1. Pick out a nice guncutter for your Rouge Trader team to impress the locals with. The first two Imperial Armour books are chock full of cool choices. I like the Space Marine Thunderhawk Gunship though the Imperial Navy Marauder Destroyer is nice too.

2. Pick out a nice ground vehicle to get to those places the guncutter can't reach. 40K is loaded with cool vehicles. While a Land Raider seems like the obvious choice, I like the Chimera.

3. Pick a minion to plug into a refurbished Dreadnought.

4. Reread that paragraph from the Rogue Trader edition of Warhammer 40K about Rogue Traders (tucked away near the back of the book). Then decide what size Imperial Guard force to bring along and figure out some back story as to why a Space Marine Company is willing to travel with your Rogue Trader.

5. While you're reading an old copy of 40K Rouge Trader, start a petition to bring back Squats and Zoats.

6. Play some Dark Heresy. Get those characters to 5000 experience so they can compete with the beginning PC's in Rogue Trader.

7. Bolter or Plasma Pistol or both?

Feel free to add to the list.

8. Continually remind FFG to provide information about the release on their website and forum.

Calculate the pros and cons of an orbital bombardment on the planet below.

Pro:

- No natives, no red tape

Con:

- No natives, no cheap labor

9, Try to remember it's "Rogue" and not "Rouge"

As to land vehicles, that's easy. I'd have 2 Warlord Titan's stashed in the cargo hold! I'd choose the Imperator but I'm trying to be realistic here!

- Figure out how to run a home-brew setting with the system. (already working on it sadly)

- Realize the exercise is largely pointless without the book.

- If you're an amatuer sci-fi writer, go through one of your stories and figure out what career each character would be (I got two RTs, two explorators, a seneschal, and a void master so far.)

9. Re-Paint your Battleship ... with a finebrush

10. Re-read why you spare money if you bombard a planet with Virus bombs ans not wiht Asteroids

Rocks are NOT ‘free’, citizen.

Firstly, you must manoeuvre the Emperor’s naval vessel within the asteroid belt, almost assuredly sustaining damage to the Emperor’s ship’s paint from micrometeoroids, while expending the Emperor’s fuel.

Then the Tech Priests must inspect the rock in question to ascertain its worthiness to do the Emperor’s bidding. Should it pass muster, the Emperor’s Servitors must use the Emperor’s auto-scrapers and melta-cutters to prepare the potential ordinance for movement. Finally, the Tech Priests finished, the Emperor’s officers may begin manoeuvring the Emperor’s warship to abut the asteroid at the prepared face (expending yet more of the Emperor’s fuel), and then begin boosting the stone towards the offensive planet.

After a few days of expending a prodigious amount of the Emperor’s fuel to accelerate the asteroid into an orbit more fitting to the Emperor’s desires, the Emperor’s ship may then return to the planet via superluminous warp travel and await the arrival of the stone, still many weeks (or months) away.

After twiddling away the Emperor’s time and eating the Emperor’s food in the wasteful pursuit of making sure that the Emperor’s enemies do not launch a deflection mission, they may finally watch the ordinance impact the planet (assuming that the Emperor’s ship does not need to attempt any last-minute course correction upon the rock, using yet more of the Emperor’s fuel).

Given a typical (class Bravo-CVII) system, we have the following:

Two months, O&M, Titan class warship: 4.2 Million Imperials

Two months, rations, crew of same: 0.2 MI

Two months, Tech Priest pastor: 1.7 MI

Two months, Servitor parish: 0.3 MI

Paint, Titan class warship: 2.5 MI

Dihydrogen peroxide fuel: 0.9 MI

Total: 9.8 MI

Contrasted with the following:

5 warheads, magna-melta: 2.5 MI

One day, O&M, Titan class warship: 0.3 MI

One day, rations, crew of same: 0.0 MI

Dihydrogen peroxide fuel: 0.1 MI

Total: 2.9 MI

Given the same result with under one third of the cost, the Emperor will have saved a massive amount of His most sacred money and almost a full month of time, during which His warship may be bombarding an entirely different planet.

The Emperor, through this – His Office of Imperial Outlays – hereby orders you to attend one (1) week of therapeutic accountancy training/penance. Please report to Areicon IV, Imperial City, Administratum Building CXXI, Room 1456, where you are to sit in the BLUE chair.

For the Emperor,

Bursarius Tenathis,

Purser Level XI,

Imperial Office of Outlays.

Knightmare said:

11. Massively infringe copyright on the forum of a licensee to the copyright holder

13. Try to think about what will actuall be a CHALLENGE to some-one with a voidship and an literal army at hand!

14. Try to figure out how to intergrate politics in the game

15. Come up with a lots of names for space travelleres, planets, ships, systems and void region/phenomenae

16. Make friends with someone who got a copy at GenCon and play with their group.

Very sorry .. had that text copied and thought the credits were on it as well :

"Rocks are NOT free!"

original by Patrick Marstall and published in White Dwarf 227 by Andy Chambers

Gregorius21778 said:

17. After realising that a Challenge could be another man with a void ship and an army think up an interesting rival rogue trader

18. Buy Beer

19. Drink Beer

20. Be happy

21. Get married

22. Figure out how to get the PCs off their ship

23. Figure out how to get the PCs out of power armor

24. Figure out how to get the PCs in a boarding torp;-)

Getting the Pc's into a boarding torp isn't hard...Willingly getting the Pc's into a Boarding Torp is

Talex said:

Put cake in the boarding torpedo. Then lock the door when they get there. Works every time...

Talex said:

That's what Hit and Run Attacks are for.

25: Watch all the starwars films, cartoons, spin offs and machina back to back.

26: Watch Babylon 5 series back to back. Crusade is optional.

27: Watch ALL the various StarTrek series, films, cartoons and fan slashfic machina back to back. Scrub your eyeballs.

28: eat some cheez puffs.

29: Watch Andromeda series back to back. Lament that ALL the "flash back episodes" are virtual cut n pastes of 1st and 2nd season before the original write left..

30: go to Forgeworld and drool over vehicles

31. Intercept a distress beacon

32. Send Rogue Trader crew to investigate distress beacon

33. Have Rogue Trader crew anhihilated by Tyranid infestation

34. Ignore last report from Astropath and record planet as having no indigenous life

35. Seed said planet with upstanding Imperial colonists

36. Lose contact with colony....

37. Retrieve sole survivor of original survey team from Space Hulk drifting in and out of the warp

38. Send survivor with squad of Space Marines to determine fate of colony

39. Watch everything go to hell in a handbasket as Tyranids wipe out almost everyone, gather intel from vox'es to use as memorable quotes throughout rest of campaign

40. Have Space Marine argue with Imperial Scribe about substantial Imperial Crown value attached to facility

41. Take off and bombard the facility from orbit.. its the only way to be sure.

42. "Get away from her you *****"

43. Recycle other Aliens movies into potential plots for Rogue Trader

princeearwig said:

ROFLMAO Post. Of. The. Day.

princeearwig said:

Why not? The plotlines from the Ghostbusters movies work remarkably well as Dark Heresy scenarios...

44. start with few sessions of DH adventure that will be an introduction to RT campaign. (my party did that yesterday)

Read Rogue Star and Star of Damoclese, the 40K Rogue Trader novels.

Learn to draw the "40k way" so you can accurately depict your band of ruffian privateers.

streebor said:

Sounds like a good plan

- Play D&D

- Play Star Wars

- Play PS3

djpeterso23662 said:

I tried ordering these yesterday an they are out of print-gutted!