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[Sirus]

Or the ever-popular "there's an STC fragment here, we will sacrifice as many as it takes to keep it intact".

[Frumple]

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

Odd. I've been dropping my entire chapter on an extremely infested ork planet (once via raid, once via invasion -- I've been reloading a turn 1 save as I figure out how things work, and there's an extremely infested planet just two turns away) and they've been straight curbstomping every ork encounter they're involved in. Like, the latest one involving ground invasion, the first offensive was ~7000 orks vs ~900 various marines, completely without vehicle support. Flawless victory, zero casualties on the marine side.

... though, to be fair, it's a bolter drilling/ork enemy/crafter chapter, so... I gots the better dakka.

[Sirus]

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

Odd. I've been dropping my entire chapter on an extremely infested ork planet (once via raid, once via invasion -- I've been reloading a turn 1 save as I figure out how things work, and there's an extremely infested planet just two turns away) and they've been straight curbstomping every ork encounter they're involved in. Like, the latest one involving ground invasion, the first offensive was ~7000 orks vs ~900 various marines, completely without vehicle support. Flawless victory, zero casualties on the marine side.

... though, to be fair, it's a bolter drilling/ork enemy/crafter chapter, so... I gots the better dakka.

Ah, but do you have enuff dakka?

[Frumple]

No such thing, so of course not. There's only more or less dakka, and not enuff. Enuff dakka is a fantasy and an impossibility -- an idealized, unreachable, goal. There is no forth state of dakka. Even better dakka is just shorthand for less more!dakka.

[Sinistar]

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

You probably had troubles here because you neglected the use of Codex Astartes prescribed, venerated tactic known by the name of STEEHL REHN.


... I'm sorry I just had to do this.

[Sirus]

No such thing, so of course not. There's only more or less dakka, and not enuff. Enuff dakka is a fantasy and an impossibility -- an idealized, unreachable, goal. There is no forth state of dakka. Even better dakka is just shorthand for less more!dakka.

*sage nod*
Any other answer would get you executed for heresy.

[adwarf]

Man Scouts can be a hell of a lot more badass than I thought, 20 of them armed with chainswords and bionics versus over a hundred orks and I only lost 9 of them.

[a1s]

I can't seem to land any troops (I might not have tranport ships or something.) How is it usually done?

[Sinistar]

*resist the urge to yell STEEHL REHN*

[nenjin]

*resist the urge to yell STEEHL REHN*

No brother, let the Emperah flow through you.

[Frumple]

I can't seem to land any troops (I might not have tranport ships or something.) How is it usually done?

• Get your troops into a ship (by default, most/all of them seem to be in your starting ships).
• Get your ship to the target system (select fleet, right click target system, wait until arrival)
• Go into the chapter overview
• Select the group you want to send down
• Select the members of the group you want to send down (hint: If you click on something and then click on the selection bit, it'll grab everything in a single ship)
• Unload the buggers by clicking the little thing that says unload, and then picking the planet
• Wait a turn or two until something happens

Incidentally, if you're not after artifacts, and don't need non-dreadnaught vehicles, raiding is a lot faster and less fiddly.

Also, pretty much all of that is in the manual. Reading it helps

[qazcake]

Second thing i learned. Unless you have a fuck ton of ships never engage the hive fleet. It will murder everything you got.

[miauw62]

That's sort of the point of a hive fleet, isn't it?

[GentlemanRaptor]

Ah, bug update. Don't name troops Rangers. That triggers Inquisitorial wrath, because Rangers are already a unit in the game. An Eldar unit. So they think you've hired Eldar, and then the whole Imperium hates you.

[nenjin]

Incidentally, if you're not after artifacts, and don't need non-dreadnaught vehicles, raiding is a lot faster and less fiddly.

Other than the Emprah weeping because his Space Marines are just raiding instead of invading.

Ah, bug update. Don't name troops Rangers. That triggers Inquisitorial wrath, because Rangers are already a unit in the game. An Eldar unit. So they think you've hired Eldar, and then the whole Imperium hates you.

That....is fucking hilarious.