some ART by Another_Drawfag!

some ART by Datver

some more ART by Datver, a work in progress of his idea for a menu.
The buttons are obvious placeholders he borrowed from me.

>>16711571
You have my pen.

Which is incapable of coding, but can certainly do a bit of writing for the "taste." Sign me up for this noble endeavour.

>>16711628
See the link to the forum.

Some ART by ME

>>16711571
>We are still aiming for a 1.0 by new year.

That's pretty ambitious. I already love the Chapter Master dev team forever, but I'll love them even more if I can have it as a Christmas present.

Looking forward to more news.
Good luck!

>>16711697
Probably a late christmas present then, but yeah, last I checked the coders are still thinking that's feasible. Most even think there shouldn't be a problem with it having art instead of the previous prediction of a pure ascii interface. But we'll see. I can't claim to know the ways of the techpriests.

IF you can code: Not even close
IF you can draw: Horrible at drawing
IF you can write: Can do but probably not to your standards
IF you can think: Not sure what you mean
IF you can make music: Nope
IF you can check fluff accuracy: Know some fluff but not enough
Feels batman

>>16711787
>IF you can think: Not sure what you mean
If you can come up with ideas about anything. If you have ideas about what it should be like. If you can weigh options and state opinions.

Basically, we still need, and always will need, ideas.

>>16711571

IF you can code: Does having an html manual count? hoho
IF you can draw: Not nearly as well as my pal who's already drawing for CM.
IF you can write: Probably not
IF you can think: I can probably come up with ideas but not with any frequency and I'd probably forget to write any down.
IF you can make music: NOPE.avi
IF you can check fluff accuracy: Oh baby I am the biggest neckbeard for this jorb.

coder here, already on the team. current playable build can be found here: http://tgchaptermaster.freeforums.org/watcher-s-build-t79.html

head over to forums and start contribootin'

>>16712166
AWESOME!

DL'ing right now.
Dev team has acquired Brofist.

so, this is not bad, though functional play is not really there, it is a VERY good start.
>/tg/ getting shit the FUCK done!

>>16712342

What's more is that we haven't had one of those fun-devouring retards in these threads lately! Glorious!

>>16712654
Right, sorry.

The "playable" version that exists doesn't even let you make a chapter really. There's no game there, just a couple generators stuck together. It's not like we really needed an interface to open different .exes for us.

>>16712654
Well, pretty clearly, they're turning out to be wrong. At this point it looks very much like this game will have a released version, although things are quieting down from the breakneck speed of discussion we had in the first week or two, there is now code being written.

>>16712690
Surprise, that's what a 0.2 kind of looks like.

>>16712696
>.2
Oh, it's a new version since I last got it. Downloading now to assess progress.

>>16712765
At least, as far as I know, it's 0.2. May be misremembering. The point stands.

>>16711896
Please note that I'm not a huge 40k guy, so some of this might not be very fluffy.

>First time playing
>Random chapter
>Three turns after start the IG requests assistance against an Ork WAAAGH
>Shoot my way through the Ork fleet, make planetfall
>Send 3 companies
>Have some amount of trouble due to the large number of Orks and my noobness
>Still win
>"YOUR REPUTATION WITH THE IMPERIAL GUARD HAS INCREASED!"
>Feel like a boss

>200 mostly uneventful years later
>Get a message that the forces of Chaos are attacking a forge world that is a major part of my supply chain
>Send 3 companies; leave the rest in my home system
>Arrive at forge world
>Start tearing into Chaos
>Ultra Smurfs request to borrow some of my marines for something-or-other
>...fine, send 2 companies with them
>New message: Chaos forces have entered my home system
>OH FUCK!
>Chaos fleet engages my fleet
>Rush the 3 companies that are currently fighting
>Ask every nearby Space Marine chapter for help, as chaos fleet is HUGE
>My fleet is losing to the fuckhuge Chaos fleet
>FUCK!
>Beat back to my homeworld
>None of my 5 absent companies will make it back in time
>OHFUCKOHFUCKOHFUCK WHATDOIDO WHATDOIDO WHATDOIDO?!
>Homeworld is about to be taken
>SUDDENLY, SALAMANDERS!
>Between the remnants of my own 5 companies and the forces that the Salamanders deployed, we manage to force the Chaos fleet into a retreat
>Brofist those Salamander bros

After that I decided to break codex and raise my forces to 12 companies of marines.

http://tgchaptermaster.freeforums.org/post560.html#p560

New release tonight, 0.0.0.5. Company generation, some combat code is in, but not active QUITE yet, thats next. Please reply if you find bugs, I'm sure there are plenty :)

>>16712941z

Yay! Our dreams are coming to fruition!

>>16712941

I was planning on watching porn tonight. This wins, hands-down.

>>16712941

>Dat Introscreen
>Dat music
>Dat Exterminatus exit
>Dat ability to make 15 companies with 3000 marines each with heavy bolters, plasma guns, and predators with assorted rhino companies with meltas.


I love you.

>>16712941

All right, some initial bugs I found. Entering a search returns with a javascript error.

Companies don't seem to save when you back out of the screen and come back.

>>16713045

Sorry, I meant, entering a search on the planet screen.

>>16713053
Many thanks brother!

>Huh, this actually got made?
>Download
>Run
>Five sectors with dozens of planets
You beautiful motherfuckers.

>>16712941

I have 1 million marines spread out over 10 companies.

Come at me bro.

>>16711609
THIS! Motherfucking THIS! I want it to be the art style of this game so bad

>>16713070

Also, there doesn't seem to be any data for Imperial Guard presence on planets. Or am I missing that? Things I see:

Adeptus Arbites, Adeptus Astra Telepathica, Adeptus Mechanicus, Administratum, Adeptus Ministorium, Inquisition, and Departo Munitorium

>>16712941
>The Music
Doesn't sound very 40k-ich.

>homeworld is something akin to present day
>it is my only recruiting world
>get fuck-all recruits, those that are recruited have terrible stats
>go crusading with my Measly Marines
>encounter death world, would make fantastic recruiting world
>death world is not on planet-agenda for crusade
>fuck that
>invade
>THE CODEX DOES NOT SUPPORT THIS ACTION
>nearby space marine allied forces are smashed and broken without reinforcements thanks to me
>enemy is still wounded
>finish them off
>YOUR REPUTATION WITH THE THUNDER GIANTS HAS DROPPED SIGNIFICANTLY (-70)
>a full five of their companies were destroyed

>many years later
>tyranid invasion
>only nearby space marines are the Thunder Giants
>ask for help
>chapter serf messengers never come back
>fuck
>use superior authority as Chapter Master, basically conscript nearby Imperial guard to help
>they're all mad as fuck
>the worlds they were tasked on are destroyed
>the fight begins
>start losing my precious death world
>pull out completely, leave the Imperial Guard to their fate
>two billion guarsmen are killed
>meh
>go back to homeworld
>riots
>huge fucking riots everywhere
>oh my go look at all these riots
>why can't I hold all these revolting peasants?
>begin purge
>halfway through purge tyranid fleet shows up again
>fuck FUCK
>destroyed completely, no warning, no time to pull out

>>16712941
If you forget to specify a number of marines when creating a new company, you get an unhandled exception.
If you specify too many weapon packs, it doesn't make the company (as proper) but it also doesn't say why it's not making the company.

> Random DA sucessor
Things are going pretty good, start on bitch'n agri-world that never shows any serious sign of mutation , heresy, xenos, etc.
>Call of the Fallen, Ohboyherewego.avi
Decide to send first company alone, giving my myrmidons the bossest gear I can afford to deck em out in.

The rest of the system seems ok, at cautious first probings. looks like we got some minor orks in the furthest planet, but they is feral. I would feel bad about killing them before they can waag, so I will wait for a warboss to show up.
Couple of dead worlds, forgeworld, finish exploring the system just as I get field report, Fallen have fallen, everything seems ok...
>All of the limes fall out of my hands
Mech show up to demand the relic that I discovered back on forgeworld, but my only good ID "tag team" outside my main squad is in my raven wing. They have failed to ID the thing so far, having only passed it through the chaplain and apothecary. That guy has to get his useless thumbs in every pie, never identifies anything.
I can't hand the artifact over because I just gave it to my librarian who I forgot to tell to bring back to ID. The Mechs begin indictment ...oh good.
>][
>asshole clench
Ordo Hereticus Officer of meaningless rank named O'Hare petitions for assistance...oh thank gawd. Send my 5th and 6th on some wild goose chase in a flood of relief, but then the jew in me kicks in and I have 7th and 8th follow and run ][ check on this CIA man.
>Con't

>Wtf is this?
>Download
>Attempt To Run
>.NET Initialization Error

God DAMNIT!

>I would feel bad about killing them before they can waag, so I will wait for a warboss to show up.

D'awww

>>16712941
>>16712941
>file you are looking for cannot be found
Godamnit to all hell

>>16716506
Ruh-roh, Raggy

>>16713103
Needs more ominous choirs/church music/chanting.

Bump.

Hey guys not so much on topic but the green text threads have gotten me thinking.

Scenario: Space marine chapter is set up at the red mark. Warp storm pictured pops up and cuts them off from the Imperium for an extended period. What would standard procedure be? Would it be appropriate to expand beyond Codex chapter size to help push outwards into unconquered territory?

Lastly it becomes possible to send the occasional vessel through Eldar territory back to the Imperium, how does this affect things? Would they bother sending a crusade fleet to conquer a stable corridor of space and link up with the trapped pocket?

>>16719715
There are two Chapters that operate all but exclusively outside the Astronomican. It's not unprecedented.

>>16721023
The Death Spectres are one right? What's the other one?

>>16721516
Carcharadons?
The Marines Errant often contribute to the Extragalactic Expeditions, which presumably go outside the astronomican.

>>16719715
Standard procedure? Break with the codex? The codex IS standard procedure. Imperials stand by tradition and dogma until they are dead!

>>16722096
It's standard procedure when there is a segmentum command to get IG running around doing shit.

Bump.

Keep it going guys. Great stuff here.

>>16719715

Space Marines are well-equipped for operating independently of the Imperium proper, but their behaviour would depend a lot on the views of their own leadership. They already have authority to administer their homeworld and to battle the enemies of humanity, and some would draw the line there: hold fast, wait for the storms to clear, defend their world until then. Others might seek to agressively crusade against the alien and the rogue elements of humanity, seeking to destroy rather than conquer worlds as they can be recolonized once contact with Terra is restored. Still others might attempt to conquer the worlds and implement Imperial-style rule there... call for governors who supply tithes and troops to further expand borders while swearing fealty to High Lords they have not yet met, and still other Astartes would rule the worlds directly, with themselves as governors and the military and economic resources of the worlds serving their chapter's needs.

>>16726184

None of these would expressly violate the dictates of the Codex Astartes, as they've been undertaken by canon chapters at various points even within contact with Terra. Expansion of their numbers beyond 1,000 battle brothers however WOULD directly violate the Codex, and the chapter would need a proper motivation. If they felt restricted by the Codex before the storms, then they'd drop it like a hat. If they were devoted to it then they would cling to it unwaveringly even as circumstances changed. If more pragmatic, then it would depend on their approach to things in general... the more active and far-reaching a campaign they conduct, the more Astartes would be needed, but at the same time the more worlds are contributing to Guard-like forces that can participate in battles and reduce the need for battle-brothers to be everywhere at once. Being able to mount an extended campaign also depends on resources available... while chapters maintain significant productive capacity, they cannot build everything, particularly when it comes to some archaeotech systems on void ships, which still come from the Mechanicus... and everything they build themselves still needs a vast array of different resources, not all of which may be available. Six thousand marines is not so great an investment when only one in ten can be clad in power armour after all, better to conscript all the would-be-initiates into auxilia and throw them into battle with easily-manufactured lasguns.

The personality of the chapter and its chapter master at the time would be the major factor in determining exactly what occurred.

>>16726193
As for finding a corridor, that depends on a number of factors. Loss of a marine chapter to warp storms is not unheard of, and the Imperium will not necessarily mount a campaign of search and recovery... if neutral they might certainly look into it a little, if the chapter had political allies in the right places such as other chapters/Navy admirals/Inquisitors calling for them to be recovered then the effort might be far more extensive. Enemies in those same places could mean the Imperium writes them off on a scrap of paper soon forgotten in the vast filing system of the Administratum. If there were worlds in the area that solved the chapter's difficulties producing equipment, such as mining worlds producing rare minerals or forge worlds, the Mechanicus would be very vocal about recovering those, and the Astartes being recovered would be a fringe benefit.

From your map, it would seem likely that both the chapter within the storms and the Imperium without would take the obvious route of launching a crusade against the Eldar sitting at the mouth of that corridor... whether Exodites or Corsairs, the xenos could not stand up to a sustained assault by Imperial forces from both sides.

Bumpsies.

>>16726193
>>16726202
>>16726184
Thanks. Always have trouble envisioning how the politics of getting stuff done in 40k work.
Always herp so hard I derp trying to come up with it on my own.

>>16728102
It's hard to herp harder than the Imperium. It's an age of incompetence, obedience and superstition.

>>16728187

Don't forget rampant hypocrisy and Byzantine politics

>>16729149
Oh, not for a moment.
The Imperium is inconsistent, archaic AND anachronistic, diverse, but generally horrid.

>Custom chapter, Emp's Light
>10th Black Crusade, deploy 3 companies
>save Ordo Hereticus sisters unit via drop pod assault
>land on wrong side of battle to ensure inquisitor is killed by sorceror before we can get to them
>Fight alongside surviving sisters for remainder of campaign
>Devastators providing cover fire, Assault Marines break enemy positions with melta bombs
>Sisters repentia charge into hole in enemy line
>Rinse and repeat across 2 planets

L1st EL Company chaplain has defeated a Chaos champion!
>Turns out we destroyed support army headed to Medusa
>Chaos force at Medusa are routed by Iron Hands!
>Canoness gifts Eviscerators to Company
>Iron Hands learn of battle and gift 1 set of bionic wargear

>>16732264
>Ultras start to notice deviation from Codex
>Have scouts assigned to each company instead of a seperate company, each company is larger
>Not a big deal because I only have 4 companies atm
>"Marneus Calgar, Chapter Master of the Ultramarines, has invited you to attend his court on Macragge"
>Time limit: 20 turns
>ohboyherewego
>gain rep for piety and ferocity in battle, lose rep for codex deviations
>Marneus Calgar suggests you change your chapter name to Emperor's Martyrs in light of your above average dead ratio in battles
>Youfunnyguyikillyoulast.jpg

>Send Honour Guard to attend military parade on a nearby world (their Guard regiment acted as decent meatshields for us once)
>Evidence found of xeno corruption
>Order Honour guard to have a "chat" with the ruler-the local PDF was depleted when they converted all those guys to Guard to help us, so they should get away with it
>Suddenly, GENESTEALERS, GENESTEALERS EVERYWHERE
>Nukethesitefromorbitit'stheonlywaytobesure.jpg

>>16732273
>Marneus Calgar suggests you change your chapter name to Emperor's Martyrs in light of your above average dead ratio in battles
>Youfunnyguyikillyoulast.jpg

Ohmygod this

More appropriate version...

Game Des Major, Programming Minor games student here. Will likely have time after then next couple weeks (end of year) to help out. Just wanted to reply to >>16713103
For some 40k related side projects of my own I've put together some 40k type music. Only done one track as a prototype, but it seemed to have the right tone. When I get home tonight/tomorrow (assignments, 'nuff said), I'll upload it somewhere and link to it, get some opinions. If it's any good, I'll happily donate it to the cause.

>>16734426
Bro, announce this on the CM forums. They'll be overjoyed.

>Random EVERYTHING
>Name: The First of the Imperium
>Founding: UNKNOWN
>Primarch: UNKNOWN
>Starting bonus: Pre-Heresy Artifacts
>Objective: Chapter Red Ravagers are filled with Chaos taint and must be destroyed
>ohboyherewego.jpg
>Start building up the chapter
>Inquisitor Kedrek demands your assistance
>Send 2 companies
>minor daemon incursion on feudal planet
>kick asses, take names
>YOUR REPUTATION WITH THE INQUISITION HAS INCREASED (+70)
>get my guys back, start fighting with orks
>THE INQUISITION DEMANDS MARINES FOR THE DEATHWATCH
>Sure bro, send a squad of veterans
>5 mins later
>YOUR BROTHERS HAVE RETURNED FROM THE DEATHWATCH
>shortest deathwatch ever
>YOUR REPUTATION WITH THE INQUISITION HAS INCREASED (+50)
>Incite inquisition to "inspect" Red Ravagers
>lol, objective soon done
>THE MASTER OF ARMS HAVE FOUND A RELIC OF OUR PRIMARCH
>cool, whatever, nice stats. Equip chapter master
>The inquisition has not found any signs of chaos among the Red Ravagers.
>wut?
>INQUISITOR KEDRAK HAS ARRIVED TO INSPECT THE FIRST OF THE IMPERIUM
>sure, no probs, haven't touched anything
>THE INQUISITION HAS FOUND SIGNS OF HERESY AMONG THE FIRST OF THE IMPERIUM
>wat?
>re-check artifact weapon
>Sword of Alpharius
>No, Chapter Master, you are the heretic.

>>16734487

They need to fix this. I hate being branded as a heretic excommunicatus AFTER A SINGLE FUCKING MISTAKE.

BUMP GASM

>Discover ancient tome
>Preparacions of Victualles for the Societtie of His Imperiam
>Pre-Apostasy cookbook
>Equip to chapter serfs
>Increases morale, lowers production (the cost of exotic ingredients).
>Bonus to diplomacy in companies whose serfs prepare it

Really, don't fucking forget the cookbooks. The basic fancifully colored nutrient paste book will hold you back. It's a management sim, not a strategy game, folks.

>>16738896
This gives me some ideas on how to gain rep with the Space Wolves.

>Find a feral world that recently got disowned by some other chapter, I forgot which.
>Eeeeyoink!
>send Scouts for explorin' shit
>few turns later
>Scouts discover a relic in world
>Oh? let's see what it is!
>This power armor mk 8 was used by Sergeant Malakai in the fighting at Delos. It was recovered from their body after falling in battle. It smells of roses. On it is an image of a Blood Raven in space marine bone.
>wait, what
>It smells of roses.
>WAIT WHAT?

>>16739424
Huh. Cyrus must have been there.

There are some things /tg/ can be proud of. Highly detailed quest threads. Angry Marines. Car Lesbians. Planes and Mercs. I think it's more than safe to say that this game, even though it's in early alpha at this point, easily qualifies for that list.

Perhaps most commendable of all is that when the the community does not see it as "Namefag1 gets shit done", but /tg/ gets shit done, they almost always humbly agree. Board among boards, to be sure.

>>16739424
Space Marine Bone has smelled of roses since Rogue Trader days. Where have you been?

smells like

We BUMP in the name of the EMPRAH!

Gentlemen.
I have limited artfaggotry skills, specifically texture-work. Mostly that's from modding for HL and M&B back in the day - I'm not really a life-drawing kind of artfag. I can also do some writefaggotry and have fair fluffmancy ratings.

What's the best way that I can contribute to the game?

>Sergeant {NAME} of the {COMPANY} has recieved renown for his feat of arms in the {CONFLICT}, where he did crush {CONFLICT RESULT} in the name of the Emperor. How shall the chapter honour his deeds?
>Present him with a relic from the Chapter Armoury, but let him continue to serve in his current role.
>Promote him to the {Standard Bearer} of the {COMPANY}, for he has earned the admiration of his battle brothers.
>Promote him to the {1st Company}, for he deserves the honour.
>Do not praise him, he was a Space Marine and did his duty. Pride leads to hubris.

>>16742952
From your image I'm guessing that background art would be a damn fine place to start.

Just a bit of random artwork I'm afraid. Let me see if I can drawfag something appropriate to CM these days. I ended up selling my WACOM a couple of years ago for food money.

An idea that I saw in another thread:

Random events where you have the option of supplying forces for humanitarian endeavors in a system under your jurisdiction.

In case you want your guys to be considered nice guys like the Salamanders or normal guys like most everyone else.

>Techmarine Brother Anonius has presented a heavily modified bolter to the armory
>These modifications have not been sanctioned by the Adepta Mechanicus' scriptures
>What are your orders?

>Test the bolter, then duplicate the pattern if it is found to be sufficient
>Halt any duplication attempts of this pattern, send the bolter to the nearest Forge World
>Halt any duplication attempts of this pattern, reserve its use for this marine (choose a marine)
>Destroy the bolter and castigate the Techmarine
>Destroy the bolter and send the Techmarine to the nearest Forgeworld to answer to the Adepta Mechanicus
>Destroy the bolter and purge the heretek

>>16743092
Or fucking up their shit. Marines Malevolent.

>>16743033
>>16742952
Dude, nice. Just based on that, your art would be a great addition.

>>16743232

There's that too.

I imagine that would make Inquisitors a little more interested in you however.

>>16742952

Looks like a menu screen BG.

>>16743246
I really don't think the Inquisition will go "FUKKEN MORALFAGS!" if they see astartes doing nice things.

>>16743273

I was talking more about the whole "Oh, their refugees want help? KILL THE FUCKERS" option.

You know, the post I directly linked my post to.

>>16743273
I don't think the Inquisition is unified enough to make such statements. Some Inquisitors are reasonable people. Others are ravenous zealots who would lead a war of faith at the first hint of laxity in the Imperial regime.

Fuck sketching by mouse, srsly.
Also, fuck drawing anatomy. I ended up tracing the SMs :/

>>16743462
>flying cartoon marines

>>16743555
*shrug* then my drawing skills aren't good enough. No worries, I know it's not great - I was always a texturer. I asked how I could help.

>>16743594
Get over to teh Forum and show the devs. they have the final say on what goes

>>16743594
Nah, it's cool.
They're just placed out of perspective. The cartoonishness is no better or worse than many of the other artists on the project.

>>16743594

Just stick to your strengths - architecture. Don't worry about adding in marines and stuff like that, hell, the coders and artists on the project are probably already thinking about making layered bgs so that the marines in the background always have your chapter colors.

>>16743033
>I ended up selling my WACOM a couple of years ago for food money.
Well shit. That makes me count my blessings for sure.

>>16743246
It might inspire the =][= to check you out, but if they found no chaos they'd just be like "false alarm, these guys are just evil sons of bitches, nothing to worry about."

>>16744539
Computer artfaggotry was a fun hobby. My second monitor went the year after that too. Fucking student loans.

I'll rustle up something architectural before posting on the forums. Basing this on summit neo-Gothic.

>>16744733
That's a whole lot of flying buttresses.

>>16744733
Groovy.

>You *did* save that game, right?
Uuhhr...

>>16736865
>Still fighting nids in a seemingly unending crusade
>Low on mahreens, still no humans
>Keep trying to evac civilian survivors from worlds as nids eat them
>Start recruiting Squat auxilliaries since some of them have power armor
>Tech-priests start recruiting squats as well
>The Codex is sure as hell aint gonna support this action but fuck it
>Manage to stay in the fight barely
>Exterminatus to kill nids all day erryday
>Steal ships from pirates, raiders, anyone but Imperium if I can
>1 Battlebarge only original ship left
>Chapter Master falls in battle
>Realise the only humans left are tech marines and surfs
>All squat army

squat army is best army

>>16748163
Army squat is best squat

If any of the devs are still in this thread:

The bug that was previously mentioned about the companies not showing up when you go back into the screen after making one is a simple fix.

Basically when you enter the screen the program isn't checking to see if any companies have already been created, it is storing them, because if you make another company all the old companies appear.

>>16748007
here
You know, squats would actually be a good crew for a space faring ship in 40k. Since ships of the Imperium have sections that are almost nearly abandoned it'd just like a Dorf Fort.