Post by Proteus454 on Mar 25, 2009 15:53:03 GMT -5
So back in this thread, in which I flailingly retread the implications of the coming fine-tuning of faction-based Detachment building, I considered the possibility of units what straddle the line between rank-and-file and straight-up super-science. The book describes, for example, variants of the Goliath being farmed out to the Wehrmacht proper, and there's also the Krieghund with their genetic and/or cybernetic augmentation.
Now, the feeling I'm getting is that weird science, strange though it is, is still more easily grasped by your average Joe (or Ivan or Johann or...) than more ephemeral hoodoo such as used by the Schwarze Sonne, MoAA, and suchlike. Notwithstanding the famous John Constantine line, it seems the supernatural is regarded with more fear and suspicion than "Hey, that's cool! Show me how to do that!"
That having been said, there's still some room - depending on how you want to play it - for a little crossover, especially in "armies" that are closely tied to mystical organization, like the ROA Militia or SS. So here's a few ideas in that general regard that I promise are not simply delivery devices for horrible puns. Probably.
Panzerfaust: We've all heard the story, right? You rub a sort of copper lantern, and the spirit inside bursts out and asks what you want. Well, the terrors the powers of Hell may inflict upon mortals are well known - a little effort to make the process more user-friendly could lead to such power being wielded far more widely by the sufficiently ruthless.
Thus, the "Panzerfaust", named after the famous doctor what traded his soul, and not coincidentally sharing a name with a certain easy-to-use AT weapon. A very carefully bound minor demon is placed into a little jar-like device you heft and sight like a proper Panzerfaust. Just say the magic word, pop it open and watch the half-corporeal horror burst out and go to town on whatever you pointed it at...just make sure you stand well back.
Wehrmacht Grenadier: *looks at the device he's been given, swallows hard* Er...
SS Kriegehexe: Hmmm? What do you say you are given a gift, young fellow?
WG: Ach...dankeschoen, mein herr. *sweatdrops*
Faustenpanzer: Using the same technology, it wouldn't be so hard to construct a simple metal body - something with guns and engines in its limbs would be ideal, but there's no way those squares in Sonderbuero 13 would play ball, the blinkered fools - and invest an infernal spirit therein. The use of Vril might make it possible, though it would also limit the numbers. Infised with the correct command word, a regular officer might make use of such things...
...well, probably not, actually. Its similarity to Golems and the like land it squarely in the Occult unit camp, so maybe that's a bad example. But I already deployed the pun once, so I saw no reason to inflict it on you all in TWO posts ^^;
Now, the feeling I'm getting is that weird science, strange though it is, is still more easily grasped by your average Joe (or Ivan or Johann or...) than more ephemeral hoodoo such as used by the Schwarze Sonne, MoAA, and suchlike. Notwithstanding the famous John Constantine line, it seems the supernatural is regarded with more fear and suspicion than "Hey, that's cool! Show me how to do that!"
That having been said, there's still some room - depending on how you want to play it - for a little crossover, especially in "armies" that are closely tied to mystical organization, like the ROA Militia or SS. So here's a few ideas in that general regard that I promise are not simply delivery devices for horrible puns. Probably.
Panzerfaust: We've all heard the story, right? You rub a sort of copper lantern, and the spirit inside bursts out and asks what you want. Well, the terrors the powers of Hell may inflict upon mortals are well known - a little effort to make the process more user-friendly could lead to such power being wielded far more widely by the sufficiently ruthless.
Thus, the "Panzerfaust", named after the famous doctor what traded his soul, and not coincidentally sharing a name with a certain easy-to-use AT weapon. A very carefully bound minor demon is placed into a little jar-like device you heft and sight like a proper Panzerfaust. Just say the magic word, pop it open and watch the half-corporeal horror burst out and go to town on whatever you pointed it at...just make sure you stand well back.
Wehrmacht Grenadier: *looks at the device he's been given, swallows hard* Er...
SS Kriegehexe: Hmmm? What do you say you are given a gift, young fellow?
WG: Ach...dankeschoen, mein herr. *sweatdrops*
Faustenpanzer: Using the same technology, it wouldn't be so hard to construct a simple metal body - something with guns and engines in its limbs would be ideal, but there's no way those squares in Sonderbuero 13 would play ball, the blinkered fools - and invest an infernal spirit therein. The use of Vril might make it possible, though it would also limit the numbers. Infised with the correct command word, a regular officer might make use of such things...
...well, probably not, actually. Its similarity to Golems and the like land it squarely in the Occult unit camp, so maybe that's a bad example. But I already deployed the pun once, so I saw no reason to inflict it on you all in TWO posts ^^;