Tell me about your map based campaign experiences!

[BrutalCities]

The TL;DR:
Hey guys! I'm writing some universal map based campaign rules.

I'd love to hear about your own experiences with map based campaigns!

More context and the goal:

 

I've had a blast playing Legions Imperialis lately. But it has led me wanting for better, more detailed campaign rules. Rules that are far more detailed and allow multiple forces to move around on the campaign map. Think more operational level, rather than strategic. Where the missions, deployment zones closely follow the location of formations on the map.

Imagine if individual formations moved on the map rather than an army as a whole - this will inform the type of mission you will then play and give far more context to your games!

I've written a bunch of rules already, inspired by a feeling that pick up game objectives are fine and dandy for gameplay's sake, but they are also kinda arbitrary. The current design trends for wargames lean towards matched-play, e-sports style rules. Which is fine but I've also played a bunch of them and they feel less exciting.

Lots of campaign rules out there - but none at this scale:

So of course, narrative games and campaigns are a good solution to the problem above. I was looking everywhere for some cool campaign rules but IMO they were all pretty simple. SO i'm just going to make my own rules.

 

The campaign rules I'm writing are intended for games of a scale of Warhammer 40k and above - any games that allow a level of combined arms list building. So, from Bolt Action, to Epic 40k and Legions Imperialis, to cold war games. I hope to cover a wide range of setting with some modular rules, so you can pick and choose the rules that suit your game system. If you are interested and have any thoughts on this, I'd love to hear from you! Please let me know about your experiences playing campaigns in the comments!

 

I have a 5 min survey here too if you'd like to see a bit more of the context and give me some more feedback and wish-lists. I've done a bunch of research already but more is good before I write too much! SURVEY HERE

 

[mel_danes]

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