>>12545575
"His parent species, Canis lupus familiaris, and Man have fought, lived, and died together since well before recorded history.
It's only fitting he be allowed to keep that gesture of affection that so characterizes the nature of Canis."
*puff thoughtfully*
"Although I suppose I could ask a Biologis Magos about a testicle licking routine and appropriate 'wetware'."

>>12545575

You must defend the capital city

You have 5 anti infantry squads (4 w/ flamers, 1 w/ heavy flamers), 3 Anti vehicle squads (1 w/ rockets, 1 w/ meltas, 1 w/ plasma cannons), 3 defensive squads (1 w/ sniper rifles, 1 w/ heavy bolters, 1 w/ multimeltas) 1 Fast attack squad (Florencia's elite seraphim), 10 standard troops (3 w/ bolters and 7 w/ lasguns), 7 medical squads (1 elite squad, 6 regular), and 5 hammer units (You+Filigree+servo skulls+Tybalt, Farseer+Warlocks, Galatea+retinue, Florencia+retinue, Tessa+celestians)

The Retinues are all equipped with 2 meltas and a second sergeant with a power weapon.

You have 3 Fast Attack squads (sentenel), 6 transports (immolators, rhinos, chimeras, Repressor), Light tanks (basalisk, Exorcist), heavy tanks (4 leman Russ [2 Demolishers & 2 Standard]), and 2 super heavy tanks (Baneblade, shadowsword)

(you * technically* have more troops but they are going to different parts of the planet)

>>12545600

You can deploy your tanks in any of the colored areas on the grid. >>12544807 each color represents a different part of the city.

***

The city center (dark blue) is a single cluster of ornate buildings very close together. It is important that these don't break. They are tall with many floors, windows, and balconies. They are also very old.

Advantages: Stack troops for concentrated firepower. Small location at the center so its a kind of "choke point"
Disadvantages: low menuverability, flamers can damage buildings. Only room for Rhino body vehicles. Sentinels also OK. Basilisks cant see their targets over surrounding buildings

***

Inner City (med blue) is densely packed. The buildings are shorter and newer

Advanteges: Narrow streets make for good troop choke points. Very maze-like (we are assuming you know the layout) perfect for barricades and traps. Especially those that pour stuff from above. good place for basilisks
Disadvanteges: Little maneuverability. Anyone in CC will be at a disadvantage. Flamers can damage buildings

***

Outer City (lighter blue) is far more open with 2 story buildings and wide streets.

Advantages: Good maneuverability and cover. Good for flanking and setting up barricades and traps
Disadvantages: No choke points

***

Outskirts (lightest blue) Just starting to develop. Very open with some cover.

Advantages: Great menuverability and good setting for flamers
Disadvantages: little cover

***

Outside (green) unbuilt. Mostly flat with tallish grass. some trees.

Advantages: Flat and open nowhere for enemy to hide.
Disadvantages: Flat and open nowhere for you to hide. Retreat is almost impossible here.

>>12545575
REPOSTAN
Sentinels are often fielded in squadrons as scouts or flank support. They can carry a variety of heavy weapons and bring high levels of power and maneuverability together in one place. They are lightly armored however, and are susceptible to small arms fire.
The Chimera is the standard armored personnel carrier of the Imperial Guard.
It can carry a variety of heavy weapons in its gun turret, such as heavy bolters, Autocannon and Heavy Flamers, although the Multi-Laser is the most common weapon. It also mounts a hull-mounted Heavy Bolter or Heavy Flamer, and 6 hull-mounted Lasguns on the sides which can be fired from the passenger compartment, making it akin to a modern infantry fighting vehicle. It can carry up to 12 men.
Immolators The Immolator is a specialized assault/transport vehicle used by the Sisters of Battle in the Warhammer 40,000 tabletop game. It is used to carry small squads of sisters into the thick of battle.
The Immolator is a simple variant of the Razorback armoured transport commonly used by the Space Marines. Like the Razorback, the Immolator uses the same body as the Rhino armoured personnel carrier and thus has similar stats to both vehicles. The Immolator could be armed with either twin-linked Heavy Flamers against infantry or twin-linked Multi-meltas against vehicles, along with twin-heavy bolters
Rhino-The Rhino is armed with a storm bolter and, unlike many other Imperial vehicles, does not have a rotatable turret mounting. It can also carry a pintle mounted storm bolter.
The armour on a Rhino is quite weak, but this reduces its weight and allows it to travel quickly across the battlefield. Its rear armour is almost the same as its front and side, meaning any shots hitting from any angle have a good chance of penetrating. The capacity of a Rhino is twelve Power Armoured warriors

>>12545621
The Repressor is a variant of the Rhino, converted to extend the transport compartment and adding firing slits for the passengers' weapons. It mounts a Storm Bolter in a limited arc cupola, a pintle-mounted Heavy Flamer, and a bulldozer blade on the front to clear obstacles, such as rioting scum.
The Basilisk is a self-propelled howitzer. It mounts one of the longest-ranged weapons available to a standard Imperial Guard regiment, the Earthshaker Cannon. Basilisks utilize the standard Chimera chassis, but give up the passenger compartment and turret, leaving it with the hull mounted Heavy Bolter and the cannon.
Exorcist- The Exorcist missile tank fulfils the role of long-range fire support for the Sisters of Battle and Ordo Hereticus. It has decent range and varying armor piercing ability
The Leman Russ Battle Tank is a very basic and easily replicable design that retains strength and versatility while sacrificing comfort and ease of use for efficiency. The tank is very robust with a reinforced cast plasteel hull and turret, likely to withstand most incoming fire, especially on the forward facing armour. The side armour is similarly heavy, but rear armour is much lighter however.
The Leman Russ Demolisher is a specialist Siege Tank designed for short-range bombardment

>>12545662
Shadowsword- The Shadowsword is an Imperial Guard titan-hunter super-heavy vehicle. It is designed on the same technology as the Baneblade except it is armed with a Volcano Cannon. Much of the tank is taken up with the internal capacitors required to fire the weapon and is also equipped with advanced logic engines and targeting systems to make each shot count. Each shot is sufficiently powerful to shear off a titan's arm or leg but requires a good deal of time to recharge. For defence, the Shadowsword has the standard Heavy Bolter sponson armament.
It has difficulty operating alone due to the slow rate of fire for its primary weapon, and as such is usually deployed with lighter vehicles for defence. These other vehicles can also be used in an assault on a titan, for example drawing off fire and draining the titan's void shields before the Shadowsword delivers the killing blow.
The Baneblade Super Heavy Tank is the primary super-heavy tank of the Imperial Guard, and one of the largest and oldest armored fighting vehicles in Imperial service. Massively armed, the standard Baneblade complement includes a turret-mounted Mega Battle Cannon with a coaxial Autocannon, three twin-linked Heavy Bolters (one sponson-mounted on either side, and one turret mounted on the front hull slope), two turret mounted Lascannons on either side, directly above the side sponsons, and lastly, a fixed-forward hull-mounted Demolisher cannon, along with pintle mounted weapon and hunter seeker missiles

You may or may not receive more troops when you hit planetside. Determine a balance now and then reinforce when you actually have access to those troops

>>12545662
Well, one thing that we can be certain of is that the enemy will Superior numbers
Though, of course, it's quality that counts, not quantity

REPOSTAN DEUX
My ideas, somewhat organized.

Standard/Heavy weapons Troops to the Outer City as well. Chimeras/Rhinos/Sentinels as well.

BG Alpha: the Baneblade....it gets Florencia, the Immolators, the Elite Seraphim and the 2 retinues as support -and enough Chimeras to move them as needed.
They go to the Outskirts to hammer on stuff and rove around.

BG Bravo: -the Russes. They're there to counter anything sudden, and to bail out alpha or the Shadowsword as needed.
They also get Tessa as well for protection against infantry attacking in CC and for pouncing on heavy weapons teams.

The Shadowsword gets socked away in the Inner City as a crisis deployment tool.

Transports: -Battlegroup Alpha needs a bunch of them. The medics are taking a couple as ambulances probably.
The rest'll be parcelled to their squads, although....fuck the Codex -if we have any Repentia THEY get Rhinos so they can survive to make maximum contact.

Medicals teams set up in the Inner City, with the Elites located at the City Center.

Heh heh. Rodwen and company set up in the City Center as well as our nastiest fallback surprise.
Anything not assigned awaits deployment with us at the Command Center.

If we've got any demo teams or decent equivalents we can rig buildings to fall to cover retreats and to avalanche enemy units as well.

>>12545706
>it's quality that counts, not quantity
60 or 70 percent of our troops are either guardsmen or crewed by them....
Let's just hope the enemies' forces are lead by Abaddon. I think he still hasn't found his arms.

>>12545733
Rawr, self-quotation is literacy Wincest!

As for expected...well....expendables, check. Cultists, Blood Pact, whatever.
Chaos Marines, probably. Oh joy.
Demons appearing suddenly and at the worst possible moments -thank the GE the xenos are cooperating.
(On that note let's try to get Rodwen to use a rough tactical slate so if she feels Warp Rapage she can at least give a location.)
And maybe Armor, which really would be the least of our worries oddly enough as we've got plenty of anti-armor assets and favorable terrain for ambushing it.

Split the anti-armor forces up with the Tatical Sisters.
We are NOT fighting this shit like the IG. We're long on infantry and light on tanks so we're pounding with artillery at long range, forming mobile tank groups, and saving the Sisters for short range firefights at which they excel.

>>12545662
Basilisks should be deployed to the innermost ring
Set up snipers in the outer ring and inner ring of the city
Bog down troop movement in the outer ring by throwing barricades, man traps, and those crossed rebars of iron the nazis made during D Day

>>12545662
Sentinels should patrol the outskirts of the city along with our fast response teams- they should spot for artillery and lead the enemy into killzones

Flamer squads to outskirts and outer city- if there aren't any choke points we'll MAKE some goddamn choke points

We shouldn't just focus on restricting movement. We should set up a few streets as bottlenecks that we can use to trap the cultists and pick them off as they try to go through.

>>12545823
Understandable
And our sniper squads should help them figure out that wide boulevards make excellent shooting galleries.
Don't let them get to caught up though- these guys have got to be mobile.
Hrmm- can we get some locals to help? Maybe point out fastest ways between districts? Secret passageways?

Heavy bolters and multimeltas to the innercity

Okay, so, what's our battle plan?

2 standard troops with lasguns protect the medics in the back.
1 standard troop with lasguns gets to patrol each of the sectors currently not under attack.
The anti-infantry squads and the standard leman russes get stationed in the outskirts.
The defensive squads get stationed in the inner city, except the snipers. They'll start in the outer city and should relocate as soon as the enemy gets too close.

The demolishers are to be deployed in the inner city, along with a lasgun standard troop each.
The shadowsword is to be held back until targets for its main gun are sighted.
Immolators should be deployed on the outskirts.

3 ofthe medical squads have to serve on the front while 3 other always stay one area behind to treat the wounded. The one squad left has the job to transport the wounded from the front to the squads in the back. They can have 1 transport of their choice to do this.
The artillery gets stationed as far behind as we can while still allowing them to fire on the enemy. They should relocate at the first sign of trouble.
Florencia's unit will be used as a fire brigade, supporting our troops wherever they're needed.

i'll give you guys a bit longer to think

Alright, anyone still in the thread?

>>12546015
>>12546071
hangin' out.
Not much thunkin left in me. =]

I like my plan. It's simple. Division of forces for mobility and durability.

>>12546071
Yep, posted my wall of text in the last thread and it seems like somebody has already reposted it here.

Can we wire up det charges or mines?

>>12546087
>>12546079
Alright

So, strategy wise:
I think we should deny the chaos forces their superiority of numbers by mucking up most entrances to the city and creating choke points for the others- deny them their strength of numbers in the city.
Out of the city, we should be looking to harry the enemy- striking quickly and not getting pinned down.
The question is- how much time do we spend outside the city before it becomes bogged down with chaos troopers?

Hey, in the inner city, can we set up pots of boiling oil?
Failing that smoking tar, molten lead, or promethium will do in a pinch.
Hell, even raw sewage and rotting livestock

>>12546115
>The question is- how much time do we spend outside the city before it becomes bogged down with chaos troopers?
As little as possible. Our troops are either squishy as hell or very few in numbers, so an open battle won't go very favourably for us.

>>12546133
We do have mobility at the moment though

>>12546126
>Hell, even raw sewage and rotting livestock

That might give a nice health bonus to any followers of nurgle that attack us. I think we should avoid that option.

>>12546140
The only really mobile things we have are the Sentinels and our troop transports. Great for scouting but not for a sustained fight. I'd still prefer to have the walkers scout the advancing enemies and retreat after some brief harassment, leading them into our designated kill-zones.

>>12546115
Depends.
BG Alpha should (big *should*) work pretty well outside for as long as it can. It's composition is solid for smashing stuff, and it can coordinate with the artillery.
Everything else is city fighting in various grades, imho.

rolled 84 = 84

>>12546183
Kay- so, if we're good with the strategy then, let's concern our self with the specifics of troop deployment.

>>12546183
Maybe we could use our baneblade early in the fight, with a leman Russ and some sentinels for support, to keep the field even as far as smashing ability goes

>>12546209

My thoughts on that situation are:
>>12545733
>>12545751

Good new is we don't have to sweat "micro" much. The Sisters are plenty experienced and trained, they'll do fine of their own initiave.

>>12546225
Tanks without any infantry support are shit for defensive missions. We will not able to pull blitzkrieg-style maneuvers while defending the city.

>>12546276
alright, good point

alright what is your final troop deployment idea?

>>12546518
Basilisks to the inner ring
Demolishers to the outer ring
Snipers set up in the outer and inner rings
throw up mantraps and delaying devices in the main boulevards of the outer ring to block off access and create manageable choke holds
Flamer squads to the outer ring
Multimeltas and heavy bolters again spilt between outer ring and inner ring, though stacked more in the inner ring
Senitenls on the outskirts

>>12545751
>>12545733
>>12546518
I second these, along with parts of
>>12545975

>>12546518
ANYONE ELSE WANT TO JUMP IN?

alright then. let me figure out how this will go. need to do some more typing and figuring.

>>12547022
>>12546518
Alright, but you won't just draw from the last three posts, right?
Like, you'll include the ideas that came before them if they sound good?

>>12546518
any warhamm fans want to check over our troop deployment and critique?

>>12547454
Any battle I've seen in this quest so far has been quite a bit off from tabletop. I'd say we're much closer to fluff power levels and as you know, these can be a bit... fluctuating from one writer to another.

>>12547554
>>12546518
Yah, but we're working more with units now then anything else
Before it was individuals, so it would be nearly impossible to apply the general system to it

>>12547696
>>12547554
>>12547223

yeah i took everything into account. and it is mostly fluff based.

also my dice like you guys. i've rolled quite a few times and its just like "you've got to be kidding me... What should the bloodthrister just explode or something?"

I've switched dice several times. The enemies keep rolling 1s >.>

>>12547733
I think all that karma we gained while failing horribly during Tau Quest is finally doing us some good.

>>12547733
It's obvious we have the God Emperor's favor this day

Sister Callaphas stood at her post overlooking the throng of Pillgrims as they slowly shuffled their way through the shrine's causeway. She looked for any sign of heretics infiltrating the crowd -- but there was none.

Callaphas wished someone would talk to her, but of course, few heretics would be so foolish as to approach a Sister directly. Was it her wide, man-like face? Her scar? Or her swarthy shoulders exaggerated further by her armor? Or was it her great stature, standing a head above most men, heightened to such a degree by her soaring heart reaching towards the Emperor?

She heard that Sister Orphillia purged a cabal of heretics -- however, it sounded more like the Sister went to whore herself out at the first miner's pub she came across then found heresy one way or the other to cover up her misdeeds. There will be NO place in the Emperor's host for whores!

Just as Callaphas was considering Sister Orphillia's demise, she saw someone approaching her from out of the corner of her eye; a moment of excitement was lost when she recognized the figure as her guard commander. An inch taller than even Callaphas with two scars even wider than her own, the Sister was clearly her superior in both martial prowess and devotion. "Any sign of heresy today?

Callaphas replied immediately. "None, if there are heretics today, they are cagey."

"Which shall avail them not under the Emperor's Sight." A pause, and a hard stare. "None approached you?"

"None!" Callaphas replied sternly, allowing her bitterness transform into piety. The Commander nodded.

Callaphas returned to the Convent barracks, sniffing at the small group of resident Hospitaliers, who she suspected of debauchery. If not, why did they grow their hair so long, sometimes even past their should blades? Callaphas had a good, pious cut neatly in a line at ear-level. Thankfully, the Sister Superior had the good sense to keep the trollops way from the good men of the Pilgrimage.

>>12547788

... wut?

>>12547788
That's a cool story, and everything, but, um
This is a quest thread
Do you mind if you post it in a new thread?

>>12547767
Tauquest- proof that the dice are either broken on /tg/ or there truly is no god.

>>12547927
We also failed our "We'll be back" roll for Tau Quest 2 ;_;

>>12547959
Oh don't worry
Shas'o Will be back
Eventually

>>12545599

The farseer just stared at you, her mouth open a fraction. She seemed about to speak but thought better, sitting back in her seat.

You turned to the com, relaying a series of orders into it. You got a strong "Ave Imperator" in response, the red warning light inside the dropship flashing, signaling it was time to buckle in.

You strap yourself down after locking the servo skulls in place, the ship disengaging and entering the atmosphere.

Twenty minutes later, the dropship was landing on a platform in the center of the city, Battle Sisters of several orders posted outside, guns at the ready. They stiffened as the doors opened and the locking mechanisms keeping the passengers inside released.

Sonja and Elizabeth were the first ones out, followed then by a very disoriented farseer and her warlocks. "Thank Isha! Solid ground!" One of them mumbled under his breath.

Carol and Coral follow, yourself emerging last with Filigree having to take the time to release the servo skulls and Tybalt.

Confessor Jeremiah greeted you with a bow. "Hail Madame Inquisitor.

You had to struggle not to stare at his enormous hat. It must have weighed ten pounds at the very least.

You nodded a greeting to him, taking a look around. Scattered about were another 4 groups of Sisters and 2 groups of Repentia. You could only guess that the remainder of the planet's military force had been spread over the rest of the planet.

"Forgive my lateness inquisitor."

>>12548162

You quickly look to the source of the voice. Through the doors leading out onto the landing pad walked a tall woman clad in rose-gold armor. Her sash shone several shades of peach and coral, a pair of enormous feathered wings folded behind her. Her divine aura was a gentle rose color.

A Living Saint.

The sisters present moved to kneel, but she held out her hand, halting them. "Now is not the time for formalities Sisters."

The Confessor stepped timidly before her, his head bowed. "Honored martyr... You... You are not wearing the iron halo... nor the incense bur-"

She held up her hand, stopping him mid sentence. "Confessor. The formalities of what you would have the saints wear is just that. The halo is heavy and I must fly constantly if I wear the burners. I wish not to tire my wings before the time for battle is upon us."

The confessor hesitated before stepping out of the way, letting the woman approach you.

"Madame Inquisitor Delessa Kravos. I am Saint Evangela. Welcome to Ophelia VII. I regret our meeting couldn't be under more favorable circumstances."

>>12548169
I know it has become some kind of tradition, but could we at least try not to rub Filigree's daemonic nature into everybody's faces?

>>12548169
"An honor, Miss Evangela. I myself wouldn't worry to much for the circumstances of our meeting. For the most part, we're not ones choose to the hows and whys, merely our actions- is it not said that strife is anvil upon which character is forged?"
Chew thoughtfully on the cigar as we survery the surroundings.
"Sorry about the soliloquies- it hits me more and more often as I get older."

>>12548225
Fine by me

>>12548162
Judging by the size of his hat, Confessor Jeremaih must be a pretty important person

>>12548169
"You get what you can take, in my profession." Smile. kneel. "Honor to meet you, Evangela."

>>12548169
"No need to stand on circumstance- Dee is fine by me. Or Quizzy; I've grown rather fond of that one as of late."

>>12548169
"The pleasure is all mine. Please, forgive me for not paying you the proper respect but as you've already said; now is not the time for such things. Allow you to introduce you to my company." Step aside to give her a better view of our companions, also, light a cigar and start smoking.
"This is Farseer Rowden and her council, hailing from the Craftworld of Biel-Tan - birthplace to other renowned Farseers, such as Macha, the eternal maiden" Suppress a smirk.
"The Sororitas accompanying me are Elizabeth and Sonja from the Order of the Martyred Lady as well as Carol and Coral, members of the Order of the Ebon Chalice." As soon as Filigree appers:
"And that is Filigree, the most recent addition to my retinue. Don't mind her oddities she's...well.... Filigree." See if she has any questions.
"Please, tell me of your preparations."

>>12548162
Is he bigger than those we have in our inqusitorial wardrobe?

>>12548321
He's probably the Emperor reborn!

>>12548162
>>12548169
"Lateness? If anyone I'm the one late to the festivities.
I didn't even know there was a living saint in the Segmentum Temptus- must be slipping in my old age.
Tell me then, Living Saint Evanglyne, Confessor Jeremiah, what's next?"

>>12548397

(err... Rodwen TOTALLY doesn't mean virgin in elvish... nope... no it does not... not even a little bit...)

>>12548524
What does rod- mean? Only found ro-.

>>12548397

His hat IS pretty huge...

you waiting on us OP?

>>12548999
I'd guess OP's still typing.

>>12549074
>>12548999

I was quite literally dragged away from my computer actually.

Also, ohshit 999

lets hope thats Tzeentch blessing my dice and not cursing them

>>12548266
>>12548397
>>12548464

Saint Evangela nods to each in turn, though it seemed the greeting was a little forced when directed to the farseer.

"I really must thank you for alerting us to the situation at hand." She gestured for you to follow. "Canoness Galatea has already explained much of the situation. She too spoke of your acolyte, Inquisitor." She gestured to Filigree. "I'm sorry. It must be hard having someone work under you whose mind was twisted by a rogue psyker..."

She remained silent for several beats, deep in thought. "So what of Sister Esme? Be she daemon, heretic, or saint?"

>>12549359
>"I'm sorry. It must be hard having someone work under you whose mind was twisted by a rogue psyker..."

"98% of the time it is rather straining, yes, the unique insights she is able to provide the other 2% make more than up for it."

>"So what of Sister Esme? Be she daemon, heretic, or saint?"

"She clearly has been more than blessed by the Emperor Himself. If Esme will be declare a saint or not is a matter of the Ecclesiarchy. A daemon or heretic, however, she is most certainly not."

>>12549439
second

>>12549439

Evangela nodded, a faint smile crossing her lips. "I am truly glad she is pious. As for a matter of sainthood... I almost hope that it will not come to pass. The title of 'living saint' is far more political than is my taste. People expect me, a warrior, to decide how to spend the resources of the planet I am residing on. It is maddening."

She let out a soft exhale. "Forgive me. I ramble when I am nervous. In your opinion inquisitor, do we have a hope of survival?"

>>12549644
"Quite honestly?
From what I know the enemy has superiority in both numbers and supplies, while we're defending the equivalent of a giant bullseye with such weak defensive capabilities a stiff breeze could pierce most of our flanks, most of our xeno allies are preoccupied with other chaos forces, so they'll be no hope of ressuply or evacuation. If we lose this city, we'll quite likely all die- if not from the invaders then from the cleansing purge of my own ships extermanitus."
Puff thoughtfully on the cigar.
"In short: I've seen worse."

>>12549644
"Believe me, being elevated to Inquisitor is a very similar experience. One day you've been fighting for your life against some deranged cultist of the ruinous powers and the next you're supposed to play politics all day. And you've already made it on somebody's hit-list because your promotion was on a Monday instead of the usual Thursday ceremony. I find myself thanking the Emperor for providing me with aspirinum more often these day than I like."

>In your opinion inquisitor, do we have a hope of survival?"
"Of course, the planet would already be burning if there wasn't."

>>12549644
"You, nervous? You've lived through death itself and come back to tell the tale."

>>12549754
>>12549719
>>12549718

She grimaced. "To fall in the heat of battle is not so terrifying as to wait for the oncoming storm."

Rodwen made a disapproving noise, striding up next to the Living Saint. "I do not know how Mon-keighs prepare for war, but I doubt it involves meaningless chatter!"

Evangela gave the Eldar a hateful look, her aura of light flaring up slightly. "I do not need the opinion of a xeno. You have my thanks for the offered assistance but if you think for one minute that I trust you, you are sorely mistaken."

The Farseer smirked. "I couldn't agree with you more."

>>12550425

dammit google chrome

>>12550425
"Ladies, please. While I know that there is some, enimity, between our respective factions, we mustn't let that get in the way of the bigger picture.
We are united today, in our mutual hatred of the dark powers."

>>12550425
No more then five minutes and their already at teach others throats.
"For the love of- can we please not expend our energies trying to outwit eachother, and instead, focus on the forces of the ruinous ones currently set to destroy all that we hold dear?"

>>12550425
"Can we at least agree to concentrate on killing heretics and chaos worshipers for the duration of this affair?"

>>12550425
"It's not just meaningless chatter Farseer- it's a way of finding a way to ground ourselves, get a grasp on our allies, and blow off tension."

>>12550425
"Now, Evangela, please- Farseer Rowden is your elder by over five thousand years, show her a little respect. And she is as much put off by this as you are. If we're going to have any hope of success, we'll need to work together, respect each others opinions and advice, and, above all else, trust that our ally is not going to stab us in the back at the nearest oppertunity.

sorry guys I got slow all the sudden. little bit burned out with the thinking. i'll bbl i'm gonna take a walk and stuff.

discuss where you'll put your other squads of battle sisters/repentia and your living saint

>>12551367
Kay.
May just be me at this point.

>>12551367
>Repentia
Outer City
>Other Sisters
Outskirts
>Saint
Outer City

"Evangela, I know it is not my place to advise the ecclesiarchy on its matters but considering our chances to survive this day, may it be possible that the Repentias surviving this battle be pardoned? Both our victory and their survival should be enough to show that the Emperor has forgiven their crimes and sees them as His own again."
>>12551367

>>12551367
Repentia can open tanks like a tin can, if you can keep them alive long enough.
I'd say they d fair better in the inner city, where CC is inevitable
The living saint is, I think, best used against infantry as well, though she should be a great morale booster
As for the other sisters, I'd say we want to keep a few troops in reserve at the city center, just in case.

>>12556272
The living Saint is more of a harrasment unit then anything else

>>12556272
Well, they can hold their own in CC for a while if you mob them, but really, we should make sure to keep them harassing any vehicles
Mabye make a strike force out of them with the vehicle squads?

I'm BACK!

and GAWD-EMPRAH do i feel better

Needed a break from it all
went to an all Halloween night laster tag event
Dressed as a guardsman
shot everyone with a lasgun

>>12556579

I'd hide them in the city, or give them rhinos. Don't have them run around in the open. Have them go heavy armour hunting. A repentia can open a superheavy or a terminator suit easily.

>>12556579
The Repentia, right?
If so we should probably keep them out of heavy weapons fire

>>12556608

The repentia can't have rhinos. it goes against the whole reason of why they are in repentia.

Their logic is, if their faith is strong enough, the emperor will protect them regardless of the amount of armor they are wearing.

>>12556630

Ok, hide them in the city it is then.

Bloody uppity for a group that can't use faithpowers and don't count as Sisters.

>>12556272

>reserve

I like the way this anon thinks. Reserve is a great place to keep the other sisters.

but hmmm repentia...

>>12556591
Play that once in Sweden. Shittiest crap I've ever paid for, paintball is much more satisfying.
Anyhow, ready to continue?

>>12556642

all powerlevels are based on fluff, not tabletop. Sisters can't use "faith powers" period. :P

Also Celestine used to be a Repentia so they ARE faithful

>>12556649
Attach the repentia to Galatea, she seems reasonable enough not to waste them needlessly.

>>12556591
>>12556579
AWESOME
I DEMAND PICS

>>12556664

I know, I was just venting a little annoyance about tabletop repentia.

Well, the Rhinos aren't for their protection, only to ferry them where they need to be quickly

wait wait, is it a good idea to put the repentia in the inner city?
It's bad for close quarters combat
We'd be using the repentia mostly for lightning strikes on vehicles though

sorry guys i have just a touch of work i have to do. i'll be done in a sec

>>12557223
>i'll be done in a sec
Lies!

>>12558413
ah give him a break man
He's running this game pretty much 24/7

>>12558511
>>12558413

yeah i know i'm sorry. hold on working on my reply

>>12556688

They are not allowed to ride in rhinos. just... at all

>>12550503 >>12551244
>>12550910 >>12551217
>>12551004

The farseer huffed. "As much as I wish to ignore that request, Inquisitor, the wisdom in it is infallible."

The living saint agreed, still eyeing the farseer with distain.

You eventually reach a set of grand double doors. Upon entering the room beyond, you see the Canonesses, Tessa, Anna, Verity and quite a few other sisters you've never been introduced to. At the head of the table is Inquisitor Lord Alexander Littner. A hulk of a man, his head is shaved balled, his face furrowed with creases. Upon his squared jaw sat a beard that only the emperor himself could outdo. His eyes were constantly bloodshot, the veins swirling and twisting across his eye all the way to the iris. It was all that remained of a particularly bad occurrence of perils of the warp when he was only a boy.

All eyes turned to you as you stepped in the room, the sister's eyes going huge at the sight of the living saint.

The Inquisitor Lord was first to break the silence. "Madame Inquisitor Kravos! Saint Evangela! Xeno scum! Please! Please come sit!"

>>12559669
"Xeno Scum"? Well, that's a good way to endear yourself to a psyker many times older and more powerful than yourself...

>shaved balled

Got a superfluous "L" and "E" in "balled", sir writefag.

>>12560426

*facepalm* i know i know it happens when i type too fast combined with multitasking

I've done okay so far for the most part I think.

>>12559669
>>12559669
Oh joy
this is going to be fun, isn't it?
Wince at xeno scum remark, and find a seat somewhere near the cannonesses or the Farseer
See if Confessor Jeremiah is coming to join the fun
See if Evanglyne can actually sit with those wings of hers.
"A pleasure to see you again, Lord Inquisitor."

>>12559669
I don't think the emperor had a beard

>>12562640

yeah but just as a comparison as to how epic his beard is

>>12561367
>>12562772

Crap old quest name. Oh well

>>12562893
S'okay

>>12562533
>>12560426

As you sit, the Farseer takes the seat next to you, Filigree sitting on your opposite side. The farseer's warlocks remain standing.

The remaining sisters take seats scattered around the table in no particular order. Saint Evangela merely remained standing, flexing her wings and shoulders several times.

Though the inquisitor didn't seem to have any hostility toward the eldar in the room, despite the comment, many of the other sisters did, glaring hatefully at the xeno witch.

"On to buisness!" The Inquisitor lord crossed his hands. "The Canonesses have filled me in on the situation Delessa... This is one of the few times I truly wish we had Space Marine backup... Or any backup for that matter. The warp around us is completely destabilized. There is no way for any ships to come to our aid." He let out a long exhale. "As I understand it, however, the infected planets are being taken care of so chaos will be limited by the number of planets and warp bombs that it already has. All we need to do is hold out until our filthy witchkin xeno allies destroy all the portals for us."

He smiled pleasantly at the farseer, the woman in question not entirely sure how to respond. She probably didn't get sarcasm directed at her too often.

>>12564991
>As you sit, the Farseer takes the seat next to you, Filigree sitting on your opposite side
So we are a... a DOUBLE HERETIC?

Anyhow,
"You are correct on all accounts, Lord Inquisitor. The Eldar have already begun removing the chaos taint from the plants producing these infernal devices and intercepting the transports carrying them. It seems we managed to start a counter offensive much earlier than the ruinous forces had anticipated. As much as it pains me to say, without the aid of the xenos we wouldn't have had a chance to resist as effectivly as we do now." Considering the reactions of the sisters towards the Farseer. " I would also like to have every officer remind his troops that, although despicable, the xenos is a necessary ally in this battle. It would be a pleasant change if incidents of friendly fire - and for the duration of this crisis, friendly includes anybody willing to defend this planet against chaos - could be avoided completely. I would also be very grateful if the usual backstabbing as soon as the battle is over could be skipped this time."

>>12564991
What ordo is the lord inquistor?
"I don't know Alexander, we've been through worse before- remember that time in the Fa'run system, where we were practically up to our gorgets in feral orks, eldar corsairs, wytchlings and warp phemonena?"

>>12565831
Orde Barbatus, obviously.

Try our best to indicate to Rowden that she shouldn't be taking any of this personally, just more human tension easing stuff

I am imagining that the Inquisitor lord looks and acts exactly like Inquisitor Melvin from that one comic.

HELLO XENO WHORE
I REQUIRE TRANSPORTATION TO NECROMUNDA AS MY SPACE CADDILAC HAS BROKEN DOWN

>>12566599
XENOS WENCH LEADER! I require room for board and new valets.

>>12566616
Maybe I just don't pay attention enough but where do these comics come from? I can't find the things anywhere, despite seeing them pop up on /tg/ for years.

>>12567188
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Slut_Patrol

>>12567484
One of the greater losses to games workshop's faggot lawyers.

>>12566616

Really?

First guy that came to my mind was Lord Genome.

Admit it. He would make a badass inquisitor

>>12564991
>>12567645
Oh god I hope not

>>12565118
>>12565831
>>12566337

"Yes. We have had worse. And you're right." He looked straight at the farseer, and then at the tense sisters in the room. "There will be no backstabbing of the Eldar. We have a common enemy. To slit each others throats after we have attained victory would leave it hollow and bitter."

The Farseer bowed her head in agreement. "Naturally. We do not need to be lectured." She gestured to her warlocks. "If there is to be any conflict between us, it will not be my warriors who fire the first shot... Be sure to tell your warriors that the Avatar of Khaine is on their side too."

The Inquisitor lord sputtered momentarily. "Wait... You're sending one of those burning monstrosities to-"

He was cut off as a horrible screech filled the air, everyone in the room going tense.

It was Filigree that broke the silence. "It's begun..."

The farseer nodded, standing quickly and pointing at a random sister. "YOU! MON-KEIGH FEMALE! Take me outside. I must open the portal for the avatar.

Her hand tightened on the trigger of her bolter, but she turned and complied swiftly, the farseer taking a small device out of her robe, following quickly, warlocks in tow.

You could already hear the sound of marching feet. The sisters were moving to their positions on the battlefield.

(also where do you want to place the avatar of khaine?)

>>12568379
Put him in the outer city where he can wreck the most shit

>>12568379
"Farseer Rowden, you are infinitely more experienced with the fighting styles, strengths, and weaknesses of the Eldar in general, and the avatar of Khaine in specific- where would he do the most good?"

>>12568379
Either the outercity or the outskirts.

Maybe we should save the avatar of Khaine until when more heavily armored enemies take the field- that's where he shines in combat

>>12568379
I agree with the majority
Put the avatar in the outskirts or inner city, but try to see that he doesn't get nicked up to bad
Aim him at wherever the enemy armour is coming from

>>12568379
The farseer is totally ~uguu for us.

finally done with deadline work. gonna take a nap then we can kick it into high gear again

>>12570333
I'm off to bed as well, so no loss for me. Thanks for the quest so far OP.

>>12570333
>>12570175
Well, I don't know if we'll be able to overcome the farseers natural inhibitions against Mon'keigh

She must be added to the waifu pile though

>>12570333
Right, see you in a bit
Also, OP, after this chapter ends, do you want to consider maybe setting up static dates for the quest if the 24/7 schedule is taking a tole on you?

>>12570411

I'll probably just pause it and resume it on a 24/7 schedule once my projects are done.

I'm working on a reply at the moment. not sure if i can get it done before i have to sleep. I've just been so happy that im done with this deadline *dies*

I actually got to paint my Sisters and relax a bit. you guys want a picture?

>>12574624
Sure!
You do know what this means though, right?
you're going to need to acquire models to represent all the characters in game

Bump to keep this from falling off the board.

>>12574624
Bumping to see OPs Sister of Battle army

its school time now but i'm taking my computer with me. i'll reply once or twice during my breaks

>>12577541
yay
no pics?

>>12574881
>>12577169
>>12577667

Couldn't find my camera yesterday. I'll look again when i get home.

I *am* making a Canoness with a powerfist, but i'm still polishing her up and stuff so she wont be ready for a good long while.

Its not meant to be galatea though. You see, she'll have a neural whip, power fist, and pimp hat. Why does she need the powerfist? She has to keep her pimp hat strong to keep her bitches in line.

Also, I have a sculpted pedobear in my immolator

I know I know. I'm going to hell.

>>12578129
Yes, but you'll go in style!

>>12568927

The farseer paused before exiting the room, glancing back at you, thinking.

"The great avatar, while powerful, does not posses the strength to defeat the enemy alone. We must also remember this mission is focused on defense. I would request him to walk with your most poerful vehicle so that it may focus its fire on distance and key targets instead of dealing with the grunts who wish to destroy it."

hell yeah I will!

>>12578164
"Makes sense to me- we'll pair him with the Shadowsword then."

>>12578164

"Agreed. It would be a great help there."

Turn to one of the nearby Sisters

"Warn the Superheavy Crews that the Avatar is an ally and a guardian, it is not be fired upon."

Turn back to the farseer

"I have heard that the Avatars are immune to flame in all it's forms, is that true? It may matter when the Heavy Flamers start blazing"

>>12578164
Shadowsword or baneblade?

>>12578210
>>12578217

The sister grudgingly agreed, going over to the radio.

The farseer raised an eyebrow at your question. "Immune to fire? The Great Avatar made of fire. Your flame based weaponry will do nothing against it."

>>12578217
>>12578164
"I've also been lead to believe that it can do great damage to armored enemies, is this true?"

>>12578227
Shadowsword

>>12578308

"Good to hear. The Sisters will be able to torch the area near it without worry."

Turn to the sister I just ordered

"Relay that to the Flamer and Melta Troops, the Avatar is safe from heat, do not worry about harming it."

>>12578356
>>12578311

The sister does as she is told.

Rodwen nods. "The Avatar's power is unmatched by all but the most powerful beasts of chaos. Paired with the distance capabilities of your greatest tank, we will be able to destroy even the most powerful of advances.

>>12578308
>>12578356
"So, Farseer- how are you doing? I know, I know, chatting before the battle isn't really your thing, but indulge a mon'keigh. At the very least, I know this natter helps me not think about what's to come and instead focus on what's truly important."

>>12578437

The farseer nodded. "I feel nothing, Inquisitor. I blank my mind before the onrush of chaos so they may not influence me and my decisions are untainted by the rush of the fight. Now..." She gave you a small bow. "If you'll excuse me. The Avatar grows restless."

She walked quickly, her impatient escort storming down and out of the building.

An odd duck that one
Watch her as she walks off, taking dragson the cigar, subtley admiring Dat Eldar Ass
Somehow, I think it would be appropriate if a breeze whips up the tails of our greatcoat, to remind us that a storm is coming

>>12578544
Is Confessor Jeremiah or some of the other Sisters still around?
How about Sonja, Elizabeth, Carol or Coral?
Or is everyone to battlestations ?

>>12578640
>>12578614

A breeze whips up the tail of your greatcoat, the smoke from your cigar swirling around your head.

The Inquisitor lord slowly stands. "I think its time that everyone take their stations, don't you?"

The majority of the sisters quickly scurry off at his words, the sounds of bolters being loaded filling the room and hallway. The only ones left were the squads of those still present in the room. Tessa, Verity, Anna, Galatea, Florencia, Carol and Coral, Elizabeth, and Sonja, as well as Filigree, Tybalt, Evangela, the Inquisitor, and his retinue.

(god thats a lot of characters...)

>>12580096
Loads and loads of characters

Let me take a quick break and introduce you to some friends of mine. My models (found my camera)

just as an FYI the models with a blue ring around their base have "honors" meaning they did something amazing and epic on tabletop.

The models with snow on their bases are finished, or are just in the final touchup stage of their painting. Anything with no snow is incomplete.

My Canoness and my Living saint.

Blue Ring: It was during the Ghoul Stars campaign. you picked 200 points worth of stuff/units for your HQ. at that point I already had Strange Ammunition (+1 to the str of your HQ's shots) and odd looking armor (+1 toughness +1 wounds -3 initiative)

Considering my Canoness was now striking at initiative 1, I decided to say 'screw it" and just run her with a Mastercrafted evicerator and inferno pistol

The goal of this game was to occupy a building or else the lighting outside would turn your units into zombies.

The game was 4v4. My team was 2 space marines, myself as sisters, and an eldar ally. The opponents were 2 tyranids, some tau, and some orks.

The tyranids slaughtered the marines with the help of the tau.

My eldar ally was an idiot and didn't shoot at the orks.

The orks were nearly in the building and me shooting was doing jack shit

My squad consisted of 6 celestians, my canoness, and lots of wargear.

My opponent was 24 ork boyz with feel no pain and 1 power claw, and a warboss with a power claw

Fuck...

>>12580662

Seeing that we no longer had any space marine allies and an angry bug swarm was heading across the table toward the eldar and I, I decided to just say fuck it and charge the orks who were already almost inside.

I fucking love faith points. Also all hail the random number god.

At one point I needed to make 6 saves and so, with 6 dice in my hand, i tossed them in the air one at a time and let them land... 6, 6, 6, 5, 5, 6... Fuck yeah!

My canoness slaughtered all of the orks, though I lost all my celestians.

Finally it was just my Canoness and the warboss. I had taken only 1 wound and he had taken 2. I figured we'd kill each other since we were going at the same time.

He missed all of his attacks. I made all of mine. He failed all his saves.

But i'm not done yet. Oh no. The game was over and my eldar ally decided to be a dick and try to see if he could shoot my canoness to death.

47 regular shots and 4 star cannon shots. About 23-27 wounds I had to save against

She walks off the table with 1 wound remaining.

>>12580668
>>12580662

I gave her a new paint job because of the epic victory and drenched her in blood. (her old paint job pictured to the left. Yes I know it sucks. She was the first model I ever painted and I had a different brand of paint.)

>>12580662
Damn, I had forgot how ugly the current sister models are.

>>12580735

oh hush you i like them.

They could afford some prettyfying though...

>>12580793
Only the tiniest bit....

>>12580710

Angry transvestites?

These are my Sisters Superior. The middle one is non-living saint evangela. Well supposed to be.

Blue Ring: She got her blue ring also in the Ghoul Stars campaign, but she didn't have any special items to help her.

It was an awesome game overall. I killed both a catachan devil and the red terror in the same game. (the red terror in one shot because of my canoness having two items that essentially gave her a strength 10 inferno pistol)

anyway it was an objective game. we were tied for objectives. it was the last 3 turns. If Evangela died, then we'd lose the objective and the game. She was the only one sitting there... and was being attacked by 2 ork boyz, a warboss, 2 tau battlesuity things that seem to be okay in close combat and a hive tyrant.

For those last three turns, she sat down on that objective, lit a cigar, flipped off her attackers, and said "I'm not moving"

And she didn't. And we won.

>>12580855
That's not an army I'd want to fight.

>>12580855

XD thats why i repainted her she was my very first model. I had no idea what i was doing. and the only skin tones i had were enamel paint so it came out funny

>>12580869
Heh
Good show

An imagifer, heavy flamer, and banner bearer. Yes I have a banner for her. No i haven't put it on yet.

>>12580922

Forgot the pic. damn verification

My Celestians here are what i'm currently working on

Heres a pic of my repentia. Just got the basecoats down for the most part. The mistress is far more done then they are.

My Grey knights. I will use them as a Grand Master and Retinue when i dont run my living saint.

Because you see... I've got these BIG DADDIES to protect my LITTLE SISTERS *shot*

>>12580991

>>12580968
Noice!

And this is my box. Where I keep my models. But not my tanks.

I have 4 tanks total. 2 are unpainted

>>12581066
How much does the invisibility upgrade cost these days? I though you could only take it with squa

>>12581066
forgot the pic because of the mistyped verification thing

Oh look. Its that rare ephrael stern model from Daemonifuge!

My Exorcist and my Immolator.

My other two tanks are another exorcist and a Rhino (which can be made into an Immolator)

>>12581163

The exorcist is in the process of being repainted and the immolator is done but needs its bling put on it and needs a bit of red wash to help blend some of the colors

Oh! Hey there Pedobear! What are you doing in my immolator?

and thats my army.

I leave you with this picture of the newspaper that I paint on and am too lazy to replace.

>>12581176
Not the slightest idea.

>>12581176

so you guys like my models?

I know i'm not the best. I've only been painting since the beginning-ish of summer.

so i've been painting models for about 5-6 months.

doing okay?

>>12581216
Pretty damn good in my book

>>12581216
I really liked the way your vehicles are done, the finished immolator looks really nice. Compared to the grey knights, the age of the Sisterhood models really shows.

>>12581199

I had no idea the Sisters of Battle liked stashing Tarutaru for their own nefarious purposes.

>>12581278

>>12581278
The differences between their orders are almost as vast as those between IG regiments.

>>12581255

The immolator lacks the TONS AND TONS of gold trinkets i will glue on it at some point when I get around to it.

Its your guys's reply

Oh sorry, OP, you waiting for us?

>>12582268
Wat?
Oh.
"Well, I suppose this it then- good luck and Emperos speed to you all. I know we'll need everything we can muster for this battle."

>>12580096
"So, Lord Inquisitor, are you ready?"
(what does his retinue consist of?
Also, are we assigning them positions on the battlefield?)

>>12580096
"Well, if it means anything, at the very least we'll make sure that forces of chaos will pay for every inch they take tenfold. Of that I'm sure."

Okay, um, what does the Lord Inquisitor specialize in, what's his ordo?

anybody else out there?

bump

Bump.

>>12582624
>>12582442
>>12582419

(you cant assign the Inquisitor Lord a position. He's an Inquisitor Lord. I'll be placing him in a weakspot to increase your chances of success)

The Inquisitor lord nodded, slowly rising. "We best be getting moving..."

Filigree stood up way too quickly. "Wait! Wait! We have stuff for you guys! Its on the dropship I'll go get them!" She awkwardly scampered off, Carol and Coral following, intending to help.

Well at least they didn't HATE filigree...

they returned a short time later with the named weapons, handing them out. Florencia seemed to like hers a little *too* much and was practically salivating on the beast of a hammer. "I need heretics... I NEED HERETICS!!!" She ran out without another word, her retinue struggling to catch up."

(btw in case i didn't make it clear. The seraphim are not her retinue.)

>>12586955
"Okay, any last questions?"
>I really have no idea what to do now except begin the battle. Anything we might have forgot? Any info on the unique weapons?

Don't fall off the board!

>>12586955
Gah, we didn't hand out the weapons for everyone?
Thanks for catching that
Heh, Filigree is growing on these girls methinks

>>12587085
>>12586955
(maybe we should make a stirring speech, or at least give a few heartfelt words before the battle)

going to school. will post during breaks.

>>12589177
Okay

>>12587085

Filigree raised one enormous lightning claw high in the air, waiting to be called on.

"... Yes Filigree?"

She dropped her arm, frowning. "Should I have taken the emergency portal from the dropship? Because its just sitting-"

"YES! YES! BRING THAT!"

Squeaking in fright, the daemonette scampered off to take the eldar portal.

>>12588734

(if you want to give a speech, go right ahead)

>>12589440
>emergency portal
What's that?

>>12589440
".... I feel like I should be making some sort of speech right now, telling you all that our cause is just and our spirits pure, and all that other shit.
Really, you all know who you are, you know what we're up against here today, and you already know the stakes.
You know why we can't fail today- and you all know that your the goddamn best at what you do.
I'm

>>12589755
>>12589440
.... not really sure what will happen out there.
But I do know one thing- this alliance of forces, however temporary, represents the might of some the most powerful forces in the galaxy... Now, on this day, that power is to be tested. It is time put aside the petty grievances that have splintered us for so long. We will unite. We will stand together. We will not fail."

>>12589687

the webway portal for emergency reinforcements that the eldar gave you

>>12589755
"I'm certain, that whatever happens today, it will be remembered. If it shall be our end-well, then we will make it such an end as to be worthy of remembrance."

brb everyone gotta get up

>>12589440
"... Well, what are you all looking at me for? You expecting some sort of goddamn speech or something?
You all frakking know why we're here- to make the forces othe ruinous powers bleed. Make them bleed for every goddamn breath they take, to make them bleed for every inch they move, make 'em bleed for goddamn existing in the first place.
We've lost over fourty worlds because of these bastards.
..... It's time we made the bastards start to pay."

hold on guys i'm typing the battles up so things will move faster once we jump in. it will be a bit longer

>>12590767
Fine by me, gives me a chance to think up a better final speech

>>12590767
Well, it took five days, but we'll finely be able to see all the building pay off

>>12589440
"Well, this is it.
Look, whatever happens after this point, happens.
I want you all to know it was an honor- no, dammnit, a, pleasure, to have meet you all and worked alongside you."

something about letting a daemonette near an eldar webway portal seems like a bad idea to me. but what do i know

>>12593479
I think we can trust Filigree at this point
at least, not to screw things up too badly.

>>12589860
>>12589787
>>12589755

The Inquisitor Lord slowly stood, gathering his henchmen around him. He walked away quickly, the units following. The other sisters began filing out too, leaving you with Tybalt, Evangela, Tessa, and Galatea.

You all jumped as a deafening roar shaking the buildings outside as a flaming behemoth seemed to appear from nowhere.

"By my bloody hand... The enemy will not live past this day!"

It stayed there for a moment before turning in the general direction of the Shadowsword and slowly walking toward it, everything flammable around it combusting in a flare of sparks.

Filigree came back, dragging the gate with her, watching the avatar leave through the window. "Thats a lot of fire..."

Evangela was shifting nervously, "The Exalted Martyr... She is coming, right?

Galatea didn't respond, twiddling a bit. "She jumped out during our warp jump to stop the daemons from invading our ship... There must have been thousands-"

"She's coming back!" Tessa put down her screwdriver, smiling proudly. There was now a flamer attached to the underside of her new evicerator. "She'll be here soon. I know it."

Galatea seemed about to object, but closed her mouth, nodding once before standing. She gestured to her retinue quickly leaving, the celestians trotting after her.

>>12594224

Evangela watched them go. "I hope you're right Sister Tessa." She reached behind her and drew her power- wait... chainsword? Since when did a living saint use a-

She revved the blade, sparks flying from it as the teeth glowed white hot, the saint taking a deep breath.

"I approve!"

Evangela smiled. "Figured you might..." And smashed open the window, diving out, her wings snapping open, carrying her up and over the buildings.

Tessa nodded once at you. "Time to go to war." Her celestians whooped, rushing out the door, the Sister superior following casually after them.

You light up another cigar, gazing out the shattered glass. You could already hear the sound of bolter fire, a distant explosion rumbling through the building. You reach down and stroke Tybalt on the head, Filigree slightly annoyed that you were petting the Cyber mastiff and not her.

What will you do? Stay here and protect the center, or moving out and risk getting cut off and being unable to assist the city's center.

>>12594227
You think we're going to stand around and wait while everyone else gets a chance to wreck chaos' shit?
You best be joking- of course we take the pain to chaos up front and personal like
Worse come to worse we use the Eldars webway thingy to fast travel straight to the city center

>>12594227
I think the sisters and assorted guardsmen should be capable of holding this part
Besides, if we're doing our jobs right, there won't be any fighting in the city center

>>12594227
DO WE NEED TO STAY IN THE CITY CENTER?

idunnolol

>>12594422

*coughwarpportalscough*

>>12594574
Yes.
This is the critical ground. Let's hang out.

>>12595028
Alright, fine, we'll stay
Filigree's going to be crushed by this though

>>12594959
Welp, that's all the hint I need
We stay

is it just me or is this seem to be turning out better than the actual sisters of battle fluff?

>>12595110
Well, that's not to hard- most of the Sisters fluff seems to be comprised of them dieing in horrible ways to proe how powerful the newest enemy is

>>12595140

or to show how pure they are and stuff. The sisters do have SOME decent fluff. the problem is that their fluff has grown really REALLY stale and the sheer fact that they're used as cannon fodder now even moreso than guardsmen.

The only really "OMG AWESOME" fluff they have is Daemonifuge. Faith and Fire wasn't amazing awesome, but it was a step in the right direction.

>>12594227
"Oh don't sulk like that- there will be time later. I promise."

>>12595110
It's the Whooping Celestians.
They sound both zealous and happy, and that's awesome.
Plus giant Powerfist Cannoness, Living Saint Chainsword, and everyone starting at the Avatar spawning.

>>12595046
>>12595326

Filigree stuck her tongue out at you, stumbling back as another explosion rocked the building, this one sounding a lot closer.

With a horrible tearing sound, a small warp portal opened up in the room a cackling daemonette crawling out.

"What do we have here... A delicious inquisitor, a mangey mutt and..." She blinked, dropping her combat stance. "Oh... Hi Filigree. I thought you got killed during the initial test."

Filigree sniffed. "I'm not so easily disposed of Jianzhi!"

"... Heh... You got bound to an inquisitor..."

"Jianzhi..."

"Seriously! You have the worst luck! I mean... She's not even that pret-"

Filigree snapped. Letting out a screech she brought one claw straight down on the daemonette's head, dividing her into 5 vertical slices. The remains of the daemon collapsed with a wet slopping sound before vanishing in a puff of smoke.

"I SWEAR!!! GAHHH!!! RAGE!!! SO MUCH RAGE!!!"

She ran the next one through with her claws before it had even completely exited the portal, blood and gore splattering across the floor.

She was too distracted to see the second portal that opened, a pink horror slithering out. At least she had that one covered for you.

>>12595501

This is true

>>12595523

T.T chrome...

>>12595523
.... I am so glad we recruited Filigree.
"Tybalt! Play time, initiate protocol- FETCH!"
Start in on the nearest portal,
Signal the group of sisters on hand to start in on the warp portals

>>12595523
If we aren't careful, we might loose Filigree to Khorne.
Well have to ask her about her coworkers in the future.

afk 20-35 min or so. walking my dog.

moar time for replies

>>12595523
I don't thinnk it takes a rocket scientist to figure this out- cover the next portal, radio in for support.

>>12595523
Wait, does this means there's a warp generator somewhere nearby?
Is there anyway we can sniff it out?

Can we please pick up the speed of things?

>>12596160

No generator. as Filigree said before, Chaos wants to take this world by force as a show of power and as a sort of "trophy"

>>12596300
Kay,
so the the portals are just generating sponatenously at this point?
Ah, that's not good

>>12596300
>>12596332
Ah well, it's not like it's a surprise at this point or anything
Good thing we got that auspex on us, yeah?

>>12596300
There must be a lot of power behind those portals to sustain them on what's probably the second most holy world in the whole Imperium. So there's most likely a way to exploit this. Any ideas?

Also:
>12596300
>300
Sisters, what is your profession?

>>12596367
TO SERVE HIM ON HOLY TERRA AND CRUSH HIS FOES BENEATH OUR HEELS

I am now imagining the Avatar surfing the Shadowsword. Awesome.

BLARG I HATE YOU INTERNETS

>>12596947

... I now wish to see the forgeworld avatar surfing a baneblade into battle and the heat from the avatar is causing severe damage to the baneblade and making it melt and stuff.

>>12597017
What's the matter?

>>12597070

I just wold have been able to start working on my reply sooner if my internets didn't start acting like a bitch and cutting out so i couldn't reply.

>>12597100
You could type out your reply on a word document and then fix/modify as needed once you return to internetz

>>12595622

(you don't have a retinue. You just have Filigree and Tybalt)

You draw your force blade, getting the jump on the pink horror, cleaving it in two easily. Tybalt was on your heals, snarling as it grabbed another that was exiting the portal, shaking his head violently. Filigree was still maiming anything that came out of the portal, the energy gate snapping shut. The dismembered daemonette chunks that were falling back through on occasion must have been disheartening to the remaining squad.

You were about to give both your pets a word of encouragement when you felt something bite into your hip, a horrible, HORRIBLE smell hitting your nose. A plaguebearer had gotten the drop on you, the tip of its blade rammed into a tiny slit in your armor, though it hadn't been able to get the sharpened metal in very far.

>>12597140
(aren't there squads of sisters stationed in the city center?)
Try to see to it that the blade does not break the skin- kick thing back and blast it with our bolter

BATTLE MUSIC

take your pick /tg/

http://www.endlessyoutube.com/watch?v=QIrUebor7us
http://www.endlessyoutube.com/watch?v=3w4ljZvfA30

>>12597167
(yes. there are several but none in that room with you right now)

You kick the daemon back, blasting it away with your bolt pistol. The psybolt easily rips through it, the diseased flesh rupturing and oozing as it was torn apart by your shot.

The wound it gave you stings badly. It is a very shallow cut but made by a plaguebearer's sword, it could easily turn fatal.

You turn just in time to see more 5 more pink horrors exit the portal.

Tybalt goes for one, his mechanical jaws ripping it apart as he forced the creature to the ground.

Filigree, now done screaming at where the portal used to be, comes to her senses and leaps around you, her lightning claws coming down, killing one instantly and injuring another.

There are two advancing on you.

>>12595501

lo?

>>12597276
Try to kill one with your bolt pistol and eviscerate the other with your blade, kicking it back into the portal so the others of his kind get a chance to see the fate that awaits them. Hopefully they'll do like the daemonettes.

Do we have any medical supplies on anybody in our group that might be helpful? Is our servo-skull equipped to handle medical tasks?

>>12597276
Close quarters huh?
Time for us to put that forceblade into good use

>>12597986
We did bring an advanced medkit
Also, an auspex- we can use that to contact the other sisters in the area

>>12597276
Slaanesh and Nurgle huh?
I wonder where Khorne and Tzneetch are?
Maybe busy invading a different part of the city?

>>12598842
>mfw you ask where Tzeentch is while fighting pink Horrors

dont forget! OP essentially we get our dice modifiers by being awesome or clever. I don't see either one in any of the replies yet and i suck at writing.

Who was it who insulted the daemonette in the first chapter?

>>12599439
>>12597276
I did

>12599439
Should we have Filigree yell "What is a man?" at them, in daemonic?

>>12599581
>>12599552

write another epic insult using "what is a man"

that would be awesome!!!

>>12599622
Tzneetch isn't as easy as Slaanesh.
I mean, what should we do, start revealing plot twists?

We charge foward, bolt pistol barking, force weapon a blaze of power. We force our mind away from the wound, using years of training and willpower to discount it. We spit psycannon bolts at one foe, raising our blade to strike down the other.

"Ave Imperitor!"

Sorry if that isn't immpressive sounding, not much of a writer.

>>12599823
>>12599823
Maybe start shouting paradoxes and riddles-
Make sure Filigree covers her ears first

>>12599892
"If there is an exception to every rule, then every rule must have at least one exception; the exception to this one being that it has no exception."

>>12599622
"I suppose this is your "just as plan," then? Ha! I've seen more clever strategems from schola recruits. You've been relying on the same goddamn schtick this whole entire time- open portals on an unsuspecting world and wreck havoc. Well, here's the weakness of your plot- WE AREN'T UNSUSPECTING ANYMORE,"

>>12599973
"Look at you, you're pathetic- you call that jibbering chants to drive the mortal mind insane? Please-I had worse when my dog wouldn't stop yapping through half the night."

>>12599942
>>12599973
"Matter has mass (1st premise; true)
Matter does not have mass (2nd premise; false)
THEREFORE
All numbers are equal to 42 (Conclusion)"

>>12599581
>>12600009
>>12599973
"What is Tzneentchian, if not a miserable pile of secrets?"

>>12600187
>>12599973
"AND YOU FUCKERS CAN'T EVEN GET THAT RIGHT!
Protip: Do not leave wild cards like Esme alive- no matter how deliciously ironic it may be."

>>12600187 >>12600160
>>12600009 >>12599973
>>12599942 >>12599892
>>12599834

You shout at Filigree to cover her ears. She does so with a little difficulty due to the lightning claws.

You began shouting paradoxes and falsehoods, another Pink Horror crawling from the portal.

They glance at each other, rather confused, probably thinking you're some sort of idiot and debating if they should cut you down with the correct information.

By the time they realize you were just trolling them, its too late, your bolt pistol rips one apart and finishes off the other injured one, your force blade cleaving through the final one.

The portal undulates as if another is about to come through.

Through the door to your right shuffle more plaguebearers. You can hear the battle cry of bloodletters echo through the building. It appears that chaos cannot yet summon anthing bigger than these grunts at the heart of the city.

The daemonic wound in your leg hurts badly. You know its already infected. You'll have to take off some armor to treat it however.

>>12600384
>You'll have to take off some armor to treat it however.
Better now than when the proper daemons start arriving.
Use our comm equipment.
"The is Inquisitor Kravos, I'm at XY and requesting the location of the closest unit of hospitalers."
If they're to far off, have Tybalt and Filigree guard us while we use our medkit/servo-skull. Whatever is better.

>>12599973
Get on the Auspex, signal the sisters stationed here that we have trouble on our hands.

>>12600384
Good, we can handle wack a deamon- just make sure that we don't get more distracted.
Now's probably not the time tend to our wounds, at least, not while there are portals that remain open.
Scout servoskulls to the fore- try to see where the portals are forming

What's our equipment list?
I believe power armor
Force blade
Two scout servo drones, a maintance drone
auspex
Advance medkit
bolter pistol with psycannon shells
anything we're missing

>>12600384
Healer, heal thyself
Use your psykic powers of biomancy to stave off the noxious effects of chaos- seal wound, purge toxins, etc.

>>12600384
If the plaguesword was able to pierce our armour shouldn't we at least be able to get a shot of antibiotics through the same slit in our armour? This being 40k, I think unpleasantly long medical needles shouldn't be in short supply.

Also, make a notice to ship the guy who made our armour off to some inquisitorial death camp.

>>12600681
>>12600384
If we use our psykic powers to heal ourselves, would we need to remove our armor?
If so, then I vote for that

>>12600384
>>12600384
"Heh, sounds like some of your favorite friends from the Immaterium have joined the fight, Filigree."

>>12600384
Set Tybalt after the plague bearers. Since he's made of metal, I very much doubt him being affected by them.
We should probably follow the plague bearers to their source too- seeing as how we're already kind of suffering from infection.

>>12600384
Plaguebearers?
Good thing we brought a gun that shoots sterlizing heat!
Use the inferno pistol on those fuckers

>>12600671

power armor
Force blade
Two scout servo drones, a maintance drone AND a medical drone
auspex
Advance medkit
bolter pistol with psycannon shells
Rosarius
Tybalt
Psyker powers
pet Daemonette

>>12600895 >>12600696
>>12600681 >>12600563
>>12600465

You send Tybalt after the plaguebearers, focusing your psyker powers on the wound in your leg. The toxins in it sizzle away and you do just enough to partially heal the wound. You don't want to exhaust yourself.

For good measure, you have the medical servo skull inject some anti-toxins into the slit.

Another Pink Horror slithers out of the portal, Filigree taking care of it immediately, reaching her other hand into the portal and forcing the next in line through, eviscerating it as she did.

The portal closed with a crack. It was obvious to them that this wasn't a secure location.

>>12601481
>Another Pink Horror slithers out of the portal, Filigree taking care of it immediately, reaching her other hand into the portal and forcing the next in line through, eviscerating it as she did.
"That was totally hot." Try to make it seem as if this was something we didn't want to say out lout, we can't troll our daemonette enough. Listen for the nearest sounds of combat. "Seems like we know where to go. Filigree? Tybalt? Both of you unharmed?"

>>12601481
God bless that servo skull.
If he manages to survive this round of combat, he's getting a name.
>>12601582
Don't encourage Filigree- next thing you know we'll be strapped down to a bed with her slicing away our skin, because she "thought you LIKED this stuff,"

>>12601624
I'd guess she's smart enough to understand that we enjoy seeing daemons get killed by her, not the act of being flayed ourselves. But okay, less encouragement, more trolling.

>he's getting a name.
And a beard, we could name him Hank.

We are auto-saging.

>>12601766

NEW THREAD!!!! >>12601958

Come on guys