>>23383002
Scout the planet V.I.A use of our Plasma and Drop ships.
Continue assimilation of Biomass as normal, resistance is to be crushed.

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>>23383751
Ok then. Roll d100's. Average of first 5 will determine how well the action goes.

Rolled 85

>>23384007

Rolled 61

>>23384160

bump

Rolled 84

>>23384007

>>23384160
>>23384746
>>23384801
I'm gonna average these three, since no one else is posting. New rule for next time, if people aren't rolling, you can roll multiple times to get the needed 5.
Average: 77.
The bombardment is devestating the Tau forces, with out ground troops quickly able to take out any survivors after each bombardment. It continues this way, until anti-air fire starts raining from the planet, forcing our ships to back off.
What shall we do now? The Tau anti air is too strong.

self bump

>>23385008
Is there an asteroid belt near by?

>>23385676
Sadly no.... though the planet has two moons.

>>23385748
Can we change the trajectory of one of the moons to crash into the planet?

>>23385825
Well we could... the question is how. What shall we do to bring the moon crashing down... and is it worth it?

>>23385841
What ships do we have?

>>23385885
Basic Hive ships, Narvwales, Bio plasma broadsides, and our boarding spore pod launchers.

>>23385963
send spore pods to the night-time part of the planet and send down some troops to hide in.the shadows

>>23386033
We decide to send down some surprise troops.
Roll 1d100+20 for our natural stealthiness for effectiveness.

Rolled 1 + 20

>>23386094

Rolled 24 + 20

>>23386256
Please tell me we're doing averages.

>>23386270
We do averages of first 5, though with nat 100's being instant successes, 1's should probably be insta fails from now on. This one won't count.

Rolled 66 + 20

>>23386094

Rolled 9 + 20

>>23386094

Rolled 48 + 20

lets get sneaky

>>23386256
>>23386270
>>23386354
>>23386365
>>23386380
Average = 50
The landing goes sub par. The Tau's targeting relays manage to target and gun down several of our pods, while fire warrior and kroot teams are sent to hunt out those that do land.

hmmm. Any of our guys survive?

>>23386518
A few lictors and genestealers, but not enough to be much of a threat.

>>23386535

Do the Tau have a centralized area of operations or ships in the system?

>>23386535
Have the Hive ships go to the far side of the smallest moon and attempt to push it towards the planet.

>>23386571
They have a central colony center, though the location is unknown. Judging from what your creatures as seen, this planet is only newly found by the Tau.

Do we still have that invincible genestealer?

>>23386597

Can we instruct the lictors and genestealers planet side to begin searching for it?

>>23386620
The Deep One? Yes we do.
>>23386631
Yes, though caution is advised given their low number. We need info first though.

>>23386646
Would he survive going through the atmosphere?

>>23386631
>>23386646

Let's have them begin to gather info.

It's a jungle world and we're a stealthy Hive by design - our genestealers/lictors should be nearly undetectable if they're instructed to only search and gather information.

I suggest we get the lictors an genestealers planet side to lay-low, pick off those that come searching, using the lictors camouflage to distract and lead astray the groups to ambush zones.

Meanwhile, I'm thinking setting up some sort of "growth" on the nearest moon as an orbital bombardment platform, with built in bio-thrusters to help rotate the moon as needed.

Hm could we crash one of the lesser bio ships into the planet yet it still be alive? Such as seen in "The last Ditch" we'd have plenty of ground forces then and the biomass on the planet would surely pay off

Bump? I hope this hasn't died already (I love these quests)

>>23386831
Sorry, I just realized I accidentally closed the window.
Any concrete plans yet?

>>23386873
Well this is me;
>>23386700
And I like the idea of;
>>23386688

So, maybe a combination of the two?

>>23386711
Well, where would we crash it? Again, we don't know there base of operations.
>>23386688
>>23386700
I like these plans. Roll1d100+20 for how well we do.

Seems like we want to weaponize the moon, either through pushing into the planet, or setting up orbital weaponry on it. Do we have the power needed to knock a moon out of orbit?

>>23386909
Lets get sneakeh!

Rolled 91 + 20

>>23386909

Rolled 14 + 20

>>23387013
I'm an idiot

>>23386909
Wouldn't matter where, the amount of forces we could spawn from one ship then the bio mass that could be gathered within the immediate area if enough to over take the rest of the planet. But let's do the other ideas first, this could be last option

Rolled 48 + 20

>>23386909
One more, for the glory of the hive mind

Rolled 11 + 20

sneak sneak sneak

>>23386909
It doesn't matter where we crash it, the amount of forces we could produce from the ship as well as the bio mass we could clam within the immediate area if more than enough to take the planet. But I like the other ideas, this could be a last option

Rolled 40 + 20

>>23386909
Last one, lets get it good

>>23387114
Fuck my phone said it didn't post, my bad for repeat.

>>23387014
>>23387042
>>23387061
>>23387076
>>23387123
Average= 58.8 We don't score many kills, but avoid losses at least. We do discover something about the Tau base though, from info gained by eating Tau brains. It is underground, there being a mining operation going on in this planet.

hmm no sense of location though?

>>23387182
How's our growth/base on the moon going?

As for the underground base, can we get some ravengers down there to assist in the locating of the base, what with their burrowing and acute senses.

>>23387275
Only preliminary stuff is being done on the moon so far for a base, as we haven't decided if we want to ram the planet with it yet.

>>23387289
Well how about sending some Ravengers down to the planet to do some subterranean scouting, while our genestealers and lictors maintain their current mission.

>>23387438
Sounds good. 1d100's please.

Are there any weak points in their anti air network that we could exploit and land a semi-sizable force through?

>>23387452
None we can see so far.

hope this goes better haha

Rolled 99 + 20

>>23387448

>>23387289
Here's what we do.
We make a shit ton of eel-like rippers and flood the oceans with them.
Next we put bio-thrusters on both the moons and use them to wash the oceans over the land.
Then we just let the rippers destroy everything under water.

Rolled 56

>>23387448

Rolled 84 + 20

>>23387448

Rolled 86

>>23387482

>tfw you're the only one who rolled under 80 just then

Goddamnit....

>>23387513

I do like the idea of swarming them. Tau aren't renowned for their close combat abilities, so we need to overwhelm them and get in close.

Having an underground base should make that easier.

Also, I do sort of like the idea of crashing the moon into nearby water - that'd flood the fuck out of their precious mine, too.

>>23387571
Well we need 5th roll. Make another one.

Rolled 24

>>23387622

Rolled 64

Roll

>>23387497
>>23387523
>>23387526
>>23387532
>>23387639
Average= 89.8
We find the base easily, and even manage to take out some of the preliminary guards and defenses. It seems like the Tau are digging up some artifacts of yet undetermined origin.

>>23387669

Better not be necron....

Excellent. Do we have enough forces on planet to take it out?

>>23387669
>Artifact
Flood the shit out if the base. Ravengers and other burrowing bioforms to burrow from the ocean into the base. For all we know this shit could be dangerous

>>23387687
Well, the Tau are well entrenched in and the entrances to the base are a choke point. We need a plan.

>>23387669

I say we try to launch an assault again. Just because it didn't work the first time doesn't mean the concept was flawed.

>>23387738
>>23387750
Do you wanna go with this plan then? Or does anyone else have an idea?

>>23387738

I kind dig the flooding plan. Assuming we can evolve gills in good time, it should solve a lot of our problems.

>>23387822
Alright then. 1d100's for effectiveness of our flood plan.

>>23383002
SEND THE MAUFUCKIN GENESTEALERS!

Rolled 91

>>23387851

Rolled 46

>>23387870
k

Rolled 3

>>23387851

Rolled 20

>>23387903


damn

>>23387903
Well, I'm not rolling again tonight

Rolled 55

>>23387851

Rolled 53

>>23387851
I was gonna say, maybe have a force waiting at the entrance so as to cut down the tau fleeing from the flooding base. But oh well

>>23387851
If this doesn't work can we try to locate the duct system for the mines(they have to pump in fresh oxygen. have our scout forces implant/take out the earth caste members manning the facility and start bio pools there, the eventual idea being to flood the mines with gas that knocks out/kills/whatever we want to do. I suggest something subtle that makes them go to sleep and eventually kills them so that way it doesn't seem like an immediate attack.

Another question: are the tau using slave races(such as human) that we can implant via genestealers

>>23387870
>>23387883
>>23387903
>>23387920
>>23387959
Average= 43.
Unfortunately it seems the Tau prepared for this.
Right as the water pours in, a force shield goes up around the base. The water drains down holes they mined for this specific purpose. Luckily, we didn't lose anything in the flood besides a Ravener here or there.

>>23388000
We have seen Kroot so far, though we have only fought small defense forces so far and info from our genestealers and lictors say there are other races here.

Use the infiltrators to take ok the anti-air in some place to weaken the link, then mass assault the points of weakness

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>>23388322
Alright then. 1d100's +20 due to our natural infiltration ability.

>>23388312
Use the lictors to locate the other races and genestealers to infect/enthrall them. Get half to start mass reproduction and use the other half to infiltrate the tau forces by signing up for the greater good

>>23388468
That shall be included with the rolling from this then
>>23388437

Rolled 97

>>23388437

go ninja bugs

Rolled 30 + 20

>>23388437
Rolling

Rolled 1 + 20

>>23388514
Shit...well another go then

>>23388497

well, forgot my +20

>>23388544
Aaaaand thats a fail. Our infiltration teams are easily spotted and blasted apart from long range Tau rail guns. We have lost our ground forces and the Tau are prepping their fleet to engage us in space.

>>23388569

Well cock. Guess we should prepare to meet them with our fleet?

Rolled 1

>>23388569

How large is the Tau fleet? Things aren't going well planet side, perhaps we should achieve naval superiority .

>>23388665
... you are lucky we aren't rolling for anything. They have a smaller fleet than ours and almost seem too over confident in their decision to attack.

>>23388679

This could be our chance then. Lets prepare to ambush them and try to eliminate their fleet wholesale.

>>23388679
from any of our intelligence gathered do we know if they actually have a reason to be overconfident or are they just being silly naive tau?

nonetheless unless we want to run away from all that juicy biomass we are probably going to have to engage

>>23388717
Our intelligence gives us no reason for the over confidence.
So, unless anyone has any other idea. 1d100+10 for superior fleet size.

Well I refuse to roll anymore after that one, but, I have an idea. How is out moon installations going? If we can have the orbital cannons set up, when they attack our fleet, we can position ourselves between the two moons and flank them bombardment fire/boarding spores shot from the moons.

Opinions?

>>23388747
I like it.

Rolled 27 + 10

>>23388730

>>23388747
Also this seems like a fantastic idea, assuming our base is mature enough to assist us.

Rolled 5 + 10

>>23388730

>>23388747

>>23388747
The base's defenses are not quite up, but we could get them up mid battle possibly. It will make the fleet battle harder though, due to the distraction of raising the base requiring the attention of several ships.

>>23388811
oh my

Rolled 37 + 10

>>23388816
Yeah. Yeeesh. Maybe I should stop rolling too, haha.

>>23388863
this plan will surely work!

ps I should mention the archive for this thread is up for you guys to up vote.
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html

>>23388965
Going to sleep guys. Good thread. May continue tomorrow.