I've run House of Dust and Ash with a Rogue Trader group and have heard of other people's experiences in Dark Heresy but has anyone tried the Haarlock Trilogy in Deathwatch?

I imagine it would have to be modified considerably to make it challenging for space marines (unless their conspicuousness would itself be enough of a penalty). Less social infiltration and more either sneaking around or straight forward assault. Bypass the defenses of the House of Dust and Ash or just drop pod onto the island, that sort of thing.

Of course, there is the idea of running it straight out of the book to much hilarity as the killteam lives up to its title...

The absurdity of the opening for the first part of the Haarlock's Legacy Trilogy (Spoilers, I guess: the acolytes are kidnapped and put in fight-pits) when running it simply with an Ascension level team of Throne Agents just makes me raise an eyebrow at the idea of doing it with a Kill-Team. A rewrite of the first adventure might be a good idea. I DO know that, in the second act of the trilogy, replacing the 'zombies' with Plaguebearer stats does make them durable enough to resist a team of Throne Agents. Haven't played part three yet. In short, the overarching story might work, but you'd need to SERIOUSLY rewrite parts and replace the enemy stats (of course) unless you want it to serve as an example of the sheer power of an Astartes team as the carnally violate the foes they face.

Gaire said:

I agree- I played in part of the trilogy and I think it could be converted but each adventure would need a close look from the Deathwatch perspective (capturing astartes would be quite the trick, and I'd imagine that they'd be less than keen on the idea of 'pretending' to surrender as well).

Remember also that whatever the DW is going into needs to warrant the DW going into. Someone somewhere thinks that using astartes rather than throne agents is the only way to accomplish the mission. Also remember the DW's focus is primarily xenos, so you need to make sure whatever hooks you use to get them involved in each part spawn from something either related to ordo xenos or something the DW takes note of and decides they must act immediately rather than simply observe and report.

I have the trilogy and the prequel in Disciples of the Dark Gods so no worries about spoilers for me at least. The overarching threat in the trilogy leans more towards Hereticus or Obscuro than Xenos to my mind, but it could be reworked. Thanks for the input folks.

A few threads I found after some digging, in case anyone else is interested in the idea:

Deathwatch Killteam versus the Haarlock Legacy

Adventures from the other systems