The Imperial Rifles


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Birthed today this is a new concept SG which may appeal to those who are fans of Warhammer 40k...

It was a lot of fun tonight, seeing 5 people all running around machine gunning stuff all dressed kinda similar, the Concept of the SG is simple, same look, same power sets, shooting stuff.

All members are AR.En Blasters and all member wear the uniform which will be described below. The emphasis is very much on the AR using the En purely for its buffs (so eventually a built up Full Auto can be fired every 41 seconds... sounds fun!) The group is not really about blapping, it is about blasting. I will try to devlop some background and stuff to the group but I really don't want to tread on copyrighted stuff so will carefully avoid terms such as warp, horus heresy, space marines that sort of thing, this is for the pragmatic sense purely a group of elite Marine types who happen to wear armour...

The emphasis is goign to be very much on teaming as a group when possible, but no setting of dead lines or days to play, tactical play (team speak if possible) and fast action...

here are some pictures and descriptions of the ranks:

Commander - distinguished by his all white helmet and white shoulder pads with a purple decor the commander is me purely cause I made the SG and anticipate doing a lot of leg work

Chaplian - the Chaplain is a player who chooses to promote the saftey and well being of others, in other words has the healing pool, in the SG only one in 7 can become a Chaplain (1 per 8 man team) but others are welcome to take to pool to support the work.

Squad leader - Again, one for every eight man team that can be fielded, should we ever get that! A squad leader wears armour identical to that of the Brother (main trooper) except that the colours of the shoulder pieces are inverted.

Scout - distinguished by their all white belts and gloves scouts are those who have the ability to become cloaked and cloak others, often being able to teleport team mates past difficult terrain as well. To become a scout one must have the stealth powerset.

Brother - these are the core fighting troops of the Rifles, they shoot things...

The armour is tech wired, with tech wired details on the chest and the legs, the helmet is the one with 2 colours on it and no face, the eyes are the second set (smaller) and the vents are to the side. Boots and gloves can me made the big version if you prefer (I personally do on this look) and thats about it.

If you wanna come and play please do, it's a lot of fun and the noise of gunfire in a team sounds excellent and is really quite satisfying in a team situation. Give it a go, you just might like it!


 

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Just a tought here mate but you should add kinetics/Psy(librians) in and AR/Devices (Scouts) as these two would suit this set. Hell I would probaly role a Kinetics Psy just for the hell of of it.


 

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Inv/Axe tank using same basic uniform, but with the huge model could be Terminators?


 

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Well if you guys want to roll them I'll happily chage the structure...

Commander
Librarian
Chaplain
Squad Leader
Brother


 

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I have to say I had a great time playing as a IR. We looked the dogs and I love the sound of the guns! Good times here we come. Plus I'm honored to be one of the first IR's.
Peace out!


 

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Sounds like fun guys.
I love space marines.

Terra, isn't this going to cut into your Terra Time?


 

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This sounds rather good. I like the sound of a suped-up AR blaster.... RANGE FTW!


 

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Sounds like fun guys.
I love space marines.

Terra, isn't this going to cut into your Terra Time?

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Yes. I have an alt problem but we looked so cool!
Any way. Terra' stuck at 36. I'll go bak to Terra at soon enuff.


 

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Ah now..

Does anyone of the "old-school" 40k players remember that wicked miniature they made (though not really for use in-game) of Marneus Calgar, the then boss of the ultramarines?

Dual power-fists.

That plus large tech robot hands = opportunity for adding a tank yo your team, which (I feel) may be handy.

That's not me volunteering, BTW


 

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Pah, Azrael pwnz your Marneus Calgar


I've too many alts at the mo. as well


 

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Well, the base is up and running in all its smallness... I ahve got frostfire at level 10/11 so when we can get a team together we have a good mission to get going with, dual powerfists sounds like an en/invul tank...

There aren't really ranks, its more roles that define what peoples "ranks" are in the group. If anyone wants to make a tank that would be cool, I'll make the roles the following...

Commander (AR/EN Blaster)
Librarian (mind/Kin Troller)
Chaplain (Empath/Psi Defender)
Terminator (Invul En/Axe Tank)
Battle Brother (AR/EN Blaster)

Please help this form, the uniform thing totally rocks and I will post a full spec of it on here for those that want.


 

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I've too many alts at the mo. as well

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Noticed another 1 in Cold-Plate propped up at the weekend aswell

anyway I always prefered the Dark Eldar and Chaos Marines myself, but seeing as how I have to slow Tufty's lvling down to let other people catch up I may join in


 

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Who?

I was always more of an Imperial Guard fan myself. Marines always seemed so... inhuman to me. I know that's the point, but they were all samey looking and too regulated. The 'guard were more like the real military.

Plus, go read the Gaunt's Ghosts books - they are absolutely amazing. Mad Larkin FTW (and they are complete ripoffs of Sharpe).


 

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Doulos, i will happily roll a mind/kin controller for the librarian if that's okay with you?


 

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I've too many alts at the mo. as well

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Noticed another 1 in Cold-Plate propped up at the weekend aswell

anyway I always prefered the Dark Eldar and Chaos Marines myself...

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but them is a bit more CoV me thinks go on tufty join up, and Harps, delete someone....


 

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Oh, just a quick question what sort of names the the Space Marines have?


 

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Doulos, i will happily roll a mind/kin controller for the librarian if that's okay with you?

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that would rock dude, broadening the power sets a bit will make the group really powerful and versatile as long as we keep the theme going it should work fine


 

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Well they tend to be quite fantasy names but we're doing whatever, mine Bal Matram, Scapes is called lego, then tehre is Peace Haras (I think, which is Terra) Marine Brandy and Solar Marine (obvious)


 

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Dare I make a blaster with BU?
If it was to only use with FA, that'd be ok.
Or I could be teh tank, I don't mind.


 

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So something like Towlek would be ok then?


 

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absolutely fine, to both tufty and ducky


 

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meh, I'll try and roll something tonite then if I get online. Just be going for the basic AR/En blaster I think


 

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If you post the cossie you would like me to have etc I'll get it set up when i get home in a bit. I fancy going for the slightly pale mind reader look too, gives it a more defined Warhammer feel.

God i used to love painting the figurines, could never get into the game fully though...


 

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God i used to love painting the figurines, could never get into the game fully though...

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Same, always used to like painting the figures. Used to have one of the rule books and played it about twice I think. Anyway, how long do you think it will be til someone starts up a Chaos Rifles in CoV?


 

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To save me re-rolling, could I use Psycho Mouse?