Last session, I lost my Black Priest of Maccabeus. After a trek through the underhive and a difficult battle with a powerful recidivist we'd been hunting, blood was spilled on the hidden summoning circle and a Bloodletter was made manifest in this world. My Black Priest duelled it, alone, and despite starting the battle on 2 Critical Damage, for 6 rounds (and a further two rounds with one other character helping) before it took out his eye. Finally, fallen in the wash of blood and half-blind, he gave the order for our tech-priest to vent the plasma reactor into the room, destroying the Daemon but also my Black Priest (and another Guardsman who had been paralyzed with fear the whole fight).

It was an epic battle with an epic conclusion.

Now I have to make a new 3500xp warrior character. Suggestions?

Moritat Assassin on his Travail
Mind cleansed Arbitrator
Heretical Cult Cleric

Well if you have to die you might as well go out as heroically as you did!

Chaliced Commissariat Operatives are fun. Maybe with Schola

Mortiurge

Sollex Secutor

Apparently our Inquisitor tends to the Puritan, so more Radical stuff isn't allowed.

One idea I've been throwing around is a mind-cleansed Untouchable Moritat assassin. It's completely illegal of course, but I already have the GM's go-ahead with his full knowledge, because let's be honest it's cool as ****. However, he'd have an abysmal Fel score and that might be quite boring.

What's good about a Mind Cleansed Arbitrator?

In the game we have two characters each, and my other one is a (low Fel) Int-based techpriest so I don't want to play another one of those. To be honest I've always dismissed the Chaliced Commissariat alternate rank because the organisation seems kind of lame: fake Commissars that nobody respects, especially real Commissars.

I've looked at the Moriturge and it's quite cool but I'm not completely clear on what it actually gets you apart from the new Talent. It has some shooting Talents - is the Arbitrator Career otherwise lacking those?

Well, the thing is you lose a good deal of social skills like Charm, Interrogation, etc., and replace them will some really good shooting skills. It's much more shooty and killy than the Arbitrator rank that it replaces. If you like close combat as an Arbitrator or a few other skills than it's not for you.

Mr Adventurer said:

I think you get it the wrong way: the real Commissars are the once who do not give a **** of the Chaliced Commissariat. Every other military member will tremble.

How about a Sibillian Court Duellist ? You know, the once that make money from fighting out "legal isssues" in the bloodsquares for their clients (see DH Core; Sibillus Fluff Section. In germany, we would call them "Schiedskämpfer", I believe). While not a class with all the munchkin-stuff to go around, your Inquisitor does not have to have "shady connenctions" to know of one & try to get him/her into his cell.

I used to prepare one as a starting figure for my group and used the "Assasine" Career and the "Hive" Origin. All you have to do from their on is concentrating on Skills for Dodging and the diverse Melee talents.

If you make an Untouchable Assassin, don't put Moritat into it but go with full feral world background and build it into close-combat type. Untouchables are invisible to psychic detection so they can get close to demons and psykers easier than any other assassin... plus "feral" meaning pretty much everything from stone age tribals to 17th century europe there is unlimited number of really nice, one-of-a-kind backgrounds to choose from.

Hivescum Agitator

The 'catch'? Well, Agitator's a radical career, but it makes alot of sense from a Puritan perspective too. An acolyte who's a true rabble rouser. But he rouses the correct rabble to do the correct thing. An...anti-cult cult figure...

That way you can remove the taint without removing the handy structure of the cult! Lovely.

Gregorius21778 said:

Re: Chaliced Comms - No, that's what I mean. They're fakes, the real deal hate them, and everyone else also hates them because they're fake, even though everyone else is rightfully frightened of them.

Another player is considering an Assassin, so it's likely there'll be a melee-focused one (the other other player who lost a character is making a sniper-assassin). That's some really cool fluff you've dug up there, though, I'll be keeping that in mind for the future.

Polaria said:

Xisor said:

What about Cursed Blood of Malfi Penal Legionare with Pentinent or somethingsomething Crusade backround?

Yeah it sounds **** radical, but membership in Penal Legion and two possible backround could signify attempts for repentance. Quest for absolution and redemption could be a strong theme for a Puritan character, especialy when their "sin" is written in their genes! And on the other hand, playing "warrior" which is not only very inteligent and charismatic, decieveful but also is learned to fight like dirtiest scum could be intresting. What do you think?