>>2532442
>>Hand the vox to High Marshall Krent, let Arbites settle Arbites

No sense in stepping on toes here.

>>2532442
>Hand the vox to High Marshall Krent
Let's see the High Marshall's take on the matter. We can always step in if it goes sideways.

>>2532442
>Hand the vox to High Marshall Krent, let Arbites settle Arbites

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>>2532482
+1

>>2532442
>Flash your governor seal through the skull’s hololith
It looks as though you're close to being overwhelmed. I am here to support you, Arbitrator Krenshaw.

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>>2532482
>>2532516
>>2533113
>>2533222
>Hand the vox to High Marshall Krent, let Arbites settle Arbites
Rubbing your head, you thrust the vox into Krent’s hands. “Deal with it” you mutter and step out to get some air. It’s only been a few hours, yet it feels like you’ve been dealing with this nunk for weeks now, and you are ready to shoot someone. The moment you step out, medicae and nurses swamp you, poking, and prodding, and trying to connect you to diagnositcam devices. You waves them all away and retreat back into the command post. Throne on Terra, you can’t get a moment’s peace!

When you return, Krent returns the vox to you, a much cowed Arbitrator speaking to you.”

“...what do you wish of us governor?”

>What’s the situation?
>How are your forces?
>Here’s my plan [skip to battle and plan layout]

>>2533437
>>What’s the situation?
>>How are your forces?

>>2533437
>>What’s the situation?
>>How are your forces?

"Krent... Status report."

>>2533437
>>What’s the situation?
>>How are your forces?

>>2533437
>Krent returns the vox to you, a much cowed Arbitrator speaking to you.
You have nothing to worry about Arbitrator. I understand that you have been stressed while the Hive has been killing itself.
>What’s the situation?
>How are your forces?
We need to know these two before we can formulate a cohesive plan.

>>2533437

>What’s the situation?
>How are your forces?

>>2533445
>>2533451
>>2533466
>>2533481
>>2533501

“You have nothing to worry about Arbitrator. I understand that you have been stressed while the Hive has been killing itself” you placate the man. If he was calmed at all, he’s hiding it remarkably well. “Update me on what has happened down here.”

Krenshaw turns to his men and dismisses them with a nod. He makes a slight gesture and the gangers with their guns aimed at you lower them, walking off. He walks towards your servo-skull, sighing. “We are at the breaking point. The heretics know these roads better than us, and can travel through the sewer pipes just as fast. They’ve been hitting every weakpoint in our line and sapping us of supplies and manpower. We’ve cleaned out the cells to press the gangers into service and cleared the evidence locker of every weapon to arm them, but even now we’re barely holding on. I honestly think this has just been probing. Every attack was sudden, without warning, and then they fall back far too quickly.

>How are your forces?
He turns to the rabble manning the stations around every junction. “What you see is what we have.”

Arbites officers intermixed with gangers from the Powerliches, the Sumpstains, and the Irongut Clan, manning shoddy looking Heavy Stubber nests and lines of stubbers, autoguns, and shotguns hidden behind walls of sandbags, debris, and corpses. Everyone has a gun, few don’t have a bandage, stitch, or some form of hastily patched injury.

>The Arbites is in a weakened state. The combined forces are:
>2 Heavy Stubber nests
>1 gun line

As far as you can tell, there are 3 different alleys the genestealers can come from, but that doesn’t even begin to account for the sewers, and Emperor knows how many of those have an exit nearby...

>>2533817
Can we collapse the nearby sewers so that they can't use them, thus forcing them into 3 different kill zones?

>>2533817
what if we fill the sewers with promethian or flamable gasses then light the whole thing on fire?

>>2533860
>>2533905

Minimizing collateral damage would be nice.

Perhaps we can simply flood the sewers?

>>2533817
Put grenade/shell traps and razor-wire in the sewers, erecting barricades, posting gun emplacements and teams of skitarii and rust-stalkers in there to create choke points and hard barriers. If we get the chance, we'll push forward and start taking them.

I'm certain those gangers know how to rig a Vietnam-style tripwire trap with an unexploed bolter shell or something similar.

Using tunnels to move around and support each other is a good Guard tactic if we take the sewers later.

Position a mix of mortar and heavy weapons teams in areas where they can manage overwatch and create kill-zones to approaches, preferably in buildings and with advantageous vantage points.

Reinforce the gun line and position the vehicles in areas where they can quickly move to support any potential breaks.

Use the sentinel to do a little scouting and see if we can determine their likely approach angles. Put down more ganger scum rigged traps in those directions, marked clearly so we don't detonate them, and dig in.

Unless we need to march forward and take something. Do we need to march forward and take something?

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>>2534127
>Put grenade/shell traps and razor-wire in the sewers, erecting barricades, posting gun emplacements and teams of skitarii and rust-stalkers in there to create choke points and hard barriers. If we get the chance, we'll push forward and start taking them.

>>2533817
I think what we need to do is use hight to our advantage. This seems like a defensive scenario.

Try to move the gun nests to upper floors of buildings; heavy bolters / heavy stubbers. Control the entrances with snare-mines made from frags. Use Arbites and Gangers to fire from window slits. Reenforce them with Lightning Company. Put the mortar teams on the roof.

Sit Angry Ambull inside a bombed building if there are any. Protect it with Skitarii Unit Gamma. For now it'll just act as an emplaced battle cannon, considering it needs repairs. Any repair teams are to stay with them, if any of the Skatarii have the tech use skill they can aid repairs, but only as long as they dont come under attack themselves. Protect them with a gunline from Thunder company. All gunlines make hasty barricades. This is our fire base.

Make a gunline of Bulwark & Dagger w/ their Hellhound. Their job is to counter attack any weaknesses in the lines of the enemy. They are to protect the Hellhound as it advances to wash out buildings with flame. They are to be supported with Combat Servitors with heavier weapons and the Sentinel. Their job is to take out anything that tries to target the Hellhound while it does its job. They are to enact this plan, only once the enemy has reached maximum streangth. They are the spear head.

>For the Arbites:
>Mortar teams, heavy bolters:
>>Thunder Company(under strength; reinforcing) 200/250
>>Lightning Company (under strength; reinforcing) 180/250
>>Bulwark Company 250/250
>Scouting/infantry spotting:
>>Eagle’s Reach (Sentinel; fully operational)
>Heavy support:
>>Angry Ambull (Leman Russ; undergoing repairs)
>>Combat Servitors (Kataphron and improvised) 205/205
>>Dagger Company w/ Hellhound support 250/250
>Heavy infantry:
>>Skitarii Unit Gamma 250/250

Cool, time to wreck some nids

>>2534127
+1
Barricades along the gun line would help

>>2536396
+1

>>2536541
Barricades along the gun line are probably a good idea, the gangers may not hold without them.

I vote we should send the Rust Stalkers out as a hit and run force to trick the genestealer into following them through alleys and roads we'll have booby trapped

>>2537634
We dont have any rust stalkers. Their with the Shield of Canton team. Get ready to make lemonade.

>>2537641
Good point, thanks for the reminder,

>>2534127
Skitarii in the tunnels, not rust stalkers.

>>2537682
>Skitarii in the tunnels, not rust stalkers.

I question the wizdom of sending one of our strongest infantry units into the tunnels. Its clear that the tunnels are the enemies domain. We should draw them out into our domain with clear lanes of fire.
Also you are sending our strongest ranged infantry into close quarters. The stealers can stay in their tunnels for all i care. Just as long as they leave the elivator alone until the rest of the hive is cleared and we can re-enforce.

>>2532442
>“See what you do is take a can of that Mechanicus treated ‘nid meat, fry it up, put it in the batter of your flour ration, and bake it for an hour, and that’s how ya get a Ripper ‘scuit”
We really need to research if this is whats causing all the genestealers.

>>2537696
So this was just me misreading the QM's post and thinking there were only three sewer tunnels, in which case I had every intention of blocking them up and turning them into killzones.

Since it's three alleys and an unknown number of tunnels I'll amend my plan to trap the tunnels and barricade the alleys to create more killzones.

>draw them out...clear lines of fire
I'm uncertain that we have clear lines of fire, though we can certainly try it. However, if they're coming from a particular direction (sewers, alleys) and we make it untenable for them to approach from that direction without coming face to face with heavy guns, we can force them to move into the battlefield from a direction of our choice. This would be ideal.

As such, I suggest that we trap anything we can, collapse any tunnels we can't cover easily, and put the Skitarii inside our lines on a high vantage point to enable them to pivot and kill anything that gets past our cordon.

>>2534127
>>2536396
Alright, doing this then. Drawing and writing...

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>>2537962
You relay your instructions to Krenshaw, and he in turn starts barking orders to the assembled fighters. Gangers groan as they undo their heavy stubbers and carrying them up to the hastily erected wall made of flakboard strips of air-car metal, affixing the heavy weapons to the parapets while arbites still able to hold a weapon take up firing positions in the upper floors of the surrounding habs.

The PDF and gangers start setting up mines and traps along the roads, and known sewer tunnels, in some cases, the gangers use volatile plasma cells and bolter rounds, rigging them to drop and explode on intruders that break the tripwire emplacements. Those that couldn’t be trapped have their covers welded shut and heavy supplies planted over them as your own soldiers scramble to take positions. PDF and Guard head to roofs and upper floors to create overlapping lanes of fire into the roads below while the Angry Ambull trudges into a corner giving it a perfect view of every possible entrance, the heavy vehicle covered by the Skitarri.
The mortar team could not find a proper roof to set up on that didn’t provide a reliable line of fire so they set up on the elevator behind the barricade, entrenched behind the wreck of a destroyed Tractor and the Dozer-Trac that pushed it there.

Bulwark and Dagger companies set up a line of auto and lasguns along the abandoned barricade, prepared to unleash hell on anything that enters their crosshairs. Behind them sits the hellhound, hoses checked, and flamethrower primed, flanked by Combat servitors hooked directly to your feed via vox implants.

Eagle’s Reach takes up position in a hastily repaired section of the wall, plugging the gap with its size, and prepared to either move forward or retreat.

Confirm setup….

>>2538231
Looks good I thing

>>2538231
I'll restrain from nit picking. Theres a decent amount of adaptability and redundancy. Lets see how it holds up.

>>2538231
I'm confused about the unit to the north in blue, is that the mortar team on the elevator?

What are the triangles with the red and blue cogs inside them, are those our servitors?

The only thing I'm troubled by is the vulnerability of the sentinel. I'd kind of prefer if it was less exposed and more able to scout, but I guess this is an urban brawl.

>>2538301
From the text it looks like blue cog is the skitarii and red cogs are the servitors

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>>2538246
>>2538291
Auspex starts to ping on the Servitors. Movement coming from the east...rating 10. 20. 50. 70. 100+ coming fast.

>>2539305
Hellhound group. Engage overwatch. Be ready to move when ordered.

(i have to sleep now.)

>>2539305
is this a side PoV?

>>2539707
It looks like a top-down point of view. We've already positioned the units. Now we have to defend.

>>2539305
Im back!

Get ready for one of the units by B to move to the right by C to reenforce if they cannot deal with the amount of forces.

>>2540471
>Get ready for one of the units by B to move to the right by C to reenforce if they cannot deal with the amount of forces.
They're all on top of buildings. They're mostly set up to shoot down into the streets. And I think there are explosive traps on the ground in those areas.

>>2539707
It's top-down. The tank is portrayed sideways to make it clear what it is on the map.

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The traps in position E go dark. The trap was sprung as you hear a 'thump' and dust getting thrown into the air as what sounds like a leman russ having sex with a chainsword grinds out of the alleyway.

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>>2542251
Moments later pieces of a burning transport come rolling out. Through the dust and smoke, figures emerge. The smoke from the burning transport obscures them.

>Enemy unidentified. Smoke incurs -20 penalty
>Auspex identifies movement southwards

>>2542254
Sentinel to fire at transport remains with lascannon in hopes of setting off a secondary explosion and shredding the enemy with shrapnel.

Mortars to bombard the position of the transport and nearby enemy.

Units in line of sight to shoot south of position D in hopes of suppression of inbound enemy.

Other units with line of sight to fire on enemy near position C in hopes of suppression, including hellhound, leman russ, servitors, heavy stubber nest, guard formation, etc.

>>2542393
Want to add a roll to that?

Rolled 88 (1d100)

>>2542393

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Rolled 2 (1d100)

>>2542631
The lascannon hits an unseen magazine, the cooked off munitions creating a dozen smaller explosions that shred nearby targets, and flush the rest out of cover. Gangers and Guard alike cut down anything that moves in a hail of metal. A second transport triggers trap array D.

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>>2542712
The transport that hits Trap Array D is less fortunate than its predecessor. Melta charges reduce it and its passengers to glowing slag.

The surviving cultists stumble from the fire in an attempt to find cover and head for the hole where the Sentinel is. Unfortunately they don't notice Trap Array C. An instant later the area is covered in a red mist and tatters of cloth.

Auspex says more movement coming from the south.

>>2542712
>2
HAHAHAHAHAHA

>>2542730
If mortar or any other teams have them. Fire canisters of poisonous or debilitating canisters down the south choke points

Rolled 18 (1d100)

>>2542730

>>2542750
Well it's still better than a two

Rolled 61 (1d100)

>>2542730
>>2542730
Fire down the alley that trap array B is in.

Someone at the former sites of trap arrays C and D (the men on the buildings) need to get some makeshift trap arrays or just some explosives, unexploded munitions, whatever, and lower them down into the alleys on ropes as a means to restock those trap arrays. Det-cord (from the FFG Only War game, standard guard gear) would be ideal.

Hell, a cable or chain trap strung between the buildings to fuck up transports would be ideal. Have it lying on the ground until the transport's in view, then pull it taut when it nears, too close for it to halt.

If they can string monofilament between the buildings, that'd be grand.

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Rolled 82, 19 = 101 (2d100)

>>2542930
Lasfire and solid slugs are sent flying down alley B. The front row of genestealers, the second row holding up Arbites Riot shields and sheet metal to protect themselves.

The sounds of fire keep the other fighters in their place, no time to set up new traps. Mutants spill into the southeast alleyway, their numbers diminished, but not decimated by the roof fighters.

>>2542970
The genestealers protecting the truck throw themselves into the trap, the detonation scorching the hybrids to a crisp. The transport powers through, lasfire and autgun slugs pattering off its reinforced hull.

The other genestealers stumble, right in time with the death of their compatriots. They seem disoriented, presenting clear targets to the gunners.

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>>2542983
shit I twitched and hit the post button

Rolled 46, 21, 83, 79, 53, 31, 93, 28, 5, 43 = 482 (10d100)

>>2542986
I don't remember how many guys we have, so I'm just gonna roll.

The walker thing with the big laser Cannon will melt the transport to scrap.
The disoriented group will be hit by shatter or whoever.

Can we reposition the hellhound so it has a clear line of fire down one of the alleys?

Rolled 19, 67, 14, 58, 66, 33, 66, 81, 44, 9 = 457 (10d100)

>>2542986
Seconding >>2543050 and adding more details.

Units to engage targets of opportunity.

Mortar teams to fire on enemy.

Sentinel to direct lascannon fire to oncoming transport.

Tank to fire battle cannon on vehicle if it emerges from near alley, otherwise engage targets of opportunity.

Heavy stubber nests seem to have clear shots, as do servitors and skitarii. They are to take them.

Rooftop troops should be opening up and using grenades when feasible.

May want to save the grendades

>>2543221
Good point

I always seem to miss when this quest gets updates

>>2543221
>>2543252
Agreed.

You guys want to link to the posts you're supporting and roll 10d100? OP will likely take best of.

>>2543271
Hey, you got here in time for this one! You want to roll for the plan you support?

Rolled 18, 77, 60, 79, 93, 86, 34, 86, 65, 26 = 624 (10d100)

>>2542986
To be absolutely clear. The hellhound will stay where it is, untill enemy units become thick in the killzone outside the 3 alleyways where A is.

>>2543221
>>2543193
+1 to this, adding detail.
Conserve grenades for now. We have them where we want them.

Use the mortars on alleyway B instead of grenades. Theres less chance of hitting the side buildings.

Angry Ambuls battle cannon is ready. If it has a front mounted lascannon, get that ready too.

>>2543578
Mortars aren't that great for anti-vehicle work, why waste them on the vehicle near trap array B?

>>2543578
I loke this, also, just arrived from the archives

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Rolled 33, 33 = 66 (2d100)

>46 The Sentinel moves out of cover to get a better line of sight with the hauler. It fires its underslung lascannon, punching a hole through the side, but not killing the vehicle.

>77
The mortar team fires at the most available target: The hauler. A direct hit knocks off some of the reinforcing scrap, and smoke starts to billow from the hull.

>83
The Heavy stubber teams open fire on the staggered hybrids. A dozen fall before they scatter, and they start to return fire.

>79
Skitarii join the fullisade and the first ranks of the hybrids are decimated.

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>>2544759
>33
The Transport moves up and is rocked by Angry Ambull's overwatch shot. The transport teeters and is disabled. But like a nest of baby spiders emerging from an egg, genestealer purestrains rip through the armored hull, taking chunks of the downed vehicle and using them as shields.

>33
In a last show of defiance, the hybrids lob a score of grenades into the stubber nest. Most undershoot their target and patter off the wall, but one manages to make it over, and it's live!

The auspex shrieks as it points to hostiles coming from every direction. The ground rumbles as sewer traps go off one by one.

Rolled 78, 1, 48, 19, 76, 7, 44, 71, 57, 79 = 480 (10d100)

>>2544770
Mortar team to fire on enemy near gun line and on the group that threw grenades at the stubber nest.

Stubber nest east guys to try and throw back that fucking grenade. Or jump on it, failing that.

Stubber nest west guys to fire on genestealers emerging from transport.

Sentinel to return to original position.

Skitarii to fire on genestealers emerging from transport.

Tank to fire on genestealers emerging from transport.

Hellhound to fire on genestealers emerging from transport.

Servitors to fire on genestealers emerging from transport.

Troops on buildings to fire on genestealers throwing grenades at heavy stubber nest/genestealers emerging from transport as targets of opportunity are presented.

>>2544809
>1

Anons, please help our poor stubber nest guys out by rollan.

Rolled 29, 12, 5, 24, 71, 2, 38, 1, 26, 1 = 209 (10d100)

>>2544809
You had to roll a one.

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>>2544825
IM HELPING.

Rolled 88, 54, 81, 53, 20, 98, 42, 75, 52, 66 = 629 (10d100)

>>2544809

>>2544829
>>2544831
I got it bro

>>2544834
>>2544831
>>2544829
>>2544825
Very helpful!

If anyone else wants to roll, that'd help too.

Rolled 91, 18, 56, 65, 81, 77, 43, 81, 31, 23 = 566 (10d100)

>>2544865

Rolled 62, 16, 11, 12, 51, 39, 24, 12, 46, 6 = 279 (10d100)

>>2544865

>>2544886
Oi no double rolling, let's respect qm and quest

>>2544886
Ignore this, I am sleep deprived and managed to forget I rolled in my opening post because barely awake. Stupid fucking three-day insomnia.

>>2544892
IT happens, insomnia is fucking awful

>>2544895
I mean, the best part is being braindead enough to do that and then questioning my own suggested tactics posts. All while being on the phone with comcast, the worst company in america, to try and unfuck my internet and wondering if I'll get to play at all after they finish their stupid shit.

Gonna go take a nap now.

>>2544901
Wish you luck anon

what'd I do wrong?

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>>2544916
wrong quest ... sry

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>>2544916
>Ich bin kein Roboter.

>>2545058
i have been found out
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initiate selfdestruct in
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>>2544809
>1
Oh dear...

>>2545058
>>2545064
Ooooooh dear...

>>2545470
Sounds bad

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Rolled 70, 42 = 112 (2d100)

>>2544809
>91
Direct hit! The mortar hits the hybrids squarely in their formation, limbs and weapon fragments flying into the air and crashing back into the layers of dust, grime, dead dead skin, and various run off that forms the dirt of Low-Canton.

>1
The grenade detonates before the team gets to react. The soldiers, the weapon, and the ammunition explodes outwards, injuring the shooters next to them. The wall guns go silent as the gunners are pinned to avoid the cooking ammo.

The Skitarii cannot see over the barricade and the gunners of Shatter company and cannot fire.

>81
The Angry Ambull fires a krak round at the Genestealers to punch through their plate and chitin. It's effective...too effective. The genestealer hit is vaporized and the shell detonated behind the tyranids rather than in the middle of them.

>65
The hellhound spews out burning promethium, ignoring cover and terrain. The genestealers are cooked in their disgusting chitin.

The alleyways flood with genestealers as every road is clogged with mutants and xenos.

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>>2545760
>70
The servitors are torn to pieces as suddenly a welded sewer manhole is punched outward, a flood of purestrains wading into the automated half-humans and reducing them to shredded metal and strips of meat. The sheer force of their numbers and fury knocks the hellhound on its side.

>Hellhound, and wall gunners are inactive this turn!

>42
The hybrids line up a rocket launcher and fire directly at the sentinel as their hauler moves up. It narrowly misses the machine between the legs, detonating behind it. Based on the screams, the rocket hit one of the infirmary tents.

Auspex detects more movement underneath and to the east

Rolled 52, 4, 57, 92, 15, 82, 70, 72, 74 = 518 (9d100)

>>2545791
Mortar team, fire at the group at the opening of the right alleyway. everyone pick your targets.

Rolled 69, 21, 22, 19, 38, 42, 86, 81, 43, 1 = 422 (10d100)

>>2545760
>>2545791
mistakesweremade.jpg

Okay, I'm back from my retardation-treating nap. Internet's back too so I can live on one device now, so I can return that fucking tablet to neckbeard room-mate. Filthy casul iOs user.

Call for reinforcements. If we can get any.

Skitarii: they can't see over the barricade, so they're free to turn around and murder the fuck out of the purestrains that hit those servitors. Arc weapons ftw.

Angry Ambull: move into visual range of the genestealer purestrains that killed the servitors and fire at them, then run them down.

Sentinel: Shoot the transport advancing north through eastern alley.

Mortars: fire at genestealers on eastern side of map near sentinel/coming out of alley.

Heavy Bolter teams (presumably spread among guardsmen on top of buildings): aim at transport advancing north through eastern alley.

Guard: shoot at hybrids and purestrains wherever you can see them.

Hive gangers, scum, etc: shoot hybrids and purestrains wherever you can see them.

Hellhound: attempt to right tank.

Machine gun nest: attempt to recover.

I hope we get a break from battles soon, itching to do some governing

Rolled 52, 23, 94, 67, 26, 76, 63, 74, 46, 78 = 599 (10d100)

>>2545838
+1

Rolled 31, 85, 74, 60, 77, 89, 18, 39, 47, 94 = 614 (10d100)

>>2545838
support

Rolled 82, 60, 48, 48, 2, 43, 94, 5, 99, 54 = 535 (10d100)

>>2545838
>Angry Ambull: move into visual range of the genestealer purestrains that killed the servitors and fire at them, then run them down.

What, No.
Ambul use main gun and sponsons and even the damn copula. Control those purestrains before they break our line. If the hellhound is blocking line of sight. Move around.

>>2545838
>>2546014
>>2546295
>>2546494
Current rolls:

Skitarii - 82
Leman Russ - 85
Sentinel - 94
Mortar team - 67
Heavy bolter teams - 77
Guardsmen - 89
Hive gangers/scum - 94
Hellhound - 81
Heavy stubber nest - 99

>>2546494
All it has is the battle cannon I think. It initially had a battle cannon and a heavy bolter but the bolter got melted off by something in an earlier engagement.

>>2546571
Oh. I somehow missed that part even though i read it. Is it the kind that doesnt have sponsons? Guess we'll find out.

>>2546605
No sponsons. Just a battle cannon now.

>>2546618
Reguardless if we dont take out these purestrains then next turn they will be in melee with us. Do you think tank shocking them will work?

>>2547628
It's better than not tank shocking them. We have a tank that is little more than a rolling promethium tank close to them. If they fuck up the flame tank and it goes up like a bomb the barricade is done, I'd rather they fucked up the Leman Russ or the Skitarii. Plus the tank has a good chunk of HP.

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Rolled 4, 25 = 29 (2d100)

lost dog. I don't have much time at the comp before I gotta go out and post more fliers

>>2545838
All hell breaks loose as everyone lets loose at their targets. The tank rolls over two of the genestealers as the hissing creatures move away of the monstrous vehicle. attempting to climb tha barricade are well defended by chitin but even that natural armor buckles under the constant fire of the defenders. Arbites, gangers, and PDF cut down the hybrids in the open. The Sentinel takes aim and fires the moment the lascannon has cooled to nominal temperatures, punching a hole in the truck. It's still moving.

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>>2548638
The purestrains behind the barricade attempt to swing at the Angry Ambull, their tearing claws biting deep...and taking away superficial pieces of metal.

The truck guns its engines and rams the wall. The vehicle unfortunately is trapped, rear wheels no longer touching the ground as it runs endlessly in the air. More purestrains pour out of the newly glowing hole in the truck's cabin. More of the abominable pure strains erupt from the ground as the manhole flies into the air, the purplish xenos spilling up like a backed up line disgorging toxic sludge.

>>2548638
>lost dog

If it was a nice dog check craigslist and walmart parking lots.

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Rolled 84, 25, 27, 46, 89, 36, 86, 64, 50, 88 = 595 (10d100)

>>2548651
Mortar teams switch to incendiary payloads

Rolled 29, 13, 77, 36, 92, 63, 35, 37, 82, 1 = 465 (10d100)

>>2548781
support

>>2548651
Also somewhere in there people should be shooting at all the guys coming through the manholes. Dropping some incendiary explosives down there works too.

>>2548781
+1
>Mortar teams switch to incendiary payloads
We'll have to get some of these in governor phase.

>>2548651
Get the servitors and skitarii to put the hellhound on its tracks again. We're not loosing this. Ambull should finish off those purestrains. Once the hellhound is ready it should go hunting the purestrains where the mortar is.

Rolled 32, 99, 89, 41, 44, 54, 100, 48, 99, 72 = 678 (10d100)

>>2548781

>>2548781
You have them firing at trap array A and not focusing fire on the ones near the elevator.

The Hellhound you're issuing orders to is on its side and cannot fire.

The sentinel isn't doing anything despite being dangerously close to purestrains, which are bad for its health.

I think the word for this suggested fire plan is NOPE.jpg

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Rolled 55, 82, 53, 35, 99, 100, 4, 11, 12, 25 = 476 (10d100)

>>2548651
>>2548638
OP, sorry to hear you lost your dog ;_; Hope canine friend has a GPS tracker chip or something. Will send a prayer to the Emprah that dog is recovered.

Suggested tactics:

Hellhound crew to work on righting the tank. Unless the tank can actually fire safely, in which case have it fire at the purestrains in the southern/central portion of the map (red lines).

Skitarii to fire on the remaining purestrains (purple line).

Angry Ambull leman russ to advance to marked position (orange diamond) and fire on purestrains (orange arc).

Mortar team to fire on purestrains in marked position (gold oval). If this is danger-close and the mortar team cannot fire on it, mortar team is to fire on purestrains in southern portion of map.

Sentinel is to move to marked position (green diamond) and fire on purestrains (green line).

Heavy stubber team on top of building to fire on purestrains as marked (blue lines) unless incapable of required reposition (I'd think the gun's on a swivel and they can turn it, if not that's fine I guess), in which case they are to fire on the purestrains in the southern portion of the map.

I don't know if we're supposed to separate the troop types and specialties so I'll write up the following rolls:

Heavy bolter teams are to fire on purestrains as marked (white lines).

Guard is to fire on enemy as marked (white lines).

Gangers are to fire on enemy as marked (white lines).

Arbites are to fire on enemy as marked (white lines).

Again, call for reinforcements.

>>2549554
>Sentinel is to move to marked position (green diamond) and fire on purestrains (green line).

Countermand that order. The sentinel is armed with a lascannon that is not an anti infantry weapon, its hit a genestealer truck twice now, it needs to focus on that.

>>2549572
I appreciate the suggestion. If you're supporting most of what's in the post, could you link to it and roll 10d100 to boost rolls?

The genestealer truck isn't doing anything and is in all likelihood stuck so deep in the building that shooting it further risks an explosion which would be dangerous for our troops on the building, and the creation of a pile of rubble from the collapse that the genestealers could climb to get up on the remainder of the building. I don't want to do anything to endanger our remaining stubber nest.

We also need all available fire on the genestealers approaching the elevator, the defense of which is our strategic goal, and the delicate mortar team on said elevator.

>>2549572
it got a 99 too. lets see if it shoots a bunch of them in one go

Rolled 30, 10, 98, 94, 22, 50, 52, 64, 12, 22 = 454 (10d100)

>>2549554

Rolled 16, 3, 79, 30, 17, 49, 7, 94, 24, 66 = 385 (10d100)

>>2549554

>>2549554
>>2549589
>>2549599
Thanks, anons!

Current results:
Hellhound - 55
Skitarii - 82
Angry Ambull - 98
Mortar team - 94
Sentinel - 99
Heavy stubber team - 100
Heavy bolters - 52
PDF - 94
Gangers - 24
Arbites - 66

We could use a few more rolls to help the hellhound out, beef up those arbites and get the gangers unfucked. Heavy bolters are shooting poorly as well.

>>2549584
>could you link to it and roll 10d100 to boost rolls?
I did, up here.
>>2549253

Rolled 25, 77, 85, 71, 70, 95, 59, 70, 23, 15 = 590 (10d100)

>>2548781
Hope I help

Its just cheap to keep rolling for better numbers

>>2550202
At the moment i think we're just calibrating the system we will use for when we finish governer phase. It seems that nat 1's are always failures.

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>>2549554
>>2549608
I think I made things too easy again. Back to the drawing board.

The genestealers do not even have a chance to open their mouths in a threatening gesture before they are drowned in the combined fire of the defenders. Shotgun pellets, autogun and stubber slugs reduce them to shreds as lasfire burns holes into their hides.

The Skitarii close the distance with the surviving genestealers, transonic weapons shearing through flesh and chitin as the weapons vibrate molecules apart.

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>>2550340
An eerie calm falls on the battlefield, the only sounds come from the moans of the dying, and the tapping of cooling engines.

Krenshaw removes his helmet, voxing you directly. "Auspex clear sir. I...I think that's the last we'll see of the cult for now.

You hold your breath and vox Milnja. She responds "The aliens are purged. Jindustrial Sect Clear. Mijnimal casualties. And so much blood on my blade! A fine day!"

You sigh in relief. With this, the Hive is secure. For now. There's still matters to settle, wars to win, but the immediate crisis is over. You step out of the medicae, slipping past nurses and orderlies as they frantically search for you. Making your way to a balcony hatch, you slip out into the blistering cold of the Pethan sky. It's almost night out, the skies turning dark. You make a small prayer of thanks to the Emperor, then making another lengthy one for Bromwell's health, and hopes that you will be able to handle whatever comes next.

The Emperor probably didn't catch that last part as night becomes day for the briefest moment, a blight star being born for a single second as an enormous explosion of blue and violet light in the distance flares into existence. Dammit all what now?

>Actions

>>2550350
Did you mean bright, it is it actually a blight star?
>a blight star being born for a single second as an enormous explosion of blue and violet light in the distance flares into existence.
What are those tech things called? Auspects? Whatever I don't know all my 40k lingual. Did it happen in space or was it something that crashed landed? Whatever the case might be we need someone to investigate that.

Are we missing a task or something? We saved the people in the hotel? We secured lower Canton? Middle industrial is fine? The genestealers in the industrial has been taken care of? Do we still need to kill all those tribals in the ventilation shafts?

On a morbid note. We won't have to worry too much about starvation, considering there are considerable less mouths too feed...little victories.

>>2550350
People must be frantically trying to contact us now. First. what does the mechanicum have to say? And what of the Adeptus Psychana?

>>2550358
Bright star. Misspelling on my part. The Auspex is basically a Warhammer version of a tricorder as it can scan for all kinds of things, but its distance is limited. The combat phase is done, this is the governor phase.

>>2550429
Thank the girls for the help, pray that our sort of grandpa is alright, figure out who's going to run the mechanicum on Canton now that the previous magos is probably getting raped to some capacity, do that screen apptutiude thing grandpa suggested. reopen factories for job opportunities, begin unfucking the hive world, give the gangsters a curt thank you and our condolences for those we lost, possibly give a hive wide message of mourning then another speak to inspire hope.

I'm gonna go make dessert.

>>2550486
Ok new rule. No fricking drive-by posts.

>>2550350
Chief among our concerns is to reconvene the Trade Senatorum as soon as order is restored. We need to begin preperations for the hive fleet and i think that the people first to know should be the other Trade nobles. (From what i could gather theres only 3? of them? What is their exact number, of nobles we'll have to keep happy?).

Will write in exact statments closer to the time.

>>2550350
>Get our folks in order so that we can get to work on patching everything up and flushing the last remaining worthless fuckers around.

>>2550630
As far as a fleet goes with the time we have we're probably better off looking to outside sources for support in that manner. I should imagine that even if we pooled all possible resources towards building ships we'd have a paltry offering for even a splinter fleet to go up against.

Though, on the subject of defenses exactly what land based defenses does our hive have? I should hope there are at least some nice fortifications left from the past war.

>>2551255
It was already made clear in the previous thread that we are to be assisted by one company of space marines and a few regiments from the Cadians and Mordians. But this wont be enough so we have to suppliment it. This is Hive World Governor quest. Not Chapter master quest.

>>2551255
>Local guardsmen wants somebody else to solve his problem.

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After being placed in a medicae bed for the umpteenth time today to see if you are dying, you demand to know what that explosion outside Canton was. No one has an answer, so you demand to speak with the Lord Inquisitor. An hour later, a brusque looking fellow in a long jacket who probably never learned how to smile enters your room. Flashing an inquisitorial rosette, he demands everyone but you vacate the room, as he has private business with you.

“He opens a small holoddevice, hooking up the power component to an outlet in the medicae room and dims the lights. A ghostly green image Lord Inquisitor Valastron glares down at you. “Lord Governor Arthur. Glad to see you are in good health, and congratulations are in order for retaking your hive. From what I’m hearing the other Hives are still busy suppressing their own rebellions but it looks to be clean up operations from here on out. I must say, you are quite remarkable. First day on the job and you prove to be more competent than your peers.”

>Thank you Lord Valastron, what is the purpose of this call? Couldn’t we speak over the vox?
>To the Warp with your praise, what the frak was that explosion happening on MY planet?!
>Write-in

>>2551402

>Thank you Lord Valastron, what is the purpose of this call? Couldn’t we speak over the vox?

>>2551402
i really wanna play pissed with that one, but it probably wont go well angering a Lord Inquisitor


>Thank you Lord Valastron, what is the purpose of this call? Couldn’t we speak over the vox?

>>2550340
>I think I made things too easy again. Back to the drawing board.
Or you have engaged players that pool their resources. But it is possible that the system could use a few tweaks for your and our greater enjoyment.

I had fun and it was a challenge sorting out orders and sifting through what everyone suggested and combining the parts that worked together into a frankenstein monster of effectiveness.

Gonna reply in a couple hours, event to deal with tonight.

>>2551402
>>2551481
Yeah, gonna need a couple hours to scrape my notes together. This is actually tricky because we don't know the Inquisitorial leanings for sure, but we'll get there. A lot depends on whether he's radical or puritan or what.

>>2551402
>Thank you Lord Valastron, what is the purpose of this call? Couldn’t we speak over the vox?
I have this foreboding feeling that things won't be easier from now and onwards.

>>2551481
>Or you have engaged players that pool their resources. But it is possible that the system could use a few tweaks for your and our greater enjoyment
Wait. I thought the inquisition did help in some capacity. Like that one time how they asked us if we saw any will pskers running around and how they implied they are dealing with them?

>>2551343
>>2551363
Simply look into the fluff on the building of ships. It's not viable.

>>2551584
You don't need to build ships when you fucking deal with nids mate and EVEN if you did. You literally aim for the NORE queen and once she's dead. Rip fleet.

>>2551343
>>2551584
The fleet assistance we're getting from the space marines likely will amount to no more than one strike cruiser.

The building of ships takes years to decades for even the smallest classes, but refits can be faster. However, if we give the segmentum or sector navy a reason to come here, we'll become a port of call for repairs and have a much easier time calling on sector/segmenta resources.

The easiest way to do this is to set up an AdMech temple for the Cult of the Micro-Omnissiah or some other tech-cult that manages micro-forges because they work on very delicate internal control devices for the Imperial Navy. And those need to be calibrated, and hauling ass all the way across the Imperium to do it takes forever.

>>2551592
That just makes the hive mind birth five more. It's a thing in the lore. I like how you make it sound easy, though. Knowing to look for the Norn queen is itself rare. Then you have to fight through a fuckhuge tyranid fleet and find the queen inside a massive tyranid bio-form. THEN you have to kill or disable it without getting torn to shreds by a sky full of tyranids while they drive you insane with psychic blasts.

Not that easy.

>>2552094
Norn queen is directly in the center or rear of the fleet. Also, it causes the fleet to freak out and to infight and split apart. Boom, our problem solved.

>>2552094
>>2551584
Ok, so you want to create a repair base for the imperial navy. We already have a orbital satellite that could be used.

But yes, birthing more troops and building more ships are two options not possible within 7 years.

However we must prepare for planetary assault in one of the several planets of the system. This is to prevent them creating a domino effect of bio mass harvesting.

fyi im waiting for QM to give me the que to start customising the military. As ive been thinking about this for about 1.5 weeks. I think that if we cooperate and use eachother as a testing ground for our ideas we could come up with something really neat.

The first premis i worked on is that we use the Gladiatorial side of the PDF to maximum effect.

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>>2551438
>>2551465
>>2551521
“Thank you Lord Valastron, what is the purpose of this call? Couldn’t we speak over the vox?” The man sets down the hololith and pulls out an Agrius Pattern Snub-autogun, pointing it directly at you.

“You may have noticed a great disturbance outside your hive. That was the Inquisitorial fortress imploding after a planar collapse: a pocket dimension in between the warp and realspace collapsing, and the resultant backlash creating a tear in reality to draw in that pocket dimension to the warp and reassert realspace as the only space occupying that region. It atomized the Inquisitorial fortress and well as at least a hundred Inquisitors. Pardon me, but as an Inquisitor it is my job to be suspicious of everyone. If you would please hold still…”

“What do you-” You never get to finish your sentence. Searing hot pain thrusts into your mind as it feel like a hand made of molten metal pierces your brain, sifting through memories and emotions. It feels like an eternity, but a cursory glance at a chrono tells you only a second has passed as the pain recedes.

“You aren’t the guilty party.” Valastron declares. “I apologise for the rather rude intrusion Lord Governor, but I find the mind is far more open to the truth when they don’t have time to prepare.

“Why would you-you think I had something to do with the fortress?!”

“As I said lord Governor. I suspect everyone. You have been ruled out. For now. Though this does point to a much larger plot of recidivists than I had known. You should know Lord Governor this will bring the Inquisition down on Pethus, and I cannot promise it will be left unscathed while we conduct a very thorough investigation of the system.”

“But the Tyranid swarm-”

“Is an unfortunate problem, but the threat of the Great Enemy is far greater. We shall conduct our investigation.” he says with finality. “The Trade Senatorum will host an emergency session tomorrow discussing what has happened today. I suggest you are there. Make no mention of my survival. I would prefer it if my enemies think I am dead and their plot succeeded.”

>Be shocked
>Be dismayed
>Empty your bowels in terror

>>2553059
Ask him if there will be infighting within the inquisitorial ranks, turning Pethus into a grounds for an Inquisition War, whether hot or cold, and for guidance in surviving it so we can preserve the system for the emperor.

Ask about the Kabalite and the Dark Eldar raid and the AdMech.

>>2553059

>be resigned, after all that happend there had to be more, its just getting worse and you start to get used to it ...

also this >>2553084

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>>2553084
>Ask about the Kabalite and the Dark Eldar raid and the AdMech.
Valastron stares at you for a long moment. “We have agents that are very much aware of the Dark Eldar threat, though their data suggested the attack would happen much later. It seems this chaos motivated them to move their timetables. As for why they attacked the Mechanicus...you tell me. You are far more privy to the secrets of your order than I am. Perhaps Magos Dolran had some piece of Dark Eldar tech, maybe he was researching into some tech-heresy, it doesn’t matter. He possessed something the Kabal of the Poisoned Kiss wanted. Yes Lord Governor, that’s the name of the Kabal. As I said, we have agents investigating them. As to whether or not we’ll hear from them again well… that depends on whatever secrets the Mechanicus is hiding on this world.”

Following that...horrifying turn of events, you are released from the Medicae with a clean bill of health. Before you leave however you make a quick detour to see Bromwell. Or at least the tank he is in. Some old piece of technology left from the founding days of Pethus from the first colonists during the Dark Age of Technology. You are assured by the Techpriests and Medicae that the tank is working at optimal efficiency and is attempting to heal your aide, but it is still an ancient piece of equipment. Success isn’t guaranteed.

News spreads across the Hive not only of your survival, but your hand in saving the Hive with your timely command of the PDF, the Arbites, and the Mechanicus. The nobles’ daughters have since returned to their respective homes, helping their families in quelling the ongoing battles still raging in their Hives. A quick word of heartfelt thanks to them, and you return home. Even with all that has happened outside, the servants and attendants of House Wu-Peyton act oblivious to it all. They continue as they always have, preparing your supper, drawing your bath, and laying out your clothes for tonight. Draped in silk, you collapse into a bed build while you were away, far too large for you, and a mattress far too soft. You don’t know if you will be able to sleep like

You wake up to the glare of the Pethan sun peaking through your meter tall window and burning into your eyes. The last cobwebs of some horrible dream, you standing upon a a pyre, the dead faces of your family and Bromwell staring up at you, moments before the crushing weight of an enormous “I” crushes you into paste. A hololith by your bedside informs you of an emergency meeting of the Houses this afternoon. Just as Lord Inquisitor Valastron said there would be. You crawl out of bed, collapsing onto the cold marble floor as you navigate your way out of the maze of blankets and sheets. Emperor’s mercy, you’ve never felt so tired.

>Go to the emergency meeting.
>Consult the Index Populous about [subject]
>Speak to [person] before the meeting.

>>2553352

>Go to the emergency meeting.

>>2553352
>Consult the Index Populous about [subject]
Ask what the fuck dark eldar are.
We probably dont know IC

>>2553352
>>Go to the emergency meeting.

We'll need a good meal before we go.

Something hearty yet filled with slow release energy. I suggest salmon eggs Benedict on seeded bread, chased down with some recaf and a caraf of cold sparkling water.

If we dont commit every act to winning this war, including breakfast, we wont be taking it seriously.

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>>2553392
You doubt the Index has anything on the Dark Eldar. Nothing you don't already know. It's all in your schola tutoring: "One Eldar, Two Eldar: The Vile Xenos That Looks Almost Human and All Variants"

>>2553377
Throne dammit this is the last thing you want to do today. A fast meal of poached eggs and smoked amoyad strips, then slipping into something formal you, make your way to the Trade Senatorum, and it feels like you are blown back. A cacophony of shouting and screaming as shrill nobles shriek and yell at each other, the clingy sycophants kept at a distance by a cordon of Judicators pushing away any that get too close. You attempt to stifle a yawn as you enter the Senatorum Sanctum where the Trade House lords all sit, arguing and debating with each other over essentially nothing. The moment you take your seat you are pelted by half a dozen petitions.

“Please lords and ladies” you declare holding a hand for order. “One at a time.” You take your flask, still filled with your morning recaf, take a swig, then hold out a hand and gesture to

>Ozman of Nellon
>Pogron of Damva-Oom
>Mariana of Nakara
>Grent of Bellendrast

>>2551402
>“He opens a small holoddevice, hooking up the power component to an outlet in the medicae room and dims the lights. A ghostly green image Lord Inquisitor Valastron glares down at you.
>>2553059
>The man sets down the hololith and pulls out an Agrius Pattern Snub-autogun, pointing it directly at you.
>“You aren’t the guilty party.” Valastron declares.
So the man was Valastron holding a pre-recorded message of himself?

>>2553557
>>2553589
Good meal.
>>2553589
Who are these people?

>>2553589
>Grent of Bellendrast
His daughter did a fuck ton of works and he makes all our guns.

>>2553629
>So the man was Valastron holding a pre-recorded message of himself?
No he was acting as a messenger, possible assassin, and signal booster for Valastron. He may be Gamma class, but even an alpha would have trouble mind reading from a vast distance without a node to buoy themselves on first.

>>2553629
>Who are these people?
Actually you know what? Instead of going back to dredge up who they are, I'll just collate a new list of the big players of the Trade House. This might take a while so sit tight.

>>2553589
>Grent of Bellendrast

>>2553589
I wait all day for the quest and now i have to go to sleep as i have work in the morning.

I hope you guys look after the quest well. I have quite allot of thought already on the subjects of the reforms. Including: strategy, threat model, and a sketch of the pdf guardsman.

>>2553589
>“Please lords and ladies” you declare holding a hand for order. “One at a time.” You take your flask, still filled with your morning recaf, take a swig, then hold out a hand and gesture to

I suggest we findout some of their concerns, then blow them away with the news of the 7 years to prepare for the hive fleet and how we intend to do it. We need to get everyone on side and cultivate a seige mentality. Remind them that we've won against the nid before and we'll win again. We should keep it a state secret, just with the senatorum until we have ratified a response to be implemented in the hive and sector.

I particularly like the idea of using the sky pirates to capture more tech barbarians for the gladiator pits and pdf training. Including creating celebrity pdf gladiators to face against tyranids captured from the poles and genestealers from the underhive. This is to create a hatred (hartred talent) for the tyranid in the hive, experianced by all levels of the citizens and pdf. The only stipulation is that the odds must always be stacked against the nid.

>>2553736
>then blow them away with the news of the 7 years to prepare for the hive fleet and how we intend to do it.

no

>>2553736
> then blow them away with the news of the 7 years to prepare for the hive fleet and how we intend to do it.

No

>>2553589
>>Grent of Bellendrast

>>2553736
>I particularly like the idea of using the sky pirates to capture more tech barbarians for the gladiator pits and pdf training. Including creating celebrity pdf gladiators to face against tyranids captured from the poles and genestealers from the underhive. This is to create a hatred (hartred talent) for the tyranid in the hive, experianced by all levels of the citizens and pdf. The only stipulation is that the odds must always be stacked against the nid.

This I support though, I would have to say that using the existing infrastructure and such to softly expose people to the nid more and more while training fighters against them at the same time is full on beneficial. It could also be expanded to enticing gangers, underhive scum, and even brazen upperhive youths to going into the pits to fight against captured nids perhaps.

On the whole, we need to exploit all possible manpower. Be it the techno barbarians, gangers, sky pirates or whoever. Bringing in mercenaries through rogue traders, anything and everything. Mobilizing the poor into work brigades, all crime punishable by forced labor.

Guys remember, this is the time to use the chaos and suggest that our hives need to be more self suficient in the event on one of them falling, like the inquisition temple, the most secure structure in Penthos has fallen.

We can start small, activating weapons and food processing plants on all the hives, as well as other tipes of industry so bot obly one of the.monopolies is disturbed.

also i vote for

>Ozman

Its him that provides the guns, not Grant

>>2554207
Let Grent speak first. Ozman might see this as the diminishment of his own influence in the system and thus become more pliable.

But yes, you're correct about the circumstances and the best initiative to take in the moment.

>>2553826
>>2553814
Oh, and you would like to keep the fact that our sector will be attacked a secret until the last moment? What possible benefit could that have to our organisation?

>>2554986
Oh I don't know throwing everything into utter chaos

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>>2554207
>need to be more self suficient in the event on one of them falling,

One of the ways i'd like to do that is by creating a government 'commonality' fund to purchase a few weapon templates of high quality and venerable design, and allowing anyone and any of the noble houses to produce them. This will maximise production, and take it out of the hands of just one group (like Ozman).

The government will simply form a quality control body, that assesses that the products are "Senatorum Official" quality before purchasing them.

The first such template i would like to find is for a Heavy Bolter. As i think that this should be our main heavy weapon, because:
- everything uses heavy bolters, from tanks to chimeras to flyers to guard infantry, sororitas, arbites etc, and we can upgrade them all at once for little cost with a better variant
- heavy bolters can use variable ammo, such as infernos rounds which are inexpensive
- Infernos rounds set targets on fire (reducing movement to a half action), but can also do suppressing fire at the same time (also reducing movement to a half action), this is especially useful as a Hormagount moves 60m in one turn (virtually guaranteeing they'll be in melee on the second turn if not impeded.)

This does not stop us from using other heavy weapons, such as heavy flamers or mortars as the situation dictates, and we could easily add these to the list of the weapon templates we're upgrading in the "Commonality Fund".

I suggest the Solar pattern Heavy Bolter, as this is a fast firing bolter design. The Rogue Trader or Admech should be able to get ahold of it. I suggest it be upgraded to good quality, to make it realiable, and Devotional engravings, to better help the men resist fear effects and fire the heavy bolter.

(Sorry im writing this all out for discussion before i go to work.)

>>2555020
>Oh I don't know throwing everything into utter chaos

Perhapse we can agree on a staged reveal of the threat. Perhapse in the first year we just make preparations. But they must be told eventually, and soon. This also means if we are assassinated before the reveal, the whole planet is lost.

>>2555097
>first year

no, because gene-stealers are a legit threat and grow to appear more and more human as they breed. We can't risk tipping off the hive fleet.

>>2555090
We have to remember to not focus obly ob weapons, as much as infood medical and troop production and vehicles also.

We can't disrupt only ozman's monopolity, we have to disrupt everyones's monopoly a little so we don't antagonize a single house but make thwm.understand them necessity of self sufficience likebin the old times.

i think we have to get the manufactpriuns worling, and later we can discuss patterns and such.

But it's imperatove that we use the inqiisitions fall to start the ondustrialization of all the houses and its important that all of them contribute a little so we don't antagonize just one house on the risk pf creating a barrier for future negotiations.

Yake a little from everyone and not fuck only one for everything he has is what I'm saying

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>>2555480
>We can't disrupt only ozman's monopolity, we have to disrupt everyones's monopoly

Im not trying to disrupt Ozmans monopoly. He has just as much ability to make heavy bolters as anyone else does. Perhapse even more so.

What im trying to do is level the playingfield to increase self reliance and build a resiliant society.

>i think we have to get the manufactpriuns worling

The whole point of the commonality fund is not to rely on one single manufactorum, but all sorts of guilds and artisans at all levels. Provided they achive the senatorum official stamp of quality. It wont just apply to this hive it will apply to all the hives.

>risk pf creating a barrier for future negotiations.
There wont be a barrier if they know why they are doing it. To combat the tyranid.

>Yake a little from everyone and not fuck only one for everything he has is what I'm saying
Yes and frankly, that sounds like shoddy logic. I'd rather give to everyone than take from anyone.

>>2555213
>tipping off the hive fleet.

This means you belive the genestealers and the nids at the poles are there by chance. The fleet allready knows were here. Thats why its coming. For all the biomass. Just like last time.

If anyone backslides after we tell them then that was an enemy waiting to happen anyway. It'll be good be rid of them before the nids arrive so they cant stab us in the back.

>>2556545
Nid fleets can actually BEE line towards somewhere if a cult lets out a cry for help.

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>>2556556
I did not know this...

So when you are a hive, losing biomass as you travel through the void. Why not always go top speed?
Also; when you are a underhive country bumpkin slowly evolving into a machine designed for eating. Why not let out a warp scream as soon as you can?

>>2556545
Maybe I wasn't clear.
All of them will be against the reopening of the industries that we all agreed to shut down because as of now, each one of them has a comercial monopoly on a diferent type of industry.
By putting those factories and production center back to work we will disrupt those monopolies.
I'm not saying we should take from them, but they will interpret that way when we propose to disrupt their monopoloes in favor of self suficient hives, what I wanted to tell you is that we shouldn't focus only on opening the weapon factories on the other hives but also all the other types of industry, so we don't create an imbalance by only disrupting one of the hause's monopolies, but ending at the same time, everyone's monopolies including ours

>>2556586
>So when you are a hive, losing biomass as you travel through the void. Why not always go top speed?

They are crossing the void as quickly as they can, While coversing as much energy/mass as possible actually unless thats been reconnted

>when you are a underhive country bumpkin slowly evolving into a machine designed for eating. Why not let out a warp scream as soon as you can?

Because one or two being killed can be labeled as mutants or other things however until they are meant to build up and infliction the various key points of a government and then collapse it when the hive fleet shows up, or once the cult is found out, Sorcha and burn while the fleet is called in.

>>2556601
>create an imbalance by only disrupting one of the hause's monopolies, but ending at the same time, everyone's monopolies including ours

If you even tried this you'd be killed on the senate floor with no witnesses.

Try again bragg.

>>2556628
We have a good excuse now.
The most secure place on the planet fell today, the inquisitions fortress.
It's on everyones best interest to develop their hives to be as self sufficient as possible to prevent the whole planet from beeing destroied if the hive that mobopolies food production falls, or the one that provides troops falls, or the one that provides guns falls.
We end everyones monopolies, even if they may not like it at first, but we sell it to them showing that it is necessary for our survival, should one of the hives fall

>>2556628
>>2556644
Sorry abou the ID jumping

>>2556644
>The most secure place on the planet fell today, the inquisitions fortress.
True
>It's on everyones best interest to develop their hives to be as self sufficient as possible to prevent the whole planet from beeing destroied
True
>We end everyones monopolies,
Nonsequiter.
I'd rather create new buildings than knock down the old ones, especially when we arnt running out of space.

>>2556701
we are nor ending the monopolies by closing the production of those hives man,
We are ending the monopoliea by allowing the other hives to open NEW buildings that produce those goods.

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>>2553629
>>2553727
Okay. Incoming list

Across from you are the Trade Houses. Surrounding them and you are countless minor nobles representing lesser families and guilds across the system.

To the right is lady Saveur Mikata-Nore of Hive Agrius, mistress of the Agri-Worlds Tinathius and Agame that feed the system and the tithe.

To her right is Lord Ozman Nellon of Hive Barun, Lord of the Forge, master of the Industrial Worlds Otana and Nuvo Bellam.

Next to him is Lord Grent Bellendrast of Hive Barite, lord of the feudal world Quaranta and the feral world of Lolarlairalleelampristocotsdamn. From him comes the manpower of Pethus, his soldiers forming the Guard of the tithe.

At the end of the table is Mariana Nakara of Hive Anathame, the Mineral Mistress whose raw material feeds the industry of Pethus and whose ingots feed the tithe.

To your left is Lord Pogron Damva-Oom of Hive Parthanon, the shipmaster whose dockyards keep the skies alive with Imperial craft.

And to his left is Lady Malaam Kotashi-Kreiber of Hive Aratius, the Bank of Information. Her business is data. Accounts, transactions, raw data and filtered messages, all information needs to be logged and stored. And Kotashi-Kreiber has dedicated her House to exactly that. All information is hers, Triam is where she holds all such information in the orbital vaults that ring the gas giant.

To the corner is Markus, representative of the Ecclesiarchy and all its branches within the Imperium, ensuring all meetings not stray from His path. Bent over is a slave-penitent, a sinner accused of a minor crime and pays for his transgressions by serving the old priest by carrying his tomes, books, scrolls, and treaties.

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>>2553639
>>2553729
>>2553832
Now the decision:

>>Grent of Bellendrast
You gesture to Lord Grent, you stands up, and makes a slight bow. “My lord Arthur. May I first offer you my congratulations and well wishes for your speedy recovery” Lord Ozman rolls his eyes. Grent ignores him and continues. “However my lord, I am concerned with the events of yesterday. These...widespread rebellions. They speak of coordination, or possibly the cracks in our society. I know not which I fear more. My main reason for bringing this up is during your coronation, I had a ship filled with technobarbarians I had captured in the Wastes, bound for processing for the arenas, when the sea-raiders attacked. Normally they leave my ships be, they know I carry only people and no valuable materials which they seem to crave, yet they attacked this time anyway. The wreck was salvaged, and according to what we found from the sunken vessel, they had taken only a handful of people. My lord, this seems very suspicious, and I believe this may require further investigation. Potentially Inquisition-”

“You say that about everything Grent” groans Lady Saveur. “The sea-pirates sank my ship, call the Inquisition. The Air-pirates blew up my carrier, call the Inquisition. There’s an uprising of filthy peasants on Quaranta, call the Inquisition. I can’t meet the quota of Ogryns for the Guard call the Inquisition!”

Grent turns to Saveur. “Oh and you’re any better. Everytime something goes wrong, you blame the Tyranids and demand the Inquisition to clean up your little mess!”

>>2556545
>This means you belive the genestealers and the nids at the poles are there by chance. The fleet allready knows were here. Thats why its coming. For all the biomass. Just like last time.

Thats already been covered, the hive fleet does not know that we know they are coming, as far as we know it.

>>2556753
Unfortunatly, the inquisition is no more, and while they don't send someone else, we will have to fend for ourselves.

After this,Let's try to ease them into the idea of self suficient hives

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>>2557078
“There will be no Inquisition” you declare, getting everyone’s attention. “You may have noticed a quake yesterday. That was an explosion. A planar shift that destroyed the Inquisitorial fortress.”

The room goes quiet. Deathly quiet, not even the whispers of the minor nobles who circle the room whispering and muttering to each other. The news hits all in the room like a hammer. Then pandemonium. Markus starts shouting prayers of salvation, the nobility screaming and bellowing, at you, at each other, at the roof, everything. The room descends into total anarchy.

>>2557574
Silence!

We stand at the edge pf.a precipice. Yhis attack, this rebelion...was noy an isolated even. I fear we face the greatest threat.this.planet has seen since the tyranid.incursion and changes must be made.

The greatest bastion of security and strenght in our world has fallen. It has made clear how weak and pitifyl we've become on this past century.

Now imagine. Imagine if structure that fell was Hive Aratius, imagine our economy and data banks thrown in disaray as anarchy sweept the streets of our hones. Or imagine it was hive Anathame and all our factories and plants stoped workibg over night for lack of materials, or even hive Berite and taking with it the entirety of our planet training and mustering capabilities to deal with the tithe and enemies to come, or hive Agris and hive Berun, seeing us defenceless and starving...

If one lesson can be taken for todays attavk, and the fall of our inquisitorial temple is that no matter how powerful orbprepered you think you are, the enemy shal come, and when they come, you stand against it in the first moment vounting obly with what we have.

We have arrived in a tine that our specializations, our streamlining of our resources has become our greatest weakness, becouse if obe of our hives had fallen today, intead of the temple of the inquisition, all of the others would have fallen too vecause of our extreme dependency.

I say we open up the ancient factories and let the fires of induastry burn in our hives obce again, only thwm we can stand alobe against perils, and after standing, extending our hand to our fellow neighbor
Ooc: eh, i tried my best, feel free to criticise and propose changes to everything here hehehe

>>2557662
Fuck guys, I'm really sorry about the spelling. I'm phone posting and I always forget to read the thing again

>>2557662
>>2557574
Not just the planet. Possibly the whole system.

I'm a little confused. Do all these nobles live mainly on different planets, or do they all live on Pethus?

>>2557734
They all comand diferent planets but they also have hives here on Penthus

>>2557662
Agreed. Dayum that grammar bruh

I was definitely waiting for a prompt earlier myself. Sorry, maybe I'm autistic but if I don't see a prompt I'm not going to chime in.

>>2557662

Lol. It's funny if you imagine a drunk Boris Johnson was saying it.

>>2557966
I'll write out the will

Throwing this out there. Maybe we should have a weekly cleansing to check everyone for genestealers infection.

>>2557574
>Markus starts shouting prayers of salvation, the nobility screaming and bellowing, at you, at each other, at the roof, everything. The room descends into total anarchy.

Wow these guys dont have much restraint.

If this was ww2 and we were in the London blitz, chances are they would have already collapsed the society. What happened to the siege mentality? Wheres the stubbornness?

>>2559743
They've lost it, that's what gather needs us to put on them since the nids war will probably be a siege too

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>>2557662
This is fine as long as you dont go full commie and start annexing peoples businesses and factories.
>>2556753

"We must work to together now more than ever before, to level the playing field, to construct a more resilient and self reliant structure in our society, to combat coordinated assault. So that every house has a manufactorum, and that these manufactora work together to produce the materials needed to fix the cracks in our society, so they cannot be exploited by the most hated of enemies, the genestealer. During the uprising in hive canton the genestealer specifically targeted the manufactorum, and i commanded our forces in taking it back."

Then i reference these two plans as our first attempt at reforms.
>>2553736
>I particularly like the idea of using the sky pirates to capture more tech barbarians for the gladiator pits and pdf training. Including creating celebrity pdf gladiators to face against tyranids captured from the poles and genestealers from the underhive. This is to create a hatred (hatred talent) for the tyranid in the hive, experienced by all levels of the citizens and pdf. The only stipulation is that the odds must always be stacked against the nid.
>>2555090
>One of the ways i'd like to do that is by creating a government 'commonality' fund to purchase a few weapon templates of high quality and venerable design, and allowing anyone and any of the noble houses to produce them. This will maximise production, and take it out of the hands of just one group (like Ozman).

Just to be clear. Im not saying we should only focus on weapons or ignore things like water and food shortages, but we're on a war footing now so best make use of it. Infact one of my ideas is to use the acid rain to flush out what ever is blocking the hive sewer system. Probably a big nid or nurgle down there, thats about to get a sirprise. I also think we should try to fix the food shortage and use it as an incentive to get people to work for the Administratium, because we cant really function without someone looking after the treasury.
But anyway im waiting for someone to suggest how to fix the food shortage.

I suppose we should table the idea for an organisation to take up the slack left by the Inquisition. Give them a budget and everything. Maybe the Siroritas? Arbites? Maybe this:
>>2559349

It may seem like im rushing into things. But we are in the senatorum now. So nows the time.

Also, i think we might mollify Ozman, by giving him a particularly lucrative contract for something. Maybe earthshaker cannons or hellhounds. I suspect we'll need pleanty of both.

What i dont want is for the poor fellow to feel his livelyhood is being taken from him and do something silly, like become a traitor. (if he isnt already)

>>2559763
I'm not proposing we commie up man. I'm just doing what our father told us to be our first priority. He said that we should end the old trade agreements that created the hiper-specialization of the hives here on Penthos, and that all hives should diversify their productions so they could hold on their own in an event of a siege. Since we know that we will not be able to suport them when the nids arrive as we weren't able on the last invasion. When the nids come, all the hives will have to hold alone on the first part intil we can push them back and start helping each other

>>2559771
Father told us that all the hives need to be self sufficient because we won't be able to transport goods and suplies between hives during the nids siege and every hive will have to do battle with what they have at hand.

>>2559349
It would be impossible my man.

>>2559743
Imagine telling them about an incoming hive fleet.

>>2559763

As far as food goes, it would be impossible to compete with the amount of food produced by agri worlds but steps could be made to work towards some self sufficiency, green houses, fish farms, algae farms, whatever farming we can manage on the outskirts of the hive, mushroom colonies. Perhaps we can look into some sort of super crops through the AdMech or Rogue Traders to bring into the hives.

On the note of the Inquisition, they'll eventually be back, but rather than bolster another Imperial institution I would rather that we use this as an opportunity to create some manner of Commissariat/Secret Police of our own, even better that they will answer to us and us alone.

>>2560115
Why would it be impossible?

>>2560423
Try and imagine the scale of the Hive and how we can't even manage basic infrastructure currently.

>>2560115
>As far as food goes, it would be impossible to compete with the amount of food produced by agri worlds but steps could be made to work towards some self sufficiency, green houses, fish farms, algae farms, whatever farming we can manage on the outskirts of the hive, mushroom colonies.

We'll need to start making more food because we have a shortfall and regular food riots. Also water tribals. As we improve food, we'll improve industry. We just need to control the food to get people into the right jobs.

>Perhaps we can look into some sort of super crops through the AdMech or Rogue Traders to bring into the hives.

Sounds good, make an official policy proposal for the QM.

>On the note of the Inquisition, they'll eventually be back, but rather than bolster another Imperial institution I would rather that we use this as an opportunity to create some manner of Commissariat/Secret Police of our own,

Now your thinking like 40k!

>even better that they will answer to us and us alone.

The only purpose to have guys that dont answer to anyone else, is when we are planning to back slide on the Emps. And i dont wanna do that. I love that guy, he is the best of mankind.

I say that we make the Secret Police attached to an organisation which will serve to balance our power, but that we will also be in position to balance. So connecting it to the Ecclesiarchy is a good idea. But i could also imagine the Commissariat being in charge of cells of investigators just like the =][=. Which means we need to reform the Scholarium.

>>2560498
There are millions I know, but there's got to be something we can do.

He with all the dead bodies from the attack, think the mechanicum can use them to make more servitors?

And what about that carnifex? Can we make more of those from the dead ones on the cultist attacks?

>>2560786
>millions
There are tens of billions.

>>2560818
FUCK.
Well. Are servitors medical examinators a thing?

>>2560786
>think the mechanicum can use them to make more servitors?

They use fresh ones for that. Its gross.

If they were recycling living tissue then it would be whats classified as a automata. Different thing entirely, they have vat grown nero tissue that becomes a brain. Rather than starting with a brain and working in reverse.

>>2560786
>And what about that carnifex? Can we make more of those from the dead ones on the cultist attacks?

Well actually this brings me to another project i wanted to create. But i just didnt want to be a one man show of project ideas.

One of the improvements which i deem most cost effective (your mileage may vary) to the PDF guardsmen, is giving them stimms and steroids to either beef them up physically (high strength) or provide a much more robust (high toughness) constitution, that can take things like pain, bloodloss and infection. This can be done by implanting a gland as a form of bionic augment. A bit like space marines, except it isnt a whole set of organs, its just a gland, making them whats called gland warriors. Given that by luck we are in cooperation with the Admech genitors, this should be an extremely easy modification to make and probably good quality too.
https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Gland_War_Veteran

We could also allow them to research the stimms, steriods and drugs from the DE Wracks we encountered. However we'll have to succeed pretty well on this research to not just yeild something that is inherently self destructive, and we inexorably use even against our best conscience.

This could be Research Project 2, also known as "Mark 2 Tyranid Fighting human".

And Research Project 1 would be this:
>>2560115
Perhaps we can look into some sort of super crops through the AdMech or Rogue Traders to bring into the hives.

What do you think?

>>2560955
Dude. That's cool as fuck. If we can make a fighting force that's even a tier or tow below Space Marines then I'm all for it. Surgically implanted organs that produce a natural Chem to bolster everything about a PDF or guardsmen.

Oh. So about the space pirates being housed in the static storm fuckery. What if we just orbital bombard them? Maybe throw in a few miniature earth cracker things?
Bear with me I have minimum knowledge of 40k. All I know is there is a doomsday weapon called a planet cracker. I just want orbital weapons that could go a mile or two through the planets crust to kill anyone in bunkers.

>>2560955
I still don't know how those dark elder were able to control that Mechanicus owned Carnifex. Did they have the controls to it in their possession?
Speaking of Carnifex, what about researching technology to tame genestealers, or at least have them frenzy against other genestealers? Would it even be viable since genestealers are always evolving or something?

>>2561036
I was thinking of bribing them into the force actually, if we have an undetectable hidout in planet when the Nids arrive it can be useful

>>2561074
I'd rather be one and done with them. Besides.we can always move in once we kill them all.
We can't nuke those sea pirates though.

>>2557574
What of the progress of those guys we sent to investigate the Pirates? Do we have anymore recaf in our flask?

>>2561074
I don't believe pricing pirates into the force is possible. Aren't pirates all about freedom and doing whatever the hell they want?

Man it's a fucking shame the Inquisatorial Fortress was destroyed. We could have asked them to send a spy to hopefully figure out how these pirates know so much about what's being shipped before they leave port.

>>2561093
they are about money, and if we bring them in as privateers we can provide that for them for a lower risk

but then again,it was just a though, they know how to navigate those storms, it's something we don't, that knowledge can be useful to move undetected following the storms, but I don't have strong feeling towards it too

>>2561036
Thanks. Wait until these badboys hit the gladiator pits.

>>2561093
>I don't believe pricing pirates into the force is possible. Aren't pirates all about freedom and doing whatever the hell they want?

Well, so are humans.

The Sky pirates are good because we can just draft letters of marque to hire them and supercharge our efforts to press all the techno barbarians into service. Also the techno barbarians are sitting on lots of mineral resources that we could use. So its using one stone to kill two birds, three if the sky pirates become integrated into our force structure when the tyranids come. A force of trained pilots is usefull, play up the fact that they once were part of our force that defeated the last invasion. Also the sea pirates are probably heretics, although this is unconfirmed.

>>2561098
>We could have asked them to send a spy to hopefully figure out how these pirates know so much about what's being shipped before they leave port.

This is a good point. We need to recruit a spymaster. Its time to +1 our retinue. My personal suggestion is someone like a Commissar or Detective from the Adjudicators. This will require rubbing shoulders with potential candidates and could be fun.

>>2561139
What about the inquisitor as spy master? That is if he has the time.

>>2561074
Putting them to use would be nice, I agree. That is of course, if they can be won over.

>>2561161
that would be an incredible step down for him.

he is the one who has spymasters, and he shares with us only the absolute minimal.

I say we gather a network of tunnel rats lead by someone else, they allways know what's what

>>2561139
>This is a good point. We need to recruit a spymaster. Its time to +1 our retinue. My personal suggestion is someone like a Commissar or Detective from the Adjudicators. This will require rubbing shoulders with potential candidates and could be fun.

I could go for that as well, I rather like the idea of some old school hard boiled detective type. Would also sync well with my idea of founding our own Commissariat/Secret Police force.

>>2561161
Oh he sees himself as our boss. Hes a Lord Inquisitor. Probably one of the few people that equals us in the authority to execute, and probably one of the few people we need to keep happy besides the Senatorum... And i imagine hes far more busy as the only surviving Inquisitor. We need him to keep doing whatever it is he does. If we want someone to direct to investigate, we need more of an Agent of our noble house.

>Would also sync well with my idea of founding our own Commissariat/Secret Police force.

Sounds like a plan!

You hold up your hands “Silence!” you declare. Nothing happens. So you pull out your Canton-Works Ironclad Revolver and fire a shot into the roof. The deafening back has the desired effect. All eyes are on you now. Taking a deep breath, you begin “We stand at the edge of a precipice. This attack, this rebellion...was not an isolated event. I fear we face the greatest threat this planet has seen since the tyranid incursion and changes must be made!”

The nobles are returning to their seats which you take as a sign to continue “The greatest bastion of security and strength in our world has fallen. It has made clear how weak and pitiful we've become on this past century.”

“Now imagine. Imagine if structure that fell was Hive Aratius, imagine our economy and data banks thrown in disarray as anarchy swept the streets of our homes. Or imagine it was hive Anathame and all our factories and plants stopped working overnight for lack of materials, or even hive Barite and taking with it the entirety of our planet training and mustering capabilities to deal with the tithe and enemies to come, or hive Agris and hive Berun, seeing us defenceless and starving…”

“If one lesson can be taken for today’s attack, and the fall of our inquisitorial temple is that no matter how powerful or prepared you think you are, the enemy shall come; and when they come, you stand against it in the first moment counting only with what we have.”

“We have arrived in a time that our specializations, our streamlining of our resources has become our greatest weakness, because if one of our hives had fallen today, instead of the temple of the inquisition, all of the others would have fallen too because of our extreme dependency.”

This is the moment. You have their attention, and the fear is so palpable you can cut it with a damned knife. “I say we open up the ancient factories and let the fires of industry burn in our hives once again, only then we can stand against the perils in our system.”

Once again the Senatorum explodes into anarchy. Some vehemently praising your decision, others accusing you of treachery, all of them changing sides at the flip of a coin...

>Emperor give me strength...

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So ive been waiting for a long time for governor phase. And in that time i drew what i think the PDF might look like.

As with all 40k drawings this might not be canon and this was probably sketched by a guardsman with no talent without even being noticed by who he was sketching, and may not even reflect reality.

Items of particular note:
- the large flak armoured gladiator belt buckle.
- knee high laced riot boots.
- tox resistant rebreather and overcoat.
- 'nasal'; helmet mounted blade that allows mono bladed strikes to the head to be parried by a mono blade.
- single flak knee pad issued to guardsman for dominant knee.

>>2561377
Sorry for it being side rotated. I have failed.

>>2561339
>Emperor give me strength...

Make the sign of the Aquila.

>>2561339
Are we supposed to post something or are you writing up more?

>>2561339
We fought genestelers today, thousends of them, for emperor's sake. How long do you think it will take for them to call for backup....yes....that kind of backup.

Now more than ever we have to prepare for the worse, our hives have to be prepare to face any threat that they may face, specially isolation! They have to stand firm and be able to do it alone if needed be. That was how our ancestors repelled the greatest threat this system has ever seen and that is how we will repel any and all danger who tries destroy us!

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>>2561339
Sorry, power went out in the neighborhood. Updating part 2/2

“You betray the laws of your father! Of your father’s father! All of them!” Lord Pogron shouts.

“We had a deal generations standing” Saveur screams “Who are you to break them?!”


“Lords and Ladies please!” you call to order. “This attack just shows how weakened we are. Those agreements were written in better times, peaceful times. Times when we didn’t worry about the threat of the Tyranids, when the Ork Freebooters were a small nuisance. We need unity now more than ever. This isn’t a matter of just economics. This is a matter of war! The Inquisition was attacked for Throne’s sake! The system has been rife with aliens and heretics for too long! It is time TO PURGE IT!” you shout the last part for emphasis.

“We shall put it to a vote” Lady Malaam states flatly. “The Trade Senatorum still stands, and as such decisions shall be made by the entirety of the council.”

Predictably, the vote is tied
>Lady Saveur, Lord Pogron, and Lady Mariana oppose
>Lord Ozman, Lord Grent, and Lady Malaam are in favor
As you are the one to raise the issue, you aren’t given a vote. Something you are mentally kicking your ancestors for drafting in the charter. Of the ones that vote in favor, you are certain Ozman only voted in favor to spite Mariana. If she was to vote for you, he would vote against. And Lord Grent voted in favor in hopes of getting you to help him with his trouble. If that isn’t addressed, he may switch sides to the opposition, or possibly even to spite Lady Saveur if she changes sides. Politics...

Of the three that oppose, there are two with outstanding issues... “Very well” you sigh. “We shall come back to this later. For now there are more immediate concerns.” There are murmers of ascent, the nobles calming down as they think you are simply dropping the issue. You aren’t. You’ll be back once you have more houses on your side. For now…

>You will help Lord Grent.
>Hear out Lord Ozman’s complaints
>Hear out Lord Pogron’s issues
>Address Lady Mariana’s problems

>>2562607
>Hear out Lord Ozman’s complaints

>>2561377
>>2561577
I like the design, really good. Though I'd imagine them using autoguns more since Ozman makes more of those than anything else.

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>>2562607
I have an idea, and it's related to the Carnifex
>Hear out Lord Ozman’s complaints

What were Grent's and Mariana's problems again?

>>2562607
>>Hear out Lord Ozman’s complaints

>>2562607
I think we should help Pogron first regardless of the issues presented, barring one of them beeing very serious

Mariana and Ozman are going to antagonize each other, so if we help one we lose the other ones vote and are back to a tie

Grant will antagonize Saveur(who is against us) and that should give us some time to deal with his problem before he decides to switch sides.

Witch leaves us with Pogron, who doesn't have anu outstanding issues with the othwr houses and is currently against our proposition. If we help him and bring him into the fold we can gain a vote and possibly not lose any.

>hear pogron's problem

>>2563159
Changing my vote to this

What was his issue again?

>>2563191
He hasn't pesented it yet, we are voting to hear him out I believe.

I mean, can we just hear everyone and then decide what to do?

>>2562734
Thanks! This may not be the final design if any other anons get on it, but its a first attempt.

>got 2 for Ozman, 2 for Pogron
>Need a tiebreaker

>>2563809
I'm >>2563159

And I change to Ozman to get things rolling

Can we ask about the other problem after that?

>>2563832
Yeah you can go through two more before-actually I shouldn't give it away.

Writing.

>>2563840

this makes me uneasy

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>>2564136
Nothing sinister, I just don't want everyone arguing for 20+ posts because of it before we even get to it

>>2563840
Lord Ozman rubs his cane to collect his thoughts, then inhales deeply. “Lord Arthur, my weapons-” he doesn't even pause as a series of groans echo across the table. “are now in the hands of traitors. I'm not just speaking for my small arms, I mean the vehicle support craft and ordnance are in the hands of a. Well...it might be best if you see it yourself.” He pulls the crystal ball off his cane, a data-jack at its end. He inserts the orb into a slot. A hololith in the center of the table flickers into life as the cogitator in the table reads the information in Ozman’s data crystal. It slowly forms a transparent green image of an angry looking man, half his face painted as he holds a XXXXXX pattern rocket launcher. Ozman presses a rune on his sides of the table. The image begins to move, sound crackling as the cogitator activates it vox-cast arrays across the room.

“We have been slaves of the Imperial yoke for too long! Today we claim independence from the Imperium! Today the people of Barundia are free of Nellon! Free of oppression! Free of Imperial tyranny!”

He turns to a distant figure the hololith processes, the hazy shape forming into the form of an Administratum adept. He hangs from a noose tied to the cannon of a Basilisk as angry people beneath light his robes on fire. It stops midway as a cheer erupts from the crowd.

“That was sent to me through one of my men. He was beaten within an inch of his life and chased to Hive Barun. He died shortly after. That was on a Pictcorder attached around his neck.”

“So lord Ozman, what are you saying” you ask already knowing the answer.

“Barundia, the whole continent lordship is in open revolt.”

“Well then it’s clear that I didn’t steal you weapons Ozman” Mariana butts in. “Those rebels did, the ones you never uncovered.” she jabs. Lord Ozman bristles but doesn’t give in.

“My lord, as much as I would prefer to handle this myself” he says through gritted teeth. “I request the aid of my fellow houses in suppressing this rebellion.”

>Agree to support lord Ozman
>Don’t send anything
>Hear out the other nobles.

>>2564346
remind me please,
what is there in Barundia? is there where we get the technobarbarians from?

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>>2564346
>Today the people of Barundia are free of Nellon!

I cant remember, but im assuming Nellon is Ozmans first name?

Also, what happened to these policies:

>>2560115
>>2553736
>>2555090
>>2559764
>>2560955
>>2560115

I would like to get down to putting them to the Senatorum, but perhaps it is best we hear the issues raised before finalising these policies.

>>2564382
>Barundia is the continent that Hive Barun is built on and is the place a lot of Pethus' industry is focused in. Ozman does a lot of his weapons manufacturing off world but small arms like infantry guns happens on Pethus.

>>2564451
>Hear out the other nobles.

>>2564346
Those are grave news, I imagine this situation hinders your weapons production capabilities and the general security of your facilities, am I correct?

With them compromised I assume that lord Grent's troops will be underquiped

*looking at Grent*

I imagine it would be in your best interest to help lord Ozman to retake his weapons or at least safeguard his operations am I rigth?

*before he can protest we look at Ozman and say*

and lord Ozman would repay that kindness in thrones and the best armament he can offert to secure lord Grent's convoys so that the incident that occurred with his captured barbarians don't happen again.

and of course, I will carry out an investigation onboth matters and allocate resorses myself after I hear what other issues we have in our planet

>hear lord Pogron
if they accept

>>2564428
as for the policies

I'm all abord the comissariat, but I don't think we should include them in that decision, they would want to put some of their people in it and I think we want it to be our source of information on them too

for the food and guns I think we should wait until we can lift the exclusive trading rights on them to propose them, since that way everyone could produce those itens and not just the two houses that control them

the pdf idea is amazing and since we have a biologically inclined admech here it fits perfectly

the sky pirate is good and I'm in favor too, but we would have to negotiate with them ourselves and probably face some resistance from the nobles that the sky pirates attack the most

what do you think?

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>>2564604
>they would want to put some of their people in it and I think we want it to be our source of information on them too

This is a Senatorum, we cant enact anything without their voting on it. We need a national spy organisation. Not just a household spy organisation. Unless we want to specialise our house into intelligence, which would be making the same mistake we accuse them of; specialisation.

If we dont keep them happy, they will simply vote us out. The single only thing we have going for us now is they are enamoured by our history, and even that isnt enough because it seems that one of them tried to assassinate us.

>for the food and guns I think we should wait until we can lift the exclusive trading rights on them to propose them, since that way everyone could produce those itens and not just the two houses that control them
Agreed.

>the sky pirate is good and I'm in favor too, but we would have to negotiate with them ourselves and probably face some resistance from the nobles that the sky pirates attack the most

Yup, i think that might be the case. Or we will need to send a negotiator for their services.

Also we need to recruit a house spy master. I like the idea of looking in the Commissariat.

Ive taken a look at the Industrial sector again, and we DO need to kick start that to kick everything else off. Mainly the production of fresh water, which can be used for crops. Then the crops and water can be destributed to those who join our employment. This will be mainly employment in the Administratium to catch up on 4 years of lost taxes. Also the acid neutralisation can be used to save housing and stopping even further degredation of our population. And the acid collected can be used to flush out whatever nurglings are backing up the sewers.

>>2564897
>This is a Senatorum, we cant enact anything without their voting on it. We need a national spy organisation. Not just a household spy organisation. Unless we want to specialise our house into intelligence, which would be making the same mistake we accuse them of; specialisation.

If we dont keep them happy, they will simply vote us out. The single only thing we have going for us now is they are enamoured by our history, and even that isnt enough because it seems that one of them tried to assassinate us.
agreed, let's include them. But I still think we should have a section dedicated to look into them as I'm sure they have one to look into us

as for the rest, I am in favor too

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>>2564941
If you read the book "The Dictators Handbook", the first thing you learn is that all governments are dictators to some degree. And an essential part of being a dictator is having an iron grip on two things; the military and the bank that funds the military. A typical problem is when the head banker pays your army to remove you. But beyond that you have little to worry about, even things like hereditary position arnt actually a problem, they are even favoured by the nobles that you have to keep happy. This brings me to the next point; the nobles you have to keep happy need one thing; a budget. And most of all they need to be stopped from finding out which amongst them has the largest budget. If the budget ever gets thin, then you'll be killed and replaced by some other noble that promises to make the budget swell.

So baring all this in mind, im not just in favour of controlling the spies, i want the whole PDF and the house guard and anyone else that knows how to fire a stubgun. But im also casting an eye to the Administratium and its 4 year backlog of taxes. But before we get to those, i think as it stands now we need a spy organisation with as far reaching and roaming authority, and for that we need their consent.

D'ya think pic related should be our head of Intelligence? Maybe hes from our house, or a minor house.

>>2565043
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMeZZZ4He3s
skip to 31:25
what if we get Servitorks and shove them in a box?

>>2565043
Looks like a kid.