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OOC: Hi anyone mind if i do the Iron Hands space marine chapter?

"Did you see his face when he ran? He was confused. He probably thinks we are chaos. That is how the imperium has been set up. Any humans are chaos or imperial. That is what they have been brainwashed with" Paleneus sighed, "There's no doubt he will be telling the other chapters that we are chaos. This will cause problems"
One of the scout seargents was getting restless. "Excuse me sir, but why didn't we just kill him or take him hostage? Then none of this would have happened"
Paleneus looked at him, "The space marines knew he entered these caves. If they didn't hear from him, they would send search parties. They would probably assume we are chaos when they meet us, just like he did, and then the whole plan would be in ruins. The Eldar would be forced with a choice. They would either have to strike then against the enemy, or would have to attack us to keep their cover. I know which they would choose - fighting the enemy. That would ruin the whole plan, both our forces would be crippled or destroyed. That is why we let him go". He wandered over to one of the sides of the caverns, and leant against it, "Now that they think we are chaos, we have great problems. If only he hadn't entered the caves and searched for us. I will need to rethink the plan now". With that he headed back towards the camp, out of sight. The men stood and watched him leave for a moment, the followed him.

Ivano read the transmission handed to him. He looked up at the docking bay Sergeant. "The ships deploy, now." He pulled up a comm link to Brother Lieutenant Gabriel on the adjacent ship. "Brother, we go planetside immediately. Instruct the pilots to land where you feel suits you best. We shall speak again planetside, Emperor willing. Wolfenstein out."

He climbed aboard his Thunderhawk, aware his men had already done so on the numerous other Company Thunderhawks. 950 Space Wolves plus their Company's vehicles would be planetside very soon, and then Chaos would feel the wrath of the Wolves of Fenris.
Ivano tapped the pilot on the shoulder. "Put us down near the Black Angel forces, they will need our help the most. And hurry, we have prey to hunt."

The transports lifted off from the orbiting fleet, like a swarm of bees flooding towards their prey. The pilot, a Flight Lieutenant by the name of Farquah, tried to raise a link to the Black Angel Command Squad on the ground. "Black Angels, this is the Space Wolf transport Emperor's Guidance, we are coming in to land on your position, so keep heads up if you please. Guidance out."

"This is Commander Karit, we have sighted your landing craft and reserved a bay for you. It is marked by red flares, and is currently the only one vacant. Move Swiftly, we must leave this place soon"

More newbies! Zombie person, read the earlier messages to newbies. I don't have a problem just stick to the story and don't godmode

Okay - I'm gonna ask again! What's the inside of the cave like? I need to know pretty soon please. What about survailance, security etc?

The pilots brought the Thunderhawks down on the landing bay, the troops inside spilling out with practised efficiency. Ivano moved forward to greet Commander Karit. "Commander, we must move immediately, the Ultramarines can follow on when they land. I suggest we make for the caves to link up with our brothers first, unless you have any other plans?"

OOC: Stuffing-Your-Face, all that my Wolves have in the caves is their extremely keen senses and a few auspexes, nothing too advanced. As far as I know the Ultramarines don't have much more than this(correct me if I'm wrong), but I'm assuming the Eldar have all sorts of screwed up alien alarm system things, you'll have to ask him. :)

Most of the White Scars drop pods made a safe landing while others landed in lakes, deep crevices in the mountains, and in one unfortunate incident into an enemy encampment. :mp5: :sniper:

The pilots brought the Thunderhawks down on the landing bay, the troops inside spilling out with practised efficiency. Ivano moved forward to greet Commander Karit. "Commander, we must move immediately, the Ultramarines can follow on when they land. I suggest we make for the caves to link up with our brothers first, unless you have any other plans?"


"Welcome back Wolf Lord. We are planning to return to the caves anyway, our remaining brethern, led by Brother-Chaplin Hanst, cannot defend against a sustained assualt for too long*gestures around*This latest addition to our numbers will aid us greatly in our fight"

"Then we move immediately." Ivano whistled loudly, and his Sergeants came to him. "Get the column moving, standard Fenrisian formation, we make for the caves." He held one of the men back, a Sergeant Varl. "Draw a link to Iron-Preist Ramenov, tell him we're coming to get him."

OOC: BloodTide2, if you're going to land in the middle of an enemy encampment I suggest you consult the enemy you intend to land on and make sure it's ok with them, because at this stage of the thread most people have plans that might not welcome such things happening. On the other hand, if anyone wants Marines landing among them, feel free.

Do you wish to take the point position? We are going to be moving in phalanx formation, so as to allow for maximum covering fire

"Yes, we will take point. We shall begin moving immediately. Watch our backs well, brother." The forward Land Raiders' engines opened up with a combined thunderous roar, propelling the armoured behemoths forward towards the caves, the rest of the Marines following behind. Ivano was on the comms to Ramenov,"Igor, we are planetside and coming to get you. Be ready at the entrance."

"Yes, My Lord." Ramenov turned to the Long Fangs. "Our brothers have returned, we move to the exit now. Keep sharp, we are almost safe."

Karit nodded, and waved to Templar, who nodded in response. The entire Black Angel force loaded up and followed the Space Wolves. The dust cloud from the engines could be seen for many miles. Scout Outriders protected the flanks, whilst the vulnerable Whirlwinds progressed in the middle, protected by Land Raiders. It was a formidable force of Marines, capable of many feats of extreme danger. It would be a good day...

Mind if I join in?

“This is Ghost, ready for launch”

”Roger that Ghost, prepare main thrusters for Phase 1 launch”

Leon “Ghost” Mitchell sat in the cockpit of the Explorer 1. The work of 8 years of work by NASA, the Explorer was the first atmospheric and space aircraft that could return to the atmosphere and produce escape velocity several times during a flight. Leon put his hand on the thruster control. Flipping the safety covers off the controls, he exposed 4 numbered switches.

“Arming thrusters now”

He flipped the switch labeled 1.

“Thruster 1 armed”

At that moment, a hatch over Thruster No.1 flipped back.

Repeating the process until all the engines were exposed and armed, Leon then reported

“All engine armed, arming fuel rods”

Reaching for a second set of controls, Leon pressed the green button labeled “Solar Fusion Rods”

An automatic voice resounded in the cockpit.

“Solar Fusion Rods armed, engines powered. Explorer ready for launch”

The control tower at Cape Canaveral received the same message.

“Ghost, prepare to launch in T-minus 20 seconds”

News crews 5 miles away from the launch pad eagerly received the message. Cameras and Camcorders were set on the distant Launch Pad Five.

Mitchell then looked towards a large handle covered in a plastic caution box. The box read: Thruster Velocity Control”

The Control Tower operator began the countdown.

“20”

Leon held his breath. He moved towards the control.

“19”

Placing his hand on the box, he lifted the safety box off.

“18”

Popping the last latch off, he opened the box.

“17”

Gripping the control tightly, he closed his eyes.

“16”

“15”

“Secondary couplings off!”

“14”

“13’

Leon muttered a silent prayer.

“12”

Around the globe, families sat around their TVs and computers, watching the live feed from Florida, eagerly awaiting NASA’s latest launch.

“T-Minus 10 seconds”

“9”

“8”

“7”

“Ghost?”

Leon was awakened from his reverie.

“Yeah control, go ahead”

“I just wanted to wish you good luck before I release the final couplings”
“Thanks John, you too”

“Primary couplings released, T-Minus 5 seconds”

Those were the longest 5 seconds of his life. As Leon prepared to pull the Thruster Switch, reporters and news crews prepared their cameras.

“3”

“2”

Leon pulled the switch. He felt the whole craft lurch.

“1”

An earsplitting noise filled his ears. Leon thought he was going to die. Instead he looked at his window. He was flying. The launch pad was already a distant dot.

A great cheer went up at the control room.

“This is Ghost, en route to target altitude”

“Excellent work Ghost!”

Leon’s craft was going an estimated 30,000 miles per hour. In several seconds, he would be in high orbit. The skies darkened.

“This is Ghost, I think we just put ourselves in the record books”

“Damn straight”

A cheer filled the tower. One man popped a beer bottle open.

“Sir, I have a huge magnetic reading off the explorer’s bow!”

“What? How strong”

“Off the charts!”

“Ghost you read anything?”

Leon looked at the sensor readout. Exactly 200 miles off his ship, a huge disturbance had manifested. And it was growing.

“Jesus…what in the hell…”

Those were the last words ever heard from Lt. Leon Mitchell.

At least from our ears.

OOC: You do know this 40K based dont you?

You know how the warp is unpredictable and can result in the bending of space and time? Nuff said. At any rate, WHERE is the RP taking place?

OOC: How about you try reading it? Or is that too hard?

OOC: I'd like to join but can I ask, what is going on? I'd love to read 50 pages of posting but I have other stuff to do so could someone give me a really breif discription of the action so far? If not just ignore this post.

OOC: I'd like to join but can I ask, what is going on? I'd love to read 50 pages of posting but I have other stuff to do so could someone give me a really breif discription of the action so far? If not just ignore this post.

OOC: OK, basically: eldar are searching for something, Orks and Tyranids on planet, and a few chapters of Marines are allied with the Eldar. Theres also some Tau, and an enigma chapter called the Night Stalkers. Thats about all I can give you

The Ultramarines began to move, the mighty engines of the Land Raiders and Predators propelled the armoured vehicles forward at a slow rate so the infantry could keep up. Bikes and Land Speeders roared ahead, Vindicators followed close behind the infantry and Whirlwinds were last. But as the mighty force drew closer to their target a shadow appeared. The darkness grew larger and soon covered the entire army, slowly poisoning their minds. Something was terribly wrong.

OOC: New people, read the thread. It's worth it.

Well, God i'm sorry if I pissed you off by askin a simple question. Back to the RP.

Leon stared around. His head was spinning. It was all just a blue blur. All of it...

He screamed, wishing it would stop. His sensors were balzing in a sea of red light and sound. The ones that werent already blown out anyways. he closed his eyes. He knew he was going to die soon. A muttered the Lord's Prayer. Then it stopped.

He opened his eyes.

In front of the craft was a black, lit object. Leon swore it was longer than 20 miles. It cruised towards him. Upon closer inspection, there was another ship. This one looked like it had been through a beating. Metal jagged out in all directions. The first craft lined up against the second. Instantly a barrage of fire spewed forth from it's side, streaking towards the second vessel. Problem was, Leon was between them.

He had emerged in between the two Black Angel's battlebarges. Even now, they were scanning him, before one activated a tractor beam, and pulled it into it's hull. The pod was surrounded by Scouts, all pointing their bolters at the craft

Eldrad knew that now was the time to strike, like a scorpian he world strike quickly while the Marines where busy, he had set his trap, the first Marines to even try to go into the caverns would die, his men where prepared and replenished now.

The trap was set, he just needed the bait.

The orks, seeing the thunderhawks and assorted dropships landing where the orks had been, preformed a crude about face and headed, slowly back to the battlesite.

Okay, so far we have loads of people now joining and pissing everyone off - someone's landed in an enemy encampment. I'm gonna say that it was in fact Nids, (with spore chimneys etc.) if that's okay! If it is - you die! My Nids swarm and eat you, if they don't the you're a godmoder. A random guy from the 'real time' is gonna manage to land on the planet and GODMODE! I'm sorry but no - one guy on his own cannot do anything without godmoding.

plus no one has answered my question! What's the inside of the cave like!?!?

OOC: OK, basically: eldar are searching for something, Orks and Tyranids on planet, and a few chapters of Marines are allied with the Eldar. Theres also some Tau, and an enigma chapter called the Night Stalkers. Thats about all I can give you
Here's the brief version - but a bit less brief!
The Eldar are searching for something. They have a cave complex which they are currently sharing with most of the Marines, but there is a trap/plot/conspiracy going on inside. There are some Tau somewhere far away who aren't doing anything. There are some Orks battling some Space Marines. The Nids (MEEE!) have disappeared off everyone's radars and are currently following the Red Terror underneath the caves. That's more or less it atm.

OOC: I am going to join, but i haven't the time to read 50+ pages of story.
IC: Kais Shau paced the bridge of his Manta Missle Destroyer, nervously looking at the com display. "Where are the others?" he said aloud. "The message said to meet them here, but there is nothing." "Computer, change veiwing spectrum." "Yes sir", the computer responded, "What spectrum would you like?" "Infrared please." As the display switched to infrared spectrum, He say what he had been missing. An entire planet, invisible to the naked eye. "Set course for that planet, and prepare the Shadow Cadre for deployment."

OOC: Must this be entirely WH40K? Can I use my own race? Or just some humanity not oppressed by the Empire?

I'm pretty sure it has to be 40k, but you can use a rebel force of humanity (as long as it is fluffy).{I think}

A jet of flame passed the cockpit. Leon, clearly in disbelief, followed the flame until it hit the second ship. A huge section of it broke off, with little green dots flying out. The dots drew closer. Leon relalized what they were when a live one passed his window. The ugly green shape was an Ork. Not that Leon knew that. Seconds later, he felt something grab his ship. He was slowly being pulled to the first object. As Leon veiwed it's majesty, he noticed cannon-like objects and turrets on the side. Turning on his rear cameras, which was working via some miracale, he viewed the final moments of the Ork Ship. The first ship bombarded the ship so badly that it split down the middle. As the ship ripped apart, the engine block seperated. And exploded.

Leon shieled his eyes. When he opened them, it was dark. He was in a massive room, but was still inside the Explorer. He swore he could here yelling coming from outside. The hatch then flew open. Leon looked up and saw the pipe make contact.

A jet of flame passed the cockpit. Leon, clearly in disbelief, followed the flame until it hit the second ship. A huge section of it broke off, with little green dots flying out. The dots drew closer. Leon relalized what they were when a live one passed his window. The ugly green shape was an Ork. Not that Leon knew that. Seconds later, he felt something grab his ship. He was slowly being pulled to the first object. As Leon veiwed it's majesty, he noticed cannon-like objects and turrets on the side. Turning on his rear cameras, which was working via some miracale, he viewed the final moments of the Ork Ship. The first ship bombarded the ship so badly that it split down the middle. As the ship ripped apart, the engine block seperated. And exploded.

Leon shieled his eyes. When he opened them, it was dark. He was in a massive room, but was still inside the Explorer. He swore he could here yelling coming from outside. The hatch then flew open. Leon looked up and saw the pipe make contact.

OOC: Ah, I see you have come within the grasp of my Black Angels then... but I didn't attack an Ork ship, so don't make stuff like that up, otherwise its called GodModding, a very, VERY big no-no

IC: Scout Sergeant Dragos looked at the odd craft before him. The design was like nothing he had seen before, seemingly designed to carry a single occupant. He nodded to his second, who took his fire-team forward. The hatch was already open, and the auspex showed a life-sign... it was human. The atmosphere was consistent with that of Terra... but never had the Battle-Brothers seen such a craft. One advanced slowly, his scout armour making less noise than a power-armoured Marine would have done. He turned the corner, the light attached to his bolter flickering into life as he rested his finger on the trigger. He saw a human, fairly small...but physically he looked fit.

"Identify yourself!"

Kill em'! Nah, sorry, but don't make stuff up. Ask if you're not sure. I'm getting fed up that no one is answering my question so I'm gonna go ahead:

IC: The cave floor cracked and slowly a small crevace appeared. That crack got wider and wider until there was a massive hole in the floor. Out poured lots and lots of rippers, going in every direction possible...

OOC: Stuffing-your-face, why didn't you just do that in the first place? It would have saved alot of time

ooc : sorry i haven't posted recently but now i'm back (unfortunately)

The Tau prepared to enter the caves. Ork hunting but also looking out for Marines or Eldar. Crisis suits brstling with flamers and burst cannons, stealth suits and pathinders moved into the tunnels.

Outside O'Or'es was comfortable. Nothing could escape without passing through the Tau blockade. He trail of thought was interrupted by a young Shas'la. "Sir. Bsae has detected a Manta Missile Destroyer incoming. It is not from our caste."

"Try to make contact with them. If successful, patch them through to me."

OOC: Hmm, lots of new people. Well welcome everyone, and don't screw this up. The story has gone a little down hill in my opinion recently, but from what Aust has said it sounds like it is about to get more interesting.

I am the Night Stalker player. They are rogue space marines that use basically use the same rules as marines just don't like them. They aren't chaos, which is what marines often mistake them as thanks to all the propaganda pumped into their heads. My Night Stalkers are sitting in the cave complex with the Eldar (allied with them of course), and Paleneus is the master of them. Basically, they were Space Marines, but were betrayed by an inquisitor who really disliked them and their methods of attack. Everyone thinks they are dead, except the space marines on this planet.

IC: A message came from the Eldar. It basically said, "We are launching our plan soon. Just sit back, and don't try to interfere. We have everything under control for now. We will contact you when you are needed"
"Works for me" Paleneus thought, and decided to have a break from all the fighting. That run in with the space wolf commander earlier had left him quite worn out.

OOC: I roleplay as the Ultramarines. My forces are divided in two groups, one inside the caves and one outside.
I don't really play 40K (or any Warhammer at all) so please correct any mistakes.

OOC: I'm the Space Wolf 16th Company, a formidable, not-to-be-messed-with batch of Marines, led by two characters; Wolf Lord Ivano Wolfenstein and Iron Priest Igor Ramenov, both who kick ass :D

IC: Ramenov and the Long Fangs could see the makeshift exit they themselves had forged several days before. Ramenov gave the shout for the men to speed up, and made it to the exit. He peered out across the plain. The dust clouds in the distance showed the Marine column less than 5 minutes away. Good. He just hoped the other Marines in the caves would make it to the exits before the column arrived. Then the rumbling began. The ground shook, causing the Long Fangs to look round with interest and suspicion. These were some of the most experienced, battle-hardened foghters in the Company, yet none had experienced such a phenomenom before. Ramenov had. "Tyranids." he snarled. Always putting a spanner in the works. "Long Fangs, arm up. This could be a long five minutes." He looked backed into the caves, trying to decipher how far away the scum were, and what way they were travelling. He looked back into the caves, waiting for the storm to hit.

The orks continued to return to the site of the last mega-battle, with the goal of butchering the returning marines.

OOC: I play Tau, the Shadow Cadre.
IC: "Sir" the computer said as Kais Shau was readying his crisis suit. "What is it now?" He questioned, guessing the the computer had another pointless question for him to answer. "There is an incoming call signal. I cannot recognize the identification number. Should I patch them through?" Yes" Kais shau said, as he moved to the vidscreen, steeling himself as he expected the worst.

ooc : I am using the Tau Shas'Retha (Temple of Fire) Cadre. I am currently blockading the caves containing some marines and the Eldar

ic: "This is Commander O'Or'es of the Dal'yth sept. If you will work witgh us for the greater good, land by our base (transmitting co-ordinates on a secure channel). There are some of our troops at the base. We have made contact with Orks, Tyrandids, Marines and Eldar and are blockading the caves were we believe the majority of the other races are hidden. For the Greater Good"

O'Or'es turned from the comms to the fire warrior infront of him. "We have successfully entered the caves sir. The insertion have not yet met any resistance."

"Thank you. Are you ready for your trial by fire La'Kais"

"Yes"

"You will be involved in the second phase. For the Greater Good, Shas'La'Dal'yth'Kais. You will do great things, the Ethereals have told me."

OOC: I suppose I should introduce myself. I play the Black Angels Chapter, of my own creation. I currently have a small force within the caves, and a large number of reinforcements coming to them. Total numbers is around 150

OOC: I'm controlling two craftworlds of Eldar. I'll leave it to the ndis to decide whos cave they attacked.

IC: Eldrad watched as the Trynids erupted from underneath the caves, watching as they attacked suprised marines, his underground sensors had detected the foul creatures before and he had prepared the responce for them.

Four Eldar Wraithlords strode into the cave, supported by hundreds of black guardiens. The cave was small, maybe only 6 or 7 meters wide and 8 meters high and the Enldar laid down a writhering hail of fire, hundreds of strunken and plasma bursts heading into the tightly packed mess of 'nids and Marines, hitting both.

They didn't stand a chance, the cave became a killing zone, the collapsed roof keeping the enermy within the trap, a deadly bottleneck.

In the other caves where marine forces where hidden more Eldar fire opened up from behind them, from where the Eldar had dug in to protect themselves. The Eldars fast attack ships where usless here but there D-Cannons and Dark reapers laid havoc. Bolter bullets came back and soon a deadly firefight developed in the caves, a fire fight that the Eldar would surly win, the advantage of numbers, technology and defensive emplacments compensating for there lack of heavy armour and marine Geneology.

In the caves Eldrad slowly made his way to where the Weapon was hidden, in a small chamber right at the back of the main part. There, past the trenches, gun emplacements and thousands of Eldar the weapon sat, slowly bacoming more powerful, as the energy of the Web Way filtered into it. Ancient computers chattered as the Seer Council prepared the great device, though it's size betrayed it's power.

It was small, and looked like a simple strunken pistol, yet it already had the power of a Missile Launcher and it would soon have far, far more power than that. It's enermy beam would go on forever and would dessolve anything that stood in it's way, destroying the things that bind atoms together. To get in it's way was to incite death, even in space it was the ultimate weapon, a single shot could pentrate the most heavly armoured hull.

It would not be long now until, like a pheonix, the fallen rose again.

The Imperium would fall.

"Trechery!" roared Hanst, him and his Marines digging in as best they could, but they were currently fighting a losing battle. He looked around him,So, is this is were it will end for me?

He opened his helmet-comm,"Brother-Commander, the Eldar have launched an unprovoked attack upon us. We are surrounded, and heavily outnumbered. We need assitance... NOW!"

Farit started,Hanst asking for help?! The situation is grim indeed,"We are hurrying to your location... hold out brother. Please hold out!"

Eldrad smilled as he hacked onto the Mon-Keighs radio systems hearing there perfetic cry for help, Yes, bring more of you fools to the crnage, bring more to dieHe said silently in he felt no regret at this betrayal as he knew the human where planning to kill his people anyway.

It was time to kill.

OOC: IS RL still here? And how many am I facing in caves? Losses?

OOC: Been busy playing HOI2.

IC:
As the shurikens cut into the ranks of the Ultramarines they knew this battle would be lost, putnumbered, outgunned and with no defenses they could not possibly win this battle. Yet they fought, fought for Mankind, fought for The Holy God Emperor of Mankind, fought for The Golden Throne of Terra, fought for their lives and the honour of their chapter.
The Terminators turned and fired their assualtguns into the midst of the foul Eldar, the Tactical squads dropped to the ground and poured fire onto the Eldar barricades, hoping their bolters would destroy them.
Keyes looked around the cave for the leader of the Space Wolves but couldn't find him in the havok that reigned.

OOC: Twenty Terminators, my commander and 250 marines. They are positioned together with the Space Wolves, preparing to retreat out of the caves.

Spotting the Terminators the heavy weapons platforms turned there weapons on the armoured beasts, plasma and D-Cannon shots reigning into the Terminators.

The Eldar fell under the Terminator Autocannon shots and from the bolters, but still fired hundreds of strunken into the midst, which became ever more deadly as they bounced off the walls back down towards the tactical marines.

OOC: Are you still on the LOTR thread?

OOC: Unless someone has godmodded my poor orkcs to hell waiting for me to respond.

IC:
Terminators fell under the heavy fire but pressed on, followed by their brothers. In a charge Keyes led them towards the enemy fortifications. Noone ran away, or even thought about slowing down, this was not the Imperial Guard, nor the Tau or the Eldar, this was the Adeptus Astartes, the Space Marines, and they shall know no fear.
Keyes lead his marines in a prayer (something inciteing. Use your imagination, I don't know any prayers) as the charged forward.
The slower Terminators fell behind and covered them with heavy fire.

The echos from the firefight spread throughout the caverns. The tau exploratory force knew something was wrong. They couldn't hear the recognisable "dakka, dakka" of Ork guns.

Moving towards the sound the stealth sits at the front moved into position. Along a long tunnle, a ferocious battle could be scene. Marines, Nids and Eldar fought. But it was not the Marines and Eldar fighting Nids, it was a three-way brawl.

The stealth team Shas'Vre reported to O'Or'es. "The Eldar have broken their alliance with the Marines. We currently view a three way battle of Eldar, Marines and Nids. Requesting orders."

"Stay in your location. If the Eldar have commited treachery, they will not hesitate to turn against us. I will send reinforcements. If you become involved, side with the Marines. The lives of our pathfinders are already as good as lost. If the pathfinders are alive, they will be serving the Eldar uner my command. They will be executed if they find we are now against the Eldar." The situation could only turn ill. The Eldar had broken their alligance with the Marines they were untrustwortrhy. O'Or'es would show them the true way of combat.

Eldrad watched them charge over the monitors, The fools He watched a few stumble with strunkens in there bellys, another went down as a plasma blast hit him in the chest.

The Eldar responce was perfectly timed, when the marines where just a few meters away the front eldar dropped and behind them where Striking scorpians and Howling banshees led by a avitar and two Pheonix lords, the heavy assult troops of the Eldar army.

They fired a single round of strunken, hundreds of strunken flying through the air casing more Marine deaths and charged, quickly supported by the Guardians.

OOC: No ones done anything to your Orcs, where waiting for you.

The orks, hearing the sounds of battle coming from the caves began to try find a new way in.

ooc: if you let me the orks will find a new entrance
While vile mutants still draw breath, there can be no peace.
While obesene heritic heart's still beat, there can be no respite.
While faithless tratiors still leave, there can be no forgiveness.
Catachism of Hate

With the bolter, cleanse the unclean
We will cleanse
With the flamer, purify the unholy
We will purify
With the chainsword, purge the corrupt
We will purge
With the missle, kill the impure
We will kill

OOC: Yeah, I posted recently.

IC: The shurikens teared large holes in the ranks of the Ultramarines and the assault made a sudden stop as the Avatar of Khaine appeared. The chanting of the psamls continued and the marines found new strenght within themselves nad the Golden Throne (thanks Theao). All heave weapon fire was directed towards the Avatar while the bolters pierced the Scorpions and Banshees.


OOC: Striking Scorpions? Phoenix lords? Must say, I've never heard of them. Pics and the like would be appreciated.

ooc: eldar unit pics
http://us.games-workshop.com/games/40k/eldar/catalog/default.htm

OOC: So Striking Scorpions are male Banshees and Phoenix Lords are commanders?

OOC: The shadow cadre is composed of 250 Firewarriors, 6 Stealth teams, 4 Crisis Teams, 10 Hammerheads, and Kais Shau.
IC: "Set a course for the cordinates recieved." If his tone and expression where any hint of how bad things where going for O'Or'es, things where dire indeed.

OOC: Is it just me, or is Aust seemingly not losing any troops, and yet he is dictating the other peoples losses? Two can play this game!

The Black Angels were fighting desperatley, trying to hold on just that little bit longer. Hanst was already staggering from any number of wounds, and barely fifty of his one hundred brethern still stood. The havy thud of bolters, missile launchers and plasma weaponry rang throughout the cave. It was a unwinnable fight, but they would stand and fight and die for the Emperor, for Terra, and for the honour of the Chapter. Their black armour was dulled, their markings erased. All that showed them as the Black Angels was their eyes, burning blue in the deep eye sockets of their helmets.

Looking around him, Hanst saw the sight before him. Tyranids, Marines and trecheous Eldar scum fought in a scene that he had heard of only in legends from the older members of the Chapter. He raised his crozius high above his head, rousing the brethern with his words,"BROTHERS, TODAY WE FIGHT FOR THE EMPEROR! TODAY WE DIE FOR THE EMPEREOR! LET THE HATED FOE BE CAUGHT BENEATH OUR RIGHTEOUS FURY, AND LET OUR NAMES RING FOREVER IN THE HALLS OF THE BLACK ANGELS!"

As one, the Black Angels roared their response,"FOR THE EMPEROR!". They dug in deeper, firing with renewed vigour and accuracy. The light armour of the Eldar was no match for bolters, and Guardians fell in their droves. A stray krak missile sailed over their heads and detonated on the armoured carapace of a Wraithlord.

Veteren-Brother Dreadnaught Barbarossa was already smoking in many places, but his assualt cannon continued to chatter, its rounds tearing into the weak Xenos flesh. He had lived through the last Black Crusade, and many such events before that, and he had no intention of going down without a fight...

Ramenov roared with fury. He knew the Eldar were not to be trusted. Vile, treacherous, cowardly alien scum. They would pay eternally for such evil. Five of his twenty precious Long Fangs had already been lost. Five men he had fought with for decades. Such warriors did not die without retribution. The aliens would pay. Iron-Preist Igor Ramenov strode forward, ignoring the blows the Tyranids attempted to rain down on him. He was focused on the Avatar in amongst the hoarde. He drew his axe and his thunder hammer. The servo-arm on his back whirred in anticipation. "Bring your foul hide to me, daemon. Your time has come. Meet your doom." He leapt at the beast, weapons gleaming, and the sacred fire of Russ burning in his eyes.

OOC: To all new players: I am an Inquisitor (Inquisitor Hasselhof) investigating the disturbance, leading a big bunch of Grey Knights, along with his good friend and mercenary Jimmy 'Ace' Peach. Well, not that big a bunch. Anyway, now things are getting interesting again, I'm going to cheat my way back in. If anyone has an objection to this, I'll rewrite it so I come in properly.

IC: Hasselhof was about to give the command to enter the caves to find the source of the huge battle that had erupted inside, when a Scout pulled up, leapt off his bike and, panting, delivered his news;
'Sir, we've discovered another way in. We thought it might be best to inform you, as you are trying to carry out an investigation, rather than an all out war.'
'Excellent work, that man. Where is it?'
'It's a small tunnel that leads inside the back of the cave complex, as far as we can tell. Unfortunately, we, in all our mighty and glorious power armour, can't fit. It'll just be you and Peach. We could go around the front and provide any back up we can.'
'Affirmative. You can expect a promotion, lad. That's some damn good scouting [OOC: See, this is excusing the fact that noone else, even the Eldar, have found the tunnel].' Hasselhof turned to the Captain of the Grey Knights. 'Are you prepared, Captain?'
'Sir, yes sir! All troops, move out! Good luck, sir.

As soon as the Knights had left, Hasselhof sent an open transmission on a frequency that could be received by any warriors of the imperium.
This is Inquisitor Hasselhof. What's going on in there? Who are you fighting? We are proceeding with the investigation, and any information we find will be relayed to you. We hope we can expect the same at your end

The orks unable to find a new way in that could enable the orks to get into the fight fast enough began blasting into the wall using explosives, zzap guns, lascannons, mulitmeltas and burnas to carve a path into the cave system.

Foul xenos, inquistor, foul xenos. The vile Eldar have turned on us and we're pinned down in the caves. The Tyranids are too.
If you are able to find Librarian Julius please tell him to report at once, we haven't seen him since my forces we sepparated answered Keyes in his comm-link.

This is Chaplin Hanst, we are pinned down by superior enemy fire in the main chamber, and we cannot get out. Our reinforcements are on their way, but they could be delayed

As the orks continued to pour fire into the hole the guns were digging the innerwall of the chamber, where the main fight was, began glowing red and starting to melt.

Long Fang Pack Leader Vorius heard the transmission, and, realising that his Commander was otherwise engaged, decided to answer it himself. "This is Pack Leader Vorius of the Space Wolf 16th Company. We are heavily outnumbered, by both Tyranid and Eldar forces. We shall hold out until help arrives. Emperor Protect, Inquisitor Hasselhoff."

The Night Stalkers could hear the fighting going on. Some of the men were worried. The Vindicare Assassin could hear arguments going on between the men. Some of them wanted to go and help.
"They are our allies! Who cares what they said, we should fight for them!" The scout aroused many cheers from this comment.
"And if we do, we will probably jeapordise (sp?) their lives," The assassin had joined in, "They asked us to wait, and we will"
"But sir, what happens if they die? If they are all gone, we are all thats left to fight the Imperium on this planet!"
"Hah! The Eldar dieing? You underestimate them. What you have seen isn't their whole force. This is their craftworld. This is their home! They are sure to have many more troops than you have seen. You can hear them anyway. There is no way a few Eldar could hold up a fight this long. And that rumbling, that is not a tank I can assure you. They have been joined by something else. My guess is the 'nids. We didn't kill the Red Terror, just wounded it. It has probably dug a tunnel for them. Knowing the 'nids, they will attack whoever is attacking them most. The Eldar are probably mostly using them as shields"
The scouts thought about this. It seemed logical to them, but some were still not sure.
"We will be sent for when we are needed, don't worry. The Eldar are intelligent. They know when they need help. For now, just relax, and keep out of sight"

OOC: Well, I was'nt implying that YOU were the one fighting with the orks, but the what the hell... Also, Leon is about 6', so he is not small. Also, he brought his 9mm sidearm for luck.

IC:
"Identify yourself!"

"1st Lt. Leon Mitchell of the National Aeronautic and Space Administration!"

"At least he speaks like a human", one marine noted

"And may I ask, who the bloody fuck are you" Leon retorted.

"I am Brother Ignious of the Black Angels!"

"Black Angels?!"

"Surely you have not heard of the Adeptus Astartes?!"

"No..."

"He does not look like a hertic to me."

"Looks can be decieving, lock him up with the others"

2 more scouts appeared from the crowd of Marines which had gathered around the Explorer. They plucked Leon from the cockpit.

"Where the fuck are you takin' me?"

"To the Brig"

"Oh shit..." Leon muttered under his breath.

The marnines reached the brig of the ship. Opening a cell via an electric panel, they threw him inside and locked it.

When the scouts left. Leon got up and exaimined his surroudings. A dank, dark metal room greeted him. He was in a cellblock. He reached into his flight suit's pocket, and withdrew his sidearm. A baretta M-9. With a silencer.

"Lets see if this works"

He aimed the pistol at the cell panel, he aimed and was about to fire when a seemingly invisible force knocked him back.

"That would be futile, young man."

OOC: Well, I was'nt implying that YOU were the one fighting with the orks, but the what the hell...

IC:

"Identify yourself!"

"1st Lt. Leon Mitchell of the National Aeronautic and Space Administration!"

"At least he speaks like a human", one marine noted

"And may I ask, who the bloody fuck are you" Leon retorted.

"I am Brother Ignious of the Black Angels!"

"Black Angels?!"

"Surely you have not heard of the Adeptus Astartes?!"

"No..."

"He does not look like a hertic to me."

"Looks can be decieving, lock him up with the others"

2 more scouts appeared from the crowd of Marines which had gathered around the Explorer. They plucked Leon from the cockpit.

"Where the fuck are you takin' me?"

"To the Brig"

"Oh shit..." Leon muttered under his breath.

OOC: OK, this is a GODMOD! You cannot control my men! Under any circumstances!

OOC: Ok, ok, take over.

OOC: Ok, ok, take over.
OOC: We'll go from the 'Lt.Mitchell' part

IC: "Brother Garon!"

"Yes, Brother-Sergeant?"

"Take this*looks over the man*human to the bridge. Make sure that Captain Arganta sees him, and ask him on my behalf to allow me to conduct the... questioning"

Leon looked up at his captor.

The man was around 7 to 8 feet tall, he estimated, and decked out in heavy pitch black armor. He thought 'Christ, who the hell are these guys'. But more thoughts were on his mind, like the gun pointed to his back, and where exactly this giant was taking him. Leon could still feel his sidearm in his pocket. Even he managed to pull it out, he would be shot to pieces by the huge gun pointed at his back. They snaked their way around the huge ship, until they reached what looked like a bridge. The door opened and...

The Scout frisked the human, coming up with the Beretta that he was carrying,"You call this a weapon? Foolish man"

Tag!

Row after row of Tau reinforcements moved through the tunnles. Meeting with the explatory force, they moved as one body. A group split off at this point, moving to a location currently in the dark. They were the kroot.

The main force breifly paused. They recieved their orders over the comms, then moved again. Trying to reach cover, they took aim, waiting for the signal. The volley of shots from the Kroot who had swiftly, silently, flanked the Eldar, was the signal. Shadows were just visable behind the Eldar, then all hell broke loose. The shreik of a Kroot shaper, followed by a volley of fire and a charging mass of Kroot. Then, taking aim, blue fire shoot from the Tau weaponary. Tanks, unable to find cover, had hidden along the longer tunnle, and now menouvered, laying down even more withering fire. The Eldar traitors were in a crossfire, Tau fire and Kroot blades, combined into one.

The cave the Hasselhof and his faithful friend 'Ace' were crawling through ended suddenly, giving way to a huge cavern, in which some massive, arcane alien technology stood, surrounded by several xenos - Hasselhof was fairly confident they were eldar.
'What in the name of the Emperor is that?' breathed the Inquisitor.
'I dunno,' replied 'Ace', 'but it doesn't look like good news.'
'It looks like it may be some form of weaponry. I'll transmit an image to the data-drones, see if they have any information.'

Meanwhile, inside the cave complex, the Grey Knights had moved into position. 'Pack leader Vorius!' hailed the captain of the Knights, as his men began to move up behind the Space Wolves. 'We have arrived, and will try to give as much help as we can. The Emperor is on our side.'

The Shadow Cadre's Manta flew several hundred feet above the ground, but the Air Caste pilots' vision was superb enough to see orks firing all their weapons at a cave wall, and a small army of GK moving towards the main cave entrance, but they could see no sign of the others that O'Or'es had mentioned. " Set down at the co-ordinates, the we will send our honourary pathfinder member to see what she could find." "I just hope she's good enough", Kais Shau thought.

OOC: Sorry if i godmoded a little bit (said you where still outside the tunnels) but i accidently skipped over the last bit of your post.

Eldrqad graimiced, how had the Eldar got in? "Pull back." He ordered "Back to the second line of defences. Have our close combat troops hold the enermy up and the rest pull back."

With the Scorpians and the Bansheesfighting hand to hand with the enermy the main Eldar force pulled back, laving the cave to the fighting enermys.

ooc: it's alright. there is still a small number outside the caves

ic: As the Eldar fled through an unsighted tunnle. With no more Eldar left to fight, the Tau turned the Marines and Nids. Nids. They attacked Tau worlds without emotion. They would die, the the Eldar traitors. Changing targets to the big Nids, the devestating Tau fire started up again, trying to avoid Marines but a few shoots still hit the power armoured warriors. The kroot, seeing the Eldar leave followed them a short way but soon turned to the mass Nid Marine melee, more flesh.

More help was needed. Vorius gave a small sigh of relief as the Holy Warriors fell in alongside his men. The Long Fangs were tired, and low on ammunition. He had already ordered selected target shots only. To his left Veteran Brother Oryn took a starcannon shot to the head, the round ripping half of his face away. The marine beside him, Veteran Brother Trancov gave a yell of fury, and leapt out of the trench, his knife and axe drawn as he tore among the Eldar, his overheated lascannon abandoned. The Grey Knights were pumping fire into the aliens, but their numbers did not seem to diminish. More help was needed.

More help was coming. Ivano bit down in frustration, he could partly see what was happening in the caves, but even at full power the Land Raiders would take time to get there. For now he would have to sit tight, and prepare his men for the fight. The marine column rolled on, bringing an inevitable doom for the Xenos. More help was coming.

He needed no help. In his state of mind Ramenov was untouchable. His weapons clove left and right, severing limbs and crushing bones. Yet always he remained focused on the target, the Avatar of Khaine. The daemon would pay for all the sins of the Eldar, and evil would know its maker. It would know it through the hammer and axe of the Iron-Preist. He needed no help.

The orks had finally managed to blast thier way into the cavern, the wall they had been working on exploded outward, spraying tyranid, marine, eldar, tau and kroot*. The orks had layed down a path of marine corpses to avoid burning thier feet and arms from the heat. The lead orks, those wearing mutilated marine armour stormed into the caves, guns blazing and blades slashing.

ooc: and any other races in the cavern.

Shas'vre Hannah, the lone pathfinder sent with the Shadow Cadre, leapt out of the Manta as it was still flying, her specially designed jetpack allowing her to sustain flight. She landed atop a cliff, and started scanning the surrounding area. She could she the main entrance, but she could also see Marines entrenched there, with reinforcements on the way. She felt rumbling below her, and as she looked over the cliff face, she saw the hated orks below her, and sent images back to Kais Shau. "Very well," Kais Shau said, "We will enter that way".

Sergeant Kalos put down the communicator, on which he had been speaking to Lord Wolfenstein. Kalos was in the foremost Rhino, slotting in just behind the Wolf Lord's Land Raider. He looked across to Gadros, the Pack sniper. "What now brother?"
Gadros was peering out the top hatch through his scope, the door open just enough for him to see through. "I have the alien in my scope, Sergeant. Shall I fire."
"No brother. Lord Wolfenstein says the Tau have done us no harm as of yet, so we shall hold our fire. For now."
"Yes Sergeant." Gadros loosened his trigger finger. The Tau on the cliff was safe for now, but Gadros promised himself if the Tau showed themselves the Wolves' enemies, he would be the one to bring the Xenos down.

The last Eldar had escaped to there well built defendsive positions at the entrence to the chamber, meanwhile the last few Scorpians and the Avitar fourght on, not caring for there wound, they where filled with the maddness of battle and they would not surrender.

The Avitar saw Ramenov and made towards him, seeing an enermy worth his match.

OOC: Do they Both die or what?

Kais Shau was pleased with Hannah's report, ordering her to return to the landing zone as quick as possible. Meanwhile, he was trying to contact O'Or'es, to ask him which way they should enter.

The Shadow Cadre's message was simple. What was the plan of action? The answer however was far more complex. "Kais Shau. Send teams in to scout around the main battlesite inside the caverns. Their are multiple entrances but the one at the north is currently the most safe. Be prepared to send reinforcements, it's not a nice battle in there."

One of the Night Stalker scout teams, who had been keeping an eye on the battle, reported that the Eldar had fallen back. Apparently the Tau had joined in a fight against the Eldar, and they were forced to retreat.
"What should we do sir?" The scout sergeant asked, hoping that battle would be coming his way
"Nothing," Paleneus replied simply, "We wait here. They will call us when we are needed. Keep an eye on the battle though, but by all means keep out of sight. They seem to have forgotten about us with all this fighting. Lets not jog their memory"
"Will do". Despite the scout not able to enter battle, he wasn't too annoyed. He had the opportunity to do what he did best - sneak around. He went back to his team to give them their orders.

Kais decided that the easiest way to scout would be to send 2 stealth teams to examine through the Ork hole, and the Holo-field equipped stealth team through the entrance that the Imperials currently Guarded.

OOC: Holo-field - Designed for warfare on hot planets or windy planets. Confers the image of either a heat wave rising or a blowing wind, but does not offer protection on any spectrums other than visible light.

ooc: Arthas Moloch, the orks are still going in shoulder to shoulder, basically there is no room for anyone else to enter the tunnel

Eldrad sent a message to the night stalkers, "Can you get round the back of those Tau, it would be useful if you could so we can surround and destroy them.

I agree - the story has gone a bit down the hill - especially with all the new members joining at the climax! But I'll just wait patiently for this to finish and a new one to start.

IC: The last of the Nids had just about finished pouring out of the tunnels. The Tau were battling them fiercely. The Hive Mind recognised them - one of the few species (I'm talking about Kaor's, I don't know what other word to use) that had escaped the wrath of the Devourer of Worlds. Their home planet had fallen and soon their warriors would fall too.

OOC: Kaor, I'm gonna say that we're at a stalemate-ish type thingy. We're both losing about the same number of troops, k? Until something new happens - like this!

IC: The Tau suddenly realised that the Big Ones had disappeared. Some remained dead on the floor of the cave, but no more were coming out of the hole - what was going on!?!

Eldrad sent a message to the night stalkers, "Can you get round the back of those Tau, it would be useful if you could so we can surround and destroy them.
Please do lol (are u talking about Kaor's?)

The orks, wearing marine armour charged into the grand melee, tearing into everyone without discrimination.

death to all orks

OOC: The story has gone seriously downhill. It was good at the beginning, but now is growing stale. We need a new story!

ooc: ya now its basically turned into a big fight in a cave next time it should be a closedish story

OOC: The ppl who started this thread so Aust and myself should be in

OOC: I agree, this hasn't turned out like I thought it would, maybe I should close it?

The Night Stalkers received the message, and Paleneus immediately outlined a plan. When they all knew it, he ordered them to move out.
"Remember, surprise is our key. Do not let them know you are there. If someone sees you, try and lead them out the way and kill them silently. We are attacking Tau. They aren't designed for fighting silently. They wont know what hit them"
The Night Stalkers gave a cry for battle, and went to their positions.

OOC: The Night Stalker force mainly consists of scouts (they have no normal space marines), some with sniper rifles (the Vindicare Assassin stays with them), the rest with bolters and close combat weapons (Paleneus with them) (my army has true grit, as outlined in the creating your own chapter section of the codex). They have no terminators or any vehicles or walkers (except bikes), but the scouts are armed with explosives to take out enemy vehicles (they get things like this when combining their own weaponry with that of the Eldar). Then there are the bikes, and there are some devastator squads (with infiltrators rule) who run around until they get a free shot at a vehicle and then take it. Thats pretty much it for my force:


Scouts (some with snipers, some with normal weapons; some armed with explosives to plant on vehicles if they get close enough)
Bikes
Devastator Squads
And then Paleneus with his Plasma pistol and his mysterious sword, and the Vindicare assassin with his exitus rifle

OOC: and with the closing, I agree if I can be apart of a new one. I'll make a mini story using my troops if I can.

ooc: I wish to be part of the new thread as well.

OOC: I think Aust, you should invite who you want into the new thread via TG. Intial ideas go with of course yourself, me, Theao, and Varied Iguanas. I'd also say Shinbreakers as well. But it's up to you

If it's alright I'd also like to be part of this new thread. I couldn't really find a plausible opening in this threads storyline, but I'd be happy if anyone'd consider letting me tagg along for a new one.

OOC: I could start a new one, i have a good storyline in my mind (although we don't have any DE (Eldar could work). And are you talking about my Tau? Because the only people you would be able to sneak up to would be my Stealth Suits, because the rest of my army is still at base. And as for the Orks, the stealth suits could hover above them, or just stay behind (Orks don't have that good eyesight anywany.

ooc: the number of orks heading throught the tunnel would make following useless and there is no room between the orks head and the cave roof.

ooc: Ok, didn't know that. I thought that because they where Orks, they would have had fun and blasted the biggest hole they could make, and at least one that is big enough to fit their vehicles.

And if you guys are making a new one, can I be a part? I love RPing, but I rarely can find any good 40K RPs and this is one of the better.

They did blast a big hole but it is filled with orks, so unless you were under an ork vehicle theres really no way in as the orks are basically packed wall to wall and the average ork is between 2 and 2.5 meters tall.

OOC: I could start a new one, i have a good storyline in my mind (although we don't have any DE (Eldar could work). And are you talking about my Tau? Because the only people you would be able to sneak up to would be my Stealth Suits, because the rest of my army is still at base. And as for the Orks, the stealth suits could hover above them, or just stay behind (Orks don't have that good eyesight anywany.
Its not your Tau, its Kaor's. He's the one who joined in the battle. I just have to take him out from behind, which is what my troops are good for. I'll post where they join in soon, but not now.

ooc: I don't mind a new thread if i can join in. I might use Blood Angels instead of Tau (if you don't mind)

OOC: There is one called A New Threat.

OOC: we may as well come with a new idea in this thread, and then someone can start it. Use this as a brainstorming thread

OOC: Well with my Night Stalkers, I'll make a story along the lines of the imperium finding out they are still alive. They send a very highly trained assassin (trying to fight them wont work as they have the Eldar on their side) to kill Paleneus, and generally cause the demise of them. You can discover the twist when you read the story. I will then join in with your story, allying with the Eldar like always.

So is this one now finished? If not then all of my Nids get killed by Tau. lol. With the new tread, is it going to be invitation only (plz)?

OOC: Brainstorming it is. Shame, I thought it was still going OK. And I was about to smush an Avatar. :D

If Aust or Snake Eaters make a new one let me know, I'll be in if you want me. Personally I think it should only be the nations that were at the start of this that get into the new one, but again its up to the creator.

I don't mean that in offence to the newer nations in the thread, I just think smaller numbers is less complicated, therefore easier for everyone to co-operate.

That's a good idea of yours Varied Iguanas, but that might be difficult to do with five or six nations.

OOC: I'm happy to start a new one, just ideas of numbers here and I'll set up a sign-up thread. If of course, you all agree

OOC: Telegraph all nations involved (or at least those that the creator decides will be allowed in it) once the thread is up.

OOC: Lets keep it compact, me, RL, SE, VI, Shinbreakers, SYF, and Theao. I have and ideafor a storyline, but there's many places we can go... We could 'go back in time' to the time of the great crusade. The Marine players can play a legion, I can do Eldar, Theao orks again ect. The story could be simple.

The Emporers legions have descovered a new civillisation in a system far away. Or this race can descover the Imperials, they make contact ect. it could be the Imperials first contect with Eldar, and at stake, an functioning STC machine...

Great, I'm in. I'll probably play as Dark Eldar this time (solves the problem of not having any and I want to be able to communicate, form alliances etc.)

Oh yeah, if it's okay, can I already have a mini empire-to-be started on the planet? If not let me know.

OOC: Lets keep it compact, me, RL, SE, VI, Shinbreakers, SYF, and Theao. I have and ideafor a storyline, but there's many places we can go... We could 'go back in time' to the time of the great crusade. The Marine players can play a legion, I can do Eldar, Theao orks again ect. The story could be simple.

The Emporers legions have descovered a new civillisation in a system far away. Or this race can descover the Imperials, they make contact ect. it could be the Imperials first contect with Eldar, and at stake, an functioning STC machine...

Hmmmmm, I'd much prefer if we stayed in the current timeframe. I don't like the idea of controlling a legion, far too many men for my liking. However, the STC is a good idea. War across a whole system, as the Imperials try to discover it. Anyone like?

Completely OOC: I may not be too active for the next couple of weeks. My Mum has gone to Australia, and I have to stay with my Dad who hasn't got a computer. I will try and get online (I will be able to at weekends), but generally I will struggle, so this is a warning. What also doesn't help is that I have my year 9 SATs next week, so I have lots of revision to do for them.

OOC: SAT's are a walkover. GCSE's and A-levels... *shudders*

OOC: Could I join in the new thread? I know I didn't contribute all that much to this one, but I did try. A bit. Well, I'll try more this time. And it wasn't my fault the Ing disappeared *shut up, Jake, your blabbering* shall I just wrap up the story a bit? I was about to try to further the story line anyway, and my chaps are in the cave. One question: who is controlling the eldar inside the cave again? :confused:

OOC: Ok, I'll be in the new one. As for the ancient time, I agree with Snake Eaters. A legion is too many men. Way too many men.

SATs? Pfiff. Did GCSEs last year, AS Levels start next Thursday. Somebody shoot me please.

OOC: I start my GCSE's in a few weeks, not happy

OOC: Enjoy it while it lasts. I'd rather be doing my GCSEs again than doing these ASs. So much harder this year.

Anybody got any other ideas for the new thread? I'm not putting down the idea we have, I'm just fishing for more that's all...

I sincerely hope I am not being presumptuous in attempting to join the new thread. I have been reading the thread since it began, but was not experienced with rps and so decided not to join. I now have participated in several, and I think I may be up for it. I am fine with different time periods, and would like to play Sac'ea Tau if possible. I have the Codex and have been playing Warhammer 40k for a little while now. If you do not want another player, that's OK also, I understand I don't have very much chance of getting in anyway.

OOC: You could join, but you need a good RP expierence really. I wouldn't mind another player, but we seem to have way too many Space MArines and Tau in this

Ideas for the upcomming 40K RP?

Well, Lesseee... A nifty artifact bristeling with Chaos energies or some such coveted by several major players is always a nice thing, no?

If the whole "Chaos Artifact" -idea doesn't pan out, perhaps a memory disk believed contain valubale schematics from the Dark age of Technology would be better? How about an important hostage frozen in a cryo-induced slumber?

If you're aiming for a larger operation, perhaps the classical all-out battle for a tacticaly important planet would be the thing? Kinda like the whole Abnett thing if you get my gist.

Perhaps some operation with only a few characters in a small RP at the edge of the whole epic-battle thing would be a good idea?

WAY too many Tau, unless of course we have an imperial crusade against them...

I could do imperial guard and a member of the High Council, so could the rest of the Imperial players, that way you could have the other races choosing there allies and two main blocks. Maybe the Tau have stolen an STC construct or somthing.

OOC: I would like to join as SM, I know that there are way too many already but I hope you'll trust me on this (read my last posts for examples on how I could sort it out).

I won't discuss schoolwork with you (I guess that's what all those strange abbreviations are) but I will say that the Swedish Nationella Prov (National tests) are way too easy.

OOC: I think we should limit it to two players per race (x2 Tau, x2 SM etc) maximum. That should make it fairer. Now to decide which race we all be. I'd prefer to use the Black Angels again, but let's see how it pans out

Oh, nd RL: GCSE's = General Certificate of Secondary Education. A - Levels = Advanced Levels, and SAT's = Standard Aptitude Tests

OOC: Sounds good to me, figure I can join as Chaos at once.

In the new one I want orks, and an idea, a massive ork waggggggh or tyranid swarm with the other races banding together to stop it.

Alright, I'm taking Black Angels, and I don't like Theao's idea. We tried a similar idea here, and Aust stabbed us in the back

ah but here the eldar were trying to protect some artefact, in my idea it would be an all out war.

It seems to me like 2 people per race is good. I would play something else, like Eldar possibly, but I really don't know much about any other 40k race, although I know quite a bit about Tau. And don't worry, I've got some experience in rping now.

I want to join the new one and...
I could play something other than Tau, but Tau is my main army and I would Rp best as Tau, and everybody else seems to be leaving the Greater Good.

Alright, I'm taking Black Angels, and I don't like Theao's idea. We tried a similar idea here, and Aust stabbed us in the back
WUHWHAHAHAHAHA! But the problem with that is it becomes too much, I send 500 me to N00kZ U!!!!

We need a bit of caracter as we had in the earlky stages here,

With V Iguana's problem - we go to the same school so I could post for him...?
Anyway, I'm gonna play as Dark Eldar. Perhaps we could have The Eldar and Dark Eldar have long been battling to try and unearth this artifact but keep stopping each other and the other races kinda make alliances and help either good (Eldar) or evil (Dark Eldar)? Just an idea.

Oh and that way if anyone gets stabbed in the back then they can run away and join the other side.

OOC: I'll be the second Marine army, take Ivano's company on another little crusade. Alternativly we could do single character or small warband RPing, set in Necromunda or somewhere. This would allow for more diverse RPing, and allow people to express their own twisted personalities through the characters. Lol. It could also allow for Inquisitors and such. Let me know what you think.

Inquistorial warbands.... now that is an idea! I'm sticking with my Marines for the new thread if tht doesnt work out

A small army thing seems cool. I'm not sure if I like the two-side battle though, it might be better if there were several different factions. Possibly there could be a limit of a 1,000 point army?

OOC: No, because a pts limit might ruin it, i think

Points limits would ruin it.

I agree - no points cause it just takes longer. Loads of people will be asking can I do this? etc.
But I like the idea of small groups of people RPing. Kinda like Kill-Teams (or am the only one who know bout that?)

Deathwatch Kill Teams are small, compact Deathwatch Space Marine units. Attached to the Ordo Xenos I think. Hideously dangerous on the battlefield, but serisouly limited in numbers

(I can post occasionally, like today for example)

A kill team out of my army would be interesting, as my army is basically a slightly enlarged kill team anyway (when they were betrayed, the chapter was almost all wiped out already, so they always fight with relatively small forces). The problem with doing kill teams is that my army is designed to be like that. I would struggle to keep with what my army is like generally, while making a kill team out of them. I may try and god mode a bit with them without realising for example. The reason why I liked this one is that it was large armies, and that my troops were perfect at taking out important figures in the large armies and then hiding again. Well, whatever you choose, I will still join in.

There's why my idea comes in. For you VI for example, you could use a solitary character, maybe a lone sniper or rogue merc.
Everybody would control maximum of 5 characters. We could decide for it to be multi-racial objective hunting, or all human bands scrapping over something or other.

I've done Killteam before, not sure whether it would be suited to a multiplayer RP though. If we do do the warband idea I suggest a maximum of 6-8 participants, to make it easier to remember everybody's character's roles and personalities.

If you want I will start it, but I need to know what type we're gonna make it.

A kill-team RP, with limited numbers, would be great. Inquistorial etc could also come into it. I'd def. do this type. Black Angel kill-team, but we need to agree soon!

OOC: http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=415084. Care for an analysis? Please post, and one shall be given

Ok, I didn't really think a pts limit would work anyway. I think small forces would be nice, but 5 characters might be a bit too small.

Kill teams would be perfect, about 5 members is good, we could get a real sence of carcters, a Guants Ghoasts/sharpe sort of thing.

I say go for it.

There's why my idea comes in. For you VI for example, you could use a solitary character, maybe a lone sniper or rogue merc.
Everybody would control maximum of 5 characters. We could decide for it to be multi-racial objective hunting, or all human bands scrapping over something or other.

I've done Killteam before, not sure whether it would be suited to a multiplayer RP though. If we do do the warband idea I suggest a maximum of 6-8 participants, to make it easier to remember everybody's character's roles and personalities.

If you want I will start it, but I need to know what type we're gonna make it.
Good idea about the lone character. I know what I would use. I would probably have a small kill team instead of a lone character, perhaps 3 people. Paleneus, the vindicare assassin, and one more person who I will introduce at the start.

Kill teams would be perfect, about 5 members is good, we could get a real sence of carcters, a Guants Ghoasts/sharpe sort of thing.

I say go for it.

I'm going to take a small Scout team, lightly armed. Deep-pentration patrol I call them. Captain Templer will lead them. They are actually Vet. Marines, but in Scout armour and camoline cloaks

I'd take the first and only, but that's been done and anyway, I prefer creating my own battlezone.

Heres a plot idea, this world has been a huge battlesite, it is forge world which has recently been tken over by one of our forces, (Non-Human) and there are a few trapped survivors of the Imperial companys/incrisictors/eldar/ect, left, they face one choice, to try and get back to there lines, and at the same time to find the rest of there allies and avoid being destroyed.

So you could have one player as the hugly powerful force, like Choas for example, despritly trying to stap out these small pockets of resistance.

On second thought, this size would probably be good. I'd probably take a commander and three other battlesuits. I will introduce them later. Possbily the Tau are investigating this world, and have dropped a recon team only to have the space transports encounter a warp storm.

I'd be willing to be either the massive guys or an small group

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Any chance of dropping a few spores and genestealers into the mix?

Any chance of dropping a few spores and genestealers into the mix?
Sorry, where closing this.

Okay, if we are doing small groups/lone characters then I'm gonna bo back to Nids. Small brood of genestealers led by a mutated brood leader. They are re-introducing broodlords v. soon anyway! Just a point bout the 40K world... THE NEW NIDS ROCK! If you haven't seen them - do so on the Games Workshop website! Anyway - yeah, I'm genestealers!

OK, I'm going to take a small, utterly devout fanatical Inquisitorial warband - about 5 characters. If you guys want I can set it up, but not until Sunday, I'm away till then. Just post here if you want me to, so I can start it and I'll post the Name and Details - including participant numbers and names - on this thread. Thanks.

I say, use this as a sign-up, and then work from there. I will post my Black Angels soon

My caracters will become apparent, okay so
me, SE, Theo, Shinbreakers, SYF, Caladonn, VI, Kaor
are in, anyone else. I say no more than 10 nations. I'll leave this for 2 days and then start the thread. it'll be closed.

I'll join as a Sorceror (Alazar the Mad) and his four followers (Azrael the Bloodthirsty, Ariel the Unholy, Ammon the Cursed and He-whos-name-shall-not-be-uttered-until-the-end-of-time) or just the Sorceror.

sorry i haven't been on recently

I will take a small Tau force (if thats alright). If anyone wants to see my character info, just ask

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Alright, so who starts this thing off? I say we start soon

Alright, so who starts this thing off? I say we start soon
I'll do it now. Link coming soon.

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=8782672#post8782672

Let The Fun Begin!

I don't actually think so. And the lack of orginality *shudders* O'Shovah should be kept as he is written in Codex:Tau

I don't actually think so. And the lack of orginality *shudders* O'Shovah should be kept as he is written in Codex:Tau
I'm not bad though?

I'm not bad though?

Not you Aust, I was talking about Caladoon, not sure if he was invited

I was under the impression it was OK if I joined, but if not, then I will leave now. Once again, I apologize, but this O'Shovah is not the original O'Shovah, he is another commander with the same name, who is struggling to prove himself unworthy of its infamous reputation. I'm sorry this was confusing, and I edited my first post to attempt to make this clearer. I can change his name if you like, but then I will have to think of a new conflict to give him character.

no, its fine

Thank you.

Here are the stats for my unit:

Chaplin Hanst: Crozius, Bolt Pistol, Frag grenades

V.Sgt. Vorien: Chainsword, Bolt Pistol, Frag Grenades

V. Brother Georgi: Sniper Rifle, Chainsword, Krak Grenades

V. Brother Farie: Heavy Bolter, Krak Grenades, Chainsword

V. Brother Ermio: Bolt Pistol, Chainsword, Frag Grenades

All of the men have scout armour, and camoline cloaks.

What is a Crozius?

It's like a symbol of a Chaplin's authority and position. In game terms, its a power weapon

Ok.

Hey, i haven't been on for a while and was wondering if i could join. I play Tau, Got my self a special team.
Crisis Shas'o T'au Kais Shau (WarpReaver, and a Pulse Cannon)
Retinue of 6 Chosen FireWarriors (Pulse Pistols and Honour Blades).

Little bit of a story for em. Eldrad (not in this game, this according to my fluff (and the fluff in the codeces and rulebooks)) has long admired the Tau, and truly beleives in them. So, to advance their development he gave Kais Shau a soulstone. Kais Shau recognized that the stone was special, and decided to embed it in a bonding knife, therefore when he performed the bonding ritual, the stone captured the essence of all the other warriors, and when he was at last cut, the stone flew from the handle and sunk into his chest, tieing him to the warriors. So now when anyone dies, the others a strengthened. (And they have experimental weaponry, gifted to them by the Earth Caste.)

And Caladonn (sorry if i spell your name wrong) I know this is just an Rp, but could you at least try to follow the rules and storyline presented to you in the codex? (BTW Commander Farsight is still alive).

Sorry, we decided tht it was two players per force, and we already have two Tau

EDIT: And according the the Tau Codex, he could be alive, or someone else could have taken his mantle and carreid the name on. Try reading more carefully

Hey, i haven't been on for a while and was wondering if i could join. I play Tau, Got my self a special team.
Crisis Shas'o T'au Kais Shau (WarpReaver, and a Pulse Cannon)
Retinue of 6 Chosen FireWarriors (Pulse Pistols and Honour Blades).

Little bit of a story for em. Eldrad (not in this game, this according to my fluff (and the fluff in the codeces and rulebooks)) has long admired the Tau, and truly beleives in them. So, to advance their development he gave Kais Shau a soulstone. Kais Shau recognized that the stone was special, and decided to embed it in a bonding knife, therefore when he performed the bonding ritual, the stone captured the essence of all the other warriors, and when he was at last cut, the stone flew from the handle and sunk into his chest, tieing him to the warriors. So now when anyone dies, the others a strengthened. (And they have experimental weaponry, gifted to them by the Earth Caste.)

And Caladonn (sorry if i spell your name wrong) I know this is just an Rp, but could you at least try to follow the rules and storyline presented to you in the codex? (BTW Commander Farsight is still alive).

Sorry to post again, but: Honour Blades. Accoring to the Codex, they have to be wielded two-handed. Therefore, your men don't conform to the rules. If you are going to criticise someone for extraplolating a storyline even further than it says, try and stick to the correct rules yourself

It is possible he's still alive, but that would make him over 200 years old. My character is simply someone else named O'Shovah. He is trying to overcome his cursed name. I don't mind another Tau player, but it's true that you have to use honor blades two-handed.

Could Theao please respond to my sorcerer?

I did check post 137 of the light thread, they arn't were the sorcerer went and havn't noticed him as he is somewhere they arn't.

OK, will have to think of something else then.

Sorry to post again, but: Honour Blades. Accoring to the Codex, they have to be wielded two-handed. Therefore, your men don't conform to the rules. If you are going to criticise someone for extraplolating a storyline even further than it says, try and stick to the correct rules yourself
They are not really Honour Blades, they are sorta half of one with a larger blade. I just said honour blades because that is the closest thin to them in the codex (and no i am not using honour blades for the real models, i am using fantasy Dwarf swords). And whoever said that it says in the codex that O'shovah may be dead is right, but i got it off of the GW forums site from one of the mods that he is still alive. (They where the highest authority that I could find that would respond with a yes/no answer.)

It is possible he's still alive, but that would make him over 200 years old. My character is simply someone else named O'Shovah. He is trying to overcome his cursed name. I don't mind another Tau player, but it's true that you have to use honor blades two-handed.

I thought that you meant that he was leading the Farsight Enclave under the guise of Commander Farsight. And he would be over 300 years old.

They are not really Honour Blades, they are sorta half of one with a larger blade. I just said honour blades because that is the closest thin to them in the codex (and no i am not using honour blades for the real models, i am using fantasy Dwarf swords). And whoever said that it says in the codex that O'shovah may be dead is right, but i got it off of the GW forums site from one of the mods that he is still alive. (They where the highest authority that I could find that would respond with a yes/no answer.)

Heres a radical idea: Why not email the guys at GW and ask them, then you'd get a decent answer, one that is well explained

Jeebus Crivens, this thread's still going. I really ought to check more often. So, what's happening? *Don't be lazy, Jake, I mean, Nyibbit (phew, almost gave my true identity away there) go look for yourself.* Fine, I will. Bloody conscience. Well, actually it's what you guys would tell me to do any way.

Ah, stealing my ideas, eh? No? Fine.
See, I read it. Not like some of these whippersnappers, honestly, not being bothered to read through 50-odd pages of solid text.
Oh, so nothing's actually happened. I see, you're starting a new one.
In that case, can I be...
Oh, f****** b*****, I've missed it.

I dunno, you might still be let in. You'll have to ask Aust though, we're being pretty strict on numbers this time, so expect the worst.

Well, I think half honor blades are fine. And the original O'Shovah doesn't come into this rp anyway, so it doesn't really matter.

Heres a radical idea: Why not email the guys at GW and ask them, then you'd get a decent answer, one that is well explained

I did. They said read the codex.

Did you outline the whole idea in full? Try sending it in to WD

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So is this now an arguing bout the rules thread? If so: THE NEW NIDS ROCK!!!

That is all.