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| [INQ] Best way of making a marine? | |
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| Topic Started: 3 Oct 2011, 03:53 PM (5,334 Views) | |
| ☺Doghouse | 3 Oct 2011, 03:53 PM Post #1 |
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Back in the day Inquisitor Draco was knocking about with a former Imperial Fists Captain by the name of Lexandro. Given that I always remember a marine in power armour being a tad on the too powerful side for inquisitor is there any way of equipping him in a lesser form of armour as a henchman and/or downgrading his weaponary? Been a long time since I played the game so I'm a little out of touch. 
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| ☺Easy E | 3 Oct 2011, 04:16 PM Post #2 |
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I don;t hav ethe books in front of me, but the great thign about INQ is that you make what fits. Perhaps when he is undercover/on assignment the SM could be asked to de-power armor and just stick with the Black Carapace. Much of a marines "power" comes from his Power Armor and gear. Take that gear away as step 1, and you have all ready downgraded him. However, he is still going to be pretty hardcore for INQ. |
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| ☺Commissar Molotov | 3 Oct 2011, 05:07 PM Post #3 |
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Whichever way you slice it, Marines are going to be powerful. There are slightly more reasonable rules in Dark Magenta 2, but they're always going to be powerful. Having your Marine in carapace, rather than power, armour would help somewhat, but Space Marines are always going to dominate any game they're in. |
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| Tychonaut | 3 Oct 2011, 05:09 PM Post #4 |
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Instead of a frontline battle brother, may I suggest replacing that idea with a member of the 10th Company? SM Scout with Scout appropriate equipment is far more reasonable. Doing this will let you modify the statline in any way you feel necessary, stating that he has yet to be fitted with that specific augmentation due to his deep cover operation. You could have him under secondment to the Inquisition for 'specialist aptitude training' in the same vein as Sgt Tellion, who has supposedly served among the Deathwatch on more then one tour, and has refused promotion time and time again. Edited by Tychonaut, 3 Oct 2011, 05:11 PM.
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| ☺Doghouse | 3 Oct 2011, 05:41 PM Post #5 |
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Thanks guys, gives me something to mull over. If I do make one I may just strip him of all armour altogether, maybe bash him up a bit or make him really old to lower his profile a bit. I was thinking of making him the last of his chapter, so maybe an old bitter and twisted marine with makeshift augmentations might be the way to go. |
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| ☺Commissar Molotov | 3 Oct 2011, 05:47 PM Post #6 |
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It's something to consider. The neophyte aiding the Inquisitor is quite a useful hook; another option is to go the "Marine Aberrant" route, and suggest he only got part-way through the initiation before he failed due to some genetic flaw. He therefore would not be able to have all the implants and would be relegated to becoming a serf (or destroyed) - unless the Inquisitor convinced the Chapter to allow him to serve the Inquisition. Perhaps he would be highly loyal to the man who has given him the ability to fight for the Emperor... |
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| ☺Doghouse | 3 Oct 2011, 07:40 PM Post #7 |
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Yeah those aren't bad ideas mate. I really like the Aberrant idea. I've been thinking it over a bit more and I think that I'm going to make him an incredibly old member of the Death Watch. Basically the idea I'm going to flesh out a little more is that he's served for centuries with the DW, his chapter long since destroyed he had little option but to stay on. During this time he's faced pretty much everything under the sun and has become too valuable an asset to the Inquisition. Time has taken it's toll on his body, having taken a good kicking from likes of Carnifexes, various Ork Warbosses and Clawed Fiends, so that he can no longer interface with power armour. So now he is used as a specialist heading up a team of Ordo Xenos Kill Team agents in situations that do not warrant the deployment of a full DW team or where a certain amount of discretion is needed. |
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| Tychonaut | 3 Oct 2011, 10:13 PM Post #8 |
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Scythes of the Emperor, if the chapter is up for vote My pet favorite 'dead' chapter |
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| ☺Doghouse | 4 Oct 2011, 12:03 PM Post #9 |
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I could do a scythes guy but I'm pretty sure they are still alive as a chapter but in a bad way after the whole hive fleet thing. If there is an extinct chapter in existing lore I may go with something like that but otherwise will probably go with a DIY chapter. Fire Hawks are the only ones I can think of at the moment off the top of my head. Black Consuls are also listed as annihilated. |
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| Tychonaut | 4 Oct 2011, 05:36 PM Post #10 |
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I thought there were so few of them left that they were declared beyond recovery, and handed over to the Inquisition? |
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| Octavian Lars | 4 Oct 2011, 06:34 PM Post #11 |
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for what? |
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| # dean | 4 Oct 2011, 06:45 PM Post #12 |
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Um does not Fire Hawks = LotD or am I confused again. Soul Drinkers. Rainbow Warriors  Who got wiped out in Bedab? Even a "Turncoat" chapter could have members running around in the Deathwatch and/or under the protection of an Inquisitor... IE: Garro, Cruz.Carapace would work, I remember a book with someone having subcutainious armor plates. He could of had augmetics done, Run other things (Targeters, sensors, ) with his black carapace plugs. Remember that you are talking about a guy the size of Shaq running around with "normal" sized humans. He's still gonna be hugely muscled and tall. Edited by dean, 4 Oct 2011, 06:47 PM.
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| Tychonaut | 4 Oct 2011, 07:18 PM Post #13 |
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I know all about 'Turncoats' in the service of the Inquisition, I play a Thousand Sons marine in Deathwatch
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| ☺Doghouse | 4 Oct 2011, 07:59 PM Post #14 |
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Haven't heard that one mate. Last I heard there were only a few survivors left but haven't seen anything official on them in years. I remember them having some story in a BL book but it's a down to personal tastes with that stuff. dean: The Fire Hawks thing has kind of been rewritten so that supposedly no-one knows the true origins of the LotD now, which is kind of a cop out in my book as they will always be the fire hawks in my mind. Having one that has survived might be cool though. I'm currently thinking no armour, some sort of a side arm and a bolter. I want try and incorporate a bionic leg and have him hooded with a bionic eye. |
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| ☺Doghouse | 10 Oct 2011, 08:16 PM Post #15 |
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Haven't had a lot of time to do much of late but did get a little bit done on this guy. Still a bit rough at the moment, need to do all the fabric work on the model when I get the time and have just started to work on the bionic leg. Armour is going to be limited to the right shoulder pad, the legs will be based on the scout legs.
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| ☺Commissar Molotov | 10 Oct 2011, 08:44 PM Post #16 |
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He's shaping up to be an incredibly interesting and original character. You should put together a retinue and take part in the INQvitational! I have to say I'm not sure about him being the "incredibly old member of the Deathwatch" - as a character hook I would think that a Space Marine Veteran is going to be very powerful, even disregarding armour - but the model is certainly coming along very well indeed... |
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| little brother | 10 Oct 2011, 09:31 PM Post #17 |
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Very nice. What is the figure underneath the greenstuff |
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| ☺Doghouse | 11 Oct 2011, 04:24 PM Post #18 |
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Cheers guys!  Mol: I'll play around and see what I can do with the background for him. I do kind of like the idea that he's basically just taken so much damage that while he's still technically a marine he's not up to the standard anymore. I think I may go the Fire Hawks route with him and have him as the last survivor of the chapter with no hope of ever being stuck in a dreadnought, might make for an interesting angle to work in something about the Legion of the Damned. Maybe have him hunting down rumours of them believing that they are the former Fire Hawks in order to find out what happened to his beloved chapter. I could have a bash at working in small retinue into the mix I guess at some point, I'd quite like to figure out some way of chucking in a few xenos if I can figure out how. I can't guarantee that I'd be able to make the INQ28 event though.  I did make an INQ28 style warband many years ago when Inquisitor first came out when I used to play it with some mates.     and my regular 54mm Arbite Investigator.  Little Brother: The model is based on some special armatures that I made myself |
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| # the_great_gonzo | 11 Oct 2011, 05:25 PM Post #19 |
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I was going to say model him along the lines of Maloghurst, in that he was badly wounded whilst serving the Inq, the Inq possibly saved him and in doing so the marine (knowing he would not be on full active service again) offered his sword to the Inq as gratitude (with his chapters blessing, almost like a personal crusade for him to earn back his "honour" lost during his injury). I would have said all that but you beat me to it, so I won't
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| Tychonaut | 11 Oct 2011, 05:30 PM Post #20 |
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Like the figure in the purple armour. Would make a good Inquisitor to start a new retinue around.. |
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