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You know, it occurs to me that, in all of the hubbub, I'd forgotten my own work style. Sig, has there been any change in which factions appear and get rules in Book 2? 

So far, the rules line up has stayed the same. It's still the Dune Serpents&Void Eagles on the loyalist side and Steel Legion&Insurgos from the Insurrectionists

Alright, I've completed my review on what has been done in Book 2 Alpha.

  • The Insurgos intro page is done and Grifft has it. 
  • We have the title fluff page for the Void Eagles, ready to submit.
  • The Dune Serpents title page, Legion Origin, Primarch Origin, and Legion-Primarch Unification has been edited and needs to be submitted to Grifft. 
  • Two Red boxes have been drafted, one is the Negotiations by Sig and the other is the Yellow-Eyed by Blunt. There were revisions suggested for Negotiations, and I'm not sure if they were implemented, along with needing a title. Yellow-Eyed has been edited and is ready to be submitted to Grifft. 
  • Shepherds of Eden fluff page needs to be edited. 
  • I saw an opening quote for House Toho, but nothing else in this thread. I remember that they have their own thread and will check that after my review here is complete. Also need to check the FW books on how they cover Knight Houses.
  • Lastly, Sig, which of those general history sections with the spoiler tags are to be in Book 2A? Actually, which factions are getting rules in 2A as well? I'll prioritize those for review and submission.

 

Looks like there is plenty to do as of right now. Should be able to burn 5 days before I double-check with Athrawes or before K'awil pops back up for revision.

 

EDIT: Also, I have nothing for the Steel Legion in this thread.

-Changes still need to be edited in to Negotiations. 

-All of them except for A realm in ruins and The Strain of War

 

 

As far the rules are concerned, been thinking about that one and we have a problem. As things are atm, books are like so

 

Book 2A-Campaigns in the Galactic Core. 

This is where the Insurgos are going=that's where their rules will be 

 

Book 2B-Eastern Fringe

Void Eagles, Steel Legion, Dune Serpents

 

Book 2C-Battle of the Forge

Updated Iron Bears rules. 

 

So yeah. We have a problem in terms of how concentrated the rules are into one sub-book. 

Since when were the Steel Legion involved in the battle of the Forge? Weren't that the Warbringers show?

 

I believe they're being updated to show the effect on the legion of Daer'dd's death. Redd made a post about it a while back.

Which factions are inthe battle of the forge? Iron bears. But on traitors side? If there is no new faction honestly, then the battle of the forge as good as it is is not suitable for a book and would be better kept as red box.

 

Goal must be to introduce 2 factions per split book.

 

At the galactic core the drowned fight against whom? They fight with insurgos right? Give them dune serpents traitors and via this you can introduce dine serpents as a whole. They could be the connection to book 2. In book to the eastern fringe campaign we have steel legion vs scions and dune serpents. At last we have the void eagles.

 

So either we reintroduce the dune serpents as loyalists or just give the proper row treatment and their primarch a spotlight or we already did that in book 2a. So plenty of space for the steel legion and the void eagles.

 

 

Which leaves book 2c with? Ahhj. Steel legion....we did that on book 2a.

 

 

Alternative could also be

 

. 2A: galactic core-> new factions: insurgos. Maybe on both sides

2B: eastern fringe-> new factions: dune serpents & void eagles

2C:new factions: steel legion & maybe house toho and iron bears with a second RoW

 

However I see the problem that the factions are not balanced. Would be cool to have a traitor outbalance a loyalist..but the second would involve only loyalists and it is kinda strange that we don't focus on the legion who conquers the easter fringe.

 

 

Edit: if the warbringers are in the book, that could grant us the possibility to introduce basic rules maybe.

Tbh, I have to check as well what I've done for Toho.

 

As I've progressed with the Preds, I can focus on Toho from now on. :)

 

*edit*

FW only did only write fluff for their Houses and create badass looking suits. Shouldn't be a problem. ^^

I thought we were only introducing 4 factions per book (with the exception of book 1)? If so couldn't we simply do parts A and B with 2 new ones in each?

Four factions with rules, and then a Titan force with fluff-only was our goal.

Since when were the Steel Legion involved in the battle of the Forge? Weren't that the Warbringers show?

I don't think so, as far as I recall the only Legions involved in the Battle of the Forge were the Warbringers, Halcyon Wardens (let the name Ezekyle Abbadon never be forgotten. Kill for the living! Kill for the dead!), Iron Bears and I think the Harbingers, maybe, don't quote me on that last one.

To quote Doctor Strangelove:

 

(censored) I have a plan!

 

Book 2A

Insurgos and either Void Eagles or Dune Serpents. Personally I'd be in favour of Dune Serpents so that the Void Eagles don't become the Warmaster's firemen, although that does seem like a role they'd be well suited to

 

Book 2B

Steel Legion and whichever of the two loyalist legions doesn't get featured in Book 2A

 

Book 2C

No new factions per se but updates including: 

-No Daer'dd Iron Bears rules

-Expanded armouries as I suggested a while back

-Units such as Icarion's enforcers

A bit like Hitler used Walter(Walther? don't remember how it's spelled in German, only how it's pronounced) Model in '44 and '45, whenever there was a desperate situation, he sent Walter Model to try and fix it. Due to their not being tied to a homeworld particularly and fleet based specialism, the Void Eagles would seem an apt legion to fulfil a similar role in the early Insurrection. Whenever there's a gap where the Insurrectionists are about to break through, Alex sends the Void Eagles in force to plug it. 

Oh, you mean like a Quick Reaction Force that can be deployed to emergency situations. Yeah, the Void Eagles seem well-suited to that. So, does that mean they should be in Book 2A?

It would seem so. Meaning I actually need to come up with a plan for 2A. That's tonight's task then

 

Oh, you mean like a Quick Reaction Force that can be deployed to emergency situations. Yeah, the Void Eagles seem well-suited to that. So, does that mean they should be in Book 2A?

It would seem so. Meaning I actually need to come up with a plan for 2A. That's tonight's task then

 

 

Well, I now know that the Void Eagles are Insurgos are first up, so that's where my efforts will be aimed at for the next couple of days.

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