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Message: <blockquote data-quote="papa_laz" data-source="post: 4181421" data-attributes="member: 7992">This sounds awesome! I've always loved the story of the marines. The history of the Horus heresy is just so friggin epic.Personally I think you'd better off not having them rely on highly specialised weapons and power armour. According to the fluff, even 6 marines fully equipped is a match for a small army of any other kind, and I don't think a scenario like that would make for great roleplaying. Also it doesn't provide for very interesting or original weapon upgrades; bolter to heavy bolter to plasma gun etc...Having the PCs rely on their own genetically enhanced strength and intelligence sounds like a much more exciting option. Obviously this world will have weaponry, and it will be up to the PCs to do the best with what they can find. We can assume even a small planetary defense force would have access to various sorts of assault rifles, rocket launchers etc, and if there is a cultist or xenos presence god knows what other weapons are available. Check the Necromunda weapons list, theres all sorts of cool stuff like needle rifles, webguns and eviscerators. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> If the planet has a black market then the possibilities are endless.Also don't forget that marines have been trained as leaders, infact even the lowest ranking marines will have leadership skills far greater than anyone the average citizen will have encountered in their lifetime. The marines are stuff of legend, and on the world you've described I think there would be plenty of opportunity for the PCs to build militias or even take over control of the regular army if it exists.I hope this has been useful and I'll be interested to see what you come up with.</blockquote>

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