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In agreement with the ideas so far. I hereby swear an oath that I shall uphold my commitment to the Campaign.

 

As ever, my opinons are here to assist in formenting the campaign. I shall get to work on crafting a storyline if this is the way we are to go.

I've updated the list (See here)

 

Very nice. B)

We've got quite the sizable force assembled, haven't we?

 

I think you need an evil face and bracketed 'Traitors' next to Alecto's lads, though - if memory serves the Legio Solemnitas are despicable Nurgle-y traitors.

A quick note whilst I have a little free time seeing as discussion seems to be occurring at quite a rapid rate. Seeing as we are looking to make multiple books, I think it is important to ensure we have the long game planned out. For this, I would suggest our initial effort be to create a short history of all the crusades. This will cover the entire story that we are attempting to tell but without going into detail of individual conflicts. An example of this would be the Overview Article in the Dornian Heresy, but in our case it would be the size of an Imprint. Here, each “book” would be shortened down to a chapter (or, in actual case, each chapter would be expanded into a “book”). The reasons I suggest this are:

  • If this project fails at some point, negative I know but it does happen, we are more likely to achieve this aim then the entire project. This means we have a short-term achievement that we could happily walk-away from if the drive for the project dies down.
  • It gives us an outline of each of the books, so we know roughly what happened. When we split down into smaller groups to make the following books, they will all be following the same storyline. Each book will have a defined start and end with a number of the key points already mentioned.

A quick note whilst I have a little free time seeing as discussion seems to be occurring at quite a rapid rate. Seeing as we are looking to make multiple books, I think it is important to ensure we have the long game planned out. For this, I would suggest our initial effort be to create a short history of all the crusades. This will cover the entire story that we are attempting to tell but without going into detail of individual conflicts. An example of this would be the Overview Article in the Dornian Heresy, but in our case it would be the size of an Imprint. Here, each “book” would be shortened down to a chapter (or, in actual case, each chapter would be expanded into a “book”). The reasons I suggest this are:

  • If this project fails at some point, negative I know but it does happen, we are more likely to achieve this aim then the entire project. This means we have a short-term achievement that we could happily walk-away from if the drive for the project dies down.
  • It gives us an outline of each of the books, so we know roughly what happened. When we split down into smaller groups to make the following books, they will all be following the same storyline. Each book will have a defined start and end with a number of the key points already mentioned.

 

I agree, This would help us nail down details such as place/people/army names, important events/battles ect ect…. Making the rest of the process a lot easier in the long run.

Just jumped on to see what the progress was...I am astounded that my idea has taken off so quickly. I'd like to thank everyone for their interest and for those who are/will run this thing.

I would really like to work on the fluff, although I am more than happy to work on some rules.

I concur with the current direction, i'm working on my IA just now so i'll leave the set up of warzones to you guys.

As a fleet based chapter i need to wait until the warzones are set anyway, unless a campaign is created with a fleet based chapter crusading/exploring and running into a major enemy sparking a bigger event?

 

That wasnt an attempt to put my guys at the forefront of anything, just a small suggestion. :)

Suggestion for campaign - how about tying the various far-flung chapters together by having the enemy lead us all to a single sector/world for the ultimate battle(s)?

Like, an Ork Waagh/splinter Hive fleet batters its way across one segmentum, with numerous chapters caught in its wake/path, falling back before its advance but continuing to trail and hound its progress, as it heads towards the 'central' sector. Coming in from the opposite direction, a smaller mop-up campaign is also converging on the central sector, pursuing fleeing traitors.

Meanwhile, in the central sector, an independent campaign is already underway, or some chapters are already there for their own specific goals (Sanguinous chapters looking for relic together? Young chapters banding together for a campaign? etc), which gets thrown into disarray when the waagh/hive fleet and its accompanying Astartes baggage arrives. Thus civil conflict may also be provoked, as these chapters try to achieve their secretive, original objective as well as (perhaps) helping defeat the new enemy.

The conflict escalates when some overall commander of Imperial forces (we'll have to thrash this out) realizes that with so many astartes holding a stake in this action, now would be the perfect time to utterly crush this Hive fleet/waaagh by getting lots more astartes in, and thus calls in much more reinforcements from even other chapters, trumpeting it as a "pilgrimage" to have an all-astartes campaign, a chance to fight solely with brothers in arms.

 

Just throwing an idea out...

 

Also, fyi, my chapter the Guardian Eagles are fleet based too, and can be found Here.

Telanicus: The more evil, despicable minions of Chaos we can get, the better. This is rather pointless if we don't have any enemies.

 

Ferrata: Sounds like a good idea, and should aid us in assigning fleet-based chapters faster.

 

11th Company Dark Master: The fluff is the biggest part of this, so you're in luck.

 

Crusader of Dorn: Assuming we stick to Ferrata's idea, you'll be assigned upon completion of the summary based on where your chapter fits best.

 

SpecialIssueAmmo: That could work for Ultima, due to the incredible size and diversity of the chapters there.

 

Keep the ideas coming, the more we think up, the more we have to work with! ;)

 

And signup is now closed, I'd say, so 11th Company, if you wouldn't mind editing your post description to say something like 'Signup closed-Awaiting missing chapter info' or similar.

Ok, well one of my traitor marines is the Unholy Chosen (Segmentum Obscurous). The core of the Chosen are the Primaris Legion break offs (I have a link to the chapter in an earlier post), but they have bolstered there numbers with several Chaos Warbands seeking glory. They also lead the traitor IG army known as the Unholy Guard (and there will not need to be any further explination on them, as they are pretty much just IG that turned or were "drafted").

They operate in an area known as the Draco Sector (in fact, they are trying to conquer it). So far, they have succeeded, and the Imperium declared the "Draco Crusade" to retake it.

However, if the Draco Crusade does not want to be used (because it is after it) then they can be remnants or something.

 

 

My other "traitors" are the Star Saviors. They are pretty young, operate in the Ultima Segmentum, and fight for the "greater good." They help humans, but hate the Imperium. They are often seen with Tau, and make use Tau Tech, as well as Tau/Human hybrid tech, and the usual SM tech.

I just liked to say that my chaps (the Knight Valiant) were founded in M32 at the same time as the Marines Malevolent; so just say 4th Founding.

 

As for the theatre of war, feel free to move my Chapter wherever it fits best for the planning. :woot:

Okay, so back on the first page I signed up for this, not knowing how long it would take or that my laptop would bust halfway through.

 

Now, I have a decent chapter down.

 

The Adamantium Dragons are fleet based, and have been doing most of their work in Ultima Segmentum, but can be sent anywhere. Lots of naval-grade firepower and a love for plasma weapons should make them pretty useful all over the Imperium.

Would it be possible to create a sub-forum for this project Ferrata??

From two points of view, I would say there is little chance of a sub-forum being created for this. Why you ask? Two points of view? Yes, one from the Staff member as we (the B&C) are aiming to keep down the number of sub-forums as possible. Plus with the move over to v3 scheduled, we are not at the point were we want to be adding more forums. As a participant, I would like to see this work open to all those who wonder the halls of Liber and not hide it away somewhere. That is, however, unless we begin to overrun Liber and it is hindering the main aspect of Liber - Chapter Feedback.

 

I will be working on the completed list as soon as I have finished this post, and then I will move onto the next stage :Elite:

 

 

Obscurus
Iron Flames 6 Chapter Master Ignis Domus
Red Lords 10 Ace Debonair
Knights Venator 11 Nemesor
Sanguinary Crusaders ? Telanicus

 

Tempestus
Gryphon Guard 3 Sigismund Himself
Knights Griffon 14 Firenze
Eagle Claws 11 Gree
Hounds of the Hunt 21 Madwolf Shadowmane
Sons of Lightning 22 Shinzaren
Lions of Radiance 26 Captain Forcystus
Night Scorpions 26 Gil Galad

 

Pacificus
:D Bahltimyr Reavers (Traitors) 13 Aquilanus
Angels Unrelenting 13 Jehoel
Dire Wolves 25 Banelord
Lions of Dawn 25 Elohimalpha
Hellbenders 25 stilettoblade

 

Ultima
Knights Valiant 4 Porridge Meister
Children of Eternity 4 XKhalilX
Knights of Paladrea 9 Brother Sergeant Bohamond
Angels of Shadow 11 11th Company Dark Master
Knights of the Phoenix 12 Strongbow
Legio Solemnitus 12 Brother Captain Alecto
Scions of Vengeance 17 Calgar101
Sons of Pyron 17 Ecritter
:) Marines Immaculate (Traitors) 22 Felwether
Ghost Dragons 26 Reyner
Angels Vengeance 26 Predator Joe
Adamantium Dragons 26 Omega Striker
Dragon Claws ? Master Exorcist
Sanguinary Phalanx ? Exetus
Carnivores ? Uprising

 

Fleet
Marines Invictus 6 Crusader of Dorn
Doom Guard 22 The Normish
Hounds of the Hunt ? Madwolf Shadowmane

 

Unknown
Guardian Eagles 4 SpecialIssueAmmo

I'm am willing to aid in this project as needed. My only set back would be my transition back to the States in June, but it should only be a minor disruption. The Hounds of the Hunt "crusade/hunt/quest" across the known galaxy in two company groups for 80-90 years at a time, so if needed they can be placed where needed.

 

Madwolf

What about an expanded version of the plot line from the first Grey Knight Novel as the premise for the campaigns. A re-manifesting manipulating greater demon perhaps with a pet radical inquisitor for the internal/external threat. Just an idea.

 

Madwolf

Great to see that this is taking off so quickly, my brothers are well up for messing up Imperial plans in whatever way they can. Although they seem to be alone and completely surrounded by hordes of corpse-worshipping lapdogs... :geek:

 

I would, however, just like to point out that they're called the Marines Immaculate and my name is spelt Felwether. :tu:

 

 

EDIT: Oh, and they're also fleet based, though they do operate mostly in southern Ultima which is fine.

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