Today we are joined by our Art Director and Associate Art Director, to chat a bit about how we visualised this new class. [cryptic-feat-highlight-Cover] Warband! Last week we revealed the new Skitarii Alpha Primus class to the world. We are so excited for these specialist warriors of the Machine-…

[image] Xarxyc: No, we don’t. Those are Adeptus Ministorum (Ecclesiarchy) emblems, or a basic Inquisition symbol. Rosettes are given only to Inquisitors, and unique for every single Inquisitor. we do… An Inquisitor may entrust his Acolytes and Throne Agents with a smaller rosette or simil…

well i guess my ogryn is the inquisitor now cause he has a rosette

It’s logical that a lower level agent of some Inquisitors would have some kind of sub-rosette (which is less impressive but serves the same purpose relative to their rank in the hierarchy, but isn’t as serious or forgeproof in every respect.

this is how i viewed it but i’d still imaigne it would be very serious and forgeproof and all that, the inquisitor probably wouldn’t want random shitters walk around with a fake one one and pretend they’re acting in his name so it really does function as proof that we’re somebody trustworthy person…

Hence “they’re all boneheads”

Put a suggestion on the pistol ammo here: [image] Suggestion: Skitarii pistol ammunition Gameplay Feedback In the recent announcement on Skitarii visuals, the Phosphor Blast Pistol is shown as a pepperbox revolver. A pepperbox full of phosphor… hee hee. [ima…

[image] Agayek: There’s also a chance DT retcon’d it and made baseline ogryn smarter than previous presentations i think it’s kinda this. there was some weird stuff about them being vat grown on the morning star or something to that effect

I wouldn’t say that 100%. Isn’t it talked about that there is some psychic awakening that happened that could make the ogryns smarter. Bodyguard, Bully kinda just learned how to fight by instinct, and Heavy could’ve gotten street smart because he needed to be. It just feels cheap to say that all the…

The justification is that we are not getting thousands of alphas as reinforcements, we get regular Skitarii who are upgraded to alpha primus level on site by Hadron, using tech remnants we gathered. I guess it’s not convincing enough for most people.

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