AlphariusOmegon108 Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 Things were already going bad, tensions rising, only a push was needed. And madness is like gravity, all it takes is a small push to get the ball rolling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demus Ragnok Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 Yeah but chaos had been working by way of the Word Bearers for about 40 years by the time of the heresy. Putting all the peices in place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slips Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 Remember that the ENTIRE Horus Heresy took 7 years from start to finish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigismund229 Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 (edited) The next section I'm writing for Book 3 is the Sack of Port Sarens. Basically, Port Sarens is a massive space docking station that's more like a planet than a space station that the insurrectionists want to take in order to use it as a forward base for the Blood Crusade. Now seeing as that's basically going to be one ginormous boarding action, I did contemplate using a company of Drowned to spearhead it but I thought I'd ask: are there any units in the 'Serkers or EW who could be the spearhead of a boarding action? Shall I invent one? Or shall I use a company of the Drowned? The group of Drowned I invented in my head are called the Purged and are led by a failed captain/praetor/chapter master called Aro Karrion. The idea is that all of them have failed at some point so they've been grouped together into a unit of failures who are given all the highly dangerous or suicide missions and paint their gauntlets black to show both their shame and their purpose as suiciders to the world. Edited August 31, 2016 by Sigismund229 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluntblade Posted August 31, 2016 Share Posted August 31, 2016 I'd give it to The Drowned Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Drakzilla~ Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 That Purged idea sounds a little too much like the Medusan Immortals, especially with a boarding action. Also, the black hand "mark of shame" is also being used by a group of similarly exiled Warbringers I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluntblade Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 Why do they have to be shamed, in any case? The Drowned make a virtue of not shirking the misery of war Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor Perils Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 How many legions are already present in book iii ? I sometimes get the impression that half the astartes in the galaxy are involved in the blood crusade. I'd say go with a zerker unit, possibly even with some EWs attached. After all, all legions should excell in boarding actions (certain legions just excel more) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluntblade Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 Good point. The Drowned will get their moment in the subaquatic murk later on. By my reckoning it's five Legions properly involved in the Blood Crusade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelborn Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 Eagle Warriors, Crimson Lions, Berserkers...which else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikhalLeNoir Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2016/9/1/824098_sm-Daer%27dd.jpg Damn, just awoke and this guy yelled at me.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelborn Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 Would have thought that Daer'dd is more kindly in the morning. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikhalLeNoir Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 Not when he storms at 2.of his nrothers swinging a poor marine around Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluntblade Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 Someone poked the Bear. Not modelled, Solomon Grimm following frantically with a paracetamol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief Captain Redd Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 Iron Bears are nocturnal creatures; we do not like to be awoken… ever really, just let us sleep and eat. If you must wake a Bear it's best to have roasted Elk, fried fish (freshwater Perch, Walleye, Rainbow Trout, and Whitefish) fried potatoes and fry bread at hand; otherwise it's Hangry personified, we may eat you we are Bears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluntblade Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 Ever tried a Full English/Welsh/Irish? Come to think of it, the Bears have no doubt been introduced to them by the Crimson Lions. I know what I'm writing for Boxing Day on Terra. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief Captain Redd Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 Aye, I have; the Irish part of my family didn't come to the US until a just before WWI and nor was it the whole family, so we still have a lot of family in Cork and Carlow and I've been to visit. But short story long I hate most breakfast food, outside of breakfast meats. @Mikhal awesome to see, I love the gauntlet, not what I pictured but very cool, what's it from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikhalLeNoir Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 Hehe thx.. It is from a greek god fitting perfectly z The theme of daer´dd Exactly using those gauntlets you envisioned would involve too much sculpting which I am not firm at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief Captain Redd Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 Yeah it's completely understandable, and those look awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigismund229 Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 I got bored so I wrote another testimony. But not of a primarch. My sons… For tens of thousands of years I have been alive and wandered among mankind’s teeming masses. I have seen civilizations rise and fall. I saw the Golden Age of Technology begin and fall down into a smoking ruin. I rose from those ruins and set out from Terra to reunite humanity and usher it into a new Golden Age that will last until the end of days. Never once did I doubt my course. Not until now. Icarion, Kozja, Jackel, Morro, Koschei, Alexos, Raktra, K’awil, [the Jade General]. Nine of my sons raise their arms against me. Yet they are not wrong to do so and it is my fault that they do. I did not tell them the truth of the warp, of their birth…I sought to protect them from it and in doing so damned them. Oh my sons. Why do you tear me away from myself? I hate the pacts I needed to make to create you with every fibre of my being. There is not a day that goes by when I do not regret creating you. And yet I love you with all my heart. I have done enough, made enough mistakes. I can already see the outcome of this war. There is only one way in which it can end. That final day, when Icarion charges forth from the webway shall be the beginning of my penance. Every day of my life has been leading up to this point. I could defeat Icarion. I shall not. I shall allow myself to be interred on the Golden Throne. There, I shall suffer and have time to contemplate every one of my mistakes. And by the time of the last days, perhaps my sons will be able to forgive me. The testimony of the Emperor of Mankind. I was kind of annoyed by how the Emperor was shown as being an unmitigated dick in the HH series. This was my quick, scribbled attempt at fixing that. Kelborn 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluntblade Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 I quite like the idea of him sharing one last moment with Alexandros before Alex has to head up and lead the defence. Assuming that Alex's duel with Icarion comes after the Emperor is wounded (an idea I quite like). simison 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelborn Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 (edited) Like that testimony but you forgot Andezo. If it is decided that he joins Icarion prior to Terra, of course. Edited September 1, 2016 by Kelborn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigismund229 Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 Like that testimony but you forgot Andezo. If it is decided that he joins Icarion prior to Terra, of course. I know. I still need to do his and all the loyalist primarchs except Pionius. But with Andezo I'm waiting 'till it's decided what the hell he's going to be doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluntblade Posted September 1, 2016 Share Posted September 1, 2016 (edited) The initial pieces of the Prospero story are falling into place. There is an Iron Bear hug. Also a reference to Athrawes' Thousand Sons, and I'm trying to explore the psychological effects of Alex and Icarion's foresight. The idea being that while for the others (I have the arrivals so far in order of Pionus - Daer'dd - Icarion or maybe Alexandros) there's a desperate hope that they might find survivors. I'm interpreting Icarion's foresight as more "sublime" if that makes sense; there's less of the jumble of potential futures and more the "current" they must find and ride through whatever situation. So for Alex and Icarion, the knowledge of what they're going to find arrives differently. Edited September 1, 2016 by bluntblade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simison Posted September 2, 2016 Author Share Posted September 2, 2016 Slips, thanks for the work done yesterday. One more request, could you pin the Points Calculator? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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