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[Zangi]

Shit. I have a large pool of scouts but with little opportunity to give them experience enough to boost them up to first company. If specialists are taken from 1-9, it's going to get screwy for me.

Give 'em good weapons (often sniper don't ever fire...) like heavy blaster, and send them to clear tiny infestations by themselves or small infestations with help from another coy (I like the 1st).
If you "dilute" them by always attacking with the whole chapter they'll never gain enough XP.

You've got to take them fighting as standard procedure.  Attach 10th company to one(or more of the other companies that regularly go out to raid or attack from ships).  Gotta strike a balance between overkill and getting wiped out...
Probably putting them in/near the front lines with the assaults = most experience(implied by tooltip), but that means you'd have to outfit them with better armor at the very least.

EDIT: Apparently I double quoted or something

[Dorsidwarf]

I find scouts do excellently when kitted with flamers (and bikes, if you can afford them) and put just behind your assault marines.


Edit:
Kryas Damnas, auditing Inquisitor, sat at the conference table, frowning. Several Astartes of the Black Scythes, angels of the Emperor's divine fury, sat fidgeting along the opposite end. He looked down at the dataslate clutched in his hand, then up again.
He smacked his lips thoughtfully.
The Captain of the Tenth Company started sweating.
He looked up, fingers drumming on the steel surface.
The Master of Adepts averted his eyes, unable to meet his gaze.
He cleared his throat.

"Captain Adenos Kyrios. Would you mind explaining to me once more why your Company contains a total of seven hundred scouts?

"They're just not good enough, holy Inquisitor."

And thus began the tale of the Shittiest Scouts, the most infamously incomepetent chapter of "Space Marines" to ever be formed

[Dorsidwarf]

And lo, the Shittiest Scouts were brought low by a CTD caused by destroying the 12 exact same artifacts you start with every time for some reason.

 A shame too because playing an under-strength, under-armed Chapter armed entirely with Sniper Rifles in a Sector where tyranids are a widespread threat, not something to be stomped on while you trundle over to the next set of five million ork worlds

[Sheb]

So, what's a good starting scenario?

[Kot]

So, what's a good starting scenario?

Splintered, Sieged, Shitty Luck, Warp Touched Penitent with only 1 point in every stat.

[knife23]

the problem with having too many people in one company is that the system will sometimes not show additional members after a certain number. And it's particularly frustrating when you want to kit them and just can't find them. The same thing happened to my librarians. Having a bunch of those guys, and then the librarian section of the HQ list show an extremely low number of lexicanums than what i actually had. By transferring a squad or two of lexs to other companies, the disappeared lexicanums then show up in the HQ list.

[Rolan7]

The Shittiest Scouts purged many a Necron for me in Dark Crusade. Fuck power armor, get those plasma guns on the field NOW NOW NOW

Okay now hold more plasma
Okay now cloak

If somehow not done, receive backup... in form of dreadnoughts  (containing, I assume, scout casualties).
Yet I never got the hang of imperial guard...

[knife23]

ugh, more errors:


___________________________________________
############################################################################################
FATAL ERROR in
action number 1
of Alarm Event for alarm 5
for object obj_controller:

Unable to find any instance for object index '-4' name '<undefined>'
at gml_Script_scr_random_event
############################################################################################
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
stack frame is
gml_Script_scr_random_event (line 0)
gml_Object_obj_controller_Alarm_5

[knife23]

So, other bugs, I get Heretic presence! alerts on worlds that don't have heretics or corruption, and I also have missions about radical inquisitors showing up at a location, and then never showing up. One time, I also had an STC fragment boost one of the bars beyond its final listed benefit.

Edit: Other questions, what causes a faction to hate you? I keep getting these notifications that I've made an enemy in the Imperium somewhere.

Also, normally when you get a mission from the Inquisition, you should get some sort of notification card on the screen. That doesn't happen as often as it should for me, because some missions just go straight to the events log and I never find out until it's too late.

Also, does anyone know what to do about marines that act strangely?

[a1s]

Why do various factions want my seed? I get that the Machinarium (or whatever) is testing it for purity, but it would not seem like anyone else in the sector can derive any benefit from it.

[knife23]

It's an odd feature, since normally it's really hard to get gene seed and it's considered really precious for making new marines. That said, because it's gene seed is so precious, maybe that's why you can sell it for a bunch, as your buyers may know of some people who really want it...

[snowdrifts]

Why do various factions want my seed?

You must be very virile.

[knife23]

Hey, what's the best way to go Penitent during gamplay? I'm at 24 loyalty right now.

[varsovie]

Hey, what's the best way to go Penitent during gamplay? I'm at 24 loyalty right now.

Attack every imperial fleet and bomb populated planets while insulting governors and inquisition.

[knife23]

Having some more issues. I'm in the middle of a long jump between systems, and the game keeps giving me crap like this:

############################################################################################
FATAL ERROR in
action number 1
of Alarm Event for alarm 5
for object obj_controller:

DoSet :: Invalid comparison type
at gml_Object_obj_controller_Alarm_5
############################################################################################

So yeah, I'm stuck in transit, and I don't know how to bypass this thing.

The really irritating part is that I managed to collect 3 STC fragments after filling out all three armament bars and was planning to gift them to the Admech, ontop of which, there was a new space hulk in the sector. And the last save was from way back when... about 40 min. Shit, a lot can happen in 40 min.