WH40K Rogue Trader E7 - Pasqual, introduce me (also, we get conscripted by the Inquisition) 

46:15 "...are hampering her efforts by chanting access request prayers in unison, thereby suppressing the commands that the blasphemers enter." - They are literally conducting a DDOS-Attack on their own Reactor.

Cassia: I'm sweet and innocent and naive. Also Cassia: Have you considered removing your servants' vocal cords?

You need Abelard on your team. Someone needs to be there to introduce you to the plebs.

8:40 if I remember right, one of the dataslates you pick up on the voidstation talks about an experiment where they found that servants with their tongues cut out were not driven insane by Cassia’s powers as quickly as intact servants. Seems likely that Cassia’s belief that this is a “noble tradition” was a lie told to her by her caretakers to explain why all her servants were mute.

Aurora: "You are powerless!" Perun: "Mate, my bloody navigator killed, like, half your people all on her own."

I'm definitely going to use the term "Tech-sorcism" over "running an antivirus"

I think that when your squad is that powerful, maybe the risks of Idira being an unsanctioned psyker aren't actually that much of a risk. Idira doesn't screw up and summon demons; demons screw up and manifest in Cassia's line of sight...

15:45 I just love the dissonance of your procession of noblemen and holy people rocking up to this guy torturing people to death with "G'day mate, how ya doin'?". It's a perfect encapsulation of why this series has become my most-anticipated Let's Play after only the actual voice actors from _Baldur's Gate 3_ doing their own playthroughs of said game. The 40K universe is not a place one expects to encounter the Aussie disposition and it just works so well, especially considering you know about military things and are skilled at communicating about them to laymen; your wit and skill have made a game from a franchise I normally don't care for into an unusually enjoyable experience.

At this point the mic is part of the charm

Having somebody on your team being your hype man continues to be funny despite the number of times it happens.

18:20 - still, he's not Inquisitor but Interrogator, so, _his_ rights of requesition us or order us around are dubious. Still, of course, no sane Rogue Trader would like to make enemies with Inquisition.

At 48:40 i think you missed why Pasqal got annoyed. Someone tried to insult him with a name thats a compliment to his order. The irrationality of it made him annoyed. Like seeing someone try and push a square block through a round hole. Or intentionally hang a painting slightly crooked. On Aurora's little speech. The sad truth is it was pretty spot on with a lot of things. Mostly how regular humans genuinly are just treated as an exploitable resource by the nobles.

Frankly having the psyker of the party unsanctioned is a massive friction point for me. That's a massive deal, certainly not just a whimsical RP flavour quirk. And you're 100% right in my books to be hestitant to include her in operations after she proved how volatile such individuals are. The Imperium's psyker vetting processes exist for very very good reasons.

RP wise, I struggle with the idea of bringing the ship’a navigator anywhere near combat. Let alone the heir to a navigator house. I choose to believe she insists on accompanying away expeditions and no one can tell her no.

Since the game, both through lore and RNG, have given you great reasons to not bring Idira, I'll make a quick argument on her behalf. 1. She is strong, real strong, which cannot be understated even when trying to balance the risk she brings. 2. All Psykers, even sanctioned, run the risk of perils when working with the warp. What happened was really bad - however - once can always be an anomaly, so maybe a two strike system is worth considering. 3. The game describes her as middle-aged looking. That would be pretty old for a sanctioned psyker. For an unsanctioned psyker that is ancient. If she didn't have remarkable control and will, she would be dead by now. Or terribly mutated. This is something of a self-evident truth. She has enough cunning and self control to have survived this many years, which demands some respect. 4. This is a bad argument so I left it for last, however I just like her and her personality. She is fun in a way you practically never see in 40k. She also brings a somewhat unique perspective compared to most companions. All that said there are obviously great reasons to space her asap, though between the game and your own knowledge, I suspect you are highly aware of all of those already. Still, I'd vote bring her, at the very least over a no-name merc NPC. :)

I really like Cassia. The voice acting, the art design, the writing. They all come together very well to tell her story. I hope she stays with you for a very long time in this campaign.

From spreadsheets to space magic *festive confetti*

The infinite SEI turns are caused by a companion NOT being on the team. Even if you don't take your hireling with you on a mission you'll still have the glitch. I know you're using them regularly so it might not help you too much, but you can avoid the glitch by respecing them and either leaving them at level one or not taking SEI on them again. Once they don't have it you can safely leave them off the team.

31:00 - I was pretty much playing Iconoclast way, but in this particular situation it was a huge strain on me role-play wise. Not even because symbols of Chaos are, well, powerful; but also because I had no idea how can you realistically mask Paskal (with his dendrites) and Cassia (with her eye) by weaing another costume. But hey, it worked.

Argenta's starting bolter is explicitly a battle-worn weapon that performs worse than a baseline bolter. Give her a proper bolter and she'll do a lot better.

A small UI tip that might make your life a bit easier, in case you don't already know: When planning your movement, instead of left clicking again to confirm the movement, you can instead choose one of your attacks or abilities and their indicators will behave as if you'd already moved to that spot - enabling you to preview your LOS and effected targets. Useful for things like Cassia's Lidless Stare, which is dependent on line of sight for example. If you then left click again, that character will execute both movement and ability, while a right click will bring you back to planning movement. Very much enjoying your renewed activity on this channel and the commentary!

"...did the Daemons give it away?" - Thank you Perun, dry wit giving me chuckles.

I really like your RP. This makes such a good game even better!

1:13:00 - another Iconoclastic choice I have problems with. On one hand, I'm pretty ok with idea that nobody, Inquisition included, has a daemonic sword with a hard on me/beef against me. Inquisitors aren't known for always making the most rational and sensible decisions considering forbidden artifacts [for the Glory of the Emperor of course]. Even the most puritan ones known [not to everybody, of course, but still] for making mistakes about this. On the other hand, I'm very much not chill with throwing the chaos-infused wraithbone object of unknown properties into the planet-feeding reactor of unknown properties.

Can't wait for the next episode, because...reasons.

Ok, answering Idira question. My opinion, of course. I was playing with a recreating of my really long-standing Dark Heresy character, who was a Sanctionite Psyker with a... pretty turmoilous biography. Essentially, he hates Chaos because he grown-up on, effectively, Daemonic World (daemon-infested space hulk, to be more precise). "Aurora, I've seen the results of Tzeentch's plans, let me tell you, not a fan"*. The two things he's absolutely never trusting are Imperial institutions and Holy Inquisition. "I worked for Inquisition; I know as a fact they're not infallible, but they tend to believe they are." The only two institutions he tend to keep in pretty better regard are AAT and Adeptus Astronomica. He also is partial to some Space Marines, because it was Marines who saved him and didn't burn him. Still, he's very keen to the dangers of the Immaterium. "Imperium tells you about the dangers of the Warp. They're lying. Warp is far more dangerous they're making you to believe, even if in a bit different way." And "I don't have a problem that you summoned a daemon that I need to kill, that's tuesday. I have a problem with a lack of discipline you're showing by summoning the daemon." He's pretty respectful to the idea of psyker without Sanctioning being able to resist daemons, keeping his wits and, especially, willpower, up, because that's how he survived for about two decades. He can't see that person who, in the first meeting, literally saying that she's getting warp-crazy and listening to the voices in her head who are saying pretty dangerous stuff (I mean, it's pretty obvious that this particular entities aren't Ruinous Powers neutral) _is_ even trying to keep her wits and, especially, willpower, up. So, I can justify decision not to execute her immediatly. Even after _other events_ I wouldn't spoil, for a couple of reasons. I can't justify letting her run around unsupervised and allowed to use her abilities actively and indiscriminatory. What I did was keeping Idira in the party, but never using her psy abilities in combat. "You are allowed to listen. You're not allowed to answer in any shape or form." And bracing for disaster. * By the way, it was really funny experience for me. The outlook of this character was, more or less, defined by his upbringing, and I was playing him for a really long time, and his main feature in the party always was that he was resident Chaos expert, whose main reaction to the Chaos, daemons and sorcerers was deep, deeperst annoyance, not a terror. When I put him into this game, the only thing I knew was that he's going to become RT ("so, it seems, something should happen with this not-very-smart-gal-with-a-plasma-pistol?"). When this character, with this particular bio, had the ending of the prologue, where he was spoken by Edge of Daybreak, his honest reaction was "oh, fuck, here we go again, hello childhood".

God damn you Perun, stealing whole hour of my sleep... 10/10 would do again.

There's a plot point that comes up later that really makes it a struggle to, in universe, keep Idera with what's going on. If this was a table top, I probably would have 100% 'taken care of her', but since its a videogame I really want to see what her story is despite leaning towards a Dogmatic playthrough (with Iconoclast trappings). I basically had to weasel my way into thinking that she's apart of the crew longer than I have been, so dispensing with her might cause resentment with the higher officers, which is the last thing you want while getting your footing as Lord Captain. Do wish I had an option to assign Argenta as her personal 'handler' though, as she's on her very last leg with me.

Opposite question: What is more likely to cause chaos, Adira being not spaced and being left alone while being on bad terms with you or being around you.

I kept Idira around longer than you did (partially because I didn't make a Hireling) but even though I am going full Nice Guy in my Run even I couldn't justify her existence in my Retinue at one point. She's just kind of a fuck up lmao. I think most people that know about 40K lore probably hear/read "Unsactioned Psyker" and immediately consider leaving her or shooting her out of the Airlock, you just really don't want that shit in your close group tbh. And I mean seriously, she talks a lot of Hot shit about her Powers but we saw what happened to her Previous Master and that is just not a good look either.

Algorithm boop on the snoot

You took Abelard off the team? You introduce yourself!? What is this heresy! Bolter vs Flamer: In my opinion the difference is a question of "dealing with one guy" vs "dealing with trash". The flamer slaughters trash mobs really well due to its AOE effect. But the Bolter can output so many shots and so much damage that it powers right through single targets exceptionally well. Personally, my Argenta uses a Bolter(upgraded from a low-damage Heavy Bolter) and a sword+plasma pistol for Melee+AOE.

Im looking forward to the next episode of this series. Thank you, Mr. Perun!

in the big cultist battle to save the tech priest I had a bunch of cultists turn into choas spawns. multiple chaos spawns made the battle lots more exciting.

42:45 that's just 40K equivalent of "percussive maintenance"

Honestly as powerful as Idira is, even as an iconoclast I cannot justify bringing her along. If you want to metagame, her alignment is shifted towards heretical suggesting that there's more influence of the Immaterium in her than she would like to admit. Besides, with Heinrix on board you should have all your bases covered really. Just doesn't feel right to have Pasqal introduce you if you have a perfectly fine Abelard to do the job.

Amazing series! Keep going Perun!

Also i found using Abelard's Brace for impact with get in to cover is a huge synergi with Cassia, Gives 5 extra stacks and lets you move into better positions, which gets Cassia to 13-14 stacks before the first turn with my main char being officer to you can sometimes get to enough momentum that you can clear the board turn 1 with Cassia getting Finest Hour. i am of course also running "move move move" for another bonus turn. Seems so crazy having Cassia running around doing 200+ crit

19:45 - by the way, I love how Interrogator got all of this, but never straighten Governor up.

Pasqal has some very fun synergies with plasma weapons. Even just a pistol is very good, as he can pretty much wipe most fights solo once he gets given the officer ulti. He has both plenty of extra damage for plasma weapons and he gets refunded the AP that he spends to shoot them, so he can shoot as many times as the ulti allows (which I think is 11 times, but might be dependant on officer fellowship or such) and then hand over the extra AP to someone else.

Idira does legitimately see the future at opportune moments, which is why I kept her around

On Idira: Rogue traders are basically macroeconomic forces made manifest, right? Millions of people, probably billions, live and die off the decisions you make. From where I stand, you're morally obligated to make those decisions with as much information as possible. Take Idira, and you've now got every speculative financier and risk management analyst's dream; actual information from the actual future. Take Idira, and one vision in the right place at the right time could make you the richest man in the segmentum.Take Idira, and you're exchanging strategic risk, which you can't do anything about (all other things bieng equal) for tactical risk, which you can mitigate with Cassia that teenage girl whom you're slowly but steadily turning into Dr Manhattan. You can also avoid that risk all together by just not using her psychic abilities. She's an operative with really high perception, so using analyse enemies on somone then blapping them with a sniper rifle means she can be plenty useful even without evaporating 5 enemies a turn. In short: Take idira, use her for stock tips, save countless lives and thrones, blow up the odd extra plaguebearer from time to time.

Another great episode! Love your commitment to the RP bit! I would be RPing this quite differently haha.

That was an absolute banger of a song during the final combat.

Man, I'm really interested in what a play-through leaning hard into chaos and heresy looks like.

46:20 These Tech-Priest are basicly DDossing their own system. An interesting way to uphold cyber security, but if it works...

(29:00) I'm way to late to inform anyone but "Electro-motive force" was another way to describe "Voltage" in both old timey english, and I've heard some germans have a literal translation of that as well.

Loving these videos

Perun, you missed out on an interesting bit of info by not asking Aurora if she planned to blow up the reactor. You could have learned from her that the end goal of the whole operation was to pull the planet into the warp, thus creating a new demonworld. Scary stuff there. 😨😨😨

A reoccurring problem for the imperium is that no-one knows what a cultist looks like. The chaos symbols are classified, and everyone is told to be constantly vigilant and that anyone could be a cultist in disguise. This leads to a lot of blue on blue incidents, especially with acolyte or rogue trader teams, who tend towards the eccentric and esoteric in their presentation.

Perun, I suggest swapping longlas to Argenta, and changing to it for any single target attacks. In my playthrough she hasn't touched anything but the long range weapons since the nav station, and she clears encounters all by herself... Kinda like your Cassia does. Except Cassia's gaze is range limited... And sniper rifle isn't.

Thank you for the effort you put into this video and series Perun, I’m really enjoying watching it.

The main RP reason to keep Idira around isn't really compatible with a Dogmatic playthrough. The Rogue Trader's favor the only thing standing between her and a ticket on a black ship that's more likely than not to be one-way, and she knows it. So you can be as Iconoclastic or even Heretical as you like, and she won't go off telling your neighborhood Inquisitor about it -- because she knows what "reward" would await her. She also makes some predictions (including one Perun missed about the good Inquisitor) that end up being quite insightful, and her connections give the Rogue Trader useful (if often morally dubious) options in Protectorate management as long as she's on your ship.

I knew watching your WTWIII vids would summon something good!

Okay so.. Idira. I have a love hate relationship with her. She is useful ok one edge of the sword and a liability on the other. She will prevent you from being ambushed while a member of the party. She can become exceptionally powerful for multi kill psyker nukes, she's amusing. On the dangerous side. She doesn't only summon daemons to smite.. perils of the warp can (and will) reflect and knock idira and other party members down. Aka She managed to knock cassia and Argenta prone on the opening move for a boss fight. There are also spoiler related things which I will not discuss here, but she very much is a case of "Useful, powerful, but dangerous "

I like how Cassia gets stronger the more everyone orders each other around lol 😂

With Agents of the Imerpium being rumored as a potential Codex release this summer, I'm starting to think that a screaming Perun Rogue Trader mini should at the very least be kitbashed...

11:45 unquestionable lord captian, unstable crew members should not qualify for boarding parties. (certified message from the Argenta geng)

Woohoo!

I could see the chaos arseholes getting a big 'fuck you' kick out of mounting a daemon blade in a wraithbone handle, especially if one of the elaborate decorations was a spiritstone. That or it could involve a fallen Eldar, those do sometimes happen after all.

In reference to apx 16 minute mark, when you meet Heinrix: You know that Queen song "Another One Meets the Limit of His Utility"?

All this time we were worried that there wouldnt be anyone to introduce Perun without Abelard on the team, but who knew Pasqal does a way better job?😂

iam pretty sure that tossing fragment of demon sword into sacret archotach reactor is really stupid idea

At 46:20 there's a weird cut that looks like it skipped over some dialogue. It would be nice if all the dialogue is shown on screen, even if you don't read through it out loud.

Purify the heretical psyker with a melter, please.

The only thing I was afraid of here is if the Inquisitor had proven a traitor...Woot! great work here! And about Idira..yeah. No.

52:47 Soooo... The 'Nids are coming?

I’d say don’t bring Idira if you’re expecting a fight, if it’s just doing things like business or whatever I think Idira should be brought along given her other non combat skills.

43:42 I bet our Tech-priest has more than two shards of his personality, one of them probably serves Aurora as a Heretek 🤔😯

Love these playthroughs

I really wish they'd VA'd Pasqal's introduction of the RT.

37:00 -ish, didn't that look like when Pasqal? blew up that dying Machine Spirit?

aren't you glad you didn't bring the unsanctioned Psyker to the unexpected meeting with an Inquisitor? ^^

I think it interesting how rigid the three ideology choices are: Dogmatic is blind faith often in the absence of proof Heretical is outright submission to chaos without any subtly Iconoclastic is anarchistic, wantonly advocating for the destruction of any institutions or traditions with no interest in why they might exist. Its interesting that there is not much of a "common sense" or "rational" choice most of the time, which frankly fits with the setting. I also think that our rogue trader might be finding themselves in the Tyranny (the game) trap: Where by taking choices to appeal to and appease those around him he is submitting to their beliefs, and locking them in as his own. Considering how dogmatic he was been, it will be interesting to see how that impacts the story going forwards.

A tip you can build Cassia to stack resolve such as using Air of Authority and linchpin (Master tactician) and apply it to Idira. The reason for this is a spell called wrath of the emperor (3x3) which it's damage is based on the resolve of the caster I got up to 500 damage in a 3x3 area once. You get the staff to cast the spell by leveling your reputation with the priests up to 5 ( Sanctified Staff). It's very strong in my experience though I've only been playing it normal. Hope this helps

15:00 wait a minute, that "lines and key marker" thing is referring to the game UI's "cycle of arrows" isn't it? lol

Early on a flamer might outdo a bolter, but pretty soon the bolter will be the stronger pick for Argenta. Concentrated Fire + Rapid Fire is no joke, I've one-shot (well, bolter goes brrrr more like) bosses with her. Granted, I play on Daring, don't remember what Perun is playing at right now.

Loving this playthrough

Let’s go

RPwise my sanctioned psyker is keeping Idira around with Heinrix all day because leaving her alone on the ship sounds far more dangerous.

Daemons are common. The entourage of a rogue trader deserve special considerations nevetheless. However, I never really used Idira. Couldnt figure out what made her work.

i was wondering if you'll still put that oout today. i never will doubt perun again.

Love this series mate

Sniper rifle vs 30 mm automatic cannon. This should not be a thing.

Great stuff.....

Not to nitpick :) But that's not how orbital mechanics works when Perun went from Rykad Minoris to Rykad Majoris. Henrik is a possible romance target for the female player character.

With regards to Idira I think the real question is if that sort of risk was already know to the Captain. If it came as a shock then sure question it, but people have used unstable tools and weapons of war for as long as they've existed and that's why the Imperium continues to use psykers in the first place. If the risk is known and the benefits outweigh them can the Captain accept this as a calculated risk?

Is there an upload schedule or is it just out when it's done? I've been trying to find a pattern but it feels more like scapulimancy than than anything else 😅

thanks for this :)

For the record, if I were in the rogue trader’s shoes I would definitely bench Idira but definitely not just execute her. She’s effed up on like her second deployment or something, but at the end of the day there are things that you NEED a psycher for as a RT and if you definitely need to roll those dice then you want to still have the option…. Or at least until you have a replacement

As a chaotic, heretical rogue trader, Idira is bae. Causing warp phenomena, including summoning demons is such fun if you like to get resized. *Ahem* With idira on the team you do fill the warp meter faster, allowing you to tap into heretical abilities sooner. So Idira makes sense if you're going hard evil. Although, if you're going for a squared away and righteous rogue trader, then she's significantly less desirable from a game play and even role play perspective, which is quite on par with the lore

MOARRRR

Does the Dragon of mars dream of electric priests?

Somebody please explain how temporary wounds are a good thing?

i've actually found heavy weapons quite dissapointing hoenstly. I've found heavy bolters but standard (and later fancy) bolters seem better

Why are you so hateful to the poor Demons Peeun? What did the demons do?

🐮

I was giving Idira a slack for quite some time. Like, its not an Inquisitor simulatir, and even they can hang around with demonhosts and stuff. But after some events in the future I was like... nope, to the airlock (literally) you go. Feels bad though.

Nah I say bring Idera

It seems like the point of being a Rogue Trader is not to be so whinny when a crew member summons a demon. Leave whining to the Navy.