Iron Gods: TNG (Info and Recruitment Thread)

[Lord_Ikka]

On 6/9/2026 at 5:34 AM, Lysimachus said:

That sounds workable to me. Tacs get the opportunity to take Scout armour, Assaulters don't as a rule but I'd be ok with it? Would have to figure out the swap of JP (+ Assault Marine rules) into something more appropriate, but we can sort something!

Alright. My original idea was to have armor based on Deathwatch Scout armor (AP7 torso/arms, with a bodyglove (legs AP5) and a carapace helmet for the head (AP6). All covered with a camo cloak. This armor would have a vox integrated into the helmet, but not the anointment of obfusaction, auto-injector cuff, or interlocutor beacon, representing the Iron Gods attempt to make a good Scout armor but not having the tech to get all the bells and whistles. Whether that is a fair trade for power armor/jump pack is up to you as GM. 

 

As for the Assault Marine rules, gaining Stealth as trained instead of Pilot (Personal) seems easy and a simple change to Wings of Angels could work for special ability- 

Darkened Fury

The Assault Marine must make a Challenging (+0) Stealth Test. If passed, if the Assault Marine makes a Charge action whilst using this ability, he adds 1d5 damage to melee attacks. This ability may only be used in Solo Mode. 

 

For wargear, the only thing I'm really thinking about is a paired set of combat blades as a must for my sneaky assault assassin. I wish the power blades from Black Crusade were a thing, as those are perfect, but I guess if I get two-weapon wielder I can still do some damage.

 

Chapter trapping - Ossific Relic. +3 WS vs Imperial Guard. He has the finger bones of his first Imperial kill bronzed in a necklace.

 

Geneseed roll - 5

 

Feedback always appreciated.

Edited June 11 by Lord_Ikka

[Mazer Rackham]

Could the profile for a Wolf Scout First Founding p.59, be of any use for mechanics/ideas?

[Lysimachus]

Good suggestion. The other thing I was thinking was that, if you wanted, I'd allow you to take Acrobatics and Assassin Strike from the Raptors Chapter table? This is an example where it would be a fitting Talent for the Character, without actually linking them to that Chapter?

 

 

[Machine God]

On 6/8/2026 at 5:51 PM, Mazer Rackham said:

 

Dibs on Spectral Gale, though.
 

 

That's what I rolled for Ashmon. It is quite cool, little dust devils and trash getting moved around, like the initial effects of a Terminator's Time Insertion. 

 

My Librarian doesn't have it. He was subjected to the Rite many times but never with any success. 

 

 

 

[Lord_Ikka]

26 minutes ago, Lysimachus said:

Good suggestion. The other thing I was thinking was that, if you wanted, I'd allow you to take Acrobatics and Assassin Strike from the Raptors Chapter table? This is an example where it would be a fitting Talent for the Character, without actually linking them to that Chapter?

Oh, I like that- especially since both Concealment and Silent Move are on the General Marine Advances. If I were to take Acrobatics to replace Pilot, then I could purchase both Assassin Strike and Silent Move for 700 of my 1k starting XP. Then probably a Ws/Per/Ag advance for 200, leaving me sitting at 100 and waiting to buy the Concealment skill/Twin-Weapon Wielder (Melee) talent.

Edited June 11 by Lord_Ikka

[Trokair]

 

 

Settled on Agri, and in particular a extensive managed woodland preserve, kept in part so that the Planetory Govenor’s court and other landholders can enjoy some traditional hunting from time to time. Gerbrand Walthuz was one of several apprentice woodsmen to the Wardens of the Forest that manage the forest before being taken as an Astartes aspirant.

 

Since we were Blood Claw styling our neophytes I left the default mkVI armour in place and took the option of a Power Axe instead as I figured Gerbrand would be familiar with axes as tools so would take to it better in weapon training then say a sword.

 

Chapter Trapping as previously mentioned is the Marksman Sight, with Focal Targeter and Shadow Light, though I was thinking that part of the effects would be down to Gerbrand hunter background and the sight was more standard (as I doubt Gerbrand would have the tech knoladge to do more than some basic modification).

 

XP spent was a Perception and a Ballistic Skill Advance.

Rolled 7 for Demeanour, so Stoic.

 

Sheet is ready I think.

 

16 hours ago, Lysimachus said:

Side point, you might have noticed I removed Literacy from the starting abilities (as I figured children from many of these backgrounds might not really have had much opportunity to learn) so someone might want to go with Civilised World which gets it back. It might not come up, but if it does, you might be glad of having someone who can actually read? 

 

We can still attempt to read at half stat right?

[Mazer Rackham]

18 minutes ago, Trokair said:

We can still attempt to read at half stat right?

 

No, it's Advanced. You can't use it at all.

[Trokair]

9 minutes ago, Mazer Rackham said:

No, it's Advanced. You can't use it at all.

 

Right, reading is Tech...

 

In that case I may need to rejig things a little as I imagine that while Gerbrand is not a great reader he would have learned the fundamentals. A managed forest estate will require some amount of such stuff, probably similar to a farm where technically you could probably get away without for the work out and about, but as soon as you have to interact with the rest of civilisation you need some basic competence.  

[Necronaut]

@Lord_Ikka all Marines start off with silent move and concealment, unless they had changed as well.

[Mazer Rackham]

57 minutes ago, Trokair said:

 

Right, reading is Tech...

 

In that case I may need to rejig things a little as I imagine that while Gerbrand is not a great reader he would have learned the fundamentals. A managed forest estate will require some amount of such stuff, probably similar to a farm where technically you could probably get away without for the work out and about, but as soon as you have to interact with the rest of civilisation you need some basic competence.  

 

Thankfully, Literacy is Rank 1 General Space Marine for 200xp.

 

[Machine God]

14 hours ago, Mazer Rackham said:

A trench somewhere in Bumblebrush, Solios Nebula:

*All hell breaks loose, bullets and explosions*

'Quick, Derek, go and get more bolter cartridges!'

*Scurrying*

 ++++ A few moments later ++++

*Derek returns,, emptying the contents of a Tesco bag into the trench*

'Ok, what the hell is this?'

'Ammo, innit?'

*picks up small carboard carton* 'Derek, these are blotter cartridges!'

'Same thing, no?'

' my , life - '

 

Also quite dangerous... 

 

 

The illiterate savage initiate lost in The Crag stumbles through a door... 

 

"What you doing here BOY" demanded Talek Varn. 

"This is my private quarters, can't you read the signs?!" 

 

 

[Lysimachus]

@Lord_Ikka yep, Necro is right, you get Silent Move and Concealment to start. I'd be ok with Acrobatics replacing Pilot, though. 

 

All: I think we'd treat Literacy as a Basic Skill, I missed that it was Advanced.

 

 

Edited June 11 by Lysimachus

[Necronaut]

@Mazer Rackham fret not: our techmarine, at a minimum, will be a man of letters. Being illiterate would make reading technical diagrams, such as they are in the 41st millennium, a veritable nightmare, not to mention the fact that no one would have even the slightest clue how anything goes together barring rote religious... Oh wait...

Edited June 11 by Necronaut

[Mazer Rackham]

4 hours ago, Necronaut said:

@Mazer Rackham fret not: our techmarine, at a minimum, will be a man of letters. Being illiterate would make reading technical diagrams, such as they are in the 41st millennium, a veritable nightmare, not to mention the fact that no one would have even the slightest clue how anything goes together barring rote religious... Oh wait...

 

The worst that will happen if *you* bodge it, is you smack your thumb and utter the invocations of reproach.

 

If I b0rk it by even one word, your colon will suddenly become authentic, splendid millinery - by accident, and you can tell it's by accident as it doesn't have a feather.

 

EDIT: Playing a Librarian without being able to read is possible, but abstract - Psyniscience could do it, but that's on Per, which is a weaker stat than I'd like, but it's easily buffed and maximised by HS+Autosenses, so I've just bought Literacy in lieu of a WS bump.

 

Edited June 12 by Mazer Rackham

[Lord_Ikka]

9 hours ago, Lysimachus said:

@Lord_Ikka yep, Necro is right, you get Silent Move and Concealment to start. I'd be ok with Acrobatics replacing Pilot, though. 

Even better. I can now get some paired combat knives and actually use them together! 

[Necronaut]

 

Here's my WIP look for Ormenos (placeholder name for now).

 

A little backstory for your reading pleasure/horror/discomfort:

 

A small, wiry boy was selected from among the youths huddled about in the Great Hall of sub-level fifteen of Hive Tartarus on Viorda Prime to join the work crews maintaining and stoking the flames of the mighty plasma furnace which provided heat, power and life to all who resided within the towering arcology. Within a year he had mastered his duties and been made apprentice to the Chief Mechanic.

 

He had the knack.

 

At night, he borrowed the tomes of lore secreted away by the Chief Mechanic, himself a minor lay-priest of the Cult, and taught himself to read by the dim and sputtering light of his bunk’s lumen. His mind’s hunger for knowledge was boundless and terrifying.

 

In the following year he was cornered and overpowered by the Overseer, a huge, imposing and disgusting hulk of a man and he knew terror and shame. He, along with many other children were similarly abused, as his proximity to the Chief Mechanic seemingly offered him no protection. He soon learned that he had been sold, accordingly, by his would-be protector.

 

Later in that year, what could only be described as a freak accident saw the Overseer killed when a steam conduit unexpectedly vented, bathing the wretch in super-heated water vapour. The boy watched as his tormentor died slowly and horribly, his skin boiling and sloughing off while he howled for deliverance. None came. He fidgeted with the retaining pin which had been holding the offending safety release valve shut along with a coil of filament wire where they now resided in his pocket while he watched the man die. He eventually turned away and disappeared into the crowd. Both items ended up in a waste chute and were lost to time.

 

A week passed and the Chief Mechanic died under similarly mysterious circumstances when the electrical panel he was servicing unexpectedly arced and he became the grounding path of a circuit carrying over twenty-thousand milliamperes of current. His charred husk and melted workman's boots were all that remained. It was later determined that a faulty terminal coupled with the improper observance of the Rites of Isolation from the Motive Force, with an assumption of intoxication, had caused the massive electrical discharge. The metal filings which had been painstakingly embedded into fingertips of the Chief Mechanic’s heavy-duty insulative gloves were regarded as a contributing factor, but were judged to be the result of carelessness and an over-fondness of amasec. The investigation was concluded promptly, and the Conclave of Magi installed new, more competent management over the hive’s power plant after servitorizing the previous leadership following such an alarming up-tick in workplace fatalities and apparent complacency.

 

Three days later, a towering, dark-eyed stranger swathed in gray approached the boy and he was never seen by the hive again.

Edited June 19 by Necronaut

[Mazer Rackham]

So...

 

I'm Thunder McThorsson,

Ikka is Blank Widow,

Necro is Ferric Man,

Tro is Captain Terra,

AT is Hawk's Eye (Doctor and archer version, depending on Alan Alda)

and MG is likely a Hulking Dude.

 

Gentlemen, welcome to Revengers: Age of Bolt On.

[Necronaut]

@Mazer Rackham this checks out.

[Necronaut]

@Mazer Rackham Age of Bolt On or Age of Boltgonne?

[Mazer Rackham]

22 minutes ago, Necronaut said:

@Mazer Rackham Age of Bolt On or Age of Boltgonne?

 

Yes.

[Lord_Ikka]

Looking like - 

Assault Marine (Scout Striker)

Demeanor - Studious

Stats (after adjustments)

WS 54

BS 43

S 41 (82)

T 38 (76)

Ag 52

Int 45

Per 46

WP 37

Fel 32   (Even with a reroll I had rolled two 2s.... )

 

Weapons - Bolt pistol, chainsword, 2x combat knives, 3x frag/3x krak grenades

Gear - Iron Gods Scout Armor (as DW with carapace helmet + vox but without the Anointment/Cuff/Beacon), Ossific Relic trapping, Camo-cloak

XP expenditures - Acrobatics Skill (trained) 100, Assassin Strike 400, Two-weapon Wielder (Melee) 500

 

@Lysimachus Was the modified Assault Marine ability ok, or did you want me to select something else? Other than that, I think the character is good to go barring any weird Req stuff we get.

Edited June 15 by Lord_Ikka

[Machine God]

4 hours ago, Lord_Ikka said:

 

Fel 32   (Even with a reroll I had rolled two 2s.... )

 

@Lysimachus

 

If you rolled two 2's it would be FEL 34.

 

 

 

 

 

[Lord_Ikka]

1 hour ago, Machine God said:

 

If you rolled two 2's it would be FEL 34.

 

 

 

 

 

Out of nine 2d10 rolls, the result of two of the rolls was 2. 

[Lysimachus]

7 hours ago, Lord_Ikka said:

 

@Lysimachus Was the modified Assault Marine ability ok, or did you want me to select something else?

 

That's fine by me! 

[Lord_Ikka]

Any particular naming conventions among the Iron Gods?