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Languid Spaceguy's avatar

It feels emblematic of the unrestrained ambition in Rogue Trader that it’s intended to be a detailed skirmish game with a dozen or so highly-detailed figures on each side - which also has rules for Defence Lasers intended for use against ships in low orbit.

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Wyrd Science's avatar

hah yeah. Priestley really just threw everything in there

the bit I keep coming back to are the scenario and campaign prompts

they just have almost zero relation to anything that we might possibly think of as a working scenario for a wargame, just wonderfully bonkers

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