[OOC] Retaking the Front (40k Astra Militarum Roleplay, Currently Full)

[Ollumhammersong]

@Andreyich Your good now, but I can't help but notice your lacking flak armour. Usually a bad idea when entering a warzone

@Kipsateking You're good.

@Lady Selune Is that stubber a sidearm or a rifle? its a little vague. An autopistol is probably easier to find ammo for in the guard than stub weapons, And fairly common sidearms but your good either way.

[RangingWolf]

I should have a cs up by tomorrow

[Ollumhammersong]

Take your time. The thread isn't going anywhere

[Eisenhorn]

Alright. finally got this guy sorted out. Decided to not go the Krieger route, after all. @Ollumhammersong

CS

Appearance

Name: Ansgar Staudinger

Role: 122nd Atresian Shock Regiment. Pointman (Specialist role within the Atresian, equivalent rank to a Corporal).
Specialties:

• Weapon Specialty: Las Weapons
• Tactics: Tunnel/Underground Operations
• Tactics: Close Assault
• Personal Skill: Scavenging

Characteristics:

Weapon Skill: 8 "Not a lot of wiggle room leading a team through enemy fortifications, things get tight, either your good in close, or your dead."
Ballistic Skill: 3 "Put a wall of Orks or 'Nids in front of me, I can hit one of em, probably. Never was a good shot anyways, gimme something I don't have to aim, or puts enough las in the air to make an Ork green with envy. Heheh, get it?"
Strength: 7 "Finesse has its place, but sometimes, you just got to slug something in the face really, really hard. Got enough muscle to make it stick, or send one of our blind bombs a good way away."
Toughness: 7 "Either your tough or your dead, being on point. I'm still here talking, so guess which one I am."
Agility: 4 "Yeah, I can slog it through a muddy embankment, but don't expect it to be pretty."
Intelligence: 3 "Why yes, I joined the Guard for my alarming intelligence and stunning good looks. Piss off."
Perception: 7 "Keep an eye out, never know when you'll run into a booby trap or an ambush."
Willpower: 8 "Assaulting a position is about not giving up, not slowing down. And not getting shot, or shrugging it off, but you'll never make it if you give up."
Fellowship: 3 "Look, you sodding idiots, I'm no damn leader. No, physically leading the team doesn't count, I'm just watching for trouble. Leave leading to the Boss, or Sarge if the Boss isn't present."

Equipment: – Self explanetory. List a few unique things about your kit. We all know what the standard guardsman kit is but maybe your still wearing that old Valhallan fur hat and gloves. Or your regiment preferred a harder hitting but less reliable autogun to the traditional lasgun. Obviously a conscript may start with less than their peers.

• Merovech Pattern Assault Lasgun: The Atresian's love this pattern of Lasgun and for good reason, as it fits their style perfectly. With a reinforced frame, built in bayonet, and two slots for power packs to swap to a fresh pack without reloading, it is an admirable close assault Lasgun. While the weight and balancing make it unsuited for long range precision, it is well balanced for hand to hand and general close assault, as well as urban fighting.
• War Pick: Despite initial concern by allied regiments seeing shock troops carrying mining picks into battle, they are quickly silenced as the modified mining picks do bloody work. Meant for shattering stone and tough ore, a sturdy swing can punch through a great deal that an Atresian might find themselves, while its sharpened to hook and cut softer targets once the piercing blow has been made. While typically wielded two handed, most Atresians are too proud to turn down wielding a weapon that remains a symbol of home, doubly so after its loss.
• Stub Revolver: Originally a memento from his days prior to enlisting with the Imperial Guard, Ansgar now finds this weapon serves as a fine sidearm, when the need arises. Hand engraved, and with more added when he has down time to kill, the weapon is as much a personal point of pride as it is a backup weapon.
• Frag Grenades: Typically thrown into enemy positions prior to close assault, they are fairly typical examples of anti personnel grenades, though he only carries one or two given how much supplies are available or, more importantly, what he can scavenge.
• Atresian Combat Fatigues: While still wearing flak body armor, the rest of their standard combat uniform stems from their rather curious society. Wearing chainmail over the flak to protect against lacerations and slashing attacks, each man in an Atresian regiment tends to prefer varying levels of improvised armor. In the case of Ansgar, he got his hands on enough metal to have them made into gauntlets, though that is as heavy of an armor setup as he prefers. Lastly is the green tunic, with a hood attached, which provides protection from most common elements without interfering with most equipment or maneuvers.

Personality:
"Yeah, the galaxy's been split in two, we're on the ass end of things, and'll probably die in some ditch far from home. Hell, us Atresians don't got a home to go back to. Don't mean we get to just lie down and pass on quiet though, t' hell with that. Let em come, the enemies, hell, anyone who wants to stand in our way. We got a job to do, an' that is kill everything standing between us and a warm bed. Or the enemies of the Imperium, but they're one an' the same really."

• Steadfast: "What, give up this trench after all the bloody work we went through, literally, to take it? To hell with you, I say we hold out." Ansgar isn't one for abandoning a cause or cutting and running, doubly so when significant sacrifices were made to get there, meaning that getting him to budge his heels once he has dug them in proper is not very easy. Once he approves of someone, he can also be counted on to stand by them through thick or thin, though given usual mannerisms, this could be few and far between.
• Blunt: "Him? He's a dead man. If the rot doesn't get in that wound, he's still out at least two limbs. Yes, I know he can hear me, no point lying to the kid." Some people are able to speak with tact and elegance, and Ansgar is sure as hell not one of them. You ask him a question, you get an answer in simple terms, or laced with some sarcasm if its a stupid question. He doesn't know how to sugar coat something, so if he says something, you can bet he means it and its in as simple of terms as one could reasonably expect from a Guardsman.
• Flippant: "Yeah, sure thing Boss, I'll get to that when I don't have some roided up freak trying to remove my head FROM MY SHOULDERS!" Surprisingly for a Guardsman, Ansgar has lived long enough to develop a rather unprofessional response to most officers and powers that be. Oh, he'll follow orders to the best of his ability, but he will certainly mouth off about it, even if he likes the man or woman in question who is giving out the orders.

History:

• Born and raised on Atresia, a mining world on opposite end of the Dark Imperium from Cadia that produced a great deal of ore for its tithe, although it also raised regiments of those looking to get out of the mines and serve further abroad. After the fall of Cadia, it was relatively unharmed for quite sometime, continuing to funnel mineral resources into the nearby Forges that desperately tried to keep churning out weapons and munitions.
• Ansgar was volunteered to an Atresian Shock Regiment, his parents wanting their eldest son do more good than man mining equipment and swing a pick. The regiment was designed and equipped to be held in reserve until a specific position needed taken or a breach stormed, and they were sent off to die or succeed. Word wouldn't reach the regiment of the loss of their homeworld for quite some time, as they were involved with a siege effort to dislodge Chaos invaders from a forge world. Matters were complicated by inept overall command coupled with tensions between the various regiments present, alongside the Chaos forces continued efforts to summon bigger and nastier daemonic entities to realspace. Eventually the planet was retaken, though the Atresians suffered heavy losses and would have went to recruit more troops to replenish if Atresia hadn't been lost.
• During these siege efforts, nearly ninety years after Cadia fell, Atresia fell under Chaos assault, a warband reaching the mining world and lusting after its raw materials to barter to fallen Forges for more weapons and materials. While underequipped for tunnel fighting, the planet eventually fell, though not before the surviving loyalists tripped enough explosives across the planet to collapse the mining networks, burying themselves alive alongside their attackers. As an act of revenge, the Chaos forces virus bombed the planet, rendering it unusable by anyone before departing ahead of the first straggling Imperial reinforcements.
• The Imperial command reassigned the surviving Atresians to report to be integrated with another taskforce, where they would receive reinforcements. Already unhappy about the fact new blood would, in the survivors minds, sully the memory of Atresia, however the troop transport they were on jumped for too long, and its Gellar fields failed. Between the Atresian infantry, used to claustraphobic, close in fighitng, and the Naval Armsman, trained and equipped for just such situations, they managed to survive long enough to drop back into real space and send off a distress signal. The surviving forces were picked up, screened for corruption, and those deemed fit were reasssigned to new regiments, the surviving Atresian's being too few to warrant resupplying back to full strength.

[Andreyich]

@Ollumhammersong
That was my bad I thought ratlings didn't get armour but I checked my 'dex and they do. I gave him a mesh vest instead of flak since it's more flexible to move in but his joint protection is still flak to help climbing. No helmet because I learned from TF2 that hats are sexier. All good now?

[Searat]

@Ollumhammersong
I'll go look for something. Will update CS when found.

Update:

Suggestion 1

Suggestion 2

[Ollumhammersong]

@Eisenhorn A few things. One is that this is taking place over a hundred years after Cadia fell. But your world took the brunt of the Black crusade during the all the craziness and held out for decades? Basically i'm wondering how your character would be old enough to remember his world.

Also your weapons are pretty crazy for a line trooper. i'm iffy on the specialized stub rounds, Which also carries over into the blind grenades. I am going to say nothing that fancy in a regiment that's supposed to be understrength and scraping to get by. I'm fine with you having the revolver as a sidearm in general.

But pair that all with a pimped out lasgun and a chainsword... I'm going to say no to the chainsword. If you want your regiment to have some sort of culturally unique standard issue combat knife/shortsword catachan or Tanith style that's cool. The Lasgun pattern fits with the theme your trying to go for and that's cool to.

@Andreyich ya, that's fine.

[Ollumhammersong]

@Searat I mean, the first picture has the same problem as the last. No face. It's a cool concept, but I still don't have an idea of what your character looks like.

As for the second one. It works I suppose as far as the face goes. A bit heavy duty and now I am worried about everyone seemingly trying to take carapace armour. And no for the hotshot lasgun

[Eisenhorn]

@Ollumhammersong Concerns are good, it means things needed to be fixed even if I didn't realize it. I'll list off changes in order of noted concerns.

My apologies for missing the mark on the date, altered it so the fall of his planet (Which is now a mining world, to better fit other changes) occurred ninety years after Cadia fell, so its only a ten year gap between the current events and his lost homeworld. Does that work better for you?

In regards to equipment, the stub revolver had any mention of specialty rounds dropped, blind was replaced with frags (Noting he only ever has, at most, one or two depending on scavanging or supply luck), and the chainsword dropped completely. Instead, it was noted that mining picks were altered for battle and carried instead, though they are two handed affairs typically. Is that still considered too far, I can certainly go the knife/shortsword route if it is. Which means the only weapon of any unusual quality is the custom lasgun pattern, assuming the mining pick isn't considered unreasonable.

[Ollumhammersong]

Thabk you for making the changes, and mining pick sounds perfectly fine to me.

Your character's good to go

[Jb]

I'll get my CS up tonight or tomorrow. Chocs away!

[Lady Selune]

@Eisenhorn

Not trying to be rude, but your character is REALLY similar to mine.

[Searat]

@Ollumhammersong
Can i keep the first one and just provide an extra picture to what he looks like underneath?
Also, I apologize if I'm bothering you with this too much.

Update

Face Suggestion 1

Face Suggestion 2

If none are suitable enough. I'll just scrap the picture in the CS and use bullet points to describe what he looks like but keep a picture of the one you liked as reference to his Appearance in full Combat Gear.

Third and possibly final suggestion

[Ollumhammersong]

@Lady Selune personality wise their are definite similarities. But there are also definite differences in skills and equipment. Enough so that i wasn't worried about it overlapping too much myself.

You guys both have good characters. But if you guys want to talk something out between yourselves, then by all means.

[Ollumhammersong]

@Searat I'll allow it, you'll have to change your sheet around a bit if you want to go the fuedal origin route

Neither of the two pictures you just recently provided are suitable. Please think less fantasy, more 40k

[Searat]

Understood. Will fix CS by end of the week.

[Enigmatik]

Name: Arkan Dissilden

Character Description: Arkan is... Relatively average. He's not tall, not short, not fat, not thin. Being a soldier, he has muscle, of course, but his only real curious feature is his eyes- which are a bright blue colour. He's slightly darker skinned, and is also fairly tanned on top of that, making him look darker than he actually is. He makes a point to remain clean-shaven, but has his hair slightly long, pulling it back into a knot if it would get in the way.

Role: Dannandorf 32nd Sentinel Division (Prior.) Scout Sentinel Auxiliary (Current.)

Specialities:

• Vehicle piloting and repair. Need him to drive a tank? Tracked vehicle qualifications. Sentinel? That's his job! Wheeled vehicles... Everything on the ground he can probably drive it, and repair it too. Mostly, it's the same underneath the hood.
• Demolitions. Satchel charges, promethium, IEDs, grenade launchers. Tools of the trade when it comes to making sure something stops existing.
• Communications. Rule one of being in a command vehicle: The officer never knows how the radios work. Ever. Rule two: The next time the commissar is about to summarily execute someone, it'll be you if you belittle the commander for not knowing how to repair a radio.

Characteristics:
Weapon Skill: 5
Ballistic Skill: 5
Strength: 7
Toughness: 2
Agility: 5
Intelligence: 8
Perception: 7
Willpower: 5
Fellowship: 6

Equipment: –

• 'My Darling:' Cadia pattern scout sentinel. Repair tools have been strapped to almost every part of the vehicle, camo netting has been strung across the vehicle, and floodlights have been retrofitted along with smoke launchers. It's far more than your average autogun-kitted scout.
• Combat shotgun. Strapped to the inside of the sentinel is his old trusty. Made in his home planet, it sports a lovely wooden finish, and a leather strap, with the number of kills that Arkan has earned with it carved into the stock. Currently, it has seven neatly carved notches.
• Laspistol. At his hip always. As standard as standard comes.
• Various repair tools. On and around his sentinel. Some can even be co-opted into close combat tools, such as his specially sharpened shovel, crowbar, sledgehammer... And hatchet.

Personality:

• Optimistic. "It's a good job we're fighting a long way from home. Means the folk there are safe, and we can fight to make sure they stay safe.
• Instructing. "You tighten that... Yes, yes, like that. Then, use the wrench to pull that bit down, and clip in that. See, not so hard, is it?
• Private. "My home world? Dannandorf. What's it like? I'd prefer not to say, really."

History:

• Born on Dannandorf, an agri-world.
• Utterly unremarkable until he joined the PDF, and later guard. Experience with tractors led to him becoming a tanker.
• Served in a Leman Russ for several years, and then a Chimera Command Tank. Finally placed into a scout sentinel.

[Ollumhammersong]

@Irredeemable your math for your characteristic scores is off.

As far as the sentinel goes. If you want an armoured sentinel you could just ask for one. And if you want a scout sentinel take a scout sentinel. Pick the one you like the sound of the most. Keeping in mind how the mechabicus tends to view custom modifications.

[Eisenhorn]

@Lady Selune Didn't do a real close read of other characters, so any potential similarities in character was unintentional. I did notice the little flavor text thing you had done first, and thought it was a clever idea, so did something similar to that.

I do see a couple of things that do seem close to each other, upon closer inspection, but I personally wouldn't call them really similar.

[Ollumhammersong]

Btw, anyone who has been accepted can go ahead and post their character inder the characters tab