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[Avis-Mergulus]

"Thought for the day: Blessed is the mind too small for doubt."



You might know this one - Only War is a roleplaying game set in the Grim Darkness of the 41st Millenium^tm, in which you play as a common mud-grubbing footslogger of the Imperial Guard (or possibly as a commissar in the very same, in which case you get a cool hat), fighting His Divine Majesty's enemies - the Mutant, the Heretic, and the Xeno - all over the galaxy. Benefits include your very own lasgun (okay, it's officially Munitorum property, but you get to shoot it at stuff), a copy of The Imperial Infantryman's Uplifting Primer, good boots, free grub, and the chance to see the galaxy and serve the Emperor while you're at it! Cool, huh? There is only one downside, which is the ever-present possibility of horrible agonizing death for you and that guy who still owes you three whole crowns from that tarot game yesterday. But hey, I listed what, six upsides and only one downside? Come on, mate. You know you want this.

Spoiler: Legacy OP (click to show/hide)

Reasons for which you might not want this include the fact the game has a pretty extensive set of rules, and as far as I've seen people 'round here tend not to bother with that type of thing. Also I've given certain reasons to question my reliability as a GM in the past, however now I have a whole campaign written up in detail - two campaigns, even! What could go wrong Okay, no, I'm not saying this, but it's implied.

I have the core rulebook in my dropbox here. I also have a few supplements if anybody needs those - here. Only War has a few fundamental differences from, say, Dark Heresy - there are no Career Ranks, instead you get Aptitudes for shiznit wot make it easier to learn, determined by your Specialty, which is like a class but not. Plus each PC gets Comrades, which is the GW-approved term for "redshirts". You get to make those guys too, and they help you with dragging the autocannon around, that sorta thing. There is also a Logistics system for requisitioning gear, meaning that the Munitorum can issue you a crate of Underwear, Female, Ogryn-Sized, instead of your breaching charges or jump packs. This 1d4chan article sheds some light on the whole matter. The Lexicanum provides pertinent info on various Warhammer 40000 - related topics. There are also some rather good book series about the Imperial Guard, Abnett's Gaunt's Ghosts and Mitchell's Ciaphas Cain, Hero of the Imperium chief among them. You can give those a try to get a feel for the athmosphere.

Another important thing is that you get to choose the regiment your PCs belong to, or create your own. If enough (about five, I'd say) people express interest in playing this, then I'll compile a list of available regiments, or the aforementioned interested persons can create their own regiment through a vaguely democratic process, as the rulebook suggests. Then I'll take a week or two to give the campaign a final polish, and start a thread for the game itself.

So, any volunteers?

IC thread

Spoiler: Waitlist: note, you need to have a charsheet ready to be waitlisted (click to show/hide)

adwarf (page 29)
Zomara (page 47)

[Harbingerjm]

Did somebody say Tek-heresy?
Because if they did, Tech Priest Harb is going to have to set them on fire.


Consolidated thread information:

Spoiler: Sixteenth Barrablancan Conquistador Recon Regiment (Mechanics) (click to show/hide)

World: Feudal World
Cost: 3
Characteristic Modifiers: +3 to two of to Weapon Skill, Strength, or Toughness
Skills: Athletics and Common Lore (War)
Fluency: No automatic Linguistics (Low Gothic)
Fealty (Talents): Can gain Duelist or Double Team
Suspicious of Machine Spirits:  –10 penalty to Common Lore (Tech), Medicae, and Tech-Use Skill Tests unless they are trained in that Skill.
+1 Starting Wound.


Commander: Maverick
Cost: 2
Talent: Resistance (Fear)

Regiment Type: Reconnaissance
Cost: 3
Characteristics: +3 Perception, –3 Willpower
Starting Skills: Awareness
Starting Talents: Combat Sense
Standard Kit: One Chimera Armoured Transport per Squad, and one set of magnoculars per Player Character.

Training Doctrine: Hardened Fighters
Cost: 2
Characteristics: +2 Weapon Skill
Starting Talents: Street Fighting
Knives replaced with swords.

Training Doctrine: Sharpshooters
Cost: 4
Starting Aptitude: Ballistic Skill
Starting Talents: Deadeye Shot

Drawback: Honor Bound
Provided Points: 4
Pride Over Life:  Members of this regiment must pass a Difficult (–10) Willpower Test to refuse any formal challenge or ignore any other major slight to their honour.

Equipment Point Allocation
10 points spent on Best Craftsmanship Swords.
5 points spent on getting M36 Carbines.
15 points spent on getting Light Carapace Armor.
4 points gained from extra Regiment Points.
2 points on Recaf. 2 points on Chrono (POCKET WATCHES).

Spoiler: Kit, for convenience (click to show/hide)

•   One uniform
•   One set of poor weather gear
•   One M36 Laser Gun (Main Weapon), and two charge packs
•   One laspistol, two charge packs.
•   One Best Craftsmanship Sword
•   One Light Carapace Armor
•   One set of magnoculars.
•   One rucksack or sling bag
•   One set of basic tools
•   One mess kit and one water canteen
•   One blanket and one sleep bag
•   One rechargeable lamp pack
•   One grooming kit
•   One set of cognomen tags or equivalent identification
•   One primer or instructional handbook
•   Combat sustenance rations, two weeks’ supply
•   One Chrono
•   Some Recaf

Spoiler: Barrablanca (click to show/hide)

Barrablanca is a somewhat large world out in the middle of the galaxy, with geography very disjointed: multiple settlements were spread across small continents, and once they regressed to a feral state after settlement abruptly stopped, they didn't typically interact with more than one or two other settlements. ...but, when they did, it was usually war. So it went for two millennia, the planet largely ignored as useless. In this time, the planet changed from a Feral planet to what could vaguely be classified as a Feudal planet, though its stalemating and pointless struggles continued.

Then one of the most powerful little nations hit a golden age, and discovered naval craft capable of truly crossing the oceans. This was an amazing boon for said nation, which over the next century traveled around with rapier and musket, conquering small nation after small nation with a rush of conquistadors, until it basically spanned the whole planet. Now very powerful, the nation which now comprised Barrablanca began an upward rise in prosperity and in technology. The Imperium took notice. No longer simply dismissing the planet, the Imperium called upon ancient contracts and bloodlines and found themselves back in control of the planet, even if the local government was basically the same. Leaving the developing planet to its own devices, they merely demanded one thing: tithes.

And with the conquistadors no longer out on the conquista, what was there more perfect to pay the tithes with? Barrablanca provided its seasoned explorers (the conquistadors) to the Imperial Guard, where they were introduced to and wowed by the advanced technology. In very recent years, Barrablanca has been steadily providing these conquistador regiments to the Imperium, specializing typically in reconnaissance and scouting.

Spoiler: Sixteenth Barrablancan Conquistador Recon Regiment (Fluff) (click to show/hide)

The Sixteenth Barrablancan Conquistador Recon Regiment is one of a new wave of Barrablancan regiments being put into the Imperium. Made up of people who were actual conquistadors up until the point they were tithed away to the Imperial Guard, the Sixteenth Conquistador Regiment has combat experience, if perhaps not against xenos and lasweapons. They tended to be excellent shots with their muskets; now they're excellent shots with their lasweapons. They tended to learn and excel at swordsmanship, and so they do now.

Their high level of ostentatiousness and flair has remained completely unchanged. In red and gold colors, the Conquistadors wear carapace armor shaped like a cuirass (and light plate), along with lots of trim and decorations. The conquistadors as a whole are simply too proud for it to be anything else. ...in fact, their pride can lead to sometimes be their downfall, given that any sort of insult has driven many a Barrablancan to die in a duel over an insult.

The regiment itself is relatively new, sent to the Spinward front as a somewhat random gesture from some Munitorum scribe; now they find themselves, with no previous Imperial Guard experience, in the midst of a bloody war. Time will tell how well they do... how long they survive.

The commander, Maximino Macias, is a fearless and proud man, an experienced duelist who has sent many an opponent to the grave. He has all pride in his station (and his former status of conquistador) and his glowing pride and confidence provide a huge morale boost for his troops, even if he is sometimes to proud to recognize a flaw in a plan.

Player Name	Status	Character Name	Role	Status	Hugged	Comrade Name	Status	Hugged
Harb	Sheet posted	Amets Ziel Guiomar Ferrer	Tech-Priest Enginseer	ANGRY	Yes	Unit 66-241.601-BBC	Unwounded	Yes
Comrade P.	Sheet P.osted	Diego Anna Garruco de Nevillio	Heavy Gunner	Alive	No	P. (Maria Isabella de Nevillio)	Unwounded	No
NAV	Sheet not posted	-	Medic	-	-	-	-	-
Gamerlord	Sheet posted	Emil	Ministorum Priest	Alive	No	Stiehr	Unwounded	No
Digital Hellhound	Sheet posted	Lazáro Ignacio de Viverde	Commissar	Alive	No	N/A	N/A	N/A
Caellath	Sheet posted	Bartolomeu Denos	Commissar	Alive	No	N/A	N/A	N/A
Aseaheru	Sheet posted	Marn	Operator	Alive	No	Poise	Unwounded	No
Patrick Hunt	Sheet toasted	Tristan Gant	Storm Trooper	Alive	No	N/A	N/A	N/A
Powder Miner	Sheet posted	Amalia Gutierrez	Sanctioned Psyker	Alive	No	Artho Pak	Unwounded	No
InstantHax	?	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

[Comrade P.]

Horrible Deaths Counter: 3

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I'm interested. It's been a while since I played WH40k roleplaying game, which was Dark Heresy. Let's shake off the dust.

Away I am to forging those abhorrently sized character sheets in flames of my imagination...

EDIT:

* Comrade P. cancels Create Character: information recieved from rulebook

[Comrade P.]

Double-post for extra-bumpingness.

Say, Avis, have you prepared a brigade profile for us?

[NAV]

I am interested, though I tend to be unreliable with games with this many rules.

[Harbingerjm]

If needed, I can roll up a regiment for us. I have ideas, oh yes...
Won't be able to do it in the next... oh, say, 17 hours or so? though, IRL stuff to do.

[Gamerlord]

Fucking in.

[Digital Hellhound]

Possibly interested - is this Play by Post or IRC? As for regiment, we made a fantastic Aztec Tunnel Fighters (The Cuatlan Jaguars!) for a previous OW game that never started. I'm sure people will have plenty of suggestions we could vote for, though.

[Caellath]

Posting interest. The regiment creation process can be fun and/or frustrating, so having most of it through IRC could diminish the "frustration" bit. And as DH said, we do have some fancy regiment options (lore included) generated for now dead/stillborn games.

[Harbingerjm]

Damn, foiled again. One of these days, one of these days... You'll all learn to fear the Mechanicus and their Dino Cavalry, oh yes...

[Avis-Mergulus]

I'd say play by post, but then I'm a bit unfamiliar with how roleplaying by IRC works and I don't currently have a client installed. If somebody enlightens me and/or if the majority of you guys would prefer IRC, then I'll get to it.

Damn, foiled again. One of these days, one of these days... You'll all learn to fear the Mechanicus and their Dino Cavalry, oh yes...

Not foiled yet. I expect to see that damn proposal, soldier Enginseer, and don't give me none of your cogboy back-talk!

[Harbingerjm]

Damn, foiled again. One of these days, one of these days... You'll all learn to fear the Mechanicus and their Dino Cavalry, oh yes...

Not foiled yet. I expect to see that damn proposal, soldier Enginseer, and don't give me none of your cogboy back-talk!

[Comrade P.]

Oh bother. Please don't tell me we all gonna be some warpainted dinasaur-riding savages, YOLOing our way through campaign.

[Avis-Mergulus]

Oh bother. Please don't tell me we all gonna be some warpainted dinasaur-riding savages, YOLOing our way through campaign.

In WH40K there is no YOLO - only YOLOVSTBDGD (You Only Live Once and a Very Short Time Before Dying a Gruesome Death). And what we're gonna be depends on the results of a fair and democratic thingamajig.

[Comrade P.]

I have a neat idea - I'll go write it down and make it pretty with rulebook.

Spoiler: 12th Siege Legion of Carufax Secundus (click to show/hide)

Carufax Secundus is a cold and windy planet with artificially-maintained life which provides supplies for Carufax Prime, forge-world of Adeptus Mechanicus, which happened to be in thickness of gore when Hive Fleet Jormungandr entered Imperial space. Before that, it used to be a moderately urbanized planet, rich with various ores. Neighboring Carufax Prime, ruled by Mechanicus, helped neighbors with various weaponry and supplies in exchange of multiplied recruitment tithe. Every distress signal possible was sent – and the help came indeed. The entire chapter of Steel Confessors responded to the call! Many regiments were raised and lots of defenses settled, but regardless, Tyranid invasion was a disaster. Nonetheless, given the solid support, combined forces of Imperium are fighting Tyranids back effectively.
Legions of Carufax developed skill in fighting large groups of weak enemies, effectively combining medium-ranged and short-ranged handheld weapons with grenade usage. Large percent of survivors due to availability of augmentation allowed veterans to share their knowledge thus forming a most proficient force to oppose invaders.
Given the influence of Adeptus Mechanicus and descendants of Iron Hands, Carufax Legionnaires tend to enhance their body with augmentics, mostly armour implants and lost limb replacements.

Regiment Rules – 12th Siege Legion of Carrufax

Characteristic modifiers: +3 Willpower +6 Toughness -3 Intelligence
Starting aptitudes: Toughness
Starting skills: Common Lore (War), Common Lore (Imperium), Common Lore (Imperial Guard), and Linguistics (Low Gothic), Tech Use, Command, Hatred (Tyranids)

Hated Enemy: A fortress world often stands opposed to a single threat, and they are taught to hate that particular foe and eliminate it on sight. All fortress world characters gain a single Hatred Talent, where the group chosen is the enemy the fortress world has been established to defend against. However, this hatred is often so strong as to overwhelm reason and sound judgement, and all fortress world characters may be required, at the GM’s discretion, to attempt an Ordinary (+10) Willpower Test in order to restrain themselves from attacking without mercy when that enemy is sighted.
Combat Doctrine: Because of the intensive training that each fortress worlder goes through from childhood, including extensive live-fire drills and gruelling mock battles, all fortress worlders start with one of the following Talents: Nerves of Steel
Bred for War: Fortress worlders possess an entirely justified siege mentality, a natural result of daily lives shaped by the need for perpetual vigilance against an enemy that could strike at any time, and the discipline required to respond to that threat swiftly and effectively. Fortress worlders are loyal almost to a fault, and reluctant to disobey orders even with good reason, lacking personal initiative, and becoming inflexible as a result. A fortress worlder must attempt a Challenging (+0) Willpower Test in order to go against the rules and regulations of the Imperial Guard

Starting Talents: Nerves of steel x2 (+100xp when creating character)

Wounds: (no effect)
Standard Regimental Kit: One M36 lasgun and six charge packs per Player Character (Main Weapon), one suit of Imperial Guard flak armour per Player Character, one knife per Player Character,  one respirator per Player Character, four empty sandbags and one entrenching tool per Player Character, two frag grenades and two photon flash grenades per Player Character.
The regiment gains an additional +10 on all Logistics Tests made to obtain bionic replacements and implants.
Favored weapons: Flamers, Grenade Launchers

Home World: Fortress world
Commanding officer: Fixed
Regiment Type: Siege Infantry
Doctrines: Augmentics, Die-hards
Total Cost: 3+1+2+2+3=11