/tg/ - Traditional Games

>>220177

it always bothered me that Warhammer doesn't have naval combat

>>220177

There is a short story for Ciaphias Cain that details a hive planet based on a water world. The slums of the hive are based on the seabed while the noble district is close to the surface. But everything is underwater besides the space port which is above the water.

So if anything it is more like bioshock than anything else

Well, there was that one time where the sons of malice planted a nuke in an underwater hive, also that part in horus heresy where marines walked under sea to surprise their enemies.

>>220177

there is an entire race of huge shark people IIRC. their basic infantry is medium base sized and has multiple hitpoints. they live underwater and the imperium doesnt know about them/cant kill them because they live on 100% ocean planets.

space marines fought them a few times but lost, IIRC.

here they are, the sarharduin

https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Saharduin

also there is the Tyrama Secundus Campaign

>>220184

The Sons of Malice saved an underwater hive.

>>220199

Elysian Drop Troops?

>>220198

Ah, I see our scribes were misinformed then. Would you kindly help us to correct them? My stormtroopers will show you the way to our archives

>>220200

Nigga there DROP troops though underwater troops seem like the bees knees

I was thinking of having my Black Crusade group go to an Imperial water world.

The vague idea is that it's a sort of mining world where all the valuable ores are on the sea bed, so gigantic Mechanicus crawlers comb the floor of the ocean, scraping up and filtering out the valuable ores. They then send the ores to be processed off-planet by means of a space elevator moving the materials up to waiting voidships. The majority of the population on the planet lives in giant underwater habitats based around the anchor of the space elevators, which more or less resemble an aquatic hive city, with the underhive being alternately flooded, only partially aquatic grottos, or thermal vents, utilized to power the hive and space elevator by meansof geothermal engines.

In the underhive truly unwholesome things lurk, deposed of their homes by the mining industry they hide beneath the world's civilization, whispering blasphemous truths to those who would hear them, and consuming those who wouldn't. They intermingle with their confidants, and the unholy half-breeds they create via a twisted mixture of dark ritual and bodily desecration are held back from taking the hive above only by the gleaming light of the Ecclesiarch's cathedral above, it's light blinding the ones who dare ascend above their base station.

The heretic's goal will be to destabilize the hive city, forge a Compact with the leader of these pelagic nightmares, defile the temple of the Emperor's Wives' and ultimately bring ruin to this world.

>>220177

The phrase Scuba Terminators rings in my mind for some reason

But I don't remember where I heard it..

>>221128

If I remember correctly there's an obscure chapter whose home world's only land is atolls so they're very capable in matters of aquatic warfare. I think it was the Iron Snakes.

>>220184

There was also the campaign on Laer, where the Emperor's Children fought the Laernaens (who may or may not have also been called the Sslyth) and destroyed their home in the deep, pitch black ocean depths.

>>221137

yeah, their signature melee weapon is a harpoon spear.

>>220177

>I'm thinking of doing Dark Heresy mission inspired by things like Subnautica, SOMA (the few parts that weren't shit), or Pandorum, and I was wondering if 40k already has some technology or anything that I could include to keep it Warhammer.

There was something about Spectoris, at least.

>>220177

If I remember correctly Eisenhorn had an underwater penthouse, but that was only a minor feature of the story