If you could make a Chaos ship legal, which one(s) would it be?

[flybywire-E2C]

Am I that worse these days? lol
I mean, HA is heading good directions overall (Tau, Marines, FAQ) and nitpicking is just a bad habbit we all have.

Mythological names is indeed the way to go. To keep the Chaos trend.

I await next week with my pitchfork raised.

As long as your pitchfork is up, what should we call the Pillager (yuck) and Hellfire (Sig hates it)? It would be cool if I could include some fan-picked names in the document.

- Nate

[Masque]

I am REALLY intrigued with the Pillager profile, though to be honest I still haven't play-tested it so I can't say what its really worth (Smotherman's formula is a guideline, NOT a hard and fast mechanic). However, I HATE the name. Pillager sounds like something to name an Ork kroozer, not something from Chaos. Fight over the name for this one as well and tell me what we're calling it.

Just to make it clear, I haven't playtested it either.  It was just something I spitballed.  I was trying to come up with a carrier that wouldn't fill the exact same role as the Devastation.  I had the idea that maybe the ship would have been designed to fight escorts rather than other cruisers so batteries rather than lances seemed appropriate and the extra turret found on the Dev wouldn't be as necessary.  The pirate hunting theme in my little intro paragraph for the Pillager followed from there.  I really like the idea of a ship that was originally designed to hunt pirates going pirate itself.  I'm not dead set on the name Pillager as it doesn't quite fit the Chaos naming scheme but all the good synonyms are already taken by Chaos and Ork ships.  We could use the name from one of my rejected ideas: Ravage.  Is that any better?  Anyone else want to chime in on the name or proposed statline?

Edit:  I meant Rampage when I said Ravage.

[flybywire-E2C]

Just to make it clear, I haven't playtested it either.  It was just something I spitballed.  I was trying to come up with a carrier that wouldn't fill the exact same role as the Devastation.  I had the idea that maybe the ship would have been designed to fight escorts rather than other cruisers so batteries rather than lances seemed appropriate and the extra turret found on the Dev wouldn't be as necessary.  The pirate hunting theme in my little intro paragraph for the Pillager followed from there.  I really like the idea of a ship that was originally designed to hunt pirates going pirate itself.  I'm not dead set on the name Pillager as it doesn't quite fit the Chaos naming scheme but all the good synonyms are already taken by Chaos and Ork ships.  We could use the name from one of my rejected ideas: Ravage.  Is that any better?  Anyone else want to chime in on the name or proposed statline?

I will be playtesting these in detail next weekend to see how they play in the Gauntlet scenario and immersed in a fleet. Sigoroth recommended Charon, Cerberus, Nyx, Thanatos, Cronus, Tartarus, Minos, Hypnos, Gorgyra, and Erebus as names. Cerebus is his vote to replace the Hellfire proposal. The Pillager is your ship- pick from the rest of the names and tell me what it's called. nothing Orky so Ravage is out!

Everyone else- thoughts?

- Nate

[Masque]

I will be playtesting these in detail next weekend to see how they play in the Gauntlet scenario and immersed in a fleet. Sigoroth recommended Charon, Cerberus, Nyx, Thanatos, Cronus, Tartarus, Minos, Hypnos, Gorgyra, and Erebus as names. Cerebus is his vote to replace the Hellfire proposal. The Pillager is your ship- pick from the rest of the names and tell me what it's called. nothing Orky so Ravage is out!

The Greek names should be reserved for the heavy cruisers.  The existing cruisers are Murder, Slaughter, Carnage, and Devastation.  These are the kinds of thing you might find on any battlefield.  I'm now leaning toward the name Havoc.

[lastspartacus]

I like Havoc too, especially if it has  AC.  You know, letting loose the dogs of war, and all

I like Antagonist, Butcher, Slayer, Extermination, Termination.

For heavies I'd say Abyss, Underworld, Necropolis, Nephilim, Inferno.

[horizon]

Disagreed. Havoc is a raider class frigate available to Rogue Traders in the Rogue Trader RPG corebook.

Thinking on a name...

[flybywire-E2C]

I like Havoc too, especially if it has  AC.  You know, letting loose the dogs of war, and all

I like Antagonist, Butcher, Slayer, Extermination, Termination.

For heavies I'd say Abyss, Underworld, Necropolis, Nephilim, Inferno.

Well, since we're not including any more Chaos ship classes at all, how about Charon? Inferno isn't bad either. I'm just saying...

- Nate

[lastspartacus]

So no new cruiser hulls, only heavies then?  I like all my suggestions but Neropolis for it.

[Sigoroth]

Well since the current carrier is called a Devastation, how about the Decimation class? The word has come to mean pretty much the same thing over time [though originally a form of discipline used by the Romans to punish cowardly troops, whereby 1 in 10 of the offenders, randomly chosen, would be bludgeoned to death by the remaining 9].

[RCgothic]

I quite like the name Rampage.

[flybywire-E2C]

So no new cruiser hulls, only heavies then?  I like all my suggestions but Neropolis for it.

What was being called the Pillager (yuck name) is a cruiser. From what I can see, imagine Carnage but with LB's instead of -45's.

- Nate

[flybywire-E2C]

Well since the current carrier is called a Devastation, how about the Decimation class? The word has come to mean pretty much the same thing over time [though originally a form of discipline used by the Romans to punish cowardly troops, whereby 1 in 10 of the offenders, randomly chosen, would be bludgeoned to death by the remaining 9].

Too close. It should sound completly different. All the current classes don't sound anything like each other. the Murder and Carnage are virtual twins (sort of) but have completely different names. That's just me though.

From what I've seen so far, I'm liking Rampage, Inferno, Charon, Cerberus, Thanatos, Tartarus, Gorgyra, and Hellhound. Again, that's just me.

- Nate

[Admiral_d_Artagnan]

Annihilation, Massacre, Butchery, Extermination, Assassination, Eradication, Obliteration.

[lastspartacus]

So what chassis are we currently considering?

And I REALLY like the idea of a slaughter heavy cruiser.  Now just the Carnage doesnt have one.

[RCgothic]

From what I've seen so far, I'm liking Rampage, Inferno, Charon, Cerberus, Thanatos, Tartarus, Gorgyra, and Hellhound. Again, that's just me.
- Nate

That would be:
Rampage or Inferno for the Cruiser and
Charon, Cerberus, Thanatos, Tartarus or Gorgyra for the Heavy.

My preferences in Bold. Hellhound is already a 40k vehicle, so it might be better to quietly forget that one.