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[Cruxador]

Kind of makes you wonder though, if the Black Templars are now following the Codex Astartes, what was the reason that the Crimson Fists split off.

[nenjin]

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

They split from Imperial Fists in the 2nd Founding, according to the precepts of the Codex Astartes, not from the Black Templars. That the BTs are now apparently following the Codex Astartes only flies in the face of Dorn and his Legion's initial resistance to being divided, and how that influenced the BTs up-until-now playing by their own set of rules and getting away with it. Not in the reason for the Crimson Fist's founding.

I suppose a rules lawyer at GWS might have asked "Wasn't the whole reason chapters were limited to 1000 in the Codex Astartes was so that no one organization could become big enough to threaten the entire Imperium? Doesn't that technically make the Black Templars a threat to the Imperium?"

Or maybe it's because 40k fiction is so much about small unit action nowadays that people naturally keep asking why there aren't shit tons of Black Templars in every engagement instead of a single squad like almost all other chapters. (I seem to recall in older Black Templar fiction they'd throw down company-strength deployments and wouldn't blink at it. For most chapters that kind of engagement is a BFD.) With the phrase often being trotted out that now "20/10/5/2 Space Marines could conquer this world" one might ask why the Black Templars aren't comparatively blanketing worlds in Space Marines.

[Cruxador]

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

They split from Imperial Fists in the 2nd Founding, according to the precepts of the Codex Astartes, not from the Black Templars. That the BTs are now apparently following the Codex Astartes only flies in the face of Dorn and his Legion's initial resistance to being divided, and how that influenced the BTs up-until-now playing by their own set of rules and getting away with it.

You're right, I got all kinds of mixed up. It flies in the face of the Black Templars being split from the Imperial fists.

I suppose a rules lawyer at GWS might have asked "Wasn't the whole reason chapters were limited to 1000 in the Codex Astartes was so that no one organization could become big enough to threaten the entire Imperium? Doesn't that technically make the Black Templars a threat to the Imperium?"

The answer is yes, but nobody pushes the point because they're very useful, and there's never more than a thousand of them who aren't written off as dead at any given time anyway, because of how they do their crusade paperwork.

With the phrase often being trotted out that now "20/10/5/2 Space Marines could conquer this world" one might ask why the Black Templars aren't comparatively blanketing worlds in Space Marines.

One Space Marine has done it, in some story or other. I don't remember which. That doesn't mean that it's a normal occurrence though, and obviously doesn't apply to worlds with tyranids or necrons or even large orks.

[nenjin]

Or Chaos.

Really, anything other than technologically superior or inferior human cultures Or a xenos race they stamped out so fast no one bothered to record their name.

[LordBaal]

A threat to the imperium? If that's the reason thrn its really stupid.  First even if they were 10k it's only mere 10 chapters, in a sea of at least 1000th. Also all spread along the imperium... I wouldn't be suprised if there are two or three chapters with the same name at oposite sides of the imperium give the slow logistics and bureocratic retardation.
BT theme was of the "ever crusading" religious fanatics.

I said it before and say it again, GW needs to get their shit together, gather the best writers and revise the whole literature and codices, straight it and iron it out, and set clear rules and bases for all future writers. No more DCannons firing bullets  (fucking Goto). But that's also a febrile dream.

[Guardsman111]

How many players here have played past 100 odd turns on chapter master?

I find it very difficult to find stuff to do after a while as threats are cleared up.

[Radio Controlled]

Maybe more difficulty settings, so that on higher settings you have a cult uprising or ork WHAAAGH! or nid splinter fleet every other turn. Should keep even the most experienced players busy, and might force people to split up their forces more instead of going in 1 or 2 big blobs and killing everything easily. Really give that classic 'besieged from all sides, aliens and heretics everywhere' 40K vibe.

[Guardsman111]

I think if that was to be the case we would need more smaller incursions, as a company of space marines can only just deal with "heavy" incursions with casualities. If we were to face extreme level incursions regularly we would require "Blobbing" (There we go, a name for the strategy)

So several sparse or moderate attacks from cultist or orks every few turns, and maybe once a year a big event that hits several systems or one extreme event that cripples one system. Balances would need to be worked out ofc lol

[Puzzlemaker]

Best way is to make it so the more successful the sector is the more enemies it attracts.

[Dorsidwarf]

Best way is to make it so the more successful the sector is the more enemies it attracts.

Exce0t orks. Orks love a scrap.

[Puzzlemaker]

Best way is to make it so the more successful the sector is the more enemies it attracts.

Exce0t orks. Orks love a scrap.

The only thing Orks like more then scrap is making scrap!

[nenjin]

And maybe a reaallllly juicy squig.

[Tack]

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[Flow]

Question!

I am very aware that this process is likely not very exciting for observers. Programming is slow, especially when I'm only doing it in small chunks in my free time between work and on weekends. And given my current focus of perfecting the interface and slowly adding new systems and screens, each new version adds very little "real" progress for those following along. So there's another route I could go down:

Option A: Continue as I am, build up the various interfaces and screens in the game, adding the gameplay elements as they organically appear. This would be the "proper" way to do it and will require the least backtracking, but will be the slowest path to playability.

Option B: Focus on gameplay as a priority, so I will first finish off regiment creation and then go straight to the map movement and combat systems so there are things to actually do. Likely events after that, then factions, and ultimately customisation and intricate detail will come last after the basic systems arei n place. This will result in the fastest playable version releases, but may involve longer periods of fine tuning and bugfixing.

I am basically open to whichever suits you guys more, so I'd like to get your opinions on which would be more appealing, or whether it just doesn't matter and it would only be interesting as a finished game regardless.

[sprinkled chariot]

I suppose, that you should work on stuff the most enjoyable way for you, so you can advance and have fun instead of ARGH, I HAVE TO DO THIS, BUT I DONT WANT, NONONONO.