Campaign:Band of Guardsmen

Prelude

After three years of planetary siege, Perditus IX, the last world in which the Macharian Heresy persisted, is finally conquered: the last bastion of a forgotten conflict, that began nearly a millennia ago and that almost everyone else in the Galaxy belives to have ended several centuries ago.

Which is why this dirty, bloody and inglorious clean-up job was left to a bunch of regiments of the Guard just as near-forgotten as the conflict itself. Barely remembered by the Munitiorum and the red tape, barely supplied, barely acknowledged, virtually left stranded in the impossibly remote Halo Stars.

Now, the last fortress of the last Warlord of the Macharian Heresy is destroyed, and the ponderous bureaucracy of the Imperium slowly catches up. In the conflict, several dozen regiments from different worlds have seen action. With barely any reinforcement received in the last years, all these regiments ended up being enormously understrength, with some having barely a company left, some barely a few platoons.

Eventually, from the meanders of the Administratum, an order comes: Your efforts will be shortly required elsewhere. Your losses will not be reinforced. Instead, all the remaining Imperial Guard forces on Perditus IX are to be merged in a new Regiment, the "Perditus IX Mixed Regiment". The Guard Regiment founded farthest away from the Light of the Astronomican.

At that point, however, it probably doesn't even count as a Regiment anymore. It's just a bunch of people from the myriad different worlds of the Imperium, grouped together out of simple expedience and necessity.
A band of guardsmen.

Explaination

This game is experimental. I don't know if the concept will work or be interesting.
We'll play on Thursdays, starting 2100 GMT, on #bandofguardsmen. The game system will be Dark Heresy, but we will not be using conventional chargen. More details on this later.

I have not decided yet the full "scope" of the game. Mostly, if the players will be enlisted, NCO, commissioned officers, a mix, or whatever. I'd like to know your ideas, suggestions and character concepts for this.

Don't bother writing character backgrounds or filling in sheets for now, but, if you ARE interested, add, just below here, any comment you might wish to make, from just notifying your interest in the game, to ideas or questions concerning your character, to anything else that might be related to the game. At the end of whatever you write, add four consecutive tildes (~) to generate a signature and timestamp.

Once we get the game in the planning phase, the discussion will be erased, of course. Della 12:47, 29 November 2011 (UTC)