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[My Name is Immaterial]

I still think that undefended biomass bugs are going to get ganked. I'm sticking with my vote. Sorry, dude.

[Tack]

Flipped a coin, Enjoy your
Ymgarl Strain:
Efficacy: 4 Cost: 5 Bugs: 4

The original Ymgarl strain of genestealers has the ability to change form at will, and this attempt at recreating them has come very close indeed. With multiform limbs, able to be whips, talons, claws or pincers at will, they can suit themselves to any engagement, and with some additional tinkering, bring forth other features such as limited camoflague or gliding, however this uses a lot of energy which can make them less effective in following combat.

On the topic of energy, the original Ymgarl are also incredibly inefficient and require constant sustenance. This is again only partially applicable to the copycat strain, however it means that they are notably ravenous, and with their signature feeding apparatus any committed to manpower increases will also cause more alarm as exsanguinated bodies with their distinctive markings are found

Ymgarlite Genestealer
Manpower: 40 Civilian Equipment: 50
Able to utilise limited shapeshifting in order to deal with armoured, monstrous, vehicle or massed units, though still outclassed by specialists.
Can gain new tools through revisions, albeit at a possible loss of effectiveness directly afterwards.
Will cause additional alarm in upper hive battles or when assigned to manpower due to their unique morphology.

It is now the revision phase, you have two dice remaining

[Madman198237]

Carefully Controlled Feeding
A slight adaptation of the Ymgarl Strain has resulted in it eating ALL of a corpse, leaving behind nothing. Also, they're adapted to particularly enjoy the taste of Chaos Cultist, and so can be used to erase all traces of battle.

REVISIONS:
Carefully Controlled Feeding: (1) Madman
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SAVE?:
Save One Die: (1) Madman

[NRDL]

REVISIONS:
Carefully Controlled Feeding: (2) Madman, NRDL
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SAVE?:
Save One Die: (1) Madman

[My Name is Immaterial]

I'll +1 the Feeding and the die saving.

[NRDL]

REVISIONS:
Carefully Controlled Feeding: (3,) Madman, NRDL, MyNameisImmaterial
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SAVE?:
Save One Die: (2,) Madman, MyNameisImmaterial

[Tack]

Seems people are in agreement.
I'll be rolling it over in about ten minutes, unless there's any last minute changes.

[Shadowclaw777]

I forget the consensus, can you spend Die to roll things at an advantage. The power level of 1 die in efficacy, and having two die in efficacy means a world of difference in terms of power level

[My Name is Immaterial]

I forget the consensus, can you spend Die to roll things at an advantage. The power level of 1 die in efficacy, and having two die in efficacy means a world of difference in terms of power level

We rolled a 4 for efficiency. I'm not sure it's worth spending another dice for a 33% chance of getting a 1-2 point boost.

[Tack]

The rule became a no. Rolling for advantage is I guess just rewarding laziness.


Carefully Controlled Feeding (2)
The adaption required to change a haemovore into an omnivore turned out not to be very slight at all, especially considering the incredibly fast metabolism which required the more easily processed diet in the first place. The Ymgarls were able to, with prompting, shift their lamprey-tentacles into beaks and teeth in order to consume entire deceased, however the glut of fat, skin, protein and bone-meal proved far too inefficient for the Ymgarlites to digest, and they were forced to go into unmanageably long periods of hibernation, sometimes before even finishing the corpse.
The broodmind does see potential in the Carefully Controlled Feeding system for regular genestealers, however, which could prove easier to revise in the future.

Turn 0

Spoiler: Forces (click to show/hide)

-None

Spoiler: Resources (click to show/hide)

Manpower: 200 (+100)
Civilian Equipment: 300/1000 (+100)
Military Equipment: 100/1000 (+50)

Spoiler: Alert (click to show/hide)

Ordo Xenos: 0/100
Ordo Malleus: 0/100
Ordo Hereticus: 0/100

Technology

Spoiler: Units (click to show/hide)

Units:
Cultist squad (Troop): Manpower 5, Civilian Equipment 5.
The generic soldier, breeder and worker, ready to die for your cause.

Genestealer squad (Elite): Manpower 40, Civilian Equipment 35
These purestrain aliens are blisteringly quick, and can move freely through rough terrain.
They have no need (or thought) for weapons and equipment, preferring to shred armour with their razor-sharp talons.
However, they are little more than beasts, and can't be trusted to operate as master tacticians.

Ymgarlite squad (Elite): Manpower 40, Civilian Equipment 50
Spawned with minor shapeshifting ability, these genestealers are able to morph their four arms into various weapons to suit the enemy they are fighting. Whilst not as good as a specialist, they are able to overwhelm foes of varying types with relative ease.
Their mutative nature and haemovoric diet makes them cause greater alarm than standard Genestealers..

Patriarch (Ruler):
Try not to attack with this guy, because if he dies it will end the game.
In any battle he is in, however, he improves the stats of every genestealer near him.

Spoiler: Gear (click to show/hide)

Autogun: Military Equipment: 5 or Civilian Equipment 10
The basic weapon of the cults, able to be cobbled together from practically anything and only slightly less reliable than a sharp stick.

Improvised Knife: Civilian Equipment 5
It's a sharp stick. Good for attacking people who do not have sharp sticks. Bad for anything else.

Autopistol Military Equipment: 5 or Civilian Equipment 5
Shorter range and a slower rate of fire than the Autogun, but otherwise the exact same, but in handheld form. Helpful if your other hand is being used for, say for carrying a sharp stick.

Spoiler: Tech (click to show/hide)

Patilineal infiltration units
This cult has a slower conversion rate, hurting their manpower, whilst their cultist varieties have a higher morale to compensate.
However, Purestrain Genestealers may be assigned to either battle or 'recruitment', allowing them to bolster their influx.

Civilian Jury-Rigging
This cult is proficient in refitting the tools of their trade and salvaging scrap and ganger gear.
Mining equipment, civilian weaponry and junkyard constructions can be designed.

Hybrid bioforms
The progression from "injected human" to "purestrain genestealer" requires multiple generations of bestial offspring, ranging from clawed and carapaced abominations, to "perfectly human" infiltrators with a captivating voice and hypnotic gaze.
This allows projects based on the Genestealer template and human-Genestealer hybrids.

It is now the Design phase. You have 6 dice remaining

I'll be doing an FAQ in the core thread after this turn. Feel free to ask any questions you have.

[Madman198237]

If this turns out like Draig's game, rolling at advantage is USEFUL but not necessary, and takes up a die you could alternatively save for a revision to fix the problem(s) given by a bad roll.

Anyway, doesn't matter since I will hardly ever recommend rolling at advantage.

So, you don't understand the actual mechanics behind the bug system:
They do NOT engage in battle. Instead, they would be taking out civilians and hostile cultists not actually armed. We then call back the massive resultant swarm (Once they'd consumed an entire person) and convert it into, say, a couple of Genestealers or something.

New plan, however, because the bug swarm as it exited the corpse would be slightly obvious:
Heretic Plague
True to our name, we do in fact have the Microbe Division, made of up a hundred trillion crack microbe spec-ops teams, ready and willing to force anyone who ingests them to serve the Hive-Plague. To start simply, we have designed a modification to a single Genestealer, which secretes a compound containing a virus based on the Genestealer's DNA-injection system (That's what viruses DO, after all), which is, at present, only waterborne. This allows us to infect various numbers of people and gain immense numbers of recruits, very quickly, should the need present itself.

Greater Plaguemind (Does this have to be a Grand Design? I hope not)
A gradual adaptation to our Patriarch, focusing our hive mind on him and his will, allowing our pure-form units greater adaptability as the Patriarch changes their (Still beast-like and simplistic) orders as necessary. Not only does it tighten the Patriarch's control, but it also makes our hivemind stronger, binding our units together more than before, allowing for great levels of coordination against the machine-armed foe.

[My Name is Immaterial]

Goliath Truck:
Common as dirt in the mines, and half mining equipment, half armored personnel carrier, this is not a weapon of war, but it can be made into one. Outfitted with the heaviest guns available to the cult, there's little that can stand in this thing's way, before its doors open, and cultists and genestealers swarm out.
1 dice to each allotment.

[Madman198237]

I suggest waiting on the truck until we are certain that we'll have logistics problems, which will be after next turn.

Might even be a revision. I would still like to do 2 designs this turn, to maximize the use of our time before the game starts.

[Tack]

Uh.. without some kind of consensus I can't roll the turn.

[Ghazkull]

Goliath Truck:
Common as dirt in the mines, and half mining equipment, half armored personnel carrier, this is not a weapon of war, but it can be made into one. Outfitted with the heaviest guns available to the cult, there's little that can stand in this thing's way, before its doors open, and cultists and genestealers swarm out.
1 dice to each allotment.

+1 to that.