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6/27/2025, 4:28:22 PM
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Rogue Trader is what you play when you want 40k, but you don't want someone ordering you around. You do politics. You do conquistador shit. You do East Indies Company shit. You are the rich british nobleman on safari in far-off Kalahari, except it's in space and the elephants have seven limbs and spit acid. You are both Edward Teach and Admiral Nelson, depending on the day. You're a scoundrel who presents themselves as a lord, or a lord who puts on airs of being a scoundrel. You regularly gain fortunes and lose them all again. Space Marines, Inquisitors, Canonesses and Generals will follow you into battle if you can earn their respect, or at minimum, bribe them for it. Beyond the bounds of Imperium, yours is the voice of the Emperor himself.
Anon was not saying "do not play Rogue Trader" (and if he was, I'd gladly introduce him to the nearest airlock). Anon was saying "Rogue Trader is similar in theme to adventures on the high seas", and making a tongue-in-cheek joke about there being better systems for that specifically.
But the thing is, those systems tend not to permit orbital bombardment, and selling the same thing twice over is considered an exception rather than the rule.
The system has its problems and its idiosyncrasies, to be sure, but God-Emperor do I love it with all my soul. You just don't get anything else quite like it.
Rogue Trader is what you play when you want 40k, but you don't want someone ordering you around. You do politics. You do conquistador shit. You do East Indies Company shit. You are the rich british nobleman on safari in far-off Kalahari, except it's in space and the elephants have seven limbs and spit acid. You are both Edward Teach and Admiral Nelson, depending on the day. You're a scoundrel who presents themselves as a lord, or a lord who puts on airs of being a scoundrel. You regularly gain fortunes and lose them all again. Space Marines, Inquisitors, Canonesses and Generals will follow you into battle if you can earn their respect, or at minimum, bribe them for it. Beyond the bounds of Imperium, yours is the voice of the Emperor himself.
Anon was not saying "do not play Rogue Trader" (and if he was, I'd gladly introduce him to the nearest airlock). Anon was saying "Rogue Trader is similar in theme to adventures on the high seas", and making a tongue-in-cheek joke about there being better systems for that specifically.
But the thing is, those systems tend not to permit orbital bombardment, and selling the same thing twice over is considered an exception rather than the rule.
The system has its problems and its idiosyncrasies, to be sure, but God-Emperor do I love it with all my soul. You just don't get anything else quite like it.
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