Planetary Empire Campaign

[Smurfalypse]

As the title says this is about the planetary empires campaign. We are going to have seven or eight players, six tiles starting each, using the base rules out of the box (will do fancier stuff the next time we do it, want to get the basics down first). We didn't set victory parameters as we will just end it when we feel we have a better handle of it and maybe some ideas on how to spice it up, so once one person begins to run away with it we plan on calling it quits and starting over. About the only rule we added in that wasn't in the book is when you use a spaceport to attack an enemy (all spaceports count as adjacent to each other) you must fight with the planet strike rules (just a way to make us use something different from time to time).

 

So that was the basic background of what we are doing. Here is a list of the armies that will be participating.

Chaos x2

Dark Angels (or Ravenguard hes not sure yet)

Imperial Guard

Ork

Eldar

Tyranid

 

I will be representing my word bearers and will be posting pics+battle reports of my games and the progress every other week (we are going to meet bi-weekly to make sure everything is in order and the map is correct). Everyone will be allowed to play up to three games within a two week time frame, no more, though they can play less. We will be playing at 1500 points each as the base, though the rules will make things change based off of who you are playing, so people can end up with more points vs certain individuals.

 

When all the flags get painted i will post a picture of the map and our starting points. The board will not be painted as no one wanted to do it, so maybe we will get one of the wives to handle that job if we can talk them into it....So no jabs about it being grey. Some of the armies will be half painted and we have no rules dealing with anything like that. We are a casual group of friends.

 

My strategy is going to be to try and take all the command bastions that are on the board. These allow me to add universal special rules to units within my army. Some good examples are slow and purposeful to havoks, feel no pain to terms, swarm to possessed (i dare you to tell me that isn't awesome). So when you see me making odd attacks it is going to be with the idea of gathering these pieces around the board.

 

Labor day is our setup day (tomorrow) and our first set up games will be played then. Everyone will attack or defend once tomorrow. I will be looking for advice on some nifty ideas to add to this campaign system and some ways to spice things up, so please feel free to pipe in as this thing rolls along. For now, it is 1am here and i am going to go to bed. Tomorrow the possessed will be unleashed upon all who stand in the way of the great host. Also...I need a name for my leaders, so please pitch in some ideas so i can make myself seem more dramatic to my friends....They absolutely hate that.