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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 18:47:04 No.43357546 View Reply Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43357877 >>43361038 >>43361233

Got Rak'gol?

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 19:00:22 No.43357877 Report Delete

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>>43357546
Yes.

Though I wish Geedubs did too.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 21:53:33 No.43361038 Report Delete

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>>43357546
Always. They make the occasional appearance in my RT games and they freak everyone the hell out.

>>43357877
This to the umpteenth degree.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 22:04:58 No.43361233 Report Delete

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>>43357546
What's a Rak'gol? Fluff? Any ideas for crunch?

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 22:10:19 No.43361326 Report Delete

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>>43361233
They're a relatively small xenos faction from the edge of the galaxy. They've got fetishes for radiation, cybernetics, and artefacts relating to lost alien species. Most of their technology is as crude as ork shit, if not quite as volatile.

Think a mix of xenomorphs and reavers from Firefly.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 22:11:42 No.43361347 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43361376 >>43361414 >>43367114 >>43369760

>>43361326
>They're a relatively small xenos faction from the edge of the galaxy.

So they're like a spookier version of the Tau.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 22:13:45 No.43361376 Report Delete

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>>43361347
You misspelled "superior".

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 22:15:29 No.43361414 Report Delete

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>>43361347
Not spooky so much as horrifically violent.

They're supposed to be the stuff of nightmares, especially their psykers.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 22:20:18 No.43361509 Report Delete

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>Tfw there will never be any RG models, much less decent ones
Why bother?

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 22:49:45 No.43362030 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43362101 >>43362251 >>43362506 >>43363856 >>43367137

>>43361509
This got me thinking. To have a full model range they would need more actual war capabilities. As it stands they have space ships and a couple of types of infantry.

They would need some heavy support, transport, and fast attack options. A flyer too.

What would rak'gol vehicles look like? A rak'gol tank?

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 22:54:51 No.43362101 Report Delete

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>>43362030
Probably spiky lumps of metal with haphazard treads, spraying toxic waste behind it as it goes. The screamer-cannon on top lets out a terrifying cry as it fires. An effective morale weapon to be sure.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 23:04:56 No.43362251 Report Delete

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>>43362030
WALKERS.

Scary, Giger-ish reptile-centipede walkers. Rugged and crude like an Ork vehicle but with an unsettling and alien cast to its shape. Bristling with antennae and filaments and filthy cables and hoses.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 23:18:26 No.43362441 Report Delete

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>>43362251
For some reason I'm picturing them looking like a crude version of the squids from the Matrix. A lot less graceful though, jerky and wrong looking, like it's being forced to exist as it is. Loads of clicking prehensile claws and eyes with razor sharp tentacles. It would be really unsettling to watch it move across the battlefield, this alien warmachine scuttling across the ground as it's multitudinous tentacles eviscerate anyone who steps too close while propelling it forward like some monstrous living thing.

Would probably be vomiting clouds of noxious radioactive gas from it's exhaust vents. Probably has a head mounted rad-beam/howler cannon.

Upon close inspection of a defeated or crippled version you would find, upon parts of the head, that the pilot is a rak'gol fully grafted into the mechanical beast. Left armless and legless but still struggling and snapping at any who try to pull it from the machine.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 23:21:39 No.43362482 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43362527 >>43362559

Are the Rak'gol just a boring homebrew xenos race, or do people legit enjoy them?

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 23:22:42 No.43362506 Report Delete

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>>43362030
No they don't, just lump all a bunch of minor xenos into a mercenary Xenos faction.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 23:24:35 No.43362527 Report Delete

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>>43362441
Take a look at some of the earlier war machines they show in Second Renaissance.

>>43362482
Visually distinct and have just enough fluff about them to form a coherent picture but not enough that avenues of exploration are cut off.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 23:25:10 No.43362533 Report Delete

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What about those aliens from Live, Die, Repeat? They have a similar aesthetic and could easily fill a fast attack role.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 23:27:13 No.43362559 Report Delete

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>>43362482
I legit enjoy them, and they were made by FFG for the Rogue Trader RPG I think. http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Rak'Gol

>>43362506
A lot of people have preposed that, and it works for basically every other xenos introduced, by the Rak'gol are explicitly mentioned to be just as hostile to all other species.

>>43362527
I was thinking those as well. I imagine them being just as fucked up too. That bit where the giant warmachine tears the screaming guy from his cut open mech is exactly how I see a Rak'gol attack going down. They'd probably even have the super crude laser weapons. Rather than las-beams like most races, they have sustained fire laser beams that melt their way through metal.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 23:32:56 No.43362641 Report Delete

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>>43362441
Yeah, their vehicles should definitely be a major cybernetic modification of a single rak'gol.

I think crude surgery, crude mechanics, insectoid forms, cables, antennae, smoke effects (which the studio would paint green to convey radioactivity), and gore are all good aesthetic queues to take with Rak'gol models.

Crunchwise, it should be an elite, multi-wound model, low model count army.

Though honestly I'd just rather them have a couple units in a "Dogs of War" style mercenary faction, but be Come The Apocalypse with all other factions except Rak'gol models from the mercenary faction. Give us Hrud, Dog Soldiers, Rak'gol, and some other shit.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 23:41:21 No.43362761 Report Delete

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>>43362641
/tg/'s tried to homebrew both a Dogs of War style fandex and a Tau auxillary fandex, neither of them lasted three threads.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 23:42:46 No.43362778 Report Delete

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>>43362641
Yeah, I think that's probably fair. Kinda like the Harlequin or Tempestus codex. Theoretically you could take them as a single force, but it's a comparatively small number of available units.

Also just as an imagery thing, I can imagine blood and oil constantly seeping from the "pilot" compartment of a Rak'gol vehicle, because the creature grafted into the machine is simultaneously unable to heal and not cleaning integrated.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 00:43:40 No.43363829 Report Delete

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>>43361414
so it's liek if Skaven ween't remotely comical

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 00:44:41 No.43363856 Report Delete

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>>43362030
Skaven Doom wheels

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 05:17:28 No.43367114 Report Delete

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>>43361347
They also make Orks seem like a civilized and technologically advanced race. Orks at least don't have drives on their starships thatf lood the interior with deadly radiation, and have some retty advanced tech, and they actually can communicate with other races (even if said communictaion mostly consists of calling them gits and threathening to bash their 'eads in). Rak'gol just roar at stuff and throw nukes at it.

They're all bu stated to be a former slave-race of the Yu'vath, and seem to be searching the Exapanse for something in particular that's likely connected to the Yu'vath. Personally, I belive they're trying to bring their former masters back (as it's also heavily hinted the Yu'vath may not actually be dead, at least not in the conventional sense).

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 05:20:04 No.43367137 Report Delete

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>>43362030
On of the RT adventures makes mention of rak'gol having skimmer/flyer type vehicles. No stats are given but they are supposed to bring one in to try to blast a hole in the walls of the ruins the PCs are inside.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 05:22:35 No.43367158 Report Delete

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>>43361038
They where an interesting 'baddie' species, I liked them because they where completely alien and not just another different coloured humanoid with pointy ears or lumps glued onto them

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 10:34:20 No.43369662 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43369719 >>43369778

>>43367114
What are Yu'vath?

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 10:39:01 No.43369719 Report Delete

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>>43369662
A species wiped out (we hope) because how insanely dangerous they were to body, mind and soul. Essentially mastering warptech into crystalline...thingies, just their remnants and guard robots are dangerous to wipe out a part in no time at all. See the Sand Slime for the ultimate example.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 10:42:42 No.43369760 Report Delete

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>>43361347
Not everything needs to operate at the fucking massive galactic scale. Shit's way more interesting and the opposition way scarier when you only care about a single sector/sub-sector and understand that no help will be coming form outside of that region. None of this, "Well the Imperium could wipe them all out if they launch a crusade!" bullshit.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 10:44:20 No.43369773 Report Delete

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From what I understand they're kinda like Mi-Go on krokodil, right?

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 10:44:46 No.43369778 Report Delete

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>>43369662
Ancient xenos race that had a strong, religious relationship with chaos and the warp, but in a way completely unique to how humans relate to chaos.

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