/tg/ - Traditional Games

Above the world of Cu'Ba, Krooza floats eternal. The loot has been transferred to the holds, and the massive astropathic dish has been duct taped to the side of the searchy gubbinz. The bucket of Wurrza lays under a siren, which starts blaring. It seems da Skanna Jamma has intercepted a new message.

"Awright! Now we jus' need ta wake Wurrza up an' git 'im ta kall da Emprah!" says Grakgut.
"... Uh... Iz gunna need sum walker bitz fer dis... but 'ow'z it gunna fit in dere?" asks Kroz.
"Simple! We jus' need a big 'ol tray dats ork shaped, den we stikk 'im in da icebox!" states Grakgut helpfully.
"Yer wrong, ya git!" adds Wazgor, "Da Cookbook Astartiz sez 'knead da dough gently 'fore baking fer 350 waaghs'!"
"Awright, boss! Message iz dere fer when ya wanna see it." says Uzgob, "Painbay's been prepped too!"
"So ya wanna stick 'im in da icetray or bake 'im?" asks Grakgut.
"Bake. Burnaz make fings better, see!" says Kroz.
The puddle of Wurrza gurgles. Boldo floats around it, chirping.
Clarence shows up, his buggy painted red today. "Might want to get to the painbay fast, boss." says Clarence.
Wazgor grabs the bucket, as he, Kroz, and Boldo jump on Clarence's buggy, and Grakgut engages Tank Mode.

Sweet, more of the glorious adventures of Deffwotch!
It looks like you are playing over the net, do you have logs of the sessions that you could share for us to read? I'm curious what a session of deffwotch actually looks like to a player.

Clarence speeds to the Painbay. The bucket is placed on the operating table, as the Skanna Jamma's message plays on one of the big screens. On the Main Screen, there appears to be a woman. She seems scared.

"By the Emperor, someone help!" she says.
The woman stares through the screen.
"They came out of nowhere, they're everywhere!" she continues, "They killed the PDF, they're taking them...somewhere!"
She looks behind her as if watchful for something.
"We're a peaceful lot on Cobbokamp!" she says, "We can't hold out much longe-"
A jet of dark light slices through her. A pair of spiky looking eldar walk on screen.
"Nice shot, Jimbo." says the Kabalite Raider, "I coulda made that easy though."
"No you couldn't! Next one's on me if you can though!" says the other as the message cuts out.

"Zog me...punk rokkaz!" says Grakgut.
"At least ya can't say they ain't got choppa!" adds Wazgor.
"Guss we'ze goin' dere. Bettah 'urry up an' fix up Wurrza." says Grakgut.
"Might wanna press da go button first, boss!" says Uzgob, "fixin' dat iz gunna take a bit!"
"Awright. But make sure you'ze gets'im. Iz need sumfin from'im ta finish da werk there." states Kroz.
"Dun worry, Me an' Grakkar'll prep ev'ryfing!" says Uzgob.

Kroz kicks the button while drawing things up, confident that Krooza can handle itself out there. Estimated time to Kobbokamp is three days. Remarkably, nothing bad seems to happen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WprQmsv9_s

The Kill Team gets ready for surgery. Grakgut has Medicae at a high bonus and Trade Armourer trained, Wazgor has Medicae trained, and Kroz has Trade Armourer at a high bonus. They split off to work on the respective parts. While Kroz meets mostly with failure, Grakgut and Wazgor make incredible progress resuscitating Wurrza. They distill Wurrza's liquid remains into a thick goop, decant it into a vaguely ork-shaped cakepan, and then leave it to bake in a conveniently placed EZ-Bake oven overnight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ahwjGWTl7g

The next day, Wazgor finishes baking Wurrza with a seasoning of Oregano and Kosher Salt. Grakgut and Kroz begin work on the Mega Dred Body. Over two days of straight work, with plenty of hammering, welding, and mullet-squigs, Grakgut and Kroz finally assemble the Dreadknight remnants with random bitz of scrap into a coherent design, a cross between a Dreadknight, Mega Dred, and Contemptor Dreadnought. Wazgor brings out the pan of Wurrza, and pours it into the Mega Dred frame. Wurrza's form expands throughout the frame, interfacing as if a second skin. But Wurrza has still not woken up, no matter how much Grakgut kicks the frame.

Boldo floats over, and lands on Wurrza's head. A drilling sound echoes through the Mekbay as Boldo begins flashing, electrical sparks shooting everywhere.

And then Wurrza begins to stir.

Wurrza was having a wonderful dream. Sisters of battle. Twins. Or maybe not. Maybe just fightin'. Either way, he begins to move. Belching a cloud of diesel smoke and nuclear waste, Wurrza stands up.
Boldo floats down to a nearby table. Boldo chirps, weakly. It seems that took a lot out of him.
"OY, WHERE DA ZOG AM I?" Wurrza looks down, "...AN' WHY'Z YOU SO SMALL, KROZ?"
"WURRZA! YA GOT ZOGGED LIKE A 'UMIE GIT." states Kroz.
"I DID? MUSTA BEEN SL...AH IT WAS DAT KWIZITOR...FINKS 'E'Z CLEVA." rumbles Wurrza.
"E'z ded now." adds Grakgut, "Didn't even get an autograph."
"...YA MADE SURE?" asks Wurrza, leaning in.
"Yeah, we'ze sure." says Grakgut.
"Now see 'ere, we'ze got sum ideaz..." says Kroz.

They hastily weld some Aether Wave Spars onto the dread to assist Wurrza in channeling the Warp.

Waha!
>>18168036
Uh, while there would be a ton of parsing to do, not to mention lots of out-of-character chatter you may need to cut your teeth into, I think most of us do in our IRC logs.

"Now youze might be feelin a bit oddz fer, uh, da rest of youze loife, and derez sum fings, maybe moar from Grakut, dat youze iz gunna gots ta remember." says Kroz, "Ya kan't go swimmin in dis fing. you'ze too 'eavy. An' I ain't done tapin' it. Also youze need a grot ta keep youze oiled, 'specially if youze gettin wet or goin inta spess."
"Let'z build'im an inna-tube!" says Grakgut.

Krooza finally exits the Warp over Cobbokamp. From Spess, the kill team can see a number of the hab domes have been exploded. Turning their searchy gubbinz to the planet, they detect little beyond the slightly toxic atmosphere leaking into the hab centers. However, the kill team does pick up some unnatural energy signatures. There IS still stuff down there, though exactly what, they are unsure of. Most of the signals appear to originating from the largest hab complex, its protective bubble shattered.

"Maybe dem spiky gitz is gud eatin'!" says Kroz.
"NAH, I 'EAR DEY'Z QUITE STRINGY." says Wurrza.

Kroz grabs Boldo, who is still tired, and the Kill Team heads to the Last Danca. While on the Last Danca, Wazgor passes Boldo a soul stone. Boldo nibbles on the soul stone. The Kil Team almost thinks they hear a scream of terror, but this is drowned out by the drilling sound of Boldo beginning his energy leech. The Last Danca is shot out of the Launch Bay, but due to the cloudless skies, and Wurrza's weight imbalance, entry is turbulent, and da Last Danca smashes into a building.

"Zog it, I'z gunna 'ave ta fix dis..." sighs Kroz.

The back door to the Danca opens. Boldo floats out. Boldo begins chirping.

"Eh. Moight az well git outta 'ere." says Grakgut, who rolls out the Last Danca. Ballistic motion keeps him going as he falls out the 10m to the ground, leaving a small crater. Wurrza walks off, leaving a similar crater. Boldo floats down, as Kroz and Wazgor fly down with their jump packs.
"I FINK I LOST SUM PAINT," thunders Wurrza.
As the Kill Team surveys their landing zone, they see something amongst the ruins. A blue light.

"Got a selection of good things on sale, stranger..." says the Merchant.

Kroz once again tries for a Chronosphere, and fails. Wurrza upgrades his dred with Stikkbomm Chukkas, granting him a frag-grenade boost when assaulting. Wazgor gets himself a best-quality Rig, granting him autosanguine
and allowing the Kill Team to see his health bar. Grakgut upgrades the Krooza's painbay. As a team, they collectively fail to acquire Turbo-Batteries.

"Heh heh heh, thank you." says the Merchant as he walks behind some rubble.

The rubble stands silent. Nothing but the wind and Boldo echo through the corridors of the Hab center. The wind itches a bit. Wazgor looks up at the sky.

"I IZ AT PEACE WIF THE WAAAAGGHHH." he states, taking a deep breath. However, he notices something out the corner of his eye. Something small and fast just ran behind a wall.

"WOT DA ZOG?" yells Wazgor, revving his rokkit pack and readying all his weapons. Wazgor charges over the wall, coming to a smashing stop on the other side. Weapons at the ready, he does a tactical sweep. Wazgor looks down to see a tiny human. She fell over from the impact. She backs away to a wall, nearly terrified.

"Are you a space marine?" she asks.
"Uh..." Wazgor stands there momentarily stunned.
"SAY YES, YA GIT!" yells Grakgut over the vox.
"Uh, roight! I'z a Deffwotch, uh...Stormboy." states Wazgor.
The rest of the Kill Team begins slamming through walls to see what's up.
"Oh!" she says, happily, "Priest Vito said you would come!"
"Yeah! An' come we did! Kuz we'ze spess mareens. Really." says Grakgut.
"Dis is da Deffwotch Apothi-curry, "says Kroz, pointing to Grakgut, "an' dis is our Venereal Brotha Wurrza-Kan," pointing the Wurrza.

>The game needed to stop for a moment due to laughter.

The tiny human grabs Wurrza, attempting to pull him towards the supposed priest. Wazgor puts her on his shoulders as he takes to the sky. Grakgut engages Tank mode and Kroz engages Jet mode, while Wurrza pushes his new body to its limits, keeping pace with the team. The little girl is having the time of her life.

The Kill Team finally reaches the remnants of a church. She hops to the ground. "In here! she says, opening the door and running inside. The Kill Team barges through door and wall into the chapellum.

"By the Emperor, I am so glad you're here!" exclaims an old priest.
"I'Z MEKMEHREEN RUBBYKONZES. WE'ZE GONNA 'AVE A WORD WIF YA!" states Kroz.
"OOH! I'Z DA 'EAD KULINATUS!" yells Wazgor.
"Uh, Apothicurry boss!" yells Grakgut.
"CHIEF LIBRARIAN, YA GITS!" blasts Wurrza.
"Oi. Wurrza. you'ze 'venereal' now. from bein in da kan, an all. iz like, a betta title den battol brutha." whispers Kroz.
The old man walks forward, "I am Ecclesiarch Vito Cornelius, truly we are delivered!"
"Deliva'd, yeah." says Grakgut, "In 30 minnitz or yer next praya'z free!"
"We've been holding out for days now against...them." states Priest Cornelius.
"Well? 'ooz 'dem'?" asks Grakgut.
"Ah, yes. Them. They came out of nowhere. They killed the guard first. Then they took the civilians. I think they missed us the first few times, but no doubt they'll be back!"

Meanwhile Grakgut rolls around tending to the childrens' wounds, if any. A number of the children appear to be playing with Boldo. Boldo chirps.
"OI! UZGOB! GIT SUM DAKKA DOWN 'ERE FER DA RUNTY 'UMIEZ!" he yells into the vox.
"Roight, boss!" says Uzgob.
"Dun worry. Our...uh, Armory Masta know wot 'e'z doin'. Sometimes." states Wazgor.
A rokk pod smashes down in one of the corners of the building. A mob of boyz clown-car out and takes defensive positions. Uzgob and Grakgut begin passing out modified pulse weaponry like candy to the children.

I think kroz gave boldo the soul stone.
Who was it that remembered 'metroids' can generate the energy right back to have that done?

"So wot direkshun do dey come from?" asks Kroz.
"From the east! Always from the east!" says Priest Vito Cornelius.
"Dun worry!" says Grakgut, "deze, uh, light plasma autoshootaz are eazy for yer runtz ta use!"
"Yeah, dey'll be fine!" states Kroz.
"While my charges are small, I will give my life for them." says the old priest.
"Rememba, boyz!" kneeling near the kids, "Alwayz turn da safety off!"
"Dun worry, boss!" says Uzgob, "I took'em off already! Dey'z in a pile in da mekbay if ya want'em!"
"Fry some gits!" states Grakgut.
The Children cheer. Wurrza looks on in confusion.
"But yes, the raiders have come like clockwork. If you hadn't come, we wouldn't stand a cha-"
Priest Vito Cornelius is cut off as alarms begin blaring.

"Awright, brothaz! Fight'z finally 'ere!" states Wazgor, revving his jump pack.
"TIME TO PUT DIS KAN TO DA TEST!" states Wurrza.
Rushing outside, the sky is full of explosions and mayhem. As the Kill Team readies their weapons, they are rushed by a horde of Kabalite Warriors.

Venereal?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD7B0mdZTS0

Kroz and Wazgor take to the skies, firing explosives into the Horde, thinning it considerably. Grakgut attempts to have his grot gunners fire the Plasma Cannon, but it overheats. Grakgut resolves the Orky Fury on himself, and then eats the grot. He then moves his other two gunners up there. However, Wurrza's new Stikkbomm Assault Chukka finishes out the horde as the sky rains stikkbomms. As the last Kabalite Warrior falls, the kill team hears clapping.

"Oh, Space Marines, how nice of you to arrive!"
Wurrza, having just Metal Slugged the horde, turns to the Kill Team. "EVA NOTICE 'OW DEY ALWAYZ SEZ DAT WHEN YA ZOG DERE BOYZ?"
Out from behind some rubble walks a Dark Eldar Archon, bodyguard in tow.
"You'd be surprised how easy it is to get things done without your interference," says the Archon, "but since you're here, you'll make excellent tribute for when I resurrect the Kabal of the Heaven Sign!"
"Da...wut?" asks Grakgut.
"I fink it's dat food on a stikk." states Wazgor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a_e6MfJqYk

The Archon and Incubi bodyguard charges Grakgut. Scourges engage Wazgor and Kroz in the skies. And over the ruins a Ravager has Wurrza in its sights. Grakgut is initially non-plussed about the Archon, until he learns the full fury of his Djinn Blade. Grakgut works on blendering through the Incubi before he can reach the Archon.

"A pity I have to kill you! You would have been the prime attraction in the gladiator pits of the Dark City!" says the Archon.
"OY! ZOG OFF!" yells Grakgut, "IT'Z FUNNY! FUNNY CUZ YA AIN'T GUNNA KILL ME! EITHA OI WALK OUTTA 'ERE JUS' FINE, OR OI'LL KILL MESELF AN' YOU AT DA SAME TIME, OR WUN UV ME MATES KILLZ ME AN' YOO AT DA SAME TIME!"

Wazgor, meanwhile, duels the Scourges. Their heat lances can melt through most armor, but Wazgor is able to dodge many of the shots. The Ravager shoots at Wurrza, but the cloud of dust Wurrza leaves in his wake protects him from the Dark Lance shots. While Wurrza casts Warptime, Kroz makes a plan.

You see, he wants the Ravager.

The Kill Team engages Skwad Mode. As Wazgor finishes off the Scourges, Wurrza joins combat with Grakgut, blending through the remaining incubi. Kroz charges full-tilt toward the Ravager, landing on it and drilling a gunner to death with his breacher drill. Boldo helps out too, screeching as he flies onto the face of a gunner, and draining him. Kroz takes a Dark Lance to the face so the Ravager doesn't, and continues slaughtering his way through the Ravager crew, Boldo doing his part as well. Finally, the Archon gets ready to land the killing blow on Grakgut, but Wurrza casts Bolt of Squig at the last minute. As the wave of pure WAAAAGH passes over the archon, he disappears...

...to be replaced by an angry-looking squig.

Kroz takes the Ravager for a spin. It's fast, but light.
"Hmm. Needs mo' armor. An' dakka." resolves Kroz, "OY, YA GITS! I JUS' LOOTED DIS BIG...FLYIN...GUN FING."

Suddenly, in the sky the Kill Team see a number of Razorwing Jetfighters fly by. Over the building floats a Tantalus, which comes to a stop near the Kill Team. They ready their guns, until they see the symbols on it. They've seen them before.
"I should have known you all would be here..." sighs Archon Khodexus as he hops off the Tantalus.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2eHh4GcJMQ

"OY, AIN'T YOU DOGGFATHA'Z ELFDAR?" asks Wurrza.
"Nah, 'e'z wif dat blue git." says Grakgut.
"I am nobody's eldar," says Khodexus, seething, "I simply go where business is best."
Khodexus walks to the remains of the enemy Dark Eldar.
"I suppose I should thank you for solving this little problem. It's so tiresome stomping out the last remnants of the Heaven Sign."
"Oh yeah. Dey wuz talkin' 'bout kebabs or sumfin'." says Kroz, "But dis is my fing now, so zog off."
Kroz grips the Ravager controls.
"My own Kabal of the Master Spark has been hunting them for years now." Khodexus turns, "So I suppose you orks have earned your loot..."
Wazgor flies down.
"DO YA 'AVE ANYFIN' WE KAN STIKK ON DA KROOZA?" asks Wazgor, dead serious.
"No." says Khodexus quickly, as if anticipating the question.
"'ow'z everone know..." sighs Kroz.

"Korst'la is an idiot. He does, however, have a shrewd business sense. It's why his family has been useful these many decades. Jamal is a lost cause. However, you can't fool me. But..." considers Khodexus, "It suits me to keep up the charade for now."
Khodexus circles the Kill Team.
"What Korst'la wanted on this world, I don't know. But the Heaven Sign were here, so I would be. An interesting solution, and one that would prevent its final resurrection. As much as I hate to say, it's quite ingenious."
Grakgut picks up the Angry Squiq.
"So enjoy your loot, I suppose." says Khodexus, staring at the sky, "I must say it's quite funny watching you at times."
Khodexus boards his Tantalus.
"Now, if you'll excuse me, I most likely need to rescue Korst'la again. Once again, your service to the Kabal of the Master Spark is noted."
"Oy, 'fore ya go, 'ow many gits know?" asks Wazgor.
"Very few, I believe. Despite all convention, you are VERY good at hiding your true identities. And It's bad business to tell."

Khodexus's Tantalus takes off.

>>18168433
with the right modifications we can have a kan surfing on this thing

"Ha! Dis wuz a gud foight!" declares Kroz.

The Kill Team heads back to the chapellum.

"Dem tiny gitz 'elped a bit, boss!" says Uzgob, pointing to a pile of bodies produced from the combination of Boyz and kids.
"Thanks to you, astartes, we can rebuild!" says Priest Vito Cornelius, "We are forever in your debt!"
Wazgor begins gathering the Dark Eldar corpses for stew.
"Oy! Which'a you gitz got da most kills?" asks Grakgut to the kids.
"Dunno, boss. We kinda lost count afta 'lotz.'" says Uzgob.
Kroz and Grakgut, however, get an idea.
"Oy, any of ya gitz wanna come along an' purge 'eresy wif us?" asks Kroz.
"Any dat wantz, kan come to da Krooza!" says Grakgut.
"As much as they would appreciate the offer, they are still children. They surely would not be of much use to you, Astartes!" says Priest Vito Cornelius.
The children, however, are all clamoring to be first in line.
"Very well. I will entrust the children to you, Astartes. My place is here." says the priest.
"Awright, tiny boyz! Wif us! We'll train ya inta true boyz!" yells Grakgut.

As the children board one of the Loot Haulaz, as well as the Ravager, Grakgut whispers to Wazgor.
"Oi 'ope Clarence iz gudd wif tiny 'umiez."
"Why'd we loot da tiny 'umies again?" asks Wazgor.
"Dey'z betta shots den grots!" says Grakgut.

The Kill Team carefully backs out the Last Danca, and heads back to As Pliskin gives the Kill Team the Loot loadout, Clarence moves the children into his Dojo for training and storage.

The kill team finds this utterly hilarious.

To address questions:

>>18168036
Pure session logs are deleted after being put through the S3 plan. What you see here is the cleaned up version. I suppose I can include the raw log of the final session for the Collected Visions.

>>18168327
Are you sure? I will fix this in the archive.

>>18168497

You can disassemble the thing, use it as a ride, blow it up, I really don't care. Just make it clear what you do, whatever it is.

Good fight. The plasma cannon was kinda evil tonight, costing the lives of two grots. Well okay so Grakgut ATE them for having triggered the overload, but still, I think we can mostly blame the dice there on the ethics scale.

While I'm sure going for the ravager was almost a given [is there anything we haven't tried to loot, barring the rare occasion of 'we forgot'?], I wonder if you were expecting da Deffwotch, of all things, to pull the 'party adopts orphans' move... even if our reasons and their impending fates are a little less super-ethical?

>>18168645
Well we'll probably end up stripping the guns off. I think the disintegrator might be Wurrza-only, but that'll leave us with a vehicle's hover unit [wurrza? grakgut?] or a rather nice music stage.

Most of my 'we could do this with that!' are on-the-spot musings and "oooh shiny" moments. All I knew was that it had to be looted right then and there.

Reading this I feel the next ork codex should include rules for looting enemy veichls mid battle and turning them on the former owners.

>>18168710

>'party adopts orphans'

No, I was not. Unknown what effect they will have.

A squadron of scourges, an archon with his retinue, a ravager, and a squad of warriors.

That's like 600 points right there. What's the highest deffwotch ever took on foot?

>>18168971
that's a good question. not sure it can be answered though, we've been levelling too so its not like our own value hasn't changed all this time.

>>18169177
that was me, sorry.

What're the demi-klaives, heat lances, if equivalent to somethin anyways? Or should I just wait for details later?

>>18169214

I sent this intel in the email earlier today.

>>18168971

Put like that, it may be highest so far.

>>18169367
ah. hadn't checked it all day due to work. thanks

>>18169367
If they'd taken over the Manta without using da 'ast danca, that would've been their largest triumph no doubt about it. 2000

>>18168971
A mekboy, painboy, stormboy, deffdredd and whatever else took out 600 points, how many points would you say we are on the tabletop?

>>18168710
I, for one, am super excited for the adoption of 20 eight year olds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7edeOEuXdMUv=7edeOEuXdMU

>Kabal of the Heaven Sign
>Kabal of the Master Spark

>>18170414

>>18170414
I don't get it

>>18170587

spellcards from Touhou

>>18170633

oh shas~

Evening bump.

I got curious and took a look...

Horde of Kabalite Warriors: 9pt per model normally. Multiply by magnitude but I'd suggest halving that value in the process, as the full amount actually firing at us would have been a different story. Except probably for Grakgut given his mega armour.

Ravager: 105 [no equipment] to 160 [all equipment]
Scourges: 34 points per model for Heat Lance users [though it wouldn't be table legal to have four of four using them]

Incubi: three or four at 22 points per model, though a demiklaive is an extra 20, and to use'em the model has to be upgraded [another 10].

Archon with Djin Blade is 80 points minimum.

So at a minimum we're looking at 413 + horde [three incubi with the demiklaives but without the extra training/upgrade to use it, three scourges, ravager, archon]. With 4 each and the proper training that becomes 529+horde.

I'm not sure I can even calculate the Deffwotch. Sometimes units take out far more than their points values would suggest, anyways.

>>18170808 sorry. that was me again. Keeps losing the name

So the DE are Touhou? I can't even tell if that means you like'em or hate'em more than Eldar now!

You're one of the best, Shas'o, and so are your players. This was an entertaining read even without having read anything previous.

>>18171561
Sounds like a great time for a plugin for the 1d4chan page!

No idea who edits this thing, but whoever it is gets a "One Free Surjery" coupon.

>>18171613
Hold on. Wait a minute.

>CyGrot - Cyborg hydra created by Grakgut when he sewed 5 grot heads onto a boy and then connected them with a Cogitator. We do not talk about Cygrot.

Why is that crossed out?

>>18171613
>>18171636
I'm actually some of the unnamed listed-IP ones. Dunno if all of those are me in the edit-history, but a few at least. I'll try to bother logging in next time.

Wasn't me, but if I recall, half the party thought cygrot was creepy as all fuck and stuffed him in a broom closet.

you have awesome players to come up with half those plans, im feeling kindof jealous

Early morning bump
Always good to hear of those silly orkmarines

>>18171731
Eh, Cygrot can stay there. A mad frenzy and night of too much grog lead to his creation, and we'll leave him there until we need him.

Also, we gotta find Skarfang at some point.

>>18175271
Poor cygrot. Just because he's a drunken accident a little different from the other grots. So unloved.

>>18170894

He said in an earlier thread he actually likes Dark Eldar.

Oh god I laugh so hard whenever I read these.

>>18167980
Hey Shas, where do you get the info you need to stat out all these orky gubbinz? If you do the statting yourself, would you be kind enough to share your info with me? I'm playing my first Mekboy in Rogue Trader, and even if the settings don't match up perfectly, having a general idea should help a lot. My biggest priority is statting out grot tanks!

Thanks a lot for the stories, either way!

>>18182230

Ork Upgrades can be found in ItS and Hostile Acquisitions.

What exactly are you looking for? Vehicles and weaponry can be compared to a "best fit" and then modified from there. For example, consider a Grot Tank. These have 10-10-10 armor, I believe. Most things with this armor fall between 18-24 armor.

Pick a number that looks good at the time, and continue. Grot Tanks have Grotzookas, which are S6 AP5 Heavy 2, Blast. So what weapons are statted in the book that are S6? We'll go with Tau Plasma. That's 2d10+9. But I like multiples of 5 and 10. AP5 is roughly Pen 4-5. We'll go with 5.

Now look at special rules that can be modeled by existing items. In this case, it has a 5+ Invuln and a special rule called 'full speed ahead.'

So our final Grot Tank will look like:

F/S/R 20/20/16
Tactical Speed: 8m
Cruising Speed: 15kph
Structural Integrity: 20
Grot Pilot Stats as per ItS.
Armed with Grotzooka
Rng 50m S/3/- 2d10+10I Pen 5 Blast 3
Size: Hulking
Rolling Scrap Pile: PR 35 Force Field
Full Speed Ahead: Once per encounter, roll 1d10. 2-10, triple tactical speed. On 1, immobilized.

Basically, you'll need to discuss it heavily with your GM, because beyond the stuff in the books, it's really a crapshoot, especially if your GM has strange views of balance.

>>18182866
Not a single one of us has ever played Rogue Trader before, and I'm the only one who knows jack shit about Orks. Hell, the only other self-proclaimed ork fan still insists that you are supposed to pronounce the "g" in WAAAGH!, so he keeps yelling WAG.

Either way, I could not have figured that out myself: Thanks a lot!

>>18183034

It's only hard if you think about it.

>>18183034

>insists that you are supposed to pronounce the "g" in WAAAGH!, so he keeps yelling WAG.

slap his shit

>>18183091
The worst part is that all French translators (in video games etc.) pronounce it, so it has become the norm in French-speaking countries.

>>18186821
Wow. never heard that even in Quebec...
Almost as odd as the thread being around two days later

>>18183034
Shas has been letting us orkify, given the theme of the campaign, non-ork weapons. This has resulted in different things. I can't always really say "more powerful": a marine with a Breaching Augur is dishing out more than even a souped up power-klaw. There's conversion beamers, Atomizers, Deathroar plasma, all sorts of nasty things.

So converting 'normal' weapons [no rites of battle stuff and the like], won't really break things as long as you and the GM are reasonable. We Imposed hard limits on the maximum stack of damage from a Xenarch Death Arc [Kroz and Wazgor's "official ass-tartitz Rotary Lightning Cannons"]
If you're going to convert things, basic equipment certainly won't be a problem: Zappa Rokkit Launchas [just aquisition a little crate of the things and mod them, with quickdraw you won't waste time when in a fight] are certainly no worse than orkifying a regular plasmagun or hellgun, ya know?

Enjoy playing Mekboy. And don't forget to ALWAYS 'offer' to 'improve' the 'umie gunz. Its all really reliable [in your hands only] anyways if its gud an orky.