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[Aseaheru]

Apologies if this is totally off-topic, but I just finished designing the insane unit. Its not as insane as the one I mentioned earlier today, but with a total of 14 points of unit drawbacks (inorder to pay for the possibly OP item of OP)... Well...

Oh, it also starts with 3d10 of insanity.

Spoiler: Sixth Eriban Void Infantry Unit, the Void Born (click to show/hide)

Void Born
Cost:3

Characteristic Modifiers: +3 to Willpower, +3 to Agility or Perception
Skills: Common Lore(Tech), Linguistics(Low Gothic), Navigate (stellar), Operate(Aeronautica), Tech-Use
Traits:
 Charmed(when spending fatepoint, roll 1d10. if 9 or 10 then fatepoint is not spent, but effect occurs)
 Ill-Omened(-10 penalty to interaction tests with non-void born)
 Void Accustomed(Zero gravity is normal terrain, agility test during Charge or Run actions in 0G is only Difficult(-10))
Wounds:-1

Phlegmatic
Cost:1

Starting Skills: Common Lore (Imperial Guard), Common Lore (War)

Drop Troops

Cost: 3 points
Characteristics: +3 Agility, –3 Fellowship
Starting Skills: Operate (Aeronautica)
Starting Talents: Catfall
Standard Kit: One lascarbine and four charge packs per Player Character (Main Weapon), one suit of Imperial Guard flak armour per Player Character, one respirator per Player Character, one grav-chute per Player Character, two frag grenades and two smoke grenades per Player Character.

Anti-Aircraft
cost:4

Aptitude: Ballistic Skill
Talent: Storm of Iron
Special: +10 to BS to hit airborn targets

Warp-Delayed
Cost:-4

Traits:
 Officially Nonexistent(whenever doubles are rolled, roll counts as failure)
 Lost Time(PC start with 1d5 insanity points)

The Few
Cost:-5

Traits:
 Limited Numbers(replacing dead troops takes a hard(-20) logistics test, or an Ordinary (+10) if most of the unit is not in the field)

Lost Home World
cost:-5
Traits:
 Survivor's Guilt(2d10 insanity)
 Last Survivors(on successful reinforcement, roll 1d10. on result of 3-4, recruits come from original unit members, on 5-10 reinforcements come from another unit, and on 1-2 no units are assigned)
Talents: Hatred(Ork)


One Accatran-pattern Mk IV Lasgun and four charge packs per Player Character (Main Weapon)
One suit of good quality Imperial Guard void armor w/built in vidrelay, photo-visor, Micro-bead and maneuvering systems (Eribus MK7 pattern void suit*)
two frag grenades
two smoke grenades
One uniform
One Accatran-pattern Mk II Laspistol (Main Weapon), and two charge packs
Three knifes
One rucksack or sling bag
One set of basic tools
One mess kit and one water canteen
One blanket and one sleep bag
One rechargeable lamp pack
One grooming kit
One set of cognomen tags or equivalent identification
One primer or instructional handbook
Combat sustenance rations, two weeks’ supply
One 9-70 entrenching tool


*Light(er) construction, durable, Fixed Pattern (Its a hardsuit. These guys live (and die) in their armor.)
Functions as combination void suit, respirator, flack armor, vidrelay, gravchute, photo-visor, etc, with all the bonuses and weight applied. Light construction only applies to the weight of the armor, voidsuit and gravchute. Unable to be replaced.

HISTORY:
 The Eribus Sixth Void Infantry Unit is perhaps unique in all of the Imperium. Hailing form the network of orbital stations built to maintain Imperial Navy units known commonly as Eribus, the Sixth was trained and equipped to fight in the cold of the Void in a way that no others can. Encased in their specially designed voidsuits, members of the Sixth Void could, if needed, go from fighting in a space-hulk to preforming drops onto planetary bodies to fighting in the caves of a mine world with ease, without even needing to change filters. In any event, the Sixth Void, and her sister units, are often deployed to areas where the revered Space Marines could not fit, or simply in leu of them.
 In any event, in the course of their duties the Sixth Void's transport was delayed by nearly a hundred years by the vagaries of the warp, thought to have been destroyed, and to make matters worse, Eribus itself had been destroyed by the Ork, along with most of the rest of the Void Infantry Units.

[Remuthra]

Still like the Vniediken Paracommandos better, but the void troop thing is interesting. What's the point of a grav-chute, though?

[Aseaheru]

The kit was origionally mostly drop-trooper gear, that I threw together into things with the extra 20 points of gear points. I kinda wish that when I rolled the custom trait thing/whatever the proper name is that I got a result with more drawbacks... Then I made it so that you cant ever get more suits, so unless you get really lucky in who you get as replacements... IF you get replacements.


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More clarification on the grav chute: The armor contains a set of very small thrusters to help reduce the effects of recoil, this, combined with some other things, can have the same effect as a grav chute.

[Caellath]

The problem is that it can't work per normal rules since only one regimental drawback is allowed.

[Remuthra]

Where's that stated? I recall breaking it quite a bit.

[Caellath]

Pg.44 of HotE: "When designing a regiment, Players and Game Masters may choose one of the following Regimental Drawbacks."

I think we also broke it during the original Vniedik regiment-building (the version I quoted was fixed) because we overlooked this detail... Or was it GM permission? I can't remember.

[Remuthra]

I don't know, but it's the sort of thing I would bend, if I were GM, so probably.

[Patrick Hunt]

What are we gonna do about squad organization for this? I've only ever played this pen and paper style before and we all defaulted to specific roles within the team and split into 2 sub squads.

We have 7 confirmed people and a few comrades already so we're gonna need to organize things a bit especially given the compartively high number of more support oriented characters we have.
The way my old group always did it was to split the squad into an assault unit and a support unit then pick somebody to lead each of the 2 units so we could co-ordinate everybody into the best positions for them in any given situation.
But I dunno if you guy's wanna do that or just stick in 1 big unit and then scatter whenever something comes up.

[Powder Miner]

Well, one thing to keep in mind here is that we've all got one Chimera
(or I could change it up to a Sentinel if you want
but
Chimera)

For all of us, just one vehicle; given that we're recon and will likely be driving around in this vehicle rather frequently, it somewhat reduces our chances of splitting up.
AND, SPEAKING OF! We could REALLY use an operator for that thing, guys.

[Patrick Hunt]

Well we have 3 more potential people and we're still short a medic as well.

But the Chimera will only get us nearish to the target, after that we have to move on foot to avoid detection. A big ass Chimera sticks out a bit and ain't overly quiet. The recon itself is likely to be done on foot and I'm willing to bet we end up carrying out assaults, ambushes, sabotage and so on as well for which we'll be on foot.

[Aseaheru]

We /may/ be able to trade it in for the recon version...

[Patrick Hunt]

How many can a Chimera actually carry?

[Aseaheru]

I think its a crew of 3-4 and 6 or so in the back.

[Remuthra]

How many can a Chimera actually carry?

Ten or twelve, I think. Might be as many as sixteen though, and it really depends on the model. For instance, the Kronus pattern, I believe it was, trades crew capacity for a rotating artillery cannon.

[Patrick Hunt]

We're gonna need to split anyway then. Including comrades I'm pretty sure we reached that already probably passed it. So we need to be 2 squads to get 2 Chimera.

I'd expect the recon version to be at the lower end of capacity. Smaller being easier to hide and all.