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Dankhold Troggoth






Shadeglass Maze

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Fantasy Mini-Campaign Rules
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Day: January 22nd
Fantasy warbands:
-Limit 500 points, Rulebook percentages apply
-No Lords. Heroes are OK, but not mandatory- if not taking a hero, you must upgrade a unit champion and designate them as your general (they still must remain with their unit, but other units can use that model's leadership as if it were the general).
-If using a unit champion as your army's general, you cannot take a BSB or any other character.
-Only 50 points are earned for slaying the enemy general. Captured banners still give 25 points.
-Limit 1 Monster OR 1 Warmachine (not both) per army. 2-for-1 monster/warmachines are not allowed, only a single model is allowed
-Winds of magic are generated by rolling a single dice. The casting player gets the value of the dice (d6) for PD while the defending player gets the value of the roll as if it was a d3 for DD
-For spells with a "large" and "small" version, only the small version is in play
-Only 2 units (plus characters, if applicable) are required
-Terrain will be pre-placed, and no special terrain effects will apply

Army specific FAQs:
-Brettonians do not need to take characters for a general and BSB, even though their army book requires them to. For the purposes of this warbands campaign, they can do like every other army book, and simply upgrade a unit champion to be their general if they prefer, and do not have to take a BSB.
-Tomb Kings do not need 2 characters (I'm not familiar with them, if someone is bringing them, post here!)

Battle Map:
Each battle will take place on a map that will be at the event, so that we can keep track of the larger "war" going on, and have each "side" (good vs. evil, approximately) going for larger objectives. Each battle will take 45 minutes, and there will be 4 rounds.

Things That Need Ironing Out! (Scenarios, Matchups)
The first round, pairings will be random, but afterwards your "team" (good or evil) will be able to discuss what army you would like to battle in which part of the map, or against which opponent, etc. Most likely the current losing side will get more of the choices here.

I would like for one of the scenarios to be an assassin-type mission, aiming to kill a single model in the enemy army. There will probably also be an attacker / defender scenario, perhaps for a strategic point on the map. There will also likely be small cumulative effects from the previous battle on each army (not enough to cripple or overpower an army, just something to make things interesting and make a win worthwhile).

Suggestions for scenarios, carry-over affects, and match-ups welcome!!
I will post here with the scenarios as they are finalized

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A battle over a warpstone meteor, like in the BRB, would be interesting. Not sure if it'd fit well into the tournament well, but it's a possibility as a later-stage battle or something.

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Fort Campbell

What is this Dakkacon?

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The full thread is here. It's a get-together of Dakka members where we'll be doing a lot of small games. Besides the fantasy mini-campaign, there is a 40k mini-campaign as well as a bunch of other stuff, too . All organized by Dakka member and pretty informal.

It's being held at mikhaila's Showcase Comics and Games near Philly on January 22nd (and the surrounding days for people who make it up early or stay an extra day). There's quite a few fantasy posters on here who will be coming... should be a blast . And the more the merrier! Although St. Louis is probably a bit out of range...

The warpstone scenario is a good idea, I'll have a think on fleshing that out! Maybe just something similar to Watchtower but with a different name.

Also, just added this to the rules: "Terrain will be pre-placed, and no special terrain effects will apply". That one's for you, Salvage


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Fort Campbell

I'll be on post-deployment R&R at the time, but I'll be confined to the local area, so yeah Philly will be a bit out of my reach.

Would be fun though.

As for a scenario idea, your assassin mission could go something like this.

Randomly decided sides, one side is the assassin, the other is a small garrison, whose commander is the target.

Aggressor has a single objective of killing the target character. Defendors objective is to not have him die.

Only problem I see is working a balance to make it fair for both sides. The defenders deployment should be in the table center or something, around a building, to ensure he just can't castle up in a corner hoping to drag the game out for an easy victory.

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That sounds like an awesome time.

Is the map already done or will it be preconceived? I am picturing that old WD campaign in which they were searching for an ancient and corrupted dwarven artifact that the good races wanted to destroy and the evil races wanted to control. You could have an objective or clue in each mini battle that would suggest which direction the winners should travel on the map. The losers would get to choose after winners. Maybe the last couple of games can be team-ups?

I am just thinking out loud. I hope everyone has a blast.

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Nice suggestions!! For the map, I believe grey_death may make a custom one for the 40k mini-campaign, but then he is in art school . I am going to use the Mighty Empire set (with the hexagon tiles) to make the one for the WHFB warbands. Just picked it up last week, now I gotta paint it up

Definitely thinking about objectives that will go on the map and how the battles will affect who has what. Also the idea for the assassination scenario is great! I was thinking of having both sides needing to assassinate (probably the enemy general) to win, but also wanted to have an attacker/defender scenario, and it almost sounds like a hybrid of the two.

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I like the tweak to the magic phase for dice. That seems like it should help scale things appropriately for that points level. Good idea!

Tomb Kings could need more attention, but it's kind of a tough one, and really only worth the work if you think someone's going to bring them.

Will you be posting a summary of the campaign?

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Definitely will be posting a summary, and also take some pics and put them up here
   
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Cool. I am looking forward to seeing and hearing about it.

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For those going to DakkaCon who aren't already driving, here's the sheet I'll be handing out for the fantasy warbands. I ended up going with rulebook scenarios for the sake of speed, with only the watchtower one tweaked (also for speed).

The Battle Map is going to be awesome, I'll make sure to take a bunch of pics for those who won't be there!
 Filename Fantasy Warbands Mini.doc [Disk] Download
 Description DakkaCon Fantasy Warbands Campaign Rules
 File size 31 Kbytes

   
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RiTides,

Did you end up using the map? How did it work? I did a few test prints of smaller sections over the weekend and it looked wicked. Show us some pics!

Anyone else who wants a copy of the map, it is available at http://www.GitzmansGallery.com

Gitzman
   
 
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