Beren Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 What's wrong with the third sentence? Also, I presume that the Abyssii Ordinatus land at Mondus Occulum as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talonair Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 The Ordinatus Abyssii wouldn't be deployed at this time for fear of being forced to abandon it. It will only be landed when the Abyssii go on the offensive, and will likely only be deployed to major sieges (such as the Olympus Mons forge temple) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluntblade Posted January 31, 2018 Author Share Posted January 31, 2018 Isn't Olympus Mons more of a city than a temple? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talonair Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 It's referred to a forge temple and a city. I guess it's like Magma City? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluntblade Posted January 31, 2018 Author Share Posted January 31, 2018 I figure it's gonna be massive, like the biggest city/whatever on Mars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talonair Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 More than likely, with defenses to match Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluntblade Posted January 31, 2018 Author Share Posted January 31, 2018 I mean, it's the capital of the Imperium's second most powerful world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluntblade Posted January 31, 2018 Author Share Posted January 31, 2018 Titanicus needs and will get a couple of minor tweaks (adding in Alex's treatment of Mortis and Yharma). Otherwise I think it's good to function as a Red Box. Given the role of Abyssii, I wonder if the Copper and Steel stuff needs to feature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talonair Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 Copper and Steel? Remind me please, I'm a little out of it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simison Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 What's wrong with the third sentence? Also, I presume that the Abyssii Ordinatus land at Mondus Occulum as well? This line: "Alexandros himself was besieged by the fallout from the Day of Revelation, and unable to take direct action on Mars, save perhaps for one, singularly devastating intervention." It doesn't make sense because Alexandros is above Mars at this point and about to lead the expedition planet-side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief Captain Redd Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 Olympus Mons is HUGE, like it's a country huge, just the mountain proper is more than 600 kilometers across, and 26 kilometers high. It makes Everest look like a pimple. Edit: also curious on what Copper and Steel is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beren Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 Sim: Never mind, I misunderstood which piece of writing you were referring to. Talon and Redd: Copper and Steel is the Harbringers raiding the vaults of the thunder king for technology to give Kelbor Hal. Icarion brings along the Drowned to affirm their loyalty and because of their hazardous terrain specialty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talonair Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 Ah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluntblade Posted February 1, 2018 Author Share Posted February 1, 2018 So Mons is gonna take weeks of fighting, I suspect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talonair Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 More than likely. That's going to be a lot of street fighting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beren Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 A good opportunity to use the City Fighting rules then. I've made some edits to the final two paragraphs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beren Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 Alexandros pressed dozens more Forge Worlds for aid, and they began to muster, filled with both zealous anger at the heresy of Kelbor-Hal and ambition. If the eons-long reign of Kelbor-Hal and his acolytes was to end, there would be a great deal to play for in the aftermath. Whether by honest motives or otherwise, vast armies of Skitarii, automata, Knights and all the other weapons the Mechanicus could assemble descended to fight upon Sacred Mars. Such dramas played out across all the remaining Loyalist strongholds on Mars over the next two. With Mortis in ashes, Tempestus and House Taranis could spare some of their war machines to tip the balance between Ignatum and (that other Loyalist one that isn't Tempestus). The Kaban Machine, meanwhile, had vanished, and while captured Traitor archives have done nothing to disperse the mystery around this event, it was a boon to the Loyalists. The fighting now entered a phase of strange inertia, though still violent enough to stain the sands red anew, for the Traitors brought out fresh weapons from stores previously forbidden. Equilibrium could not last, and every Forge churned out weapons and the soldiers to wield them. Now fresh actors arrived to usher the drama into the next phase, some summoned, other arriving utterly unlooked for. The latter were the core of the Iron Bears’ First Grand Wartribe aboard the Dragon of Autumn, accompanied by a few escort vessels and the handful of survivors they had rescued in the battle over Kataii. The Bears were sorely reduced, having borne the corpse of their Primarch back to the flagship and then endured a harrowing Warp voyage. Lord Chief Cass lay in stasis, wounded unto death and awaiting internment in a Dreadnought sarcophagus, while command had passed to Achille Nibaanisiiwi of the Firebound Slayers. The Daughters of Daer’dd were similarly mauled. Nonetheless, the remaining Bears were welcome allies, and brought with them Knight walkers and a War Maniple of the Legio Auris. The Fire Keepers arrived in far greater strength over two months, recalled from the tasks Niklaas had set them to in the wake of the betrayal. By strange chance, the warriors of Tribe Barinthus brought with them a single Scion Hospitalier from their search of Untara - Second Captain Odyssalas, honour-brother to Nibaanisiiwi. Bereft of his own Legion, Odyssalas would spend the campaign at his friend’s side, the warriors of Barinthus and the VIth forming a hybrid force as the war turned to sieges and lightning raids against the Traitor-held forges. Upon Niklaas’ arrival, a week after the Dragon of Autumn translated in-system, with his forces reinforced by fresh Vth Legion detachments and Taghmata from a dozen Forge Worlds, Alexandros took to the surface. The fighting on Mars now entered its most ferocious stage, as two Primarchs brought their mastery of war to the surface. Niklaas’ wrath was volcanic, dormant ever since ___ and now given license to erupt. With Ordinati, Titans and all the terrifying works of the Ordo Reductor at his fingertips, he embarked upon a campaign of destruction which Kelbor Hal was powerless to halt. Fortresses were torn down and armies scattered until, two weeks after his arrival, the Primarchs brought the war to the Fabricator-General’s doorstep. They might have simply crushed Kelbor Hal with orbital bombardments, but the void shields over Olympus Mons were as potent as those of any fortress. Besides, the forges and the technology within were of incalculable value, to say nothing of the mountain’s holy status to the Mechanicus. It would have to be taken, and Kelbor Hal’s remaining armies barred the way. The Battle of the Mariner Plain has been the sole subject of multiple books, such was its scale and importance. It raged for forty hours, covering the fifty kilometres of defences which Kelbor-Hal had set about his stronghold. Forty Titans and some two hundred Knights clashed above the masses of tanks and infantry. I think that with some minor editing, this can just be used as the first half of the next section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluntblade Posted February 1, 2018 Author Share Posted February 1, 2018 There are other tweaks pending when Redd surfaces again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beren Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 I'll wait then. In the meantime: what exactly occurs during the Battle of the Mariner Plain? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluntblade Posted February 1, 2018 Author Share Posted February 1, 2018 Well there's a bit in Stories, but nothing too specific. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief Captain Redd Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 I heard my name spoken; I'm here as needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluntblade Posted February 3, 2018 Author Share Posted February 3, 2018 We've talked about Damon returning to Huron, so he's able to lead some Bears to Mars. When would they rock up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief Captain Redd Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 Since Redd was headed to Terra first, he might not want to leave the Sol sector for Huron until Mars is secure anyway. Lest Terra should fall because of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluntblade Posted February 3, 2018 Author Share Posted February 3, 2018 True enough. I'll try and sort a bit of fluff for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beren Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 From the Fantasy Flight Games Lathe Worlds supplement: VIGILIES SERVITOR Among the various servitors of the Lathe Worlds are combat patterns capable of facing and overcoming specific enemies and situations. One such pattern, the Vigilies Servitor, is uniquely equipped to destroy foes who would twist the sacred complexity of the machine towards their own corrupt purpose. Each is a fast and deadly adversary, with vat grown muscular enhancements, servo-muscular fibres, mechanical augmentations, and advanced combat protocols for a variety of threats. Highly proficient inboth ranged and melee combat, these elite guardians are the physical embodiment of the Machine Cult’s wrath. Seem kinda useful in the present situation. And in general as the Insurrection goes on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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