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[frankensteins poster]

What got me once is that your recruitment speed is as far as I can tell indistinguishable from zero unless you're recruiting from a Death World

[DukeFluffy]

Noted on the weird recruiting behavior people are seeing.

Hypothetically, let's say that there are five types of feast ranging from kind of humble up to something lavish and over the top (i.e. Roman feasts).  What sort of dishes and appetizers would you expect each of these five stages to have?  I ask because I'm terrible where it comes to food and not familiar with any 40k ones other than grox.

[Bacon_commando]

I would just like to say, great work Duke. The game is quite wonderful, despite the occasional crash.

As for possible food and drink choices for the feasts, I found this to be quite informative.

[nenjin]

Noted on the weird recruiting behavior people are seeing.

Hypothetically, let's say that there are five types of feast ranging from kind of humble up to something lavish and over the top (i.e. Roman feasts).  What sort of dishes and appetizers would you expect each of these five stages to have?  I ask because I'm terrible where it comes to food and not familiar with any 40k ones other than grox.

Booze always seems a good place to start

Space Marine physiology means it takes incredible potent alcohol to get them drunk. There's no name for it I've ever read, just that it's enough to inebriate a human after a couple of sips and enough to kill them after a drink or two.

For courses.....the kinds depends on the chapter, I'd say. Blood Angels might eat fancy where Space Wolves might just do lots of roasted meat and super mead. The Ultramarines are going to eat more common (as in widely eaten across the Imperium) where like the Salamanders might eat some home world specialty. FWIW, the fluff usually either invents its own dishes to meet the moment, or falls back on the standard. (Grox cooked various ways people today recognized, sauced, with veggies, etc....)

Maybe try to focus on the qualities of the food as much as what it is. Protein rich, filling, abundant quantities.

[Majestic7]

I think the least lavish feasts wouldn't be feasts at all, but rather ascetic prayer meetings where you contemplate the past and future deeds of the chapter. That, I think, would really differentiate the feasts and chapters from each other, especially if different feasts had different effects?

So you'd have like - 1) ascetic meditation meeting, 2) ritualistic dinner with some speeches held etc, 3) viking-style feast with feats of strength and competitions between party-goers, 4) everything-goes-party where temporarily rank has no effect and everyone can say whatever there is on their mind, no punishments 5) this-makes-slaanesh-proud decadence event.

[ZebioLizard2]

Noted on the weird recruiting behavior people are seeing.

Hypothetically, let's say that there are five types of feast ranging from kind of humble up to something lavish and over the top (i.e. Roman feasts).  What sort of dishes and appetizers would you expect each of these five stages to have?  I ask because I'm terrible where it comes to food and not familiar with any 40k ones other than grox.

Booze always seems a good place to start

Space Marine physiology means it takes incredible potent alcohol to get them drunk. There's no name for it I've ever read, just that it's enough to inebriate a human after a couple of sips and enough to kill them after a drink or two.

For courses.....the kinds depends on the chapter, I'd say. Blood Angels might eat fancy where Space Wolves might just do lots of roasted meat and super mead. The Ultramarines are going to eat more common (as in widely eaten across the Imperium) where like the Salamanders might eat some home world specialty. FWIW, the fluff usually either invents its own dishes to meet the moment, or falls back on the standard. (Grox cooked various ways people today recognized, sauced, with veggies, etc....)

Maybe try to focus on the qualities of the food as much as what it is. Protein rich, filling, abundant quantities.

There's only one specific alcohol that can reliably get a space marine drunk, and it's Fenrisian Ale due to the toxin and high potency that shuts down their kidney implant, it's typically drunk by Space Wolves obviously.

http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Fenrisian_Ale

Grox is pretty much the Cow of the 40k Universe, so you'll often find plenty of foods based on it, but often times people will just eat whatever's native to their planet or whatever food is delivered from the food ships.

[Rolan7]

At first I thought grox was an orky-form like Squiggoths.  Probably a bad idea to import and eat squiggoth!
And I like that the Space Wolves come from Fenris, very appropriate.

[Blastbeard]

I had an odd experience the other day. I was just minding my own business, krumping orks all over the place like usual, when I see a new announcement. It was something like "Xenos contamination in chapter vehicle pool", I don't remember the exact wording. I looked through the vehicle roster and nothing stood out, All at 100% because I barely use them anyway.
Thinking nothing of it, I carry on until a few turns later when the Mechanicus offers a mission for me: bring 8 Techmarines and a Land Raider to Yavin 1 and park them there for a few turns. It's an easy arrangement and I get it done, gaining a bit of rep with the geargheads and losing nothing.
However, when the job is done, I get an alert: "Ork forces suddenly appear on Yavin 1!". I know this isn't right from the start, the Yavin system(with only three planets) is on the other side of the map from ork forces, and my own for that matter. There's no way a fleet could have gotten there, it would have taken a tactical genius to...
That's when it hit me. Those clever bastards had somehow gotten aboard the ship with the Land Raider and hid until they reached Yavin.
That's brutally cunning, that is.

[Jimexmore]

Ah food,Say it depends of your progenitor chapter, ultras would eat very light festive meals A.E grox roast with veggies or something maybe a really strong wine. blood angels would prefer fine foods like master made beef gabon's or something, salamanders... soul food fried grox corn bread and greens stuff like that. for normal chapters you would go Turgroxen or Nice fenris ale. or course it would really be a fest more like large prayer service where they serve food too.

[snowdrifts]

If you're a Blood Angel, you might do a painting or carve a sculpture or something too.

That would be really interesting. Some minor, artsy artifacts could pop up every now and then from it.

Feast levels might go:

1) Regular - spartan food, modest prayer
2) Devotional - held specifically for the Emperor/Chapter beliefs/Saint; special food etc
3) Honourific - honouring the fallen/remembiner victories; better food, brotherly atmosphere
4) Celebratory - Space Wolf feast, drinking, fighting, laughing
5) Bacchanalian - actual revelry and excess

[ZebioLizard2]

We should probably tie some of this stuff to positives/negatives as well, that would change some stuff based on what you have for the chapter.

[Golym]

Duke, why did you limit the Advantages/Disadvantages to 4 of each? If I have the points why can't I pick more?

[Zangi]

If you're a Blood Angel, you might do a painting or carve a sculpture or something too.

That would be really interesting. Some minor, artsy artifacts could pop up every now and then from it.

INB4 what do I do with all these artsy artifacts I can't do anything with?

Sell off artifacts, maybe some poor fool with too much requisition will want it.
Give away artifacts, make friends with poor taste.
Smash artifacts, but you are making some kinda point... right?
Stash artifacts in dead world.  Out of sight, out of mind.
Make an artsy space marine museum, stash artsy artifacts there.  Make pitiful amount of requisition, be fancy space marine.  Gawk at expenses of artsy space marine museum at end of month.

[nenjin]

It would be a flavorful thing though, building up Chapter Lore for your gameplay. The bust of Chapter Master Blah created by Blah, who died on planet blah in the year blah.blahblah.blah. Akin to DF's art creation model but on a much more modest scale. Could be extensible to other chapters as well. Space Wolf makes a knife, Iron Hand makes a fancy augmetic, Ultramarine writes a discourse, etc...

[Hetairos]

And Blood Ravens "receive gifts".