Warhammer Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader Pre-Release Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Sykar]

Okay, that means they themselves may not even understand yet that they are cultists. Just outcasts / rebells, on their way to damnation. In that case, the design makes sense.

Next step will be adding spikes everywhere. Can't be a Chaos follower without that.

Would that be enough on a creature of pure evil?

 

[lightbane]

Would that be enough on a creature of pure evil?

Yes. Just think about how much autism, deviant art (heh) and utterly pointless inanity this creature below brought to the world.

EXTRA HERETICAL CREATURE

 

[Sykar]

This reminds me:

 

[Infinitron]

https://roguetrader.owlcat.games/news/en/10

SISTER ARGENTA: THE SOUL ABLAZE​

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The terrible tread of gigantic Titans, the scream of drop pods entering the atmosphere – these are the sounds that make the hearts of heretics tremble. So too does prayer – the holy battle prayer of the Adepta Sororitas. Also known as the Sisters of Battle, these fierce and devoted women make up the militant arm of the Ecclesiarchy, the state church of the Imperium of Man.

The orphaned daughter of Imperial Guard officers, the child that would become Sister Argenta received harsh training in the Schola Progenium – the crucible of the Imperial military elite. Only one memory survived from before the ordeal of training – or was it merely a dream? In this vision, the girl saw grey ship hulls and dirty military camps, dank trenches, faceless people in Astra Militarum uniforms, the roar of a counterattack, the crescendo of her mother's heart-rending cry, broken by an ominous silence... and the golden Aquila lying among the ashes, so immaculate, so alien in this gloomy and bleak environment. The symbol of the God-Emperor of Mankind.

Somewhere in the malicious oceans of the warp, the Emperor was fighting the ruinous powers of Chaos. For the young orphan, He became a semantic constant, an object of worship, an impeccable role model, the reason she had survived hell. Guided by this shining symbol, sure that she had been chosen for some great, as yet unknown, purpose, the girl proved herself time and time again in the Schola and ascended to the ranks of the Adepta Sororitas. Her birth name was forgotten, replaced by a new one – Argenta, the name of a local saint worshipped in the Calixis Sector and the Koronus Expanse. A long and crooked path then led her to Footfall, where she was to join a small mission of her order to guard a holy reliquary.

It seems that Argenta lives and breathes for one purpose – to achieve perfection worthy of the Emperor's most faithful warriors. She is unstoppable, audacious – sometimes too audacious. The battlefield is her temple, and bolter rounds are the words of her fervent prayer. When she rushes into battle, the ship's bulkheads reverberate with the passion of her prayers, and her allies feel the surge of power.

But what led the young sister away from her duties as a guardian of the reliquary? Was it a holy epiphany or a fall from grace? This remains a tightly held secret…

 

[Aarwolf]

Chaos cultists/hobos:

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One can take Owlcat from Russia, but one can't take Russia from Owlcat - these guys look like russian mobiks sent straight do Donbass frontline after two days of heavy drinking training.

 

[Kem0sabe]

 

[Humbaba]

https://roguetrader.owlcat.games/news/en/10

SISTER ARGENTA: THE SOUL ABLAZE​

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The terrible tread of gigantic Titans, the scream of drop pods entering the atmosphere – these are the sounds that make the hearts of heretics tremble. So too does prayer – the holy battle prayer of the Adepta Sororitas. Also known as the Sisters of Battle, these fierce and devoted women make up the militant arm of the Ecclesiarchy, the state church of the Imperium of Man.

The orphaned daughter of Imperial Guard officers, the child that would become Sister Argenta received harsh training in the Schola Progenium – the crucible of the Imperial military elite. Only one memory survived from before the ordeal of training – or was it merely a dream? In this vision, the girl saw grey ship hulls and dirty military camps, dank trenches, faceless people in Astra Militarum uniforms, the roar of a counterattack, the crescendo of her mother's heart-rending cry, broken by an ominous silence... and the golden Aquila lying among the ashes, so immaculate, so alien in this gloomy and bleak environment. The symbol of the God-Emperor of Mankind.

Somewhere in the malicious oceans of the warp, the Emperor was fighting the ruinous powers of Chaos. For the young orphan, He became a semantic constant, an object of worship, an impeccable role model, the reason she had survived hell. Guided by this shining symbol, sure that she had been chosen for some great, as yet unknown, purpose, the girl proved herself time and time again in the Schola and ascended to the ranks of the Adepta Sororitas. Her birth name was forgotten, replaced by a new one – Argenta, the name of a local saint worshipped in the Calixis Sector and the Koronus Expanse. A long and crooked path then led her to Footfall, where she was to join a small mission of her order to guard a holy reliquary.

It seems that Argenta lives and breathes for one purpose – to achieve perfection worthy of the Emperor's most faithful warriors. She is unstoppable, audacious – sometimes too audacious. The battlefield is her temple, and bolter rounds are the words of her fervent prayer. When she rushes into battle, the ship's bulkheads reverberate with the passion of her prayers, and her allies feel the surge of power.

But what led the young sister away from her duties as a guardian of the reliquary? Was it a holy epiphany or a fall from grace? This remains a tightly held secret…

Characterisation seems on point for a Sister. Good artwork too. GW is keeping a very close eye on their most profitable IP as expected and Owlcat complies.

 

[NecroLord]

The Emperor gets all the bitches.
Or at least he used to,now that he is in a barely alive state,interred on the Golden Thro...*BLAM.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

The Emperor gets all the bitches.
Or at least he used to,now that he is in a barely alive state,interred on the Golden Thro...*BLAM.

Thank you for auto blamming

 

[Sykar]

The Emperor gets all the bitches.
Or at least he used to,now that he is in a barely alive state,interred on the Golden Thro...*BLAM.

Oh he still gets them, so long as they are psychically active.

 

[Nevermore]

 

[Koolz]

https://heavyocity.com/product/damage-2/

 

[HeatEXTEND]

Word Bearers too. Highly underrated legion

wut

 

[Yosharian]

I just finished reading The First Heretic and found it very underwhelming. Really struggled to give a shit about Lorgar and his stupid followers.

Moving onto Know No Fear next, hopefully Abnett will put things right... AGAIN

 

[Koolz]

Your suffering from a lack of Luetin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NzwTDYZr2k

Oh God AES Trade Show!

 

[razvedchiki]

so the ship or the planets will be the new "kingdom management". in the picture of the party members are fighing dark elves there is a small image of ships burning, it means we will get boarding actions and space lazors?

 

[NecroLord]

I would like to see a game where you play as either the Black Templars,Blood Angels(Flesh Tearers and Lamenters particularly) and World Eaters(Pre Heresy) or all of them.
MAXIMUM RIP AND TEAR!

 

[Sykar]

There is only one option for thorough purging!

 

[Heroic Liberator]

I would like to see a game where you play as either the Black Templars,Blood Angels(Flesh Tearers and Lamenters particularly) and World Eaters(Pre Heresy) or all of them.
MAXIMUM RIP AND TEAR!

I want a game where I could play as the Iron Warriors, portraying their particular brand of utilitarian grimderp. Something with a bleak story and a desaturated visual design.

Either that or a game centered on the Death Korps of Krieg since they share in that sort of grimderpy bleakness.

Not an RPG thought. Think it would work better as a strategy game where you send depersonalized troops to the slaughter,

 

[NecroLord]

Both the Krieggers and Iron Warriors are also awesome.
Iron Warriors are the WW1 Attrition and Meat Grinder style warfare specialists with extreme grimderp thrown in. Not to mention Honsou,the sick fuck himself,creator of Extra Heretical Daemonculaba...
Yeah,I don't think anyone has the balls to adapt Daemonculaba in a video game,and why would they? It's just sickening...

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Not to mention Honsou,the sick fuck himself,creator of Extra Heretical Daemonculaba...

Speaking of Honsou, that fancy Iron Warriors omnibus edition that got released not that long ago has a neat short story in which Honsou is being tested by Perty (and found worthy). Someone uploaded it on imgur.

Spoiler

 

[NecroLord]

Fuck that wanker Abaddon. He bosses around Traitor Primarchs? I never understood that,not to mention his fucking arrogance,calling Horus a "coward" and "failure" when Horus accomplished so much more(in mere months to be more specific,not to mention he killed Sanguinius and lay siege to Holy Terra).

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Fuck that wanker Abaddon. He bosses around Traitor Primarchs? I never understood that,not to mention his fucking arrogance,calling Horus a "coward" and "failure" when Horus accomplished so much more(in mere months to be more specific,not to mention he killed Sanguinius and lay siege to Holy Terra).

Eh, to be fair, things weren't so black and white. Abaddon was a loyal friend to Horus and looked up to him, but the Horus that others worshipped by the end of their common fall to Chaos was just Chaos itself wearing his skin (and that's also why he was so disgusted with that Horus clone that he ended up having to destroy since it was a soulless mockery of his brother). That's one of the distinguishing character traits of Abaddon, him not allowing himself to share in Horus' fate (i.e. he's the Wh40k equivalent to Archaon, although admittedly both of them could be argued to be unwitting pawns of Chaos - Archaon in particular with that shard that pierced him early on that led to his descent; but in any case, both let the gods squabble in influence over them without letting themselves go from voluntary patronage to involuntary slavery). Black Library authors haven't handled his character that well, but he's basically a luckier Perturabo (since Perty had to sell his soul* due to Fulgrim fucking him over).

* I prefer the fan theory that he basically used the Forge of Souls to ascend to daemonhood through his own means rather than by rendering his soul unto the Chaos gods (and/or that he basically became the primarch equivalent to an Obliterator in order to stop - or at the very least slow down - the decay of his incomplete soul that had been partly sacrificed by Fulgrim to mark his ascension to daemonhood), but the more recent GW stuff doesn't seem to be going in that direction with Perturabo. A big disappointment for me since the Iron Warriors are my favorites, but it is what it is.

 

[NecroLord]

Based Warpsmith

 

[zapotec]

I hope not as they have proved two times to be incapable of creating "original" content.

the sistas with them boltas.
the description of her class gives the impression that she will be able to buff the party with rap songs to the emprah, like a bard.

Plot twist: he is the first space marine tranny