Editing Dark Heresy Second Edition (section)

==Sample Combat==

The party of bold/stupid/adventurous and ignorant members (perfect =][= material really) was investigating a psychic disturbance up on a large hillock of shale and scree. Upon getting most of the way up, the Arbites slips arse over head on loose scree and goes tumbling down, taking the Scum with him in the process in a manner which would please the chaos gods with its twisted irony... despite the Arbites denying it was deliberate as they tumble down together.

Both him and the Scum are really busted up in a tangled mess of broken bones, skulls and dirt at the bottom of the hill. The well-intentioned but stupid Psyker decides to save the day by announcing that he'll fix them up, and before Angry Nun can finish screaming out "no don't the veil is weak here!" he's happily botching a power roll.

"A [[Horror]] of the ruinous ones appears!"<br>
Arbites promptly passes out in fear<br>
Desperado runs screaming, defecating and hobbling<br>
Tech Priest runs behind the truck, soiling his robes<br>
Psyker runs screaming so he can die tired<br>
Angry Nun gets angry(er)<br>


DING DING<br>
Round One!<br>
Horror sets Psyker on fire and sets off in pursuit<br>
Angry Nun hauls out 10G sawn-off and holy plasms of banishing, begins chasing the Horror ([[Indrick Boreale|bold and foolish!]])<br>
Psyker burns a bit but is still mostly functional at running<br>
Tech Priest snaps a shot off at the horror with las-carbine, doesn't do very much, resumes hiding<br>
Desperado: "Weeeeza gunna diiiiiie!"; runs screaming for cover<br>
Arbites: "zzzz"<br>


DING DING<br>
Round Two!<br>
Horror lands a good old fire-bolt to the back of the Psyker and sets the truck on fire<br>
Angry Nun scores a good hit with some banishing water and hurts the Horror a bit<br>
Psyker is in a fair bit of pain, still on fire and running around going "Ow! Ow! Ow! Oh God-Emprah it burns!"<br>
Tech Priest notices the sacred machine is in pain and needs fixing<br>
Desperado does what scum do and hides under the truck<br>
Arbites: "zzzz"<br>


DING DING<br>
Round Three!<br>
Horror bolts the Psyker a bit more<br>
Angry Nun grievously hurts the Horror a bit more<br>
Psyker is still on fire and roughly at about 0 wounds and about to go into criticals, agony level of about 8/10<br>
Tech Priest is doing badly at putting fire out<br>
Desperado catches fire underneath the truck<br>
Arbites: 'zzzz'<br>


DING DING<br>
Round Four!<br>
Horror blows the foot off the Psyker with a bolt<br>
Angry Nun is busting up the Horror pretty good, but a bad roll on the dice means a lot less damage than hoped (even after a re-roll on a fate point)<br>
Psyker, still on fire, minus foot and now crawling in agony<br>
Tech Priest manages to get the truck fire under control<br>
Desperado rolls around on fire<br>
Arbites wakes up, shrieks a bit and passes out again<br>


DING DING<br>
Round Five!<br>
Horror lands another bolt...<br>
Angry Nun snaps off some serious pain on the Horror, he's looking very wobbly now<br>
Psyker detonates in a shower of meat, shrapnel, armour and exploding munitions; the area is now safe, except for the Horror<br>
Tech Priest gets injured by chunks of Psyker<br>
Desperado gets injured by chunks of Psyker, continues burning<br>
Arbites: 'zzzz'<br>


DING DING<br>
Round Six!<br>
Angry Nun vs Horror at the same initiative<br>
Angry Nun pulls trigger on sawn-off shotgun<br>
Horror lets loose with a Psychic Scream<br>
Angry Nun falls down on 5pts of Fatigue, Horror explodes in shower of gibs and returns whence it came<br>
Psyker rains down on the landscape in burning chunks<br>
Tech Priest puts the Scum out<br>
Desperado is much happier now that he's not on fire anymore<br>
Arbites: 'zzzz' <br>

Keep in mind that this example features a lesser Daemon. If this were a greater Daemon, our heroes wouldn't have survived past the second round.