ZOMBIE FORUMS

It's a stinking, shambling corpse grotesquely parodying life.
It is currently Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:47 am

All times are UTC - 8 hours [ DST ]




Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 27 posts ]  Go to page 1, 2  Next
Author Message
 Post subject: Battlefield: Hive City OOC Thread
PostPosted: Mon Apr 07, 2003 6:41 pm 
Offline
Addict
User avatar

Joined: Wed Nov 20, 2002 5:00 pm
Posts: 2788
Location: Neo-Connecticut
I figured we should start a thread, since it'd happen eventually. Use it if you need it.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2003 12:52 am 
Offline
Addict
User avatar

Joined: Thu Jan 31, 2002 5:00 pm
Posts: 1914
Location: Baal Secondus
Mad, for what its worth, I think that you got the character of the commissar pretty good. And just so you know they are not law enforcement, they are political offcers who job it is to keep the faith and moral of there imperial guard and imperial navy. They are ruthless and fearless individuals who have the power to perform summary battlefield executions if they feel that it is warrented.

_________________
"We Legion know what it be like to be warjack. When death comes, I die bleeding oil and sparks like metal brothers. When death comes, I die in steam." - Deidric Harkinos, veteran of the Man-O-War Legion


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2003 2:06 am 
Offline
Addict
User avatar

Joined: Wed Dec 11, 2002 5:00 pm
Posts: 1674
Location: The deep, dark corners of my mind
This will be a little lengthy, but hopefully informative about commissars.
I think you got the character pretty correct, but I wouldn't describe him as large. I picture him more like tall and lean, dressed similar to the 40K commissar models. Let's see if I can find a picture...
Image or Image, just without the mask, and with different weapons. You've got to love that uniform.

The Imperial commissars are pretty much the same as the Soviet Red Army comissars: Accompanying officers to make sure they act in a correct way politically (and religiously, this is the Imperium), and maintain discipline. Ah, whatever. I'll just ccut and paste the part on Comissars from the fluff bible. In 40K, there's a special rule for commissars: If the unit they are with falls back, they execute the officer of the unit, and then the unit must take a Ld test and either the commissar assumes command, or they frag him and run.

Quote:
Commissars
Imperial Guard regiments are recruited from all over the human galaxy. Warriors from one planet speak different, sometimes unintelligible, dialects or practice strange customs which are baffling to soldiers from other worlds. These vast differences make it hard for some regimental commanders to operate closely with troops from different worlds. If colonels, captains and lieutenants are to function as part of a cohesive army they must be united in their common purpose no matter how culturally diverse their backgrounds might be.
Commissars provide the link between regimental commanders and strategic officers. Commissars have to be tough. Some regiments are composed of savage former gang fighters, or vicious barbarians, who are naturally antagonistic to authority. The colonel of such a regiment is likely to be as wild and anarchic as his men, if not more so! The loyalty of such troops must be earned and the Commissar must be prepared to demonstrate his courage in battle.
Commissars are recruited into the Departmento Munitorium from the Schola Progenium, the rigorous orphanages for families of Adepts run by the missionaries of the Adeptus Ministorum. Many serve as Storm Troopers before becoming Commissars, so they are hardly strangers to warfare. Every regiment has at least one Commissar and many large regiments have several who remain with the regiment while it is deployed in a war zone.
The chief task of the Commissar is to preserve the fighting spirit and loyalty of the regiment. If discipline is lax the Commissar will step in to reinforce it. If the regiment's officers are incompetent or lack courage the Commissar must retrain and fortify them or, failing that, allow the regiment's squads to be dispersed to other commanders. If troops are rowdy and troublesome the Commissar must keep order. A Commissar knows that the best troops are the hardest to keep in line. He embodies strength, bravery and loyalty, and serves as the ultimate example of human courage.
Commissars are also zealots fiercely loyal to the Imperial Cult. In the Schola Progenium they are schooled to love the Emperor and desire nothing more than to serve to the best of their abilities. They tolerate no disloyalty and remain vigilant for spies, mutants and agents of chaos that may have infiltrated the men under their charge. They are versed in the Imperial scriptures and will frequently give readings before battle is joined. Most of all they despise the Emperor's enemies and desire nothing more than the chance to crush the foe beneath the righteous heel of Imperial might.

_________________
Insanity is your friend. It keeps that pesky Real World at a distance.

Godless Socialist Pedant


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2003 10:42 am 
Offline
<font color=darkred><b>Lorem Ipsum
User avatar

Joined: Sat Apr 13, 2002 5:00 pm
Posts: 3342
Location: ich bin ein Auslander
cool,

*mad slots the information into his head for future use, and files out some useless knowledge...probably something to do with Super mario Kart or some such.

as i wasn't quite sure of a commisar's role, i just hazarded a guess from Immanio's posts, and the general fomation of the imperium. Authority figure in the imperium? moslt likely a zealos believer, Rock Hard, and obsessed with justice. Another type that mar doesn't really want much to do with...like he's got any real choice. who knows what the commisar would do to hunt down the boy with psyker ability that fled from him? torch his way through a settlement? the Imperium can be swift and harsh with it's Justice.

_________________
Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2003 12:16 pm 
Offline
Addict
User avatar

Joined: Tue Mar 18, 2003 6:46 pm
Posts: 1957
Location: In a cube-farm, growing emails.
Yeah, Commisars are rather cool. I really like the Catachan's special rule for them(Oops, sorry sir.) Since I forgot to do so earlier, I'll describe my character's background in a little more detail.

Shas'Ui Telkure
A young but tallented member of the Viro'la Pathfinder force, Telkure has risen to the equivalent of Veteran Sergent in rank quickly. Adept at shooting from the hip, he has developed a reputation as a warrior not to be trifled with. Knowing that he is more than likely going to spend most of his career fighting the guela(humans), he has taken some pains to learn their weapons and armor, and a bit of their language. He is semi-fluent in Low Gothic, but speaks it with a heavy accent. When a Water Caste merchant passed by Viro'la looking for a bodyguard, he volunteered, hoping to put some of his knowlege into practice.

Description: 5'1" tall, grey-blue scaley skin, ice-grey eyes.
Equipment: Pulse Carbine, Pathfinder armor/w hardwired Blacksun filter, EMP grenades.

_________________
I deal with idiots from around the world daily. Darwin is calling to me. 'Kill the unfit!' he tells me. 'KILL THEM!'


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2003 2:18 pm 
Offline
Addict
User avatar

Joined: Wed Dec 11, 2002 5:00 pm
Posts: 1674
Location: The deep, dark corners of my mind
Ah, let's see...
*insert whatever curses you can think of here*
I had a relatively long thing written for the RP thread, and when I clicked submit, it gave me an 'invalid_session' message, nothing was posted, and the text disappeared. Remind me to write these things in WordPad from now on and copy them over...

_________________
Insanity is your friend. It keeps that pesky Real World at a distance.

Godless Socialist Pedant


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2003 4:17 pm 
Offline
Addict
User avatar

Joined: Tue Mar 18, 2003 6:46 pm
Posts: 1957
Location: In a cube-farm, growing emails.
Don't ya hate it when stuff like that happens? I sure do. Well, I'm sure you'll dazel us with your brilliance soon.

_________________
I deal with idiots from around the world daily. Darwin is calling to me. 'Kill the unfit!' he tells me. 'KILL THEM!'


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Wed Apr 09, 2003 12:42 am 
Offline
Addict
User avatar

Joined: Thu Jan 31, 2002 5:00 pm
Posts: 1914
Location: Baal Secondus
Chaz, the tay don't use the word frag, infact its only the imperial guard that use that term, and then some regements use other curse's

_________________
"We Legion know what it be like to be warjack. When death comes, I die bleeding oil and sparks like metal brothers. When death comes, I die in steam." - Deidric Harkinos, veteran of the Man-O-War Legion


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Wed Apr 09, 2003 12:52 am 
Offline
Addict
User avatar

Joined: Tue Mar 18, 2003 6:46 pm
Posts: 1957
Location: In a cube-farm, growing emails.
Generic profanity, my friend. Besides, I am quite sure they have an equivalent in their language, I just didn't feel like making up an alien curseword. More often than not, they just don't sound like profanity.

_________________
I deal with idiots from around the world daily. Darwin is calling to me. 'Kill the unfit!' he tells me. 'KILL THEM!'


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Wed Apr 09, 2003 12:53 am 
Offline
Addict
User avatar

Joined: Thu Jan 31, 2002 5:00 pm
Posts: 1914
Location: Baal Secondus
No, as far as I'm aware of the tau are too goody to actually swear

_________________
"We Legion know what it be like to be warjack. When death comes, I die bleeding oil and sparks like metal brothers. When death comes, I die in steam." - Deidric Harkinos, veteran of the Man-O-War Legion


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Wed Apr 09, 2003 12:58 am 
Offline
Addict
User avatar

Joined: Tue Mar 18, 2003 6:46 pm
Posts: 1957
Location: In a cube-farm, growing emails.
One constant of soldiers everywhere, in every time, is colorful metaphores to describe things they don't like. I've read some Tau fiction with many and various curse words, but they didn't 'feel' like profanity. A curse word needs hard consonants and such. I came up with one and fixed my earlier post. It kinda works, but its better than a clearly human curse.

_________________
I deal with idiots from around the world daily. Darwin is calling to me. 'Kill the unfit!' he tells me. 'KILL THEM!'


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Sat Apr 12, 2003 2:30 am 
Offline
Addict
User avatar

Joined: Wed Dec 11, 2002 5:00 pm
Posts: 1674
Location: The deep, dark corners of my mind
I'll be going away for the easter, meaning I'll be gone for a little over a week. I'll see if I can write a post in the RP thread today or tomorrow before I go.

_________________
Insanity is your friend. It keeps that pesky Real World at a distance.

Godless Socialist Pedant


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2003 2:00 pm 
Offline
Addict
User avatar

Joined: Wed Dec 11, 2002 5:00 pm
Posts: 1674
Location: The deep, dark corners of my mind
Well, it seems the thread has died down a bit. Which is probably in part my fault for being a lazy, procrastinating bastard. I don't intend to let it die quite yet, though, so I'll see about writing up a new bit. (Still, we know how much to trust me by now, eh? I'll do my best.)

_________________
Insanity is your friend. It keeps that pesky Real World at a distance.

Godless Socialist Pedant


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Tue May 06, 2003 12:53 am 
Offline
Addict
User avatar

Joined: Thu Jan 31, 2002 5:00 pm
Posts: 1914
Location: Baal Secondus
I'd post one up, but seeing as how I was the last to post then it would just be wrong

_________________
"We Legion know what it be like to be warjack. When death comes, I die bleeding oil and sparks like metal brothers. When death comes, I die in steam." - Deidric Harkinos, veteran of the Man-O-War Legion


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Tue May 06, 2003 8:40 am 
Offline
Addict
User avatar

Joined: Wed Dec 11, 2002 5:00 pm
Posts: 1674
Location: The deep, dark corners of my mind
I guess I should be the one to post next. Just haven't got around to it after the forum ate the post I made.

_________________
Insanity is your friend. It keeps that pesky Real World at a distance.

Godless Socialist Pedant


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Fri May 23, 2003 1:05 am 
Offline
Addict
User avatar

Joined: Thu Jan 31, 2002 5:00 pm
Posts: 1914
Location: Baal Secondus
Ero, if you leavening then could I use your guy when you do? I have plans that I want to do.

_________________
"We Legion know what it be like to be warjack. When death comes, I die bleeding oil and sparks like metal brothers. When death comes, I die in steam." - Deidric Harkinos, veteran of the Man-O-War Legion


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Sat May 24, 2003 1:25 am 
Offline
Expatriate
User avatar

Joined: Tue May 20, 2003 8:12 am
Posts: 138
Location: hive world 21354
my character description

Name- Justicar priesty

Age - classified

Race - grey knights

Equipment- nemesis force weapon , master crafted storm bolter , psybolts

Psychic abilities- ability to slow time around him

Description-

After the battle on Verhaust x8 Justicar priesty lost his squad to a pack of deamonettes, he was found a month later surrounded by his fallen comrades. During this time he had developed the ability to slow time. This ability got him noticed by the inquistion and now works for inquistor xenox.
The presence of Warsmith Ironfist has led to inquisitor xenox requesting the insertion of justicar priesty to investigate his presence on Ichor IV.

_________________
DNI'd by Vet Sgt Antenor
"LIFE IS NOT TRIED JUST MERELY SURVIVED IF WE LIVE STANDING OUTSIDE THE FIRE"


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Sat May 24, 2003 2:52 pm 
Offline
Addict
User avatar

Joined: Tue Mar 18, 2003 6:46 pm
Posts: 1957
Location: In a cube-farm, growing emails.
Looks like this thread is going again. Unfortunately, My internet access is limited to roughly one hour a week, so I can't really participate any longer... I'll be lurking to see what happens, but I'm kinda out of it. If anybody cares to take over my Tau lad, go for it.

_________________
I deal with idiots from around the world daily. Darwin is calling to me. 'Kill the unfit!' he tells me. 'KILL THEM!'


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Sat May 24, 2003 3:53 pm 
Offline
Addict
User avatar

Joined: Wed Dec 11, 2002 5:00 pm
Posts: 1674
Location: The deep, dark corners of my mind
Chaz wrote:
Unfortunately, My internet access is limited to roughly one hour a week...

Ooh, the horror!

_________________
Insanity is your friend. It keeps that pesky Real World at a distance.

Godless Socialist Pedant


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Tue May 27, 2003 5:47 am 
Offline
Addict
User avatar

Joined: Wed Nov 20, 2002 5:00 pm
Posts: 2788
Location: Neo-Connecticut
Wait until I've gone about a week without posting before taking over my character. I might be able to stay. Haven't figured it out yet. I'll try to post as often as I can in the RP until I can be sure of what will happen. If I go a week without posting, you can be fairly sure that I won't be back for a while, and then it's fine to take my character.


Top
 Profile  
 
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 27 posts ]  Go to page 1, 2  Next

All times are UTC - 8 hours [ DST ]


Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 18 guests


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot post attachments in this forum

Search for:
Jump to:  
cron
Powered by phpBB © 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 phpBB Group