[BC] The Blackest Heart (OOC)

[FabiusV4lcoran]

49 minutes ago, Necronaut said:

It occurs to me that now is perhaps as good of a time as any for us to name our warband seeing as how we have a rather fully fleshed out roster. Some ideas come to mind:

 

- Hagga's Heroes

- The Crimson Permanent Assurance

- Mongrel Battalion 

- Damage, Inc.

- Cowboys from Heck

- The Syndicate

- Cabal of the Bleeding Eye

- The Heartbreakers/Heart-Takers

- The Dread Company or Dreadwatch

- The Claws of Vengeance

- The Machine

 

I'm a HUGE Hogan's Heroes fan so that first one is a strong go.  

 

I also like the Cabal of the Bleeding Eye.

 

Dread Company is pretty solid too.

 

As is Mongrel Battalion.

Dangit, I can't pick.

[Xin Ceithan]

I was thinking about this too but lost my train of thought 

also I was toying with stuff on hand or a unifying theme….

something like 

 

Beasts of Brimstone ( or Hounds / Claws ..)

Brimstone Furies

Blackstone Bastards ( Basilisks

Dredges of Brimstone

 

or maybe simply the

 

The Dredgeful 

 

[Machine God]

IT'S GOT TO BE:

 

The Crimson Permanent Assurance

 

"It's fun to sail on the wide accountancy!" 

 

 

 

 

 

[A.T.]

"The High Rollers" - symbolised by a pair of black aces and black eights.

"The Perils of the Warp" - with checkmarks and/or a kilroy

"The Lesser of Two Evils"

 

[Lysimachus]

While Hagga's Heroes is a cool reference, I'd prefer not to name the warband after only one of us? After all, even if he's taking a lead role at the moment, that could change as the game progresses?

 

Considering that most of the Astartes players are members of Chapters that went back to the Imperium, one could consider our characters as no longer being legitimate sons of their parents... so I'd go for Blackheart's Bastards. (Valid use/meaning of the word, so doesn't need to be filtered)

 

Or maybe Blackheart's Betrayers, same reasoning, that many are from Chapters that turned against Huron?

 

 

Edited Friday at 12:37 PM by Lysimachus

[Necronaut]

@Mazer Rackham I could almost hear the Seneschal restraining himself from saying, "You recidivist scum!" Bravo! 

Edited Friday at 02:38 PM by Necronaut

[Mazer Rackham]

1 hour ago, Lysimachus said:

Considering that most of the Astartes players are members of Chapters that went back to the Imperium, one could consider our characters as no longer being legitimate sons of their parents... so I'd go for Blackheart's Bastards. (Valid use/meaning of the word, so doesn't need to be filtered)

 

Or maybe Blackheart's Betrayers, same reasoning, that many are from Chapters that turned against Huron?

 

Not bad - how about Blackheart's Blackguards, which, with the pronunciation provides sufficient rapscallion undertones of anti-authoritarian disdain, and plain old-fashioned thuggery?

 

6 minutes ago, Necronaut said:

@Mazer Rackham I could almost hear the Seneschal restraining himself from throwing in, "You recidivist scum!" to the end of his transmission. Bravo! 

 

 too kind, too kind...

[Necronaut]

I am also enjoying the (perhaps unintentional) bleed-over from the OOC into the IC.

[Mazer Rackham]

5 minutes ago, Necronaut said:

(perhaps unintentional)

 

*Waggles eyebrows*

[Mazer Rackham]

Aaaaaannnd - we're done!

 

That's Part One over now boys, please refrain from posting in the IC, Mr @Lysimachus could you please lock the thread for the time being?

 

Gentlemen, thank you for taking the ride with us so far, I will be doling out reward (XP) and now open the forum to your comments and feedback.

 

Thank you!

[FabiusV4lcoran]

6 hours ago, Machine God said:

IT'S GOT TO BE:

 

The Crimson Permanent Assurance

 

"It's fun to sail on the wide accountancy!" 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm getting flashbacks to my insurance days.  I cannot.  Blackheart's Blackguards is pretty solid!

[Mazer Rackham]

1 minute ago, FabiusV4lcoran said:

I'm getting flashbacks to my insurance days.  I cannot.  Blackheart's Blackguards is pretty solid!

 

You, poor tortured soul, my condolences. 

[Mojake]

If characters get sufficiently drunk it'll sound like Blaggard's Blaggards which I'm all in favour of!

[Lysimachus]

That's a pretty crummy offer. Do a job for her, and she'll take away our ship and give us a substantially smaller and weaker one in return... no thanks. 

 

Edit: I'm assuming that is just the opening offer, and a certain amount of back and forth is in the offing?

 

I'd maybe do the job in return for the Iconoclast. We keep the Dredge.

 

(I'd probably strip the escort for parts and use them to repair all the damage to our cruiser?)

 

 

 

Edited Friday at 04:18 PM by Lysimachus

[Machine God]

Post edited:

 

https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/383296-bc-the-blackest-heart-part-i-ic/page/45/#findComment-6158710

 

 

 

Basically I was writing and @Mazer Rackham posted. 

 

 

[Lysimachus]

4 minutes ago, Machine God said:

Post edited:

 

https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/383296-bc-the-blackest-heart-part-i-ic/page/45/#findComment-6158710

 

Basically I was writing and @Mazer Rackham posted. 

 

 

For the sake of tidiness I've hidden the post. If you want I can unhide when we restart?

 

[Machine God]

5 minutes ago, Lysimachus said:

That's a pretty crummy offer. Do a job for her, and she'll take away our ship and give us a substantially smaller and weaker one in return... no thanks. 

 

Edit: I'm assuming that is just the opening offer, and a certain amount of back and forth is in the offing?

 

I'd maybe do the job in return for the Iconoclast. We keep the Dredge.

 

(I'd probably strip the escort for parts and use them to repair all the damage to our cruiser?)

 

 

 

 

Maybe we take her up on the offer whilst painting black Saltaires over heraldry and subtlety including a White Tigress IFF in transponders 

 

 

 

[Mazer Rackham]

6 minutes ago, Machine God said:

Basically I was writing and @Mazer Rackham posted. 

 

No harm done.

 

Just now, Lysimachus said:

For the sake of tidiness I've hidden the post. If you want I can unhide when we restart?

 

Sounds pretty solid plan! Cheers!

[Iron Father Ferrum]

Brimstone Blackguards?  No need to reinforce the connection to Huron in my opinion.

 

Swapping from a cruiser to a corvette?  There's definitely advantages to it, but only if we're focused on hit-and-run ops.  An Iconoclast is smaller and faster than any cruiser, and our crew levels would allow it to operate more efficiently that the Dredge, so fast-penetration raids like we discussed for Bounty?  Not a terrible idea.  If we can get the Dredge fixed up and re-crewed properly -- which is a massive "if" -- then we're better equipped for stand-up fights, but on top of everything wrong with it listed in the data thread, we're now missing a huge chunk of the bow.

 

Bear in mind that they're also offering access to gray and black market goods.  We won't have to pillage everything we need.

 

And while this is certainly not a thing we can do in the short term...but that's an Astartes strike cruiser in the hands of a rogue trader.  It was designed for Astartes, built for Astartes, stolen from Astartes.  Eventually, I'd like to steal it back.  That's easier to do if we're in her mistress' good graces.

[Mazer Rackham]

7 minutes ago, Iron Father Ferrum said:

Brimstone Blackguards?  No need to reinforce the connection to Huron in my opinion.

 

Nice, nice.

 

7 minutes ago, Iron Father Ferrum said:

There's definitely advantages to it, but only if we're focused on hit-and-run ops.  An Iconoclast is smaller and faster than any cruiser, and our crew levels would allow it to operate more efficiently that the Dredge, so fast-penetration raids like we discussed for Bounty?  Not a terrible idea.  If we can get the Dredge fixed up and re-crewed properly -- which is a massive "if" -- then we're better equipped for stand-up fights, but on top of everything wrong with it listed in the data thread, we're now missing a huge chunk of the bow.

 

Bear in mind that they're also offering access to gray and black market goods.  We won't have to pillage everything we need.

 

That was the intention. Doing the job for the Iconoclast is a fair exchange, and you can operate now, and could keep the Dredge as your lumbering base for fixing up later.

 

9 minutes ago, Iron Father Ferrum said:

Eventually, I'd like to steal it back.  That's easier to do if we're in her mistress' good graces.

 

Interesting..!

[FabiusV4lcoran]

18 minutes ago, Iron Father Ferrum said:

Swapping from a cruiser to a corvette?  There's definitely advantages to it, but only if we're focused on hit-and-run ops.  An Iconoclast is smaller and faster than any cruiser, and our crew levels would allow it to operate more efficiently that the Dredge, so fast-penetration raids like we discussed for Bounty?  Not a terrible idea.  If we can get the Dredge fixed up and re-crewed properly -- which is a massive "if" -- then we're better equipped for stand-up fights, but on top of everything wrong with it listed in the data thread, we're now missing a huge chunk of the bow.

 

Can we steal it take it back to the Corsairs and apprise Lord Huron of what's going?  

 

We have a lead on duty-free plunder.  SUrely we should notify Lord Blackheart.  

 

Plus...I mean we could easily raid this lady and claim we need to make it look like she's getting raided for discretion's sake.....

 

Then, eventually, we turn and take over her stretch of space to add to Lord Huron's empire.  

[Lysimachus]

22 minutes ago, Iron Father Ferrum said:

Swapping from a cruiser to a corvette?  There's definitely advantages to it, but only if we're focused on hit-and-run ops.  An Iconoclast is smaller and faster than any cruiser, and our crew levels would allow it to operate more efficiently that the Dredge, so fast-penetration raids like we discussed for Bounty?  Not a terrible idea.  If we can get the Dredge fixed up and re-crewed properly -- which is a massive "if" -- then we're better equipped for stand-up fights, but on top of everything wrong with it listed in the data thread, we're now missing a huge chunk of the bow.

 

Bear in mind that they're also offering access to gray and black market goods.  We won't have to pillage everything we need.

 

That's a fair point. Good point about the crew. We've got about 10% on the Dredge, which is around 8k... but 8k is 50% on an Iconoclast, so much better operating standard?

 

22 minutes ago, Iron Father Ferrum said:

 

And while this is certainly not a thing we can do in the short term...but that's an Astartes strike cruiser in the hands of a rogue trader.  It was designed for Astartes, built for Astartes, stolen from Astartes.  Eventually, I'd like to steal it back.  That's easier to do if we're in her mistress' good graces.

 

Very much this... one day... 

 

13 minutes ago, Mazer Rackham said:

That was the intention. Doing the job for the Iconoclast is a fair exchange, and you can operate now, and could keep the Dredge as your lumbering base for fixing up later.

 

 

If they'll go for that, I'd say it's a fair deal.

[Mazer Rackham]

7 minutes ago, FabiusV4lcoran said:

Can we steal it take it back to the Corsairs and apprise Lord Huron of what's going?  

 

If you want to, yes, of course.

 

7 minutes ago, FabiusV4lcoran said:

We have a lead on duty-free plunder.  SUrely we should notify Lord Blackheart.  

 

Same again.

 

7 minutes ago, FabiusV4lcoran said:

Plus...I mean we could easily raid this lady and claim we need to make it look like she's getting raided for discretion's sake.....

 

*Nods* Uh-hmm, uh-hmm.

 

2 minutes ago, Lysimachus said:

That's a fair point. Good point about the crew. We've got about 10% on the Dredge, which is around 8k... but 8k is 50% on an Iconoclast, so much better operating standard?

 

Almost like it was planned...

 

2 minutes ago, Lysimachus said:

If they'll go for that, I'd say it's a fair deal.

 

Gift Horse: *Exists*

Hagga: *Up to his waist in the horse's mouth* 'Where's the rest of it?'

 

 

 

Edited Friday at 05:15 PM by Mazer Rackham

[Lysimachus]

1 hour ago, Mazer Rackham said:

I will be doling out reward (XP)

 

 

Anyway, priorities. Talk more about this...

 

 

 

 

[Mazer Rackham]

2 minutes ago, Lysimachus said:

Anyway, priorities. Talk more about this...

 

Well, XP is a reward for play as specified by the rules for participation....