Doulos

Not massively... 3 +3 SOs on stealth add a tiny 4.22% combine it with 3 +3 SOs on combat jumping and you get another 4.22 then finally add hover and you add another 4.22 all three stacked gives you 6 wasted slots and a crappy defence with only one additional power pool left. As a blaster it is far better to trust in your attacks than try and muster a meagre defence...

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Any name restrictions?

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nope, we have all sorts

Many brothers, many firstname/surnames, all that jazz, so whatever you fancy...

Stamina does help muchly, the end drain from AR isn't that bad but you may well need it.

EVERYTHING in the AR set is handy, a volley of M30s is one of the best things I've seen in the group so far. If one has to be left then I'd say ignite is the most dropable with the concept (but with cryo ray from the epic it is UBER). Beanbag will be fairly essential, especially at higher levels when we need to take out mezzers like mentalists.

Energy powers that should be used are: build up, conserve power, power boost (especailly with bean bag) and boost range (snipe volley) but feel free to take the blaps if you want them, however power thrust in itself is a fantastic back up power for getting people out of your face (and enough in my personal opinion). Remember that every time you use a power from the secondary pool you will put your weapon away which means draw time... auto firing brawl is a great melee back up...

If even one of the medicine pool can be squeezed in then go for it, even a one slotted heal other with power boost will do a pretty good heal and reduce the groups downtime.

Scouts are allowed now, they will fall into the same class as battle brothers as we lack the option of having more so if you want an AR/Dev scout then go for it, the described uniform is absolutely fine.

Brother Fenris, @Doulos is your friend for signing up, but ANY member of the SG can invite. Meet ups seem to be quite often with plenty of exemping and SKing going on...

@tufty there is not currently a limit on toons available BUT at the rate we are filling up some form of limiting might have to be set in place. I suggest trying out different classes and see which one you enjoy the most

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There will be others coming later

WOOT, travel powers are whatever people feel happiest with, personally I'm going for fly, as are many others (jump packs ftw) but then SJ could demonstrate this just as well.

Build advice is simple for a battle brother, empasis on the primary using the EN buffs from the secondary to make it powerful. Additional pool? Take what you want...

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make a Storm/Lightning Defender

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What's a storm/lightning defender?

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Don't know but I want one! That would be a truely unique powerset, surely

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Sorry was all in charater thoughts, STORM/ELECTRICAL DEFENDER...

UNIQUE POWER COMBINATION HAS BEEN RELEASED

Yes you read that right folks, based on a certain character of a certain group upon which ours is loosley modelled ONE existing member of the group, YES ONE ONLY is given permission to make a Storm/ELECTRICAL (edited...) Defender (to become, not a Chaplain, but a Librarian!!!) Here is how we will decide who gets it...

Everyone who wants to play as this character and have these sets creates one (no helmet) and joins the SG, then in the base a panel of myself and two other members will judge the entrants and decide which of you gets to keep the unique sets and then the rest of you will be kicked from the SG

Criteria for judging is FACE and NAME, the competition will be held TOMORROW NIGHT @ 8PM in the base so thats the 2nd of March to allow everyone some time to make their version of the toon should they choose.

If 2 members who do not want to make this UNIQUE member of the SG would like to volunteer to help me judge it then that would be great.

Remember the toon needs to be IN the SG base at 8pm for the contest, lateness = disqualification so really you want to be on and registered with the SG by about 7.30-7.45

The will be other little contests like this in the coming weeks so stay tuned to the thread for more details!

This world is a strange place, the delegation of tasks seems most ill thought out. My squad and I took on the criminal "Atta" yet possibly the most dangerous part of the expedition was reaching the vile scums layer.

Our numbers continue to grow, as does my excitement at seeing the brothers return to the fold. I begin to feel great hope that we will be able to sustain our postition, especailly now that the Librarians and Chaplains are returning to the fray. It is a wonder how much they contribute to the cause without wielding a weapon.

The Imperial Rifles march to war again, and the blood in my viens burns with pride and passion.

For the Emperor

Bal Matram
Commander, Imperial Rifles

Well Frosty, I am deliberately not levelling very fast, rather exemping lots for that valuable prestige, besides, teh reason I levelled fast in the past was to get all the powers I wanted, seeing as how I have a level 50 AR/ and a level 50 /EN I really don't need to do that, plus this SG is all about team work so I expect to stay pretty close to you all in this, I also really enjoy just bouncing around the base so that consumes a lot of time as does helping people get their armour up to specs if need be.

We need a couple of people (level 8-10ish probably) to get frosty as a mission so that the lower levels (1-5) can get on a team in the hollows asap that will yank them up a few levels, as atta did yesterday... and then a couple more Attas would help too.

nice idea about positron but until travel powers are going that TF is just tiresome, far better to wait for travel powers and level 15 and do Synapse, its more interesting and satisfying...

No problems not entering the base and there is definitely space!

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Quick question - is the origin Tech or Natural?

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tech or science

Scouts would be cool but we have no more rankings for them... like the sound of it though so if you wanna go for it then be my guest...

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Think im going to make a mind/sheild to represent a lib in terminator armour

Globel@Ronin

The Hordenly the strong survive

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cheeky bugger... but we've not got one of them yet... all these people who know 40k really well and can justify the powers are getting away with madness! its cool!

This thread is primarily for members of the Imperial Rifles SG (union) to post on, please read and enjoy, if you wish to post a comment please do but put it in italics so it is marked as out of character. If you want to join us then check out this thread and see if there is anything that appeals to you.

Rifles who wish to post, remember to put your name, role and rank at the end

The men did me proud today, the villains of this dimension are no less tough than the villains of ours, if somewhat less ugly. We found ourselves pitted against some strange magi called Frostfire. The mission was brutal, many of the squad enduring numerous wounds that would have been fatal if not for the system they have here of retrieving those on the brink. A wonderful system that eases my pain, I know that I will never again loose a man to the long walk and the halls of the heroes.

The City representatives have been most gracious to us, generously giving us money with which to purchase a plot of land to call our own and the labourers to make it happen. It is fitting in a dimension so alien to our own that we have a place so like the home that none of us shall see again. In time it may even he a rival to the Great Hall itself, but I fear that is a long way off.

To boost the morale of the men a second commander was appointed, Solar won the trial which earned him the title of Commander alongside me, I am sure that the young marine has the qualities needed to grow fully into his rank.

Many of the men have now found there way back to the company, which is encouraging, I still hold out hope that the others will join us soon if they are alive, every whisper of one our own possibly returning brings hope to my soul.

But now the call of duty beckons again and I have been asked to locate the lair of a green skin named Atta, once his location is discovered I shall lead a team to strike him down and eliminate his forces.

Bal Matram
Commander, The Imperial Rifles

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I have a mind/emp that i just transferred from US servers (lvl 14 ish). You need any of these still? Will get costume sorted tonight if im welcome.
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be great to have you frosty, and 8pm suits me fine for atta... FOR THOSE COMING come via skyway as it will probably be quicker the mission is in the deep south of the hollows

If possible 2 teams tonight would work, one taking on frosty and one going for atta...? decide by level who goes where.



The Imperial Rifles War-Log a chance for those who wish to get in character and post up!

Its down time... poo, but I will take this time to start a log in teh creative forum, I would like as many as can to use it as is should be fun, a kind of mini RP section for those who fancy it, make sure you sign off with your rifles name...

Red Fire and Feather, be great to have you both along in what ever format you wanna sign up, there is details of the armour earlier in the thread. I've done julius's mission and am now level 12 and will be working through talshaks missions in order to get access to Atta for this evening ( a little nap first though ) AR snipe with build up is cool... one of the highlights for me will be our first well coordinated (and well slotted) opening snipe salvos that takes out several of an enemy mob before they know whats hit them! (plus it is has coolest sound effect in the game)

ok then, thats fine by me, chaplains get white armour with charcoal grey trimmings (empaths from level 1) those who "earn it" at 20 go white with the blue trimmings, which means that the Librarians go for blue with charcoal as a distinguisher....

Agreed, but I'm hoping to have atta for a session this evening

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YAY WAMMY, I'll get some stuff together (as will other rifles) to go on the site...

Well had another thought last night as I went to bed, we lack sufficient ranks to do all that we would need to do so heres hows its going to work... shoulder pads.

Chaplains - Those who earn the title of chaplains by taking the medicine pool including rez will have shoulder pads that are Black with blue to go with the blue armour, however those that are empath chaplains (and therefore wear blue armour from level 1) have blue and black shouldpads. This is to demonstrate that one has come from the ranks, the other by "blood" as it were.

There will be a senior Librarian who will have blue and black as oppossed to black and blue shoulders.

The commanders already have this adjustment so they represent the Battle brothers however a commander needs to be appointed from the melee orientated battle brothers.

and the senior terminator will have their shoulder pads blue

If anyone has an idea how to decide seniority in the classes let me know...

When we cape there will be more diversifiaction, different colours to define rank/role... so each "type" will have a pattern...

melee battle brothers (commanders with inverted colours)
ranged battle brothers (commander with inverted colours)
Chaplains (senior with inverted)
Librarians (you can guess....)

At level 20 on a second outfit, customisation of boots and gloves and heads kicks in too so get thinking about what you look like under the helmet...

List of classes

Battle Brother:
AR-EN Blaster
BS/Kat - Regen/SR/Invul Scrapper

Chaplain:
AR-EN Blaster with Resurrect (so minimum of level 20)
Empathy/Psi Defender

Librarian:
Mind/Kin - Empath Controller

Terminator: (huge build, big gloves)
Scrappers - Claws/BS - Regen/Invul/SR
Tanks - SS/Axe/Energy/Mace - Invul

anyother proposed builds will definitely be considered if they can be justified in the universe that this SG is based upon...

EDIT: Cape designs will be chosen by the first member of each of the following categorys to reach 20

En/AR Battle Brother
Melee Battle Brother
Empath Chaplain
Battle Brother Chaplain
Librarian
Scrapper based Terminator
Tank based Terminator

The colours will be the charcoal and blue but the seniors of each design will invert their colours... so go get to 20 and make your mark on the SG!

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I don;t see why not (gonna have to be a huge build to be a terminator though )

BS/Regen can be either a terminator OR a battle brother Ji so feel free to make him either one, depends what rank and size you want really...

Well a good night had by the first wave of the Imperial Rifles. A second commander was elected by cunning means of an obstacle course type race around the great hall in the base. We got everyone up to level 5 at least then went and did Frostfire, once we got the balance it was easy. Sorted out the uniform, had about 50 different colours sets, earned about 30k prestige and here are some photos to commeomorate the birth of this SG, I for one really hope it keeps going as it was a lot of fun and we got some really cool comments from folk about the look.

We need to get the librarians and chaplains going though as they will do nothing but improve the team.

At ease in the rangers base.... not the coolness of Jums "Terminator"

Weapons drawn

Comander Bal Matram takes a last look at the hollows before retiring for the night (note the new colours)

10 of us online at once (not bad for day one)! base has an extra room and things are going swimmingly, if you wanna join the best looking SG in town... the come to us!

currently burning through missions on a 6 man team shooting and stabbing stuff