Blackstone Fortresses (Spoilers inside)

[Madhippy]

So Did the first Blackstone mission just now and VERY underwhelming. Killed it with an lvl 2 Emperor and two lvl 5 Dictators. The thing is literally a giant flashlight with a lot of Hull Points but 0(!) turrets. I parked my Dictators and Emperor 12k from if prow forward and sent 8 squadrons of bombers and torps from the dictators and it was dead.

Not sure if I could have stopped it from jumping to the warp. I brought it to 0 HP I don't know how much more dead they wanted it. I assume it is scripted. Cleaning up the small Chaos fleet afterwords was tougher than a Fortress.

Thoughts?

[George The Ork]

Thats what it was supposed to be.

Chaos moved them, and all the weapons the imperials attached to them fell off.

Considering they can destroy planets and stars, they are super weapons not battleships.

[Madhippy]

"Fell off" I'm not huge on Gothic Lore but the thing has propulsion even a warp generator, I would think they could keep the turrets attatched The maaged to keep the oversized Warp Cannon on.

[George The Ork]

Originally posted by hippyeason:

"Fell off" I'm not huge on Gothic Lore but the thing has propulsion even a warp generator, I would think they could keep the turrets attatched The maaged to keep the oversized Warp Cannon on.

The imperials never knew they could move, or had a warp cannon.

http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Blackstone_Fortress#Gothic_War_.2812th_Black_Crusade.29

[caalsigo]

the warp cannon was the blackstone original weapon, as the ability to move. the imperials never managed to activate any of the blackstones, they simply moved in and attached stuff to them. after they were captured by abaddon, all of that was removed

[Madhippy]

Originally posted by Private White:

Originally posted by hippyeason:

"Fell off" I'm not huge on Gothic Lore but the thing has propulsion even a warp generator, I would think they could keep the turrets attatched The maaged to keep the oversized Warp Cannon on.

The imperials never knew they could move, or had a warp cannon.

http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Blackstone_Fortress#Gothic_War_.2812th_Black_Crusade.29

That doesn't surprise me. Its the Imperium. Real shame after Chaos took it over the Imperiu didnt turn on the 2nd one because its gone now too.

No spoilers if I get the chance later but its a real kick in the balls that I'm not given the chance to save these ♥♥♥♥♥♥ stations. Sucks enough I dont get enough Deployments. to save everyone. Very GrimDark

[Madhippy]

Originally posted by caalsigo:

the warp cannon was the blackstone original weapon, as the ability to move. the imperials never managed to activate any of the blackstones, they simply moved in and attached stuff to them. after they were captured by abaddon, all of that was removed

Considering how I moped the floor with it they should have left them on

[Foxador]

That's odd since the blackstone station that I fought had beam weapons on them that did a lot of damage. I had to stop it from blowing up one of our space stations and once it got into range it did a good job of almost taking it down.

[Madhippy]

Originally posted by Foxador:

That's odd since the blackstone station that I fought had beam weapons on them that did a lot of damage. I had to stop it from blowing up one of our space stations and once it got into range it did a good job of almost taking it down.

Same here but it has no defenses. Torps and Bombers cut through it like wet paper. It cant dodge, or shoot down incoming ordinance.

[Foxador]

Originally posted by hippyeason:

Originally posted by Foxador:

That's odd since the blackstone station that I fought had beam weapons on them that did a lot of damage. I had to stop it from blowing up one of our space stations and once it got into range it did a good job of almost taking it down.

Same here but it has no defenses. Torps and Bombers cut through it like wet paper. It cant dodge, or shoot down incoming ordinance.

I went in my brawling fleet after it and they did a great job of ramming into it like numb nuts because I guess 3k range is from the center of the thing. It wasn't super hard though I do agree but it was still early on in the game.

I found the ork command ship to be vastly superior to it as that ship could melt faces

[Emily]

ok so the blackstone warping is scripted right?

just checking. i brought it down to negative hull points twice and it still went "imma nope outta here"

[Madhippy]

Originally posted by Emily:

ok so the blackstone warping is scripted right?

just checking. i brought it down to negative hull points twice and it still went "imma nope outta here"

Ya, I thought you could but I looked up the Blackstones Fortresses on the Wiki for some help and they are destined to be in the 13th Black Crusade.

[Emily]

and there i thought i could change history for some reason :<

[FieserMoep]

Originally posted by hippyeason:

Ya, I thought you could but I looked up the Blackstones Fortresses on the Wiki for some help and they are destined to be in the 13th Black Crusade.

Wierd given that we can suceed on other tasks where the imperials failed in the lore.

[Madhippy]

Originally posted by FieserMoep:

Originally posted by hippyeason:

Ya, I thought you could but I looked up the Blackstones Fortresses on the Wiki for some help and they are destined to be in the 13th Black Crusade.

Wierd given that we can suceed on other tasks where the imperials failed in the lore.

True like the Relics, but the Blackstones are Huge parts of the 12th and 13th crusade so it would be hard to write out.

[Smallest Kaiju]

Working as intended. According to fluff, Abby used the one BSF he managed to swipe to try and protect Cadia while he was making a mess of things in the 13th Black Crusade. It got #rekt by torpedoes too, and Chaos generally shown the door.