So I redid the list once again, taking out the Black
Guard altogether and putting in a second unit of Knights. I like this
for the speed, armor, and hard-hitting factor of the Knights, however I do like
the Black Guard's size of Unit and their special abilities (Re-roll all hits, stubborn).
The Pearl makes the Knights Immune to Psychology like the BG, plus the
Banner gives them armor piercing (making them inflict a -4 to armor
saves). And I had to lose the Corsair's SB again. What does everyone
think?
Lord
Dreadlord - 545 Pts.
Black Dragon, Crimson Death, Pendant of Khaeleth, Armour of Darkness
Heroes
Master - 214 Pts.
BSB (Hydra Banner), Cold One, Heavy Armour, Sea Dragon Cloak, Shield, Lance
Sorceress - 150 Pts
Dispell Scroll x2
Core
20 Warriors - 129 Pts.
Musician, Standard Bearer
10 Crossbowmen - 100 Pts.
12 Black Ark Corsairs - 126 Pts.
Musician
Special
5 Cold One Knights - 225 Pts.
Musician, Standard Bearer - Banner of Murder, Dread Knight - Pearl of Infinite Blackness
5 Cold One Knights - 235 Pts.
Musician, Standard Bearer - Standard of Slaughter, Dread Knight - Ring of Hotek
Rare
War Hydra w/ Handlers - 175 Pts.
2 Reaper Bolt Throwers - 200 Pts.
Misc. Character
Assassin - 151 Pts.
Manbane, Rending Stars
Total Cost - 2250 Pts.
December 28, 2009
December 21, 2009
Rogue Trader Character Bio
This is the brief character bio for my Rogue Trader RPG character Tuvari Sunwett, an Astropath Transcendant. It's a little shorter than I would normally make a bio (only 2 pages in word), but I just couldn't put into words all my thoughts on him. I know the wording on some things isn't accurate, but it'll do for now!
"...kind of Psyker says he can learn no more on the Black Ships if he is not a heretic?"
"The kind who knows the God-Emperor has destined him for more than being a simple Astropath. The kind who was born into the void, who has seen things that would terrify normal sight back into an Astropath simply so he would never have to witness them again..."
"So you admit you have been tainted by the presence of daemons."
"No fool. Witnessing their vileness is not the same as being tainted by them."
"Impertinent whelp of a boy, you are not worthy of the soul-binding the Emperor gifted unto you! You say you have seen-"
"You DARE to question the Emperor's willingness to take one unto his own soul?? And then call me heretic?"
"How dare you?! I shall teach you... (Sound of a door opening) Who are you to interrupt an interrogation in the Emperor's name?"
"Inquisitor Varlan, I am Master Jen'ai. He is coming with my, by order of the Emperor."
"How dare you? I am the Emperor's Judgement, and I - " (Sound of a body falling to the floor)
"You may have been the Emperor's Judgement, but we are His Blade and it is as I said. He is coming with me."
-End of Inquisitorial tape XCK99930002-4482
He wanted to know who I was, but it was not his right. The Emperor had not deemed him worthy. I was to become His arm, nay His blade. When the Officio Assassinorum took me in, I believed this fully. I believed I was finally going to accomplish the Emperor's will I had always thought was my destiny. When they turned me back over to the Inquisition after only 1 year of training, I learned it was not so. I was good, they told me, but I did not fit the role of any of their own. I am devoted to the Emperor, and a Psyker with powers yet to develop, so I was not executed in His name. Instead, I was released to those who had once believed me a heretic. Upon my return to the Ordo Hereticus, I was brought into the service of Inquisitor Lord Korlan Sendaro. It was he who saw my potential, he who understood teh things I had seen and my want to protect humanity from them. Perhaps I should explain more of my past before continuing...
My name is Tuvari Sunwett. I am void-born, birthed while my parents traveled on the vessel The Path of Freedom. More importantly, I was born during a warp jump. It was here that the Emperor bestowed upon me His blessings and His curse. I was gifted with Psychic abilities, mainly the ability to move things with my mind. I never realized this talent myself until one fateful jump when I was just a boy. It was also during this very jump that I came to understand what I believed the Emperor had in store for me, a destiny I would later learn I had half-right.
During the jump we passed too closely to a warp storm, and our ship fell under attack by a creature of the immaterium. As the ship rolled through the warp with the daemon clinging our our hull, our resident Astropath fought it with his mind. I could hear his psychic screams as the daemon tore at his will and found myself compelled to run to his aid. When I reached him, he grabbed me with one hand. As soon as he touched me I screamed. I could feel the battle between the Astropath and the daemon inside my head; could feel its vile presence acutely. The Astopath, having known of my latent power for years due to his own sensitivity to other Psykers, was using me as a boost to his power, drawing on my own through the physical contact with me. Suddenly the daemon lasthed out at the psyker, and his presence burned in my mind. It was then that I saw my first daemon; saw the vileness of such creatures that prey on mankind through the stars for the first time. The sight terrified me and I believed us lost. We would have been too, had it not been for the unknown Witchhunter retinue we were carrying onboard. The fought the creature off, though not before its final blow destroyed the Astropath.
Since that fateful day I have seen many such things with my Emperor-gifted sight, things mankind was not meant to see. The daemons that wander the warp have passed before my sightless eyes during jumps such as that I was born into. On that day that I witnessed my first daemon, the Inquisitor and Witchhunters who had rescued us told my parents that I would be leaving with them at the next port. . I would be brought to the Black Ships where both my abilities and my soul would be tested before the Emperor and judged to be His servant in either life or death. Fortunately as you can see, the Emperor chose me to be a living vessel for the cause of mankind. I spent years on the Black Ships, training not only physically to learn to harness my abilities but in classrooms as well. My sould was bound to the Emperor of mankind and, like all Astropaths, the process of touching the Emperor's might scoured my vision. By eyes became black orbs, empy as the void itself. They taught me of the Adeptus Astra Telepathica and of the dark secrets of Psykers.
Many years later when I felt I could learn no more from them, that the life of a standard Astropath was not my emperor-deemed destiny, they feared the warp had tainted me; that I had become a heretic. Thus they locked me away until the interrogation which you have already heard.
Later, Lord Inquisitor Sendaro found those to help me learn to hone my psychic talents with my martial ability learned from the Officio Assassinorum to become a battle psyker - one trained to fight the corruption both within and without the Imperium. I spent many more years with him learning the darker secrets of the warp and the creatures that preyed there. I learned how to hunt and destroy them. It was during my time with Lord Inquisitor Sendaro that I came to realize while I had a duty to the God-Emperor and the Imperium, I had a duty to humanity itself that could not be ignored. As it was within my power to protect humanity from creatures of the warp, so too did I feel it my calling to teach others when I was not fighting the deamons, something I felt I was unable to do in the service of Lord Inquisitor Sendaro. When I spoke with him of my desires, he told me that while he was disheartened at the thought of losing me from his retinue he understood my need and would speak to the Ordo's High Council to allow me to wander the stars freely and bring His protection to others. When I was finally releasef from the Lord Inquisitor's service many months later, he gave me a scroll bearing his seal upon it. He then pointed me in the direction of a Rogue Trader he said I could trust; one who I could begin my travels with to bring the Emperor's will to the universe. Upon reaching the home of the Rogue Trader, I learned that he had left the planet only days before I had arrived.
Now I must find him and let my destiny take shape...
"...kind of Psyker says he can learn no more on the Black Ships if he is not a heretic?"
"The kind who knows the God-Emperor has destined him for more than being a simple Astropath. The kind who was born into the void, who has seen things that would terrify normal sight back into an Astropath simply so he would never have to witness them again..."
"So you admit you have been tainted by the presence of daemons."
"No fool. Witnessing their vileness is not the same as being tainted by them."
"Impertinent whelp of a boy, you are not worthy of the soul-binding the Emperor gifted unto you! You say you have seen-"
"You DARE to question the Emperor's willingness to take one unto his own soul?? And then call me heretic?"
"How dare you?! I shall teach you... (Sound of a door opening) Who are you to interrupt an interrogation in the Emperor's name?"
"Inquisitor Varlan, I am Master Jen'ai. He is coming with my, by order of the Emperor."
"How dare you? I am the Emperor's Judgement, and I - " (Sound of a body falling to the floor)
"You may have been the Emperor's Judgement, but we are His Blade and it is as I said. He is coming with me."
-End of Inquisitorial tape XCK99930002-4482
He wanted to know who I was, but it was not his right. The Emperor had not deemed him worthy. I was to become His arm, nay His blade. When the Officio Assassinorum took me in, I believed this fully. I believed I was finally going to accomplish the Emperor's will I had always thought was my destiny. When they turned me back over to the Inquisition after only 1 year of training, I learned it was not so. I was good, they told me, but I did not fit the role of any of their own. I am devoted to the Emperor, and a Psyker with powers yet to develop, so I was not executed in His name. Instead, I was released to those who had once believed me a heretic. Upon my return to the Ordo Hereticus, I was brought into the service of Inquisitor Lord Korlan Sendaro. It was he who saw my potential, he who understood teh things I had seen and my want to protect humanity from them. Perhaps I should explain more of my past before continuing...
My name is Tuvari Sunwett. I am void-born, birthed while my parents traveled on the vessel The Path of Freedom. More importantly, I was born during a warp jump. It was here that the Emperor bestowed upon me His blessings and His curse. I was gifted with Psychic abilities, mainly the ability to move things with my mind. I never realized this talent myself until one fateful jump when I was just a boy. It was also during this very jump that I came to understand what I believed the Emperor had in store for me, a destiny I would later learn I had half-right.
During the jump we passed too closely to a warp storm, and our ship fell under attack by a creature of the immaterium. As the ship rolled through the warp with the daemon clinging our our hull, our resident Astropath fought it with his mind. I could hear his psychic screams as the daemon tore at his will and found myself compelled to run to his aid. When I reached him, he grabbed me with one hand. As soon as he touched me I screamed. I could feel the battle between the Astropath and the daemon inside my head; could feel its vile presence acutely. The Astopath, having known of my latent power for years due to his own sensitivity to other Psykers, was using me as a boost to his power, drawing on my own through the physical contact with me. Suddenly the daemon lasthed out at the psyker, and his presence burned in my mind. It was then that I saw my first daemon; saw the vileness of such creatures that prey on mankind through the stars for the first time. The sight terrified me and I believed us lost. We would have been too, had it not been for the unknown Witchhunter retinue we were carrying onboard. The fought the creature off, though not before its final blow destroyed the Astropath.
Since that fateful day I have seen many such things with my Emperor-gifted sight, things mankind was not meant to see. The daemons that wander the warp have passed before my sightless eyes during jumps such as that I was born into. On that day that I witnessed my first daemon, the Inquisitor and Witchhunters who had rescued us told my parents that I would be leaving with them at the next port. . I would be brought to the Black Ships where both my abilities and my soul would be tested before the Emperor and judged to be His servant in either life or death. Fortunately as you can see, the Emperor chose me to be a living vessel for the cause of mankind. I spent years on the Black Ships, training not only physically to learn to harness my abilities but in classrooms as well. My sould was bound to the Emperor of mankind and, like all Astropaths, the process of touching the Emperor's might scoured my vision. By eyes became black orbs, empy as the void itself. They taught me of the Adeptus Astra Telepathica and of the dark secrets of Psykers.
Many years later when I felt I could learn no more from them, that the life of a standard Astropath was not my emperor-deemed destiny, they feared the warp had tainted me; that I had become a heretic. Thus they locked me away until the interrogation which you have already heard.
Later, Lord Inquisitor Sendaro found those to help me learn to hone my psychic talents with my martial ability learned from the Officio Assassinorum to become a battle psyker - one trained to fight the corruption both within and without the Imperium. I spent many more years with him learning the darker secrets of the warp and the creatures that preyed there. I learned how to hunt and destroy them. It was during my time with Lord Inquisitor Sendaro that I came to realize while I had a duty to the God-Emperor and the Imperium, I had a duty to humanity itself that could not be ignored. As it was within my power to protect humanity from creatures of the warp, so too did I feel it my calling to teach others when I was not fighting the deamons, something I felt I was unable to do in the service of Lord Inquisitor Sendaro. When I spoke with him of my desires, he told me that while he was disheartened at the thought of losing me from his retinue he understood my need and would speak to the Ordo's High Council to allow me to wander the stars freely and bring His protection to others. When I was finally releasef from the Lord Inquisitor's service many months later, he gave me a scroll bearing his seal upon it. He then pointed me in the direction of a Rogue Trader he said I could trust; one who I could begin my travels with to bring the Emperor's will to the universe. Upon reaching the home of the Rogue Trader, I learned that he had left the planet only days before I had arrived.
Now I must find him and let my destiny take shape...
December 10, 2009
Bloody Valentine Tourny list
So, after some help from Bob, I have finalized (pretty sure, anyway) my Dark Elf list for our Feb. 7th Fantasy Tournament.
Edit: After taking another look at my list, I realized I had a redundant item on my Black Guard, The Pearl of Infinite Blackness. This item makes them Immune to Psychology, which they already are. So I changed it to give them a Null Talisman (MR 1), freeing up enough points to give the Corsairs an SB.
Lord
Dreadlord - 545 Pts.
Black Dragon, Crimson Death, Pendant of Khaeleth, Armour of Darkness
Heroes
Master - 214 Pts.
BSB (Hydra Banner), Cold One, Heavy Armour, Sea Dragon Cloak, Shield, Lance
Sorceress - 150 Pts
Dispell Scroll x2
Core
20 Warriors - 129 Pts.
Musician, Standard Bearer
10 Crossbowmen - 100 Pts.
12 Black Ark Corsairs - 136 Pts.
Musician, Standard Bearer
Special
10 Black Guard - 215 Pts.
Musician, Standard Bearer - Standard of Hag Graef, Tower Master - Null Talisman
5 Cold One Knights - 235 Pts.
Musician, Standard Bearer - Standard of Slaughter, Dread Knight - Ring of Hotek
Rare
War Hydra w/ Handlers - 175 Pts.
2 Reaper Bolt Throwers - 200 Pts.
Misc. Character
Assassin - 151 Pts.
Manbane, Rending Stars
Total Cost - 2250 Pts.
Edit: After taking another look at my list, I realized I had a redundant item on my Black Guard, The Pearl of Infinite Blackness. This item makes them Immune to Psychology, which they already are. So I changed it to give them a Null Talisman (MR 1), freeing up enough points to give the Corsairs an SB.
Lord
Dreadlord - 545 Pts.
Black Dragon, Crimson Death, Pendant of Khaeleth, Armour of Darkness
Heroes
Master - 214 Pts.
BSB (Hydra Banner), Cold One, Heavy Armour, Sea Dragon Cloak, Shield, Lance
Sorceress - 150 Pts
Dispell Scroll x2
Core
20 Warriors - 129 Pts.
Musician, Standard Bearer
10 Crossbowmen - 100 Pts.
12 Black Ark Corsairs - 136 Pts.
Musician, Standard Bearer
Special
10 Black Guard - 215 Pts.
Musician, Standard Bearer - Standard of Hag Graef, Tower Master - Null Talisman
5 Cold One Knights - 235 Pts.
Musician, Standard Bearer - Standard of Slaughter, Dread Knight - Ring of Hotek
Rare
War Hydra w/ Handlers - 175 Pts.
2 Reaper Bolt Throwers - 200 Pts.
Misc. Character
Assassin - 151 Pts.
Manbane, Rending Stars
Total Cost - 2250 Pts.
December 9, 2009
Today, I blog!
Greetings! I, like some of the other members of our gaming group, have decided to jump on the blogger bandwagon! While I love to write and hopefully will keep this updated relatively consistently, I also get easily distracted... so who knows, but I promise to do my best to remember!
Let me tell you quickly about me and my gaming life. I began playing Warhammer 40k around the age of 14, and whilst my love of the hobby has never waned, life has occasionally made it take a back seat for sometimes short, sometimes long periods of time. What this means is that while I have a lot of figures, I only have a small amount of them painted. It does not help that I've stripped a bunch of my mini's to repaint them. But hey, that's what happens as your painting skills improve and I'd like to think mine have enough to do it. Although I tried to branch away and start a second army for a while (Tau), I found myself trying to stay focused on my one true army, Eldar. Recently, thanks to the people in the local gaming group, Ordo Ineptus, I have finally ventured into the realm of Warhammer Fantasy. I decided on Dark Elves for two reasons - One, the newer models are awesome looking; Two, I've always loved using elves in fantasy settings. They were almost always my character choice playing D&D. I've only played a few games, but have found that I'm a big fan of WFB. I'm particulary fond of how the rules are akin to how 40k rules were win I started this hobby.
Besides posting here about how things go in the Warhammer world for me (I'll eventually even post pictures of my modeling!), some of us have in the Ordo recently begun playing the new Rogue Trader RPG, and I hope to keep a character log here as that progresses. Until next time, keep an eye on the horizon!
Let me tell you quickly about me and my gaming life. I began playing Warhammer 40k around the age of 14, and whilst my love of the hobby has never waned, life has occasionally made it take a back seat for sometimes short, sometimes long periods of time. What this means is that while I have a lot of figures, I only have a small amount of them painted. It does not help that I've stripped a bunch of my mini's to repaint them. But hey, that's what happens as your painting skills improve and I'd like to think mine have enough to do it. Although I tried to branch away and start a second army for a while (Tau), I found myself trying to stay focused on my one true army, Eldar. Recently, thanks to the people in the local gaming group, Ordo Ineptus, I have finally ventured into the realm of Warhammer Fantasy. I decided on Dark Elves for two reasons - One, the newer models are awesome looking; Two, I've always loved using elves in fantasy settings. They were almost always my character choice playing D&D. I've only played a few games, but have found that I'm a big fan of WFB. I'm particulary fond of how the rules are akin to how 40k rules were win I started this hobby.
Besides posting here about how things go in the Warhammer world for me (I'll eventually even post pictures of my modeling!), some of us have in the Ordo recently begun playing the new Rogue Trader RPG, and I hope to keep a character log here as that progresses. Until next time, keep an eye on the horizon!
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