Typically, these positions are occupied by player characters, and only player characters can gain and provide the listed bonuses. Welcome to our rogue trader campaign wiki and blog. First up, the lucre foedus best thought of as a flying bordellocasino, built as a smugglerambush hunter on an orionclass hull. Goto index after a long time waiting, fans of rogue trader have finally been given something many have wanted since the core game was released. Ship hulls hull jerichoclass pilgrim vessel vagabondclass merchant trader hazerothclass privateer havocclass merchant raider. Master sheet of othe rogue trader ship building components fighter bay. Rogue trader is a tabletop rpg based in games workshop s warhammer 40,000 setting.
During each strategic round, each ship must make one manoeuvre action and may make one shooting action during its turn. Rogue trader ship utilities tuesday, april 5, 2011. Im currently in my first rt game on myth weavers and our ship. Jan 20, 2017 ascendant campaigns can view previous versions of their pages, see what has changed and who did it, and even restore old versions. Starting with the eldar i will get it working and publish soon. Did you hear wagging tongues spreading rumors from all over the ship can be good or ill. The powerful gothic class cruiser is a familiar sight throughout the imperium and has a presence. Due to the various hulls represented in a spread of rt source books, the various ship hulls can be found here, classified by hull type. Must be replaced with upkeep test after use bk38 flak turrets. The dread nautilus, rogue trader vessel ex profundis. Some rogue traders have chosen harvestclass vessels for blockade runs and even invasions, as the sturdy vessel can shrug off enemy fire as well as many military frigates. Remember, the sword dauntless and lunarclass hulls in the rulebook represent the basic. The name rogue trader refers to two different games associated with the warhammer 40,000 universe. Controlling the crew of a rogue trader s ship requires a great deal of group discipline especially as many dynasties vessels are decommissioned military ships but rogue traders are not part of the imperial military.
This hull comes preequipped with one main cargo hold component see page 203. All this means frigates are some of the most desired ships for enterprising rogue traders. To me at least, exploring uncharted star systems, lost colonies and what have you is the very essence of rogue trader, and the colony rules give you a living, breathing profitgenerating empire to look after. Secondly, there are already rogue traders detailed or mentioned in edge of the abyss and lure of the expanse that have grand cruisers and battleships. When doing ship generation do you buy the points and get the hull. What you are failing to hear is my statement even after agreeing with it ill repeat it here for the third time already orion is the best raidertransport while shrike is the best raiderfrigate, meaning that if you are a rogue trader than shrike is better, while if you are a. Hull intergrity total current essential components supplemental components complicationspast history space available range power available space used power used weapon capacity crew % morale weapons strength crit rating damage macro battery lance macro battery lance macro battery lance macro battery lance dorsal port prow starboard keel hull. The hazerothclass privateer comprises a variety of raider vessels of similar size and firepower. Trade, exploration, conquest, piracy, all are possible with a properly outfitted frigate and a captain of pluck and nerve at the helm. Dakkar was a fierce antiimperialist, and the dread nautilus would prey upon imperial vessels, striking at them during their translations into real space from the immatereum. Oct 16, 20 battlefleet koronus is an extensive sourcebook about the starships that traverse the koronus expanse. Pace, power armor mod, 1, powerful motors in the leg joints combine.
You select the ship hull, components and weapons and it spits out a complete character sheet for the ship that you can print or use on the fly assuming you have a computer handy. When i select the frigate hull type without entering 1 into the multiples field or checking off the actual component for augmented thrusters, 3 power is deduced. Review of battlefleet koronus rpgnet rpg game index. Each of these actions must be performed by a separate explorer. Ship roles are positions of command and responsibility aboard a rogue trader vessel.
Apr 24, 2014 welcome to our rogue trader campaign wiki and blog. Rogue traders, backed by the might of the imperial navy, must arm their vessels to wrest fortunes from their enemies in bloody warfare. Rogue trader into the storm supplement 40k rpg tools. Rogue trader is an odd rpg since it occurs on 2 levels, a persontoperson level but also ship to ship. Rogue traders, originally called rogue traders militant during the era of the great crusade and the horus heresy, are unique and powerful human individuals who serve as a combination freelance explorer, conquistador and interstellar merchant for the imperium of man. If a rogue trader has the resources to overcome these issues, however, hell find himself at the helm of a ship perfect for exploration or war, with few equals in imperial space. Rtsu is a utility spreadsheet compatible with excel and open office. Command your ship and crew as a space pirate, merchant, bounty hunter, and more in star traders.
Frontiers an epic space rpg from trese brothers games. It is unnerving to have a hold full of hardened criminals and it has an adverse effect on the morale of the crew. Or is it when you buy the hull you also get to use the ship points that were used in getting the hull. Still there is one unique niche for it there are groups that dont like having multiple ships and are more into having only one ship and gradually. It is published by fantasy flight games and is part of their 40kbased rpg line, making it mechanically very similar to and broadly compatible with dark heresy, deathwatch, black crusade, and only war and all their associated splatbooks. Rogue trader heirs are often assigned one of the familys void ships under the command of one of their most capable captains or a family scion that has more days behind him than ahead. Many have been known to operate in the calixis sector from the infamous hazeroth abyss subsector hence the name, and are popular with privateers. Warhammer 40k rogue trader compendium the guildhall. Although typically based around the hulls of the more common imperial cruiser classes, rogue trader vessels are subject to constant refit and adornment, much of it alien in origin, creating truly unique. Rather than tack it onto the rtsu and make that excel file even larger this will be a xenosonly utility intended for the creation of xenos vessels for the rogue trader rpg. Ship hulls hull class space provided sp jerichoclass pilgrim vessel transport 45 20. Twisted by battle and weathered by centuries adrift, the light is only barely recognizable as an imperial battleship.
Once the players have their hull, they roll on the. Dec 23, 2019 battlefleet koronus, the foregoing marks respective logos, rogue trader, and all rules on page of the rogue trader core rulebook. Battlefleet koronus beyond the gates of the maw, savage enemies raise arms against the imperium. An introduction to rogue trader fantasy flight games. Once i check off the box and enter the multiple, another 3 are deduced, and maneuverability updates. Rogue trader best hull for one owning a single ship. Flagship this ship is preequipped with the fleet flag bridge for free, with space being reduced accordingly, and requiring 4 power. Wouldnt you rather be the captain of a cruiser and put to shame all your rivals in their dinky little transports.
These are most often used in zerog to allow marines to atach to ships hulls or walkways. Cruisers are the only ship a proper rogue trader should be found in. I have started a new utility called the rogue trader xenos ship utility rtxsu v1 to generate xenos vessels. Jul 07, 2019 to describe any given rogue traders vessel as an armed merchant ship is technically accurate given that a rogue trader battleflleet as easily described as an armed merchant. This is where ill be posting relevant game background information, such as items, background descriptions, npcs, etc. Repulsive class grand cruiser exorcist class grand cruiser overlord class battlecruiser. Think of them as rogue traders, add in ship loads of tech priests, ancient spacefaring technologies which the priests keep to themselves, the selfish little. Up close, pitted aquilas and cracked imperial iconography can be faintly seen amidst warped hull plating and countless scores of impact craters. Ship hull cobra raider speed and agility, smaller physical footprint.
Rogue trader vessels are unique, exotic things, often exhibiting many signs of their colorful adventures. A frigate provides a rogue trader with a almost unlimited options. There was a thread for this a while ago, but the last post in there was from november 2010 and i didnt want to engage in thread necromancy. Battlefleet koronus is an extensive sourcebook about the starships that traverse the koronus expanse. Npc ships for rogue trader roleplaying games stack exchange. The hull s space has already been reduced to account for this, however, when the ship is constructed it must be able to provide 2 power to this component. Rogue trader 1987 was the first edition of the warhammer 40,000 tabletop game. The hull of the vessel defines what type of ship it is, its abilities, and the components that may be added to it. Empowered by an ancient warrant of trade and a warpcapable ship, you will venture into the uncharted voids, discovering new worlds, lost civilisations, and bizarre alien technology.
First of all battlefleet koronus book actually allows rogue traders to own grand cruisers and even in rare cases battleships though the battleship hulls are not statted out as far as i can recall. However, a rogue trader with the resources, cunning, and ruthlessness to get a cruiser and keep it, it is an unrivaled power beholden to noone but himself. Oct 16, 20 many a foolhardy rogue trader has passed through the maw, never to be seen again. Owned by the mighty rogue trader septimius paradus, it emerged from the warp and almost unhesitatingly jumped into the fray to the detriment of the reaver squadron. Review of battlefleet koronus goto index after a long time waiting, fans of rogue trader have finally been given something many have wanted since the core game was released. Rogue trader ships yet another gaming resource wiki fandom. As a result, how tightly a rogue trader holds the reigns can very quite a bit. The occupants of the slave holds can be mustered into a large horde and used to weaken an enemy. They are meant for small ships instead of large, and so can only provide power.
To say i had eagerly awaited this book would be an understatement. Starship combat is broken into strategic rounds, which equates to roughly 30 minutes of actual time. They are then given a stipend and sent to learn about the unforgiving galaxy. Doing this lowers the crew experience by one stage to a minimum of incompetent 20. Rogue trader highend ships introduction for the sake of completion and to ensure that if you guys somehow decided that you would like to cripple your starting galactic dollars profit factor in exchange for what would probably be the most powerful ships in any engagement or sector of space for that matter, you have that option by purchasing any of these ships. Crew type naval veterans for a fast ship, a good crew. So as ive been looking at stats of various hulls in rogue trader i saw that some of the hulls are much better than their counterparts making you pick them most of the time instead those underdog hulls that are just worse for their ship point cost and id like to know if you think the same. Rogue trader highend ships jojos bizzare endeavour. In the aftermath, it was judged by the council of vawk karaow that septimius was owed a mighty honordebt, one too great to expunge in coin even for a race of mercenaries. Click the wiki tab on the top sidebar to access the information that. A rogue trader s vessel made from a swordclass hull the same hull as used by the navy as the core of the swordclass frigates is not inherently a swordclass frigate as the imperial navy classifies them, because it will have different components and be used for a different purpose. This is hands down one of the best books of the line, and thoroughly recommended. More than that, a starship also has its own quirks, idiosyncrasies, and personality traits. Thus, while rogue trader cruisers are generally recommissioned hulls of many different patterns, the most typical cruiser pattern utilized by rogue traders are those constructed at kar durniash, the segmentum fortress of the ultima segmentum, and its surrounding star systems.
What you are failing to hear is my statement even after agreeing with it ill repeat it here for the third time already orion is the best raidertransport while shrike is the best raiderfrigate, meaning that if you are a rogue trader than shrike is better, while if you are a rogue trader orion is better. Click the wiki tab on the top sidebar to access the information that is uploaded, the characters tab for characters, etc. Apparently there were problems with the printers or some such. Dakkar is wellknown in the region of space around profundis. Though ewan mcgregor does little but fight with lightsabers in the u. As follows are the varied frigateclass hull types available in the koronus expanse and calixis sector. Warrant standard warrant more freedom is always worthwhile.
The second rogue trader 2009 is the second game of warhammer 40,000 roleplay series. Equip yourselves with the tools and abilities any worthy rogue trader needs to survive. I am curious as to whats the deal with ship points in rogue trader. In this true story, he plays nick leeson, a futures trader for barings bank, formerly the oldest private bank in the world, located in london. Beyond the rubycon ii system, the koronus passage looms wide, ready to swallow the rogue trader ships that brave its depths. Apr 21, 2012 whenever a ship chooses to fire on another ship during its turn, the target ships void shields assuming it has any will cancel a number of incoming hits equal to the strength of the shields.
Rogue trader battlefleet koronus supplement 40k rpg. Constructing a starship w hen creating a starship, players should proceed along the following steps. Sep 09, 2016 in my opinion, the slightly bizarrely named stars of inequity is the best value for money in rogue trader. Swarms of fighters maintain a constant void patrol around this vessel. Rogue trader must surely have rules for salvaging ships for. Ancient and wise, machine spirit oddity, this ship is of a bygone age, having survived many millennia of voyages and adventures. Essentially to locate the hull you subtract the ship point cost from your profit factor so a 40 sp ship results in an explorer with a pf of 50 rolling against a 10, and that acquires a base hull. As follows are the varied light cruiserclass hull types available in the koronus expanse and calixis sector. Then you purchase components and find a forge world to install them. A list of hulls is found on the next few pages, divided by class. Permanently reduce the morale of the crew by 5 though when adding more crew from a prison world there is no morale hit. You cant really play rogue trader without this book, and i dare say it adds a lot of depth to deathwatch, only war and black crusade as well, if you want it. With new rules on nova cannons, torpedoes, attack crafts, and squadrons, plus new options for outfitting player ships, this book is perfect for players and gms alike.
The cavernous fighter bay contains a full squadron of fighters, either of imperial naval stock or a more exotic vintage, and the support facilities necessary to keep them in action. In rogue trader, players take the role of a rogue trader and their crew as they operate outside the stellar and legal boundaries of the imperium. Venture forth into a massive open universe, rich with adventure and the lore of the star traders. Unlike most rpgs the characters are not on their own, theyre the masters and commanders of a milelong starship with crews of 50,000 or more and small armies of their own. Yet you are not just any individualyou are an explorer on a rogue trader ship with authority and freedom far beyond the comprehension of the masses. The story of the dread nautilus and her captain, kali dakkar, daughter of the infamous pirate n. The maw is so vast it is more a region of space than a opening in the warp storms along the drusus marchesbut the maw can also swell closed when the warp storms rage, shrinking to the narrowest passage. Plus it is far easier to get a small ship then a cruiser. Rogue trader random ship generator rtrsg v2 found only at makewarnotlove bottom of the page for download link for now as it is still unfinished and the character sheet output is rough. Rogue trader battlefleet koronus supplement 40k rpg tools. The effects of any morale loss or gain are increased by 1. As follows are the varied cruiserclass hull types available in.
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