is your friend.

[ndkid]

Played it and liked it some. Learned never to go after a plannet that has an extreme infestation of orks.

Cleanse it from orbit. Any humans on the planet have failed the Emperor by allowing the situation to become so dire, and only cleansing fire may preserve their soul.

[nenjin]

If this was 40k fiction, there's be some stupid reason why you couldn't bombard every problem. "Oh, we can't lose that Promethium Refinery, it's the biggest one for 3 sectors around." "Oh, that foe is so dangerous we need visual confirmation they're dead, because just firing a virus missile or cyclonic warheads at the planet just isn't thorough enough."

[Taricus]

Just throw 700-800 battle brothers at a problem, and you'll generally walk out with only a few scuffs and scratches in the paint of the armour. Warbosses are ridiculously tough. I mean, several hundred bolter salvoes, fair enough. But several dozen lascannon shots? That's goddamn crazy.

Though I think I have something much, much worse coming for me.