Let's LARP the Emperor's Finest - a wh40k IF

[lightbane]

Can you give us any indication on either how important that particular hive is for the whole black hold, and what armaments both sides carry, respectively the numbers of both sides of the fight?

hive? huh?

as for armaments/number : you and the mutants have roughly three times the number of the hullghasts and the mutants do have some good stuff (that they looted from the armoury) like lasrifles and the occasional chainsword. hullghasts do not use weapons but they aren't really human anymore and they're a lot tougher than any mutant. I think they're treated as borderline xenos/warp creatures? In any case, being 3-to-1 against hullghasts still gives them the advantage, not you. Not a big advantage, mind you, but without competent leadership the mutants would lose for sure.

That's enough motivation to help the muties to kill each other. IT's a win-win situation. Also, I call it bullshit hullghasts being dangerous, in a Rogue Trader RPG I played my Explorator single-handely cut to pieces a pair of Hullghasts without suffering harm. But then again, Explorators are quite easy to become walking tanks with the right talents (and Power armor).

 

[Baltika9]

I was voting for balls-to-the-wall, and I'm doing so now.
1.

 

[Baltika9]

-By the way, since rootbro's cock-blocking skills are better then Fuklaw's, is this a stormtrooper-grenadier in the making I see?

 

[Ulminati]

oh, this reminds me: should you survive, the rank you had earlier (which the inquisitor alluded to) will be assigned according to the capacity I think you've shown of getting things done, making the right decisions and leading the men.

Adeptus Kitchenus Mk II incoming!

 

[Baltika9]

oh, this reminds me: should you survive, the rank you had earlier (which the inquisitor alluded to) will be assigned according to the capacity I think you've shown of getting things done, making the right decisions and leading the men.

What was the rank? If you wrote it before, then I don't remember.

 

[treave]

The only thing we're going to be leading is a pack of mutants. Isn't there a regiment for these sort of thing, some sort of Forlorn Hope?

 

[Baltika9]

I didn't. that's the point ^.^

yes, there's a forlorn hope company.

Seriously, have you been leveling your cockblocking skills? 'Cause I've a feeling that if you have a daughter even textbooks won't be able to flash her.

 

[Saark]

In case this is unclear to you, the point root is trying to make is that the rank we will receive depends on the choices we make. Probably something along the lines that the higher the survival rate is, the higher our rank, and stuff like that.

 

[treave]

Since we're so Crusade-happy, I believe we will be granted the rank of Warmaster!

 

[Ulminati]

Artists impression of Guardsman Shepard:

 

[Storyfag]

Riight... Tough choice. 1 can lead to corrupshun, but also can lead to bettah wheaphooons! Really reminds me of the Exterminating Angels' situation with the improvised mobile fortress and stuff on Cadia. That... didn't end well. Therefore I'll vote 2, and implore you to do the same, lest we be corrupted!

 

[Jick Magger]

2. SUFFER NOT THE MUTANT

 

[Baltika9]

Storyfag, the exterminating angels were Astartes that lived in a universe where the Emprah died. We're a guardsman, private, that is currently in a black hold. Don't bawse your decisions on them.

 

[Jaedar]

So if we survive, we'll somehow get demoted beneath private?

1 Ogryns, ratmen. The Imperium uses mutants. Some hives and such even consist mainly of them(the lower levels and such). If they will fight the enemies of man and if they will bask in the light of the Holy Emperor then they may fight beside us.

As shock troopers, obviously.

 

[Stygian Lurker]

voting 1

 

[CappenVarra]

1) Stand and fight the chaos beasts; once they're dead, stand and fight the surviving mutants; once they're dead, continue down the left-hand path. What could be simpler?

 

[Hellraiser]

1) Purge the hold from the heretek filth before purging the the inquisitard himself.

THE EMPEROR TRULY PROTECTS!

 

[Zaan]

1) I wonder if the promise of being reinstated in IG was just involuntary bluff by Shepard or something more.

 

[Hoodoo]

1) What dosnt kill us only makes us stronger.

 

[Excidium]

1) Seems fitting for our guy.

 

[Azael]

Well, we did abandon our true bros to further our own agenda, the only reason for leading the bilge rats is if we think it will help us reach our goal. It might do that though, we are a witchbane now, a purger or heretics. Maybe we can be a redeemer too?

Voting 1.

 

[Kayerts]

Let's pour out a forty for our worthy witchy foe, and stuffies.

On one hand: We promised the mutants a chance to be Imperial Guard, so to make good on it, we should let them die for the Imperium. Our objective matters more than their lives, or even their redemption. Schafer has twice chosen the integrity of his mission over esprit de corps; it'd be weird if he decided to change that here on the Island of Misfit Toys.
On the other hand: It wouldn't be that weird, given how well his previous choices worked out for him. Character development!

My main concern here is that the mutants will either turn on us if we flee, or die too quickly without our leadership to meaningfully slow down the ghasts. If we could be assured that sacrificing them would actually accomplish anything, I'd say do it. As things stand, 1.

 

[Kz3r0]

1

 

[kazgar]

I'm still utterly for sacrificing the mutants eventually. I'm just not about to back down from a good fightan. Plus after we survive this we may be able to acquire a better gun from one of the fallen.

1! we've got a couple of good laspistol shots left in us to start with.

 

[Alex]

I vote 1 as well.