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Nov 3, 2009
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Smellrose

Night10194 posted:

Yes, I would like all the regiment ideas. Much like with Feng Shui, part of the fun is that I can make whatever someone suggests.

Part of the 'fun' is that it might be flavorful but terrible.

The 117th Trellian Logistics Troop, a "regiment" of cooks, cleaners, labourers and other non-combatants who arrived on the front lines before the combat troops they were meant to support due to an administrative fuckup.

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Friend Commuter
Nov 3, 2009
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Loxbourne posted:

This is almost certainly for some sort of tonal "you could die at any time AND THAT MAKES COMBAT MEANINGFUL AND THE SETTING PROPERLY GRIMDARK" reason. It's too deeply embedded in the system otherwise.

That and "well, that's how it works on the wargame, so that's how it should work in the RPG."

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Night10194 posted:

I'm not kidding about the mono-task thing. In practice, units end up merging and making themselves into combined arms units in the field, but the Imperium is so loving terrified of Horus happening again that they try to make sure individual 3000-5000 soldier Regiments all only have the equipment to do their one thing.

And yet despite the traitor the Imperium's the most worried about being a Space Marine, Space Marines get to have combined arms units from light-ish infantry all the way up to starships, because of course they do.

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