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PREFACE
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"Give me a hundred Space Marines. Or failing that give me a thousand other troops."
-Attributed to Rogal Dorn, Primarch of the Imperial Fists.
The Adeptus Astartes, the pride of the Imperial warrior ranks, chosen to become the Emperor's finest. Only the strongest survive the ordeals that they must go through in order to become one of the Astartes. Tests of strength and courage, live-fire exercises, not to mention the genetical engineering. By the hands of the Tech Priests they are bestowed with near twenty super-human organs and the chapters gene-seed. "And they shall know no fear!" it was said. Clad in their advanced armours, they head into battle against all odds without fear. Defeat is not an option! That is why they are the Emperor's finest. Without hesitation, they fight for Him, they are the strongest of the strongest, they are super-humans knowing no fear, because they are...
...the Adeptus Astartes!
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MOD DEscriptION
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This mod is all about the Adeptus Astartes, better known as the Space Marines. There are already quite some mods out there for the Space Marines, but I wanted my own take at it... for learning, for fun, for pure satisfactory and for my lust for Space Marines (being an ex-tabletop Space Marine player).
The mods goal are mainly to increase the number of units and options to choose from to a maximum and to enforce the 4th Edition Codex: Space Marines rules (and in some cases, better enforce the general tabletop rules). This includes introducing more specialized squads (like Veteran Squads and Devastator Squds) and making a completely new set of HQ characters, and as for now, making the Space Marines a non-biased, Codex-traited chapter (like e.g. the Ultramarines). Yet, I will still try to maintain some form of balancing. An example is that even though you now have 6 HQ characters to choose from, you may only have 2 on the battlefield at any given time
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Sorry about having been away for so long and this news post is so short. There has been development on the mod in the meantime.
I'm qouting the latest news articles in here from my website at the end of this news post. Also, I've got a new forum up, new pictures (currently only in the forums), new crew is coming in and... DOWNLOADS. Find it all on Astartes.tk.
Now, for the qouting and explaining of my absence:
"December 14th 2005; Kresjah; Back in business!
After a long period of silence, Honour the Astartes is back in business! I'll give you a low-down of what has been going on lately:
Firstly, I moved to a different part of the country, to get closer to my girlfriend. For the first three months, I didn't have my own machine available, and thus it was very limited to what I could actually do for this mod. After almost three months had gone, I managed to finally get a job. I then moved out, and shortly after, my girlfriend moved in with me. After another month or so, I got internet in my apartment (it was a liberation to be in possession of internet again after four-five months without it). Still had some lack of time since things needed to get straightened out in the apartment. So, with about two days of prior notice, fifteen people (including me) was notified that we would lose our jobs due to budget cut down. So, here I am now, in an apartment far away from my old home, living with my girlfriend, and am currently unemployed.
On the mod side, things have gone a bit up and down. I've been trying to do some modding in the midst of everything going on in my personal life, although by the time I managed to make something useful out of it, new versions had been released and my mod was broken again. These last days however have been a bit more productive, and I've managed to release a few modules as some of you people (mainly from the Relic Forums) already know. They are the Techmarine with a Servitor retinue (lacks models and proper weapons) and the Veteran Squads (lack models, proper weapons and some skill implementation). They can be found in the files section.
Also, there is a new forum in the works. The new forums are already up in the menu links, although it will undergo modifications in the near future, so stay tuned.
I'm hoping there will be more productivity on the mod in the coming times. Thanks for your time and patience!"
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"January 1st 2006; Kresjah; Delayed Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year + files!
It's been hectic times lately, trying to find a job, managing the house and income (or lack of it), getting time for ones family, not to mention my dear and much, much more. However, I have been able to work on several projects and spend some time working on Honour the Astartes. Firstly, welcome Tsrah to the mod. He's doing some superb models which I hope to get released as soon as they're done. Also, out now is the Basic Infantry module, which refines well, basic infantry for the Space Marines. Head over to the files section and check it out.
Happy New Year folks!"
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well this looks intresting but not enough to grab my full attention, looks ok though
Im a bit cunfused are you gonna make the cap higher and if so how much more because i play total war and the sm cap is like 50-50and eldar are like 70 and so on and so forth
Not dead anymore... just personal life issues taking completely control.
As for balance, I am trying to not overpowering them, but adding a bunch of new units with new stuff makes it prone to that. However, I am redoing many of the gameplay aspects so that I can hopefully achieve better balance.
I am also going to talk to one of the other mod teams doing a similar mod for a different race about this subject, so that we might be able to get them balanced to each other and hopefully even get them as one mod (although with two different teams working on the different races).
I will bring you more info on this. In the meanwhile, I recommend you checking out the latest news article and go to Astartes.tk.
Plz dont tell me ur making a SM mod thats going to make the SM even more powerfull than they already are as a table top player my selfe i know the frustration that comes with fighting the Adeptus Astartesthey are nigh well invinclible with anything less than Chaos Space marine and as an Eldar player both in DoW and the table top i find it useles to think u can defeat a marine with a guardian so plz just one request balance the Space marines so other races stand a fighting chance.
Table-top? explain.
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