W40K In Service to the Imperium: Episode 5 (OOC/OPEN/Reboot)

[The Empire of Pretantia]

And you can make them as easily as lying down a sheet of shield.

Maybe just put a wooden board on two steel pipes to reduce friction.

[Bredtonia]

Sleds can be dragged across anything if you pull hard enough, it's merely easier on snow.

You don't think pulling them across hard rocky mountainous terrain will destroy them in short order? Secondly you are making them yourselves with about an hour of time put into them. They won't be the universes strongest sledges ever by a long way.

I, personally, was thinking we'd be using the road - at least to get down the mountain. Sled on road is noisy but fairly safe. By the descriptions we couldn't get the vehicles through the forest on the mountain side anyway. When it comes to Chimeras, Trailers and other such space, what it's really going to come down to is: at what point does equipment become more valuable than men. Also, men who will never recover to fighting condition should, probibly, be given the emperors mercy.

[Bone Fort]

Also, it depends on how many wounded. Part of what Der Swharze Mann is going to talk to Amsel about concerns the wounded.

Also, we can stick them in the Chimeras, we have a lot of those. Non wounded can walk, their legs still function.

[Bredtonia]

Which is partly why it comes down to how much equipment we have to carry. Its also worth noting some of the larger companies with intrinsic vehicles, like the logistics gals, may have trailers already. They're pretty standard issue.

The only reason I mention unrecoverable wounded is because of potentially limited food & medical supplies, as well as the desperate and wounded are more likely targets of corruption.

[Carcharhinidae primari]

Which is partly why it comes down to how much equipment we have to carry. Its also worth noting some of the larger companies with intrinsic vehicles, like the logistics gals, may have trailers already. They're pretty standard issue.

The only reason I mention unrecoverable wounded is because of potentially limited food & medical supplies, as well as the desperate and wounded are more likely targets of corruption.

but how much would the blow to morale be if the men realized if they got badly injured they'd be killed off.

[The Nihilistic view]

Which is partly why it comes down to how much equipment we have to carry. Its also worth noting some of the larger companies with intrinsic vehicles, like the logistics gals, may have trailers already. They're pretty standard issue.

The only reason I mention unrecoverable wounded is because of potentially limited food & medical supplies, as well as the desperate and wounded are more likely targets of corruption.

but how much would the blow to morale be if the men realized if they got badly injured they'd be killed off.

Commissars don't usually care about moral.

[Carcharhinidae primari]

but how much would the blow to morale be if the men realized if they got badly injured they'd be killed off.

Commissars don't usually care about moral.

they should. it's their job.

[Bone Fort]

Granted, their approach to morale problems may not be the best...

[The Empire of Pretantia]

Commissars don't usually care about moral.

they should. it's their job.

This. Maintaining morale and faith in the Emperor is pretty much the reason they shoot their own men in the first place.

[Bredtonia]

they should. it's their job.

This. Maintaining morale and faith in the Emperor fighting corruption is pretty much the reason they shoot their own men in the first place.

Corrected. Faith is the Missionary's job. As they're doing here, Commissars also handle inter-regiment conflicts, particularly if they're from different worlds. They may also act to oversee progress and prevent commanders from being overly cautious.

[The Empire of Pretantia]

This. Maintaining morale and faith in the Emperor fighting corruption is pretty much the reason they shoot their own men in the first place.

Corrected. Faith is the Missionary's job. As they're doing here, Commissars also handle inter-regiment conflicts, particularly if they're from different worlds. They may also act to oversee progress and prevent commanders from being overly cautious.

Corruption is lacking faith in the emperor.

[Carcharhinidae primari]

Corrected. Faith is the Missionary's job. As they're doing here, Commissars also handle inter-regiment conflicts, particularly if they're from different worlds. They may also act to oversee progress and prevent commanders from being overly cautious.

Corruption is lacking faith in the emperor.

all hail the machine god!

[The Empire of Pretantia]

Corruption is lacking faith in the emperor.

all hail the machine god!

Which is an aspect of the Emperor. Besides, that's the Admech; doublethink is mandatory when discussing them in the Imperium.

[Carcharhinidae primari]

all hail the machine god!

Which is an aspect of the Emperor. Besides, that's the Admech; doublethink is mandatory when discussing them in the Imperium.

according to the cult mechanicus the emperor is an avatar of the machine god.

[Bredtonia]

The Emperor as the Omnissiah - the mythical human who could understand all things; truly possess all knowledge. Though the cult of the Omnissiah has diminished over the years, with most Mechanicum only offering token religious observance to the Emperor. Though I've heard of some who apply him pantheonic next to the machine god. (God of flesh, god of steel, as it were.)

The Mechanicum isn't nearly as religiously orthodox/unified as the Imperial Cult is, and that's saying something.

[The Empire of Pretantia]

The Emperor as the Omnissiah - the mythical human who could understand all things; truly possess all knowledge. Though the cult of the Omnissiah has diminished over the years, with most Mechanicum only offering token religious observance to the Emperor. Though I've heard of some who apply him pantheonic next to the machine god. (God of flesh, god of steel, as it were.)

The Mechanicum isn't nearly as religiously orthodox/unified as the Imperial Cult is, and that's saying something.

Which is an aspect of the Emperor. Besides, that's the Admech; doublethink is mandatory when discussing them in the Imperium.

according to the cult mechanicus the emperor is an avatar of the machine god.

It's all of them.

[The Nihilistic view]

they should. it's their job.

This. Maintaining morale and faith in the Emperor is pretty much the reason they shoot their own men in the first place.

It's also why they find themselves on the end of tank shells............

[The Empire of Pretantia]

This. Maintaining morale and faith in the Emperor is pretty much the reason they shoot their own men in the first place.

It's also why they find themselves on the end of tank shells............

Not all of them, just my commissars. After all, commissars who are excessively trigger-happy don't stick around for long.

[Legital]

Will have a post up possibly tonight. Keep in mind: You have under an hour ICly to put together what you can, be it sleds or carts, though I will say that is probably not going be possible or efficient. Snow has yet to come, but it will.

Tally up your wounded, walking wounded, fit, and vehicles. See who will be walking or riding. I can assure you, most of the Higarans will be walking, even if I shoved a bunch into the centaurs I have.

[Bredtonia]

Well, for me it depends what my move-out orders are. I've only got 7 surviving wounded and more than enough chimera space for them. If were ordered to recon/screen then I'll be completely mounted, but could squeeze maybe a dozen or more additional injured in the spares. If I need to carry some regiment equipment that can't be strapped to the top of the chimeras, that number diminishes. If I (or at least some of the company) is ordered to move with the main regimental march, then that's a solid 4 chimeras per platoon that could carry wounded or equipment instead of their normal squad.

So, I'll need orders before I finalize.

[Drakulstan]

Two minor wounded, two serious this far. Will have one serious die as a result of complexities via surgery. The other will require an augmetic. Also have a stubber gunner in need of augmetic eardrums.

In terms of carrying stuff, the 95th will be walking like they usually do. Of the two Chimeras captured by my company, one will be used as a battlefield ambulance and the other as a munitions carrier (willing to trade it for a Trojan if pressed though).

[The Empire of Pretantia]

I only have about twenty wounded, and plenty of room in the few chimeras I have.

[Carcharhinidae primari]

6 heavily wounded, no chimeras. well. not unless we get some to drive from those captured during the enemy raid.

[Aelosia]

A dozen non-walking wounded, ten of them medical personnel, actually, from the combat there. One the mechanic lieutenant with the face erased and the other a gunner.

[Morrdh]

At least a platoon out of action (dead or wounded), though in the process of 'liberating' whatever cargo trucks the base has.