In Progress Let's Play: WH40k Chaos Gate - Looking for new recruits!

[Mangoose]

Latest Update: 25 April 2013​

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Our struggle is born with Chaos. The same Chaos that ten millennia ago seduced nine Lords and their Space Marine Legions, casting the Imperium into rebellion and civil war. Only the boldness of the Emperor and his remaining Space Marine forces drove the dark hordes into the Eye of Terror. ​

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For a millennium times ten they have lurked there, emerging to mount their campaigns against the Imperium. And now, more powerful than ever, the Chaos forces of the Dark Lord Zymran strike the very heart of the Imperium.​

That's right, I've got Chaos Gate (mostly) working on Win98SE on VirtualPC2007.​

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Without further ado, we start a new campaign.​

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I'm going on the regular "Veteran" difficulty as I haven't played this game before past the first 3 maps IIRC. There are two other difficulty levels: An easier mode and a harder mode. The last level on the screen is the same difficulty as the hard, but with Iron Man settings.​

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Don't worry, I will essentially be playing Iron Man style. It's more fun that way, anyway.

THE BATTLE REPORTS​

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Battle Report I​

Battle Report II​

Battle Report III: First Blood​

- Interlude: Goronado & Beleano​

Battle Report IV: Death Comes For You Early​

- Interlude: Burn With Faith Or Burn With Fire​

Battle Report V: Power Of The Emperor's Fury​

Battle Report VI: Like A Dying Elephant​

Battle Report VII: Daemons Burn In Hell, Too​

- Interlude: The Emperor Orders You To Die!​

Battle Report VIII: To Fight Fire With Fire​

Battle Report IX: A Hot Trend To A Fiery End​

- Interlude: By Fire And Axe​

Battle Report X: Lost Heroes Of The Imperium​

- Interlude: Glory to the Imperium!​

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Lastly... RECRUITS!​

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Enter your application with your desired callsign and squad. Squads II through VI are Tactical Squads. Squad VII are Assault Marines equipped with jump-packs, and Squad VIII is the heavy weapon Devastator Squad. The eminent Squad I is composed of our brothers in Tactical Dreadnought Armor.​

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But you should already know this, having memorized the Codex Astartes. Right?





LIST OF RECRUITS

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HQ​

Captain "Mangoose" Kruger - In Reserve - Mangoose​

Chaplain _____ - In Statis -​

Apothecary Azira - Azira​

Apothecary Orange - Veteran​

Tech-Marine Mac Gyvius - lightbane​

Librarian "The Commissar" - Commissar Draco​

Librarian _____ - In Statis -​

Librarian _____ - In Statis -​

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Squad I - "Terminatus"​

Brother Jack - Mighty Hero - TripJack​

Brother Smashing Axe - Mighty Hero - Smashing Axe​

Brother Podex Pistor - Mighty Hero - anus_pounder​

Brother Oscar - Mighty Hero - oscar​

Brother Yeesh - Mighty Hero - Yeesh​

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Squad II - "Milites Inclina"​

Sergeant Gondolin - Mighty Hero - Gondolin​

Brother Garfunkel - Mighty Hero - GarfunkeL - 1 Teamkill​

Brother Hellenius - Hero - Helly​

Sergeant Ollanius - Veteran - Dayyālu​

Brother Hefjastos - Veteran - eklektyk​

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Squad III - Disbanded​

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Squad IV - Folded into Squad II​

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Squad V - ​

Sergeant _____​

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Squad VI - ​

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Squad VII - "The Emperor's Hellraisers"
Sergeant Hellraiser - Hero - Hellraiser
Brother Toastboy - Hero - good little toastboy
Brother Slaughter - Mighty Hero - The Brazilian Slaughter

Brother Ungern - Hero - CaptainAwesome​

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Squad VIII - "Havoc"​

Sergeant Janus - Mighty Hero - GreyViper​

Brother Boris - Mighty Hero - Boris​

Brother Overboard - Mighty Hero - Overboard​

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Brother K. Slips - Mighty Hero - Kashmir Slippers​

Brother Lindblum II - Hero - Lindblum​

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In Memory
Brother Lindblum - Squad VIII - While rushing to support his comrades, he was caught in the open by a Chaos Marine wielding a heavy bolter. - Lindblum
Brother Eklektyk - Squad VII - Stabbed in the back by a craven Chaos Marine. - eklektyk
Brother-Librarian Draco - Victim of cowardly grenade spam - Commissar Draco
Brother Helly - Squad VII - Fell short of luck dueling a Berzerker - Helly
Sergeant Timoleon - Squad III - Succumbed to burns supporting the offensive into a heavily defended hallway. - Dayyālu
Brother-Captain Root - Squad I - Played with fire, got burned - root

Brother Storyfag - Storyfag - Died a Mighty Hero​

Brother Awesome - Hero - CaptainAwesome - Died a Hero​

Brother Goku - Hero - KidBoogie - Died a Hero

Tech-Marine Juden - Corporate_Jew_Master - Died a Veteran​

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Rejected
Tindrli - Reason: Tranny - tindrli





What are these Honor Badges?
Achieveme-- Sorry. Badges awarded to characters that do awesome shit to the physical bodies of the enemy faction.

Crux Terminatus: Awarded to Marines that have been promoted to Veteran and has scored five kills in any single mission. (Thanks, Dayyālu)

Marksman's Honor: Hit ten targets during one mission. (I'm assuming different targets. If it does, strategically it'd be best to split shots, though that will conflict with target priority due to variance of accuracy. Probably won't micromanage this any real way).

Imperial Laurel: The character that meets the mission objectives receives this. Perhaps there can be more than one objective. (Basically this is for the strategic layer. I need to keep track of which Marine needs the most exp and have him perform the objective. Of course, if the objective is dangerous and requires speedy and specialized operation while outmaneuvering enemy pursuers, the mission itself is the higher strategic priority)

Purity Seal: Awarded to any character that completes five missions without failing any break tests. I haven't actually read about this in the manual at this point, but I assume it refers to morale in terms of perhaps some reaction roll after a company-mate, or perhaps more importantly, squad-mate death. Or maybe it's just a unit's reaction to its own damage. (It will be interesting to see if anyone has one of these. Also, at this point in 40k rules, Ultramarines don't break morale - in general terms)





The Manual

Replacementdocs is your friend.





Errata

Comments, concerns, criticisms, and advice are all greatly appreciated. I'm here to entertain and to improve my writing skills.





So Far I've learned that...

• Chaos loves grenades. And I should too. No-heresy.
• I really don't have that many men in reserve, especially talent ones...

 

[Mangoose]

--- BATTLE REPORT I ---​

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Spoiler

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Our Crusade is finished in triumph, yet the struggle has left my forces depleted and under strength. Our supplies are running low. Yet we do not journey home, for I have come into possession of information that a relic predating even the Horus Heresy is to be found on Lliira, second moon of Chimera II. We travel there now, for if the relic is what I believe it to be, it can prove invaluable to our struggle against Chaos and its traitors. Even undermanned we shall not defer this quest.

Our fortune is that we still bear with us, five Brother Terminators from the 1st Company. And I have ordered my remanining Ultramarines to reconfigure themselves into five-man combat squads. It is my hope that this shall be enough.

Whatever we may face, we make course for the Chimera system.

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Welcome to the bridge deck, Ultramarine. Proceed forward and receive the briefing for today's mission.​

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The Company overview. From here I can select the squad(s) to configure and deploy.​

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I decide to give Brother Alarbus a Heavy Bolter, as recommended. That's all we need to do for the first mission, so we deploy!​

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You carry the Emperor's will as your torch, with it destroy the shadows.​

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Brother Crixus, Sergeant of Second Squad.​

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As briefed, there are is only a light defense of mortal Cultists. I order the squad to stand on Overwatch and thin out the horde.​

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The plan works well, and we move towards the entrance of the Temple.​

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A Traitor Marine! Alarbus, destroy him!​

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Alarbus: Through the destruction of our enemies do we earn our salvation!​

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Another! ​

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But he dies just as easily.​

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Time to move in.​

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This hallway is clear. I decide on the right pathway.​

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Another Marine of the Traitor Legion! Concentrate fire!​

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True justice is quite simply the will of the Emperor.​

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Brothers, the relic lies before us on the foul Chaos altar.​

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A lone renegade defends the relic. I shake my head. This is not how it is written in the Codex Astartes.​

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This half of the relic is ours, Brother Captain. Requesting Thunderhawk pickup.​

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Brother Alarbus is promoted. Congratulations, Brother.​

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[Commissar Draco]

Commissar Draco... Brother Draco reporting in, serving in First (Command) Squad as Librarian or better yet Chaplain (not sure if latter was implemented in Chaos Gate). Emperor protects the virtues Faggots.

 

[GreyViper]

GreyViper reporting in as Brother Janus, serving in Squad VIII Devastator Squad as sergeant. Weapon of choice either shoulder mounted heavy bolter or Lascannon for sniping. Because believe it or not, for some reason lascannon can one or two shot most in this game IF it can hit it.

@Commissar Draco I think Librarian is the one you can get, I don't recall Chaplain.

 

[Mangoose]

Welcome, Brothers Draco and Janus.

From ze manual:

There are ten Special Characters, one Captain, one Chaplain, two Apothecaries, two Techmarines, and Four Librarians.

So you are good, Chaplain Draco.

GreyViper I already finished Mission 2 so you'll be in afterwards.

 

[Gondolin]

Brother Gondolin reporting for duty with Second Squad.

 

[tindrli]

never played this one before.. will follow

 

[Commissar Draco]

Burn Heretics!

 

[Mangoose]

Burn Heretics!

One of the very very few good scenes in the movie

 

[GreyViper]

There are ten Special Characters, one Captain, one Chaplain, two Apothecaries, two Techmarines, and Four Librarians.

So you are good, Chaplain Draco.

GreyViper I already finished Mission 2 so you'll be in afterwards.

Thanx for pointing out, they most come in later missions then.

As to the movie, gah roots LPs had twice as interesting plot compared to this one.

 

[Mangoose]

Oh yeah, I'm planning on painting a Chaos Space Marines tabletop army.

This would be my first, though not my first attempt. First attempt was Eldar, but I left for two months of travel and then when I came back, I lost enthusiasm for 40k. Second attempt was an Ork biker army, but painting Orks wasn't that fun. Hopefully third time's the charm.

I'm thinking a Slaaneshi-corrupted Night Lords warband.

 

[GarfunkeL]

Brother Garfunkel reporting for duty. For the EMPRAH!

 

[Storyfag]

Brother Storyfag reporting.

 

[Azira]

Applying for Apothecary duty.

I could never get the game to work properly, and thus haven't played the game past the first map. Will follow this with interest.

 

[Hellraiser]

I WANT TO BE AN ASSAULT SPESS MEHRINE SERGEANT!

 

[Dayyālu]

I succesfully played Chaos Gate several times on a WinXP machine.
How, I still ask myself. It's like a roulette of trying several different solutions, and sometimes it even works.

Reporting for Duty, of course. Brother Timoleon, Squad Sergeant, III Squad.If thou wish, send me serving as a simple BATTHEL BROTHAZ in a active Squad, instead of me sitting in the Cruiser doing nothing.

Will you do all the 'extra missions'? Being randomly generated they are sometimes quite letal, but a great way to obtain some toys and kills.

And, the best Class is Librarian. Chaplains do nothing, Techmarine are gimmicks, Apothecaries are sometimes useful, the Cap't is given to you in the last mission and he's underpowered to the level of being useless.


A Lib, on the other hand, can use the 'Haste'-like power and crush dozens of enemies. He can use Vortex and obliterate scores of Chaos Termies, even Vehicles, in a single move. Lib powers are...kinda of broken.

 

[Commissar Draco]

Put me where there's action than... Was using Librarian as My Avatar too... Purring the Purging Fire on Heretics is broken but nevertheless satisfying.

 

[lightbane]

Oh my gosh, Chaos Gate!!!
Emperor knows how many times I tried to make this game work (and failed). Still, a lp is better than nothing. I wish to enlish as Brother Mac Gyvius the Techmarine (weapon of choice being the melta-gun if possible, I loved that weapon in Dark Heresy). If that's not possible and/or you feel it is underpowered, then Brother Powergameon as a Devastator from the VIIIth Squad (armed with a heavy flamer or a heavy bolter).

 

[Lindblum]

I wanna be a Devastator!

 

[Dayyālu]

So, It is indeed sad to realize that many Codexers never succeded in making CG work. Sure, it is a XCom clone, but with a flavour of his own.

Chaos Gate is a temperamental game.Using VirtualPC is a good way, but I'll link the main forum for the 'Trying to get CG work in XP'

http://www.compatdb.org/forums/topic/24133-warhammer-40k-chaos-gate-on-xp-help/

As, for me, after countless tries, I succeded doing this (copy-pasted from the forum):

1. Enable Windows 95 compatibility mode for SETUP.EXE on the CD (right-click the file, Compatibility tab).
2. Install game using SETUP.EXE, making sure to install the game to the default directory (C:\Program Files\RandomGames\Chaos Gate).
3. Install 1.2 patch.
4. Move the C:\Program Files\RandomGames\Chaos Gate directory to C:\Chaos (or any other directory name that has 8 or less letters and no spaces).
5. Make sure that compatibility mode is NOT ENABLED for C:\Chaos\WH40K.exe.
6.Crush the Heretics.

Disabling Cultist Laspistols seems also a solution-
http://www.compatdb.org/forums/topic/46630-wh40k-chaos-gate-solution-to-the-cultist-bug/

I discovered that if a specific enemy death caused a crash, somethimes 'Vortexing' them seemed to do the trick- erasing them somehow from the game helped. Not sure if this was the real cause, however. Is Windows 7 more stable for CG?

 

[Azira]

Good question. I'm running Windows 7, is it possible to get CG to run under that?

 

[Mangoose]

I have no desire to try again on native 7. I used those XP steps before which took away most of the bugs unreliably, but still had graphics issues.

I'm using Virtual PC 2007 (<- version is important), with Windows 98 SE installed on it, and (also important) no Virtual Machine Additions installed (the VMAs add graphics bugs). Runs flawlessly.

 

[Boris]

Make me a heavy guy.

 

[tindrli]

damn .. so many classes here.. i wonder.. is there a tranny class as well?

 

[TripJack]

Techmarine Jack reporting for duty.