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Adeptus Mechanicus vs Orks supplement story preview

 Post subject: Re: Adeptus Mechanicus vs Orks supplement story preview
PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 1:44 pm 
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A few things i noticed whilst having a quick run through (about 30mins) of the text:

Page 3
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Inner Planets:
Uzmak A Dead world, uninhabitable, irradiated
Uzmak B Arid grass planet. Inhabited

*consistency required, commas or periods.

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Size: Equitorial Distance - 6240 miles

*spelling - equatorial


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Flora: Some Terran-type genotypes, implying human colonisation before the Imperial Age. Ultimate stage Orkoid flora
Fauna: Ultimate stage Orkoid Fauna
Food Supply: Orkoid flora and fauna

*fauna shouldnt be capitalised in this instance, provides consistency with non capitalised flora mentioned previously

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Known History:
Likely Terran settlement, followed by Orkoid invasion, in pre-historical times

*perhaps further clarity on what 'pre-historical' means? Depending on how old you want the human/ork settlement to be, for eg - "Terraforming and colonisation is estimated to have occured during the Dark Age of Technology", where warp travel and rapid space exploration occured. Or you could make it later, give it a date in a format like "estimates of M38.41652 to (whatever)".

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The close-range planetary survey of Uzmak B was interrupted by an attack by multiple Ork spacecraft of the Cruiser class which had
been waiting in ambush behind the planet’s fourth moon.

*replace with "by an attack of multiple Ork spacecraft of the Cruiser class, which had been waiting..."

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The last communications signals from the fleet were received by sector astropaths soon after the attack began, along with partial
survey data; The fleet itself is presumed lost.

*if there is a need for a semi-colon, there's no need for capitilisation of "The".

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The first Knights to fire their weapons were equipped with long range macro cannon and missile launchers,

*what Knights have missile launchers? Name of weapon should be consistent with weapon fit of knight variants listed?

Page 12
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...The Forgeworld is prompt with deliveries, its products are of above average quality...
Supplemental Details:.
...and its recovered STC patterns are of such a high eminence that they have in many cases been disseminated throughout the Imperium, to be produced by Forgeworlds and manufactory planets in all five of the Imperial Segmenta. Few Forgeworlds can boast such a contribution to the Machine God’s realm.

*remove period after 'Supplemental Details' colon
*the 'above average quality products' doesnt seem to gell well with the 'Supplemental Details' descriptive terms. To confirm, it's quality is average but it's STC's are of a better standard? The 'layman' Epic player may find this a little jarring.

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Accatran is the homeworld of the Legio Destructor, which is, as far as Imperial records indicate, the largest known Titan Legion, with
a standing strength of over one hundred Battle class Titans.

*the fluff states that Legio Destructor 'probably' has the largest Legion - does the above statement imply something different? Reference 40k Wiki for this.

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Gattling Blaster

*should be Gatling

Page 16
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Strike Cruiser - Dorn’s Truth
Strike Cruiser - Wrath V
Strike Cruiser - Conquest III
Strike Cruiser - Fist of the Emperor
Fleet Assets- 10 Thunderhawk Transporters

*insert space between "Assets" and the dash, same consistency as prior entries.

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Armoury - 8 Land Raider Crusader
16 Rhinos
8 Razorbacks
6 Hunters

*plural - "Crusaders" not "Crusader"

Page 37
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Armoury - 8 Predator Annihilator, 4 Hunter

*plural - "Annihilators" and "Hunters"

I didnt read much of the story with the time i had available.

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 Post subject: Re: Adeptus Mechanicus vs Orks supplement story preview
PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 1:54 pm 
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Many thanks for the catches.

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*perhaps further clarity on what 'pre-historical' means?

Nope, it's the Imperium, they're as clear as mud. :-)

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 2:01 pm 
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Final two pages of the story added.

Phew! :o

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 2:09 pm 
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Next up:
Ork Unit Datafaxes & Unit description texts.

Would anyone like to volunteer to help write those?

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 4:04 pm 
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Congrats on getting to end of story- light at end of tunnel!! I liked how you focused on the main Battle at the Wall and then wrapped the remainder of conflict in a few paragraphs. It avoided too much repition of fight sequences, keeping them fresh, and also kept focus very much on the bigger battles involving Titans and Gargants, whilst still recognising the smaller skirmishes.


On penultimate page it gives the Imperial casualties including "The Skitarii garrison had lost over a quarter of a million infantry." Over what timescale is this?

I know that the Battle for the Walls lasted 6 hours. I presume that quarter of million relate to whole campaign? If so do you need to mention that?

Last page:
"950.75—Reinforcement fleet from Accatran arrives at Achill-Quag Rough Rider armies and Titan Legion forces go on the offensive." Do you need a full stop after Achill-Quag?

At the to of the table on right hand side it states M41 in bold. Should'nt this be moved to the left hand column? Or included at the top of both columns?

Would the Orks have any concept of keeping prisoners captive? I am no Xenos expert so I stand to be corrected- but that is the one bit of the storyline that does'nt work for me.

I still find the brown background with black text very difficult to read on screen and does'nt print too well either. Please can you lighten the brown background to a lighter shade e.g. beige.

Overall great stuff and certainly appreciate the time and effort you put into it.

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On penultimate page it gives the Imperial casualties including "The Skitarii garrison had lost over a quarter of a million infantry." Over what timescale is this?

I know that the Battle for the Walls lasted 6 hours. I presume that quarter of million relate to whole campaign? If so do you need to mention that?

That's intended to refer to just the 6 hour battle for the walls. mega casualties. :-)


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Last page:
"950.75—Reinforcement fleet from Accatran arrives at Achill-Quag Rough Rider armies and Titan Legion forces go on the offensive." Do you need a full stop after Achill-Quag?

I do.

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Would the Orks have any concept of keeping prisoners captive? I am no Xenos expert so I stand to be corrected- but that is the one bit of the storyline that does'nt work for me.

Yup, they are know to take captives, and also slaves.

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Thank you for reading, and enjoying it. :-)

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 4:46 pm 
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On penultimate page it gives the Imperial casualties including "The Skitarii garrison had lost over a quarter of a million infantry." Over what timescale is this?

I know that the Battle for the Walls lasted 6 hours. I presume that quarter of million relate to whole campaign? If so do you need to mention that?

That's intended to refer to just the 6 hour battle for the walls. mega casualties. :-)

In which case in the narrative do you need to beef the references to Skitarii fighting and dying? Because most of the action scenes are focusing on the Titans and Gargants, for obvious reasons, and personally I really enjoyed.

It is more that the reference to casualties seemed to come from nowhere without any real sense of their building up over the 6 hours. Took me by surprise that's all. But that's just my impression.

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 4:59 pm 
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There is a reference around hour 4 of that battle that 80k Skitarii died during that hour alone, IIRC.

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ok- cool. Downside of reading the story in 2 page chunks as each new pages released. Not yet sat down and read it all the way through from start to finish. Will probably wait until brown background is lightened so that easier to read.

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Righto. The brown is only temporary, I'm hoping to get all the graphics replaced over the next few months.

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Nice one- cant wait to see some of the pictures of the action.


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