lotsa_terminators Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 BATTLE-BROTHERS! After taking some time off, due to that "life" thing, I've recently been able to devote some real time to 40k. Some friends and I have been working on a massive campaign for some time, and I wanted to start posting some pictures and fluff. There will be a P&C thread at some point next week :tu: This is a collaboration of me, my friends who play T'au and Necron We all love the game and wanted to combine our favorite tropes and ideas into a massive brawl. We all start with 28,000 points of army. That's what we bring to the fight, and from there dedicate portions to the individual battles. Starting at planet-scale, each of us control a continent. I have the westernmost, home to Hive Primus, and still loyal. Near the southern tip of this landmass is a Black Templar Chapter Keep. They like recruiting the local arctic-nomads, and hunting the giant mutant bears that prowl the wastes. The T'au infiltrated the eastern region, and have been launching attacks across the massive bridges that join the 2 continents just described. A mostly unoccupied southern continent lies below these two, home to a few listening posts and a mountain range that is more trouble than worth exploring...until someone does. Necrons live there as expected. From there we broke down the 3 landmasses into sectors and assigned locations of note; watch posts, power generators, awful wastelands, etc. These each get a number of strategic points to be used in our homebrew-version of Planetary Empires. After gaining points, you get resource. Aside from our starting 28k you will have to make buildings to produce new units, this is still being worked on as point balancing is finicky :) . The initial idea was to play 40k Dawn of War, just with a mix of CoD/PS/PE/homebrew. It's going to take months to get up-and-rolling, as we're all repainting our armies and gathering more plastic dudeman, and making terrain. None of us are actually building the full 28,000 points, but a planned 10,000 point-per-side isn't unlikely. We have auxiliary T'au, Orks, Eldar and Dark Eldar players, all with a few thousand points who will be making random appearances. Set before and during the tabletop, we're running a revolving door game of Rogue Trader (lead-up and T'au infiltration, exploring the world), Only War (PDF into IG fighting the early days of the civil war) into Dark Heresy (Xenos Inquisitor arrives to ostensibly handle the T'au, actually to investigate Necron Ruins) and Deathwatch (Inquisitor calls in backup, more on this later). Characters can swap from one game to another, IG joining Dark Heresy by being inducted is an example. Before certain situations players can choose which team to take. Random friends will be joining this, not necessarily in the 40k game. +++LOCATION+++ ULTIMA SEGMENTUM KARASI: CLASS M PLANET/RECTUIMENT WORLD FOR BLCK TEMPLAR ADEPTUS ASTARTES DESIGNATION: HIVE/FACTORUM ENVIRONMENT: ICEWORLD, 3 CONTINENTS; 2 MAIN/ 1 SOUTHERN POLAR SUBCONTINENT POPULATION CENTERS: 3 POPULATION ESTIMATE: 26 BILLION FEATURES OF NOTE: A FROZEN WASTELAND, BLIGHTED BY INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION ON THE WESTERN CONTINENT/MINING ON THE EASTERN. HOME TO HELLBEARS, GIANT SHAGGY MUTANT BEARS. HUNTED BY BLACK TEMPLAR AS A RITE OF INITIATION INTO UPPER ECHELONS. +++INITIAL INTERFERENCE+++ DATE: 999.M41 SUB-LOCATION: HIVE SECUNDUS; KARINOV PRIMARILY A RAW-MATERIAL WAYPOINT, KARINOV QUICKLY BECAME HOME TO SEVERAL MERCHANT GUILDS. TRADING RAW GOODS FROM SYSTEM TO SYSTEM, THESE FAMILIES SOON CONTROLLED AN ENTIRE LAYER OF THE HIVE, KNOWN SIMPLY AS "THE BAZAAR". OFFICIALLY A CLEAN CITY, WHISPERS OF DARK ESTABLISHMENTS KNOWN TO BE MORE FRIENDLY TOWARD CLIENTELE LESS THAN HUMAN ABOUND. AT +++SEALED+++ EMISSARIES OF THE T'AU EMPIRE APPROACH THE LARGEST FAMILY, ESALIONOV, DETAILS UNKNOWN. ESALIONOV SPONSOR HIVE MAYORIATE OSTUS ROSCHBORST IN BID FOR SHIPPING CONTRACT AGAINST HIVE PRIMUS. RECORDS INDICATE KARINOV ANNOUNCES T'AU BACKED SUCCESSION WITHIN 6 MONTHS. FIRE WARRIORS OBLITERATE LOYALIST PDF RESISTANCE, BACKED BY MERCHANT GUARDS AND TRAITOR PDF WEARING XENOS EQUIPMENT. +++REQUEST FOR AID+++ PDF DEEMED INSUFFICIENT TO DEAL WITH T'AU ARMED "GUE'VESA". DISTRESS CALL SENT OUT TO ADEPTUS ASTARTES OF THE BLACK TEMPLAR AND ANY AVAILABLE FORCES IN NEARBY SECTORS.... +++THE STORM GATHERS+++ ALRIC VON STAHL, THE BEAR OF FJORAD, AND LORD MARSHAL OF THE CRUSADE OF THE STORM. FRESH FROM THE CARNAGE OF MEDUSA V, VETERAN OF THE NIMBOSA CRUSADE, PLEDGES THE FULL MIGHT OF HIS AND THE VOSTROYANS ARMIES. ALRIC ADDITIONALLY CONTACTS CAPTAIN KOR'TAN OF THE SALAMANDERS 3RD COMPANY, AND DEATHWATCH. AS YOUNGER MEN, SWORD BRETHREN AND SERGEANT, THEY FOUGHT SIDE-BY-SIDE TO PURGE ARMAGEDDON, AFTERWARD SWEARING PACTS OF LOYALTY. KOR'TAN RESPONDS WITH HALF HIS COMPANY AND A DEATHWATCH KILLTEAM SWOWN TO HIS OLD FRIEND. INQUISITOR ORKYN MANN, ALREADY IN ROUTE UNDER DIFFERENT PRETENSES AND UNAWARE OF THE T'AU THREAT, PLEDGES HIS SMALL FORCE OF STORMTROOPERS AND SPECIALISTS IN EXCHANGE FOR ACCESS TO ANY RECOVERED XENOS TECH. IMPERIAL TRANSMISSIONS, INTERCEPTED VIA UNKNOWN MEANS, ALERT THE T'AU AND HIVE SECUNDUS TO THE DISTRESS CALL. RESPONSE ALERT SENT OUT, CALL FOR T'AU REINFORCEMENT, ESCALATION FROM INFILTRATION TO ENGAGEMENT APPROVED... ++IMPERIAL FORCES++ ...to come. I can't find that notebook as of this typing. That's all I've got for right now. Once I find it I can post a breakdown of our armies and the rules we're using for buildings, unit production, etc. Thanks for reading! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lotsa_terminators Posted November 3, 2012 Author Share Posted November 3, 2012 Pictuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuures http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/index.p...p;#entry3228838 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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