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JcDent
May 13, 2013

Give me a rifle, one round, and point me at Berlin!

+++Rogue Trader Explorator Fleet Scions of Koronus+++ posted:


Aphesius Yorke, Rogue Trader, Ld 8, One Reroll
4 renown

Flagship:
Lure of the Expanse Rogue Trader Cruiser 185 Ld 8
Xeno Tech Advanced Drive 15
Arresting Engines

Into the Storm RogueTrader Cruiser 185 Ld 7
Xeno Tech Gravitonic Thrusters 15

Faith and Coin Rogue Trader Cruiser 185 Ld 8
Xeno Tech Advanced Shields 15

Karak No-Peaks Stronghold Class 350 Ld 10 (Ld = Hits, can't get lower than 5)

Stars of Inequity Carnage Class 195 Ld 7

Edge of the Abyss Carnage Class 195 Ld 8

Halache's Fury Kroot Warsphere 145 Ld 7

Squadron 1 The Investment Ld 7
Acavus Escort Carrier 60
Gadila Escort Carrier 60
Rapana Escort Carrier 60
Wayward Son Rogue Trader CRG 20

Squadron 2 Aarnu's Sons (Caradochian mercs) Ld 8
Scythewind Xenos Vessel 50
Talon of Ku'ur Xenos Vessel 50
Fall of Marr Xenos Vessel 50
Gravitonic Thrusters

Squadron 3 Destroyers of Vath (Byevoor mercs) Ld 8
The Fist Xenos Vessel 50
The Rock Xenos Vessel 50The Gun Xenos Vessel 50
Victory Xenos Vessel 50
Advanced Shields

1995 points


Leadership:
<JcDent> .roll 10d6
<skybot> JcDent: 35 (10d6=4, 3, 4, 4, 3, 4, 3, 2, 4, 4)
<JcDent> now those are some nice Ld scores
<FireSight> nothing low nothing high
<JcDent> It's an average bunch of adventurous merchant types who operate at the edge of law both divine and mundane and who skirt the edge of unknown space


Xeno stuff:
<JcDent> .roll 3d6
<skybot> JcDent: 14 (3d6=5, 6, 3)

JcDent fucked around with this message at 16:47 on Feb 7, 2015

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JcDent
May 13, 2013

Give me a rifle, one round, and point me at Berlin!

fool_of_sound posted:

Jester is playing jcDent!

Please try to have your games done by next Monday. We'll try to switch to a weekly schedule after that.

I'm gonna get wrecked by a corgi, gently caress me. Jester, I'm GMT -8, and I'm ready to throw down on Thursday from 10am to about 2pm. Or we work something out on IRC.

JcDent
May 13, 2013

Give me a rifle, one round, and point me at Berlin!
Tyranid Raid On Naraka
Hive Fleet Cerberus (Cynic Jester) vs. Scions of Koronus, A Rogue Trader Fleet (JcDent)
Planet: Naraka (Mining)
Scenario: The Raiders
Points: 550

RT Plot: Decoy

Rogue Trader Ships

Lure of the Expanse, RT Cruiser

Stars of Inequity, Carnage class

Destroyers of Vath, Xeno squadron

"Faith and Coin", actually a decoy transport "Scandalous Wench", which retroactively rolled Ld 5 and ruined a beautiful ram.

Damage:

1 Hp on each cruiser

"The Rock" Xeno Escort tentacle'd to death.

Renown: +3

Rolls:

Skybot the Merciless posted:


<JcDent> .roll 2d6 Lure of the Expanse Ld8
<skybot> JcDent: Lure of the Expanse Ld8: 8 (2d6=5, 3)

<JcDent> .roll 2d6 Inequity Ld 8
<skybot> JcDent: Inequity Ld 8: 7 (2d6=4, 3)

<JcDent> .roll 2d6 Destroyers Ld 8
<skybot> JcDent: Destroyers Ld 8: 7 (2d6=5, 2)

<JcDent> .roll 1d6 refits for Lure of the Expanse
<skybot> JcDent: refits for Lure of the Expanse: 4 (1d6=4)

<JcDent> .roll 1d6 Engine Refit Table
<skybot> JcDent: Engine Refit Table: 4 (1d6=4)
<JcDent> Arrester Engines


This had been a good side venture for Aphesius. Even far away from native Koronus, he was still at the top of his game. That "game" usually involved shooting some petty tyrant to take control of his planet. Of course, since negotiations on Naraka broke down rather violently, he had been forced to do just that. And now, the mining planet was all his, and Aphesius was free to report the success to his Eldar Corsairs allies.

Hiss ships were flying in a loose formation. A Byevoor escort squadron was flying the vanguard, with the trophy pirate vessel Stars of Inequity providing long range support. Even though the Eldar had assured him that there was no danger there, Aphesius felt he had to be prudent. His own flagship was flying close to an asteroid field, scanning it for anything lootable. The last and limping in formation was "Faith and Coin". It wasn't the real cruiser - in fact, this was just a crude cruiser shaped frame hammered onto an old transport ship, "Scandalous Wench" was the name and it was crewed by some of inept, bumbling pirates Aphesius had ever encountered. Only engines, life support, bridge and a small battery remained on the gutted ship and Aphesius ensured their loyalty by always keeping the ship in his sights. It was a useful piece to have when bluffing, but nothing more.

"Sir, we have contact... Tyranids at the gas cloud!"

Before the fleet could react, a tyranid cruiser class organism and three ugly oversized escorts slid out of cover provided by the cloud. The enormous beast fell to his ravenous instincts almost immediately and turned towards the planet. The escorts, however, flew straight ahead. Inequity had just enough time to brace for impact as foul bioplasma bypassed the shields and burst onto the hull. Trader's own Xeno escorts turned to engage, but their weapons failed to dent the thick armor. Victory shot a lance blast at the massive ship, but it only detonated a shield spore RIP Bob the Nid

It took the combined might of both real cruisers to take down two of the horrid alien escorts. Nevertheless, one of the got through unscathed and vomited plasma on the aft of Expanse. Aphesius cursed the foul beasts and ordered the ship to come to a new heading.

As the larger Tyranid regained its composure (no doubt helped by accurate long range fire from the Carnage class), it turned towards Inequity. Just then, "Faith" contacted the flasgship and delivered an atypically brave statement: they would ram the tyranid ship. It was risky, but there was hope that the frame would both sotften the blow and do some damage to the alien ship before collapsing.

Minutes passed as everyone on the bridge watched the sensor screen, where a green triangle marked SW was approaching a red enemy square. A few more moments and... impact! The crew cheered at the maneuver and Aphesius thought that maybe the pirates were actually getting better (due to his proximity, of course).



Alas, all the joy faded when a more accurate sensor scan revealed that the "impact" had been nothing more than pirates detonating charges (no doubt mugged off some miners) to free their ship from the frame and then darting away. The trader swore that next time, he would not be merciful to these dogs.

It took a few more ours and Rock's demise in a horrid tentacle embrace to finally slay the space beast. By that time, escorts were chasing down the remaining nid organism, enjoying all the wonders of of escort battles. Ignoring the fleeing pirates, the two cruisers did their slow maneuvers to get both withing reach of the 'nid and bring their guns to bear. The creature, acting on instinct, was heading towards Naraka, and who know what it could do!

Salvo after salvo of battery was sent towards the beast, giant torpedoes streaked through space, and Inequity showed the long range mastery of the crew - and all for naught - the ship was too small, too nimble, too well armored by its fell biology. The only upside was that one stray shot eventually fell on a mining complex on Naraka, eradicating a brewing Chaos cult.

The beast escaped.

"At least we have the planet" Aphesius blurted, surly from the fight.

"M'lord, we have... remembered this relic. I think you should have it" the miners said marking the position of centuries old ship prow with intact arrester engines, happy not be eaten.

JcDent fucked around with this message at 16:48 on Feb 7, 2015

JcDent
May 13, 2013

Give me a rifle, one round, and point me at Berlin!
Noted. Will try to put orders ASAP once I get into contact with my Eldar ally.

I vote Option 3 and reroll sub option.

JcDent
May 13, 2013

Give me a rifle, one round, and point me at Berlin!

ElBrak posted:

Probably should get on the IRC if you need to talk to Koth, though i don't see why you gotta talk to him about picking a opponent.

*plots*

I wanna raid Vulin's Explorator detachment near Adlivun!

JcDent
May 13, 2013

Give me a rifle, one round, and point me at Berlin!
I realize I haven't posted my post battle yet damaged/experience and so yet. Will do that later.

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JcDent
May 13, 2013

Give me a rifle, one round, and point me at Berlin!

fool_of_sound posted:

poo poo, well I'm getting real tired of having to recruit new people. Maybe a campaign wasn't the best idea, considering goons. Maybe we should just make a TG thread and maintain the channel, and just play whenever people are up to it? I'll still run the game, if people are still into it, but it feels like most of the interest is dying out.

Maybe. I like the idea of BFG more than the execution. Maybe I'm just a buzkill who won't have fun, no matter what.

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