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Picked it up on Saturday and after a couple of games I must admit I absolutely love it. It's very thematic yet, as most have noted, eh... limited. Rather than just accept it as the way of things I have decided to come up with additional rules to stretch out it's re-playability as much as possible. I hope people might be interested in my take on this and TBH I could do with some help getting the balance right. Anyone up for playtesting?

Obviously the game, setting, images and concepts are GW's IP/Copyright. I have not connection to them at all and I'm doing this for personal enjoyment only, perhaps I may even buy more miniatures because of it... I'll host any files on my own blog and just post mock ups here if the Admins are okay with it?

Playing A Versus Game
V.1 available Here
This allows a player to take control of the Renegades within the framework of the existing game. Effectively turns a 1-4 player game into a 1-5 player.

Crimson Slaughter Expansion
v.1 available here
There are some nice miniatures in Dark Vengeance and I thought it was a shame that they were not being hunted by assassins either. With that in mind I have expanded the pool of cards for renegade side of Execution Force to include additional events and profiles for some of the other forces at their disposal. I advise that people start by adding in the additional cultist and see how they go. The flamer rules in particular can cause problems for the assassins. Full card count, layouts and the actual printable versions are available from the link above.

Chaos Champions
V.1 available here
The force sent to stop Lord Drask was not comprised of assassins but mighty chaos champions dispatched by Abaddon himself! This small set of cards allows you to play a red on red game where only Chaos can prevail as only Chaos is present. Use the chosen warriors of the four gods to stop the ritual as the great despoiler has commanded. Printable versions are available from the link above.

The Terror of Yule
V.1 available here
Attracted to the Ritual of Lord Drask the Terror of Yule is a foul entity from the dark past of Terra. A deceptive shadow of the Emperor of Mankind it lures followers with promises of gifts and eternal warmth in it's service. Do not be fooled! Printable versions are available from the link above.

OP included in the spoiler below

Another three for the Crimson Slaughter. two more to go (if I can find the art...) and then the event cards associated with them.


One more for tonight, a bit of leadership for the cultists of the game. I've got the Cultist Heavy ready bar the initial rules for Flamers...

Okay then... The first pass at the Crimson Slaughter Expansion has been posted up. Given the file sizes I've linked it via my blog, I hope that's not inconvenient. I'd love to get some feedback on how this plays... In summary then;

6 Additional Renegade profiles (pictures of the characters on them)
12 Event cards associated with the new renegades (red title on black bar)
2 Rule cards (black title on red bar)

Examples of the cards;



I've edited the original post to include the link.

Next up...

Mission: Assassinate Grimskrap Snaga, a Deathskull Bigmek, before he activates the newest element of his Great Gargant.

This will be a multi level mission where each board in the game is a separate level within the structure of the gargant. Opponents will be skewed towards Meks together with the Ork and Grot crew. Draft version of the boss card is below.

Seeing all this work you've put in really makes me wanna pick up a copy of the game.

Keep sharing! Looks like you're adding tons of replayability into this.

Thanks Bottle!

Work is going well on the Ork mission at the moment but I'd like to let you all know of another two missions I've started work on.

1. The Cleansing of His Beneficent Wrath
This is a Blue-on-Blue mission seeing the four Assassins being tasked with the destruction of an Inquisitor and her entire retinue. It will take place aboard Inquisitor Radha's vessel and I'm trying to put in a few options on how the players can accomplish the mission. sabotage the warp engines, disable the Gellar field or simply plough through the henchmen... I'm also trying to figure out the best way of introducing the inquisitors team. Some will be encountered in rooms and some, mostly the low level ones, will be patrolling. Some Example cards


2. Rebirth of a Phoenix
An Eldar Farseer has located the remains of a Phoenix lord and the Execution force is being sent to prevent the successful reoccupation of the armoured suit. This is still in the planning stage but I hope to crack the problem of the use of "automated" psychic powers beyond simple event cards. That will allow the farseer and his warlocks to be much more of a threat. The opposition will be predominately guardians supported by Rangers, Wraithguard and a loose smattering of aspect warriors. I hope to include cards for all 6 phoenix lords which should add to the replay factor. Some Example cards;


Back to it!

Have you play tested these cards yet? I avoided the game because I heard it has dismal replayability. Do these really spice it up?

 Twoshoesvans wrote:
Have you play tested these cards yet? I avoided the game because I heard it has dismal replayability. Do these really spice it up?

Yeah, I've gone through the Crimson Slaughter expansion and they play fine but make the game MUCH more challenging. Using more random patrol events for the stronger opponents forces you to limit activities that do not involve stealth. while testing I added them incrementally in the following order.
1. Cultist Leaders and Heavies - the flamer added the biggest alterations to the game where it can block corridors & rooms if your assassins are already wounded
2. CSM Chosen - The increased damage potential of the power weapons certainly makes you value stealth
3. CSM Possessed - CC monsters, no pun intended. they effectively have the "sprint" rule so they can get to your guys very quickly indeed.
4. CSM Terminators - Implacable and so far I've elected to avoid rather than confront
5. Hellbrute - I've played it three times and won once so I may need to revisit it.

I'm looking to expand the rules for the rooms outside of spawn points, controls and teleporters. I'm also working on a set of "Versus" rules allowing one player to take on the roll of the Renegades from the core game.

Could GW have done a lot more with it? Absolutely, but I'm having a blast with it.

Not sure if that answers your question...

Having a solo/cooperative game is all well and good but what happens if there are 5 of you? Or what happens when one of you simply wants to beat the Assassins into the ground?

I present the quick and dirty “Versus” rules allowing one player to take on the role of the Crimson Slaughter renegades. I've hosted the printable cards HERE

This is Version 1 of these cards. I’ve played a few games and the Renegades have a distinct advantage. I added the “Revive Stunned Renegades” to offset it and it seemed to do the trick. Any Feedback would be appreciated!

It's been a while but I have been working away in the background. The blue-on-blue mission "The Cleansing of His Beneficent Wrath" is almost ready. I thought I'd show you the characters involved. Work on the new room and event cards continues as does the expanded rules for psykers.

These look great. Is there a way of downloading these without installing the 4shared downloader onto my PC?

Really cool stuff!

Hey Weyrell, that 4shared (awful awful website) link doesnt work anymore. Tried multible login methods and browsers. Could you put it on another website like mega or dropbox? Dropbox is pretty nice nowadays.

Would be so nice to have these as printed cards.

Okay all, leave it with me!

Edit: the Crimson Slaughter expansion rar is now on dropbox and can be accessed via https://www.dropbox.com/s/m3rh992my6mtoyj/Crimson%20Slaughter.rar?dl=0 i've also updated the blog page link.

Thanks so much Weyrell!

I'm still working away on the Inquisition mission but I needed a break so I came up with these. Fancy playing the game with chaos champions instead of Assassins? I have to finish off the card backs, supplemental rule cards and the chaos spawn reference card. but it's just a question of typing...

I've completed the Chaos Champion expansion. Card images added to the post above and the link to the dropbox download can be found by following the link in the OP.

Really quality work, well done. And thanks for the dropbox.

Amazing Work - Thanks so much can't wait to try them out.

The Terror of Yule

Add a bit of eternal festive horror to your games of Execution Force with this ancient warp being attracted to the rituals of Lord Drask.



Printable versions can be downloaded directly from Here


Merry Christmas!

Hi

Your file links don't work anymore. Do you still have the files? Could I pm you my email address so you could send the files?

The work you did here was great!

Crikey but it's been too long since I did anything on this stuff!

 455_PWR wrote:
Hi

Your file links don't work anymore. ...

Fixed those in the OP! Download, play and let me know how you get on

Hey still not got Execution Force and was thinking about getting it before it goes OOP. Longevity is key though. This thread is promising. Did you ever finish the Ork mission? I'd be interested in playing assassins vs genestealer cult and have Deathwatch: Overkill. Any suggestions how I would do the stat cards for the cultists switching in for the renegades?