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>bump with map

No, do not redeploy. Wait and see.

Excellent, I actually made it to the beginning of this!

Glory should keep doing what it is doing, Quein hanging back to assist, the rest form up and get a good position on where the approaching ship will exit the warp. I want that thing lit up like Emperor's Day as soon as it exits the warp.

>>19059070
Aww yeah, muh favorite quest!

>>19059173
Let's stick close to the factory ship for now. Should discourage the enemy from firing lances as us when they emerge from the warp.

>>19059271
I'd be hesitant to fire immediately.

We don't even know who this ship is with yet. If it's part of the sector Navy, we could be in deep shit if we blow them away.

>>19059070
Do we also know what kind of weaponry that factory ship has on it? Obviously combat servitors on board, but I don't really want to show an enemy vessel my back if I can help it, especially if the are armed.

You could close to extreme weapons range, should you care to.

1D100 roll for random

>Athe is 5 turns out, lagging behind to avoid damage to the factory ship during battle.

>>19059308
Well obviously hesitating long enough to see who it is, but not long enough to let them get their shit together.

>>19059326
the factory ship is apparently unarmed for ship-to-ship combat, though she was expected to have a much larger escort.

Even if it does have weapons, the ship cannot fire them while tangled in close combat with your ally.

>>19059356
Okay, that is good then, Glory would be good enough to keep it occupied. I am all for going to extreme weapon range. Also I am not rolling, I have learned my lesson for the past few threads.

rolled 64 = 64

>>19059343
>close to extreme weapons range
That sounds like a good idea.

And rolling.

>>19059343
>Nobody wants to roll

Well, seems like /tg/'s dice have finally done it.

>>19059413

>>close to extreme weapons range
>That sounds like a good idea.

40K ships kinda work like ww1/ww2 ships, right? So getting behind the enemy should provide an incredible advantage.

>>19059419
You are right, but I don't think we could make it there before they dropped out of the warp.

>>19059419
Pretty sure that's only surface forces...but I'm no expert. Needless to say, getting within honey-badger range without getting honey-badgered yourself is advantageous.

>>19059453
>implying honey badgers are limited by range
If you're in the same dimension as a honey badger, it can maul you if it wants.

>>19059493
And it does want to. It ALWAYS wants to.

>>19059525
I beg to differ. All of us who live today do so at the whim of the great honey badger.

That you still draw breath is evidence of His benevolence.

>Everyone thinking of honey badgers
>Warp opens
>SUDDENLY

Welp, time to roll circumference.

>>19059569
>honey badger
>benevolence

Never has the phrase 'pick one' seemed so appropriate. Wait, aren't we supposed to be doing something?

>>19059589
Counts as greater daemon of Khorne.

>Ohboyherewego.jpg

>FuckingReferralSites.jpg

stay out of their range and keep shooting.
If we can keep this up for long enough to damage their weapons, close in and board with the whole group

>>19059804
Sorry to hear about the ban.

I say we open up on it, can't let it get anything off. Maybe keep a skirmish at long ranges, those plasma batteries will be a bitch.

>>19059804
Our ship is the only one with long range weaponry, right?

In that case, keep harassing them from as far away as possible and have our allies try to maneuver so they can shoot the enemy in the rear.

Has anyone figured out why OP keeps getting banned?

And let's split our ships up. Have "Enshrouded Sire" open fire from extreme range and stay to the side/prow of the cruiser, while "Domum Emendationem," Quein's ship, and us head north and try to get behind the cruiser.

>>19059812
Fire EVERYTHING.

>>19059804
If only we were allowed to keep such a vessel... oh well, we'll just settle for it's weapons and other useful stuff...

Posting on behalf of MachineSpirit. He needs you all to roll a d100 to see how badly you die.

rolled 46 = 46

>>19059972
Sudoku!

rolled 23 = 23

>>19059972
Oh mother of god!

>>19059972
Enough to end this most pleasant of quests most likely, given my luck in matters of war...

rolled 65 = 65

>>19059972
Please don't kill us MachineSpirit

Wait, Machine Spirit was banned? Why?

>>19060015
It happens quite regularly. There seems to be some sort of glitch causing him to get auto-banned every couple of threads.

rolled 29 = 29

>>19060027
That sucks. Please don't kill us all with the wrath of a thousand honey badgers.

>>19060027
From what I remember of an earlier thread, it was due to his active referencing of 'common names of sea-fairing vessels, or something there about...

>Banning quest masters
>2012
>Etc etc

>>19060080
1 honey badger would probably be quite sufficient.

rolled 41 = 41

>>19060138
Shooting!

>>19060148
Full speed ahead! If we can get behind the cruiser, we should be safe from its broadsides.

rolled 41 = 41

>>19060138
fire on there main battery! For the Omnissiah!

rolled 60 = 60

>>19060148
Keep doing what we're doing and coordinate our fleet so that we are all on the same side of the enemy vessel.
Have everyone target their weapons if they are capable of souch precision

>>19060148
Could we get the monitor's range included on the next map?

>>19060167
>>19060190
The Omnissiah thinks a 41 is more than enough when it comes to shooting.

>>19060138
Quein and Domum, swing around and take it from behind, we should keep pounding away, bring our own broadsides to bear. Sire, should turn and get to it's side, don't want it to be able to hit it with both the plasma and the macrocannons.

>>19060224
I'd say the plasma broadside is the worse option of they have to chose what they'll be hit with.

>>19060204
50 is only an assumed threshold against standard things. This is probably an opposed roll so, we shall see. Even if MachineSpirit uses a 50 threshold, we would have just about hit it and scratched the paintwork and rumbled the crew...

>>19060298
The Omnissih must think 41 is enough. Why would he otherwise have blessed us with it twice in a row?

>>19060266
I think that from the front however, the Sire can get hit by both the Macrocannons and the dorsal plasma batteries. I may be wrong though.

Welp, PQ is over for now.

PQ will resume @ midnight EST, when the ban expires.

>>19060441
Hopefully OP will be unbanned before too long.

Definitely voting in favor of trying to stay behind the cruiser. Our frigate just can't take this ship on in a fair fight.

>>19060450
>midnight EST
Oh well. I need to be working on this legal paper anyway. See you all in a few hours, comrades.

>>19060441
All ships stay behind it and firing at its (hopefully) sensitive rear. Take out the engines so it can't move to assist the factory ship and/or destroy the Glory.

See you all around midnight I hope.

rolled 54 = 54

>>19060441
Ramming Speed! take her in the bow!

rolled 57 = 57

>>19060612
Meant with, not in! bah!
and with that night all

>>19060586
Very much this.

>>19060612
This one, not so much.

>>19060612
This is a terrible idea and, if possible, I'd like to use my vote to counter this anon's.

rolled 32 = 32

>>19060586
>>19060516
Seconding these two, and rolling that maneuver test.

>>19060612
Dammit, stop trying to kill us...

rolled 72 = 72

Well if we are gonna shoot, here's a roll.

and we're back!

>updates in image form for the remainder of thread

>>19062101
>our broadside lined up with the cruiser's rear armor
We've got him right where we want him. Fire everything!

And do encourage our fellow captains to do the same.

>>19062175
>frigate-class ship
>no broadside, your guns are dorsal! (can shoot port, starboard, fore!)
>armor is even unless you upgrade the prow armor

rolled 20 = 20

>>19062109
"There's nothing we can do but hope to cripple his engine regardless of his plan. Fire!"

rolled 60 = 60

>>19062189
Oops, sorry, still had a d20 in the email field. Here's the d100 for shooting.

>>19062189
>see roll
>prepareyouranus.jpg
>d20
>so, so sad

>>19062234
Yeah, the 60 isn't nearly as impressive. Btw, how much armour does that cruiser have? 3, 4 times as much as our frigate?

>>19062188
I see. I think I misinterpreted the description of our laser batteries as a broadside in >>19059343

>>19062267

your chief enginseer had the idea to convert your ship's two weapons batteries into a single long-ranged "broadside" strength battery, instead of having a long ranged battery and a short-ranged one that was rarely effective.

>>19062254
Actually, how does armour work in your system? Are we reducing it, or are we bouncing shot after shot until we roll high enough?

>>19062316
armor is your standard-rate RT system deal, though my crit table has the possibility for you to remove chunks of it on the arc you're shooting at.

if you guys want to roll for keeping a slower speed, please do so now. (otherwise, you'll soon overshoot the safety of the rear arc)

>>19062109
Have all pursuing ships of the Monitor stay behind it to avoid fire and pour everything we have into its engines.

>>19062316
If we're going by Rogue Trader rules, it's a little bit of both.

rolled 3 = 3

>>19062352
No idea how RT works, to be honest.

>Maneuver roll
Here we go...

rolled 16 = 16

>>19062352
Rollin'

By the way, if we're right behind them and overshoot, would we end up colliding with the cruiser?

>>19062373
Why oh why couldn't that have been a gunnery roll...

>>19062379
Nah, our ship's perpendicular to theirs.

>>19062387
We have 4 ships firing on the cruiser. We should be damaging something.. I hope.

>>19062379
>Colliding with the cruiser
I don't think you fully appreciate just how damn big space is. There's a reason BFG has you roll a command test to ram.

>>19062417
You have to do a command test to stop as well, if I remember correctly.

>>19062417
Technically you have to pass TWO in order to ram.

>oh boy here we go

>suddenly, dice love for everybody!

You know, if we could get the other three nearby captains to join in a boarding action, we'd have something like twice the number of men as that monitor-cruiser... And coming up on it from the rear, we could probably take the engine room pretty quickly...

rolled 38 = 38

>>19062618
Keep firing our lazors!

>>19062618
Oh god our investment is going to get trashed.

>>19062658
I don't know about that. The factory ship is fuckhuge and substantially more resilient than our own frigate.

>>19062647
Agreed. We really can't get in front of the monitor to assist "Death or Glory" until it's been neutralized.

>>19062629
Keep firing at their engines, with the Heavenly Forge here, we cannot have the Monitor turning and trying to destroy that.

last chance for orders before turn updates

rolled 81 = 81

>>19062740
See if we can locate the broadcasting array jamming our communications.
It would have to be external, if I recall correctly.

>>19062740
Try to stay in the monitor's rear.

>>19062740
Order Heavenly Forge to stay as far back from the fighting as possible. We need it intact more than we need whatever paltry additional firepower it could provide.

REACTION ROLLS
>1D100 for reaction
>1d100 for OH SHIT

rolled 44 = 44

>>19062876
Reaction.

>>19062876
Will roll for OH SHIT in 5 minutes if nobody shows up, okay?

rolled 80 = 80

Oh shit roll right here.

rolled 29 = 29

OHSHITWTF

>>19062920
>enemy captain's face when

rolled 100 = 100

>>19062946
I'm too young to become one with the Omnissiah

>>19062971
Apparently the dice gods disagree. It's time for you to go sit at the Emprah's right hand, anon.

>>19062971
Welp, suddenly Tzeench decides he wants to take this moment to materialize in front of us and play with us like bath toys.

>>19062971
Thank you for getting that 100 out of the way on a non-rolling post.

>>19062971
I don't think I should roll anymore.

>>19063028
On the contrary, you can't roll any worse at this point so you HAVE to roll.

>the dice provided lube, fortunately!

>orders?

>>19063190
Oh fuck. Anything we can do to help Taylor?

>>19063215
I'd imagine his ship will be vulnerable to boarding parties, being lodged in the cruiser's hull and all.

We should probably get the new armsmen together and launch our own boarding action to take some of the pressure off of Taylor's crew.

>>19063190
I would say now is a good time to begin boarding.

>>19063190
>Vox channel clear

Everybody either focus on crippling the ship's engines or help Magos Taylor by boarding it with whatever forces available.

>>19063215
Well, his ship is a wee bit... stuck, at the moment.

oh, and I forgot to update your ship's cargo from last thread...

you have +6,000 GREEN armsmen

>>19063256
>6000 green armsmen
Time to turn them into 1000 veteran armsmen.

rolled 4 = 4

>>19063190
Try to disable the ship's weapons on the side facing us. If we can't get a clear shot on them because Taylor's ship is in the way, focus on the engines or whatever part of the ship we can hit without damaging Domum even more.

>>19063287
Fuck yeah, seems like our attacks will finally do something.

>>19063287

for the record, combat in PQ isn't "aim for this part"

it is "turn that section of space into hell and hope we hit the target within" combat.

>>19063256
>106 million light-years to Mars

I don't think you're making it back, friend

>>19063287
Seconding this.

>mfw rolling a 4 for a combat post

>>19063298
Okay, sorry.

so instead of wasting time with an hour of "roll for boarding" over and over...

8D100 rolls, please. Low is good.
(that 4 for shooting will count as the 9th roll, and be applied first)

rolled 71 = 71

>>19063328
First one.

rolled 72 = 72

>>19063335
Second roll.

rolled 66 = 66

>>19063328
Here is one for you.

>Sweet Emperor, give me luck.

rolled 26 = 26

>>19063340
Number 3.

>If this one's over 70, I'll stop.

rolled 69 = 69

>>19063328
Rollan.

rolled 17 = 17

rolling

rolled 96 = 96

>>19063328
Nth roll.

rolled 77 = 77

>>19063328
This should be the 8th roll.

rolled 44 = 44

>>19063350
>96
>not 69

anyway, here's another roll

A 100 and a 96. HOW HAVE I OFFENDED YOU OH GREAT ONE.

And all of our armsmen, thinking they were heading to the launch bay, instead proceed to walk out the air locks.

rolled 36 = 36

>>19063372
>(71 + 72 + 66 + 26 + 69 + 17 + 96 + 77 + 4) / 9 = 55.3333333

Meh, slightly below average. We could even have some armsmen survive this.

>>19063372
What really sucks is that this is their first day on the job. They got hired a few hours ago, and are already rushing into a battle that apparently has WWI casualty rates...

Grimdark indeed.

>>19063431
Good thing we chose that medicae deck a few threads ago.

>>19063445
Might as well radio ahead to the Heavenly Forge to get them mass producing cheap prosthetic arms and legs...

>>19063466
>>19063431
>>19063445
oh, god, my sides, they are moving on their own

The battle is long and bloody as armsmen, combat servitors, and skittari clash in a mad tangle of ships. Even Quein ends up deploying his crew to join the fighting, augmenting your bloodied numbers. In the end, the Lathe-class is taken and Taylor's now-burning ship is nudged into the void to die. The Factory ship is taken soon after by what combat forces your force can still muster, relieving the tattered remains of 'Death or Glory's armemen complement.

As you help tend to armsmen in the medicae deck, Magos Taylor contacts you. "Elesh, I fear we should not remain in this system for much longer. There is a little-known system nearby where we can take lick our wounds and take the prizes. If we jump now, my navigator believes the warp storm to be relatively calm."

"Do you believe that they managed a distress call in the confusion of that device, Magos?"

"I fear we are in no condition to risk that they didn't."

>orders?
>you have no way of accounting for your casualties at this time, too many are still in the process of dying.

>>19063431
I like to believe this is what will happen.

Oh wait, Taylor beat us to that. Well...

>>19063498
Time to be offskies!

>>19063498
See if there are any survivors from the first raider that was destroyed. Taylor's advice is sound, let's jump out of the system.

>>19063498
Everything we can't take, we scuttle and destroy. If one of these ships has the engine we need on it, we will either liberate it now if the ship can't move at all, or we take the entire ship with us if it can.

>>19063498
Off we go.

>>19063541
you lack the capability to salvage components.

and even if you -had- salvage clamps on a ship, it takes a week to remove a component.

also, the best way I can describe the casualties of your armsmen... is "battle of klendathu"

>>19063571
>the best way I can describe the casualties of your armsmen... is "battle of klendathu"
>mfw

On the bright side, when we do get the resources to get (read: build) our own Skitarii, this should help convince our troops to volunteer.
We just won't mention the meme-viruses at first, ehehe...

grab everything that can be grabbed and get out of here

Crewing the two AdMech ships is problematic, though your combined force eventually manages the feat. You spend the next day monitoring the bridge with only Teris in her crystal dome to keep you company, as your crew mourns the dead and catches well deserved sleep that their weak flesh requires. At one point Bob keeps you company, favoring her right arm despite her meditative trance.

After the seemingly longest warp journey ever, your small fleet of allies arrives upon the edge of a barren system with a lonely, blue star. "There is a small planetoid just beyond the habitable zone, with an old wayfarer station orbiting it. We can dock to divide the loot there." Captain Wilson's voice has finally lost that strange tone it normally carries, perhaps from his visit to the Lathe-class' battle sites. "Welcome to Dove, folks."

>thats it for tonight, folks.
>Next thread on FRIDAY @ 9:00 PM, EST
>Q&A time for a bit
>Thanks for sticking around with the auto-ban bullshit, folks.

>>19063719
Awesome as always, despite the ban.

Too bad about Magos Taylor's ship. I suppose he'll have to try to get one of the captured vessels up and running.

>>19063719
Oh, next session today? Nice.

>>19063768
We also lost one of Magos Bank's raiders. There were no survivors, I guess.