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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 9604501" data-attributes="member: 5948">I ... might buy to in this.  I've had mixed feelings about the C7 warhammer stuff so far, but the double-PC thing has me intrigued.  A bit reminiscent of what FFG did with Only War, your main PC and (in for guardsmen at least) your very in-genre offsider who was expected to die a lot.  It's an interesting idea, and it makes me thing they're willing to be a bit innovative and experimental. How you set up a PC party seems .. tricky though.  I've been mulling very distantly over a Horus Heresy game myself (planning on using a tweaked version of the Mutants and Masterminds rules, with restricted options based on your PCs legion, specialisation, equipment etc rather tat full freeform point buy, and with a more abstracted Range system using melee/close/long etc bands rather than a D&D-esque grid), and unless you pick PCs from the same legion (and c'mon, players will want to play astartes from their favourite legion, plus variety is good...) it's hard to find group stick.  The blurb talks about how PCs will be officers - consuls, librarians and so on, which implies that they're likely to be of the same legion?  Officers have command responsibilities, and won't be running around in small groups with counterparts from other legions.  It's a tricky one.  If could be centred around Malcador's grey shields I suppose, but then you have little scope for having your high-ranking marines actually command anything.  Or maybe they can be from different legions, but the backup characters are to allow one player to play the Astartes character in stints while others play the supporting cast?  I'll be interested to see how it works.The idea for my campaign was going to be the ceremonial guardians of a small shrine commemorating a very old battle.  One honour guard representing each of the legions that fought there, each long isolated from their legion on their vigil.  Very obscure, very isolated, very out of the way, so that even traitor legions might have a representative there who didn't turn with the rest of their legion (yeah, the Word Bearers would be a bit tough to justify...)  Gives me a varied PC group, and reasons they're operating together.</blockquote>

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