Kelborn Posted September 14, 2017 Share Posted September 14, 2017 Each Legion is represented in their respective book. I assume that Azus rescue mission is not part of book 2, right? Thus, we'd need a battle / campaign for them. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/325484-black-book-the-eastern-expansion-campaigns/page/28/#findComment-4886307 Share on other sites More sharing options...
simison Posted September 14, 2017 Author Share Posted September 14, 2017 The Dune Serpents, Traitor DS, and the Steel Legion are in a campaign in Book 2B. The idea was that was the battle where Azus is captured. And then Andezo rescues him in Book 2C. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/325484-black-book-the-eastern-expansion-campaigns/page/28/#findComment-4886366 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelborn Posted September 14, 2017 Share Posted September 14, 2017 AH ok. Got it. Well, imho it would make sense to implement them in here. Do we have an alternative? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/325484-black-book-the-eastern-expansion-campaigns/page/28/#findComment-4886399 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigismund229 Posted September 14, 2017 Share Posted September 14, 2017 An alternative for how to implement the preds or an alternative for what 2C can be? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/325484-black-book-the-eastern-expansion-campaigns/page/28/#findComment-4886578 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelborn Posted September 15, 2017 Share Posted September 15, 2017 Sorry, an alternative to the Predators, which makes at least equally sense. If so, I can consider if said alternative would fit better or not. :) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/325484-black-book-the-eastern-expansion-campaigns/page/28/#findComment-4886752 Share on other sites More sharing options...
simison Posted September 17, 2017 Author Share Posted September 17, 2017 Sorry, an alternative to the Predators, which makes at least equally sense. If so, I can consider if said alternative would fit better or not. I'm not sure if there is a better alternative. Book 3 is all about the First Solar War. Book 4 is focused on the Blood Crusade. Book 5 centers on the creation of the Suzerainty. And then Book 6 has the rest of the Traitor Legions becoming corrupted and the Predators going Traitor. Based on the new layout, I think Book 2C is really our best option. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/325484-black-book-the-eastern-expansion-campaigns/page/28/#findComment-4888768 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelborn Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 Agreed. Then so be it. :) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/325484-black-book-the-eastern-expansion-campaigns/page/28/#findComment-4888774 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluntblade Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 Is it cool if I include Predators at Revan? I figure they'd give Pionus a handy force to operate seperately from his main forces, Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/325484-black-book-the-eastern-expansion-campaigns/page/28/#findComment-4888778 Share on other sites More sharing options...
simison Posted September 18, 2017 Author Share Posted September 18, 2017 Is it cool if I include Predators at Revan? I figure they'd give Pionus a handy force to operate seperately from his main forces, The Southern Front? I don't see why not. While the Primarchs are definitely commanding their respective fronts, the actual forces are more diverse. Essentially, each Primarch will be commanding the Legion core mixed in with the other Legions and supported by the mortal armies. There are Fire Keeper siege specialists serving in all three fronts, but the core of the Fire Keepers are with Niklaas on the Central Front. While Morro is wreaking havoc on the Northern Front, there are Drowned sapper units fighting alongside Traitor Legions on the other two Fronts. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/325484-black-book-the-eastern-expansion-campaigns/page/28/#findComment-4888942 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelborn Posted September 18, 2017 Share Posted September 18, 2017 While the majority of the Legion is fighting against Nomus at the Eastern Front, two tribes are still continuing their former quest within the borders of the Imperium: Ebonspears and Phantom Blades, both led by the main characters of Adewale and Thoruk. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/325484-black-book-the-eastern-expansion-campaigns/page/28/#findComment-4889010 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluntblade Posted September 24, 2017 Share Posted September 24, 2017 Thinking blurbs again. I reckon this is a good chance to use Skal's drunk remembrancer. Would anyone especially like to write it? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/325484-black-book-the-eastern-expansion-campaigns/page/28/#findComment-4894243 Share on other sites More sharing options...
simison Posted September 25, 2017 Author Share Posted September 25, 2017 Thinking blurbs again. I reckon this is a good chance to use Skal's drunk remembrancer. Would anyone especially like to write it? I'm not sure if Skal has recovered from his illness. I could give it a shot, but not sure about my skill since I've never been personally inebriated. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/325484-black-book-the-eastern-expansion-campaigns/page/28/#findComment-4895235 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluntblade Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 I'll attempt it, then Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/325484-black-book-the-eastern-expansion-campaigns/page/28/#findComment-4895266 Share on other sites More sharing options...
simison Posted September 29, 2017 Author Share Posted September 29, 2017 If you lack the time, just tell me and I'll give it a shot. Also, I've finished the rough draft of the second VE exemplary battle. Just one more to go. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/325484-black-book-the-eastern-expansion-campaigns/page/28/#findComment-4899046 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluntblade Posted October 9, 2017 Share Posted October 9, 2017 Preface I thought they’d come to silence me. Rather hoped for it, even if I’d have whimpered and flailed as the sword came down. Let them finish off this pickled coward who craves release but recoils from granting it to himself, and instead hopes that the bottle will finish him off before too long. As if the point of “too long” hasn’t been and gone for decades.I misjudged my visitors then. They have put a pen in my hand and exhorted me to dredge it all up; everything I saw and heard through my years of service, with all of the bitterness preserved. So here you find me, one of the remembrancer order’s great embarrassments, called back to duty because my gifts are too important to disregard. Rather fitting when you consider those I am called upon to write about.My colleagues have already catalogued in great detail how nobility never guaranteed loyalty, how the virtuous Godslayers and Lightning Bearers threw their lot in with the Grave Stalkers and the Drowned to oppose the Emperor. So here I will record the other side of that coin - the warriors who the Imperium had always been reluctant to celebrate and whose necessity we were loath to admit, but loyal nonetheless. Dune Serpents, Predators and Void Eagles. The mordant, myriad ironclad armies of the Mechanicum, the Abyssii foremost among them. The protectors we never wanted, but the ones we needed.When fire runs wild in a city of wood and stone, men will pull down houses to prevent them catching. When contagion defies medicine, corpses and homes are burned, victims given the Emperor’s peace. The Insurrection could be called both an infection and a conflagration, so our masters dealt with it accordingly. Evil was payed unto evil - I make no apology for the word, and no one knows better than I that some of our protectors deserve it. Understand all of this, and you’ll realise why the Wars of Retaliation were fought as they were.I saw with eyes then young, and no amount of drink will let me forget. I watched magma bleed into the void when Yucahu reaved Sallusk, and saw Hephaesta choke on corpse-dust. I lived in the mess of grey shadows and blood that give the lie to all those heroic myths now churned out on Terra. The memories infest me, and I fear I will rot before they let me go. G. F. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/325484-black-book-the-eastern-expansion-campaigns/page/28/#findComment-4905204 Share on other sites More sharing options...
simison Posted October 12, 2017 Author Share Posted October 12, 2017 I hope Skal sees this and is as amused as I am. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/325484-black-book-the-eastern-expansion-campaigns/page/28/#findComment-4906928 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigismund229 Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 Question: I remember simison decided to rejig the campaigns of book 2 sub books but I don't remember exactly what changed. So yeah, what changed? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/325484-black-book-the-eastern-expansion-campaigns/page/28/#findComment-4911916 Share on other sites More sharing options...
simison Posted October 18, 2017 Author Share Posted October 18, 2017 Mini-book 2A - The Maelstrom Conquest - I suggested it takes place in the Badab system, a force of Void Eagles and Shepherds of Eden are attacked by Lightning Bearers and Morning Stars Mini-book 2B - The Eastern Campaign? - This is the campaign where Azus is captured as Icarion spreads his territory to the East Mini-book 2C - ??? - Andezo rescues Azus Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/325484-black-book-the-eastern-expansion-campaigns/page/28/#findComment-4911992 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluntblade Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 I figure Badab would be well within Icarion's territory already. What size engagement are you thinking, Sim? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/325484-black-book-the-eastern-expansion-campaigns/page/28/#findComment-4911996 Share on other sites More sharing options...
simison Posted October 18, 2017 Author Share Posted October 18, 2017 I figure Badab would be well within Icarion's territory already. What size engagement are you thinking, Sim? I'm imagining this as happening very quickly and early, maybe only a few days after the DoR. For size, I'm not thinking of anyone being at full Legion strength. Maybe several dozen companies per force? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/325484-black-book-the-eastern-expansion-campaigns/page/28/#findComment-4912003 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluntblade Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 Hmm. We might want some more scale, and cover those skirmishes in the build-up. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/325484-black-book-the-eastern-expansion-campaigns/page/28/#findComment-4912006 Share on other sites More sharing options...
simison Posted October 18, 2017 Author Share Posted October 18, 2017 Hmm. We might want some more scale, and cover those skirmishes in the build-up. I'm open to suggestion. I don't have anything really detailed as of this moment. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/325484-black-book-the-eastern-expansion-campaigns/page/28/#findComment-4912008 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigismund229 Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 Right. Well the original 2A plan was to cover the entire early stage of Icarion's conquests, which I think would be better than just covering one engagement. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/325484-black-book-the-eastern-expansion-campaigns/page/28/#findComment-4912057 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluntblade Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 I suggest we look at Manachea in Conquest for inspiration Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/325484-black-book-the-eastern-expansion-campaigns/page/28/#findComment-4912096 Share on other sites More sharing options...
simison Posted October 19, 2017 Author Share Posted October 19, 2017 So, instead of covering a battle, the campaign section would be nothing but elaborating the entire Maelstrom Conquest? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/325484-black-book-the-eastern-expansion-campaigns/page/28/#findComment-4912242 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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