General Discussion

[simison]

Also, (and I can't believe I forgot this), know how I have the Wardens' legion symbol? That was done by an artist for only $5. If anyone is interested, I can ask if she's still taking commissions.

[bluntblade]

 

What the nuts is an interex? One of our things I've missed?

 

 

They're a human empire that Horus meets with in the first BL books. He attempts to use diplomacy to bring them in, but Erebus screws up the entire ordeal, leading to their conquest. 

 

In our canon, Alex is free of Chaos traitors and has several diplomatic advantages over Horus, so he's able to integrate the Interex without bloodshed.

With some mighty fine tech and kickass centaur armour.

[Sigismund229]

So, when thinking about Mycenae I decided that one of the first things Hec would do is ensure each world could defend itself and so I decided to write down its system of conscription etc.(based of the conscription in Europe pre WW1 and what still exists in Finnland). All I can say is: the Berserkers may have the physical strength but the Arpine Auxilia is sure as hell gonna have the numbers.

The draft of Mycenae

At the time when the foundations for the empire of Mycenae were first being laid and the Arpine Auxilia founded, Hectarion decided that each world must be able to defend itself against the outside world instead of relying upon the Crimson Lions and the front line units of the Arpine Auxilia. So it was that he created a system upon those worlds under his dominion where by each and every human, be they male or female, physically capable of bearing arms in any way was to be inducted into the Arpine Auxilia for two years after they came of age. During this time period, they would learn the art of war, marksmanship, basic weapons maintenance, all the usual training an Imperial Army trooper would undergoe and they would then hone these skills to perfection. On most world's this varied but common throughout was a fitness test, marksmanry test, melee test and being able to field strip a lasgun in 30 seconds(the exact time period varied depending on the world but 30 seconds was common). Some of these conscripts would even see battle alongside the Arpine Auxilia or receive training in the use of aircraft or heavy armoured vehicles.

 

While quite how this military service was treated varied from world to world, with Hive Worlders treating it as a rehearsal for gang wars they would inevitably be involved or some feral worlders treating it as a pilgrimage, the overall effect didn't change. On every world in the empire of Mycenae, the human population needed only to be armed in order to defend itself alongside the PDF. This menat that, should they ever be invaded, a system of Mycenae could increases the size of its army a thousand fold within a few weeks, drafting every civilian over 16 and under 56 into the Arpine Auxilia in order to better fight the enemy ad because of their peace time training in their youth, these draftees would not be a rabble of poorly trained militia but an army of fully trained soldiers with specialisms ranging from marksmen to tank drivers.

[Skalpynock]

So... Mycenæ is Switzerland?

[Sigismund229]

So... Mycenæ is Switzerland?

I guess you could say so...just without all the banks of loose morales

 

and also, that kind of conscription was practiced across europe till recently

Edited April 5, 2016 by Sigismund229

[bluntblade]

Are we any clearer on roughly where Icarion will initially stake the borders of his realm?

[simison]

Are we any clearer on roughly where Icarion will initially stake the borders of his realm?

 

I'm not sure we have. My guess is that Icarion secures the area around the Maelstrom and pushes out from there. 

[Sigismund229]

Never Give Up. Never Give in

The walls had fallen hours earlier. Now all that remained were heaps of rubble around the shattered husk of Eternity Gate. The sky was choked with ash, covering the Imperial Palace in eternal night illuminated only by chemical fires left over from flamers, or the occasional sunburst flare of a plasma weapon. There were enormous rents in the earth everywhere you looked, caused by the incessent shelling from traitor ordinance, which was even now exploding amidst the wreckage of the Imperial Palace and hurling great clods of earth and smoke into the air above it, further thickening the ash cloud. In the outer reaches of the Palace, those where the shields had fallen, the traitor fleet bombarded the loyalist outposts that held out with a savagery unmatched by any battle in living memory. The earth shook as titans strode across the battlefield, their footfalls creating fresh craters. Heat from Terra's core spewed out from rents in the earth the size of a strike cruiser. The mountains amidst which the Imperial Palace was nestled had been levelled. Miniature mushroom clouds from rad weapons could be seen wherever you looked. This was how Terra appeared to Nathaniel Garro on the 42nd day of the Siege.

 

All around him were scattered the bodies of dead Wardens of Light and Crimson Lions, their armour cracked and rent, their flesh defiled and the proud sigils of their legions almost wiped from their armour by days of constant battle. In truth, he looked little better. He had lost his own helmet in the early days of the Siege and had been forced to scavenge a mkVI helm from a dead Halycon Warden when the outer walls fell, just as he had been forced to replace his right arm's plates with those of a fataly wounded Warden of Light and his left shoulder guard with one scavenged from the dismembered arm of a Fire Keeper. Even with these replacements, his armour was barely serviceable, having been patched up nearly a dozen times since the siege began. All paint had been scorched off of the remaining original parts, leaving them just bare metal. His power sword,that he'd been carrying since the Unification Wars, power cell had died days ago, rendering it useless and he'd lost his shield, forcing him to fight with a scavenged bolter and combat knife. Any astartes he looked at around him was in similarly bad condition and they were about to call upon their beaten and crudely patched up armour once more. In the distance, they could hear the Berserkers of Uran chanting as they prepared to charge up the slopes of rubble at the defenders of Eternity Gate once more. Checking that he had ammunition left, Garro made ready. Eternity Gate must hold.

 

When the Berserkers reached them, formation immediately broke apart and it degenerated into a mass of individual battles, all unit cohesion forgotten. Garro fought back to back with a Warden of Light, pumping bolter shots into the Berserkers who attacked them or slitting their throats with his knife. Then his bolter's clip ran dry. Not able to afford the time it would take to reload, Garro simply used it as a club, hammering it into the face of his enemies. At some point in the vicious fighting his combat knife broke and he picked up a chainsword to keep fighting. Over the vox, he could hear the Fire Keepers screaming for support at Lions Gate as they were cut down by the sadistic warriors of the Eagle Warriors and the Halycon Wardens spitting curses at the Drowned as they fought them hand to hand. Behind him, the Warden of Light fell, his neck spurting blood. Garro stood over his body, protecting it from any who might seek to desecrate it before a Warden's apothacery could retrieve the warrior's gene seed. Garro had never learnt his name but the warrior was his brother by deed even if not by blood and he deserved for his legacy to survive him. Garro saw a custodian piled to the ground and hacked apart by Berserkers, overwhelmed by the number of his foes.

 

Above all the cries for support on the vox or the growls of hatred, Garro heard thousands of apothaceries calling for cover as they sought to save their fallen brother's gene seed. He saw one vault over the body of a Berserker and send an entire clip from his bolt pistol crashing into the chest of an Berserker's apothacery starting to extract a fallen Crimson Lion's gene seed. The apothacery in question then reloaded and sought to extract the fallen legionnaires gene seed even though the legionnaire was a Crimson Lion and the apothacery was a Fire Keeper and Warden of Light with a plasma gun stood vigil over the apothacery as he carried out his task. Brothers in deed.

 

Over the vox, Garro heard a Fire Keepers holding the Eagle Warriors in the Hall of Triumphs as they began to roar out "Never give up! Never give in!" over and over, defiant even as they fell. Soon, every loyalist warrior on Terra was roaring it. Never give up. Never give in.

[simison]

Love that piece, but, I have to ask, have you seen Galaxy Quest?

[Nomus Sardauk]

Love that piece, but, I have to ask, have you seen Galaxy Quest?

[simison]

And that's why you're our lovable crazy, homeless guy, San.

[Sigismund229]

Introducing a new piece of gear to be given to the Emperor's finest of the Imperial Army.

 

It had been raining for days. The ground surrounding trooper Gotvried von Hal of the 96th Prussan Grenadiers had become a quagmire of mud. He had been forced to crawl further up his foxhole in order to avoid the rapidly rising pool of water in the bottom of it, not necessarily for comfort as it made little difference to him whether he was wet with mud or wet with water but to keep his gun out of the water. While it ought to be proof against the elements, Gotvried didn't want to take the risk that it wasn't as without it he only had his lascarbine which was utterly unable to penetrate power armour.

 

His primary weapon was the ACT31. He didn't know what the letters stood for and nor did he much care. The Imperial Army had begun to be issued with ACT's, or shoulder-breakers as their gunners called them, a year or so ago in order to give them a weapon capable of penetrating power armour. While they already had plasma and melta guns, those were far too difficult to maintain and produce to be issued to rank and file guardsmen. The shoulder-breaker was none of those things. Essentialy an upscaled autogun, it was a single shot weapon which fired a 40mm shell at the enemy which would then penetrate the power armour through sheer mass and speed. Because of this, it was a simple weapon to produce and lacked all the moving parts that made more complex weapons so difficult to maintain. Because of this, it was loved amongst the frontline troopers even if it was a bitch to keep supplied and move around(when moving it required a two man crew), the bolt action was quite sticky, it had a short range and it had been known to break the shoulder of the man firing it through recoil. Despite all of these shortcomings, the men of the Imperial Army had never been more thankful to receive any other piece of kit in their whole lives as it gave them a chance to kill astartes. However, even of it was more common than plasma and melta guns, the shoulder-breaker was still relatively rare and so only the best shots in each platoon got one. In the case of B platoon, 3rd Company of the 96th Prussan Grenadiers that had been Gotvried.

[simison]

"However, even IF it was more common..."

 

Other than that, good piece.

[bluntblade]

Something's just struck me. The gene-meddling crowd in the Insurrectionists are going to have a lot of gene-seed from tpfallen loyalists to play with, will they have much chance to do so?

[simison]

They'll have 20 years to play with it. Icarion is taking a slow but steady approach, which lends itself to side experimentation.

[bluntblade]

Do we have any Legion or general fluff that needs writing? I've got bits and bobs of stories coming along, but most are pending info from members who are busy at the moment.

[Grifftofer]

Well the Grave Stalkers haven't really been represented in any stories yet. If you'd like to take a stab at them? If you have any questions feel free to ask :)

[MikhalLeNoir]

If you got the ressources. The wardens always need some light;) but mostly would be great crusade stuff. Or about refugees fleeing to caerbannog while the insurrrection lasts.

[bluntblade]

I'd be keen to have a crack at a Crusade piece for each.

 

Actually, I've got a set-up for the Stalkers infiltrating a Qarith stronghold. Grifft, stand by for a PM

[simison]

Slips, can you un-pin the 6 months poll and the Qarith Triumph? The poll has served its purpose, while the Triumph, though important, isn't important enough to be pinned. (And I have the vague suspicion that we've written more about the Qarith than GW has written about Ullanor.)

[Skalpynock]

Sohrak sighed in relief. For weeks he had scoured the walls of his native land, searching for one single man. His sword had tasted the blood of Wardens and Custodians, as it had of automata and xeno guards. But the warrior he sought was far greater than them; he had been lord of a legion that was no more. And now he was on sight.

"Apostle!" he screamed at the golden figure standing before the Eternity Gate "I challenge you! To the death!"

His call was answered by the gravelous voice of a veteran who had lived too long "Morning Star! How surprising to meet you again. How disturbing to see you on the foe's side. But if fate made it so, then let us fight in the old ways.

Guaire Amalasan. Sohrak Mashyan. Once masters of their legions, once the closest of brothers. And now they were raising their swords, not against a common foe, but towards one another.

[Slips]

Sure.

[bluntblade]

Slips, can you un-pin the 6 months poll and the Qarith Triumph? The poll has served its purpose, while the Triumph, though important, isn't important enough to be pinned. (And I have the vague suspicion that we've written more about the Qarith than GW has written about Ullanor.)

I'm pretty sure we have (is there anything about the Ultramarines and Scars fighting during the campaign itself? Otherwise there's just the Scars mopping up and Horus talking about Ullanor). There's another story coming with the Grave Stalkers, and potentially one with The Drowned some time in the future.

Edited April 11, 2016 by bluntblade

[Kelborn]

As the AD is finished, I will now start the "newbie" thread, including the most needed / basic informations by using our ad.

 

After this, I will post a small profil of mine which shall be used as a pattern for every member and their introduction.

 

I will be the only one of us who will post in it (besides your introduction). And that's only when new stuff is added, ok?

[simison]

Sounds good.