Rogue Trader

[CptCaine]

So I just picked up my copy of Rogue Trader and almost sat down and read the whole thing. I have to say that its pretty cool. It has alot in the book, and we are going to do a game starting on sundays, so Ill post pics of the models as we work on them.

Its good stuff, I have not picked up the Dark Heresy books though...

-CC

[Sinister D]

I have picked up the bulk of the books for the art alone. The books are beautiful and who knows somedy I may get to play :(

[CptCaine]

Well we played our first game and I had a really good time, even with a game of 6 people. We got alot done, and I have to say that i love the combat system in this game. The 40th Millennium is brutal. When it depends on what damage goes to what body part depending on the roll.

So far game is going well. Posts to continue :D We are having alot of fun making our models for it. Servo skulls ftw.


-CC

[Sinister D]

"Servo skulls ftw" HAHAHAHA! I don't know why but that just killed me:)

Keep us informed I really want to know how this plays out. Do you need figures to play? Or does it just help?

[Kainthedragoonx]

We played through a small campaign of Dark Heresy when it first came out. The main problem with DH was the fact that characters really struggle in the low levels. Lots of dying and failing at tasks.

The best character in the group was able to hit with his pistol 40% of the time. The best melee character 45% of the time. We died a lot.

Rogue Trader supposedly fixes/upgrades/whatever all that stuff, so characters are effective. That is a good thing. I fail enough in real life...I don't need to fail all the time in role playing as well!

[CptCaine]

I am really enjoying our game sessions.

We had our first space battle which went pretty well. Since im a Void master and I had the re-rolls for ships guns. We have been able to do pretty well, what sucked was we took a critical hit to our engines in the first round of combat and were only allowed to move straight for like 3 turns.

but overall its been good a time.

-CC

[Kainthedragoonx]

awesome! Space battles...didn't know they included that in Rogue Trader! AWESOME!

[CptCaine]

its pretty cool, we found though that you only need like 2 people to do the space battles. It needs a dedicated group to be ok with sitting around waiting to get boarded.

-CC

[QuietChris]

My group has been playing DH, for about a year now, we switched to RT around October. We have not been able to play for about 3 weeks, since our DM went on a long vacation.

However, he arrived back in the USA last night; so I am looking foward to playing my assassin tonight.

The space battles, is a very cool idea, but if your ship gets ganged up on by several smaller vessals.....you just get screwed.