#warhammer 40,000: rogue trader

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stone hawk
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But always slipped my mind to actually do it.

north junco
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bollocks

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this was like the last thing i had to do in the star system

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so now i need to fly around to get the colony projects to work

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oh wait it's just letting me insta complete them?

stone hawk
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The Compliance stat affects project completion speed. At Compliance 10 it's just instant.

north junco
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oh cool

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yeah i've mostly finished up with the other colonies

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and most of the quests

stone hawk
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Something I do for easy traversal is use Navigator Insight to create paths connecting the capital to the other colonies and them making the paths green.

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Also make a path from Foulstone to Foothold

north junco
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mhm

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i have like zero insight rn

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fuck i need resources badly

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always at a deficit of one thing or another

north junco
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got everything squared away

north junco
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act 3 time

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what a dystopian start lmao

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"the rogue trader has granted everyone rations and fuel for the day"

north junco
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firearm mastery is actually so fucking good on Argenta with the heavy bolter

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you use the area attack to just melt everything then start single target killing everyone who survives with the like 20 extra attacks you get

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might respec Argenta to Arch Militant so she can attack enemies in melee range with her bolter

north junco
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things went from bad to worse real quick

tight flare
north junco
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makes sense

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i have two guns on her so her being able to fire them from melee range is

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kind of fucking good

stone hawk
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I usually have a flamer in her second weapon slot

north junco
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she's got a sniper and the heavy bolter for me, but i should probably swap out the sniper since the bolter has guaranteed hits on single target shots

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might as well be a sniper

safe surge
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They fixed it, but for a while the pistol that gave you extra attacks if you crit would give you an extra attack on each crit. This was very stupid with confident approach

north junco
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ngl gonna need to redo all of my gear setups after getting my stuff back

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some of the items i've found in here are crazy good

solemn grove
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yeah that's act 3

north junco
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my characters look pretty cool after trading around all my stuff

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i really wanted to give Argenta the sisters helmet i found

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but it's a double critical damage bonus for xenos, demons and psykers, and the current helmet she has is a flat +18% damage to ranged attacks

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Abelard looks like he's one step away from being a fucking Space Marine though

north junco
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well

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just learned who killed Theodora

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what a crazy thing to randomly drop mid convo about something else

stone hawk
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Kind of fucked that the only way you learn that is to ||bring Argenta with you into Act 3||.

north junco
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wait fr?

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that's the ONLY way to learn it?

stone hawk
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Other fun fact. ||Argenta starts with an autopistol in her second weapon slot when you meet her. Theodora was said to have died to one.||

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Yup that's the only way to learn this.

north junco
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huh

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fucking crazy

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well i got lucky

north junco
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got a weapon called Sweet perdition from a book scene

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apparently it's hard to get?

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ngl i didn't even need to savescum for whatever that was i just did it first try

stone hawk
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I think it required passing the skill checks?

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Or by selecting certain ones? IDK I've never been too clear on what gets you the rifle.

north junco
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the rifle was significantly worse than what i had so

grizzled wolf
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I kinda like the storybook hunting segment

north junco
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yeah same

north junco
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Argenta just did around 860 damage in one attack

wary topaz
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Yeah Soldier/Arch Mil breaks the game over it's knee

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And then you throw Argenta's unique guear on top

north junco
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shit fuck bollocks, Dargonus is infested with gene-stealers

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esta no bueno

north junco
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doing a bit of respeccing to account for new gear and such

north junco
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christ alive, got a shotgun that does 70-100 damage base,

stone hawk
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Oh the uh Double Barrel?

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Yeah it's nice, have to reload after every shot though.

north junco
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yeah

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put it on Abelard since i have him usually dual wielding

north junco
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ok respecced so people have access to stuff i wanted

tight flare
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I think that's the most kitted out yrliet I've ever seen
She did not do well in my game,

north junco
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i got her a drukhari helmet that allows her to guarantee crits against enemids in cover

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and drukhari gloves that uh

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ignore cover bonuses

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suffice to say enemies seeking cover against her will find no comfort

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i can also guarantee crits normally

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and do like 3 attacks per turn

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with her

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Argenta also finally got her bolt relic back so her heroic ability now gives her iirc like 12-15 guaranteed hit shots

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on top of her ludicrous room melting burst attack

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and i got a fire staff fot my character as well so she also now has a room melting burst attack

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also Yrliet now has dual wield proficiency for if she gets into melee combat and Argenta got heavy armor proficiency so she could wear an 85% heavy armor i got from trading

dim forge
civic musk
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Oh do we have any news about the final DLC? I was waiting for it

north junco
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been hoarding all the unique weapons, trinkets, ship upgrades and armor that i get and i think at this point i might just be better off selling it all

north junco
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Rat Hunting is a really obnoxious quest

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and ofc i can't offload Jae before doing the rest of this area so i'm just stuck being down one character

stone hawk
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I mean, she's still an officer so that's just an extra turn for one of your big hitters.

dim forge
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yeah you just buff and give extra turns to Argenta to make her mulch things faster

north junco
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true

solemn grove
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also jae is the best skillbot in the game by a huge margin

stone hawk
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Cold Trader's Acumen is such a funny passive.

twin anchor
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It's so good it honestly makes me annoyed. XD

bitter pollen
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Jae basically feels like the protagonist of an unrelated game, it's awkward to slot her in imho

stone hawk
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That feeling when the smuggler is the better Tech Use/Logic character than the Tech Priest.

dim forge
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maybe I'll try and do that with mods next time I play

stone hawk
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Yeah Toybox could probably do that.

twin anchor
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I did it once, yeah

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It's very good/powerful if you want the protagonist to be good at things

solemn grove
dim forge
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makes team building easier

stone hawk
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But like if Acumen only boosted non combat skills that would be one thing but it also boosts combat things as well.

solemn grove
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CTA is imo a requirement to make a skillbot build like Jae's not completely nonfunctional in combat

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in TT RT or DH Jae would be throwing grenades and plinking but that's pretty disappointing

civic musk
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Jae is a pretty rock-solid Master Tactician imo

north junco
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got some more power armor

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going to respec Argenta again and trade her heavy armor proficiency for power armor proficiency

civic musk
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I believe she gets power armor proficiency automatically? Or maybe there's just the one suit that doesn't require it for her

stone hawk
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I think she comes with it already

civic musk
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It's a sororitas thing

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She gets bolter proficiency and power armor proficiency iirc

north junco
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ok she does apparently come with it yeah

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that's annoying

stone hawk
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Yeah she doesn't have to pay the feat tax to be able to use Bolters, Flamers, and Power Armor

north junco
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but she also can't use any normal power armor which is annoying

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bro i'm charming one of the noble guys wife and it's pissing him off so bad

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i've got the rizz as the kids say

north junco
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ok there is actually reference to someone from Theodora's retinue killing her

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even if it doesn't name who

stone hawk
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Nah that's her saying you killed Theodora.

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That's the story Kunrad has been spreading.

north junco
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oh

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ic ic

north junco
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i'm glad i didn't try to let the crew deal with that chaos combat

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that was like 5 primal bloodthirsters and a Chaos Space Marine lmao

north junco
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godsdamn it, found myself on a crone world

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well hell, i've been to Commoragh, this can't be worse

north junco
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i feel mad cool wearing full power armor like this

inland talon
north junco
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?

inland talon
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power armor

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then again i doubt this game has the warhammer wrath and glory power armor

civic musk
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All of the power armor in RT is specific relic suits

inland talon
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i see

north junco
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yeah i'm wearing the Thunder Bearer armor

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the damage it does is calculated using the wearers psy-rating so it's a psyker specific one

inland talon
north junco
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Abelard is wearing Sanguine Judgement and Pasqal is wearing Dragon Scale

inland talon
north junco
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Cassia and Yrliet are going to have to forego power armor but i think i will be getting one for Argenta is things pan out well

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Cassia has a dodge based one that increases dodge for every round they aren't attacked and Yrliet has Khaine's Revenge which makes her counterattack any and all attacks made on her, even allowing her to use her sniper in melee range

inland talon
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cool

north junco
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lol, i'm so scary to these enemies they just surrendered

inland talon
north junco
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they iterally said "we calculated the fight and our chance of winning was zero, please spare us"

inland talon
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that's fun

north junco
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yep

inland talon
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wanna know my warhammer 40k wrath and glory character?

north junco
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sure

inland talon
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he's called Pascal dimorez

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after our techpriest pascal

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he is a tech acolyte/explorator type character

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he has mechanical legs and eyes

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aswell as an optical mechadendrit

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mechadendrite

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he also has the binary chatter talent

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he is armed with an arc pistol

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and a refractor field

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his items are a dataslate some holy oil

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and a respirator

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he's quite good in many things

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he was born on the forgeworld of the gilead system

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and thus was indoctrinated into the omnissiahs believe since he was a child

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oh forgot

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he got a mulitool

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whatdoya think?

north junco
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sounds neat

inland talon
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:)

north junco
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not keen on this defiler fight

north junco
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having low agi on anyone in this game is a fucking death sentence

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woe is me for trying to make sure my characters have good stats and builds that they don't get to do anything with cause every single enemy in every fight gets to do their turns first

safe surge
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Huh, I didn't find it to be too big of an issue

north junco
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doing one of the final battles of the chapter and the space marines genuinely just melt all my characters turn one no matter what i do

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lost three characters to one attack

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if not that then abelard gets taken out in one turn by the first attacking space marine

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yeah once again 3 characters dead round 1

civic musk
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Having Cassia as a Grand Strategist helps a lot

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Since Grand Strats always go first

north junco
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ok genuinely just

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me and Abelard survived

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everyone else died and we cleaned house

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jfc

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Abelard fought like 4 space marines

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ok thank FUCK everyone was revived, i did not want to do the rest of this fight with just Abelard and myself

jovial anvil
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is that the fight ||right before the lord of change? I find the space marine adds to be more difficult than the boss||

north junco
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yes

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the adds genuinely killed all 4 of my party that died

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the boss did literally nothing, i killed it in one turn

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bro died in a single turn to my rogue trader

north junco
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well Argenta clutched the W in the end dealing 3160 damage in one attack for the finishing blow, hitting 22/26 shots form her heavy bolter burst fire

dim forge
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Common Argenta W

north junco
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she genuinely did half of its health in damage over the fight solo

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if not more

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stupid ass ||Greater Daemon of The Changer of Ways||

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i have a nun with a really big gun

safe surge
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Argenta is so cracked. Though mostly because you level her up almost all the way and Arch Militant is cracked

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I don't think she has particularly noteworthy unique bonuses?

north junco
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i'm not running arch militant Argenta

safe surge
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Which one did you go for?

north junco
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Master Tactician

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mostly for Press the Advantage

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free damage

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plus i can momentum gen with assign objective

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if we're in a tight space big enemies can be melted with orchestrated fire

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etc

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idk arch militant is probably better on her but i went with master tactician

dim forge
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Arch Militant gives a ton of stats, and some pretty great abilities too

north junco
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new prey acquired

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time to go kill ||Lord Inquisitor of the Koronus Expanse, Xavier Calcazar||

wary topaz
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Master tach is very cool, its just overshadowed in the meta

north junco
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mhm

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i mean she did 3190 damage in one attack so i think it's prolly fine

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but if i was doing unfair i'd prolly be optimising a bit more

north junco
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into the end

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also ||fr it's a fucking Necron Tomb World 😭 ||

north junco
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love ap

north junco
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i can't even do anything with it

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i also don't know what exactly is causing it

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but it is funny

north junco
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Abelard is genuinely tanking a 1v2 vs. ||Lokhust Heavy Destroyers||

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this man might as well be a space marine

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ok apparently i am powerful enough to basically kill a ||Lokhust Heavy Destroyer|| in one turn as well, excellent

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me and argenta doing ridiculous damage

civic musk
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By the end of RT you and your retinue are forces of absolute terror, yeah

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Cutting down fighting forces of some of the scariest motherfuckers in the setting

north junco
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i think my rogue trader alone could kill a named helmetless space marine at this point

cosmic thunder
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I was absolutely soaring on the power curve until I hit a weird snag in chapter 4 where enemies suddenly became a problem again.

north junco
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Abelard just ate 4 hits from a Lokhust Heavy Destroyers gun and it didn't even get through his temp health

north junco
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(Rogue Trader final chapter spoilers) well i wasn't expecting them to go mask off so quick

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the avengers are assembled

north junco
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not liking this ||doppelganger fight||

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they're kinda just killing all my characters in one turn from half the map away

north junco
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ok yeah this is absurd

grizzled wolf
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I can be pretty rough

north junco
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i managed to get through that fight

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i meant more the uh

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(The biggest fucking spoiler for the end of the game) ||UNBOUND FUCKING SHARD OF THE VOID DRAGON||

grizzled wolf
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It can he lmao

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*be

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YEAH

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YEAH YPU GOT TO THE FUCKING LINE

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||ITS ONLY HERESY IF HE LOSES||

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You know

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Tbh

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||in this specific instance hes crazy but also||

north junco
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i'm on round 1, i have 5 more character turns to go

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i've done

grizzled wolf
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||kinda one of the only guys doing the level of shit that needs to be done||

north junco
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6500 damage so far

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yeah it's kinda cool but i also wanted to ||kill him no matter what||

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so rip bozo shouldn't have fucked with the main character

grizzled wolf
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Oh i mean hes also just insane

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Like it just wasnt gonna work lmao

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||he was not gonna beat the shard with the forces he had on hand||

north junco
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i mean

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absolutely fucking not

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||i think me beating the shard is absolute horseshit so what fucking chance did he have||

grizzled wolf
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Yeah RT lets you do some crazy shit

north junco
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holy fuck

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i just did 1383 damage in a single non-burst attack

grizzled wolf
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The RT and crew could probably take a primarxh

north junco
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ok so

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i took it from ||15500 to 3997 in one turn||

grizzled wolf
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One TURN???

north junco
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round sorry

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lmao

grizzled wolf
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Thats still craY

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Okay did you have any trouble with Uralon and the Edge of Daybreak?

north junco
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yeah

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he fucking smoked all my characters with his lackeys

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it was just me and Abelard in the Uralon fight basically

grizzled wolf
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OKAY IM GLAD I WASNT JUST BAD

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the like 4 fucking marines in that fight are

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Evil

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The edge of daybreak himself ruled tho

north junco
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ok Argenta did the rest of the damag herself in one attack

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jfc

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1.5 rounds of fighting was all it took

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that's crazy

grizzled wolf
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Im gonna be honest when i fought him i like

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Completely skipped the “orb” mechanic

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Whatever that was

north junco
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there was a mechanic?

grizzled wolf
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LMAO fair

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Theres actually a really cool mechanic in that fight you probably didnt see

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Have you fought the final boss of darkest dungeon one

north junco
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naw

grizzled wolf
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Well nevermind then dont worry about it

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Pats ur head

tight flare
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I like how (spoiler for a specific ending)) ||Nomos can beat the Ctan Shard not necessarily because of any power difference, but because Nomos is a whole and actualized being while the shard is innately incomplete and unfocused||

north junco
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yeah

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i did that ending lol

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i guess i was simply the most goated rogue trader there ever was

solemn grove
north junco
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actually my rogue trader did most of the damage personally

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Argenta basically just did the 3500 or so damage at the end

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did 491 saves

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6gb worth of saves

grizzled wolf
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How did u feel about ur endings

north junco
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was fine

stone hawk
stone hawk
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Can confirm he's an Officer with his second archetype being open.

grizzled wolf
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What the fuck thats not a cute girl

grizzled wolf
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Also im sorry did they say this guy would be romanceable

stone hawk
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Not seeing anything saying you can.

north junco
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the dlc stuff isn rogue trader is like an extra to the main game right?

solemn grove
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yeah

north junco
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darn

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well i probably won't end up getting them then

solemn grove
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wdym by "an extra" ?

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its additional content accessible in the main campaign

north junco
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yeah it's extra stuff on top of the base game as opposed to its own like, campaign or smthn

grizzled wolf
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Its a lot of extra stuff but yes