Depends on what collectively we saw the ship's past role to have been? With the modules we've picked, I see it more as a regimental blockade runner with assault shuttles wading in to deliver folks to the action...

 While in ship to ship engagements, we probably want to hold the distance open as we volley assault shuttles in to nobble the enemy - so long-range weapons of some sort would serve us well.

If that’s our flavour than a Lance and Lance Batteries?

Could work, but might have problems getting through shields for heavier ships.

Sounds like we're just about done, so I'll kick things off in a day or so. One other thing you'll all want to do is decide on your additional starting gear--you have two points each, so that's one Very Rare purchase or two Rare purchases.

 I think there's an element of 'if it's a big shielded ship, run' to be taken into consideration, but if we think about the design of a ship with plenty of troops, launch tubes to get them aboard an enemy vessel and lances, we're probably going to be flying a vessel with special operation vibes - the sort of ship that would lead an AdMech planetary assault, dropping Secutors on key targets with pinpoint lance fire coming down as ortillary.

Thematically, I think I need to take a Refractor Field and a Chimera (presuming sufficient crew to drive the thing)

Yes, you have more than enough. :-) It might be worth thinking about where your well-armed private army came to be attached to the Dynasty.

Also, any suggestions for names for the ship?

Oh, and would you like the heavy bolter or heavy flamer model?

I likewise need to muse over my starting acquisitions.

As for a ship name, hm. I could see Odette having renamed it Resurgence, but there's a good chance several of you have better ideas.

 I'm always partial to variations on the theme of 'Thunderchild' because of the banging disco musical track for it, but since we're talking Adeptus Mechanicus here... Oh, and renaming ships is a big no-no. Even in the real world it's frowned upon, but when you're talking an AdMech light cruiser paid off into the service of a trader house for some unimaginable service?
 Yeah, you take the name on the commissioning plate and you're grateful for it. ^_^

 Child of Thunder would be the appropriate format for a variation on Thunderchild.

 Forlorn Hope rather fits the idea that this is a 'first in the breach' ship originally intended for planetary assault.

 Rain (or Reign) of Steel, natch.

I'm a fan of Resurgence, Odette, or the Forlorn Hope



Flamer, please



Spitballing a little...

Our Dynasty has a long and storied history with the Adeptus Mechanicus in the Segmentum Obscurus. Perhaps a millennia ago, three or four Lord-Captains, he ferried a Centurius of the Auxilia Myrmidon - the war savants of the Mechancius - to the siege of a death world infested with tech heretics. We lost two vessels and were gifted the ship in return, together with an ancient savant, gone to seed. In his failing years, the savant laid the foundations of the Dynastic training regimes

 That'd make good sense. Figure that the Hope (or whatever we call her) was badly damaged in the assault and refitted for our use, which makes the ship both interestingly glitchy in the below-decks (complete with possible heretek components here and there) and old enough that we're only as tightly bound to the Adeptus as we choose to be, rather than still making up for a recent gift.

I'm also happy to lean towards Forlorn Hope. :)

What rarity would you assign a digi weapon and the conversion field?

Both are listed as Very Rare in the Character Creation thread, msg #10

So two purchase points each.

Of course, you can pick up stuff during play, it just comes out your Funds score for each story.

Thanks. :)

In that case, I'll pick up the conversion field. Digi weapons are handy in a tight spot, but they still only have one use.

Do we need to spend any profit or funds on a regiment for the barracks?

It's covered by the module itself. Though I'd say you could upgrade the quality / equipment of your troops as a Rare / Very Rare purchase.

Also, any thoughts on where they might have come from? Leased from an Imperial Guard regiment? Loyal household troops?

I'll also note that one of the reasons I like Savage Worlds is that you can actually run a battle with lots of Extras, and not have things slow to an agonising crawl, since they're either okay, Shaken or out of action.

I'll kick things off tomorrow. :-)

 Hmmm, household troops would be loyal but less skilled... Probably a good way to go, since it means we have less external obligations?

hi guys

still here sorry for being quiet really busy at work as I finish for the holidays on Friday so trying to clear my desk before then.

Need to sort out my rare equipment not sure what would be good for a navigator any ideas very welcome

I'd like to agree with house troops, at least to start off with. Could be we'd have other chances for recruitment later on, or training, etc.

A power board. But then again, that's my recommendation for everything. :-)

If you're not sure, you could just go for something like improved armour (superior carapace armour or an energy field) or a fancy signature weapon (a shuriken pistol or other xenos weapon, digi-weapon).

And we're off.

This scene will be mainly exposition about your mission and establishing characters, so describe yourselves. :-)

If you haven't already spotted it, the Librarium Vault thread has the write-up and an outline of the mission. :-)

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Moving on, but you can still ask any other questions you would have had during the meeting, hatch plans, make purchases, etc. :-)